Updated: 2012-10-15

Chapter 14: All the Way East (Continued)

Forests at night are always particularly dangerous.

However, perhaps thanks to the death of the mini-boss and the big boar, although all kinds of strange and scalp-tingling sounds sounded all night, making the night watchman tremble, no mutant beasts came in the direction of the camp.

The orange morning sun rises from the horizon, announcing the arrival of a new day, and the warm sunlight makes people feel relieved for no reason.

The water vapor in the mountains is heavy, and the round dew drops on the grass blades sparkle in the morning sun, reflecting rainbows that are difficult to find with the naked eye. A thick white mist rose from the mountain plants, giving off a hint of chill. The dense vegetation looms under the white mist, accompanied by the occasional slight mountain breeze, like a fairyland.

Rising sun, clouds, white mist, rainbow, green...... Everyone in the convoy froze for a while, silent, quietly admiring this rare beauty.

"Ah~~ sleep so comfortably!" Wang Qiang, who was called Daqiang by Lu Yuan, came out of the tent, stretched his waist and looked comfortable. Last night he was in charge of the first half of the night's vigil and had a rare good dream that put him in a good mood.

Rubbing his eyes, he felt that the situation was wrong, opened his eyes, and was shocked to find that a series of murderous eyes fell on him, and when he looked at it, it was a malicious face. "Uh...... I—Did I do something wrong?? Wang Qiang took a few steps back, his eyes purring, and he sneered.

Hahaha...... I don't know who started, and for a while, the camp was filled with good-natured laughter.

Cut, inexplicable! Wang Qiang didn't know what to say, muttered a few words, rolled his eyes, and ran to wash.

After a brief breakfast, the barrier was removed, and the convoy was on its way again.

After six days of traveling, the number of wagons, which was originally close to forty, was reduced to thirty, and some of the burden was reduced. Based on the characteristics of the mountainous area, Lu Yuan and the others adjusted the convoy after discussion, and the carriages loaded with relatively unimportant materials were adjusted to the end, a total of ten, so that the three hundred and fifty-nine people in the camp were concentrated around the twenty carriages, and the defense capability was greatly improved.

The puppet carriage is equipped with various small devices that can travel autonomously and conceal the breath of objects inside the car, including humans.

After a few steps, the slopes on both sides gradually steepened, the vegetation became more and more abundant, and the light was much dimmer, like dusk. Everyone walked on the rusty railroad tracks, and under the influence of heavy humidity and mountain winds, an eerie atmosphere arose.

When the light of the morning sun was completely blocked by the trees, and had to be illuminated by the light of the luminous pillars on the carriage, the tunnel came into view. At least one lamppost was installed on each carriage. This kind of thing combines technological civilization and magical civilization, one meter long, the thickness of an adult's forearm, erected on the top of a carriage, like a lightning rod.

In the dim environment, the tunnel is extraordinarily deep and terrifying, like the mouth of a beast opening open, reaching for its prey. Looking at the black tunnel mouth, Luo Tian shivered for no reason and got goosebumps.

Boom~~ Although there was a small barrier to it, the blazing white light emitted by the lamppost still alarmed the mutant beasts nearby, and the dense grass on the slope resounded with a small crackling sound. Faintly, several people also heard the sizzling of snakes and the shrill cries of rodents.

"Hurry up into the tunnel!" Zhang Bao gave a low shout to the members of the research team controlling the convoy, and took the lead in leading three teams with a total of more than 30 people into the tunnel.

Hurry up, hurry up! While vigorously urging the team controller, Wang Ling urged his own ability, and the muscles rose up, and the original ordinary physique instantly swelled, turning into a complete muscular man, and the rich blood gushed out.

"You go in, I'll come!" Luo Tian waved his hand, pointed to the tunnel, and said, "Your ability is not suitable for this small mutant beast, and the work after the break is handed over to us, you can go in." ”

Wang Ling also understood the flaws in his ability, took a deep look at Luo Tian, said "Don't die" and rushed into the tunnel.

Yao Tingting stepped forward, and she was followed by several elves—Rada, Pyras, Bidiao, and Ghost Stone, all of which were relatively small elves who could move freely in this track that was only a dozen meters wide.

As soon as Pyras came out, he hissed, and the two mushrooms on his body turned blood-red in color, squirting out some spores-like powder.

"Be careful!" Yao Tingting hurriedly issued a warning. Pyras tells her that there are a large number of enemies nearby, and that the danger is extremely high.

Ghost Stone, who was floating around Yao Tingting like a cloud of black smoke, suddenly condensed, manifested two black jewel-like eyes, released black light waves, and shot into the grass on the side, and the next moment, with a sharp roar, a group of rats quickly jumped out of it!

The mice were the size of a domestic cat, shiny with oil, especially the huge teeth and claws on the limbs that shimmered with metallic sheen. There were fourteen rats in total, and before they jumped out of the grass, they jumped up and bit Luo Tian and the others.

"I hate rats!" One of the fire-wielding team members let out a low cry, and three fist-sized fireballs shot out, striking the rushing rat with precision, burning the latter into a squeaky mass of charcoal. These rats were at best the level of first-level agile zombies, and they were completely ignored by the more than sixty people who were left behind, and they were dealt with in less than half a minute.

The smell of roasted meat and the umami of flesh and blood from the death of rats made the mutant beasts in the grass even more restless and unbearable, and they came out one after another.

The first to come out were small mutant beasts such as rats, poisonous snakes, and fox wolves, although their strength was weak, but the number of hundreds still made everyone feel the pressure, especially rats, which accounted for the vast majority.

"Let me come!" With a low shout, Luo Tian's eyes swept away, it was Li Sheng in Yao Tingting's team. He was a plant druid, and this wooded place happened to be his home turf. The plant druid did not have any powerful attack skills in the early stage, but Li Sheng was lucky, found a mutated thorn vine, and signed a contract, cultivated into something similar to the thorn vine demon, with a primary spiritual intelligence, and very strong attack power, and thus became the vice captain of Yao Tingting's team.

"Midori, come out!" Li Sheng recited the summoning spell, green light flickered, and a ball of green light the size of a human head shot into the ground beyond the railroad tracks with his mind, and immediately, a thick turquoise thorn vine appeared in Luo Tian's eyes. A vine the thickness of a fist, a sharp thorn with a thumb, a sharp leaf with a jagged edge, a main vine body that spreads for a hundred meters, and at least twenty branches, the ferocious shape it displayed surprised Luo Tian.

As soon as the thorny vine demon appeared, he immediately stretched his body quickly, nearly thirty wrist-thick rattans broke through the ground that became soft, and plunged into it, and the next moment it drilled out from under a mutant beast, piercing the sharp long thorns into the body of the mutant beast, injecting paralyzing toxins, and then stirring, and pulling out violently, the mutant beast was rotten in its intestines, and there was no breath at all!

The speed and frequency of the vine demon's attacks were all first-class, and in less than a minute, hundreds of mutant beasts died in its hands, most of them rats. However, this is just the beginning.

Mutant beasts kept coming out of the grass more than one person deep, and their size became larger and larger, and even a mutant beast the size of a bison that couldn't be called a name appeared, fierce and strong, and it took Luo Tian a lot of effort to kill it. God knows how such a thing could inhabit the edge of the Hengshan Mountains and happen to be near the orbit.

However, what caused the most trouble to everyone was the small insect mutant beast.

Scorpions, centipedes, ants, mosquitoes, wild bees...... And so on and so forth, a large number of insects, which are generally only the size of fists, swarmed and flew in, and from the grass, from the branches and leaves of the trees, from a distance, it looked like a cloud of black smoke.

These things, although the strength is very weak, but the number is so large that it makes people headaches, and it is very disgusting, and if you don't pay attention, you will be bitten, sour and numb, the pain is unbearable, and even paralyzed, but you are not afraid of ordinary flames.

"Retreat into the tunnel!" Luo Tian played the role of a firefighter, and while fighting the fire, he also commanded everyone to gradually retreat towards the tunnel.

There were several people in the team who could control the wind, and they worked together to create a high-speed rotating hurricane, forming a storm wall to keep the annoying mosquitoes and wild bees out, while others threw flames, ice blades, and thunder currents into it under the protection of the flesh enhancers, and in less than ten minutes, the ground was piled up with mosquito corpses and became food for ground creatures such as ants and scorpions.

Maybe there is a nest of these small creatures in the vicinity, and there are not many creatures like wolves and wild boars, which greatly reduces the pressure on Luo Tian and the others, although the offensive is becoming more and more fierce and not weakening at all, it can also be supported.

Magma Spray! One of the members was able to use their own energy to create magma, and after the energy was replenished, the magma was condensed into a horizontal line under the command of Luo Tian, just a little behind the hurricane wall, and the hot air rushed towards them.

Black Flame! Reciting the incantation silently, Luo Tian's fingers flicked continuously, and more than a dozen black fireballs were ejected, which fell on top of the magma layer at the same interval, turning into a fire, absorbing the power of magma, growing and expanding in an instant, and then exploding with a "bang", and finally evolving into a black sea of flames.

The black flames soared five or six meters, and the flames emitted a strange aura when they jumped, and not a single mosquito could pass from above.

"Leave behind those who can manipulate the earth and rocks and solidification, and retreat into the tunnel!" Pouring energy into those fires to keep the black flame burning, Luo Tian waved his hand and let those guys who were in the way retreat into the tunnel.

With just a few breaths, there were only seven people left around Luo Tian, including Yao Tingting.

There are a lot of lampposts along the inner wall of the tunnel, and there are three or four at the entrance, which can be said to be meticulous and can be seen more clearly within a range of 100 meters.

Luo Tian pointed out a few locations and asked, "Can you erect a stone pillar that is strong enough at these locations and use it as a support point to build an earth-stone partition wall?" "Speaking of which, although the survivors of matter and energy manipulation are very strong in the later stage, they are not very good in the early stage, and Luo Tian is a little worried that their remaining energy is not enough to support such a project, after all, there are solid gravel near the rails, and it is difficult to control.

"No problem!" The five team members discussed a few words and expressed their competence. However, the remaining team member with the ability to solidify matter had a wry smile on his face, his strength simply could not solidify such a large wall. Even if those people are very good, the earth wall is as hard as the rock, and the rest of the work is a great challenge for me.

"Don't worry, I'm here!" Just when everyone was scratching their ears and cheeks, Yao Tingting stood up, she summoned a big rock snake like a giant Mac, and said with a smile, "This job, just leave it to it." ”

Everyone's eyes lit up. The strength of the Great Rock Serpent is obvious to all, so it is not difficult to create a partition wall that can seal the entrance to the tunnel.

The black flames burned for half an hour, and during this time, no insect could break through this sea of black fire. However, except for the first ten minutes, the rest of the time was purely burning Luo Tian's dark energy.

In half an hour, a bluestone partition wall up to half a meter thick appeared out of thin air, completely sealing the entrance to the tunnel.

When the last gap was also blocked, the eight of them exhaled lightly together, and Luo Tian even exhaled a mouthful of turbid air and wiped the fine sweat on his forehead.

"With such a thick stone wall, how can it block it for hours, let's pass through this tunnel."

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PS: The theme of this volume is "The End of the World", so the description of zombies and mutant beasts will be minimized......

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