Chapter Fourteen: The Earthquake
I don't know how long it took, but Li Mu suddenly felt his brain jolt, as if he had been hit by a hammer, and a string of golden twisted words like worms suddenly appeared in his mind.
Compared with "Supernatural Power", this string of words is much more frivolous and looks like it will dissipate at any time. Moreover, the two characters are of different types. The silver text of "Supernatural Power" is like clouds, elegant and ethereal. But this string of golden words is
Like twisted worms, densely packed, like a swarm of swimming insects.
"Continue meditating until your body can no longer bear it."
The sound of Jiedu was like morning bells and evening drums, which made Li Mu put aside his somewhat relaxed mood and continue to sit cross-legged and meditate.
I don't know how long it took, but Li Mu felt that the light shining on his body became hotter and hotter, and his skin was constantly feeling a pinprick-like burning pain, as if he was standing in front of a big stove and being roasted. If he hadn't been drinking the sun a lot some time ago,
The spring has enhanced my resistance to high temperatures, and I really can no longer continue to meditate.
It wasn't until the skin all over his body turned red under the heat of the light, even showing signs of burns, that Jiedu took him out of the scope of the Book of the Sun.
Li Mu panted violently to relieve the pain on his body.
At this moment, a huge change had occurred in his mind. The originally smoke-like spiritual energy was transformed from translucent to pure black, billowing and swaying like arrogance.
"Meditating in front of the Book of Heroes can get a lot of essence. Unfortunately, it is only effective for the first time. You are the person I have seen who lasts longer than Li Mei. You must cherish the gift from your predecessors."
Jiedu looked at the Book of Heroes in the light and said.
The Book of Heroes can refine the collection of source matter in the ocean of source matter, burn all kinds of negative thoughts in it, and transform it into pure source matter.
"What is the Holy Deed you received?"
Li Mu communicated with the illusory worm text in his mind.
"The shocking catastrophe among the seven demonic tribulations."
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In the desolate land, in the dry river, the decaying grass half a man's height rustled in the wind, and the vitality seemed to have disappeared from this land.
There are continuous ruins on both sides of the bank.
This was once a city. The high-rise buildings collapsed and lay on the ground like the skeletons of giant beasts. The reinforced concrete structure showed passers-by the prosperity of human civilization.
Bacteria and fungi have difficulty surviving in a high-radiation environment, so many buildings in the wilderness have not completely decayed or collapsed after hundreds of years.
Two pedestrians appeared in the ruins. Li Mu walked in front, followed by Li Mei, and finally a Brahman cow carrying luggage.
The two of them held their rifles in their arms, always alert to threats that might arise. Li Mei changed to a nii-203. The NSG-7 sniper rifle was too eye-catching and could not be taken to Avonigda.
state.
Li Mei changed out of the fat camouflage training uniform she had been wearing and put on a somewhat tight hemp jumpsuit with a belt around her waist and a quick-draw gun holster on her thigh, with a revolver inserted inside.
Slender waist, dashing figure.
The jumpsuit is coated with a special plant paint, which can effectively isolate radiation dust.
"There is a gathering place for scavengers here, and Dongxia can often purchase some useful materials from them."
Li Mei took out a map and flipped through it before saying. The map was densely packed with records of possible dangers and human settlements.
"The desolate land is so big that it will take us two days to walk through the entire ruins. We can spend the night at the gathering point of the scavengers."
The wilderness at night is far scarier than during the day, with mutated creatures, corpses, and all kinds of weird beings coming out to look for food.
Li Mu waved his hand, and a flying shadow suddenly flew down from the sky and landed on his arm.
"Did you find anything?"
Fei Lian stared at his big dark eyes and shook his head. The ruins all over the place made his vision very limited.
"Your bird seems to be getting bigger?"
Li Mei looked at Fei Lian. As a gunner, she was very confident in her observation skills. The bird had indeed grown up in just a few days, and its body had become much stronger.
"Mutated organisms cannot be measured by common sense. Maybe Fei Lian is in the developmental stage."
Li Mu fed Fei Lian a piece of fresh meat and said casually.
"It's getting late, we have to find the group of scavengers first."
Half an hour later, they found the scavenger settlement between the two buildings. The place was filled with the smell of blood, and there were torn limbs everywhere.
A flock of crows are feasting.
A head hung crookedly on the fence of the settlement, and the remaining expression of fear on it was horrifying.
The Brahman cow paved the ground with its hooves uneasily, and the two entered the settlement vigilantly.
"There were about thirty or so adult warriors in the entire settlement, and more than eighty people were all wiped out just like that."
Li Mei was a little shocked.
Not counting large settlements like Larkin Bede and Xin Linfen, a settlement in a deserted land with about thirty warriors is no longer considered weak. At least ordinary looters would not dare to provoke them at will.
"It should be a ghoul. The weapons and food in the settlement are still there, and there are no traces of eating on the corpse. The attack should have happened two days ago. Now we are in trouble. There are at least a group of more than 300 ghouls."
Li Mei checked it over and said.
She has been trained to easily identify attackers through traces. If they were predators, the weapons and food in the settlement would have been taken away long ago. Mutated creatures and dependents would eat everyone.
Only ghouls who hate the living extremely would kill an entire tribe without taking anything away.
Li Mu stood on high ground with a gun on guard.
"We have to find another place to spend the night. The two of us can't hold on here."
Although this settlement of scavengers is in a good location and is easy to defend and difficult to attack, this is only if the scavengers have sufficient manpower.
The two dug out all the available ammunition in the settlement, and there might be a big battle next.
Ghouls are much more difficult to deal with than humans. Some people believe that their bodies have been occupied by the souls in the sea of origin. These monsters who have risen from the dead have no fear, but only hatred for life.
After leaving the settlement, the two found a building that had not completely collapsed, and drove the Brahman cows up to the second floor. Here, they did not need to face the corpses coming from all directions, they only had to block the stairs.
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Even if there are too many ghouls, they can tangle with them through the complex terrain of the building and retreat smoothly.
He unloaded the sleeping bag from the Brahman cow and spread it on the ground. This building should have been a high-end residence before the war. Although it has been completely emptied by generations of scavengers, you can still vaguely see the exquisite pre-war style.
furnish.
Li Mu covered the eyes and ears of the Brahman cow with cloth. Some corpses can sense the fear of life. Both he and Li Mei can control their emotions, but this is not necessarily the case for the Brahman cow.
The Brahman cow obediently knelt down on the ground to rest. After generations of domestication, it already knew how to survive in the wilderness.
Li Mu sat down cross-legged against the wall, and the two of them ate some dried meat and pancakes.
"You rest first, I'll keep watch."
Fei Lian stood on the window frame, vigilantly observing the ruins outside the window with a pair of sharp eagle eyes. Its eyesight was much better than the two of them.
Chapter completed!