Chapter 17: The Behemoth Mountains
After several hours of turbulence, Zhang Jianyang's destination has finally arrived.
A small town with a history dating back 100 years before the nuclear war. Zhang Jianyang has never been here once in reality, but in the illusion, this is one of the places where he often appears. Familiar with this place, Zhang Jianyang can walk out of the mountains that stretch for hundreds of kilometers behind this town almost with his eyes closed.
Parking the pickup truck in front of a hotel, Zhang Jianyang jumped out of the car, carried a canvas bag full of gun parts, and walked in.
The town is also seventy or eighty kilometers away from the nearest city, and it is located in a remote location, backed by hundreds of kilometers of uninhabited land, which should have been deserted. But after the nuclear war, the mutation of animals and plants made this town one of the most famous places in the entire Northwest Territories. Teams of adventurous teams appear here, hunting mutant beasts and collecting mutated herbs.
The large number of people who have emerged has brought earth-shaking changes to the town, and it has expanded several times in a hundred years.
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After a simple meal, Zhang Jianyang left the pickup in the parking lot of the hotel and walked out of town with a canvas bag.
It was already noon, and there were no more adventurous hunter-gatherers in the town who chose to enter the mountains at this time, and the night was a hundred times more dangerous than the day. The time to enter the mountain range is usually in the morning, when the teams that have been assembled long ago will march towards the mountain one by one, and then disappear into the mountain range.
Some lucky ones will return with prey or a large amount of herbs, while others will disappear completely into the mountains and never return.
Either way, for the residents of the town or the business owners who come from other places to do business, it is a net profit. The lucky ones will graciously tip enough, and those who never return, their stored vehicles, or the various domesticated mutants used for transportation, become an extra income for them.
Over the past 100 years, a huge car trading market has been formed in the town.
The people of the small town who gather visitors from all walks of life have long been accustomed to seeing all kinds of people, such as Zhang Jianyang, a lone traveler, who does not know how many times a year, usually this kind of person is arrogant. It's just that more, this kind of lone wanderer, there is almost no possibility of returning to the town. For a long time, enough for anyone to face the horror of the mountains, it is rare to see the appearance of a lone wanderer.
Now Zhang Jianyang left the town alone, which surprised many people.
Solo travelers are not uncommon, but they also leave in the morning and usually return to the town before dark. But the lone wanderer who set off at noon is rare, doesn't he know that after setting off at noon and arriving at the mountain range, the area he can search has long been turned over by people for an unknown number of times in a hundred years, and there are almost no mutant beasts and mutant herbs?
It's just that no one will remind them, but some people gloated and looked at Zhang Jianyang's distant figure, laughing and scolding fools with their companions.
As soon as Zhang Jianyang became serious, the momentum of the soldiers was even stronger, and he acted vigorously and resolutely, never dragging mud and water, striding forward while walking, his waist was straight, and the whole person was extremely straight while walking.
This posture is not Zhang Jianyang's pretend, but a subconscious action formed for a long time, although he is not a soldier, but he has a better posture than a soldier.
The mountain range behind the town is endless, hundreds of kilometers long, and there are many mutant beasts hidden in it, from low-level to high-level. Some mutant beasts are even more powerful existences, even high-level star warriors, they don't dare to go deep into the depths of this mountain range, even if it is a hundred years, no one has penetrated into the central heart of this mountain range.
The central area of the mountain range is mysterious, and only some major powers have access to the topography with the help of high-altitude spy satellites.
Zhang Jianyang is very familiar with this mountain range, but now that he has lost his star power, he does not dare to hold it up, after entering the mountain range, on a boulder, the parts of the gun are quickly assembled, and in the blink of an eye, an AKM 7.6mm assault rifle appeared in Zhang Jianyang's hand. He expertly swapped the magazine, and fired a three-shot shot at a small tree the size of an arm, three hundred meters away.
In the next second, a bullet hole appeared on the small tree, and the three bullets turned out to be in a line, all concentrated in one point, and pierced the small tree.
If someone sees this scene, they are afraid that their jaws will drop. There is no scope, but it is still at hand, but it has the same effect as a sniper rifle, how did you practice this marksmanship?
Zhang Jianyang shook his head and corrected the rifle again, although the three shots just now were shocking, Zhang Jianyang was still a little dissatisfied, and said secretly: "Private imitation guns, after all, do not have the quality of military products, and can only be used reluctantly." He made up his mind that after returning from this trip, he would get a real military weapon to replace the one in his hand.
Grabbing the gun in his hand, Zhang Jianyang went further into the mountains.
This mountain range is known as the Behemoth Mountain Range, and it is also known as the Death Mountain Range.
At the edge of the mountain range, many places have been trampled out of small paths, leading to the depths of the mountain range.
When he went five or six kilometers deeper, the voice of a person came from a valley, Zhang Jianyang estimated, and it was obvious that the other party was either returning from hunting or looking for herbs in the mountains.
After the nuclear war, not only animals, but also plants were mutated.
Don't underestimate these mutated herbs, their medicinal surnames have changed dramatically, and the god-level herbs that turn dry bones into flesh and blood are no longer a fairy-like legend, but a real existence. But this herb, in the past 100 years, has only appeared once. At that time, the commander of a country was forced to repair his flesh and blood from the mortal wounds, and came back from the dead.
Herbs like this kind of god-level definitely still exist in this world, it just depends on whose luck can come across them.
Other levels of herbs also have excellent healing powers, and the mutated herbs are full of all kinds of crazy medicinal powers. Gathering herbs has always been the most popular industry after the nuclear war, and it is even ranked above the hunting of mutant beasts. Even if it is an ordinary mutant herb, as long as you find a few plants, it is enough for people to live without worry for a month or two, if you are lucky to find a better one, maybe you can live a life without worry, if you find a higher level, you can live the most luxurious life for the rest of your life......
Opportunity is accompanied by danger, behind the high returns, there is a high death, how many people have died because of hunting and gathering in the past hundred years?
Over the hills, the valley suddenly opens up.
Zhang Jianyang nodded secretly, this valley is very mild in terms of humidity and temperature, and it is indeed a suitable place for many herbs to grow, and it is reasonable to be able to absorb some herbs and mutate due to radiation.
However, Zhang Jianyang shook his head again, in a hundred years, there are not a thousand people who have patronized here, but there are also hundreds, not to mention mutated, even the herbs without mutations have also been harvested, how can they give latecomers a chance? I'm afraid that this wave of people will return empty-handed.
Sure enough, a group of seven people were leaving the valley, and the expressions on their faces seemed to be full of frustration.
Such a team, I don't know how many there are every day, they often leave in the morning and then leave the Behemoth Mountain Range at three or four o'clock in the afternoon, usually for a week to a month or two of collecting operations.
Zhang Jianyang didn't pay attention to this collection team, met on the trail, just stood on the edge of the trail with a light smile, and politely let them pass first.
The whole team was surprised to meet a lone person here, not to mention that the star warriors in the team could easily sense that the other party did not have any star power, just an ordinary person.
It is not strange for an ordinary person to appear in the Giant Beast Mountain Range, but being alone is enough to be unbelievable.
When the whole team met Zhang Jianyang, they all looked at Zhang Jianyang with wide eyes, as if they wanted to identify whether this guy was neurotic.
Zhang Jianyang had long thought of this, he just smiled lightly and nodded slightly.
"Did you get lost with your team, or did you get lost and break into the mountains?" Almost in the staggered team, the big-eyed Shui Meilan in this collection team couldn't help but ask, just for a moment, she was attracted to the angular man in front of her, not because of his handsomeness, but out of curiosity about him, and the special temperament on him.
Zhang Jianyang was stunned for a moment, and then noticed that the girl was about twenty years old, her hair was tied up, she was wearing a camouflage uniform, holding a sapper shovel in her hand, and behind her petite was a marching bag, with big eyes, a delicate face, and a rosy lip under her small nose. Well, a very capable girl.
"No, thank you, I'm on my own."
Receiving the exact answer, the collection team was amazed again.
Shui Meilan opened his mouth into an O-shape and said, "Aren't you afraid of danger, this is the Giant Beast Mountain Range." ”
Zhang Jianyang raised the gun in his hand, gave the other party a smile, and did not explain, but thought for a while, pointed to a small grove next to the valley, and said, "Aren't you going to collect herbs, maybe you should try your luck somewhere." After he finished speaking, he straightened his back again, and soon disappeared into the bend of the path.
The place Zhang Jianyang pointed to was a small grove, a place where no one could pay attention.
Shui Meilan pouted: "There will be herbs here?" ”
It's just that I don't know why, Shui Meilan still believes it, and the god sends the team to climb over the hillside and into this grove.
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"Huang Yingcao, oh my God, it's a mutated Huang Yingcao!"
At this moment, the whole team was stunned, they didn't expect that in this inconspicuous wood, there was such a valuable herb worth a thousand gold.
Even Shui Meilan was stunned: "Could it be that he already knew that there were mutant herbs here?" But why didn't he pick it himself? ”
So, Zhang Jianyang's straight figure floated to her heart again, this is a mysterious man full of curiosity.
(Update note: Normally it will be placed at 12 noon and 7 pm...... In addition, everyone's voting is not strong, each collector only needs to give me one vote a day, and I will meet it, a small request, and it is not too much, right? )