The low bushes made a squeezing sound, and at this moment in the afternoon, a strange beast came out. It has a lion-like head, and its furless body appears smooth, but its body is covered with dark red lines. It looks like a scar, but it's actually a natural marking. Four legs as thick as an elephant are stepping on the bushes, and the thick soles of the feet are almost like piledrivers, and when you step on them, you will leave deep footprints.

The tail is flat, triangular with reddish bone spurs scattered around the edges. If you take an X-ray of this tail, you will see that it is made up of countless tiny pieces of hexahedral cartilage. When needed, it can tighten its prey like a snake, and the bone spurs hidden on the underside of the tail will emerge from the dense flesh holes around the edges, like a wild beast spreading its fangs and digging deep into the prey's body to give a second destruction.

The beast let out an irritated growl, and it even raised its front hooves and fell down heavily, making a trampling motion that generated a shockwave of circles. It has a very apt name, Berserker. However, the berserker beast in front of him was slightly different from the well-known one, and on its lion-like head, from the forehead to the tail vertebrae, a row of red, spar-like spines of different lengths grew. It looks like a bone spur on the edge of the tail, but the texture is as clear as a spar, and more importantly, the breath of energy can be felt in these crystal spurs.

Apparently, the berserker had clearly evolved.

As it roared, a big creature emerged from the other side of the bush. It looks like a scorpion, but it has spider-like arthropods. The bristly arthropods propped up the monster's body, and it held its tail claw aloft, looking at the berserk beast with six small crimson compound eyes on its head.

It's a spider scorpion, as the name suggests, it's like a combination of a spider and a scorpion. Compared with ordinary spider scorpions, this one in front of me is obviously different from its peers. Generally, the shell of the spider scorpion is like a black steel sheet with a metallic luster, but this shell is like a chip, translucent, and you can even vaguely see the internal organs inside under the protection of the shell are wriggling.

The surface of the crystal shell is covered with natural dark lines, which makes the spider scorpion even more mysterious and weird.

At the sight of the spider scorpion, the berserk beast let out a provocative roar. Then his head was lowered, and his hooves rushed towards the scorpion. The spider scorpion did not shy away from the battle, and the spider-like arthropods set on the ground like a stroke, so that the arthropods were as large as a tabletop monster to meet the berserk beast.

The two mutant beasts fought to the death in the wilderness, and the berserk beasts had the advantage of strength. Every time its thick hooves stomped on the ground, it generated a shockwave. Smaller beasts are usually dizzy when they are affected by the shock wave. From time to time, the berserker raised its tail and slapped violently, and sometimes a row of crystal thorns on its back would light up one after another, and then a thick blood flame with a bloody smell erupted from its mouth.

Bloodflame Breath, a power not recorded in any information by the Berserker.

As for the spider scorpion, it is also a difficult opponent. Its arachnid arthropods always moved with ease, and the scorpion swam around the berserker, digging its furious tail claws deep into the berserker's body as it dodged its attacks. Gradually, the Berserker was defeated by the Spider Scorpion's flexible fighting style. As he dodged the other party's blood flame again, the crystal shell on the spider scorpion's body lit up, and the dark stripes were lit up from beginning to end, and finally the tail claw lit up like a beam weapon, and it struck with lightning, piercing the berserker's head with one blow, and releasing a laser-like beam from the tip of the chela that split the berserker's head in two.

The berserker finally fell, and the scorpion, apparently tired from the blow, lowered itself and crawled onto its prey. As he was about to lie down on the corpse and enjoy the feast, the compound eyes on his head looked alertly at a bush ahead. Then the whole head exploded, and a huge sniper bomb exploded its head, and it also plowed into the body a little, blasting the shell near the big head.

Suddenly, the spider scorpion folded its feet and turned over and died.

The bushes moved at this point, and a man came out of it. Wearing a tactical suit and wearing a tactical kit. Half of his face was obscured by the tactical shield, but it was still obvious that it was a man. He lifted his tactical shield, revealing a pair of golden pupils. Then he raised his hand, clenched his fist and released it, signaling that the road ahead was safe.

It didn't take long for the sound of a car engine to sound behind the man. Under the scorching sun, a convoy appeared behind the man and quickly drove past him. He jumped into one of the buggies and sat down with a gun in his hand.

"You seem to be enjoying it?" sat next to the man, a teenager. He has healthy brown skin and, more peculiarly, his eyes. Flattened vertical pupils, like some kind of beast.

The man smiled: "It feels good to miss the days in the wilderness once in a while. ”

"Don't you humans say that nostalgia is a harbinger of old age. ”

"Is that so?" the man chuckled, "Well, to be honest, sometimes I think about my retirement in the future." Pick a house that is not too spacious, but has plenty of light to live in. Planting flowers every day and then watching the children frolic in the garden is also a kind of happiness. ”

"Do you think this kind of life is achievable?"

The man thought for a moment, shook his head and said, "I don't know what to do, but everything I do now is done to be able to achieve such happiness." ”

"Including this time?"

"Yes. ”

The boy was silent for a moment, then said, "Zero, I'm suspicious of your movements. Honestly, I can't believe you. ”

"I know it, Girutan. But even once, please believe me as much as you believe in Moni. Zero watched as the car passed by the corpses of the two mutants, who had been away from Dawn for days.

And the closer you get to the Black Earth, you can see that the Mutant Beast has evolved more than the rest of the wilderness. In particular, the evolution of something similar to an energy crystal shows that life in this area is undergoing earth-shaking changes.

"What's the same, Mony...... Moni, she is special. The young man next to him waved his hand and said vigorously.

Zero smiled, and in the car in front of her, Mony's long hair was tied up. His hair was blowing in the scorching wind, and it seemed to disturb the boy's heart.

"Let's go back to the question just now, Zero, I think we need to talk about it. What is it about the Shadow Clan that deserves your attention?" Girutan shook his head and said, "With your current strength, I don't think you'll be able to scarce their elixirs or seeds. ”

"No, it's not for the sake of strength, Girutan. Zero tapped his finger on the car door and said, "I need to make sure, I need to make sure that thing in ShadowClan's hand isn't going to be the damn Dark Core." Girutan, this is about the survival of all life that lives on the surface of this planet, including you and me. Got it?"

"Dark Core, what's that?" asked Girutan.

"It's hard to say, you can think of it as an engine, an engine that drives some kind of big guy. And judging from Moni's performance after using the Elixir, I'm worried that what ShadowClan has in her hands is the dark core. If so, I have to ruin it. ”

"Herein lies the problem. Girutan stood up and said, "For the Shadow Clan, that's their holy thing. If you want to ruin it, it will lead to war. The important thing is that everyone, including us Amanda, will fight to protect the ShadowClan. In this way, it will completely trigger a war. ”

"If it really evolves like this, then I will take you to the Black Land, and it will be no different from being a guide for the Scarlet Knight!"

Zero nodded, "I know how you feel, Girutan." Honestly, I'm not qualified to ask anything from you. If I could, I would also like to communicate peacefully. Hell, we don't have much time. If that would lead to war, I'd do it if I made sure it was the Dark Core. Because it's better to start a war with you than to return this thing to its rightful owner in the end, which is terrible. ”

"So there's no difference between you and the Bloodrider?"

"Yes, they are there to conquer you and plunder resources. And I, just trying to stop something terrible from happening, that's all. ”

This discussion ended in no result, and Zero and Girutan were, after all, completely different races of life. Moreover, the situation of the black earth and the western tundra is different. The alien races there appear a little earlier than the western tundra, and they are not divided into different kingdoms like the western tundra, but are closely connected in the form of tribes.

This bond between them is the biggest contradiction in Girutan's heart at this moment. And this kind of contradiction cannot be resolved with a few words.

The journey continued, and after a few days, they finally reached Elk Town, which borders the Black Lands.

In the distance, I saw a barricade built with sandbags at the entrance of the town. It was a point of fire, as could be seen from the two anti-aircraft machine guns mounted on the sandbags, and next to it were two off-road vehicles with soldiers jumping out and walking in the direction of the convoy.

"Stop!" a white soldier shouted.

The convoy stopped about a hundred meters away from the soldiers, and Zero jumped out of the car, signaling the others to stay in the car. Then he beckoned a few ordinary guards to join him in protecting Guga's past. Gu Jia smiled all over his face and said in the tone of a businessman, "Who is this chief?"

"I'm Sergeant Vader, and this is the council's area of control. Have you heard of the Dark Council, if you know the way, then tell me what you are here for. The soldier said.

Guga nodded and said, "As you can see, Sergeant." I'm an adventure merchant who has brought in some of the supplies Elktown needs at the moment, from elsewhere. Maybe I'll stay in town for a while, and if there's anything I need to do, I'll be happy to do it. ”

"In that case, I need to inspect some goods. ”

"No problem. ”

Sergeant Vader, with a dozen soldiers, opened the bed of the truck. Indeed, as Guga said, the carriage was full of food, medicine, and other supplies. As for the secret compartments in which the biological weapons were located, the soldiers of these councils did not check it out because of the concealment of the design. After a moment, Vader jumped out of the car and nodded, "Okay, then you still need to register." ”

Guga nodded, looking at the time when everything was going well. As he passed the escort car at the front of the convoy, Vader's eyes lit up when he saw the women accompanying him. He pointed to Moni and the girls in the car and asked, "Old man, are they also your guards?"

"Yes, sir. ”

"I don't think so, how can there be such a young female guard. Aren't they, old man, your toys?" Vader and the other soldiers laughed, and put his arm on Guga's shoulder, "If that's the case, I think you'll be happy to lend it to us." You know how hard it is to find a woman in this damn place. ”