Apocalyptic Dark Age

The passages of the resistance are hidden in sixteen tunnels. There is only one way to survive among the sixteen passages, and the others are all dead ends. Even if they are ways to live, for those who do not know the details, the time of death may be a little earlier than other dead ends.

Gaofeng's perception is destroyed because the only way out is emitting dangerous frequencies all the time. Only professional equipment can detect this kind of frequency. Ordinary people can't hear it at all, but their ears and brains are not aware of it. Under such circumstances, if you accept this dangerous frequency, once it reaches the critical point, you will have auditory and visual hallucinations, and you will no longer be able to distinguish who you are and where you are. If you are not careful, you will fall asleep forever until you turn into a pile of Dry bones.

This is where the underground people fear the Tree Sleepers. You never know where the Tree Sleepers will appear or how far they are from you. As long as you get within a hundred meters of them, you will be safe even if you are hiding. The sealed cabin will also be disturbed and fall asleep.

Liu Yi never thought that one day he would face the Tree Sleeper, nor did he think that he would experience an unprecedented adventure for money. Liu Yi has always believed in the truth that only by living can you enjoy wealth. , if he died, even if wealth could cover his body, it would be meaningless, but today, he violated his own philosophy of life.

Gao Feng did not force him and gave him a choice. If he went, the five energy crystals would be his. If he didn't go, the energy crystals would just pass by in his purse. But the problem was, he never thought about it. The cold energy crystals were so charming that they made his whole body tremble involuntarily. The energy crystals were so heavy that he couldn't even let go of his hands. Once he let go, these lovely crystals would never have a chance again. It belongs to him.

People die for money, and birds die for food. Maybe many people will ignore it. No matter how much they love money, they can't risk it with their own lives. But they don't understand what it means to stump a hero with a penny. , and did not know that in the case of extreme hunger, reason would become a catalyst for hunger, and even the thought of eating people would occur.

This was the case for Liu Yi. No matter how alert or timid he was, he completely fell under the dazzling brilliance of the energy crystals. He was dizzy and couldn't remember anything except that he got five energy crystals. Stone is like a sweet dream that you know is fake but don’t want to wake up from.

It's a pity that there is no dream that will not wake up, especially after his misty eyes saw the rows of tree sleepers who had been paying homage to their names for a long time. There were many inexplicable lights underground, but they were not as far away. Without the illumination light, he would never be able to discover the ten people. There is something about the darkness beyond a single step, so when traveling in the underground world, weapons come second and visibility comes first.

Under normal circumstances, visibility is mainly based on night vision devices, but auxiliary lighting is also required. After all, the viewing angle of night vision devices is limited, but here, neither auxiliary lights nor night vision devices are needed, because the tree sleeper's The walls on both sides are bright, allowing people to see every detail of the tree man.

Seeing the tree sleeper for the first time, Liu Yi's curiosity replaced his fear. He looked in surprise at the rows of tree people embedded in the wall and extending forward. These tree people could hardly look like humans. It is a dark wooden structure, and the outer skin is covered with thick moss. If you already knew who they were, you would probably ignore them accidentally.

Liu Yi knew that tree people were all human beings infected with the black magic virus. Their life characteristics were the same as those of plants. Nothing but fire could kill them, although most of them were harmless and fell in a dark corner. They have not seen the light of day for decades, waiting for the traces of time to corrode them, but there are also some mutated tree sleepers who are extremely dangerous and cannot be guarded against.

Observe carefully, you can see that the tree man is not embedded in the rock, but grows on it. Countless roots and hands form ivy-like vines, densely clinging to the wall, entangled with each other, but deliberately avoiding the wall. Uplighting lights.

Lights are human products and require electricity to be used. I don’t know who took the trouble to install these lights on the wall between the tree figures. Drops of water columns continue to condense on the stalagmites in the tunnel, and then fall down one after another, pouring water. The moss on the tree man's body leaves behind tiny smiling water columns, which refract the light in the tunnel and transform into a colorful and beautiful scenery. If you ignore the reality of the tree man's existence, you will only look at the winding path of dense green. Meaning makes people live an otherworldly and elegant life.

Maybe it was the simple protective clothing like a turtle shell that played a role, maybe it was the energy crystal in his pocket that comforted him, so there was no fear and danger as he had imagined before, allowing Liu Yi, who was extremely curious, to move forward in an exploratory manner. Go and look at each tree carefully.

Not long after walking, when he counted the twenty-one tree man, he suddenly felt uncomfortable in his heart. It was not due to physical reasons, but because he suddenly discovered that the protective clothing he was wearing did not seem to have the function of covering his body. Let him have the shame of running naked in public.

The feeling was inexplicable. Liu Yi couldn't help but stop and touch his body. At this moment, he was wearing thick but not heavy protective clothing. No part of his body was exposed, including his hands and even his sight. The probe embedded outside the clothes is connected to the night vision device in the helmet, so this abnormality should not have occurred.

When his scalp was numb and he couldn't find the reason, he turned around suddenly and saw something unusual about a tree tree. The thick moss on the surface of the dark bark seemed to be disturbed and split into four or five pieces. He continued to observe. , the split moss closed automatically again, without any strangeness.

Liu Yi didn't believe that he had seen it wrong. In the night vision device, he re-extracted the image he had glimpsed before. After careful observation of the torn moss, he saw that it was a human face. There were actually many eyes, ears, mouth, nose and tongue, especially the eyes. The black textures surround it layer by layer, with an inexplicable coldness that only makes one's scalp tingle.

Turning around again, this time he was surprised to find that all the tree people lined up behind him were actually peeping at him. He was so frightened that Liu Yi stepped back and accidentally fell to the ground, making a heavy muffled sound. The sound was not loud, but it was Zooming in infinitely in this tunnel that can accommodate the entry and exit of large floating vehicles, my eyes were closed again in shock and malicious intent.

Without the gaze of his eyes, the fear in Liu Yi's heart was slightly reduced. The description of the tree people in the school flashed in his mind. For decades, it has been no secret that the tree people have been underground. Many of the laboratories have a large number of them. When the experimental reports came out, some were tightly sealed, and some were widely publicized. In order to eliminate ordinary people's fear of tree people, they were even more detailed. Every school and training camp had courses on how to learn about tree people.

"Treants are mutated spores carried by human corpses. They have no aggressiveness, initiative, thinking, and use value. They are generally acquired by laboratories as samples. They have symbiosis with native underground plants. There are a total of tree people species. The three seven categories are native tree people, native inferior tree people, and native thorn active tree people..."

Groups of information passed through Liu Yi's mind. Soon he woke up from the fear and no longer sat on the ground. Although his legs were still a little weak, there was no curiosity or hesitation before, and he hurried on quickly. Rows of tree men were waiting for him like guards to review, and behind him, more tree men opened their eyes and stared at his back. The feeling of rays on his back was very uncomfortable, and he changed from fast walking to jogging. It ended up being a gallop.

Liu Yi has already understood in his heart the knowledge that cannot be learned from books. The resistance army arranged the tree people in such a way that they are definitely not full. There is a big difference between tree sleepers and tree people. Tree sleepers are closer to humans. Only the limbs are root vines, which must be dug into the soil, so they are easier to find. After all, the military's research on tree sleepers is not lagging behind. The key to planting so many tree people is to hide the tree sleepers. Among the tree people, outsiders cannot find which one is the real tree sleeper.

Running quickly made Liu Yi gasp loudly, and the heavy breathing rang near his eardrums repeatedly. He couldn't care about anything, he just wanted to rush out of the tunnel made of tree people as soon as possible. Fortunately, the tunnel was not long, only less than five kilometers in total. With Liu Yi's body, it does not take more time to complete these kilometers.

The moment he rushed out of the tunnel, his heart was suddenly filled with joy. This meant that the most dangerous level had passed. He would always have countless energy crystals in his pocket. Unfortunately, it only took less than a second to go from extreme excitement to extreme panic. In the middle of time, the moment he rushed out of the tunnel, a huge claw with scaly skin and sharp claws fell from the sky, grabbing him tightly. With the strong wind stirred up by the flapping of its wings, it jumped up while rolling the stones on the ground. , the scream from Liu Yi's mouth has already sounded in the air.

If the tree tunnel is just a trivial aperitif, then it is a feast that ordinary people will never taste in a lifetime. The huge claws are like iron cages, firmly grasping Liu Yi. Comparing the two, Liu Yi in the claws is like in the hands. The firewood stick was carefully pinched so as not to break. The owner of the claw could not see it at all, but the scales on the claw had already made him unable to breathe.

The turbulent wind blew around Liu Yi with the sound of flapping wings. The only thing Liu Yi could see was the underground world outside the gap between his claws.

This is an infinitely dark underground world. Even with night vision goggles, you can't see carefully in mid-air. Liu Yi, who stayed on his paws, automatically turned his brain. Various data quickly appeared in his mind, blending with each other, and flowing out more information. A lot of information, the effective distance of the night vision device, the blur distance, the height between him and the ground, the comparison between the giant claw and the monster, the height of the monster's flight, summarizing the approximate area of ​​the huge space, and the time difference between rising and falling. , to derive a virtual road map of the winding road.

It's a pity that none of this can make Liu Yi's fear disappear at all, because no matter what, the gap between him and the monster grabbing him is so big that it can never be bridged. He even had ridiculous ideas. The monster caught his purpose and killed him. It's not simple, because according to the ratio between himself and his claws, even if there are ten of them, they may not be enough for the monster to eat in one bite. So the monster may not be eating it himself, but giving it to the little monster.

Thinking of this, Liu Yi came up with a new idea. He only hoped that the little monster's teeth would be better and he could bite him to death in one bite. If the deciduous teeth hadn't grown in yet, he wouldn't be able to bite him to death after biting for a long time, and he would be half-dead watching himself being eaten. , is there anything more torturous than this?

Smart people always have an endless supply of ideas. Even if they are on the line between life and death, Liu Yi can come up with thousands of endings as long as he is given a little time to think. For him who is afraid of death, the more he thinks about his own end, the more miserable and miserable he becomes. The more terrifying it is, the more terrifying it is, even more so than the fear of death.

Unfortunately, he would never have imagined that such a powerful monster was actually someone else's pet. A sharp, piercing cry pierced his eardrum like a sharp thorn. Liu Yi fainted immediately. When he opened his eyes again, his eyes were empty and lifeless. , as if he was half dead but not yet buried, a pair of big hands with thick joints and rough palms squeezed his shoulders and shook him repeatedly before shaking him out of his fugue. Before he could clearly see the person who woke him up, most of his sight was occupied by a huge monster. His eyes suddenly turned white and he fainted again. This time he saw the sharp white teeth in the monster's mouth.