Chapter 389 388. Inside the ruins [2-in-1]
The area of the ruins in front of us is not large. Looking down from the highest point, the total area is only two acres.
The exposed top of the building and the slightly invisible sharp corners are all weathered and decayed concrete and reinforced masonry.
"No wonder Brother Zhou Qian doesn't want to come over. It seems that he really can't find anything..."
Huaiyu saw it for the first time and couldn't help but murmur at this moment.
Finally, she asked Lin Xuefeng: "How do the general garrison find ruins like this? Do they use instruments to scan them one by one, or do they use their own skills to explore them piece by piece?"
Lin Xuefeng told the truth: "Usually I only scan it roughly once and then give up."
He took Huaiyu and looked in all directions: "Mutated plants have occupied this land, and there are also unknown creatures that are either cooperative or hostile to them. This kind of man-made building with its ravines and corners is very suitable for some Mutated organisms that are not easy to detect grow, and we have to pay a lot of money to explore them.”
"In addition, look at the roots spreading everywhere on the ruins. If the earth power is used to overturn the earth, this originally fragile crust will collapse and crack again, and the plants' territory will be invaded and destroyed. We are here There are even more obstacles to face in the wilderness.”
This is the understanding gained after countless injuries were piled up in the early stage.
It’s also because I haven’t seen a single ruin along the way to Huaiyu, because wherever there are ruins, even passing by feels like a waste of resources.
"So, if you want to explore, you can use your powers to move animals and plants to a small extent, but it will be more difficult to go underground."
Huaiyu seems to understand but not understand.
Then, she carefully stepped over the spreading tree roots and branches, pointed to the sloping roof of the building with the largest exposed area in front of her, and asked, "Can I go and have a look there?"
"Okay."
Lin Xuefeng led her over without saying a word. A thin curtain of water rose silently in front of her, but it was flat and smooth, without the sparkling ripples like before.
As if separated by a piece of glass.
But Huaiyu knew that this should be used as a shield for her.
She did not rely on her superpower to rush forward. On the way back to Lin Xuefeng, although the plants did not take the initiative to attack her, other mutant creatures did.
Huaiyu knows how to protect himself.
This building seems to be the top of a certain building. At this moment, only part of the first and second floors on the top are slantly exposed on the ground. The glass on the windows has long disappeared. Even the window frames are in tatters and are only covered by the spreading tree roots. There is a small gap left.
Huaiyu pointed at the small gap and hesitated: "I can't seem to climb in... Can you move these tree roots?"
Lin Xuefeng shook his head: "Let's start from this way. Open the mouth on the wall, so as not to make too much noise and disturb the things inside."
After he finished speaking, he did not take action. Instead, he looked at Huai Yu: "Come on - after all, my water power is not suitable for such impact and destruction actions."
Huaiyu looked at him with some suspicion: "But when you made such a stroke with your finger," she also gestured in mid-air: "You drew a circle on the blue brick and it was hollowed out."
Can't you draw a big circle now?
Lin Xuefeng smiled and shook his head: "Xiaoyu, you forgot, I haven't taken good care of myself yet."
Huaiyu doesn’t believe it!
"You ran very energetically when you were carrying me just now..."
But she muttered, but did not refuse. Instead, she stroked her hand on the root of the tree on one side. With a slight thought, the thick and circling tree root sprouted a new root at the other end, and in an instant, it directly penetrated the wall on the side!
He quickly took it back in the flying dust.
What appeared in front of the two people was the messy top of the building.
But Huaiyu only peeked his head in and looked away with a sigh: "Lin Xuefeng, there is someone inside."
Lin Xuefeng responded, his expression unchanged: "Are you afraid?"
Among such ruins, the most indispensable thing is the people who have died long ago. What Huaiyu saw were seven or eight corpses stacked on the edge due to the tilt angle.
The suit jackets they wore had signs of damage, and the scattered skeletons wrapped in the clothes were scattered in pieces by the roots of the rapidly growing and expanding trees, making them incomplete. Traces of damage and depressions were clearly visible on the bones, and Huaiyu carefully walked down the tree root, and saw a dim and deep gem cufflink in a corner.
Huaiyu held the cufflinks in his hand with some confusion, and then asked: "Are they also afraid when they die?"
Lin Xuefeng was stunned.
After a while, his voice came out in this dark space: "It shouldn't be that scary."
"Because at the time of the catastrophe, all the changes only happened in an instant... It is possible that they just felt their sides shaking, and then..."
The smashed skull, the sunken sternum, and many broken marks...
It was so powerful that many people would have died in just an instant. But maybe there were still people alive and struggling at that time.
At this moment, Lin Xuefeng didn't want to say it.
"Oh." Huaiyu responded, without saying whether he believed it or not. He just carefully slid to the bottom, and then looked at the scattered corpses everywhere and became worried: "If we go down from the safe passage in this corner, will there be something like this? ”
"If there are too many, I can't handle them."
Lin Xuefeng had already nimbly stepped on the tree roots to come to her side, and now held her hand: "It doesn't matter, let's go together."
This floor is probably an office only owned by the top executives of a certain group. If you check it carefully, you should be able to find something. But considering that there were still many floors below, neither of them stayed much longer.
Lin Xuefeng gently pushed open the door of the safe passage that had fallen halfway.
There was a slight buzzing sound behind the door, it was a huge honeycomb.
But Huaiyu was pleasantly surprised in an instant: "It's a bee!"
She instantly forgot her previous worries about the corpse and said in surprise: "If we don't move it now, can we take them with us when we leave later?"
She said with some distress: "I don't know if it's because the Rose Corridor is too fierce. There is a big bamboo forest there, but there are no bamboo rats. There are so many vegetable fields, and there are no bees. There are only butterflies and moths flying everywhere for pollination... ”
"White sugar is very expensive now, and I have never found honey."
After she said this, she looked at Lin Xuefeng with hope: "Now in winter, the bees are not active. Can we take them all home?"
Lin Xuefeng couldn't help but laugh: "Yes - I have done this before."
When exercising water powers, weave them into a water net that is fine enough, and then cover it with a nest of spiders, bees, etc. The finer and firmer the net is, the better it can ensure your own safety.
Otherwise...
He didn't say any more, but looked at the dark stairs: "Want to go down and have a look?"
"I want it."
But...
"It's so dark!" Huaiyu hesitated slightly. When she was groping and walking in the underground river before, she had experienced such darkness. Now she said it was okay, but it seemed to have taken root under her feet. Unable to take a step.
The next moment, Lin Xuefeng held her hand again, and then took out a small flashlight from his pocket. "Crack!"
The light illuminates the seemingly endless steps ahead.
……
Zhou Qian was checking under the car.
The closer you get to the center of the wilderness, the harder it is to walk. In many cases, there is no road at all. You have to rely on chain saws on both sides, strong enough horsepower, and high ground to get through.
Therefore, every time you walk for a period of time, you have to check carefully. Otherwise, if you carry so many belongings and fall asleep in the middle of the trip, you won't be wasting your time.
The garrison's vehicles used a lot of new technology, and so far he only had a partial understanding of the manuals, so the inspection work was naturally done slowly and cautiously.
When it got dark and the illumination range of the headlights was no longer enough for him to do anything, Zhou Qian slowly got out from under the car.
Unexpectedly, just as he stood firm and was brushing away the stains and dust on his body, he heard slight movement from the other side of the woods.
"Xiaoyu?" Zhou Qian was a little surprised: "Come back so soon?"
He raised his wrist and looked at the communicator again. It was only 5 o'clock in the afternoon.
Huaiyu's cheeks were flushed and his eyes were full of joy: "Brother Zhou Qian, we have gained a lot!"
Looking behind her, a huge, fine water network shimmering in the dim light of the sky was hanging in the air and covering an equally huge honeycomb, slowly drifting towards this side.
The honeycomb was placed in an abandoned storage cabinet. This nest-building habit was completely different from the wasps encountered before. There were one or two small wild bees inside that were forced to wake up in the winter and buzzed around.
Zhou Qian quickly reacted: "Is it a bee?"
"Hmm!"
Huaiyu is so happy!
"Keep them on the upper floor later, and shake the honey when we get back, otherwise I'm afraid I'll frighten them all away."
"Okay!" Zhou Qian also became happy! Six years after the disaster, who doesn’t love a sweet treat?
Lin Xuefeng didn't need to say much, he took the initiative to climb into the carriage: "Wait a while, I will make room for them, and then I will cover this storage box thicker to keep out the cold."
However, as soon as he finished speaking, his eyes fell behind Lin Xuefeng again. I saw that he was still holding a thick rattan in his hand, and the end of the rattan looked like a huge luggage bag, bulging with various things inside.
Zhou Qian paused, and then looked at General Lin Xuefeng, who seemed to be walking on the clouds. Seeing that he was holding the huge package as leisurely and calmly as if he was holding a puppy, he couldn't help but laugh:
"Looks like you found a lot of stuff."
Lin Xuefeng met his gaze and nodded: "Xiaoyu knows how to live a good life."
Huaiyu also came over happily: "Brother Zhou Qian! Lin Xuefeng is so strong! I originally wanted to come back and ask you to move this together, but he said he could... With such strength, why don't I?"
She was a little disappointed.
But thinking about not having to do it myself, I quickly became happy again:
"Quick, quick, quick! Let's sort out the supplies!"
She moved the branches expectantly and asked curiously: "Are the groceries sold in Hongsheng Trading Market collected in this way?"
Lin Xuefeng couldn't answer this, but Zhou Qian was very experienced:
"Yes. Some are from ruins, but only a very small part. Some are scattered from various parts of the wasteland, and some are found from existing cities."
"That's a lot to collect! Lin Xuefeng, why did you say you would give up the ruins in the first place?"
Lin Xuefeng looked at the supplies scattered on the ground after losing the cane: "Is there a lot?"
Huaiyu wanted to say a lot, but he turned around and looked at the pile of things around him——
"Okay." She understood: "The effort is not proportional to the gain."
Even though they brought back such a big bag, in fact, they went down four floors.
It's not that I don't dare to go deeper, it's that I don't have any more.
That's right, the entire building was cut off at the fourth floor. The ruins they walked into only had the upper four floors, and below were endless rocks, soil, and gravel.
If you want to explore deeper, you really have to use earth powers like Lin Xuefeng said.
But in fact, with only these four floors, their journey was not easy.
Everything went smoothly on the first floor, and the bees did not attack because they were almost dormant in winter.
But the second floor has been occupied by a group of mutated mice - they are different from the cute Xiaotian. Their front teeth reflect cold light in the flashlight, and the surrounding walls, furniture, etc. have been chewed into crumbs all over the floor. There are more mice lying in the warm debris, trying to spend the whole winter in warmth and comfort.
When Huaiyu saw this scene clearly, his scalp went numb instantly!
Without her needing to make any more moves, the surrounding tree roots began to stir, and her subconscious ability triggered a large and fine net to cover them all on one side.
However, what was trapped was a group of rats.
Their incisors are sharp and tireless, and there are so many of them. After a scalp-numbing clicking sound, the branches of the originally finely woven network burst out with many gaps.
If Lin Xuefeng hadn't been waiting nearby and immediately formed a curtain of water to get up, the mouse would have been scurrying around at this moment.
Huaiyu's scalp went numb when he thought about that scene.
But now that the matter was over, they were no longer so panicked, so they continued walking towards the third floor.
Third floor...
The third floor was pitch dark. It had been buried in the soil for a long time, making the entire space a little damp. You could even see some green moss where the headlight shined.
And it was here that Huaiyu saw a giant snake coiled on the ceiling - it was very big and thick. Because it was coiled, the length could not be estimated for the time being, but its body was at least 80cm in diameter.
It has familiar markings on its body. This is a king snake.
In Huaiyu's understanding, it is also called the cauliflower snake.
The good news is that the other party is in hibernation and is not moving at the moment.
When he received the bad news, the light of the headlight caught his eyes, and the other person's body began to slowly squirm.
For a moment, Huaiyu felt that his scalp was numb. But she was able to turn around calmly, and tremblingly said to Lin Xuefeng:
"So...is the rat on the second floor a buffet raised by it?"
Here it comes! Good night!