Chapter 53: The City in the Mist
Under the cover of darkness, W City is lifeless and lifeless.
Today, the jungle has completely submerged the former northwestern metropolis.
However, in this dark night city, there are glimmers of light.
Strange plants that grow colorful branches and leaves or fruits.
However, this kind of plant light source is very weak, and it is difficult to illuminate, which makes the city even more eerie in the middle of the night.
In the past, there were piles of vehicles on the streets, but now they are rusty and dilapidated.
The surrounding buildings are also wrapped in various vegetation. There are even plants that grow directly from the inside of the building, revealing branches of different colors. Behind the dark window, I don't know what kind of bugs or monsters are hidden.
Li Mo was walking on the street at this time, and his eyes turned to a shop next to him.
It can be seen that above the gate, a few big characters are printed on the broken box lamp, Tea World X.
It is a tea shop, and it is overgrown with a purple plant in the form of a vine.
The end of the world makes the changes of plants extremely strange, and tomorrow and tomorrow will be cold and freezing, but it will not affect the change and growth of plants in the slightest.
However, this change in plants is not all bad for human survivors.
Li Mo walked to the front of the tea shop, and with a wave of the dagger in his hand, he cut off a purple vine.
A white liquid immediately flowed out of the cracks of the vines. It's not sticky, it's a bit like milk.
He brought the shut-off to his mouth and took a sip of the rattan liquid. It is slightly bitter in the mouth, but it can not only replace the water source for hydration. At the same time, it also has a refreshing effect.
Of course, in the mutant plants of the end times. There are also some that are very dangerous.
For example, it was also on this street, about twenty or thirty meters away from Li Mo. There is a huge tree.
It's just that under the branches and leaves of this tree, there are a lot of hanging trees, exuding a faint red glow, like lantern-like fruits.
Although Li Mo was a reborn, he had only heard of this kind of giant tree before, but he had never really seen it.
It is said that the fruit of this strange tree will quickly shrink and emit a very poisonous mist when a living creature approaches it.
Not to mention human evolutionaries, even high-level evolutionary beasts with stronger resistance and even insects. Sniffing this toxin will also paralyze the nerves and paralyze in a short period of time.
Moreover, Li Mo also heard that once a living creature is poisoned, the giant tree will devour it.
But how to swallow it, Li Mo really doesn't know.
In fact, he wasn't sure if the giant tree was the kind of man-eating tree he had heard of, and he didn't plan to verify it for himself anyway.
Curiosity kills cats, or it's better to stay away.
And the coordinate point he was going to this time was in the heart of W City.
However, there are still three days to go. Therefore, Li Mo was not in a hurry to go deeper.
It was late at night, so I decided to find a place to stay, and went straight to the strange tree, and turned into another street.
But with the entry into W City. Li Mo also discovered that the situation here was far more complicated than he imagined.
Just by looking at the mutated plants in the urban area, you can see that the variety is far more than other places. There are a lot of them. He had never even seen it, not even heard of it.
And when I entered the city before. He also noticed a layer of fog in the place.
At first, Li Mo didn't take it seriously. But as it deepens. I found that the further I went, the higher the concentration of the fog.
Could it be related to that coordinate point? He thought to himself.
But fortunately, this fog didn't make him find anything wrong, and it shouldn't be a poisonous fog.
But in this foggy city, of course, he was a little more vigilant.
In order to be on the safe side, Li Mo also had to turn on the brainwave ability. Even if it will consume source power, you must be careful before finding a safe place to stay.
At present, he has turned on the maximum range detection coverage of brain waves, and he can already detect a range of more than 100 meters with himself as the center.
And luckily, I didn't find any lurking creatures.
And after turning two streets one after another, Li Mo finally found a very familiar harmless giant tree. On the trunk of the tree, seven or eight meters above the ground, there is also a tree hole.
Compared to the thick trunk of a dozen people who can hold it, the hole is not big, but it is enough for him to shelter.
After making some observations and making sure that there was no threat, Li Mo controlled the air flow and flew up.
A brief inspection of the tree hole showed that it was dry and smellless, indicating that it was not a monster or a bug's nest.
So he went into the hole, and although he couldn't straighten up, he was still very spacious to sit in.
Hiding in a tree hole, Li Mo first unloaded his backpack and took out a small plastic bottle like a medicine bottle from it.
The bottle contained something the size of a small thumb and a capsule.
This is the second-generation elemental liquid that Han Lin prepared for him before leaving.
It's just that in order to facilitate carrying, Peishan has been able to encapsulate the elemental liquid.
However, each of these capsule elemental liquids was only the basic amount used by those with first-order abilities.
And Li Mo is not only second-order, but his evolution degree is as high as 2.8, and his consumption of elemental liquid is naturally much faster.
Therefore, he had to inject three pills at a time, and the interval between injections was also very short, every two days.
Fortunately, Peishan is very generous, and he has prepared a lot of inventory, but he doesn't have to worry about "running out of food".
took out three capsules and a needle, and pulled out the elemental liquid, but Li Mo was not in a hurry to inject it, just injected a little bit into the cortex on his arm.
It's a bit like a skin test, where the evolutionary's body is sensitive to all kinds of toxins, so this allows him to make a basic judgment.
Although Xingcheng and Peishan have established a cooperative relationship, with Li Mo's temperament, he is still very cautious. This necessary measure is done before each injection.
Seeing that there was no abnormality at the injection site, and he didn't feel any bad feelings, he was relieved to take the blood injection.
After the injection is completed. Li Mo took out another piece of insect meat and gnawed on it.
The insect meat is very chewy, as for the taste. Although it is much stronger than animal meat, it is certainly not delicious. But when he was reborn, he was already used to eating insect meat. Naturally, I don't care about that.
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The night was very peaceful, and occasionally Li Mo would be woken up by the wind or the roar of the corpse, but he didn't encounter any accidents.
In the early morning, before the sun had climbed out and the sky had just turned white, he opened his eyes.
In fact, as early as an hour ago, Li Mo had already woken up, and he was just pretending to sleep.
As an evolutionary, you only need two to three hours of sleep a day. It's enough to get a good rest.
It's just that at this time, Li Mo heard a muffled roar, and he was coming towards this side from far and near.
He hurried out of the hole and jumped onto a branch. Hiding behind the foliage, he looked for the roar.
But the first thing that caught the eye was actually the two survivors, who turned onto the street where they were hiding in the giant tree where they were hiding.
He was a little surprised to meet survivors in the city now. After all, few people choose to go hunting in the city. It's too dangerous.
As for the survivors who have remained in the city, at this time, of course, there are very few.
However, accidents are accidents, and Li Mo can't help but feel sorry for these two survivors. I got some interest.
It was a man and a woman, the male was about thirty years old, and the female was much older. I have to go up to forty.
Both were dirty, but neat. The body is also very strong.
Just by the steps under his feet, you can see that he is not an ordinary person, but obviously an evolutionary.
It's just that it's a bit far away. Li Mo couldn't sense their brain waves, and couldn't tell if they were capable or not.
In the man's hand, he was holding an iron rod two meters long, which seemed to be solid and not light.
The woman, on the other hand, was holding something that resembled the bones of an animal, in an arc, like the ribs of some kind of large beast, the tip of which was sharpened.
However, on the man's shoulder, he was still carrying a large pale green meat worm. The insect was still very large, the thickness of a grown man's leg.
That's not the larva of a hard beetle. Li Mo said secretly in his heart. He recognized the bug at a glance, but it was clearly dead.
And from the back of the building behind the two of them, three more adult hard beetles soon came out.
The roar that Li Mo heard before was made by this kind of bug.
The beetles are extremely large, each about the size of a bucket and two meters long.
It's a bit like a centipede, but without the centipede's legs. Covered in a thick black shell, it crawls with a bow.
But the crawling speed is extremely fast, and it is not inferior to the two evolutionaries.
The two of them didn't know if they had stabbed the beetle's nest, and at this time, they saw the beetle chasing after them. The man threw the larval carcass on his shoulder to the woman with a flick of his hand, and yelled, "You go first!" ”
As soon as the words fell, he actually picked up the big iron rod in his hand, turned around and met the three beetles.
The woman seemed to hesitate, but finally gritted her teeth, picked up the larvae and continued to run.
It's just that Li Mo looked at the direction in which she fled, but he frowned.
Just when he saw these two people, he activated the brainwave ability. Immediately, the direction of the woman's escape was discovered, and at the intersection dozens of meters away, there were two beetles outflanking this side.
If it had been placed in the past, Li Mo would definitely not care about this kind of nosy. But now, he has the heart to make contact with these two people.
If they really stayed in the city, they should know the place very well enough to give themselves some information.
However, it is not easy for people in the last days to establish a relationship of trust, so Li Mo did not rush to act, wanting to see if he could find a more suitable time to make a move.
On the other side, the man was already fighting with the three beetles.
In the process of rushing forward, when there was still a few meters away from the beetle that rushed to the front, he slammed the iron rod in his hand.
The next moment, I saw a light blue electric light suddenly glow on the iron rod.
It's still an electric attribute ability. Li Mo's gaze couldn't help but be attracted to him.
It is normal for attribute abilities to conduct attribute source power through metal weapons, especially for electric attributes.
However, the fire attribute ability is more troublesome, after all, it is difficult for ordinary metals to withstand the high temperature of the fire attribute.
And Li Mo could see at a glance that this man was a good hand.
I saw that the electric light on the iron rod quickly converged at the top, and in an instant, it shot out arcs and weaved a power grid.
The man, on the other hand, was wielding an iron rod, as if he were wielding a huge fish, and in one fell swoop he copied the beetle's head with the power grid.
What surprised Li Mo even more was that the power grid began to retract immediately and became tighter and tighter at the same time as copying the worm's head. It can be seen that this person's electricity control technique is extremely skillful.
As the power grid contracted rapidly, the insect head was enveloped, and suddenly only the electric light flickered, and sparks continued to burst out.
The beetle was subjected to the strong electricity of the power grid, and its body suddenly fell into a state of paralysis, and its head trembled and shook wildly.
Although it was not able to electrocute it, it was clearly hit hard.
But the other two beetles were also close at this time. The huge body was shaken, and two insect heads with big mouths opened angrily gnawed towards the man.
Caught by this attack, the man did not panic, and kicked up from the ground.
Avoiding the large mouths of the two beetles with steel teeth, he picked up the iron rod in his hand and smashed it on the head of one of them.
But the power of this stick is much greater than the previous power grid.
The power grid only paralyzed a beetle, but the big round iron rod actually directly opened the beetle's head, and a stream of green liquid splashed out.
This person actually has a kind of power-strengthening gene!
Li Mo had just seen that the evolution of this ability had reached the second order, but this alone was not enough to smash the hard shell of the hard beetle with a blunt weapon.
So he can basically be sure that this person has a gene similar to his own great strength.
However, while the man smashed the hard beetle to death, the only remaining one also took the opportunity to attack again. As soon as he flicked his ass, it hit him.
The strength of the hard beetle is not small, and this time it directly knocked the man upside down and flew out.
I saw that the man slammed into the building on the side of the street, but quickly jumped up, and should not have been hurt.
At the same time, in his hand, a ball of electric energy rolling with electric light was condensed, which was a technique of compression and polymerization.
Then I saw him flick his hand, and the electric energy ball flew out of his hand and shot towards the hard beetle.
The damage of the electric energy ball must be better than the previous power grid, and this hard beetle is obviously going to be finished.
However, a second-order ability person also has a strength talent gene, and it is not difficult to deal with three first-order hard beetles, so Li Mo is not surprised by this.
And just as the man shot the electric energy ball, he also withdrew his gaze from the other party.
Because his brainwaves had sensed that the other two outflanked hard beetles were about to rush to the intersection, and they were about to encounter the female evolutionary.
Li Mo jumped from the tree a little under his feet. At the same time, I happened to see a hard beetle that suddenly rushed out, blocking the woman's way. (To be continued......)