Epoch of Twilight

After dinner.

Luo Yuan closed the gate of the post, and dismantled several heavy cannons on the gun holes, and then used a saber to cut a few pieces of concrete from the highway to block the gun holes.

When spending the night in the wild in the last days, the most feared is not some large mutant beasts, but those insects and snakes. No matter how careful a large creature is, it can't hide the huge movement when it moves. On the contrary, those small creatures are hard to guard against. If you don't pay attention, you may not even know how to die.

As the night gradually fell, under the shade of the dense Tianzhu tree, there was almost no light to be seen, and the originally noisy world gradually quieted down.

The space of the outpost is narrow, and it is impossible to set up a tent inside. Fortunately, there is no shortage of beds here. On the first floor, there are several wooden beds that were originally used by the soldiers in the outpost, which can accommodate everyone here.

Luo Yuan wiped the knife carefully, and then put it on the bedside.

"Wash your feet!" Huang Jiahui took a washbasin and put it under Luo Yuan's feet, trying to give him slippers.

"Let me do it!" Luo Yuan was a little uncomfortable with this, and shrank his feet: "Where does this water come from?"

With a quiet smile on the corner of Huang Jiahui's mouth, she persistently grabbed Luo Yuan's feet, took off his shoes, and said softly: "The water for washing the face is relatively clean, I added some hot water."

She put Luo Yuan's feet in the washbasin, gently washed his feet, and said in a low tone: "Do you think we are a burden to you? If there is no burden from us, maybe you don't need to wash it every time. With such an adventure, if you go to the west alone, you may have already arrived in a few days."

Luo Yuan's powerful strength today gave her a huge shock, and she suddenly felt a sense of insecurity in her heart, fearing that one day, she would be abandoned by Luo Yuan and go alone.

Many people looked over at once with complicated expressions.

Luo Yuan felt that her mood was a little abnormal, sighed, and said in relief: "Don't think too much, no one is a burden, if it weren't for you, I'm afraid I still can't eat a hot meal, and no one will talk to me, give me Wash your feet."

"I just washed you once today." Huang Jiahui smiled.

"Then wash it every day!" Luo Yuan said without doubt.

...

Cao Lin lay on the wooden bed and tossed and turned, unable to fall asleep.

If you talk about the insecurity in your heart, who can compare to her? She is neither an evolutionary nor like Huang Jiahui, Wang Xiaguang, who is so close to Luo Yuan, except for small things like cooking, washing, washing and mopping the floor Besides, in this small team, she doesn't have much effect at all. Even she couldn't think of any reason and value for Luo Yuan to continue to protect him.

In order to increase the weight in Luo Yuan's heart, don't talk about sleeping with him, even if she does something more shameful, she will not hesitate. Unfortunately, Luo Yuan doesn't mean it at all. Usually, she doesn't even think about looking at her more. No.

She had this kind of thought before, but after staying for a long time, she found that Luo Yuan was not a lustful person, and her thoughts gradually faded away. It was not until today that she suddenly became terrified.

"I can't go on like this, I should take the initiative." Cao Lin touched her smooth face and her unusually sensitive breasts, her face showing a trace of crimson flush, she bit her delicate lips, thinking to herself.

Not only Cao Lin, many people tossed and turned that night and did not sleep well.

All night!

Early in the morning of the first day, when Luo Yuan walked out of the outpost, he was stunned.

A strange mutated beast was lying near the outpost, exuding an unusually oppressive aura. If he didn't feel that this aura was familiar, he would have almost pulled out his saber.

Overnight, the giant lizard has undergone tremendous changes. Its size has grown larger, and its original green scales have also turned dark green at this time, with complex geometric patterns appearing on the scales.

Most of the bone spurs on the head have degenerated, but the middle bone spur remained. Its color changed from black to jade, and it took on a spiral shape. Luo Yuan even found that its pupils had become three. Arranged in a regular triangle, it looks extremely strange, but also carries a mysterious majesty.

In addition, its toes changed from three to four, and the color of its nails also became darker, with a metallic texture, exuding a cold light.

The giant lizard raised its eyelids when it saw Luo Yuan approaching, and there seemed to be a trace of wildness and wildness in its eyes, and it took a long time before it lazily stood up.

It was no longer secretly trembling like before, its attitude has become much more alienated, its actions seem to be a little provocative, its strong strength has also enhanced its self-confidence, and it is no longer afraid of Luo Yuan as before.

But Luo Yuan was still immersed in excitement at this time, and didn't notice the strangeness of the monitor lizard at all.

At this time, an incredible thing happened. It snorted suddenly, and a mouthful of white smoke came out of its nostrils. Countless sparks exploded in the thick smoke.

Even the temperature of the air rose by a few degrees. Luo Yuan was worried that it would not be able to control it and sprayed him, so he quickly took a few steps back.

He opened the attribute panel and found the sub-section of Beast, and sure enough, the attributes inside had changed drastically.

"Beast of War: Jungle Monitor;"

"Level: Level 3 (Dark Blue);"

Attributes

Strength: 20

Agility: 14

Constitution: 18

Intelligence: 4

Perception: 5

Will: 12

Experience: 180/9600

Skills: Bite 19, Rip: 8; Crash: 5; Tail Smash Proficiency: 0; Survival: 18, Sense Motive: 3; Breath: 2

Natural Abilities: Danger Sense, Fire Breath

Status: strong

Loyalty: 54 (below 50 will betray or run away at any time, the full value is 100)

Unassigned attribute points: 1

Unassigned skill points: 5

The level has changed from blue to dark blue. In addition, except for the agility attribute that has not been increased and the strength that has been specially added by two points, all other attributes have been increased by a little bit. The skill options have also added skills such as tearing, impact, sense and breath, and so on.

It is not surprising that the skills of tearing, impact, and breathing are not surprising. The giant lizard's attack was too monotonous in the past. Except for biting and tail attack, its claws were hardly used, but this time its sharp claws and the sharp tip of its head The horns have evolved, and obviously it won't be a display, so skills in this area appear. It's just that Luo Yuan doesn't understand what's going on with this observation.

"Could it be related to the long-term violent training of the monitor lizard, or this evolution has increased a little intelligence and become smarter, so that it has the ability to observe words and expressions." Luo Yuan thought to himself.

After all, it is a good thing that the monitor lizard becomes smarter, Luo Yuan thought about it for a while and stopped thinking about it.

This time, the strength of the evolved monitor lizard has undergone earth-shaking changes. Except for agility, almost every attribute has increased, and the overall strength has more than doubled. Thinking that it already had the strength to challenge the dark blue-level mutated creatures before, but with its current evolution, with its current strength, I am afraid that the ordinary dark blue-level is not its opponent.

However, it's a pity that the agility didn't increase. It may be the reason for the system's frequent addition of points. It has already evolved its agility attribute ahead of time, and it seems that it will not increase automatically in the future.

At this time, Luo Yuan's eyes swept over Loyalty, and his pupils shrank suddenly:

"How did this loyalty drop to 53, which is lower than when it was just recovered."

He suddenly looked up, and sure enough, there was some hostility in the monitor lizard's eyes. Luo Yuan thought angrily: If he hadn't left a deep impression on it with his remaining prestige, the monitor lizard might have rebelled.

"Damn it, it's really an unfamiliar wolf. Fortunately, there are still a few attribute points that have not been allocated, otherwise it will be against the sky. It will be more difficult to regain it again." His face was full of anger, and his heart There was a hint of murderous intent, but he forcibly held back.

Even if the subordinates are strong, they will stand on their own and turn against the water, not to mention the mutant beast whose thinking is purer and respects the strong, but thinking about it this way, I still feel extremely angry in my heart.

He took a deep breath, trying to calm himself down.

Now the monitor lizard has no heart of fear. If you don’t care about anything and let it develop, I’m afraid it won’t be long before it gets out of control and even backfires. Now there are only two ways, one is to let it go, the other is to let it go. One was reconquered, and there was no other way.

But without the powerful meat shield of the monitor lizard, his overall strength has almost lost more than half. And without the deterrence of the monitor lizard, the journey would not be so safe and peaceful. Just waves of low-level mutant beast attacks would overwhelm him. Whether it is the need for combat power or the need for safety, he cannot give up. Fortunately, it has not completely rebelled, and there is still a great chance of re-taming it.

Thinking of this, he walked towards it step by step. The giant lizard felt threatened instinctively, hesitated for a moment, gave a low growl in warning, pulled the corners of its mouth, revealing its ferocious fangs, but its loyalty has not yet fallen. Breaking the threshold, and Luo Yuan has always left an extremely powerful impression on it, so he only showed a warning, but he didn't dare to really attack.

But as Luo Yuan continued to approach, the hostility in the monitor lizard's eyes became deeper and deeper, and the loyalty on the attribute panel was also slowly declining.

53...52...

Luo Yuan sweated drop by drop, he licked his lips nervously, and pressed the handle of the knife with his hands, if the monitor lizard really dared to attack, he couldn't stay no matter what.

The giant lizard became extremely irritable, roaring at Luo Yuan again and again, and made a posture of jumping from time to time, trying to make Luo Yuan retreat when he knew it was difficult. The terrifying sound waves produced by the roar made the muscles on Luo Yuan's face twitch like waves, as if being hung by a knife, but with the appearance of a thin film of will, this invisible attack was completely blocked.

The huge movement here has long attracted everyone's attention.

Huang Jiahui's mind went blank, her body swayed, and she almost fainted to the ground.

"Let's go and take down the cannon upstairs." Huang Jiahui came back to her senses and shouted hastily.

Huo Dong's eyes lit up, and together with Chen Xianfeng and Lin Xiaoji, he quickly ran to the second floor. The cannon is a medium-sized weapon, and it can only be fixed on machinery and fortifications. Ordinary people can't even move it, but they eat mutants for a long time. Beasts, their physique has already been greatly enhanced. Although it is still a bit difficult, it can still be carried by one person.

This kind of terrifying weapon is beyond the reach of ordinary people, even Huang Jiahui has never seen it. She was just a policeman before, and this kind of weapon of war was obviously beyond the reach of an ordinary criminal policeman in a town.

However, most modern weapons are operated by fools, especially the modern machine guns are also activated by electronic buttons, and the operation is not complicated. After a few people thought about it, they set up three machine guns at the gate of the outpost. , The long bullet dragged down.

"Calm down, take a deep breath." Huo Dong muttered to himself, his hand was shaking as he pressed the button, his face was covered with cold sweat.

………

Luo Yuan's face was gloomy, and he slowly drew out the long knife, a cold brilliance lit up on the knife.

The huge danger made the monitor lizard's irritable nostrils continuously spew thick smoke, sparks splashed everywhere.

The giant lizard was six to seven meters tall at this time, and Luo Yuan was only 1.76 meters. It could swallow him in one mouthful as long as it lowered its head, but it was always retreating slowly.

Luo Yuan's footsteps were heavy, and he approached step by step. He stretched out his left hand and pressed in the air. This is a very familiar gesture for the monitor lizard. It didn't know how much pain it had suffered in order to remember it deeply.

Get down!

The giant lizard looked down at Luo Yuan with its icy eyes, showing a trace of hesitation and struggle. After a long time, it finally lowered its head slowly and lay down on the ground. But the hostility in the eyes is getting stronger and stronger.

Luo Yuan took a few steps and patted his head, but the next moment, a fist wrapped in a firm will and he slammed it hard on the exoskeleton head.

The loyalty of 51 points instantly became 45.

A trace of tyranny flashed in the monitor lizard's eyes, it suddenly raised its head, opened its bloody mouth and spewed a mouthful of flames at Luo Yuan.

The temperature of this kind of flame is not high, but it has a very strong impact. The highway was directly sprayed out by the flames into a half-meter-deep pothole, and the gravel flew around with the flames.

But immediately, its brain became dizzy again, its body swayed, and it almost fell to the ground.

I saw Luo Yuan standing on its head, tightly grasping the monitor lizard's horn, punching its head hard one after another. Counting the bonus of the ghost locust heart, his will has 15 points. Even if the monitor lizard is extremely resistant to will, it will not be able to completely resist for a while.

The monitor lizard seemed to be drunk, its body swayed, and its strong dizziness had already made its reaction extremely slow.

Three punches, four punches... ten punches, eleven punches...

After hitting fifteen punches, the giant lizard finally fell down, and it finally let out a whimpering sound for mercy.

Luo Yuan sneered, and continued to smash down hard, thinking: It's too late to beg for mercy now, if I don't teach you a profound and unforgettable lesson, I'm afraid I will forget it again in the future.

During the period, the monitor lizard tried to resist again, but was soon forcibly suppressed by Luo Yuan. Seeing that Luo Yuan didn't stop at all, fear finally appeared in its eyes, and its body began to tremble, but Luo Yuan's fist still didn't stop, and it didn't take long. It foamed at the mouth.

Luo Yuan punched it for the last time, but found that there was no response at all, and only then did he realize that it had completely passed out.

He finally stood up and heaved a sigh of relief. This time the incident was completely risky. If the monitor lizard hadn't completely betrayed him, he wasn't wary of him. It's really hard to say.

After all, the monitor lizard is a dark blue creature, and it has the reason for adding points to the system attributes. It is not inferior to some dark blue mutant beasts that have evolved longer, and it is even stronger.

Luo Yuan opened the attribute panel and found that the monitor lizard's loyalty had changed dramatically again, and it had jumped to 75, which was an unprecedented number. It seems that the lesson this time has completely destroyed its wildness, and its loyalty will not decline in a short time.

Luo Yuan jumped off the monitor lizard, and when he saw the machine guns at the gate of the outpost, a few drops of cold sweat could not help but ooze from his forehead.

Who moved out? Fortunately, they didn't use such a big killer, otherwise, with their poor operational ability, they might not even be able to hide from him if they did a random sweep, or the monitor lizard might be killed too.

He has seen the power of the cannon long ago. If it is focused on fire, even creatures at the dark blue level can't defend against it.

At this time, Huang Jiahui ran over quickly with a pale face, and hugged Luo Yuan tightly.

Luo Yuan felt her body trembling like a sieve, apparently out of worry, a warm feeling rose in his heart, he patted her round back, and said softly: "Okay, am I alright? , It's okay, it's okay!"

After a long time, Huang Jiahui let go of Luo Yuan, wiped his wet eyes: "What happened just now? This is a giant lizard, why did it suddenly attack you?"

"I saw it evolved, so I discussed it with it, don't worry about it." Luo Yuan smiled. It's better not to talk about the monitor lizard's almost betrayal just now. Not only is it useless, but it will add unnecessary fear.

Huang Jiahui glanced at Luo Yuan suspiciously, vaguely feeling that something was wrong, but seeing Luo Yuan's playful expression, it seemed to be true again.

"Don't think too much, since everyone is up, let's prepare our luggage and set off after the monitor lizard wakes up." Luo Yuan interrupted her thinking quickly.

The two walked back to the outpost, Huo Dong hesitated for a moment, gritted his teeth and said, "Boss Luo, I want to take the machine gun away too."

Luo Yuan paused, and asked in surprise: "You want to take away the cannon, can you resist? In addition, there are bullets. The consumption of bullets of this thing is like water, and it can take a box of bullets in a few minutes. over."

Huo Dong swallowed, glanced at Chen Xianfeng and Lin Xiaoji, and reluctantly said: "I, Chen Xianfeng, Lin Xiaoji can take turns moving, and it will definitely not delay everyone's speed."

"I can help too!" Ning Xiaoran also whispered, her face flushed, she murmured: "My strength is also great now!"

"I can move too!" Cao Lin also said.

Wang Xiaguang glanced at Cao Lin in surprise, feeling a little shocked in his heart.

Luo Yuan glanced at everyone, and suddenly understood their mentality.

To be honest, Luo Yuan didn't ask much of these ordinary people. He didn't think that they would bring any help when he brought them out. It was all because of his conscience, and one would save the other. After all, the difference in strength between the two is too great. In many cases, the mutant beasts that Luo Yuan deals with can't even get close to them, and they can't help even if they want to. At most, let them do what they can.

But I didn't expect them to be under so much pressure that even the two evolutionaries couldn't hold on.

However, Luo Yuan is also happy to see their mentality succeed, he nodded: "If that's the case, then take it with you."

Several people quickly packed their luggage, Luo Yuan went outside and kicked the monitor lizard vigorously a few times, the monitor lizard moved for a while, but there was no response, Luo Yuan kicked its nose again, this time the monitor lizard finally woke up , it was about to growl, but found that it was Luo Yuan, a trace of fear flashed in its eyes, and stood up timidly.

Looking at its wretched appearance, Luo Yuan probably wouldn't rebel as long as his strength didn't undergo another earth-shaking change. After thinking about it, he added the attribute points left over from yesterday's upgrade to his agility. Skip to 15 o'clock.

The giant lizard seemed to sense something, and roared excitedly, and stepped on its feet again and again. When it looked at Luo Yuan, its eyes showed rare admiration, and its attitude became a lot closer.

It's never seen this expression before.

He quickly checked its loyalty, and it had already reached 80, which almost broke through the sky.

"Slap me, give me a sweet date?" Luo Yuan was thoughtful.

As soon as he realized something, the system sent a prompt: "After a long period of hard work, you have comprehended the animal taming technique;"

Luo Yuan was a little surprised. On the attribute panel, the words "Beast Taming: 0" appeared at the end of the skill.

He didn't expect such a skill to exist, but he only glanced at it, so he didn't pay attention. This skill is obviously related to improving the loyalty of the monitor lizard, but now that the monitor lizard's loyalty has exploded, it may be useless in a short time.

He allocated the monitor lizard's five skill points again, and added one point to Bite, which became "Bite Mastery: 0". The next four points made him hesitate, and finally clicked all of them to "Bite Mastery: 0". "breath", he keenly felt that this breath may become the most powerful attacking ability in the future.

After allocating the monitor lizard's remaining attribute points and skill points, Luo Yuan made it lie down again, and hung a large package around its neck again.

Yesterday's battle almost tore this raincloth, so Luo Yuan synthesized it with dark blue feathers. Now as long as it is not attacked at it, ordinary friction and tearing can't destroy it at all.

Luo Yuan turned his head and saw that Huo Dong and the three were carrying a cannon and two boxes of ammunition, which seemed quite strenuous. He shook his head and said, "Forget it, you won't be able to go for long like this, and you haven't even exchanged them. Bring the bullets to a box and put them inside."

Luo Yuan took off the package again and spread it out.

Chen Xianfeng ran over with a grateful expression on his face. When he got close to the monitor lizard, he looked at the huge body and felt apprehensive, but finally he gritted his teeth and walked over.

Luo Yuan originally wanted to put the bullets into the package, but he thought that if the bullet hit violently, it might explode. The synthetic rain cloth might not be broken, but all the materials inside would be destroyed.

He dug out a piece of raincloth again, roughly synthesized it with the extra feathers, divided it into two packages, and hung it on the monitor lizard.

These two packages weigh nearly 200 kilograms, but to a super life like the monitor lizard, they are completely insignificant. Even if an object weighing ten tons is pressed on it, it may be able to move freely.

………

After two hours, everyone had reached the periphery of the shade of the Tianzhu tree.

At this time, the ground shook violently.

Huo Dong's feet softened, Luo Yuan's eyes were quick and his hands were quick, and he quickly dragged out the bullet box with his hands, so that it didn't fall to the ground.

Luo Yuan looked back in surprise, and found that not only the area near the Tianzhu tree, but the entire Hedong City was shaking violently. Several dangerous buildings in the distance began to collapse like building blocks after shaking a few times.

Standing on the expressway, looking into the distance, a cloud of smoke and dust gradually rises in the entire hundreds of kilometers.

The Tianzhu tree keeps growing, and this area is always vibrating, but it is always very weak. If it is not carefully sensed, it is often not felt, and the range is also very small, basically in the area where the terrain is raised near the trunk. The area has never experienced such a strong earthquake and such a large area. This seems to be a large-scale earthquake, and it should have a magnitude above four.

The monitor lizard became a little restless, and the mutated birds in the shade also had a commotion, leaving the Tianzhu tree one after another, and flew away whining. Farther away, there are also bursts of beast roars, one after another.

There were a few unusually large mutated birds, and even Luo Yuan felt his scalp tingle.

"What happened, what's the matter?" He was at a loss. An earthquake of this magnitude was nothing to him. As long as a slightly stronger dilapidated building was built, it would be impossible for it to collapse, and it would be impossible for such a terrifying earthquake to collapse. The mutated creature panicked.

All kinds of abnormal phenomena made him extremely uneasy.