After wandering around the ruins of the town for most of the time, Cassia returned along the original route. On the edge of the open space, Cassia sorted out a small space among the collapsed houses as a temporary resting place. Then he returned
He moved everything over to the limo and found a dry place to pile them together.
The time had only reached around five o'clock in the afternoon, and the sky was getting darker, but it would still take about two hours until it was completely dark. Cassia took the blunderbuss and moved along the edge of the town.
The plants became more and more lush, and there were weeds on the ground, which soon covered Cassia's knees. After a while, the air around her became colder, and the mountains covered by thin clouds took on a sense of oppression, and several clear rivers flowed in
The green woods on the hillside are looming, and in front of you, the calm light blue lake remains empty all year round, imprinting all the not-so-pretty clouds in the sky.
The touch on the skin became much stronger. After opening the cross pupils, Cassia clearly felt that the things hitting the exposed skin were more lively.
The area of the lake has become larger due to the injection of snow water over such a long period of time. The water is extremely cool, and you can still see submerged stone roads and some low-rise buildings at the edge of the lake. There are many aquatic plants, and a group of backwaters.
The huge birds in their nests flew across the lake, and on their drooping claws, Cassia saw fish covered with silver scales.
It was not a dead lake. There were not only lush aquatic plants, but also abundant fish. Under the submerged buildings, Cassia was sure that she saw groups of fish swimming.
"There is a bias in the information? But it is more likely that when the strange disease spread here, a very small number of species survived and completed the evolution of their own resistance. Just like those snakes and birds, they survived
, such a small-scale ecological circle has been formed in decades.”
After whittling a sharp wooden stick, Cassia carefully inserted a fish into it as an experimental subject.
It seems to be a fish at the bottom of the food chain, living on eating water and grass. The scales seem to have become tougher, and the strength of the body swing surprised Cassia. It is so powerful that when this group of fish was startled by Cassia
, the shadows escaping in the water are like sharp swords thrust out.
And Cassia found several rows of sharp teeth in its mouth, which could barely cut its own skin in experiments. Although it is a herbivorous fish, the blood in its body still caused Cassia to shed a layer of skin. Eat it at night
The fish idea was forced to give up midway.
"Everything here carries germs?" Cassia looked at the lake in front of him and the mountains behind the lake. He didn't know where to start for a while. Grote only told him a place name, Holy Sword.
The placement is on the highest mountain there.
"It's a little hidden inside a cave, but as long as you look carefully, it's still easy to find. After entering, you should be able to see some symbols engraved in the cave. Those are the signposts. Follow them and you won't be in the cave.
I got lost in the cave. After all, it is a complicated cave network. In order to prevent other people who accidentally broke in from discovering it, I still put some effort into it." Grote's original words at that time were.
After the volcanic eruption here, Cassia still doesn't know whether the cave network has been affected. But the amount of exploration is a bit large, and they will stay here for a long time.
Using solid fuel and picked wood to build a fire, Cassia continued to look at the note, trying to get more information from it. The light dimmed unconsciously, but Cassia, who was surrounded by the fire, did not do anything.
After noticing this, he roasted the diary again. When he was close to the limit, Cassia opened a few more pages of paper with blurred writing.
"Twenty-six diamonds were found today. They are of high quality. After processing, they are estimated to be sold for more than one million holy coins. News came from the team leader that some team members are sick. It seems to be a cold. They are weak and have slight skin problems.
Allergy symptoms, slight redness. I will come back to town to rest for a few days tomorrow,,,"
"The fossilized bones of a creature were found in the solidified lava. After digging them out, they were initially determined to be the ribs of some huge ancient creature. They were about four meters long. Even the firearms we brought could not leave traces on them. They are very hard. The boss thinks
It was so valuable that I decided to take it back and carve it into works of art to sell."
,,,
These are diaries written not long ago by the team searching for minerals. It can be seen from them that the spread of the disease is not very rapid, and those who develop symptoms early are also those with weaker constitutions. And they stayed in the hospital for a long time.
People in the town are relatively safe. The address surveyor who wrote this diary wrote that most of their group of people who did not enter the mountains were "infected" at the end.
Cassia was more interested in the huge bone, but was not surprised. Such bone fossils would be buried underground anywhere. Before seeing the real thing, he could not tell that it belonged to the dragon class.
The skeleton is still that of a larger type II creature.
Carefully closing the diary, Cassia put it aside and murmured to herself: "By the way, according to the old people, these people never went out after they came here, and most of them died here. Since there are some
The car came back, but it was also pulled by a car of people. It seems that the minerals these people found did not appear in their words? "
"Where will it be hidden?" Cassia raised her head at this time, stunned for a moment, and a misty green light appeared in the firelight in her pupils.
I don't know when night fell, and a layer of mist evaporated from the lake, covering the calm water, giving off a dim green light.
There is also some kind of material existence above the lake. The light there is very dim, but Cassia can see clearly that it is indeed the same as what is written in the diary. Under the cloudy sky, the dim colorful lights are like water plants floating slowly in the water.
Waves in mid-air.
Cassia stood up and left the range of the fire, only to realize that she had really entered a strange world.
"Are these germs?" He couldn't figure out the reason for this phenomenon. After opening the cross pupil, the lake water also had an extremely dim green color, the dense woods on the hillside, and behind him, all the objects here seemed to be covered by
More or less fluorescent powder was applied on it, and the dim light made it no longer a substantial night.
Deep in the forest on the hillside, the rivers formed by the snow water became more obvious, and they became brighter, like a light belt running through this area, connecting the top of the mountain covered by clouds with the lake at the foot of the mountain.