Chapter 48: Exploration

The day of the team's departure was already December 27th, and there were only less than four days before New Year's Day, because they had to rush back before New Year's Day, so their teammates defined this mission as an expedition, and the group was naturally an expedition team. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

The members of the expedition team basically know some martial arts, and aside from their abilities, the strength of each body is enough to cope with the complex environment outside. The seven people also planned the route in advance, and only after being fully prepared did they choose to set off.

Seven people drove two off-road vehicles: Li Qiang, Chu Tian, Jia Zhengyang and Yue Zhiliang sat in the car in front of them and were responsible for opening the road; In the car behind were Wang Fei, Zhang He and Zhang Ping. The car has been reinforced, and the power is also used in the new type of bioenergy, the electricity and energy consumed by the steel plant is very large, and most of the cars are modified now, and the car developed by the college can only be driven on flat ground at present.

Leaving the school's jurisdiction, everyone walked along the established route towards the river on the west side. The old campus of the college is too close to the river, and has been moved to the new area little by little, close to East Lake, which is more than an hour's drive from the riverside at the earliest.

This time, the plan was to turn from Peace Avenue to Erqi Bridge, which was a weak defensive area of the school. Some time ago, there was a team of mercenaries who suffered large casualties near the Erqi Bridge, mainly because they were attacked by mutant beasts. The ultimate goal of this expedition team is the Erqi Bridge, and if there are no accidents on the road, it will naturally go straight along the main road.

Without the smooth traffic before the disaster, everyone's journey was very slow, and the campus jurisdiction arranged for someone to deal with the crazy plants on a regular basis. Out of the jurisdiction, all kinds of problems followed, and it was unimaginable that it would be so difficult to drive without a smooth road.

When it was first approached by the Avenue of Peace, the nearby grounds, including the floors, were covered with greenery! The Avenue of Peace is an eight-lane road, and the road is very durable, but even so, there are many grassy plants more than two meters tall on the surface.

Weeds are one of the most tenacious plants, and with a little water and soil, they can grow uncontrollably. Originally, the road was paved with a thick layer of sand and gravel, but the weeds easily used their huge root systems to crumble the ground. The grass more than two meters tall was very dangerous, which had already blocked most of the field of vision, and Chu Tian somewhat regretted that he didn't bring the perception type of supernatural person out.

In addition to the weeds growing on the roads, another difficulty that everyone faced was that the first vegetarians ---- bugs! Insects are the same as plants, as long as the food is sufficient, they can reproduce in large quantities, and there are a lot of insects on the road, but fortunately it is the metamorphosis growth of plants, otherwise they really can't support that group of terrifying insects. Closing the doors and windows tightly, everyone had to stop after almost walking for a while, so that Chu Tian could clear the insect corpses outside with his water system ability.

Entering the old campus of the Upper College on Peace Avenue, it was already noon, and everyone settled the car and began to prepare for a rest. For the rest of the journey, as long as you can pass through the zoo and park in front of you, you can enter the vicinity of Erqi Bridge. However, it is clear that the road ahead is not easy.

Wang Fei of the zoo had been here before, and he had fought with many exotic beasts there, and because the zoo was very close to the park, these two areas must be very dangerous now. However, this is an expedition in itself, and knowing the danger, we must also face the difficulties.

At three o'clock in the afternoon, everyone finished resting and began to leave for the zoo, still driving a modified off-road vehicle. The area of the zoo actually belongs to the park, but the two are separated, and the zoo is explored first in order to count the remaining number of mutant beasts inside. In the future, this will be a key area of care for the academy, and the expedition team hopes to record the situation inside in detail.

The zoo has three gates, and everyone carefully leaned on the side of the road along Renmin Road, brought weapons, and cautiously approached the north gate of the zoo. According to Wang Fei's recollections, there was a hippopotamus pond closest to the gate, and the deformed iron gate was the masterpiece of one of the mutated hippos.

Standing at the entrance of the zoo, Chu Tian pricked up his ears and listened carefully to the movements inside. The depths are still relatively lively, in addition to hearing some bird calls, you can also hear the roars of some animals, and there should be many mutant beasts living here. The environment here is very quiet, not only humans like to be here, mutant beasts also like to stay here, of course, it can't be a high-level mutant beast.

The entrance is covered with thick stone slabs, and there is not much grass growing. After walking in, everyone found a large circular pool on the left, with a diameter of more than 20 meters. The towering iron railing outside the pool broke several large holes. It is said that there were several large hippos in this pond in the past, but when Wang Fei and others came over, they only found a mutated hippopotamus, and the mutant hippopotamus was very amazing, more than twice the size of ordinary hippos. During the battle with the mutant hippopotamus, the opponent crashed open the gate and ran out.

The water in the pool is now full, it must have been filled with several rains after the meteorite rain, and from the nearby messy terrain, it is not difficult to guess how fierce the battle was at that time. Wang Fei's statement is that the number of people in the team at that time was more than ten, and the mutant hippopotamus was not only amazingly powerful, but also amazingly high in defense! The mutant hippopotamus escaped after being chased and intercepted by many masters, and Wang Fei and the others did not go deep and withdrew from the zoo.

Bypassing the large pool, there is the rare bird area, most of the cages inside have been broken by brute force, and only a few piles of colorful feathers are left in a few cages. Most of the people who can live in the zoo now are mutant beasts that came over later, and there are also some who originally lived here, and the zoo's defense is still very good.

After the Rare Bird Zone, there is the Rare Animals Zone, which is close to the central area of the zoo and was originally stocked with large animals. When the expedition team entered, there were no animals in the alpaca's fence and no animals in the sika deer's breeding pond.

When passing by a thick iron fence, Chu Tian ordered the people behind him to be on guard, and he sensed that there was movement in the pool in front of him. After everyone took out their weapons, they slowly approached the pool with Burmese python written on it, the pool was very deep, and an awning was built on it, and on the horizon of the pool, there was a circle of thick steel pipes.

The gap between the steel pipes is very wide, about ten centimeters, and the reason why I don't worry about pythons coming out is that the pool is very deep, seven or eight meters deep, and it is difficult for snakes to climb up. Approaching the railing, everyone found that there was only one python inside, the thickest part of the waist, more than 20 centimeters in diameter, and the length was the same as that of an ordinary python, only four meters long. The other party was obviously alive, just curled up in a ball, nestled in the corner of the pool to cool off.

Snakes prefer dark places, and it's afternoon again, so snakes are basically inactive. It was also very simple for everyone to judge that the other party was alive, and the snake letter of the python stretched out from time to time. If I'm not mistaken, this python is not a mutant beast, otherwise, it wouldn't be like this at this time.

"It's been so long, how did this thing survive?" Jia Zhengyang took the lead in breaking the calm between everyone and asked in a low voice.

When Li Qiang saw someone asking, he immediately opened his mouth and began to show off his knowledge: "You don't know this, pythons have a big appetite, they don't need to eat for months!" ”

Before Li Qiang finished speaking, Chu Tian interrupted him: "This python should have eaten recently, otherwise it would not have grown so big, as for food, it should be a bird." After saying that, he also pointed to a colorful bird that flew in from above.

Everyone looked at the bird that flew in for a while, and the bird that flew in was obviously looking for food. Just when the colored bird was less than three meters away from the python, the big python suddenly stretched out its neck and dragged the bird that wanted to escape from mid-air. The mouth closed and retracted into the corner.

"Do you want to go up?" Zhengyang showed a cautious look, the python's movements just now were not slow, the nearby wind elements began to be restless, and the rest of the group also looked eager to try!

Chu Tian looked at it and shook his head with his teammates: "Go inside, this is just an ordinary python, even if you kill it, it won't be of much use to us." Just now, I was just curious about how the other party attracted the food to come, but now I'm not interested, so let's go. ”

"How did this stupid snake attract food?" Li Qiang brought his big face close to the pool, wanting to find out.

Seeing that several teammates were also curious about this question, Chu Tian explained helplessly: "Didn't you smell any strange smell?" I'll go first, I can't stand the smell anymore."

"I see, this snake attracts bugs with its smell, and then attracts birds down! No wonder the team leader doesn't want to do it, even if he chooses to eat, he won't consider it! Hum! Zhang Ping was the first to react!

Everyone was stunned! Smelled it carefully near the pool, there was indeed a faint fishy smell inside, at first I thought it was a python that didn't like to be clean, but it had been raining a few times recently.

After the python's pool, everyone entered the center of the zoo, and there were more cages and various houses nearby. Passing by various animal halls such as Monkey Mountain and Waterfowl Lake, no too strange mutant animals were found, and everyone was a little disappointed, and they planned to leave along a path in the zoo. I was hoping to catch a few mutants here for dinner.

When passing by the back door on the south side, a large number of peculiar small flowers densely lingered on the left wall, and a breeze blew, which seemed to be accompanied by bursts of floral fragrance! Chu Tian couldn't help but take a few more looks, mainly because he felt that this little flower was a little familiar.

The teammates watched Chu Tian glance at the small flowers on the door from time to time, and they all slowed down and began to look at the flowers on the side wall.

"What kind of flower is this? It feels quite fragrant, some honey taste, I haven't seen it before, have you seen it? Li Qiang asked his teammates as he stabbed the long stick in his hand at one of the flowers.

"Wait!"

Chu Tian was just going to organize Li Qiang, but Li Qiang's guy was too fast, and he had already stabbed the stick into the flowers on the wall!

Boom!

One of the small flowers was easily poked down and fell to the ground, making a dull sound, and now there was no need for Chu Tian to remind them, everyone realized that something was wrong! The flowers on the fence seem to be a little abnormal!