At dusk on this day, in the dense forest more than ten kilometers away from the Xingcheng gathering place, three figures shuttled through the forest.

At the head was a strong man carrying a metal spear nearly two meters long.

This person was Gao Meng, and the woman with a grim face who followed him was Xu Hong.

The other one, like a fart, chasing Xu Hong to the left and right, was a man in his early twenties, named Zhang Yi, who was the captain of a mercenary team in the Xingcheng gathering place.

However, while his mercenary team was hunting mutant beasts, they were attacked by an evolutionary bug, resulting in heavy casualties for the team.

He narrowly escaped with his life, and this morning, he happened to meet Gao Meng and others on a mission.

It's just that since this thing saw Xu Hong, he was immediately shocked and became a loyal fan of Xu Hong.

However, he also knew the identity of Gao Meng and others, so he didn't dare to do anything out of the ordinary, at most he chased after Xu Hong to offer his courtesy.

Let's talk about Gao Meng and Xu Hong, the reason why they left Xingcheng on a mission this time was because recently, a high-level insect appeared in this area.

And the appearance of this bug has also attracted great attention from the gathering place. After all, the presence of a high-level insect in the vicinity will cause a lot of hidden dangers to the gathering place.

In particular, a main road leading to the gathering place also passes through an area infested with insects, and many trade teams in Xingcheng pass through this area, and two caravans have already been attacked, resulting in heavy losses.

Therefore, the gathering place had to send personnel to search. However, it is impossible to send a large army to do such a thing, because ordinary soldiers who rely only on firearms are no longer enough to pose a threat to high-level insects. Once encountered. It can only be a waste of personnel.

Only capable masters can shoulder such a task. At least in the face of high-level bugs. They have the power to protect themselves.

Of course, the search team sent by Xingcheng this time could not be just Gao Meng and Xu Hong. Xu Mingdong's special combat team dispatched half of the manpower.

And Gao Meng brought out this time, in addition to Xu Hong, there were two other people, namely Qin Yu and Liu Jin.

The reason why Xu Hong was brought with her was because although this girl was nominally still a person next to Zhen Ying, since she got a kind of olfactory enhancement gene, she began to follow Gao Meng everywhere to kill insects and hunt beasts, and she has become a master of survival in the wild.

Gao Meng, who was walking in the front, carefully observed the situation nearby. He stopped and stopped.

Looking back, he put aside Zhang Yi, who was blocking between himself and Xu Hong, and asked Xu Hong, "Is there anything else you have found?" ”

"Nope." Xu Hong shook his head, a little bit like gold.

And Gao Meng turned his eyes and looked in the southwest direction, just when he heard a burst of footsteps, he couldn't help laughing: "The two boys are back." ”

Then he saw that deep in the jungle he was looking at, two figures were rapidly approaching this direction. Walking in the thorny forest, the two of them walked like flying. Apparently veterans who often go out into the jungle.

The two were none other than Qin Yu and Liu Jin, who went to investigate.

Liu Jin was still sick with his previous words, and as soon as he came back, he smiled at Lao Gao: "Big brother, our sister Hong's nose." It's really more than a dog's nose Turin, and there is really meat worm feces over there. ”

The fleshworm is a large, first-order mollusk that looks a bit like a snail. But there is no shell of a snail.

The body length varies from one meter to one meter five, and the calf thickness of an adult male. It has two tentacles on its head. The two antennae can shoot out an acid, which is extremely corrosive.

But the fleshworm moves slowly. The attack method is extremely simple, so it is relatively easy to deal with. In addition, the meat quality is relatively delicious, so this first-order insect that was originally named tentacle acid insect by the gathering place has the nickname of meat worm.

Xu Hong heard Liu Jin say that he had a dog nose and stared at him coldly. However, everyone is an old teammate who came out of S City together, so naturally they don't care about this joke.

Gao Meng didn't pay attention to the stinky poverty of his younger brother, glanced at the corpse of the meat insect on Qin Yu's shoulder, and asked, "Don't talk so much nonsense, you found this worm?" ”

Liu Jin responded: "Well, it's a lonely guy." ”

Gao Meng nodded: "Then let's camp here tonight, and the two of you will prepare dinner first." ”

"Okay." Liu Jin responded and helped Qin Yu put the corpse of the meat worm on the ground.

Qin Yu, a big boy, has faded away from his former youth after experiencing the baptism of the last days. There is a short stubble on his face, and his eyes are full of perseverance and steady. Only on the right side of his nose, from the cheekbone to the base of his right cheek, there is a long scar.

In one battle, he nearly lost his right eye. And at that time, this wound also ran through his cheeks.

Qin Yu was holding a mountain-opening knife at this time, skillfully cutting the corpse of insect flesh.

However, although the workmanship of his knife is simple, the material is extremely special, and it is the special metal that Xingcheng trades from Xingxing.

The hardness and toughness of this metal are excellent, but its greatest advantage is that it can conduct source power, and it is one of the most important weapon materials in the last days.

However, the forging of this metal is not easy, so it can only be used to make relatively simple cold weapons and armor at present.

Like Lao Gao and Liu Jin's spears and daggers, Qin Yu's two Kaishan* knives, and a pair of double-ended single-handed pistols that Xu Hong was carrying in his hand, they were all made of this metal.

Of course, due to the different physical attributes of several people, the weight of the weapon has been adjusted with specific gravity gel, which is very handy.

Looking at Qin Yu again, after disemboweling the meat worm, he released the insect fluid in his body, and while taking out the insect crystal, he also took out a soft sac like going into the water.

Qin Yu was very careful about this soft sac, because this was the acid sac of the meat worm, and there was still this acid in it.

Throwing the bag aside, Qin Yu cut the most delicate insect meat and cut it into a meat chop the size of a palm.

He was almost busy here, and Liu Jin brought back the rhizomes and leaves of some mutated plants.

Although these plants still have moisture, they are very flammable and resistant to burning. However, there are several of them, which are used for consumption. Sweet taste.

Liu Jin soon lit a bonfire, and several people sat around. Roast the worm meat.

However, Zhang Yi was obviously very worried about Gao Meng's almost picnic attitude, although he looked at the insect meat roasted on the fire. I couldn't help but swallow my saliva, but I still asked, "Guys, will this attract other things?" Too dangerous, right? ”

In the past, he and his mercenary team had always fed on dried meat that was easy to preserve in the wild, and they didn't dare to make a fire to roast meat like this.

But his kindness was exchanged for a roll of Liu Jin's eyes: "Look down on our Sister Hong, right?" Let me tell you, this living creature with a radius of one kilometer can't escape our Sister Hong's nose. ”

Zhang Yi used to be in the gathering place, but he had also heard of Xu Hong's olfactory gene. I just didn't expect it to be so strong.

Now he looked at Xu Hong's eyes, and suddenly became even more obsessed. He also hurriedly took out his dagger, inserted a piece of worm meat, and put it on the fire to roast it.

The insect meat is easy to cook, and this kid saw that it was almost roasted, and saw that Xu Hong had not moved, but was just eating the rhizome of a mutated plant there, so he wanted to go up and offer his courtesy.

As a result, before he could move to Xu Hong's side, Liu Jin arched it to the side with a buttocks. said angrily: "Eat your own, our sister Hong has always only eaten vegetarians." ”

Seeing that Liu Jin was blocking in front of Xu Hong, staring at him like a thief, Zhang Yi was angry in his heart. But when I think about the identity of these people. and the strong strength and means of others, directly shrunk the eggs.

Qin Yu and Gao Meng couldn't help but laugh when they saw this kid's angry appearance.

To say in the gathering place. There are many men who have thoughts about Xu Hong. It's just that this girl has always been unapologetic to men, that is, Gao Meng's old teammates can still joke with him. If it's an outsider. It's that Xu Mingdong doesn't even have a good face in front of her.

I remember that after Li Mo left, there was a gathering place when the pituitary gland and genes were assigned to the research institute. In order to help Zhen Ying fight for a rare pituitary gland, Xu Hong also turned his face with Lao Xu.

Therefore, in the eyes of Lao Gao, I am afraid that in Xu Hong's eyes, Zhen Ying's status is even higher than Li Mo. And this has also led to many people who don't know why they think Xu Hong is a lily.

However, why Xu Hong is like this, Lao Gao and the others naturally know it, and it is not because when she first arrived in Xingcheng, Zhen Ying brought her, who was not social and unpopular, into the team.

Therefore, Xu Hong has been maintaining and guarding Zhen Ying day by day since then. This also made Gao Meng and others respect him very much, after all, knowing that the gratitude is nothing more than this, and it is very rare in the last days.

As for Xu Hong being a vegetarian, this is a matter of personal preference. Of course, Liu Jin's words were purely a joke, Xu Hong just didn't like to eat insects. And it's not just her, even Zhen Ying is extremely disgusted with insect meat. However, if you don't like it, it doesn't mean that you really won't eat it, and when you have to, it must be an exception.

Gao Meng was holding a piece of insect meat with a knife in his right hand at this time, and a map in his left hand came to Zhang Yi's side.

Spread the map on the ground, gnawed on the worm meat, and said, "Take a good look at the location where you met that strange bug, is it here?" As he spoke, he clicked on an area on the map.

But his map is no longer pre-apocalyptic, but a new map made after the gathering place has specially sent people to survey and map. Since the terrain has changed a lot by now, the pre-apocalyptic map is certainly not as good as this new map.

And the area covered by the map is not very large, that is, an area of more than 20 kilometers around Xingcheng.

It's just that Zhang Yi doesn't know how to read the map, so he stretched his neck and looked at it for a long time, and he couldn't be sure at all. When they were attacked, they were almost in a mess, and they didn't have the time to pay attention to the surrounding landscape.

But looking at Lao Gao's eagle eyes, he didn't dare to say it explicitly, so he had to prevaricate: "It should be that, but I'm not sure." ”

Yes, if you say it, you don't say it. Gao Meng secretly scolded this kid in his heart. If he wasn't still a little useful, Lao Gao wouldn't have taken him with him.

However, through Zhang Yi's description before, Gao Meng still has some confidence in his judgment. I still decided to go to this and that position, and let the kid confirm it when I got to the place.

So he just glared at Zhang Yi, and then took the map and went to Xu Hong.

Xu Hong saw him coming, and without waiting for him to speak, he took out a black box from his backpack.

This is a radio intercom made from the gathering place for communication.

Gao Meng took the intercom, tinkered with it and began to call.

After a few calls, I finally heard Lao Xu's voice: "Lao Gao, I'm Lao Xu, I have something to say and fart." ”

Gao Meng opened his mouth to tease himself when he heard this, and said directly: "Get out of your, hurry up and tell me your location." ”

Lao Xu smiled, and reported his location.

Gao Meng listened and looked at the map, but said with a smile: "Hehe, you old boy is not far from me." ”

Xu Mingdong was obviously eating, and he could be heard chirping: "You guys also camped?" Did you find anything? ”

Gao Meng replied: "It's a bit of a discovery, I'll give you a location, and we'll be there at noon tomorrow." You also contact the other squads, and try to meet up with the ones who are close to each other. ”

As soon as he heard this, Xu Mingdong suddenly came to his senses, and his voice became solemn: "Can you be sure that the insect appeared there?" Tell me more about it. ”

Gao Meng told Lao Xu about what he had met with Zhang Yi today. At the same time, he also told Xu Mingdong about Zhang Yi's description of the high-level insect carefully.

Lao Xu pondered for a while, digested the information transmitted by Gao Meng, and then said in a deep voice: "I understand, I will contact the nearby search team to rush there." But Lao Gao, judging from your description, that bug is not easy to deal with. ”

Gao Meng also replied in a deep voice: "It's really not easy to deal with, when we get to the place tomorrow, let's take a look at the situation first, and then decide what to do next." ”

"That's all there is to it, then we'll see you tomorrow."

"I'll see you tomorrow."

The two ended the conversation, and Xu Hong put the intercom away again.

Liu Jin and Qin Yu also ate about the same, and the former raised his foot and stepped on the bonfire.

Where they are now, there are just three tree holes that are very close to each other.

Two smaller ones, one was given to Xu Hong, and the other was given to Zhang Yi. The rest of the big one, the tall three, used to sleep in turns, because they had to keep vigil.

Seeing that the sky was already dark, Xu Hong said hello to Gao Meng, got up and went into his tree hole, and took out a blanket from his backpack and spread it on the ground of the tree hole.

This blanket is thin and not big, making it very portable. However, it is made of a special animal skin, which has a good thermal insulation effect and can isolate the cold ground.

And Zhang Yi naturally didn't have such a good treatment, he was directly thrown into the tree hole that belonged to him by Lao Gao, and was told that he had to ask for instructions when he came out to go to the toilet.

This kid shrank in the hole of the tree, looking at the three Gao Meng who were chatting and farting outside, and couldn't help but curse a few words secretly, and shouted in his heart that it was really unlucky to meet these people.

Actually, if he could, he really, really didn't want to go to that horrible bug. But now he can't help it, so he can only anesthetize himself with a beauty or something like that. (To be continued......)