"We had to take a boat to Lake Sloh and then a speedboat......"

Zedin Rose was very responsible, and kept telling the plan of the trip all the way.

Xu Mo basically didn't listen to it, and his mind was full of memories of the North Pole.

Calculating the time, it's been almost a year since I left the big ash, and I don't know how it happened.

The bacon left is almost finished, and it probably goes bad if you don't finish it.

Then it must have gained weight again, and it is estimated that it will not be able to walk.

There is also the wolf king, who follows the big bad fools, does not worry about food and clothing, and must have gained a lot of weight.

These two goods get together, even if they lose their wildness, no animal dares to provoke them, but they don't know if they can catch their prey after losing their wildness.

Xu Mo was a little worried, but not much.

Because even if the big gray can't catch the prey, he will dig for honey, pick wild fruits and the like to fill his stomach, and no matter how bad it is, it will hibernate, and it will not starve to death anyway.

After being away for so long, I don't know if Big Ash still recognizes him, whether he misses him, but if he thinks about it, even if he still has a conscience.

In the midst of a thousand thoughts, Zedin Rose took him to the inland lake where he had competed.

Just take a speedboat and you can go directly to the former No. 10 area.

Zedin Rose had everything ready, and the speedboat was among them.

The two got into the speedboat and headed for Area 10.

The route was the original rescue line, and it took less than an hour to reach the shore of the lake in Area 10.

The shores of the lake are full of memories, where washing and handling of prey takes place.

A year has passed, and all traces of the past have disappeared, and only the bones piled up by the lake prove that he once came.

"Mr. Xu, I'll send you here, when you want to go back, just contact me."

"Thank you!"

Xu Mo waved his hand and watched him go away.

It's rare to come here, so I have to stay here for two or three days to relive the original feeling.

He stood on the edge of the lake and looked out at the former camp, where the buildings were still there and nothing seemed to have changed.

The way back to the camp, I don't know how many times, even if the grass and dead leaves have covered the traces, I can still find the original road.

Finally, his footsteps set foot on the place where he once lived, but his excitement instantly dropped to freezing.

It's so desolate.

The camp was overgrown with weeds, obscuring all the tracks of life that had ever lived.

The door of the warehouse was open, and the inside was empty.

The door of the hut was hidden, and a few clusters of vibrant green grass came out of the cracks.

The shed where the wood was stored at the rock had collapsed into a pile of moldy dead wood.

The sleds and bathtubs of the past were scattered on the ground, and some wooden blocks had sprouted brightly colored mushrooms.

Everything tells us that the camp has not been visited by living creatures for a long time.

"Big Ash, Big Ash!"

Xu Mo shouted loudly and rushed into the wooden house, seeing an even more desolate scene.

The stove had collapsed, and the leather sheets and bedding on the grass bed had fallen into a layer of dust.

He went to the warehouse again, and saw the same thing.

It wasn't until he searched every corner of the camp that he had to accept the fact that Big Ash wasn't there.

The uneasiness in Xu Mo's heart became stronger and stronger, and the thought of something happening to Da Ash rose irrepressibly in his heart.

The camp was so deserted and too clean.

This cleanliness is the source of unease.

When he left, he left at least half a year's food reserve.

But now all the places where the food is stored are clean and frightening, and if the big gray and the wolf king eat it, then the time for them to leave the camp after eating is only three or four months at most.

And the desolation of the camp could not have been possible without seven or eight months.

If it's not what they eat, then where does the food go?

Could it be that not long after he left, there were foreign animals snatching the food of the big gray and the wolf king?

But this possibility is very small, when he left, the wolves and adult grizzly bears in Area 10 were almost wiped out, and there were no animals at all that could threaten the big gray and the wolf king.

Unless there are more artificially released large carnivores, or if something really goes wrong with the ecology of the Arctic, the distribution of animals is changed.

But that is still very unlikely.

There is also a possibility that after he left, the big gray and the wolf king left the camp by themselves and returned to their own way of life.

After they left, other animals came to steal food, which caused the camp to be what it is today.

However, why did the big gray and the wolf king give up a life of worry-free food and clothing?

Xu Mo's mind was very confused, and his only hope was pinned on the second possibility.

He left the camp and headed straight for the waterhole in the valley.

Big Ash used to live there, and if it left, it should go back there.

There is also the cave of the wolf king, which also has to be seen.

As he walked through the woods, his steps suddenly became heavy.

The uneasiness in my heart was strong again at this time, because this forest was so quiet, and there was a great strangeness in the quiet.

It's only September, and there's still more than a month left before the heavy snow closes the mountain.

But until now, he hadn't even seen a living thing.

Not to mention large animals, not even birds and bees that can fly.

It's a little scary to be quiet to this point.

Xu Mo didn't believe in evil and searched around, and squatted down to rummage through weeds and soil, but he couldn't even find a single insect.

He immediately changed his destination and went directly to the former natural granary.

There are swarms of bats and poisonous snakes, and if they are gone, there is a real problem in this area.

When he arrived at the cave of the natural granary, his heart was completely cold.

The cave was as dark as ever, and there was a layer of bat droppings on the ground.

But the roof of the cave is clean, and there is not a single bat hanging.

After walking to the bottom of the cave, it was also clean and excessive.

The former snake cave has survived in name only, and there is not a single snake.

Xu Mo is now sure that something really happened, but he still didn't give up and went to the waterhole in the valley.

Everywhere he went, it was a dead silence full of life.

It's contradictory, it's scary.

After reaching the destination, it was not surprising that he pounced.

Xu Mo searched both the Great Ash Cave and the Wolf King's Cave, but still found nothing.

Along the way, other caves were also more or less searched, but still no living creatures were found.

By this time, it was already dark, and within an hour it would be dark and I couldn't see my fingers.

In addition to being cold, Xu Mo was also a little scared.

In such a large area, he is the only one panting, and it is scary to think about.

The wisest option now is to tell Turnip to come and pick him up from this strange place.

But Xu Mo didn't choose to do this, because it would soon be dark, and it would take at least two or three hours for shredded radishes to come.

No one knows what the No. 10 area is like at night, and if something happens, won't it affect people's shredded radish.

After all, I have a system to protect myself, and my ability to resist risks is far from being comparable to ordinary people, even if there is any emergency, it is better to solve it alone.

Xu Mo didn't know why he had so many concerns, maybe the magical sixth sense was a warning.

Before dark, he returned to the camp, intending to spend the night in the old house and make plans tomorrow after dawn.

He lit a bonfire in the camp, cleaned up the hut by the light of the fire, and laid some fresh grass under the straw bed, and then closed the door and sat on the bed.

The cabin was still sturdy, but this time it didn't give him the slightest sense of security.

Xu Mo smelled the faint musty smell in the air, and his heart was always hanging.

Tossing and turning for a long time, I still can't sleep.

He got up and checked the door, and then moved the fallen fireplace stone to the door.

After doing this, I went back to bed, but I still didn't feel safe and didn't fall asleep at all.

He rested his hands behind his head and stayed up in the dark with his eyes open.

It was dark outside, there was no moon, and the only light was the faint glow of a campfire through the crack in the door.

As time passed, the flickering light of the fire grew dimmer until it was completely consumed by the darkness.

At this time, it was past midnight, and Xu Mo's drowsiness finally came.

But he didn't dare to sleep, and always felt that Diao Min wanted to harm me.

He didn't know what he was afraid of, was he afraid of Ah Piao when it was dark? Don't be kidding, it's not like I haven't seen it, I've been in the same area for a hundred days, and I don't eat and sleep well every day?

It's not that I'm afraid of Ah Piao, so what are you afraid of?

Xu Mo didn't know, but he knew that the best way to enhance his sense of security was to use light.

The bonfire outside was extinguished and had to be relit to sleep soundly.

He got up and banged on the door, gathered all the wood from the rocks, and piled them up in the camp to rekindle them.

The reassuring glow of the fire re-filled the camp, getting brighter and brighter.

Xu Mo returned to the house satisfied and closed the door again.

With the crackling sound of burning from time to time outside the door, he gradually fell asleep.

"Rustle."

"Rustle"

I don't know how long later, there was a strange movement outside the door, it seemed to be knocking, but it was more like scraping the door.

As the movement grew louder, the thick door shook slightly.

Xu Mo had been sleeping lightly, but he was awakened by this strange movement not long after.

At first, he thought it was the wind, but the more he listened, the more strange it became.

He sat up from the bed, and instead of opening the door recklessly, he stared at the crack in it.

The bonfire outside was still burning fiercely, and from time to time there was a crackling sound of firewood exploding, but there was no trace of fire through the crack of the door, which meant that there was something outside the door blocking the fire!

But there isn't a single living creature in the entire Tenth, so where does the outside stuff come from?

It doesn't matter where it came from, what is it that matters? Is it alive?

Xu Mo was furious, and he didn't dare to think about it anymore.

"Rustle"

The movement outside the door is becoming clearer and clearer, and it will not sound like it is coming from outside, but from inside!

In Xu Mo's shocked gaze, a strange face appeared on the withered wooden door.

This face is a bear face!

Big Ash?

Wrong!

This bear face has no facial features, only the outline of a bear's head, and it is black-red.

Xu Mo was frightened and immediately bounced up from the bed.

After the fright, it was a monstrous anger, and it was too insulting to scare him into a bear with a bear face.

He roared angrily, did not retreat, but rushed straight over.

When he arrived at the door, he smashed it with all his might.

Regardless of it, it is a cow, a ghost, a snake and a god, only I can break it with one punch!

Xu Mo was full of confidence in the power of this punch, and the fist that exploded into the fist wind smashed into the bear's face like a bamboo.

However, the expected feedback did not come, but it was like hitting cotton and went directly out of the door.

The eerie bear face was pierced by fists, but there was no reaction in the slightest.

Just when Xu Mo was wondering, the fist that was smashed out suddenly came with a heart-piercing pain.

This kind of pain is like ten thousand ants devouring the body.

Xu Mo hurriedly withdrew his hand in pain, but the bear's face also deformed with his movements, attaching to his hand like a maggot attached to the bone and quickly spreading to his whole body.

After the bear's face collapsed, the light of the fire from outside came in, imprinting a huge hole in the door.

It turned out that the rustling sound just now was the sound of a bear's head gnawing on the door of the room.

No, it's not a bear head, it's a modified biological ant!

Through the firelight, Xu Mo finally saw the true face of the objects attached to his hands, and the black and red ants were the modified creatures he encountered when he left the North Pole.

And this bear face is composed of a group of transformed ants, not only the bear face, but also a huge bear body outside the door, all densely packed with modified biological ants.

Only this kind of ant can break through his defenses.

After knowing the identity of the ant, Xu Mo was not afraid, because he had a bottom in his heart.

Although these ants are modified creatures, they are limited in size and have no attack power to fear.

To put it bluntly, it can break through his body surface defenses, but it can't cause fatal damage, but the number of ants is very scary, and if you don't deal with it, it is easy to capsize in the gutter, after all, ants bite elephants, not for nothing.

Xu Mo endured the severe pain and hurriedly slapped the ants on his hands, but no matter how he patted it, it would only shoot more and more.

The power of the ant colony is now manifested, they crawl all over Xu Mo's body, and they eat an extremely difficult prey to their heart's content.

After a while, Xu Mo was covered in blood.

Although he looked scary, he was not in mortal danger.

Because he has up to twenty recovery attribute points, the place bitten by the ant colony can be recovered quickly, and the ant colony can't get into his internal organs at all, but the ant colony's biting has not stopped, so Xu Mo has already fallen into a tug-of-war of attrition just by standing still.

This tug-of-war consumes Xu Mo's flesh and blood, and recovery depends on his energy, so after a while, there was a protest in his stomach, and he urgently needed to replenish nutrition.

In order to solve the dilemma in front of him, Xu Moxin took a handful of ants from his body and stuffed them into his mouth.

Modified ants are also ants, and they still contain protein.

Sure enough, a handful of ants ate it, and it was a lot more comfortable, but there was still some distance to solve the dilemma, so I had to continue to eat.

Xu Mo simply leaned against the door and stuffed ants from his body into his mouth one by one.

I didn't sleep in the middle of the night, and I was forced to eat a late-night snack and reason with anyone.

Although there are many ants, they can't stand him making it like this, and the ants who come to attack will be reduced to the one that is eaten.

Xu Mo kept groping around his body with a full burp, and felt lonely for a long time, only the pain of being bitten somewhere in his body guided him to touch.

(End of chapter)