Epoch of Twilight

The rain stopped, but the water on the ground did not recede so quickly.

The turbid water quality and the possible hidden dangers in it are obviously not suitable for traveling, but everyone's mood became clearer as the sky cleared. Even Luo Yuan's expression was not so serious, and he took the initiative to look for food for the first time.

In fact, as long as you are careful enough, you can still find a lot of food in the flooded jungle. Of course, you must first know that it is not poisonous.

Tubers of various weeds, sap with a sweet milky taste, and some scattered wild fruits. Finally, Luo Yuan found a big fish that had been stranded from nowhere.

Luo Yuan was surprised and delighted by this discovery!

Surprisingly, the flood has connected the rivers and lakes together, and the water has become extremely dangerous. The good news is that this light blue fish is so huge that it can be eaten for several days. At least there will be no shortage of food until the flood recedes.

Luo Yuan dragged the big fish and returned to the tree hole. The tree's vitality had been severely damaged, and its leaves had turned yellow in just one night, giving people a feeling of twilight.

The big fish couldn't be moved closer to the cave because it was too big, so Luo Yuan had to break it down into pieces of white as fat fish in advance.

Seeing that Luo Yuan came back, everyone came to help one after another, lifting and moving, and hurriedly moved the neatly divided pieces of fish to the corner of the tree hole, piled up more than one meter high. The whole fish skin was left intact by Luo Yuan. This kind of fish skin is thinner than that of the mutant beast, and it is very tough. It is very suitable for storing water or sundries.

Huang Jiahui and Cao Lin collected the few dry firewood left and lit a fire. The tree hole is very humid, but there is no need to be afraid of causing a fire.

Huo Dong took local materials, cut a few sticks from the tree hole, forked the fish meat, and started to make a barbecue. Under the licking of the flame, the fat of the fish meat made a sizzling sound, and the fat dripped continuously. The cave is filled with an attractive fragrance.

Huang Jiahui shared a glass of milk-like sap for everyone, and she collected the excess.

This kind of tree sap with a refreshing taste tastes quite good. After tasting it, many people are reluctant to drink it all at once, and just drink it in small sips. The tubers of weeds are also excellent in taste, except that the taste is a little thicker, and they can be eaten as rice or fruit.

Maybe it was because they had been hungry for a long time, everyone's appetite was so great that their stomachs swelled and they couldn't eat any more, so they stopped. Even Wang Shishi, who had the smallest appetite, ate three times the usual food.

And Luo Yuan even eliminated more than ten catties of fish, and made up for all the food that he ate less in the past few days. A person with a strong physique like him can no longer be measured from the perspective of ordinary people. Now he can go without food for a few days, but he is still full of energy, and he can also eat food for several days at a time.

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As time passed day by day, everyone's injuries recovered one by one.

After the third day, the flood finally receded, revealing the muddy soil. In the distance, several mutated fish that resembled piranhas kept bouncing around in place, and began their final struggle.

Huang Jiahui checked the luggage over and over again as if obsessive-compulsive, and didn't stop until there were no more omissions.

In fact, there is not much luggage, a bag of several tens of catties of tree sap packed in fish skin, a dozen pieces of smoked dried fish of about half a catty each, three lighters, their own weapons and bullets, and a few A strip of washed and whitish cloth that even a beggar would despise.

That's all the baggage!

Luo Yuan put more than a dozen recently made short spears into his pouch, carried them behind his back, pulled out the saber that was stuck in the heart of the tree, and jumped down the tree hole first.

Everyone anxiously walked up to the giant lizard lying on the ground, grabbed the rope hanging from the carpet, and climbed up limply.

It's not like everyone didn't do anything these days. At least the monitor lizard's back was already covered with a rough carpet made of peeled skin from vines.

With a deep roar, the giant lizard stood up and walked forward slowly.

In the forest where the flood has subsided, sewage is everywhere, flies and mosquitoes breed, and there are small insects everywhere they pass. These small insects are smaller than rice grains, but they are numerous, and they float in groups like smoke. However, these insects never dared to approach Luo Yuan's side, and sometimes they escaped too slowly and fell to the ground one after another.

Luo Yuan noticed it a long time ago. In fact, this phenomenon already existed when he was in the tree hole. Because the space is too small and worried about insufficient oxygen supply, there is a small hole in the tree hole even at night. But no matter it is day or night, no small insect will fly in.

The reason for the insects to retreat was not because of the monitor lizard, nor because of Luo Yuan, but because of the saber.

Ever since Zhanma Dao evolved to the green level, his sword has shown an inexplicable faint power. This is not an illusory psychological hint, but a real existence.

However, this power is still very weak, and ordinary people can only feel that it is sharp and aggressive, and it is very sharp at a glance. But for these small bugs with a spirit like a faint spark, they are a great threat. Ordinary flies dare not approach them at all.

After walking for half an hour, the trees gradually thinned out, and the sky appeared above everyone again. The weather was still gloomy, and the sky was covered with dark clouds. Because of the large amount of volcanic ash brought by the volcanic eruption, it may be difficult to see the sun these days.

But everyone was still shocked!

"I'm finally leaving." Huo Dong said excitedly.

"I guess we can walk out of the forest in less than ten minutes." Cao Lin echoed with a smile on her face.

"At that time, I must find a bed, find a quilt, and have a good sleep. I have been woken up by the cold every night for the past few days." Wang Shishi said softly,

Huang Jiahui smiled demurely. She has suffered a lot in the past few days. She sits on the ground every day, almost thinking that she has returned to the primitive society. Now she has not brushed her teeth for several days, and her mouth is full of bad breath. Fortunately, everything is coming to an end, at least on the highway, there will not be even a quilt like now, there are a lot of quilts and various toiletries in every fortification there.

Everyone chatted and laughed all the way, but the smiles on their faces gradually disappeared soon.

As it continued to go deeper, the trees in this jungle became more and more sparse, and the trees became more and more weird. The trunks were extremely twisted, and the leaves were much less than normal trees, and many of them were already dry. Like stunted deformed creatures.

Piles of bones of mutated creatures could be seen everywhere along the way, most of them were half buried under the mud due to the flood just now. At the beginning, there were still some small skeletons, but as we continued to advance, large skeletons began to appear occasionally.

What seems to be going on here?

A man of high art is bold, and Luo Yuan will not be surprised like everyone else. As long as there are no creatures above the light green level, he is not afraid. Although he feels a little strange in his heart, he does not stop moving forward. This road is the closest to the highway. If you bypass this extremely wide area, you may have to walk for a long time to get to the highway.

Ten minutes later, the surrounding bushes began to show a slight downturn in a certain direction, and there were more and more dead trees around. Except for a few that were completely alive, most of the trees were dead. And the few living ones became even weirder, they were bare without a single leaf, and the branches seemed to be struggling in the air like ghost claws.

There seemed to be an aura of death in the air, the surroundings were eerily quiet, even the usual chirping of insects in the woods had disappeared, and everyone felt that they were heading towards a hell.

The monitor lizard seemed a little restless, snorting non-stop, emitting bursts of thick smoke, and seemed unwilling to go inside again.

Huang Jiahui suddenly said in surprise, her voice distorted: "Wait, let's go back quickly, this is where the nuclear bomb exploded!"

Luo Yuan was terrified: "What did you say?"

"You don't remember. A few nuclear bombs were dropped in the wilderness of Hedong City. This is probably where the nuclear bombs exploded." Huang Jiahui said anxiously.

Everyone's face changed drastically, and they lost their blood in an instant. Their eyes looked at everything around them in horror, and their hearts were filled with fear.

No wonder it's so quiet here, and the plants have become strange shapes. I didn't expect that this is where the nuclear bomb exploded. There may still be a huge amount of nuclear radiation here. Luo Yuan quickly patted the monitor lizard's head, and it stopped. With a signal from Yuan, it turned its head and quickly returned to the original path.

"We've been here for such a long time, is there something going on?" Wang Shishi asked worriedly. She had seen propaganda photos of nuclear radiation in school before, and there were deformed people in them, which left a deep shadow on her. .

"No, our physique is much better now than before, and we have only been here for more than ten minutes, so we will be fine." Huang Jiahui said, rather than comforting others, it is better to comfort myself: "You See if there are still some trees alive here?"

"But, they have all become strange, have they mutated!" Wang Shishi asked anxiously.

Huang Jiahui was silent for a while, and said, "They are originally mutated plants."

At this time, Wang Xiaguang swayed and almost fell off the giant lizard. Luo Yuan hurriedly supported him: "What's wrong with you?"

Wang Xiaguang shook his head and said in a trembling voice, "I'm just a little dizzy."

"I seem to have a little bit too, and I want to vomit." Wang Shishi whispered, holding Luo Yuan's clothes tightly with his hands.

There was a trace of uneasiness on everyone's faces, because they also felt this way.

"Persist for a while longer, and we will leave immediately." Luo Yuan glanced at everyone, his heart sank gradually, even Wang Shishi had symptoms of radiation, and I am afraid that everyone except himself and Lin Xiaoji would not be spared.

This time the nuclear radiation is not the same as the previous nuclear explosion, that time was tens of kilometers away, the dose can be said to be pitifully small, even ordinary people can survive it, this time it is too close.

Mutated plants have strong vitality, and ordinary nuclear radiation can't cause much damage to them at all. Such a large-scale death can only show one thing, they are already very close to the edge of nuclear explosion.

"Brother Luo, can you help me break a branch here?" At this moment, Cao Lin looked at those big trees with strange shapes, and suddenly changed her expression, and said.

"What do you want the branch for?" Luo Yuan asked doubtfully.

"I see that most of these trees have no leaves, and the nearby radiation is serious, life is rare, and they will not feed on living things like lantern plants. The biggest possibility is that they can absorb nuclear radiation." Cao Lin analyzed, looking a little excited.

"I think it's very possible. There is a saying, where poisonous insects are infested, there must be an antidote within seven steps." Huo Dong seemed to feel hope, he felt relieved, and interjected.

Luo Yuan looked at the strange tree in the distance, and felt more and more that Cao Lin's analysis was correct. He quickly said, "Wait a minute, I'll go over and have a look."

He jumped off the monitor lizard's back and quickly walked towards a strange tree in front of him.