Epoch of Twilight

When the two came back, Huo Dong had already lit the fire.

A piece of fish skin of several square meters was spread out, and pieces of black smoked fish meat were placed on it.

Huang Jiahui's face was expressionless, as if she hadn't heard the quarrel between the two, she calmly put wooden cups in front of everyone, poured a cup of tree milk for each, and said to Zhao Yali: "Try this !"

Zhao Yali has a weak personality, so she loses her temper with people she knows well. No matter how dissatisfied she is, she dare not show embarrassment to others. She quickly said, "Thank you!"

Holding the cup in her hand, she took a sip, then took another big sip, and remained silent.

Wang Shishi was not so calm, brother Luo was too carefree, women followed each other, which made her feel a great sense of crisis in her heart.

She kept looking at Zhao Yali with hostility. Most of the paint on her face had been washed off by tears, revealing her real face. The more she looked at it, the more she felt familiar. She ignored the hostility and said in surprise: "You used to be Don't you live across from my house?"

Zhao Yali was stunned for a moment, she didn't expect to know herself besides Luo Yuan, she looked at Wang Shishi carefully, but unfortunately Wang Shishi had already changed a lot, she didn't have any impression in her mind at all.

"I live across from your house, and I used to meet each other often." Seeing Zhao Yali's puzzled face, Wang Shishi explained.

Zhao Yali thought for a while, she seemed to have some impressions, and said in surprise: "Why are you so old, and you are still with Luo Yuan."

"My parents are gone, so I have been following Brother Luo all the time."

Zhao Yali thought of her family, sighed, and drank the tree milk sullenly, worrying about the future in her heart.

Seeing that everyone started chatting, and the atmosphere was not as dull as before, Cao Lin couldn't help being curious, and said, "What did you paint on your face? I think everyone in the camp has it."

Zhao Yali looked a little embarrassed, and said: "A kind of tree juice is insect-proof, but the effect is not very good."

Except for Luo Yuan and Wang Shishi, everyone's eyes lit up. Although this juice smells bad and it doesn't look good when applied, compared with life, these shortcomings are nothing worth mentioning. Cao Lin quickly asked: "Where is it?" plants?"

A trace of unnaturalness appeared on Zhao Yali's face: "I don't know either, this is all...Zhu Hao and the others."

She has a timid character. Since she came to the camp, she has never been outside the dangerous jungle, and she has no idea what kind of plant juice it is.

A trace of disappointment flashed across everyone's faces. With so many mutated plants, if you want to find out what kind of plant it is, it is almost as good as finding a needle in a haystack.

Luo Yuanzhi did not participate in these women's topics. He carried a wooden barrel made before and walked towards the distance. There are low-lying lands everywhere, which are filled with water. The salinity is very high under the sun of the time.

As Luo Yuan walked in, the bottom of the pond turned into whirlpools from time to time, causing bursts of turbidity. Luo Yuan searched for several places, all of which were the same. He couldn't care less, he chose a slightly clean low-lying land, brought a bucket of water, and came back.

Seeing that the salt was about to be boiled, Huang Jiahui and Cao Lin also came over to help. The two of them folded several cloth strips together to filter the sewage over and over again, but the cloth strips are not special filter materials after all. It's a bit cloudy, but the conditions are poor now, and that's all there is to it.

Once the stone pot is in place, start boiling the salt. The fire was very hot, the water boiled quickly, and then salt precipitated out.

These salts are not as white as those in the pre-apocalyptic packaging bags, but rather half gray.

"This salt has too many impurities, I guess it will be very bitter." Huo Dong said.

"It's better than nothing. I feel like I can eat one or two now." Lin Xiaoji licked his chapped lips. He hadn't eaten salt for a long time. He has no taste in anything he eats now, even if it is bitter salt, he can eat it .

The water quickly boiled dry, and a layer of gray salt crystals appeared on the bottom of the pot, and they formed into lumps, not at all like the table salt used in the past.

Everyone couldn't wait to taste it. The salt was bitter and astringent, and it was full of sand and stones. Before the end of the world, even dogs would not eat this kind of salt, but now people not only don’t change their faces, but also have expressions of enjoyment on their faces. People who have never experienced it will never know the pain of not eating salt for a long time. Some people He even grabbed a handful, stuffed it into his mouth, chewed it hard like sugar, and swallowed it even with sand and stones.

Because they hadn't eaten salt for several days, except for Zhao Yali, everyone ate a lot at lunch, and in the end everyone was so salty that they drank water like crazy, and the bag of tree milk was all consumed.

After eating, everyone packed up the extra salt, packed their luggage, and set off again.

Along the way, you can see huge skeletons stranded on the tidal flats. Before these dead marine creatures had time to evolve their limbs and lungs to crawl on land, they died in the ebb tide. Luo Yuan saw one of the skeletons , even more than 30 meters long and 89 meters high, the huge skeleton lies on the shallow sea like a hill.

He specially went over to take a look, but found that it was just a dark blue-level creature, but its size was several times larger than that of a land creature like a monitor lizard. With its size alone, most light-green-level land creatures would be afraid of it. Su is helpless.

Originally, Luo Yuan thought it was all tidal flats, but as he approached the center of the cross-sea bridge, there were fewer and fewer tidal flats, and many slightly low-lying places were covered by sea water. The small lakes have thousands of square meters, and the large ones have several square kilometers.

Can avoid it at first. But gradually the lake became bigger and bigger. When the opposite bank was already in sight, the front was blocked by a long and narrow strip of sea water several kilometers wide.

Luo Yuan looked left and right, and even with his eyesight, he couldn't see where the sea water ended. A wide river had almost formed here.

"The sea is too wide, should we turn back?" Huang Jiahui asked depressedly.

"I've gone so far, I really don't want to turn back." Huo Dong said with a bitter face: "It's already three o'clock, and I'm afraid it will be dark after we haven't walked for long. It’s not easy to dig, and it’s too dangerous to sleep in the open air!”

"That's right, the water here shouldn't be too deep. I think it's three or four meters at most. It should be no problem for monitor lizards." Lin Xiaoji also said.

After finally getting here, the other side is already far away, and going back is really a blow to morale.

One side is in the open air and the other is dangerous in the sea. Luo Yuan hesitated, feeling that there should not be any powerful mutant creatures in the shallow water, so he decided: "Let's go into the water and have a look first. If the water is too deep, just go back directly." .”

Now that Luo Yuan has made a decision, no one has any objections.

The giant lizard waded through the water cautiously, occasionally letting out a roar to drive away the creatures that tried to get close.

After continuing to walk for more than ten minutes, the sea water began to gradually deepen, and it had gradually submerged into the monitor lizard's thigh.

From time to time, streaks of water like sharp arrows were drawn across the sea surface, or violent splashes several meters high were aroused.

Everyone's faces gradually turned pale, Zhao Yali had long forgotten to be angry with Luo Yuan, and grabbed his arm firmly.