Chapter 199: Text on the Tower (Da Zhang Monthly Pass)
"Don't look up!"
Liu Nan shouted quickly, and then she pulled He Ao and Beetle and hid under a hillside.
The originally bright land was instantly covered in dark shadows, as if the world had returned to night.
The cold wind passed through the silent hills, and the sound of sobbing like the cry of the dead was heard.
"Woo——"
Sad wails sounded in the sky, from far to near.
"Its eyesight is not good," Liu Nan leaned next to He Ao, held He Ao's hand tightly, lowered his head and whispered softly, "As long as you don't see it, it won't see you."
He Ao glanced at the girl holding his hand tightly, nodded, and said nothing.
The huge whine finally got closer and closer, staying in the sky above where the two of them were.
A huge sense of sadness was mixed with the wails, echoing in all the surrounding spaces.
He Ao felt a strong curiosity rising from his heart, attracting him to look up and look at the place where the whining came from.
Beside him, the girl with dust on her body seemed to be raising her head.
He Ao glanced at the girl's hand, and he used his other hand to hold Liu Nan's head, "Don't look at it."
Only then did Liu Nan come back to her senses. She glanced at He Ao and nodded with a somewhat fearful expression.
After waiting for about ten minutes, the wail in the sky finally faded away.
The dark night gradually faded, until the bright sunshine spread over the earth again.
The two of them did not go out immediately, but waited for another ten minutes before slowly walking out from behind the hillside.
The three suns in the sky are still shining.
He Ao looked around. Originally, there were some wild deer and other animals around them that had no attack power. At this moment, these animals kept their heads raised and fell stiffly to the ground.
He Ao walked up to a wild deer and gently touched its stiff body. There was no trace of warmth anymore and he said, "It's dead."
"Why did it come after me?"
Liu Nan let go of He Ao's hand and looked around with some confusion.
The two of them had walked about two hundred kilometers this morning, and were actually far away from the habitat of the octopuses.
"have no idea."
He Ao glanced at Liu Nan and shook his head gently.
He moved his gaze around. The closer he got to the tower, the fewer urban buildings around him and they gradually turned into a wasteland.
The place they were standing at this moment was the junction between the city and the wilderness.
"Let's eat somewhere else first."
He Ao waved his hand and walked towards the ruins of a small city covered by weeds.
Liu Nan got on the Beetle and followed him.
It seems that this was once the edge of the city, but the buildings are not as well preserved as other cities. There are tilted and collapsed high-rise buildings everywhere, and the city is covered up by thick trees and weeds.
This place is being eroded by the wilderness, and the creations left by human civilization will eventually return to their original state.
Perhaps in a few hundred years, this place will completely become a wilderness and return to the starting point of everything.
He Ao found a building on a hillside with a better view and walked in.
Not long after he walked in, a black figure suddenly rushed toward He Ao.
It was a rusty robot modeled after a human female body. Her originally beautiful bionic layer had long since decayed over time, leaving only this rusty steel shell.
She didn't seem to have much wisdom, she only knew how to rush towards He Ao crazily to drive He Ao away from the building.
He Ao slowly turned sideways and dodged the robot's attack.
boom-
With a soft sound, the robot tripped over the bumpy cement floor, rolled out, and fell down the hillside.
Liu Nan dodged the falling robot, got off the Beetle, and looked at He Ao with some confusion, "This is it?"
He Ao shook his head, indicating that he didn't know either.
He continued inside until the end of the room where the sunlight could reach.
In the dark shadow of the building, an old stroller swayed slowly and creaked.
It can be seen that the main body of this stroller was once made of plastic, but most of the plastic parts have long been decayed and damaged, and these broken parts are nailed together by rough and rusty steel plates to maintain the general shape of the stroller.
He Ao walked up to the swaying stroller. The interior of the stroller was covered with a complete piece of some kind of fiber cloth, and the middle of the cloth was slightly raised, as if there was really someone inside.
He Ao gently stretched out his hand, and the moment his fingertips touched the fiber cloth, the cloth shattered and turned into fine dust, revealing what was underneath the cloth.
It was a relatively well-preserved infant skeleton.
That robot has been here rocking the stroller and coaxing the child to sleep.
And the child in the stroller has already fallen into eternal sleep.
He Ao withdrew his hand and said softly, "Let's go, let's change places."
"Um."
Liu Nan behind him nodded slightly and followed his footsteps to leave this place.
The two of them had just walked out of the building when a gardening robot carrying large scissors walked to the roadside not far in front of them and began to prune branches of a tree growing randomly on the roadside.
Behind it, every tree is built into a regular shape.
It's exactly the same as it was hundreds of years ago when this city was still glorious.
If the ruins of the city are the corpse of human civilization.
These intelligent machines are still running, like the undead ghosts of human civilization left in this world.
Shortly after the two left, the female-shaped robot climbed up the hillside little by little.
She walked back to the stroller and continued to rock the stroller slowly.
Gu Xiao
Her throat vibrated and made a rustling sound.
No specific language can be distinguished from these voices, only distant and gentle melodies echoing.
It's like singing to someone who is sleeping.
——
He Ao finally chose the top floor of a building on the hillside that sloped half into the earth.
A barbecue grill was set up there.
Exploration is exploration, and escape is escape, but barbecue is indispensable.
He Ao took out the meat of a leopard-like exotic animal killed on the road from his backpack and put it on the barbecue grill.
Disregarding contamination, the taste of these exotic beasts is really quite good.
Anyway, He Ao doesn't have to worry about pollution.
Liu Nan glared at He Ao angrily, then went to nibble on her own compressed biscuit.
He Ao was roasting the meat slowly, but just when the meat was about to be roasted, an eagle roar suddenly came from the sky.
A behemoth with a wingspan of five meters glanced at He Ao's barbecue grill, swooped down from the sky, and rushed towards He Ao's barbecue grill.
He Ao quickly picked up the barbecue and avoided this wave of attacks.
"Hahaha, let you eat alone."
Liu Nan watched from the side as He Ao was snatched by the eagle and laughed.
But she still got up quickly and took off the sniper rifle from behind.
"Need not."
He Ao shook his head, put the barbecue on the grill, and then pulled out the bone sword from his back.
The giant eagle in the sky circled for a while, then roared again and rushed towards the barbecue.
He Ao jumped up, grabbed the talon of the giant eagle, and stabbed it with his sword.
The giant eagle was stabbed by He Ao until it could no longer maintain its size, and it frantically tried to throw He Ao off.
But its resistance was in vain. As He Ao stabbed its neck suddenly with a sword, its body shook and fell into the wilderness beside it.
"What?!"
Liu Nan didn't seem to expect He Ao to be so reckless. She lay on the edge of the rooftop, took a look, and quickly ran to the stairs nearby.
But before she could finish going down the stairs, she bumped into He Ao, who was returning with a blood-and-bone sword.
"Are you OK?"
Liu Nan looked at He Ao with some worry.
"It's okay," He Ao shook his head and pointed to his backpack, "I'll eat bird meat at night."
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This time, the meat of the exotic beast was larger and more refined. After He Ao finished eating it, most of the energy in his Dantian was filled.
Then he didn't trigger it immediately, but mobilized the 'qi' in his body to attach it to the dagger, and whittled the top of the bone sword into a roughly decent sword point.
Then he used the cut bones to grind out a decent blade for both sides of the bone sword. Although it was not very sharp, it could cut ordinary things.
The structure of this bone sword is extremely tight, and there is no cavity structure.
He Ao looked at the bone sword in his hand. Now, this thing looked a bit like a sword.
By the time everything was done, it was almost afternoon.
He Ao and Liu Nan continued to set off.
In the latter part of the journey, there are basically no urban ruins, only vast expanses of wilderness.
The closer you get to the tower, the extraordinary creatures you encounter gradually become stronger.
They once encountered a forest full of vines. The entire forest was a derivative of the same plant, which would attract surrounding animals to explore and then devour them.
This is relatively normal, and some creatures have more bizarre abilities.
There is a giant dragonfly that can stop any fight and is the mediator of a wilderness area, but the creature it mediates must dedicate part of itself to it as food.
There is a humanoid creature that can cause amnesia. The moment people look away from it, they will forget all information related to it.
In the end, He Ao and Liu Nan reminded each other back to back before killing this guy.
There is also a huge cat that can weave clothes and fur to wear on its body like humans. From a distance, it looks like a beautiful girl, making people want to get close to it subconsciously.
But any creature that comes close to it will fall in front of it as if drunk, and then its skin will be skinned alive to use as material for making clothes.
However, few of these strange beasts can really threaten He Ao, and many of them have become meat in He Aobu's bag.
The cloth bag that He Ao brought was not enough.
There are also some exotic beasts that drop extraordinary items that look interesting.
However, not every alien beast will drop extraordinary items. There are only two extraordinary items that He Ao finally obtained. The dragonfly dropped a pair of small wings that were stuck together like scales, and the cat dropped a colorful crystal ring.
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On the way the two of them were on their way, they encountered the huge wailing shadow several times, but in the end they managed to escape without any danger.
As the two of them got closer and closer to the tower, the shadow finally stopped appearing.
At dawn the next day, the two finally arrived in front of the tower.
Although he had been mentally prepared for it, the magnificence of this tower was still beyond He Ao's expectation.
It was in the shape of a huge cylinder with a diameter of at least more than ten kilometers. Its top was inserted straight into the clouds. When He Ao raised his head, he could only see the blue sky and white clouds pierced by the tower.
Perhaps the top of this tower has entered the universe.
When the two first arrived at the tower, there was no wall to enter. After walking around the tower for a while, they saw a dark door with a twisted gap.
There are seven characters in the first area on the top of the gate, which seem to be the name of the tower, but He Ao cannot recognize them all and only recognizes three of them.
