Chapter 4 Natural Disasters
"Miss, is that bone here to escort us, or is he treating us as rations? Will they eat us one by one when they are hungry? Leaving the ruins, Aunt Mei asked Qi Yunxiao in a low voice. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. biquge。 info
The number of people in the team was the same as when they came, and the few people recruited saw the battle, and had the same thoughts as Aunt Mei, and did not want to walk with the bones; Chen Zhen was not here either, and as soon as he came out of the ruins, he left, saying that he would follow the team and solve some troubles that might be encountered.
"If you don't kill us, you want us to stay alive and fresh?" Qi Yunxiao laughed, deliberately scaring Aunt Mei: "It makes sense, kill it when you want to eat it, you won't be afraid of rotting, you can start eating with your arm first, keep your feet and continue to follow, you can also let people drag you away when you eat your feet, there are more than ten people here, how can you say that you can eat for a month." ”
Aunt Mei was so frightened that her face turned pale, her feet were weak, and she almost fell down, Qi Yunxiao laughed, stretched out her hand to support her, and said: "Don't worry, he won't eat us so quickly, no matter what, he has to fatten up a little more, and Aunt Mei, don't worry, when he is hungry, I will let him eat me first, then Brother Zhou and Brother Qin, and then eat you last." ”
These words did not have a comforting effect, Aunt Mei shook her head vigorously and muttered, "That...... It's better to eat me first, I don't want to be left alone until the end. ”
Bones are mutated human beings, their memories and ways of thinking are not affected by mutation, but they can't eat mutated creatures, eating them is equivalent to cannibalism, and they will get crazy, but eating people is not a homogeneous acquaintance, which is also the biggest reason why bones are only regarded as mutated creatures, not human beings.
Chen Zhen was more than two hundred meters away from the team at this time, lowered his head, and observed the corpse of a mutant aphid in front of him.
It took him a few years to know, understand, and familiarize himself with the world.
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Two hundred years ago, a meteorite crashed straight into the earth, because of its small size, and entered the atmosphere at an almost right-angle angle, scientists observed that the meteorite would burn violently because of the speed, and it would burn to ashes before it fell, so they didn't pay much attention to it.
At that moment, a second sun appeared in the sky, but the meteorite showed no signs of shrinking, and it was not until it passed through the ozone layer that a small disintegration occurred, bursting out countless fragments like fireworks, and about 50 percent of the main part remained, smashing into the center of the Pacific Ocean before scientists could react.
Since that day, the catastrophe has been wreaking havoc around the world with natural disasters, extreme weather and climate, hurricanes and tsunamis that have caused a large number of human deaths, and the islands and peninsulas at lower altitudes have been washed "clean" by the waves, and people have not yet realized that this is only the beginning of the disaster.
Then there was an unusually strong earthquake, which shook to the point of a continental fracture, and lasted for a long time, the Eurasian continent separated, and they didn't know where they drifted away, volcanoes erupted frequently, and the earth's topography changed dramatically on the seabed, on land, and on the earth.
The cataclysm lasted for nearly a year, and human beings were crushed into powder like peppercorns in a mortar, to the point of almost extinction, and the past civilization and a large amount of technology were buried in countless ruins, and only some old customs and common sense were passed down.
Just when people felt that the earthquake was slowly abating, and thought that the turmoil was coming to an end, powerful mutated creatures appeared, and the creatures would multiply, that is, the cataclysm would continue forever.
The surviving humans gathered together and fled together, until they found out the characteristics of the stones, which gave them a chance to fight, they built cities, and desperately tried to reproduce their offspring.
At present, there are nine cities in total, and this continent is called "Pangea".
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Plants are the masters of the earth, and they have always been, when humans had to concentrate on a limited area of activity, plants stood up and took control of the rest of the area, and for two hundred years, almost all the areas outside the city were occupied by plants, pollution was drastically reduced, towering trees were everywhere, and even the ruins were painted with large areas of green.
There was originally a road in this world, no one walked, the road no longer existed, to go to a city can only be discerned and groped for the direction, the road map of Pangea is so simple that it looks like a bear child's graffiti, only the location of the city and the mountains that are relatively easy to identify.
Outside the ruins where Shangyi Road is located is the forest, the area is very large, it is not too much to describe it as a sea of trees, Zhou Ding walked alone at the front of the team, a few meters away from Qi Yunxiao, Aunt Mei and the wolf guard who protected them in the middle, Qin Shan fell behind, responsible for cleaning up the traces left by everyone, and leading possible mutated creatures to other places.
After walking for more than an hour, there was a sudden sound of a tree branch breaking in front, and Zhou Ding and Qin Shan stopped at the same time and approached the team in the middle.
The sound sounded distant, loud, only loud when the thick branches broke, and ahead was most likely the lair of gigantic mutated creatures that had entered its territory.
"Go around and save time." Zhou Ding immediately made a decision: "He should be able to keep up." ”
The wolf guard carries a steel crossbow, and the crossbow is equipped with stones, and it must be recovered after being shot, which takes a lot of effort, otherwise it will only be melee if it encounters mutated creatures, and the danger will increase countless times.
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Chen Zhen was able to keep up, he was already ahead, and the thick branches were broken by him, because the mutant aphids were killed by sharp weapons, and the forest was too quiet, too unusually quiet, so quiet that it made him feel uneasy.
There are two purposes for breaking branches, one is to change the team's forward route, at least to bypass this area, Zhou Ding is still worried about the problem of insufficient manpower, it is impossible to hear the movement and continue to walk forward; The second is to make a noise to attract and kill the existence of mutant aphids, if the other party is still nearby, and hears the sound of the branch being "stepped on", he should come to investigate.
Chen Zhen hid in the canopy of a Masson pine, his whole body was moving at a speed close to stationary, only about one centimeter a minute, this is his way of exercising, which can be done at any time and anywhere.
People are more uncomfortable than moving when they are not moving, and moving slowly is more uncomfortable than not moving, and they can restrain the impulse of movement, and they can move at an extremely slow speed, so that they can better control their bodies and make their movements more accurate.
Chen Zhen has a pathological obsession with controlling his body, because he finds that he is still his original self, with no changes, just a little younger, which means that there is a fifty percent chance that he will get sick again and lose control of his body again.
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A detour does not necessarily bypass the danger, many insects rely on feeling the vibration of the ground to avoid the danger, this instinct is not lost after the mutation, and there are some more predator instincts after the mutation.
But this time, the mutated creatures weren't attracted by the shaking of the ground.
The dead leaves were crushed, the sound was soft and brittle, and the footsteps were chaotic, obviously a person stepped out, and it was a person who fled in a hurry, running towards the position where the team was.
This is not a good sign, Zhou Ding frowned slightly, took off the steel crossbow behind him, and the rest of the wolf guards saw his movements, and they also took the crossbow one after another, changed their formation, and waited for the battle.
Soon, two young men in their twenties stumbled over here, looking back and forth as they ran, and when they came closer, they found a group of people standing here, each holding a swarthy crossbow, and they all stopped, and one of them asked in a wooden voice, "You guys...... You're here to save us? ”
"There is salvation!" The other man sat on the ground with his feet limp, and crawled into the ranks of the wolf guards with the support of his companions.
"Prepare for battle!" Zhou Ding had to order the wolf guard to prepare for battle and began to turn the winch on the side of the steel crossbow.
He didn't want to save these two people at all, if the chasing mutant creatures were willing to leave after eating these two people, he would kill the two of them with his own hands and throw them over, but unfortunately this was impossible, it was already winter, and it was not easy to find food, and mutant creatures would never let go when they encountered such a large pile of food, and it was easy to break into the nests of other mutant creatures when they ran around in the woods, so it was better to solve the problem on the spot.
Crossbow strings made of mutated cow tendons, mutated spider silk and other materials cannot be pulled by humans, only this kind of string can generate enough force for the crossbow bolt to penetrate the thick exoskeleton, and only a strong steel crossbow can withstand the pull and impact of this crossbow string.
String the arrow, pull out a thick crossbow bolt from the arrow box under the crossbow, press down the mechanism at the end of the crossbow arrow, let the two stones in the arrow body touch, and finally place it on the arrow slot.
The wolf guards were very skilled in doing this set of movements, and in just five seconds, all the wolf guards were ready to shoot and aimed in the direction where the two were running.
However, the mutant creatures chasing after the two men were not one, but a group.
A group of huge Tsubaki elephants crawled over here, which is often referred to as "stink bugs", the smallest body length is more than two meters, the front one is about five meters long, and the width is more than three meters, seeing a pile of fresh food in front of them, they become more excited and climb faster.
"Two groups shoot down from the tree, and one group shoots flat, prepare for melee combat, and avoid the tail." Zhou Ding raised the steel crossbow as he spoke, aiming at the head of the one at the front.
The elephant's stinky glands open at the back of their bodies, and after mutating, they are already able to shoot acid from their stinky glands, and as long as they are not pointed at by their butts, they can avoid the acid spray.
When the Tsubaki elephant at the front was still twenty meters away, Zhou Ding pulled the trigger.
The crossbow string made a "bang" sound, and the body of the crossbow was also shaken to "buzz" and groaned, and the sharp crossbow bolt was nailed into the head of the Tsubaki elephant in the next moment.
The bolts are thick and long, but still small for gigantic mutated creatures, and the insects are so vigorous that the pain only irritates them.
Zhou Ding turned the winch and shot again.
"Strange, why hasn't he shown up yet?" Qi Yunxiao stood beside a tree, looking around, looking for the figure that disappeared after a way out.
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