The limit of the flow of the black river is approaching, and the wind sweeps the sand and dust.

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Dizzy, hungry, thirsty, facing endless despair.

The sky, which never seemed to see through the sun, was completely covered in gray clouds, not just clouds of water vapor, but clouds made almost entirely of dust and floating debris. Ever since the rain of light that heralded the beginning of the new era washed away the radiation that was about to spread widely, the area seemed to be enveloped by some strange force from beginning to end...... The radioactive elements leaked from the giant tungsten metal ball from the Genesis period were enough to contaminate the area for billions of years, but it never spread to the outside.

The nuclear continent is still an important part of the overall atmospheric and ocean current circulation, but it seems that the air currents and seawater that leave here have never spread the pollution, as if they have been filtered by an invisible boundary. At the beginning, Xinglan also investigated this question, but never found any answers, and the pollution carried by it seemed to be purified out of thin air.

The long blue-gold hair fluttered in the wind, shining like when Xinglan first saw Mystery Xin in the Dragon Soul Age many billions of years ago, but the sapphire eyes looked a little dull at this time. The girl showed the two small fangs at the corners of her mouth, gently bit the purple branch whose surface was already covered with tooth marks, felt the faint electricity flow from the electrolyte inside the branch to her body, and smiled helplessly.

The power stored in the purple branches has not been depleted, but it is no longer the most critical issue that threatens the survival of the Xinyu people. Prayers for the Moon can go without drinking or eating for a long time with a stable supply of electricity to maintain their physical functions, but a long time does not mean forever, and the continuous drifting across the sea on the Eclipse Hive and the continuous travel after reaching the nuclear continent are finally reaching the limit.

She didn't know why the nuclear continent, known as the land of death, hadn't taken their lives until now, and it stands to reason that even the radiation intensity exposed to the air had already reached the general lethal standard that Xinglan had said, but they were indeed alive and had not fallen.

With a glimmer of hope, Xijie is naturally reluctant to end here.

It's not waterless, but the eerie gray color of the river, mixed with a lot of dust, is intimidating on the outside...... This is not surprising, and while it cannot be said that no plants can grow here, their scarce numbers clearly do not fully make this land as stable as other continents. Soil erosion, a phenomenon normally found only on other continents where large-scale deforestation occurs, is particularly severe, and almost every river carries away large amounts of sand and soil along its path, making it extremely turbid.

The water is obviously not drinkable, and the only possible way to get clean water is from the bodies of other animals, but the food is also desperate, the life forms here are too far apart from the rest of the world, and the creatures are extremely tenacious.

[How long can you hold it up at most?] The Xin Yu people who traveled with her along the way also stood next to her, and in the continuous telling of the other party along the way, she finally learned the name that the other party had chosen in the language of the moon prayer people...... Fuji Zi and Xin Yu people seem to like to use color as their own name, and Fuji Zi didn't expect Xijie, who had never opened his mouth along the way, to answer at this time, he was just talking to himself unilaterally, [I can support it for six days at most, and I can only be awake for three days. ］

The Xinyu are able to calculate most of their bodies like clocks with precision, and unlike other creatures, they have free access to a large part of their brainstem that is controlled by the subconscious, so they also know their limits and how to extend them.

Shioyu looked at the boy with a worried face, and gently grabbed the other's palm as a sign of comfort, she had less time left than the other party, and with her current physical condition, she could maintain her sanity for another day and a half at most...... This is when there is no excess consumption, and it will be further shortened if there are events that require a lot of stamina.

She stood still, forcibly holding back her dizziness from the lack of replenishment, and looked at the flat ground not far away, where there were creatures that didn't look like creatures at all.

She had never seen anything like it, it didn't look like a living thing at all, it looked like a child's toy. The slender tubular structures are connected to each other to form a dense network of bodies, each of which has specialized joints, and the outermost stretch structure extends out of many protruding planes, presenting a spherical outline as a whole, like a spherical bamboo cage.

If that's all there is to it, then these things look a bit like the stems of plants, but they are not fixed to the ground, but are able to move freely. This movement is somewhat similar to the way the Rust moves by moving the relative position of the internal tissues of the body, but differently, the outermost plane acts as the position of the foot...... This makes them more like bionic multi-legged robots.

Part of the tubular tissue was hollow, and she could hear the wind as it passed through it. The volume of a single individual may be insignificant, but if a large group of these creatures are present together, the sound will be too loud to ignore.

It is not known if these creatures have developed brains, but judging from the hollowed-out structure, they should not have a major nerve center, but instead have bulging nodulous ganglia scattered throughout the joints of the body, and they do not have eyes that can see light, and the way to perceive their surroundings is to make a simple stress response through close contact and vibration in the air.

Of course, no one in this era knows these strange creatures, but here we can call them in advance by the name that people will give them in the future: the air pipe knot, an incredible creature.

This is not an advanced species, in fact, the air pipe junction is a relatively primitive life form, but it is precisely because of the primitive structure that their vitality has become extremely strong, even if they are cut in half, they can slowly recover. These creatures use the wind as their main source of energy, collecting wind power through their tubular structures as the main source of energy for their own movement, while absorbing minerals from the soil and sand to slowly grow themselves, and finally reproducing by dividing.

If it weren't for the fact that the duct junction was discovered and recorded in scientific data much later, because it is mainly found in nuclear continents, many people think that it could have become one of the metaphors used on the planet to mock those who are very stupid but always die without dying...... This position has long been occupied by porous tube worms, and the duct junction is not inferior in any way.

Unfortunately, although there are a lot of wind pipe knots here, and they don't have any combat power, even the tide knot itself can easily solve a large area, but the existence of this creature is simply worthless to them. It can't be said that there is no water at all, but the water content in the air duct nodule is very low, and most of its physiological reactions are that it does not require water, and this plastic-looking tubular structure is obviously not a good material for food.

At this moment, Xijie couldn't help but feel a little envious in her heart, if only she could live by eating wind and soil like these guys, but Xin Yu people obviously don't have this ability, and the hunger and ** feelings are like electronic signals echoing repeatedly in her mind, constantly warning that the various functions of the body are constantly approaching the limit.

They were far away from the place where they had landed in the first place, and there was nothing worth staying there after the Eclipse Hive left, but it was obviously not so easy to leave the continent...... If it is not easy to find trees enough to be used for shipbuilding in the Nanyuan Continent, then it is almost impossible in the Nuclear Continent, and there is nothing to be done in the face of large areas of wilderness. Although some edible fish may still be found in the water by the sea, Xijie, a severe hydrophobia patient who is not saved, will not mention it, and the fear of water as a Xin Yu person is not as exaggerated as that of Mystery Xin, but it is also a complete landlubber.

Xijie couldn't help but complain in his heart, how did these Xinyu people cross the sea, and they dared to go out to sea without knowing how to swim at all......

Of course, if you think about it from another angle, there should be something that can make Xin Yu people who are not familiar with water risk going to sea. Although they have the ability to levitate over short distances, it is absolutely impossible to rely on geomagnetic levitation to drift across the ocean, and the energy consumed is completely astronomical, which is not something that Xin Yu people can provide at all.

Of course, the inner complaint is just to relax the nervous mood, and Xijie is not unable to understand why most of the people of Xin Yu are overly nervous, just like being able to clearly feel the pressure index brought by nervousness to their lives, and intellectually they know that they should relax their nervous mood at this time...... But in general, the more I think about it, the more I can't help but feel nervous!

Taking a deep breath and feeling the air of the nuclear continent with a strange aura entering the body, Xijie knew that there must be a deep cause for them not showing radiation sickness now. She took Fuji Zi's hand on the side, and then pointed ahead, signaling them to continue, it didn't seem that there would be much to gain from staying here, but Fuji Zi didn't make any reaction, still stunned in place, and Xijie realized that he was looking behind him a little sluggishly.

She had never seen such a completely dull expression as Vine Purple, not too surprised or overjoyed, but as if she was completely attracted by something, even to the point of losing her eyes.

An inexplicable sense of dread gripped her heart, and her intuition told her that something was behind her, accompanied by a soft rustling sound that moved on the ground, and this small grinding sound did not look like footsteps at all, and finally, she couldn't help but be curious, and looked back behind her.

The blue and white colors are intertwined, like a blue sky and white clouds. It was a feather, she could only see that it was a feather, but strangely she couldn't tell what kind of creature these feathers were on, she could only see the endless colors in front of her showing a splendor that could not be described in words, and what was originally just a faint rustle resounded in her ears like thunder at this moment.

(Thanks to the 100 starting coins of "Frozen Storage" and "Purple Cloud Half Hidden Faint Moon Traces" and the 588 starting coins of "Eternal Senia" for tip~)