Updated: 2012-09-12

Zero had to admit how beautiful that graceful figure was when he shuttled between various mutated plants in front of his eyes. Atesha's movements are light and agile, with a hint of dance, and she jumps and jumps, as if it is the heartbeat of the whole heaven and earth, drawing the viewer's attention.

From the soft and boneless hands, to the amazingly curved waist, to the slender and strong legs. In Atesha's movements, the limbs naturally take on the beauty of rhythm, and it is almost impossible to take his eyes off the graceful figure.

Just this morning, Gunnat asked the Semitic patriarch for Atesha to leave Death Canyon with Zero and the Two, so as to save more time to cross Death Ridge. Originally, Atesa was reluctant, because she, along with many Semites, had a natural hostility towards outsiders like Zero. But like the rest of the people, Atesha has only the highest respect for Gunat, who almost changed the fate of the Semitic race.

Since the request was made by Gunat, neither the patriarch nor Atesa could save Gunat's face. So the black girl reluctantly took Zero on the way, and as if for the sake of anger, Atesa took Zero and the two of them to the dangerous deviant flora. Luckily, before leaving, Gounat gave them some powder.

These inconspicuous powders were able to mask the smell of Zero and Mony, causing most of the mutant plants on Grim Reaper Ridge to treat them as ordinary trees. But this powder doesn't work against mutants, which is why the two Semites were able to find Zero through the forest last night, only to be attacked by the shield snake.

After a long day of non-stop driving, Atesha and Zero were nothing, but Moni couldn't bear it. The silver-haired girl's face was covered with beads of sweat, and her body temperature rose because of the constant hurry, so that Moni's entire face was unnaturally flushed. For this girl, who was only twelve or thirteen years old, Atesa was slightly less hostile to her.

What's more, although Moni is underage, she has already shown the amazing potential of a stunning woman. For beautiful things, Atesa knows how to appreciate them even more when she has lived in the jungle for many years. Although she doesn't say it, she likes Moni a lot. Seeing that the little girl was too tired to move, Atesa couldn't bear to keep going. What's more, the object of her hostility is not even breathing.

Looking at Zero's appearance, Atesa knew that even if she ran like this for a day, Zero might not be tired before her.

So the three of them found a place to rest, Atesa grew up on Death Ridge, she was not an outsider like Zero, and the black girl could easily tell the difference between ordinary plants and mutants. Under Atesha's leadership, the three of them found a relatively safe forest area and rested under a cedar tree that towered into the sky.

Zero pulls out a leather bag from his marching bag, which contains pure water from the source of life of the Semitic people. There are as many as five or six cowhide bags like this, and Zero naturally doesn't have these things, but they are the equipment of Gounat when he used to go on expeditions, and he gave them to Zero today.

Stuffed the cowhide bag to Moni, who was not polite, and Moni, who was so thirsty, took the water bag, but still drank three sips in moderation, and gave it back to Zero. The girl knew that the bags of clean water were not much, and that they had only enough to eat for seven or eight days, so Moni drank very little, even though she was still thirsty.

Zero drank less than she did, he just took a small sip. But his physique is different from Moni's, although it is only the amount of a mouthful of water, in Zero's body, he can ensure the amount of body organs needed for half a day.

Atesha didn't rest, she stood on the treetops nearly twenty meters above the ground, pointed ahead and said, "Death Valley is almost here, you can rest for 10 minutes, and then continue on your way." ”

Zero smiled bitterly, he couldn't hear that Atesa didn't want to stay with them at all, and the black girl just wanted to finish her mission quickly and go home. Zero climbed onto the cedar tree like Atesa, and the black girl immediately stepped away, and Zero also walked on the treetop on the other side to keep a distance from her. Directly in front of the two of them, they were already at the highest point of a mountain. Further on, there is a steep downhill climb. This jungle vegetation, which covered the entire Grim Reaper Ridge, disappeared neatly and abruptly at the foot of the mountain as if it had been cut off by scissors as far as Zero's eye could see.

Beyond the green edge of the boundary, there are red and brown rocks.

This reddish-brown "carpet" stretches all the way to the area known to the Semitic people as Death Valley. Although that place is called a canyon, when Zero sees it, he realizes what kind of canyon it is, it is clearly a continuous mountain range, and I don't know what is plowing out of the middle of the ravine, which runs through the mountain. It's just that the ravine is so huge that it looks like a small canyon.

In this canyon, Zero saw countless blue glows floating. They spread throughout the canyon, filling every void, and there was no frown on the sight. These blue glows are the Death Flower, and the canyon has the name of death, because of the special landform in the canyon, every day the wind blows in the valley, and the Death Flower blows all over the field, becoming the natural barrier of the Death Canyon.

Looking at the canyon, Zero guessed that most of it was knocked out by a huge meteorite during the cataclysm. It is precisely because of the passage and even fall of meteorites that the canyon is filled with a large amount of radiation. And it is precisely because of them that the deadly flower of the Grim Reaper has been achieved. Even, the strong radiation and the changes in the flora and fauna of the entire Reaper Ridge are probably due to the nearby canyon.

When Zero was often shocked by this natural wonder, he suddenly heard Atessa screaming next to him. The black girl didn't know when she half-turned her body and looked in the direction they came from to cover her mouth and exclaimed.

He followed suit, and his heart pounded. Just among the mountains and jungles of the Grim Reaper Ridge, a very dazzling wolf smoke rose from the ground. From the direction of Zero, the wolf smoke is no more than the thickness of an arm, but if you convert the distance, it is terrifying that it is a huge smoke dragon with a thickness of ten meters. In other words, a huge fire is being built in that direction.

Could it be a wildfire? I didn't think about it, but I saw the girl trembling violently. Atesa grew up in the mountains, so naturally she didn't see wildfires. What's more, although the wolf smoke was huge, there was no fire that was fierce, and I wondered what Atesha was afraid of.

He was about to ask, but the girl suddenly jumped off the tree. Zero hurriedly followed, shouting, "What's wrong!"

"It's our village...... Our village is on fire!" Artesa cried, and the girl's eyes were already overflowing. She didn't care any more, turned around and ran in the direction of the Semitic village.

Zero immediately picked up Moni and hurriedly followed behind Atesha. The fire in the Semitic village was very sudden, and even ordinary plants in this jungle had a very high level of water in their bodies, making it difficult to start a fire naturally.

In addition, they had just left on the front foot, and the village on the back foot burned up. No matter how you look at it, it is the traces of man-made that are more obvious.

On this return trip, they were in a hurry, and both of them raised their speed to the limit. Zero has the speed of the fifth-order agility enhancement, even if he runs with Moni on his back, he is not slow. Rarely, Atesha's speed was not much slower than his, and the two of them flew through the jungle, leaving only two faint afterimages. Not to mention that the mutant plants couldn't be caught, even the mutant beasts that lurked in the mountains didn't notice until they swept over.

In this way, the two of them took half the time they had come, and returned to the Semitic village after more than an hour. However, when I came to the entrance of the village, I was stunned.

The whole village was flooded with fire, and large trees, wooden houses, and ...... Everything that can be burned is in the midst of the fire. About thirteen wooden stakes were erected at the entrance of the village, and on the wooden stakes Semitic men were pierced through their bodies and nailed to the stakes like skewers. The stakes were lined up in two columns, and one of them was not a Semitic, but the prophet Gunat.

Gunnat was stripped of his clothes, and his palms, chest, throat, and legs were pierced with wooden nails and fastened to wooden stakes that had been specially erected in the shape of a cross. Under the stake, blood flowed all over the ground. Someone wrote a line of words on the side with blood.

"Zero, I'm waiting for you!"

Zero immediately knew who did it.