At half past seven in the morning, the jungle was silent.

After a few drizzles, the chill of autumn became more pronounced, and the branches and blades of grass were covered with fresh dewdrops, crystal clear, like jewels falling at night.

"Click-"

The hatch slowly opened, and Su Xia was the first to jump out.

Outside, his tall mech was hidden by Hal with a camouflage net covered with dead vines and fallen leaves.

He walked over, tore off the camouflage net, and dusted off some leaves.

On top of the energy compartment on the back of the slightly heated mecha, there were two warmed stuffed animals, which looked like squirrels, and their fur was gray-black.

"Go...... Go to ......"

Su Xia showed no mercy, waved away the two little ones, and then activated the entire mecha.

The indicator light is on, the connections of each mechanical module are opened, and the indicators are almost normal, only the energy indication is low.

He manually replaced two more psionic batteries.

When you go out, the mecha has no energy, which is similar to the phone running out of power, which is very uncomfortable.

Sun Lang and Chang Rufeng also climbed out of the hatch and left the warm cabin, and were blown by the cold morning wind outside, and both of them couldn't help but shiver.

"How did the cooling drop drop so fast!" Sun Lang rubbed his palms, "This damn weather, can't it be warm for a while?" The girls on the street won't wear shorts anymore! ”

"Brother Sun is right!"

Chang Rufeng nodded again and again in agreement.

Su Xia threw a few sobering potions and antidotes to the two of them as usual, telling them to drink them and keep an eye on their status at all times.

Report symptoms such as dizziness, tiredness, and aching limbs as soon as you appear.

After this night's rest, the toxicity in the two of them has been almost metabolized, and it is when they are full of energy, so they take the medicine and set off immediately.

Hal also sent a repair robot to follow.

Three people and one machine, along the route that had been discovered last night, continued to search for the trapped team in Dragon City.

Su Xia turned on the light of the mecha to illuminate the dark jungle depths, and said as he walked, "I found two corpses last night, they should be people you have seen. ”

"I don't know which unlucky one it is." Sun Lang swallowed an antidote, "Commander, this potion is actually strawberry-flavored, is there any blueberry flavor?" ”

"Yes, the black one."

"Hey, I'll try it."

"It's not a juice ......"

Seeing Sun Lang's movements, Su Xia was speechless for a while, stopped talking, and silently led the way in front.

After walking for half an hour, the first corpse appeared in front of everyone.

After identification, Sun Lang and Chang Rufeng determined that this person was also a member of the Zero Tavern, and he also came from the northwest of the mainland a few days ago.

"Alas, this guy is poor, and when he has money, he immediately squanders it, buys a car and a mansion, and changes to a woman every few days......"

After searching this corpse for a long time, Sun Lang only found two weapons, which could barely be sold for a few dollars.

This person has lived a thorough life, and he spends as much money as he wants.

People die, and money is spent.

Everyone casually got some dead leaves, covered the corpse, and buried it simply.

Then, the group continued on.

Since the map of this area has basically been discovered, and with Hal as a guide, the speed of this road is much faster than yesterday, and all dangerous areas can be basically avoided.

After another half hour, a second body was found.

Sun Lang just glanced at it and recognized it: "This guy is the deputy owner of the branch outside, I didn't expect him to come too." ”

This man's death was peculiar.

His neck was hung from several tree vines, and his limbs were entwined with vines, and he appeared to have died of suffocation.

There are both psychedelic and withered vines in this area, and it is speculated that this person may have first fallen into a hallucination, and then crashed into the vine area while sleepwalking dazedly, and died with a whimper.

The skin on his neck had been corroded by the venom of the vines, the wounds were disgusting, and the rotting flesh was disgusting.

"The vice-owner's badge, the fifth-order psionic dagger, and the vice-store's permission identity card...... There is also a mecha build contract, a slave contract contract, two warehouse keys, a manor estate contract, ......"

"There's a lot of good stuff on this guy."

"Exploded gold coins......

Sun Lang was interested, and carefully groped for the body of this carrion, and actually found a few gold coins.

Not ordinary gold coins, but commemorative gold coins before the war, which can be sold for 40-500,000 yuan on the black market.

In addition to gold coins, there are cross pendants, antique medals, crown gems, etc., all kinds of things with luck bonuses, which are worth a lot of money, and the total number of zeros can be sold for tens of millions.

He is worthy of being the assistant manager, and the wealth he carries with him alone is amazing.

"These things are said to bring good luck to people." Sun Lang's eyes lit up, unceremoniously, and he didn't let go of anything valuable.

"So, with so much good luck stacked on him, he still died?"

Chang Rufeng shrugged his shoulders, obviously not believing in luck or anything, only believing in his own strength.

On the side, Hal, who had been silent, suddenly spoke: "In the Seventh Empire, there are many specialized research institutes responsible for studying things that cannot be explained by science, and luck is one of them. ”

Chang Rufeng asked him: "Robots, have those scientists studied them?" ”

Hal asked rhetorically, "What do you think, natives?" ”

"Probably not, right?"

"Yes." Hal replied indifferently, "After decades of research, the only conclusion that can be seen in the end is ...... People with good luck love to laugh. ”

“……”

Can you still laugh if you're unlucky?

Chang Rufeng was powerless to refute, but he didn't expect that there were many experts in the interstellar who ate all day long and cheated on funds.

Not long after, Sun Lang ended the search.

From this corpse, he found at least 30 million worth of good things, and after he went back, he shared points with Su Xia and Chang Rufeng.

The group continued to move forward, and for another half an hour, they passed a place where there were a large number of traces of the rest of the Dragon City team.

"Further on, it's a real high-risk area." Su Xia paused, "You drink all the antidotes, you don't need to save, I have a lot of potions here." ”

"Okay!"

Sun Lang and Chang Rufeng trusted Su Xia very much, and immediately took out the potion and poured it down.

The jungle ahead, so dense that it was almost impossible to find a place to stay, with the umbrella-like canopy of towering trees and a dense pile of shrubs and dead vines below.

Su Xia's mecha was in front, and the left and right modules of the mechanical arm each popped out two sharp blades, opening and closing, and the knife fell in his hand, forcibly cutting a way.

"Click!"

"Click!"

The blade passed, the juice splashed, and the poisonous dead vines shattered into pieces.

Not long ago, people from the Dragon City team also passed through here.

They had the advantage of exoskeleton armor, and the same forced way open, leaving a large number of traces.

Looking at the light of the mecha, there were many traces of trampling and cutting in the bushes, and many dead branches and leaves had been trampled into the humus soil, leaving deep and shallow footprints.

The Dragon City team isn't moving forward fast.

In such a complex jungle area, the more people there are, the more troublesome they are, not to mention that they also carry a bunch of injuries and sick people.

Su Xia and his party sped up, counting minutes and seconds, and kept closing the distance between the two sides.

They had a night's rest last night, but the people of Dragon City need to rest too.

"When you find the people in Dragon City, the 30 million bounty will be in hand." Sun Lang calculated, "I just don't know, is it 30 million for one person, or 30 million in total?" Even if it's a total ...... We can also share 10 million each. ”

"You guy, why are you getting more and more fond of money now?"

Chang Rufeng asked him: "Aren't you adventurous and like to travel the mainland?" ”

"That being said, life matters." Sun Lang shook his head, "Now that there are many visitors from other worlds on the mainland, there are more and more variables, I have a hunch that the next war between the human race and the mechanical race is very close, and once it starts, it will definitely be a world-destroying war." ”

"What does this have to do with you?"

"I'll have to save up money to build a few Doomsday Fortresses that will allow me to live in them safely for at least twenty years...... At that time, even if the zombie crisis broke out, I was not afraid ......"

The two chatted as they walked, occasionally teasing each other, making the journey less boring.

Their topic is actually what many members of the neutral organization are worried about.

Psionic creatures, before the intensive artillery fire, are just stronger cannon fodder, and many people are worried about the next big battle.

In order to ensure that they can survive the next race war, some people build hidden bunkers in the deep mountains and old forests, others spend a lot of money to find isolated islands at sea, and some even directly modify submarines.

In the future, as soon as the war starts, he will immediately hide in the vast sea, and then come out to make money after the fight.

On Earth's side, such an act is often referred to as a "doomsday episode".

But in this world, the end is really possible.

The time gradually came to twelve o'clock at noon.

The three of them did not rest, each took out dry food, and moved forward while gnawing.

……

At the same time, Shi Sishi's team, which had entered this death jungle from the other direction, was also gradually approaching the high-risk area in the center.

In the search for more than two days, his team also had a lot of problems.

Before leaving, through communication with the Dragon City headquarters, they had already taken into account the possible presence of poison gas in the jungle, so they brought a large number of gas masks.

But the strange traps, unruly vines, and irritating sounds of the jungle all make them suffer.

Some people were stained with sticky vine venom, and their skin was red and swollen, and the swelling did not go down after many medicines.

Others fell into a swamp trap, their equipment was infiltrated by sewage and sludge, and they were so embarrassed that they almost died.

During their break last night, they were even more unlucky to choose an area where the "Song of Death" grows.

The strange sound of this grass went unnoticed at first, but soon some people experienced headaches, nausea, dizziness and other sensations.

"Where did all these plants come from?"

"I've read a lot of vegetation books in college, but I've never seen anything so strange."

"Could it be that they were all eroded by psionic energy and caused by mutation?"

In the team, more than a dozen disciples of Shi Sishi communicated with each other, and their faces were ugly.

Regardless of the character of these guys-

The knowledge and insight they possessed could indeed crush the vast majority of people, and in the pre-war years they were considered graduate or even doctoral students.

And it's not a parallel graduate student, it's real.

But when they got together, none of them could name these strange plants.

"Stop, replace the filter box in batches, and replace the one with strong spiritual energy first." Shi Sishi suddenly gave an order, and the whole team rested in place.

Psionic creatures have high physical fitness and stronger resistance to poison.

Unsure of which plants will release poison gases, everyone faces a test every time they change the filter box of their gas masks in this treacherous jungle.

But the cartridge had to be replaced.

As long as it is not changed for more than an hour, the filtration capacity will be weakened.

The night before, one of the members had fainted wearing gas masks, inhaled an overdose of poison gas, and fell into a coma.

"Be careful, don't touch the plants here."

"If there are plants that have been touched by animals, you can collect a part of it, use it as a sample, and go back to study."

Here, the animals are the best guides.

Only animals dare to eat it, and the members of Shi Sishi's team dare to touch it.

But the deeper you go into the jungle, the fewer animals appear, and the atmosphere of death gradually thickens, and the dark jungle depths are like a terrifying abyss, and everyone has to move forward.

After changing the poison filter box, the Shi Sishi team continued to move forward.

They were cautious enough, but after walking for more than ten minutes, there was an accident.

"Ahh

Suddenly, someone screamed, stepped into the air, and fell into a deep pit.

It's not a swampy area, and there are plants called "moving traps".

Moreover, at the very bottom of the pit, there were countless upward and sharp roots, like deadly sharp spears.

The unlucky member, after falling in, was impaled in the left thigh, and blood gushed out like a spring.

"Help—help me—"

He screamed in horror and cried out hoarsely for help because he knew that the artery in his leg had been punctured.

If he hadn't been treated, he would have quickly gone into shock due to blood loss and died in this hellish place.

"It's not good, save people!"

"Be aware of your surroundings and don't move!"

Everyone in the team took action, some went into the pit to rescue, and some took out various medical equipment.

Others used flashlights to illuminate the environment inside the pit.

After seeing the appearance of the bottom of the pit, many people took a deep breath.

Underneath that, there were dense bones, too many to count, I don't know how many layers were stacked, and the sharp roots that stood upright and upward made the scalp tingle.

"What the hell is this?"

"There are cases in the book where psionic energy mutates plants, but they are all cases, and they can't be as dense as in this forest!"

It is important to save people at the moment, and no matter how many questions you have, you can only wait for the slow analysis later.

Thankfully, the rescue team brought enough medical supplies to survive even a few surgeries in the wild.

It didn't take long for the team members to work together to get the person out.

After treatment, this person's life and left leg can be saved, and it will not affect his movement in the future, which is barely good news.

"Hoo ......"

The few people in charge of the treatment were relieved.

But there was not a trace of joy on the faces of the rest.

The dangers in the depths of the jungle are growing, and they have been cut off from the outside world, ignorant of the news from the Dragon City headquarters or the United Camp.

What if the Dragon City team is out of trouble, but they haven't received the news?

The various difficulties, difficulties, and pains of the past two days have made many members have the desire to return along the way.

"Master, we ...... Would you like to take a break first? ”

As a representative of the many rebel groups in the United Camp, Ms. Liu Ye had to stand up, and with worry on her eyebrows, she asked Shi Sishi.

Shi Sishi glanced at the injured member and nodded, his expression indifferent.

"Well, take a break and move on."

(End of chapter)