doomsday lamb

Four days have passed since Lang Hua destroyed the ghost man's lair. During this period, Lang Hua traveled to every corner of the central city of Shasha, just to find the "commanding heights" mentioned by Zhang Cheng in his memory.

If Lang Hua remembers correctly, Zhang Cheng mentioned after dinner in the fourth year of the end of the world that he had also stayed in Shashi before the disaster. It is said that Zhang Cheng and several colleagues were trapped in the office building for two months at that time, relying only on the building

He lives by stocking food in a canteen.

After that, Kemeng received a distress signal and rushed in time, but found that only three people survived. In sixty days, more than ten living people died in cannibalism. The only survivor was one who followed Zhang Cheng and remained neutral.

Young man and a girl.

Then they and the soldiers fled Shashi all the way, but missed the rescue helicopter. Finally, Zhang Cheng proposed to risk returning to the city, to the "Tianyin Building", the tallest landmark building in the city center. Only then did the second wave of attacks from the Nanqi Military Region arrive.

Rescue.

Tianyin Building is one of the places Zhang Cheng is most familiar with. The Institute of Physics where he worked before the disaster is located on the top floor of this building. Lang Hua wants to bet that Zhang Cheng will return here in this life, or simply not yet.

leave.

Along the way, he went from near to far, first exploring several possible commanding heights, but they all came back disappointed. Now he only hopes to find some clues in Tianyin Building. Tianyin Building is on the east side of the central city, and Lang Hua is

The tall spire shape can already be seen from a distance.

"Tap tap tap... tap..."

The footsteps slowed down, and Lang Hua gradually stopped, staring at a lush park in front of him. It was less than a hundred meters away from Tianyin Building, and behind the wall was the Fuhua Botanical Garden, the largest botanical garden scenic spot in Shashi.

Shashi is located in the lower reaches of the Yellow River. It was a key ecological protection area fifty years ago. Several national-level wetland parks are located here. Although the central city of Shashi is far away from the estuary and has no access to these wetlands, there are many wetlands established along the riverside.

Large and small botanical gardens and parks, with abundant water systems, were good places for people to go out and play before the disaster.

In this life, Lang Hua possesses the evolutionary ability "Crystal Core Field", and his sensitivity to black mist energy is several times that of the previous life. When he walked here, he felt a vague energy fluctuation, which seemed to be related to the crystal core in his body.

It comes from the same source and oscillates outwards in waves. If Lang Hua hadn't been in the late third level, and if Lang Hua hadn't happened to pass by here, he might not have noticed the strange movement here.

To go or not to go?

Lang Hua hesitated for a moment, then took off and accelerated. He jumped in the air, held up his hands, and easily climbed into the three-meter-high wall. From the moment he decided to rely on the Fengwei Mountain base for development, Shashi had already been attracted by Lang Hua

Treat it as something in your pocket. Since it is your own thing, how can you not see it clearly and defend it clearly?

After landing on the ground and rolling, Lang Hua hid the dagger in the grass and observed the movement around him.

It was very quiet, there was no expected attack, and there was no other disturbance. Lang Hua stood up and released his field perception again. The energy fluctuation appeared again, and its source pointed directly to the deepest part of the botanical garden.

There are a lot of weeds here, and the yellow lawn is soft and thick. If you walk among them, you will get your feet stuck in if you are not careful. The earth's world after the disaster has long been very different. Both animals and plants have been destroyed by the spore black fog.

Mutations.

In order to distinguish them from ordinary species before the disaster, mutated animals belong to the "black mist mutant beasts", which are commonly known as "black beasts". Mutated plants should also continue this rule and be called "black plants". However,

More than ten years after the disaster, people still tend to use common names like "plants" or "mutated plants".

The reason is that compared to the extremely harmful black beasts, mutated plants are too inconspicuous.

Even mutant plants will not refuse energy-rich flesh and blood. In previous lives, some people liked to feed black plants with animal blood to accelerate the development of their aggressiveness. But in fact, most mutant plants will not actively participate in predation.

For the billions of years since life began on Earth, plants have always been at the bottom of the food chain, the part of prey that seems to have had an inherent disadvantage compared to animals during evolution. After the disaster, some of them changed from annual to perennial.

, and some have evolved spikes, vines and developed root systems. However, under the stimulation of black mist energy, their vitality has become more tenacious, and there is almost no progress other than that.

If it were the summer after the disaster, the vegetation here would be luxuriant, and the weeds would have to grow to half the height of a human being. Unfortunately, the disaster occurred in late autumn, and before these plants could fully enjoy the benefits brought by the energy of the black mist, they were destroyed by the cold.

The weather was a wake-up call, and it ended in a hurry after growing one foot tall. But Lang Hua knew that these weeds were not dead.

, just dormant, their roots buried deep underground, waiting for another spring to bloom.

After walking for a while, a shrub half as tall as a man appeared in front of him. Lang Hua didn't want to go around it, so he decisively took out a seedling knife to clear the way. The dry branches and leaves were like pieces of paper in front of the precision-forged titanium alloy blade, and they shattered and scattered with a little force.

Mutated plants are much less aggressive than black beasts. This is the consensus of every survivor after the disaster.

Until this moment, Lang Hua still thought this way.

"Click."

Between the lightning and flint, the Miao knife was unsheathed, and with a flash of light, it cut off a vine that wanted to attack Lang Hua. There were more than one vine, but after being injured, it seemed to hesitate, like a poisonous snake raising its head and neck.

There was uncertainty in the air. Lang Hua took the opportunity to cut off several branches again before these guys stopped and hurriedly retreated.

He squatted down and picked up a piece of tree vine. After being cut off, the stem twisted a few more times, and then gradually became quiet in Lang Hua's hands. Now it looks like an ordinary tree vine, as if

The twisting just now was just Lang Hua's fantasy.

Throwing away the piece of vine, Lang Hua turned his gaze elsewhere, but couldn't help but frown.

There is still some green here, and a lot of linseed vines have entangled the tree in front of them. Although the branches and leaves of the linseed vines are unhealthy yellow-green, they are no longer as strong as those wild trees and weeds that withered early.

Where are you? Lang Hua can see clearly

Thin, these canes are already covered with sharp barbed thorns, and one of the main stems has penetrated the "aerial roots" deeply into the trunk. These organs, which were originally used to penetrate into the cracks in the wall, are now

It is becoming the main tool for the vine to absorb nutrients.

Suddenly, Lang Hua felt that the green was very dazzling. Green is a symbol of life, but it never mattered whether this vitality was his own or stolen.

A black and green sweet potato-like thing appeared under my feet, with two green sprouts growing on it. But how could the sweet potato have arms, legs and a tail? When I jumped up with the tip of the knife, I saw that it was a dead and stiff big rat with mutations.

Plant seeds took root and sprouted on it.

There is also a very beautiful little flower in the lawn, with slender and delicate green leaves, blue petals and red heart, bright yellow stamens standing tall and graceful, exuding a good fragrance. But as soon as the tip of the knife touches it, the green leaves are exposed

With a fierce look, the sharp thorns stood up and tightly wrapped around the tip of the knife, making it want to be crushed alive. It is conceivable that if it were a finger that was wrapped at this moment, it might only pierce the flesh and blood in an instant.

As expected by Lang Hua, the rhizome of the flower stuck on a toad. The toad had long since died and was buried deep in the soil. Its body was colorless. It was unclear whether it was parasitized after death or killed by prey.

"With such strong aggression, is there something driving the evolution here?" Lang Hua was puzzled and unknowingly reached the deepest part of the botanical garden.

This is the southern part of the botanical garden. There is a natural lake. Although it is small, it is the product of a tributary of the Yellow River. Surrounding the lake are tall greenhouses, planted with seasonal plants and flowers. The greenhouse is three stories high.

The brick walls on both sides are covered with roofs made of bamboo poles and membranes.

In the open space between the greenhouses, there are many strange-shaped landscape trees scattered here and there, as if they have been deliberately pruned into human-shaped sculptures. These landscape trees are now also covered with dense and half-dead vines, and they look like they are from a distance.

It's so lifelike that those who didn't know it thought they were people coming here for an autumn outing.

Lang Hua didn't take another look at these trees. His attention was all on the lake at the moment. It was as if something was calling him, tempting him to get closer slowly. This call was at the level of life, with neither sound nor sound.

Light and shadow cannot be explained clearly, it is just a summons from the subconscious mind.

Walking to the lake, he lifted his steps and waded into the water, taking one step, two steps, and three steps. The surface of the lake was sparkling, and the shadows on the bottom of the lake were thick. Suddenly, Lang Hua's eyes widened. What did he see? There were actually figures lying in the water!

No, it’s not people, it’s black corpses. The bottom of the lake is filled with densely packed black corpses, thousands of black corpses! Necromorphs don’t need oxygen, and they won’t drown in water, but these black corpses are in patches.

The ground died at the bottom of the lake! Finally, Lang Hua also felt something was wrong. It was a

A kind of suction force came from his feet, slowly absorbing the evolutionary energy in his body. Just for a while, Lang Hua actually felt that all the energy in his body was involuntarily flowing to his feet. Even the energy crystal core in his brain showed signs of instability.

Almost breaking through his control!

"Re-engraved-Feng Cheng!"

Lang Hua snorted coldly and flew into the air. The feeling of peeling off the crystal core energy also dissipated. He was sure that it was the problem of the lake. It was something in the lake that attracted the black corpse and affected it.

nearby plants evolved.

When Lang Hua was thinking about how to get into the water to find out, the water surface suddenly fluctuated violently, and a big mouth full of sharp teeth broke through the water and rushed up. Lang Hua's reaction was not slow, and the monster immediately rose as soon as it came out of the water.

The body happened to pass by this mouth full of fangs at this moment.

The monster fell into the water and disappeared again. Lang Hua couldn't help but sink his face. He saw that it was a giant worm, as thick as two people, with an unknown length. It had circles of red wrinkles on its body and a mouth full of

Three rows of hook-like teeth.

Lake water has affected animal evolution, which is not good news.

Back on the shore, as soon as Lang Hua's feet touched the ground, he noticed an extremely violent tremor on the ground, as if something huge was about to break out of the ground. The best way at this time was to escape quickly, but Lang Hua didn't want to just do that.

Forget it. He bowed his body and lowered his center of gravity, motionless like a cheetah before preying. One hand clenched the handle of the knife, the other hung down on his waist, and his two eyes were fixed firmly on his feet.

In the first second, the water ripples rippled. In the second second, the sand and gravel trembled. The longer the time passed, the stronger the vibration became. Slowly, after passing a peak value, the vibration gradually weakened. When Lang Hua saw this, he even started to tremble twelve times.

Pay attention, squint your eyes, fully open your field, and feel the movement around you.

For survivors struggling to survive in the apocalypse, "survive" has always been a luxurious term. Because no good hunter has ever given up halfway while hunting. Lang Hua has always felt that since he has become a prey, he must

Have the consciousness of being a prey.

I don't know how long it took, but at the moment when the shaking gradually subsided and returned to silence, something suddenly pierced the ground under Lang Hua's feet with lightning speed.

At the same time, Lang Hua, who had long been ready to go, bounced straight up. One thing and one person chased and escaped, and the relative distance remained unchanged. At first glance, it seemed that it had been discussed long ago. Lang Hua was attacked by a sneak attack.

He should be angry, but at this moment he laughed uncharacteristically.

"Okay, very good. I'm not afraid that you won't take action, but I'm afraid that you are a faceless bastard!"

"Re-Engraving-Ice Shield."

As the words fell to the ground, a round ice mirror was formed in the air. Lang Hua tiptoed, twisted his body in the air, and fell towards the guy. When he turned around, he saw clearly that this thing was actually a strange vine. No,

It should be said that it is a yellow-brown rhizome. Its skin is earthy and brown, the top is as thin as a thorn, and the vine body is as straight as an arrow. If it were not for the hook, people would suspect that it is a scorpion tail.

The strange vines came quickly and fiercely, but Lang Hua refused to let up and decided to stab Miao with his knife.

The knife was long and slender, so he used the back of the knife as a wrap, and used the knife to follow the vines. When the strange vines wrapped around the blade, he pulled back, violently rotated the blade and pulled it out. The dual-phase titanium alloy refined by Wu Ke was extremely sharp.

The tough strange vine was so fragile in front of it. The purple-red blade just passed by the strange vine and cut it into four pieces in the blink of an eye!

As a result, the whole strange vine fell to the ground as if it had lost its life. Lang Hua was still in the air, but when he turned around and looked around, he couldn't help but sucked in a breath of cold air. He saw that the "landscape trees" on the lawn had withered vines peeling off their surfaces.

One face after another appeared.

Only then did he realize that this was not a man-made human shape. It was clearly filled with people one after another! The tall ones were adults, and the smaller ones were children. They were in groups of three or five, with their teeth and claws showing, and their expressions might be ferocious.

Or painful... But regardless of whether they are men, women, old or young, these people are all skinny and skinny, like skeletons covered in human skin, tightly bound by vines and standing in place, so they look like artificial landscapes.

Now these vines are withdrawing from the corpses, climbing down the human body like snakes, and coming to the ground to form a dense mass. The corpses also fell to the ground one after another because they lost support. Some were so fragile that they broke into two pieces when they touched the ground.

Three pieces. Just now, Lang Hua's attention was entirely on the strange root vine at his feet. When he discovered it, he was already surrounded by these "snake vines".

Looking at these hundreds of snake vines, even Lang Hua couldn't help but feel his scalp numb. He no longer hesitated and hurriedly flew into the air. But those snake vines seemed to have eyes and followed him into the air.

, and the speed is only faster than him!

Moreover, these snake vines seem to have infinite length. Even after they have soared more than ten meters into the air, the remaining parts are still flowing out among the dead branches and leaves on the surface. In just an instant, the fastest hundred or ten snake vines have surpassed Lang Hua.

, formed a fishnet-like cover over his head, and the other snake vines chased around Lang Hua, blocking all sides.

"I'm going to suffer!"

Before he finished speaking, these snake vines suddenly tightened into balls, completely trapping Lang Hua inside!