Chapter 26: What I Saw and Heard on the Road
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The city was dead silent at night, and there was the sound of soft footsteps in the streets, and several figures walked slowly towards this side.
"It's not a good idea to wander around the streets, where are we going." Yayun asked in a low voice with a twitch of her lips, there was a dead silence on the street, and her companions could hear the worry in her words.
"Go to the city first, food is the first thing to consider." Li Xin stopped and looked at the overturned and twisted car in front of him, and turned to soothe the anxious woman behind him. "It's at least an eight-minute drive to the nearest shelter and half an hour's walk, so I don't dare to make sure that everyone is safe, but there is also a shortage of food in the shelters," he added. โ
"We shouldn't be here for too long!" Li Xin pricked up his ears to be vigilant around, afraid that the shop around him would appear mutated creatures in vain, and the dim sight was the best hiding place for the attacker, and if he was not careful, he might lose his own life. "I heard voices coming this way," he reminded. โ
"Okay, we can take a car, most of the cars on the street are ...... Deserted. After mentioning yรฌ, Rui Zhe noticed the strange gazes of the other people, and helplessly spread his hands and said, "Okay! Don't look at me like that, I'm just mentioning it. โ
"I'd advise you to dismiss this idea, unless you want a bunch of mutant creatures to chase after you." Li Xin left the street and navigated through the cracks in the crowded cars.
There seems to have been a large-scale series of car accidents on the road, there are traces of rear-end collisions everywhere, and even a few cars rushed directly into the street and crashed into the wall of the street mutated shop, and the extremely unlucky car overturned and exploded, even after a few days, Li Xin was even able to ask about the unpleasant smell of burnt left on the asphalt road.
Li Xin is also very clear about the current situation, and the refuge is still a simple choice between the city. He chose to go to the city, water and food are the things he needs most now, although he knows that going to the city may be attacked by mutant creatures, Li Xin is willing to take risks, at least where is there enough chips for him to take risks.
"I know where there's a city nearby." Li Xin stretched out his hand and pointed to the front of the street and said: "We still need to cross at least two streets, and then turn right at the intersection of the second street, and walk about two hundred meters, where there is a large city, where the food stored can last us at least half a year." โ
"I'm more worried that we'll be greeted by a horde of skeleton monsters." Li Xin expressed his worries, after all, there are definitely a lot of people in the large city, if these people all become skeleton monsters, the huge number of skeleton monsters can even drown a few of them directly. "Of course, if it's safe enough, I don't mind hiding there for a year and a half, and almost all the supplies we need for life can be found anywhere, you know what I mean......"
"It's a good idea, if we have to take the city, but it's almost impossible, you know why!" Li Xin narrowed his eyes and stared at the corner where the sound came from, and a black shadow appeared in everyone's eyes, it was a wandering skeleton monster, it looked over its stiff head and looked this way.
"Avoid it?"
"Don't make a sound, I'll fix it!" Li Xin held the bone sword and walked towards the skeleton monster, walking faster and faster, and it was almost close to the degree of sprinting. A cold light swept through the darkness, and the oncoming skeletal monster suddenly lay on the ground, a round head sliding off its neck and disappearing under the chassis of the car.
The city is on its way to ruin, full of mutant rats and roaming skeletons. Along the way, they didn't even meet other survivors. There should still be a lot of people alive in the city, and everyone is looking for a place to hide, but it won't be long before hunger will force them out of hiding or turn the survivors into shriveled corpses.
"Solved!" Li Xin didn't pay attention to the bone shelf that collapsed on the ground, and looked back at the surprised everyone: "Let's go, it's too late for everyone else to empty the food in the city" His helpless expression made people laugh, after a few days, everyone had an inexplicable dependence on Li Xin.
Passing through the crossroads, everyone carefully avoided the skeleton monsters wandering the streets, and it took a lot of time to reach the opposite side of the street.
After walking for a while, Li Xin suddenly stopped, his eyes widening in disbelief. The trees planted on both sides of the street have mutated, forming a dense clump to block the way.
Gray-brown roots emerge from the cracked asphalt road, and cars are intertwined with the roots on the road, creating an eerie scene.
The lush foliage stretched out in all directions, the branches clinging to the walls and spreading upward, the windows of the floors peeking in, and the floors on both sides could not be avoided.
Even if a city is in ruins, it will take at least seventy or eighty years before it will be desolate. It takes a long time for a tree to grow to this size.
But who would have thought that the formation of this small forest in the middle of the city took only a few days, which is completely contrary to the laws of nature. This mutated force has caused earth-shaking changes in the entire Confused Star. The city is going down and ruining miรจ, and no one can stop it, and there is nothing powered to stop it!
"Looks like we're going to need a detour." Li Xin had to give up his original plan, and was definitely willing to take the risk before he knew whether these mutated trees were a threat to them. When he now had a skeleton monster with flickering scarlet eyes wrapped around the chaotic roots, he directly dispelled the last trace of hesitation in his heart, and instinctively told himself that the corpses of those lost survivors had become fertilizer to nourish this forest.
Li Xin looked up at the skeleton monster under the bushes and muttered, "It's a stupid thing for me to leave the hotel now. โ
"At least we still have a chance to live, not stay there and wait for death." Yayun reached out and flicked the crushed forehead in an attempt to hide the uneasiness in her heart, but the stiff expression on her face betrayed herself.
Li Xin didn't refute, just walked forward silently with everyone. They turned back to the crossroads, where the streets now engulfed in darkness were filled with skeletal monsters wandering aimlessly, and the streets of the city were full of dangers.
Li Xin did not forget to remind everyone: "If you go around from the right, the distance will be farther, but you can also reach the destination." โ
"That's really good news." Li Xin smiled at Li Xin and said, "We must help you get the mutation ability as soon as possible, now there is one more person and one more strength." โ
"Thank you Li Xin, but what should I do!" Li Xin was very excited when she heard that the other party wanted to help her gain ability, and soon after leaving the hotel, she learned that Yayun had also obtained the mutation ability with the help of Li Xin, which made her very anxious and uneasy, and her lack of ability meant that she became the person most likely to be left behind in danger.
"Don't worry, we'll help you hunt down mutant creatures!" Ruizhe comforted: "Li Xin didn't expect that you can defeat and complete the hunt with your own strength now. โ
This is not an embarrassing thing, except for Li Xin who completed the hunt alone, everyone here relied on the help of others to complete these difficult tasks.
Li Xin calmly explained: "Actually, it's a simple matter, just attract mutant rats and interrupt their hands and feet to let you complete the final blow." โ
"It's like this!" Ruizhe bent down to pick up a stone from the ground and threw it towards the asphalt road not far away, the crisp sound of crashing echoes through the dead street.
Li Xin frowned and said angrily: "I don't expect you to get along better, but I don't want you to cause trouble to everyone" He quickly raised his head and looked around the gloomy street, pointed to a half-covered shop not far away and said: "Everyone hide inside first, observe the situation and make a decision." โ
Soon after everyone flocked into the shop, the sound of rubble attracted several mutant rats, including a large rat monster, Li Xin was not confident that he could kill them in a short time, and there were mutant rats surging towards this side in the distance, which was really terrible.
The mutant rats have low intelligence, they just searched around the street, and gradually dispersed like around without food, and the last rat monster raised its head and sniffed the smell remaining in the air, and the scarlet eyes were dedicated to the shop where Li Xin was hiding, it opened the half-hidden wooden door, and looked around in the shop, trying to find traces of its prey, the rat monster ignored the middle-aged woman who fell on the counter, turned around and left the store to look for food.
There was movement from the wooden door of the attic of the store, and Li Xin couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief knowing that the mutant rat swarm had left, and the thin wooden door on the floor could block the attack of the rat monster. He raised his head and expressed his gratitude to the young man who had just helped them: "Thanks to you, otherwise I am afraid that a fierce battle would have been inevitable." โ