Rocks, weeds, scattered dead wood.

In the vast wasteland, the pickup truck dragged a long cloud of smoke and dust into the distance.

Behind it, there is a dark city, with a thick layer of clouds floating above the city, forever blocking the sun, leaving the city's inhabitants living in a dim and gloomy environment. And the people in this city will never know how dreamy, vivid and beautiful the glow on the edge of the clouds is after refracting the sun.

"Don't look at it, Li Mo. It's a cursed city, and I'll never come again. Philip controlled the steering wheel, and saw in the rearview mirror that Li Mo had been staring at the silhouette of Black Mist City, and shouted loudly.

Li Mo retracted his gaze and looked up at the mottled and hideous sky, the cracks like jellyfish. These rifts, which originated in the final battle, have not been restored even after five hundred years.

The first time he saw the crack in the sky, he felt an inexplicable anger, as if there was something that touched the deepest hatred in his heart. But once I think about it carefully, I don't know why I am angry.

As for Philip, after he repented with tears and snot and vowed to follow Li Mo forever, Li Mo, who understood the cause and effect, did not plan to pursue anything more.

It turned out that Philip was a student of Thomas, the lord of Alchemy City and the great alchemist Thomas, and spent most of his time in the laboratory assisting Thomas in some strange experiments. One day two years ago, Philip unexpectedly obtained a codex describing the adventures of a knight, which recorded all kinds of magical and thrilling deeds of a knight. Philip loved the codex and would look through it whenever he could. With each flip side, the alchemist's assistant, who had spent his entire life in Alchemy City, would have a hint of longing for the outside world, and when this longing filled his chest, Philip finally took action.

A year ago, he left a letter and quietly left Alchemy City.

No, this move provoked the wrath of the alchemy lord and the great alchemist Thomas, who, fearing that the results of the experiment would be leaked, hired hunters and mercenaries to hunt down Philip.

However, Philip was determined, and with the help of alchemy props he usually made, he successfully evaded Thomas's pursuit and arrived at Blue Ocean City, the legendary capital of the abandoned wasteland.

As soon as he arrived in Blue Ocean City, he ran into a blonde young man with clear eyebrows, who saw his disguise at a glance and threatened to hand him over to Thomas. If Philip wants to be free, he has to do one thing for the blonde youth.

Philip was not in a deep life, and after some coercion and temptation from the blonde youth, he had to agree to do something for the blonde youth. He was then sent to the City of Black Mist to make daily pills for Bertross to prolong his life.

But these pills were filled with some extra ingredients that the blonde youth had requested, which not only did not allow Bertrose to continue his life, but also made him weaker and weaker day by day.

The blonde youth promised Philip that the day of Bertrose's death would be the moment when he would regain his freedom.

If Bertrose had been taking the pills, he would have suddenly vomited blood and died three or four months later. But a week ago, the blonde youth suddenly appeared in front of Philip, and he asked Philip to tell Bertros that if he drank Limer's blood, he would be immortal.

It was this sentence that triggered the war between Li Mo and the Ross family, and also led to the weakening of the Ross family.

From this point of view, the chaos in Black Mist City is far from as simple as it seems, and the blonde young man who threatens Philip quietly sets up a situation and finally puts Bertross to death.

Li Mo and Philip, whether they knew it or not, became pawns in his plan. As for why he wanted to kill Bertroth, and for what purpose, no one knows.

This made Li Mo feel extremely uncomfortable. He never liked to be manipulated, especially after Modi's summoning of the Demon God.

But Philip didn't know the name and identity of the blonde young man, so Li Mo wanted to return the color, but he couldn't find the other party.

Maybe Andy knows something, and he arranged for Philip and Li Mo to share a car in the same city. But Li Mo, like Philip, was unwilling to return to Black Mist City, so he put the matter on hold for the time being.

It takes a ten-day journey from Black Mist City to Blue Ocean City. In order to take the same adventure as the knight in the Codex, Philip learned many techniques for survival in the wild and made some practical props. And Li Mo happened to have a simple map of a wasteland. Therefore, the general direction of the two is always correct.

Due to the bumps on the road, Li Mo couldn't calm down and cultivate his fighting spirit, so he could only replay the battle scene with Ramano over and over again in his mind to improve his combat skills.

When night fell, the two stopped their cars, lit a bonfire, and camped out in the wilderness.

Although he escaped from Alchemy City, Philip's hobby was still alchemy, and under the light of the campfire, he took out crucibles, pliers, glassware, mercury, black powder, sharp monster nails and other things, and after some fiddling, he actually made a basin of viscous liquid that drove away the beast and sprinkled it around the area where the two were sleeping.

Li Mo saw a pair of scarlet pupils in the dark, showing a look of horror after smelling the smell of liquid, and after leaving quickly, his heart moved, and he took out a cheat book in his backpack and handed it to Philip.

This book is the secret book that Li Mo obtained from the bald warrior space ring on the peak of Archibald Mountain. There is a record of boiling a special ointment inside.

Philip took the cheats and looked at them for less than a minute, then threw the cheats back to Li Mo, and said with a disdainful face: "The person who wrote the ointment is really unlearned, and he actually put the Polo crystal ore and the crimson grinding ore together, and they have to be tormented at high temperatures, these two things will produce a chronic toxin after mixing, and after high temperature torment, the toxicity will be stronger, and if it is used for a long time, although it can strengthen the defense of muscles and skin, it will also cause serious damage to the user's liver." Give me the ingredients you have prepared, and I'll make you a better and safer ointment. ”

Li Mo stared at Philip for a long time, although he didn't know the level of this alchemist's assistant who had been poisoning others, but after noticing the focus and confidence in Philip's eyes when evaluating the formula of the ointment, he still took out all the ores prepared by the bald man, and took out some rare minerals from the Ross Bank, and handed them to Philip.

Philip's eyes lit up when he saw the precious minerals stored by the Rose family, and he quickly jumped four pieces from it and returned the rest to Li Mo. He took out a large iron pot from the pickup bucket, expertly set it up on the campfire, and then grabbed a handful of black powder and threw it into the fire.

The dim bonfire burst out with a thud of three or four meters of flames, and for the next three hours, it continued to maintain this high temperature.

During this time, Philip picked out some ore one after another and threw it into the iron pot, and then threw in some brightly colored powder, which melted immediately after coming into contact with the hot ore.

Three hours later.

"It's done. ”

Philip threw a packet of potions into the iron pot, and a puff of green smoke immediately came out of the iron pot. The green smoke disappeared, and all the ore in the iron pot disappeared, leaving only a thick layer of white powder.

He poured the white powder into an iron bucket, handed it to Li Mo, and said proudly: "Haha, the effect is three hundred percent stronger than the original recipe." ”

Li Mo took the finished ointment, took out some mixed water, and applied it to the back of his right hand, and his face immediately changed.

He could clearly feel a strange energy spreading from the ointment towards the back of his hand, and even if he didn't use the skills in the cheats to exercise, his muscles continued to absorb the energy in the ointment. And unlike the slow physical enhancement described in the cheats, this energy is very obvious to strengthen the muscles, making his muscles stronger, stronger, more resilient, and more explosive.

"The alchemist is so terrifying. Li Mo looked at Philip with a little more strange eyes, the latter had been busy experimenting with the remaining minerals, and did not notice.

"Hehe, ordinary alchemists don't have this ability, this kid is weird. But the backpack suddenly answered, "What did he just say, as long as you don't kill him, serve you as the lord and be your servant for the rest of your life...... Hey, you've found a treasure. ”

"You think too much, I'm not interested in driving others. ”

Li Mo slowly clenched his right hand, released it again, and after making sure that the muscles in his hand were strengthened, he snorted coldly, found a dark corner, and began to apply ointment to his whole body.

After dawn, Li Mo finished his night's Dou Qi cultivation, he stood up, and suddenly waved his arm to punch, the air was compressed by the punch force, and there was a crisp crackling sound.

Philip, who was sleeping soundly on the side, heard the voice, rubbed his worried eyes, and immediately jumped up when he saw Li Mo, greeted Li Mo enthusiastically, and started his morning exercise with shaking hands and pressing his legs.

That youthful and energetic appearance is not at all like a middle-aged man in his forties, but Li Mo, who is expressionless most of the time, is more like a middle-aged uncle.

Li Mo took out the Jerky of the Demon Beast and divided a portion for Philip to eat. And in order to express his gratitude, Philip actually turned out a bottle of spice spice from the pickup truck and gave it to Li Mo.

"O all-powerful alchemist!"

The corners of Li Mo's mouth twitched, but he still accepted Philip's return.

The daylight of the wasteland is bright and dazzling, the wind of the wasteland is crazy and changeable, but the scenery of the wasteland is unchanged.

The two of them had a brief breakfast and drove on in the pickup truck.

This pickup truck is the result of Philip's alchemy in Black Mist City for a year, he used alchemy knowledge to turn a technological product into a half-technology and half-magic product, in addition to being durable, waterproof, fireproof and bulletproof, this pickup truck also has two different power systems, once the fuel tank runs out and gasoline cannot be obtained, another power system that can generate energy by transforming magic crystals will start. The price of the magic crystal is expensive, but the energy produced is very powerful. A Tier 4 Fire Attribute Magic Crystal can make this car drive for three days and three nights in a row.

On the way, if they encounter a lone monster, the two will also stop the car to hunt. But most of these demonic beasts are of the first and second grades, and their value is not great, and most of them are reduced to food for the two.

The reason why there are no high-level Warcraft is that there is scarce food in this area, and the Warcraft at the top of the biological chain can't fill their stomachs, so of course they won't be wandering around here. Especially after the Black Mist City built a high wall, except for the fixed migration of the Demonic Beast group, there were very few high-level Demonic Beasts in this area.

When it was getting dark, a dark city silhouette appeared in front of me.

"There's no sign of the city on the map. Philip opened the map and looked at it, and finally decided to drive over and have a look.

When the two got closer, they realized that it was an abandoned big city. The area was six or seven times larger than Black Mist City, but it was overgrown with weeds and dilapidated, and most of the buildings were covered in vines and plants, and it was indescribably silent and deserted.

Suddenly, an orange flame appeared on the hood of the pickup truck, and Philip's face changed suddenly, and he couldn't help but turn the front of the car and accelerate away.

"What's going on?" asked Li Mo as he replayed Philip's process of making the ointment in his mind, looking at the city, and after noticing that something was wrong, he regained his mind.

"There are zombies in this city, and the detection potion I sprinkled on the hood has detected their scent. Philip said with a pale face, as if he knew the horror of this kind of thing, and stepped on the accelerator to the end, bypassing the ruined city as fast as he could.

When Li Mo heard this, his eyes flashed, looking at this silent city, even with his eyesight, coupled with the constant replay of the scene he saw in his mind, he didn't find anything unusual.

When he was in Black Mist City, he had heard people talk about zombies.

Zombies, also known as living corpses and living dead, are undead creatures that only move at night and rely on instinct to find food. They are so powerful that they walk like flying, and they hunt and kill any man or animal they can see. Any person or animal that has been bitten by them will come back from the dead and become zombies. It is a dangerous race that even Warcraft avoids.

There are many theories about the origin of zombies. Some say that after the explosion, the humans who were exposed to the poisonous light mutated, others said that they were cursed by the demon god and their souls were trapped in the dead body forever and could not be transcended, and others said that the disaster was caused by the failure of the dark mage's experiment.

Regardless of the rumors, zombies are one of the three recognized hazards in the wasteland. It's only because zombies have a strong sense of territory and generally don't move around, so they are ranked third after the two major hazards of Warcraft and Rogue. But their madness and brutality far outweigh the first two evils.

When the sun sank into the horizon, Limer and Philip crossed the big city.

But the car didn't stop, Philip turned on the headlights, ventured into the dark for two hours, and after confirming that he was far away from the city just now, he breathed a sigh of relief and stopped to rest.

However, the crisis has not been eliminated.

In the middle of the night, Li Mo suddenly woke up from his cultivation and woke up Philip, who was huddled in his sleeping bag, vigilantly observing the movements in the dark.

Soon, orange flames again erupted from the hood. Philip's face changed, and he shouted, "Impossible, how can they escape?"

"The thing is, they're already here. You hide in the car and don't come out. Li Mo pulled out the thunder knife and ordered calmly.

"You have to be careful. This was exactly what Philip had in mind, and he sped into the pickup truck. As a non-combatant, the only thing he could do was not to cause trouble for Li Mo.

Soon, through the solid glass window, Philip could see countless figures shuttling back and forth in the darkness, forming an encirclement, letting out a terrifying roar, approaching little by little.

Finally, the flickering light of the fire was able to shine on them.

They were all tall, with bulging muscles, no hair on their red skin, and their eye sockets were black and deep, but they rolled a pair of miserable white pupils, opened their scarlet mouths, and let out a hoarse roar at Li Mo.

There are no less than a hundred.