Chapter 203: The First Night
Feeling someone else's strange gaze, Zhao Yali quickly wiped her tears, drooped her head in concealment, and her face turned slightly red.
"Did you find out what abilities you have?" Cao Lin asked, his eyes both envious and curious.
Feeling all eyes looking at this side, Zhao Yali didn't dare to look up. She looked at her hand, clenched her fists, and said softly: "I don't know either. It seems that she has become stronger and her skin has changed a little."
"Hey, your skin has become so smooth. Now it's almost the same as Luo Yuan." Wang Xiaguang next to him pulled Zhao Yali's hand and said in surprise.
Zhao Yali's face suddenly turned red and she quickly pulled out her hand.
Huo Dong and others secretly glanced at Luo Yuan, wanting to see what Luo Yuan's expression would be, but everyone could only see a poker face with expressionless expression.
Seeing that Zhao Yali was slightly disappointed, Luo Yuan comforted: "This is a physical manifestation after evolution, not an evolutionary ability. Your strength and skin improves, which means that your body is gradually transforming after evolution and will last for a long time.
The evolutionary ability is generally very hidden, and you may not be able to find it when you look for it. When you don’t look for it, it appears accidentally. Many people, including me, are like this. Not everyone can discover their own abilities as soon as they evolve."
Zhao Yali breathed a sigh of relief.
Under the flames, the meat was roasted golden. Huo Dong and a few people stood up, took off the entire mutant beast on the rack, cushioned leaves the size of a palm fan, divided them into more than a dozen portions with a knife, and placed them in front of everyone.
Although the barbecue is not salty, it is not very odorless, but it is fragrant and tender, so it is not difficult to swallow.
Luo Yuan chewed the food slowly while paying attention to the surrounding situation. The forest in the dark is the most dangerous. Some predatory mutant beasts will choose this time to engage in activities and hunt. Previously, there was a huge movement because the transport plane fell from the sky, allowing all the creatures here to escape quickly. However, so long time has passed, and the aroma of food emitted during barbecue is enough to attract some bold predators to approach.
In fact, there were indeed pairs of ghost-like eyes appearing around, emitting a erratic light in the darkness.
They are either hidden behind trees or crawling on the ground, some of which are clever and even hidden among the lush branches and leaves, slowly approaching here through the cover of darkness.
Perhaps it is because of the bad environment, most of the living organisms here are small.
Jiangnan Province is flat, with sparse plants, and all living things have no spatial pressure, so they can be left to develop. But before the end of the world, there were deep mountains and forests, with dense plants, thick and hard trees, and branches and leaves intertwined, making a dense green network formed over the sky. If you want to live in this environment, you will obviously not be able to survive without a flexible body.
But small does not mean there is no danger, but it is more difficult than some large and bloated creatures.
Most of these creatures are agile, walk like the wind, and are extremely vigilant. If there is any slight movement or the more powerful predators arrive, they will immediately turn around and escape, and soon disappear without a trace.
Before the end of the world, the mountains here were not burned and destroyed and repeatedly destroyed like Jiangnan. Therefore, the species here are rich, the food chain is perfect, and the competition is extremely fierce and cruel. They can survive until now, and their own means of survival have evolved.
Seeing that the bonfire gradually became smaller, Cao Lin stood up and drove the fire. Mars burst into flames, and the flames suddenly rose several feet. Several mutant beasts that were hiding in the dark quickly took a few steps back. Looking at the flames, his eyes were hesitant and fearful.
This is the fear engraved in the depths of their genes. With the repeated forest fires, this fear has been passed down from generation to generation, even if it has mutated and become stronger now, this instinct cannot be changed.
Seeing these creatures still afraid of fire, Luo Yuan breathed a sigh of relief. If every mutant creature here participated in the siege, he would not be able to protect everyone.
"You said, the military region will send our death notice this time. My mother doesn't know what will happen at that time?" A soldier said with a gloomy face.
"You still have me here, I have nothing left." A soldier said in a muffled voice.
"I haven't been home for a long time. It's also an occupied area, and I guess it's gone," another soldier sighed.
"We are at least still alive, but many of our brothers are dead and we can't even find the body. It's so miserable." A soldier's face flashed with pain.
The troops explicitly prohibited talking about these things to prevent the army from being depressed. Corps Xia opened his mouth to stop him, but eventually sighed.
It seemed that the soldiers were moved by their thoughts. Huang Jiahui's eyes were a little rosy, obviously thinking of her relatives. She gently hugged Chen Jiayi. In a few years, her daughter would be so old.
The two children, Zhong Chuqiang and Deng Chao, looked at Chen Jiayi who was hugging Huang Jiahui's arms with envy. They clearly felt along the way that Chen Jiayi was more popular with everyone.
The night gradually deepened, the mountain wind was howling, and the wolf cried and the ghost howled.
Finally, a mutant beast lost patience. Taking advantage of the wind, it walked quietly from the darkness in its tiny and gentle steps. Its body was slender, its body was light, its limbs were thick and powerful, like an enlarged black spirit deer, walking silently, with a faint trace, as if it had merged into the darkness.
Even Luo Yuan didn't notice it for a while, and he didn't catch it until it was close to twenty meters.
But at this time it had stopped and began its final thrust. The muscles in its body flowed like mercury. The next moment, it suddenly kicked hard, and its light body instantly crossed a distance of twenty meters. The target was Zhong Chuqiang, one of the children in front of it.
This is the instinct of wild animals to hunt, and they always choose the most labor-saving and least susceptible to injury. In his eyes, except for the one he holds, he is the weakest
From accumulating force, kicking his legs, and then landing, the whole process took only one second. Zhong Chuqiang only felt a gust of wind blew from the back of his neck, and he felt a gust of goose bumps, and there was no reaction at all. Then his head lowered, opened his dense sharp teeth, and bit Zhong Chuqiang's neck.
Except for Luo Yuan, no one here noticed it.
He slapped the ground hard and stood without warning from his body sitting on the ground. The next moment, his body seemed to have lengthened, and directly crossed the fire. The saber at his waist was pulled out quickly, extending along his arms into a straight line.
The mutant creature opened its sharp mouth, and Luo Yuan had already stood up. As soon as he lowered his head less than an inch, the cold tip of the knife instantly stabbed through its chin, quickly passing through the upper jaw, and finally pierced through the back of his head. Its mouth was suddenly stuck by the blade and could no longer move.
The mutant beast twitched a few times, and the pupils of its eyes gradually spread.
It was not until this time that Zhong Chuqiang reacted and turned around to look at the mutant beast behind him that was stuck by Luo Yuan's slashing sabre and was twitching there. He was so scared that his face was pale and he collapsed on the ground.
Although Deng Chao next to him was also afraid, his eyes were staring at Luo Yuan with a hot look on his face.
Luo Yuan pulled back the knife, grabbed its fur, and threw it to the fire: "Be careful, it's not safe here."
Everyone was scared for a while, and they were sweating in cold sweat on their backs. They were touched by the mutant beasts, but they were not aware of anything. If Luo Yuan hadn't discovered it in advance this time, there would have been a reduction in staff here.
After this time, whenever there is any movement, everyone will immediately become highly alert and look behind them from time to time. Although most of them are scaring themselves, they will scare away many low-level mutant beasts that are trying to come and attack.
The night passed quickly, the sky gradually became brighter, and the mutant beasts hunting around gradually dissipated.
Except for Luo Yuan, everyone looked tired and had a tense night of energy. They were even more tired than a day of fatigue. However, it was obviously not the time to rest. Everyone started to work hard, cooking, and collecting firewood, but they did not dare to go far.
The forest here has become extremely strange and extremely dangerous. There is no longer everything familiar before the end of the world, or even the crisis hidden at every step. Everyone tied their trouser legs tightly, and then wrapped them with leaves for a few layers before they dared to walk outside.
This naturally does not include Luo Yuan.
The forest in the early morning was filled with a clear and corruption.
In the bushes, a strange little beast with golden stripes behind it was vigilantly paying attention to the surroundings, carefully poking its head out of the cave, its ears slid slightly, and its ears were tilted to listen to the movements around it. Seeing that there was no danger for a long time, it quickly rushed to the branches of a big tree. Its fluffy hands held up the tender buds of the leaves and quickly ate the delicate stems and leaves. Its movements were flexible and efficient. In just a few seconds, all the tender leaves on a branch had already entered its stomach.
As Luo Yuan approached, his whole body was trembling, and his fluffy hair stood up in an instant. He jumped quickly from the tree. After a few jumps, he quickly drilled out of the bushes without any movement.
This place is located in a valley, and the air is filled with water vapor. Luo Yuan smelled the damp smell in the air and walked forward continuously. After walking a few hundred meters, Luo Yuan heard the sound of water splashing. Not far away, there was a stream three meters wide, clear and gurgling through here.
There are many fish in the stream, many of which are half a meter long.
The discovery of the water source made Luo Yuan feel very happy. He was about to catch a mutant fish with a spear and then go back. At this time, he heard a scream from afar. The sound seemed to be Zhao Yali. He felt a little shocked in his heart, and he accelerated his speed and returned to the same way. When he returned, he saw everyone gathering together, his face was heavy, with a hint of horror.
Chapter completed!