Chapter Fifty-Eight: Lost Weight
In front of everyone's eyes is a dense primeval jungle, although no one can see the original appearance of the jungle, but just from the big trees surrounded by two or three people in front of them, the various rattans wrapped around the big trees, and the unique fragrance of the big trees in the air, you can judge that there is definitely a huge jungle in front of you.
The natural breath of life exuded by this jungle is much more vigorous than that of any other jungle on the earth in the past, and the vast breath of life makes people have an impulse to be fascinated just by standing in front of it.
As Liu Chang, who has the best eyesight in the crowd, his vision distance is the widest, so he also sees the most long-term - in his eyes, he sees a real feast of life intertwined -
The tall towering trees are entangled with all kinds of lianas, and below the trees and vines, there are all kinds of shrubs and low shrubs that no one has ever seen, and if you add all kinds of herbs and saprophytes that look like mushrooms on the ground, then this feast of life is really clear and three-dimensional in the upper, middle and lower layers.
"This is really a hymn to life, has it become like this in a place full of steel and concrete?" Li Qingshui pulled a touch of grass from the ground and put it under his nose to sniff.
"Can we make it through this jungle?" Standing in the early morning mist, accompanied by the rustling sound and frog chirping from the depths of the jungle, even the strongest Shen Mingyi in the team was skeptical.
"This ...... There's no road on the ground! The soldiers in front of them searched around on the ground, but they didn't find the location of the former "Zhengkai Avenue" at all.
"There is a road on the ground, see if there is any kind of broken cement block, follow the traces of the cement block, it is the previous road." Zhao Yue, who was in the lead, squatted down, and sure enough, he picked up a few pieces of cement debris with obvious artificial traces among the weeds.
Holding the cement slag in his hand, Zhao Yue shouted at the team behind him: "The previous cement continent was crushed by plants and their rhizomes, and only cement slag remained, but fortunately, it didn't last long, and we could follow the cement slag all the way to Zhengzhou City." ”
"Where it used to be a concrete road, the plants didn't grow as much as in other places." Li Qingshui took a step forward, walked to the front of the team, and carefully looked at the appearance of the surrounding plants, "So, this is also a way for us to find the path." ”
"He's right." Zhao Yue listened to Li Qingshui's words, and was dumbfounded for a while, he couldn't imagine that this person could find a second way to find the path in such a short time. But fortunately, he knew the identity of this person's "brain domain mutant", so he was not very surprised.
"Company Commander Zhao......" Looking at the dense primeval jungle in front of him, Li Qingshui frowned and asked, "Can I ask you a question?" ”
"Excuse me."
"How many times have your army contacted the superiors of Zhengzhou City since the end of the day?"
"Three times." Zhao Yue replied: "Anyway, I know three times. ”
"How did you get in touch?"
"Zhengzhou has set up an emergency temporary communications company to issue documents and central information to various subordinate cities." Zhao Yue replied: "It seems that a lot of this kind of emergency temporary communication company has been formed, and it should be that the former reconnaissance company or field army has been rebuilt, and a company of 100 people is dedicated to sending letters and documents. Now there is no radio, and the wired lines are all destroyed, so we have to rely on this most primitive method. ”
"Three times." Li Qingshui rubbed his chin as he spoke, "What about the casualties?" ”
"The first time the team came was ten days ago, more than a dozen people died, the second time the company died more than twenty, the third time was one day away from the second time, once seven days ago, once six days ago, thirty whole dead." Zhao Yue frowned and recalled: "The death rate is quite high. ”
"No, it's definitely not high, a hundred ordinary people, can they really pass through this kind of jungle?" Li Qingshui took a step forward and stroked a big tree, with a frightened look in his eyes.
Hearing the fear in his tone, one of the soldiers in the team also stepped forward and said in a half-joking tone: "Hehe, what's wrong?" Do high-IQ mutants also be afraid? ”
"Yes." Li Qingshui did not look back, but carefully observed the texture of the tree in front of him, as if he wanted to judge the growth cycle of the tree through the texture.
"Then let me tell you more terrible news, there is a rumor in the company where I came, saying that it was three days of money, but in fact, another company came over from Zhengzhou, and there were 100 people in a company, and only more than 20 people came out, and most of them were seriously injured." The soldier joked and patted Li Qingshui on the shoulder, "What's the matter, it's almost 100% casualty rate." ”
His joking voice was very small, but it was still heard by Zhao Yue on the side. He strode forward and slapped the soldier on the head and shouted, "He. . . Damn, this nonsense, is this a joke that can be made? Your joke, if you put it in the past, it will be a crime of beheading that disturbs the morale of the army, stupid. it, get back. ”
was drunk by Zhao Yue, and the soldier who looked young pouted and was kicked back into the team by Zhao Yue.
"I'm sorry, Mr. Li, don't listen to his nonsense, I'm a young soldier and don't have any malice." Zhao Yue also pursed his lips, obviously, this was a soldier he liked very much, otherwise that person would not joke in front of him.
"I know he doesn't mean it, it's just a way for him to vent his fears. It can be seen that among the people in the team, he is the most afraid. Li Qingshui glanced at the soldier, his eyes still full of worry, "But I don't think he's messing around, this jungle should be countless times more dangerous than the previous day." ”
"It's just the jungle, we have guns, even if there are more monsters in it than in the city, and they are more powerful, but our twenty or so people are no better than ordinary people, they are all selected, and there should be nothing wrong." Zhao Yue was also worried when he saw Li Qingshui's expression, but he didn't stop there. "Let's just try to be careful."
"Hmm." Nodding, Li Qingshui walked back to the middle of the group.
"Let's go." After seeing that the team was neat, Zhao Yue waved the fog lantern in front of him and walked into this jungle of lush life first.
Stepping into the jungle with the team, Liu Chang felt that the fog here was thicker, and because all kinds of plants blocked his vision, even he couldn't see far here.
Putting the little girl on his shoulder, Liu Chang whispered: "Notify me in time if there is danger." ”
"Yes." The girl said as she shuddered. The vines hanging from the sky made her very afraid, she shrunk her head and arched her body, her hands around Liu Chang's neck, and her whole face was attached to the back of his head.
A group of people walked through the jungle like this, the people in front were constantly following the traces of rubble, and the people in the back were vigilantly watching all the movements around them. The little soldier who was joking with Li Qingshui just now walked next to Liu Chang, holding a gun and observing everything around him with a pale face.
After the team traveled a few kilometers, there was no danger, but everyone did not dare to let down their vigilance, and they all looked at the people in front of them with tense faces and did not let themselves be left behind, and paid attention to any wind and grass around them, and the danger alertness of this group made the atmosphere in the team very depressing.
"Hey, I said brother, let's talk, this atmosphere is so solemn that it makes me dizzy." The young soldier walking beside Liu Chang gently poked Liu Chang's arm with his elbow, turned his head and said a word to him.
"Ugh." Shocked by him, Liu Chang also turned his head to look at him, and then immediately frowned, "Eh, why do you look thinner than just now?" ”
"Skinny?" The soldier touched his cheek, his fingers touched, and sure enough, his own shriveled cheeks and protruding cheekbones were touched.
"What's going on?" The man trembled with fear.
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