Chapter 69: Walking in the Rain
Zhou Chen and Ma Jiao hurriedly shouted to the people around them, and everyone quickly left the sleeping bags and dealt with the attacking vines according to the routine they had practiced one night.
However, the earth thorns on the ground immediately dispersed, and the vines they expected did not appear, Zhang Yutong had quickly begun to resonate, but there was no response from the surroundings.
It turned out to be a false alarm.
Ye Ning looked around, the surroundings were slightly brighter than the night, and he could already see some of the links around him clearly, looking up at the sky, it was still a black oppression, and he couldn't find the traces of the sun and the moon, Ye Ning yawned, stretched his waist, and slowly asked, "What time is it?" ”
"It's already a lot brighter, and it's probably dawn before dawn." Yang Ling responded.
"I often stay up late at home during the summer vacation, and once I'm sleepy, it means that it's at least five o'clock." Ma Jiao was sleepy-eyed and looked listless.
"It should be nearly seven o'clock, and you've been dozing off for more than an hour, because there's no movement around, and I'm not embarrassed to call you." Zhou Chen's face was calm, his tone was calm, and there was no trace of waves.
This caused Ma Jiao to blush for a while, and hurriedly said: "Then since it's not early, let's roast some wild vegetables and eat them while the fire is not extinguished, and after eating, we can continue to hurry." ”
Everyone packed their sleeping bags into their backpacks, exercised a little bit to be active, and talked to each other to clear their minds, Ye Ning and Yang Ling roasted the remaining wild vegetables. After the torture of last night, everyone was already hungry, and quickly swept away the roasted wild vegetables.
There was still enough water left in the military's backpack, and everyone was full of food and drink, so Zhou Chen put on his backpack and continued to rush south. As they walked past the fire to the south, none of them stepped on the viscous purple liquid on the ground.
A tree in the distance, at first glance, is no different from ordinary trees, but if you look closely, it is actually a little raised, the modestly sized chameleon looked at the back of the seven people leaving, slowly closed its eyes, and the viscous purple liquid on the ground also dissipated.
As they walked south, they looked for some dry firewood, and by the way, they paid attention to whether there were some wild vegetables on the road. They feared that they would encounter an ambush if they split up, and after several days of testing, they felt that it was safest to stay together.
The seven-member team quickly shuttled through the dense forest, walked for about an hour, only picked up some dry firewood, and did not find any wild vegetables, but the sky was still gloomy and dark, and the sun was not allowed to pour sunlight on the earth.
Yang Ling encouraged everyone not to be discouraged, maybe the food will gather in the same place, as long as you keep on the road, you will reach somewhere.
After walking for a while, the wind gradually picked up. There was a chill in the woods after the rain, and there was still a little wetness, Ye Ning hurriedly said: "It may be raining, let's go quickly." ”
Yang Ling glanced at Ye Ning and said jokingly: "Heh, can you stop the meeting with a crow's mouth." ”
As soon as the words fell, the sound of "huh-huh" sounded violently, and the wind blew up, rolling up the sand on the ground, and the dust was flying, and the branches of the trees danced wildly and whipped each other, and the leaves were innocently shot down in this whipping, and the wind mixed with the sand on the ground.
The wind tore all this, like thousands of troops, mighty and mighty, and after about two minutes, it proved what it was to "blow up, then decline, and exhaust three", and quickly withered.
The wind stops, the rain comes! Soybean-sized raindrops rained down from the sky and spread all over the world. The woods are like big umbrellas, but they are broken umbrellas. The raindrops hit the leaves and piled up so quickly that they had to bend over them.
One leaf took the lead, and the rest followed suit, bowing their heads to the raindrops. Beneath the trees, the shade of the trees shielded them from the raindrops, but the water droplets on the leaves also fell.
"Damn! I shouldn't have spoken! Ye Ning scolded.
Where can they go to hide from the rain under this big tree? The whole forest is the same. Yang Ling hurriedly said: "Wang Shuwei, the two of us will integrate Zhang Yutong's ability, Yutong, you use your ability to condense a big leaf, and everyone will gather a little to avoid the rain." ”
As Wang Shuwei and Yang Ling put one hand on their two shoulders, the power of light and water flowed through Zhang Yutong's body, and a touch of green light bloomed in his hands, and a green handle appeared in his hand, extending to the top of his head, and a huge leaf bloomed, resisting the raindrops above everyone's heads.
The people have just used their abilities to form a barrier so that the rain will not wet their clothes, and in this field, the actions of wet clothes will be very different. But using the ability to keep the raindrops at bay can be very costly.
Yang Ling's proposal is essentially to consume Zhang Yutong's ability alone to help everyone avoid the rain, and the help of Yang Ling and Wang Shuwei's ability can make Zhang Yutong consume less ability and last longer.
Although it was raining, they couldn't stop moving forward, Zhang Yutong walked in the front with an "umbrella", and Yang Ling and Wang Shuwei followed closely behind, constantly injecting vitality into their abilities. The others slowly followed. Slowly march towards the south.
The loose ground on the ground was also washed by the raindrops, becoming soft and sticky, and constantly embracing the raindrops that followed, turning into puddles of mud and puddles, and when you stepped on it, it would stick to the soles of your feet, hugging the soles of your shoes tightly, leaving rows of chaotic footprints.
After about an hour, the rain began to lighten. Another hour or so passed, bit by bit, dripping, as if there was no such arrogance.
It turned into a light rain, and the trees were enough to shelter them, but the shade of the leaves had now turned into another rain, and the raindrops the size of soybeans kept falling rapidly from the leaves, and although the rain was small, the raindrops they had drenched were not small.
As Zhang Yutong gasped and let go of his hands, the leaves above everyone's heads also dispersed, and the accumulated raindrops quickly fell on their heads.
Zhang Yutong gasped and hurriedly apologized, and a slight weakness could be heard in his voice: "I'm sorry, I really don't have the strength, the alien energy is exhausted, and I can't maintain it." ”
Yang Ling hurriedly supported Zhang Yutong and hurriedly said, "Then let's rest first, Zhou Chen, you take some compressed biscuits, and everyone eats some to cushion their stomachs first." ”
"Then I'll take another crow's mouth, don't use the ability to block the rain, the rain is already a lot lighter, there's no need to waste the energy, just get wet. Leave some energy behind, I feel like something will happen in a while. Ye Ning answered.
Zhou Chen opened the backpack, tore Ma Jiao's torn sleeping bag into a piece of cloth, and propped it on Zhang Yutong's head, Yang Ling saw this and stretched out his hand and took the piece of cloth handed over by Zhou Chen, and the two of them supported this cloth on Zhang Yutong's head with one hand.
Zhou Chen took out compressed biscuits and water in his backpack with his other hand, handed them to Zhang Yutong, and said, "You eat something and drink some water first, take a rest, and recover your strength." ”
"Hmm!" Zhang Yutong blushed a little and looked at Zhou Chen, nodded, took the cloth that Zhou Chen held up for him with one hand, and said delicately: "You go and hand food to others." ”
Soon, everyone ate some compressed biscuits, and the food that was enough for two meals was split into four meals, and everyone barely ate half full, and after a little rest, they continued to get up and set off.
The rain didn't seem to stop, it kept falling, and the ground was full of mud. But the seven walked quickly, they knew that there was not enough food, and they had to find it quickly, or go back to the barracks.
Along the way, several people did not see any dry firewood, not even any wild vegetables, it seems that the military has left them no way back, and everything behind them can only rely on themselves.
Towards evening, the rain finally stopped, and everyone felt tired and hungry, and according to the usual biological clock, it should be dinner time, but they had not yet found a dry place to sleep.
As the team leader, Yang Ling spoke: "It seems that there should be no dry place, and everyone doesn't have to work hard to move on, according to yesterday, the military test should come in the middle of the night, then we can't give up the rest time in the first half of the night." ”
"Then I'll simply assign the task, Ye Ning, Wang Shuwei, Ma Jiao, the three of you go collect some branches, later, Ye Ning will use your flame to dry them, and use them on the fire at night, how to control the temperature should not need me to teach you." As he spoke, he smiled at Ye Ning.
"Then you don't have to, don't worry, leave it to me." Ye Ning gave Yang Ling a smile back, and the more subtle control ability was taught to him by Jiang Kaixu, and he was secretly teaching it to Yang Ling, and Yang Ling was obviously playing a joke on him at the moment.
"The rest of us can only grieve the big tree, the four of us go and collect a lot of leaves, and then I use my ability to drain some of the water from the leaves and the branches they found, so that Ye Ning can dry."
"Let's get started! The more you collect, the better, and you'll meet in place in a moment. Yang Ling gave an order, and everyone quickly began to act, and after about an hour, the place was already covered with leaves and branches.
Yang Ling used her ability to extract as much water as possible from the ground, branches, and leaves, and channel it into a puddle not far to the west. Ordinary people may not be able to see the cat, but if they look at it from the water attribute ability, they will find that the water extracted by Yang Ling is beyond the ability of the B-level ability, which is obviously the credit of Ye Ning's mission.
Ye Ning precisely controlled the temperature, controlling the temperature of the flame below the ignition point of the branches and leaves, which seemed to be burning the leaves, but in fact drying them, after a period of baking, it looked like the ground was also a little dry.
The ground only looks dry on the surface, but the actual moisture is still very deep. The leaves were spread out separately to provide mats for them to sleep on, which would reduce the spread of some moisture.
Not far away, on the trunk of a tree, the chameleon followed, watching the scene of their nest.