It was already late at night, and after the matter was settled, the Zhang Tao brothers and sisters each returned to their rooms to rest.
But before leaving, Zhang Tao seemed to have remembered something and came back to remind Bai Mo, warning him not to go out and wander around at night, otherwise it would be very dangerous.
From the beginning to the end, neither of them asked about Bai Mo's origins, nor how he was injured, nor did they ask for anything in return.
Even though they had the idea of using Bai Mo to get food, they did not hide anything from Bai Mo, but gave him a chance to choose.
No matter from any angle, these brothers and sisters can be regarded as rare kind-hearted people.
So facing Zhang Tao's reminder, Bai Mo nodded to express his understanding.
However, his nod does not mean that he will not go out, but that he knows that there is danger outside.
He had just woken up, how could he possibly sleep, and half a year had passed since he lost consciousness. He needed to confirm his current situation, so he sat in the room and waited silently.
After waiting for about an hour, when he saw that the surroundings were quiet and Zhang Tao and his sister must have fallen asleep, he quietly opened the door.
It was dark outside, and the sky was particularly gloomy, as if it was covered by a black curtain, but this was not enough to affect Bai Mo's vision.
Stepping over the half-human-high wattle fence, looking around, you will feel a sense of desolation and desolation. Surrounded by sparse dry trees, dead leaves are scattered on the ground, gravel is piled up, and earth walls are randomly spliced together.
Messy and depressed.
This seems to be a village, located in a forest that is not dense. There are only a few houses around, but I don't know if there are people living in every house. It is lifeless and lacks vitality.
Most of the houses are made of earth and stone, and the workmanship is very rough at first glance, and they were obviously built in a hurry, and there is no beauty at all. However, fortunately, they are still strong. Although they look a little shaky, they have not collapsed in half a year.
All the houses in the village should be built by the same person. The house of Zhang Tao's house has a similar layout, and it is even more grand compared to other houses. At least it is quite spacious and has several rooms.
After looking around, Bai Mo suddenly understood that this was more like a temporary shelter than a village.
In fact, there are many gathering places like this in the buffer zone today, and most of them are ordinary people who are not qualified to stay in the safe zone and have little ability.
In troubled times, if people who have been eliminated like this want to survive, perhaps they have the only way to stay together like this -
Although it doesn't mean much.
The buffer zone is now the outer edge of the restricted area. Although it is not as scary as the restricted area, it is still full of dangers. In the absence of force protection, even the appearance of sporadic restricted area creatures is enough to cause catastrophe to such a gathering place.
No one in the gathering didn't know this truth, but they had no choice but to do it. After all, they had no other choice.
... No matter when, being unable to control oneself is the tragedy of the weak.
"Tick tock."
Suddenly, there were water droplets falling from the sky, and it seemed like it was raining.
Bai Mo looked up at the sky, raised his eyebrows slightly, and then walked along the gravel path outside the gathering place, intending to take a look at the situation outside.
The entire gathering place was quiet, as if everyone was asleep. It is worth mentioning that there are wooden fences around each house. I wonder if they have any special meaning.
Gradually, Bai Mo walked to the outskirts of the gathering place and saw no one.
Zhang Tao said before that there is no nightlife for people in the buffer zone. The later you sleep, the more dangerous it is. This is what everyone has learned from their lives in the past six months.
And precisely because of this, no one has known about it for so long...
At this time, in the sky of the gathering place, there was a huge open mouth, quietly aimed at the entire gathering place.
And what just fell to the ground was not raindrops, but saliva flowing from that bloody mouth.
Bai Mo had discovered the existence of this thing before, but he didn't pay much attention to it. Only at this moment, standing next to a dead tree outside the gathering place, could he see the whole thing clearly——
It was a huge black flower.
It is not pure black, but changes with the environment, as if blending into the night. Darkness has become its best protective color, so no one has noticed this terrifying existence.
The so-called big mouth is actually an open flower bud, with a total of eight petals. Each petal is covered with small and sharp teeth, which constantly open and close slightly, like a rhythmic and gentle breathing.
The thick stems are connected to unknown places, and are covered with tiny holes. Transparent threads spread out from them, like a huge spider web, covering the entire safe area.
Bai Mo thought for a while and reached out to touch the silk thread, but it did not cause any special reaction from the flower.
The silk thread was quite fragile, so he tore it off with a little more strength. However, nothing strange happened, except that a new silk thread stretched out from the hole in the stem.
Bai Mo is thoughtful, this flower seems to be waiting to mature, it seems that it will take some time, and nothing special will happen during this period...
Then just wait.
He didn't know why this thing had to be specially chosen here to wait for maturity, but he knew his purpose very well.
After going through two battles at Hidden Beast Mountain and Pingping Paradise, his two powers were almost exhausted and even damaged their origins. Now he is not much stronger than ordinary people and is quite weak.
Bai Mo didn't know if this was the God of Destiny's intention, but restoring his strength must be his top priority at the moment.
...and if you want to speed up this process, you have to use these "supplements".
The temporary concealment of power also means the return of humanity. At this time, he is much less indifferent than in Equality Paradise, and is not so difficult to approach.
He has heard of the name Wuji City. It is located to the north of the safe zone and is not too far away from Dongyang City. However, now that the restricted area has expanded and large and small restricted areas are interspersed, it is not easy to return to Dongyang City.
Most of Bai Mo's back-up players are in the east, and his control over other restricted areas is extremely limited. The reason why he asked the Death Train to take him here half a year ago was because he was already paying attention to Wuji City.
Previously in the Equality Paradise, he had received a piece of news from a man named Wu Ye in the Xinhai Group team, that is, a batch of special corpses had flowed into Wuji City, and this was his purpose.
He just didn't expect that half a year later, Wuji City would undergo strange changes, and he didn't know if it was related to what he was thinking about.
Bai Mo continued to walk outside while thinking. He didn't start to turn back until he walked out of the woods and saw large tracts of wasteland.
At this moment, he suddenly saw a ray of light appearing in the forest. It was very weak and could only barely illuminate an area of about half a meter.
This kind of light between yellow and white is quite special. Bai Mo immediately realized that it was the same kind of crystal used in Zhang Tao's home.
He had previously learned from Zhang Tao that this kind of crystal was called the Illuminating Stone, which was found in a certain mine. It belonged to the category of rare treasures, and the quantity was quite large. Its biggest function was that it could effectively emit light, and it was the main gemstone in the buffer zone.
lighting objects.
Electronic equipment cannot operate in the restricted area. Although the buffer zone formed by the expansion is not that serious, it still has a considerable impact on electronic equipment. In addition, the buffer zone is a temporarily abandoned territory, and there are few places where it is still available.
Electricity supply, so lighting stone is an indispensable and important item.
In fact, there are some areas in the buffer zone that still have a complete power supply system and even a comfortable living environment, such as Wuji City.
Of course, this has nothing to do with ordinary people like Zhang Tao.
Therefore, when he saw the light, Bai Mo quickly realized that the light should have been caused by someone covering the lighting stone with a cloth. It was a very simple flashlight.
only……
Besides him, who else would appear outside in the middle of the night?
Could it be that the Zhang Tao brothers and sisters had discovered that he was not in the room, so they came out to look for him?
Hiding one's figure was an easy matter for Bai Mo. He held his breath, and his presence was reduced to a minimum, almost blending into the trees in the darkness. Then he quietly poked half of his head out and looked at the light.
direction——
They are not brother and sister Zhang Tao, but a strange man and woman.
The two of them looked panicked. After entering the forest here, they kept looking around, as if they were afraid of something.
The illuminated stone wrapped in white cloth gave off a faint light, illuminating the area around the two people just right.
"Hurry up, it will be too late if you delay it any longer." The man with a short haircut anxiously urged, "I have studied it repeatedly, and only this time is the safest."
"But..." The woman was very embarrassed.
"Don't be hesitant. There are only so many opportunities. If you don't seize it this time, it will be difficult next time!"
The man glanced around again, looked at the woman's hesitant expression, and couldn't help but swallowed.
He tried to touch the woman's arm, but she quickly dodged as if she was electrocuted.
Bai Mo looked at this scene and secretly thought about the purpose of these two people coming here late at night.
Meeting each other late at night, taking risks and looking around, shows that the matter is extremely secretive; and looking at the anxious looks on the two people's faces, they are probably planning to do something urgent...
Could it be...
However, just when Bai Mo was thinking seriously, the man's next words made his expression suddenly become wonderful.
Faced with the woman's evasion, the man seemed a little dissatisfied, but he did not get angry. Instead, he rolled his eyes and looked at the woman with a half-smile.
"Sister Qiaofeng, you don't want your story to spread around here..."
His tone was frivolous, and the woman's expression suddenly changed. She quickly lowered her voice to ask him to shut up. She looked around while speaking, as if she was afraid of being heard by someone, and she looked very guilty.
Under the constant threat of the man's words, she finally made a compromise and repeatedly emphasized "just this once", then turned her head and slowly took off her coat.
Then, under the man's excited gaze, she took off the sweatshirt underneath.
Bai Mo: "?"
What the hell is unfolding...
No, you came out at night just to do something like this?!
However, he soon realized that perhaps he had overcomplicated things from the beginning.
In fact, just by combining the words "men and women", "late night" and "grove", the direction of the story seems to be very clear...
Seeing that the two of them were getting brighter and brighter, Bai Mo shook his head, turned around and chose to leave.
However, not long after he walked, he heard a sudden sound of slight footsteps in front of him, which were also illuminated by the weak light of the stone. The movement of the visitor was very light.
Bai Mo was a little helpless, why do things like this happen so often? Is it the custom of this place?
However, when he saw the appearance of the person clearly, he was slightly stunned.
The person who came was none other than Zhang Rouzhu.
She walked very carefully, as if she was afraid of disturbing something. She looked around along the way, seemingly looking for something.
Why did this guy come out?
Bai Mo was suspicious and whispered: "Rou Zhu?"
Hearing the sound, Zhang Rouzhu was startled at first, and quickly took out a charm from her bag, but she seemed to quickly recognize that it was Bai Mo's voice, so she raised the illumination stone in surprise and pointed it forward.
Bai Mo didn't hide, and walked to the girl in a few steps.
Under the light of the shining stone, the two looked at each other for a moment, their expressions were a little confused, and the next second they said in unison: "Why are you running out in the middle of the night?"
Seeing that Bai Mo actually asked this, Zhang Rouzhu was stunned for a moment, and then said angrily: "You still have the nerve to say that I'm not looking for you!"
The girl tried her best to lower her voice, but Bai Mo could still hear the blame in her tone, "My brother has warned you that it's dangerous outside at night, why do you still have to run outside?"
Bai Mo said in surprise: "Did you come out specifically to find me?"
"Then what if? It's not just me, my brother is looking in another direction."
Zhang Rouzhu rolled her eyes at Bai Mo and motioned for him to go back with her, and then said solemnly, "I tell you, many people died outside at night before, otherwise there wouldn't be only a few people left in the gathering place."
"Did the creatures in the forbidden area do it?" Bai Mo asked.
"Who knows? How can we be as bold as you, and no one dares to go out and see." Zhang Rouzhu said angrily.
"I just..."
"You almost died when my brother carried you back. It took a lot of effort to save your life. Don't lose it again accidentally." Zhang Rouzhu interrupted him.
"Although living is not an easy task, it is better than dying."
Bai Mo looked at the girl's old-fashioned expression. He didn't know why, but he felt a little inexplicable.
"Thanks."
Zhang Rouzhu was stunned for a moment by this sudden thank you, and swallowed all the educational words that followed.
"There's nothing to thank you for."
She curled her lips and said impatiently, "You are at least like a food stamp to us. Before we are fed, you should protect your own life."
"good."
Bai Mo's answer was simple and concise.
The two of them are going back.
However, at this moment, a painful cry suddenly sounded not far behind the two of them, and it sounded like a woman's voice.
The voice was quite suppressed, as if someone had covered its mouth. Although it was stopped in time, it was still quite clear in the night.
Zhang Rouzhu stopped instantly, lowered his voice and asked, "Did you hear that?"
Bai Mo was silent for a moment, shook his head and said, "No."
"Didn't you hear a woman's voice?" Zhang Rouzhu frowned slightly, with a trace of worry on his face.
"It must be your illusion..."
"No, my hearing is very good." Zhang Rouzhu said firmly, "There was definitely a painful sound just now, and it was right behind us!"
Are you sure it's pain...
Zhang Rouzhu hesitated for a moment and said, "I want to go over and have a look."
Bai Mo shook his head: "It's better not to go. Didn't you say that wandering around in the middle of the night is dangerous?"
"But now someone might be in danger. It's a good thing I didn't meet him. Since he did..." Zhang Rouzhu looked very hesitant.
She and Zhang Tao's philosophy of life has always been that the more troubled times we are in, the more we should help each other, so as to have more chances of survival.
Of course, if nothing can be done, she will immediately turn around and run away.
Seeing the girl's gaze gradually becoming firmer, Bai Mo sighed inwardly, stepped sideways to block her way, and said, "Don't look, I came from that way."
Zhang Rouzhu was stunned and asked quickly: "Then what did you see?"
"Yeah." Bai Mo looked strange.
"Tell me quickly, what's going on?"
Bai Mo was silent for a long time, seeming to organize his words. Finally, under Zhang Rouzhu's urging, he answered: "There is a man and a woman over there."
"Then what? Let's get to the point!"
"They...well, they are improving their ranks."
"Promote your rank? What do you mean?" Zhang Rouzhu looked confused.
"Do you still remember the golden couple you told me about? There is a task that must be completed..." Bai Mo considered for a moment and continued, "And they are completing that task now."
The golden couple’s mission?
Zhang Rouzhu was stunned.
The air was silent for a while, and then a slightly suppressed cry sounded in the distance again, but no pain could be heard at this time.
Gradually, Zhang Rouzhu seemed to realize something, and her face instantly turned red with embarrassment.
"Let's go!"
She quickly called Bai Mo and left here as if running away.
