"Get away! The communication equipment in the camp is broken. The leader asked me to take him back to the town we just passed by to buy spare parts. He only gave me two hours!"
Ke Dan was suddenly confused, huh? This guy turned out to be just a character in the plot, not on a mission?
After just a moment of silence, Fang Linyan pushed him away politely and walked away.
Ke Dan wanted to use his investigative skills, but he had already walked dozens of meters, but he still felt that something was wrong, but he couldn't say it at all. Until the boy next to him said in confusion:
"I remember that the nearest town from here is seventy kilometers away. How could he walk there?"
Only then did Ke Dan suddenly realize, gritting his teeth and said:
"Holy shit, this damn liar!"
But being interrupted by Fang Linyan, the rest of the people who were about to leave also left one after another. Ke Dan suddenly wanted to cry without tears. He didn't expect that the plan he thought was foolproof before was so vulnerable...
***
After walking two to three hundred meters with the big guy Burwell, Fang Linyan suddenly said:
"Burwell, what is your main mission?"
Burwell didn't say anything. Fang Linyan sneered secretly in his heart, are you trying to trick me too? So he said simply:
"It doesn't matter if you don't speak. I'm going to use my detective skills. I can still afford three hundred general points."
Burwell followed him silently, seemingly not hearing his words at all (because any mention of space to the plot characters will be blocked)
Fang Linyan was stunned, and then he really threw an investigation into it. As far as he knew so far, there were only two things that affected the investigation, perception and military rank.
He believed that with his 12 points of perception and the official rank of sergeant, if this guy was really a trialer/contractor, he would definitely not be able to escape his fiery eyes.
As a result, after an investigation was taken, Fang Linyan immediately realized that Burwell was really a character in the plot, and except for the fact that his strength reached 8, the rest of his attributes were mediocre, completely missing everyone... He
His eyes moved slightly, and then he said calmly:
"Burwell, are you short of money recently?"
This time Burwell immediately said in an honest and honest voice:
"Yes, boss, my child has a heart disease. The doctor said it is best to have heart valve repair surgery before he is three years old. This way, it will not affect his life when he grows up."
Fang Linyan made a sound and said:
"Is she your eldest daughter? I think I heard someone say that before."
Bowell said in astonishment:
"You must be mistaken, boss, I only have one son."
Fang Linyan smiled and said:
"Oh, I just heard about it while chatting in the bar. I must have remembered it wrong."
At this time, after the two of them had walked about four or five hundred meters, it was already completely silent. Only when they looked back at the campsite could they see a few lights.
In addition, there is only the sound of the wind that has been blowing for tens of thousands of years, swirling through the thousands of ravines in the Yadan landform,
Of course, there is also the starry sky above our heads that looks particularly brilliant because there is no light pollution.
And those starlights that were shot out thousands or tens of thousands of years ago, came from hundreds of millions of miles away, and finally ended up in their own pupils.
Although the two were traveling at night, they were both wearing special headlamps issued by the company.
In addition, this is an arid Gobi desert area with few plants. Unlike tropical rainforests and grasslands, where you take off your pants to pee and look down, all you see are weeds, so walking is really not difficult.
Burwell suddenly asked:
"Where are we going now?"
Fang Linyan said meaningfully:
"The relevant information I downloaded earlier is very detailed, up to 4G, and all of it is high-definition and uncensored, and the meteorite fragments have fallen on the ground for ten days."
"So according to my inference, we are definitely not the first batch of people to collect this information. Otherwise, where did we get so much detailed information? We must have been the first to collect it."
Burwell smiled naively and said:
"Why are you telling me this, Captain."
Fang Linyan said:
"What I mean by this is that there is actually no need to go to the place where the meteorite fell as calculated by the computer, because there should have been several groups of people there before. Even if there was once valuable information, or mutated creatures, it would definitely be gone.
They have all been raided, or... were raided."
Bowell said in astonishment:
"Swept?"
Fang Linyan said:
"The information clearly states that the mutated creatures will become dependent on the meteorite fragments that caused the mutation, and will try to take them away or directly guard them there. Therefore, if people who rush there do not underestimate the risks,
, then of course it was swept away by mutated creatures."
Burwell said with admiration:
"Captain, you know so much."
Fang Linyan said:
"The data just downloaded shows that although the vast majority of mutated creatures have undergone obvious evolution, they are mainly reflected in their body size, attack power, and aggressiveness, but their living habits have not changed much."
"Not only that, not only will the meteorite itself contaminate the surrounding organisms and cause them to mutate, but the water sources and soil nearby will also be polluted, and the animals that drink the water will also have a certain probability of mutating."
"And here is a barren plateau, with annual rainfall of less than ten centimeters, so water sources are actually very scarce..."
Having said this, Fang Linyan had already taken out the map next to him, then pointed to a red dot on it and said:
"This is the place where the meteorite fell. Let's take this as the center and draw a circle with a radius of five kilometers. In this circle, the data shows that there are five water sources. Let's go to the nearest water source now."
"Because mutated creatures also have a need for drinking water. Even if they don't have it temporarily, they will definitely have a need for food. They will sit back and wait there to hunt ordinary creatures that come to drink water. They don't have to wander around to hunt. This is also the instinct of creatures at the top of the food chain.
!”
"What do you think of my proposal?"
Bowell stretched out his hand to scratch his head and laughed:
"Although I don't understand much, I still feel that Captain, you seem to be very powerful when you say so many words! I think it's great!"
Fang Linyan smiled and said:
"Then let's go, we seem to be nine kilometers away from our destination!"
***
Four hours later,
It's already 3:7 in the morning,
According to the normal walking speed of ordinary people, which is six kilometers per hour, Fang Linyan and the two have walked almost 30 kilometers.
However, according to the GPS display, they are still two kilometers away from the next target.
Such weird things are of course caused by the damn terrain here.
A large number of deep ravines are densely distributed on this dry and violent plateau. The width of the ravines ranges from three to ten meters, and there is one almost every hundred meters, and even the soil has a deep smell.
Ochre red, as if the depths of the earth were injured and blood was pouring out continuously.
This strange terrain is somewhat similar to the rice fields after harvesting in autumn, or the bottom of a muddy river that has dried up and been exposed to the sun for more than ten days, with deep cracks on it.
In this case, it is almost impossible to go in a straight line to your destination, and you must take a detour.
So the next two kilometers actually took Fang Linyan and the two of them more than an hour, and then they finally found the target at the bottom of a flat-topped stone hill.
This is already the second water source they have checked.
It was already dawn at this time, with morning glow rising in the distance, and visibility was already very good.
You can see that this is a pool with an area of about twenty square meters. There are ripples on the water surface and the light is shining accordingly.
There is a huge rock supporting the top of the pool, which cleverly blocks most of the direct sunlight. There should be a spring below that is always gushing water, which should be the reason why it still exists.
The two of them discovered this pool from a long distance away. That was because they saw a big-horned wild sheep coming to drink water a few hundred meters away.
It walked toward the water source with a cautious and brave attitude, and then began to lick the water. In the process, it almost took a sip of water before raising its head to look around.
But even though this bighorn blue sheep was so vigilant, it still got caught.
You can see a giant ant with a length of two meters swooping down from the top of its head, and its sharp mouthparts suddenly clamped down on its neck!
The bighorn wild sheep struggled wildly. For a while, the mutant ant was unable to restrain it. Instead, it was hit hard against the rock wall next to it. The chitin carapace on its chest cracked and light green oozed out.
body fluid.
However, this move probably completely angered the mutated ant. A thirty-centimeter-long black poisonous needle suddenly popped out from the end of its abdomen, and it penetrated deeply into the body of the bighorn wild sheep. Its struggle immediately stopped.
It became weak and soon became stiff and motionless.
This scene was carefully filmed by Fang Linyan. Although there is no requirement above, it is obvious that the hunting video of this mutant creature is also very precious.
As soon as he arrived, he encountered a mutated creature, which was obviously beyond Burwell's expectation. Although he didn't speak, his suddenly heavy and turbid breathing showed that he was not in a calm mood.
Fang Linyan suddenly kicked him lightly and said:
"What are you doing here! Take out the tranquilizer gun and net gun and prepare to capture!"
Burwell immediately did as he was told. He was big and powerful, and all these things were in his backpack.
Fang Linyan observed for a while and said softly:
"This thing is not an ant. It has golden stripes on its wings and light green annular stripes on its abdomen. It should be a leaf-toothed golden green mud wasp that is common in the desert."
"This thing is a kind of carnivorous wasp, but the longest one can grow up to two centimeters. I didn't expect it to mutate so much after being irradiated by meteorites."