Epoch of Twilight

The two set off in the early morning, and before they knew it, it was almost dusk.

Mushi County is nearly 700 kilometers away from the reconstruction area in a straight line. If Luo Yuan was alone, at his speed, he would naturally be able to go back and forth in a day. The speed was greatly slowed down.

Fortunately, this place is less than 100 kilometers away from Mushi County, and it is already far away. It will take less than an hour to reach the destination, but seeing Wang Shishi's exhausted face, Luo Yuan stopped, secretly Self-blame: I’m also impatient. If the tree of wisdom is really there, it won’t disappear after a day’s delay. He said: “It’s getting dark, and I’m here today. Be careful, I’ll go look for it nearby. Where can I live!"

This place is located in a mountainous area with undulating mountains and rivers, precipitous and steep. Luo Yuan found a cave near a cliff. The cave was completely covered by dense vines outside. There is no trace of the leaves being moved at all.

He tore open the vines vigorously, covered his nose lightly, and there was a strong foul smell coming from inside. After walking a few steps, a creature resembling a giant bear rushed towards his face accompanied by the stench. , went quickly, and Luo Yuan hit the head hard with a punch in the face, accompanied by a crisp sound like a bone crack, the giant bear flew upside down for several meters, and fell to the ground neatly.

In order to avoid unnecessary troubles caused by the smell of blood, Luo Yuan obviously became more civilized this time, and it was not so bloody.

Now we have dinner for today.

"Pfft!"

At this time, Luo Yuan frowned again, and chopped hard under his feet, a beetle that was swaggering and trying to crawl under his feet was crushed by his feet. Looking at this cave where the insects and mutated beasts coexist harmoniously, his aura suddenly dissipated, and the air trembled. Countless insects and ants fled before they came, and they all froze, and the dead couldn't die anymore.

After a while, Wang Shishi also came in. He didn't care about the filth in the cave, and sat on the rock with his buttocks, his face was tired, and he didn't want to move.

"Do you regret coming out?" Luo Yuan smiled.

"It's just that I'm not used to it. I'll recover after a short rest." Wang Shishi pouted and said firmly.

Luo Yuan smiled and didn't provoke her any more: "Be careful, I'll find something delicious."

"come back earlier!"

After Luo Yuan left, he covered the vines at the entrance of the cave again, and began to search in the forest. For a jungle expert with identification skills, as long as he searched carefully, there was food everywhere, whether it was starchy plant tubers, or Delicious and succulent fungi can be found everywhere here. When it comes to the abundance of food, no one in the reconstruction area can match it.

Luo Yuan sniffed his nose, took a few steps nearby, and determined the location. He peeled away the dead leaves above, and soon saw a pile of eggs, snow white one by one, very gratifying, each It is the size of a goose egg, round like a ball, and there are hundreds of them, piled up to form a small mountain.

Obviously, this is definitely not a bird's egg, but an egg laid by an insect, but it is still edible, and the taste is softer and more delicious than a bird's egg.

Luo Yuan picked five of them, and then flew away. As for the rest of the eggs, he smashed them all. This is a habit that he developed in the reconstruction area. As long as the mutated creatures can be seen, they are basically the first time. Eliminate, so as not to cause hidden dangers.

Luo Yuan was lucky. Before he went back, he even found a wild fruit. It looked like a hawthorn, but it was hundreds of times bigger. Each one was about the size of a football. Barbed spikes.

However, when the hard outer shell is smashed, the flesh exudes a strong aroma. Luo Yuan ate one, and it did not have the unique sour taste of hawthorn. Instead, it had a kind of frankincense with a hint of wine.

The entire tree is tens of meters tall, but only has eight fruits. Luo Yuan picked all the fruits and wrapped them with a large leaf several meters wide. Even if you can't finish it this time, you can still take it back to give Huang Jiahui and Zhao Yali a taste.

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The embers of the campfire gradually died down, leaving only a faint red light in the darkness.

Luo Yuan and Wang Shishi hugged each other and slept quietly listening to the wailing and howling of the mutant beasts outside. They were used to the peaceful life in the reconstruction area, and they couldn't get used to it when they returned to the wild. Any slight disturbance could wake them up.

"Sleep, I'm here!" Luo Yuan said.

Wang Shishi gave an obedient "En" and felt relieved. The fatigue of the day finally overwhelmed the worries of the night. Her eyelids became heavier and heavier, and she soon fell asleep. After a long time, Luo Yuan gently broke away from Wang Shishi. I looked at the time and found that it was already one o'clock in the morning. Feeling the slight coolness in the forest late at night, I got up and prepared to rekindle the bonfire.

Suddenly a faint blue light swept across the entrance of the cave, and it disappeared in a blink of an eye. He walked out of the cave curiously, and found that the blue light came from three or four kilometers away, and it was still shaking. Luo Yuan hesitated for a moment, and the curiosity in his heart made him quickly decide Going over to have a look, he scanned the vicinity and soon found a pile of boulders.

Afterwards, he pushed the boulder with great difficulty to block the entrance of the cave, and followed Wang Shishi, who was exhausted from running all day, and fell into a deep sleep, without waking her up at all.

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The mountains and forests in the middle of the night have become foggy, like countless evil spirits, sticking their teeth and claws against the ground, giving people a gloomy feeling, and all kinds of siren-like beast sounds one after another, making people feel that they have come to the prehistoric.

The next moment, a figure quietly passed by the forest, and the mist was instantly smashed by him.

After a while, Luo Yuan's speed began to slow down, and his footsteps became light and silent. He bent his body and completely submerged his body in the mist. Immediately, he stopped and lay quietly on a hillside. He didn't move, his face was as serious as water.

He found that the light was not a mutant creature, but a technological item that could be seen at a glance.

It is a round ball with a diameter of about half a meter. It is covered in milky white, and its surface looks extremely smooth. The position of the head is a small concave arc. A fist-sized crystal is suspended above the concave arc without any support. The blue light is emitted from the crystal.

It seems that there are text and icons on its smooth surface, but apart from the geometric icons, Luo Yuan can't recognize any text, saying that the text is more like some kind of distorted waves.

This sphere is floating in the forest, and the blue light is constantly scanning the surrounding area. Plants, animals, and even a small insect will not be spared. This kind of blue light is obviously not lethal. When the blue light sweeps over, these What should mutant creatures do or do.

This ball moves erratically and at a fast speed, and when it turns, it flows like a cloud and flows without any stagnation. It flies up and down from time to time, obviously quite busy, but even the dense branches in the forest are like fish swimming in water. Not the slightest hindrance.

Luo Yuan's face was solemn. After the end of the world, human beings have advanced by leaps and bounds in science and technology under the pressure of life and death. In just two or three years, science and technology have made leaps and bounds. , but there have already been large-scale changes.

New high-explosives, the upcoming exoskeleton armor, nuclear-powered electromagnetic guns, and even nuclear fusion power generation have made breakthroughs recently. Of course, Luo Yuan is not clear, and he is also responsible for this. The emergence of materials has led to key breakthroughs in many fields.

However, no matter how technological breakthroughs are made, there are always traces to follow and cannot be achieved overnight.

And the scientific and technological content of this small ball, even if it is only the ability displayed during flight, has already shocked Luo Yuan's heart.

Anti-gravity, advanced intelligence, these are just visible. As for the blue light, I don't know what it does, and the smooth and sci-fi appearance is obviously not the rough style of the last days that pursues maximum output.

His heart is getting more and more heavy. Today's human beings don't have the leisure and interest to carve carefully. Even if such an item can be manufactured, in order to reduce the process and improve efficiency, the surface is definitely mottled, with the edge of the machine tool. Ridges, even metal burrs, like defective products, there will never be such a delicate work of art.

...

At this time, the ball seemed to have discovered something, suddenly flashed, turned into an afterimage, and disappeared in front of it.

Luo Yuan's heart tightened, and he quickly got up to keep up. After running for more than ten minutes, Luo Yuan hid again.

In the distance is a four or five-story behemoth. At this time, it bowed its head and made a muffled sound like a warning. It was obviously quite irritable. When any mutant beast was eating, a weird ball that didn't know what it was, was big. If you have the guts to go up and down by your side and emit blue light from its body, you will be furious. What's more, it is the top predator in this area, and its temper is bursting like a fire.

Finally, the giant beast's intense anger turned into substance, it stopped eating, and its whole body was blazing, a layer of light blue flames, like a bewitching light, danced violently on its body.

Luo Yuan noticed that the terrible high temperature made the nearby air violently distorted, and the vision ahead blurred and jumped. The trees not far away couldn't bear the high temperature, and turned yellow in the blink of an eye, and then burst into flames.

The black night sky lit up with a red light in an instant. In the flames, the ball seemed to be affected at all, and it was still faithfully performing inexplicable tasks. Occasionally, it even flew against the blue flames of the giant beast. The terrible high temperature was there. It seems that there is no existence in front of the ball, and even the color of the surface has not changed a little.

A few seconds later, the ball finished scanning and began to fly away. The crystals of the head were still scanning the surroundings, completely ignoring the fury of the giant beast.

Before the ball flew a few meters away, the giant beast suddenly moved. For such a short distance, for the huge size of the giant beast, there was no need to move at all. The fastest, in a split second, from when he poked his head out like lightning, swallowed the ball into his stomach and then retracted, the whole process took only 0.001 seconds, and even Luo Yuan could barely see clearly for a while.

Luo Yuan's face was serious, he was still lying on the ground, motionless, he had some expectation in his heart, he didn't believe that such a sci-fi-like item would be finished so easily.

Perhaps this giant monster that is suspected to be a seventh-level beast can crush it with its terrifying bite force, but it is undoubtedly whimsical for this ignorant mutant beast to treat it as a living thing and digest it with gastric juice.

Luo Yuan was not asked to wait long, but only a second.

A white ray of light instantly broke through the thick armor-like skin of the giant beast, and then more and more beams, one of which hit a nearby rock, and the rock turned into magma and flowed down without a sound . Luo Yuan vaguely felt a more powerful energy, which was still faintly erupting.

Luo Yuan's complexion changed drastically, and he crawled back quickly. Before retreating a few meters, he heard a loud "boom", and a wave of heat rolled in, blowing Luo Yuan's hair flying. Luo Yuan looked up and found out in horror This powerful mutated beast was already torn apart, and it was extremely miserable. Even the originally bright red flesh and blood had become scorched black, so dead it couldn't die anymore.

In the curling blue smoke, a round ball slowly floated up, and the originally transparent crystal above the head still faintly emitted a red light.

It circled around in place, and then flew to another place.

At this time, he is 100% sure that it is definitely a product of an extraterrestrial civilization. Humans have such technology, and they will not be forced to such a point, lingering.

Through the battle between Yuanqiu and the mutant beast and Yuanqiu's behavioral code of self-defense, he was completely sure to cut it in half before it attacked, but he didn't have any thoughts of attacking in his heart.

He cannot guarantee that there is only one such intelligent robot, nor can he guarantee the possible dire consequences of killing this intelligent robot. After all, even the technology of the earth can reach the point of real-time video recording. It will attack, or directly explode.

He can't afford to gamble whether it's the aliens trying to hide themselves, or just counterattack casually. He knows nothing about extraterrestrial civilizations, but just think about the fact that the earth can already destroy an area with a radius of tens of kilometers, let alone The extraterrestrial civilization that came here all the way.

His own formidable power seemed so insignificant in front of this devastating attack.

Luo Yuan continued to follow all the way from a distance, being careful. Fortunately, the ball's activity area was not large, and it basically circled around. When it was close to four o'clock in the morning, it suddenly stopped its task. The crystal quickly retracted into the sphere and closed in turn.

An invisible force radiated, and the surrounding grass fell down instantly. The next moment, it roared up, like an afterimage, breaking through the dense forest like a cover in an instant, smashing the surrounding branches into pieces, forming a circle of three or four Luo Yuan quickly flew out of the jungle, looked up at the sky, and there was only a small, imperceptible dot left in the ball, which soon disappeared completely.