Epoch of Twilight

Sensing other people's strange gazes, Zhao Yali quickly wiped away her tears, lowered her head in a concealed manner, and blushed slightly.

"Have you found out what ability you have acquired?" Cao Lin asked, with envy and curiosity in her eyes.

Feeling that all eyes were looking this way, Zhao Yali didn't dare to raise her head. She looked at her hand, then clenched her fist. After experimenting for about half a minute, she said softly: "I don't know, it seems The strength has increased, and the skin has also changed."

"Hey, your skin has become so slippery, it's almost the same as Luo Yuan now!" Wang Xiaguang who was next to him grabbed Zhao Yali's hand and said in surprise.

Zhao Yali's face turned red immediately, and she quickly withdrew her hand.

Huo Dong and the others secretly glanced at Luo Yuan, wanting to see what Luo Yuan's expression would be, but everyone saw an extremely calm face. But thinking about it, how could Boss Yiluo, who was so strong that he was almost a god-man, care about such things.

Seeing that Zhao Yali was slightly disappointed, Luo Yuan comforted: "This is the performance of the evolved body, not the evolutionary ability. Your strength and skin have become better, which means that your body is gradually transforming under the influence of evolution. This transformation Will last a long time.

The evolutionary ability is generally very hidden, and you may not be able to find it when you look for it. When you don't look for it, it will appear unintentionally. Many people, including me, are like this. Not everyone can discover their own abilities as soon as they evolve. "

Zhao Yali breathed a sigh of relief.

Licked and licked by the flames, the meat was already roasted golden. Huo Dong stood up with several people, took off the whole mutant beast from the shelf, placed it on leaves the size of cattail fans, and cut it into ten pieces with a knife. Several copies, put in front of everyone.

Although there is no salt, the barbecue meat is bland and tasteless, but the aroma is strong and the meat is smooth and tender, so it is not difficult to swallow.

Luo Yuan chewed the food slowly, while carefully watching the surrounding situation from the corner of his eyes. The forest at night is the most dangerous. Some predatory mutant beasts will choose this time to move and hunt. Before, there was a huge explosion caused by the transport plane falling from the sky. The movement caused all the creatures here to flee quickly, but the passage of time and the smell of food from the grill were enough to attract some daring predators to approach.

In fact, pairs of eyes like will-o'-the-wisps have indeed appeared around, exuding erratic light in the darkness.

They are hidden behind the trees, or crawling on the ground, some dexterously even hidden among the lush branches and leaves, slowly approaching here under the cover of darkness.

Perhaps due to the bad environment, most of the organisms here are small in size.

There is a flat river in Jiangnan Province, the plants are sparse, and all creatures have no space pressure, so they are allowed to develop. But before the end of the world, there were deep mountains and old forests here, with dense plants, thick and hard trunks, and intertwined branches and leaves, forming an impenetrable green network in the sky. If you want to live in this environment, you don’t have a flexible body. , obviously cannot survive.

But being small does not mean that there is no danger, on the contrary, it is more troublesome than some large and bloated creatures.

Most of these creatures move swiftly, walk like the wind, and are extremely vigilant. If there is a slight disturbance, or a more powerful predator arrives, they will immediately turn around and flee, and soon disappear without a trace.

Before the end of the world, the mountains here were not burned and destroyed repeatedly like Jiangnan. Therefore, the species here are rich, the food chain is complete, and the competition is extremely fierce and cruel. They can survive until now, and they have evolved their own means of survival.

Seeing that the bonfire was getting smaller, Cao Lin got up and poked the fire, sparks burst out, and the flames shot up a few feet. The mutant beasts that were about to hide in the dark quickly stepped back, looked at the flames, and looked at the flames. Some hesitation and fear.

This is the fear engraved deep in their genes. With forest fires, this fear is passed on from generation to generation. Even if they mutate and become stronger now, this instinct cannot be changed.

Seeing that these creatures were still afraid of fire, Luo Yuan breathed a sigh of relief. If every mutant creature here participated in the siege, he would not be able to protect everyone.

"You said, the military region will issue our death notice this time, and my wife doesn't know what will happen then?" A soldier said with a sad face.

"You still have my old lady, but I don't have any." A soldier said in a muffled voice.

"I haven't been home for a long time. It's also an occupied area, so it's probably gone!" Another soldier sighed.

"At least we are still alive, but many brothers are dead, and even the bodies can't be found. It's too miserable." A soldier's face flashed with pain.

The troops were expressly forbidden to talk about these things, lest the morale of the troops would be low. Company Commander Xia opened his mouth to stop it, but in the end he sighed.

Huang Jiahui's eyes seemed to be aroused by the soldiers. She obviously thought of her relatives. She gently hugged Chen Jiayi. In a few years, her daughter will be this big.

The two children, Zhong Chuqiang and Deng Chao, looked enviously at Chen Jiayi who was hugged in Huang Jiahui's arms. They clearly felt that Chen Jiayi was more liked by everyone along the way.

The night gradually deepened, the mountain wind roared, wolves cried and ghosts howled.

Finally, a mutated beast lost its patience. Taking advantage of the cover of the wind, it stepped on small and soft steps from the darkness, and walked towards this side silently. It has a slender body, a light body, thick and powerful limbs, like an enlarged black spirit deer, walking silently, with faint traces, as if blending into the darkness.

Even Luo Yuan didn't notice it for a while, and his perception didn't catch it until it was close to twenty meters.

But at this moment, it has stopped and started the final pounce. The muscles of the whole body flow like mercury. The next moment, it kicks suddenly, and its light body instantly crosses the distance of 20 meters. The target is it One of the children, Zhong Chuqiang, was in front of him.

This is the instinct of a wild beast to hunt, always choose the method that saves the most effort and is least likely to be injured. In its eyes, he is the weakest one except for the one he is holding.

From accumulating power, kicking, and landing, the whole process took less than a second. Zhong Chuqiang only felt a gust of wind blowing on the back of his neck, and he felt no reaction except for goosebumps. Then he lowered his head and opened his densely packed sharp teeth. Then he bit Zhong Chuqiang's neck.

Except for Luo Yuan, no one here noticed it.

He slapped the ground vigorously, and from his body that was sitting on the ground, he stood up without warning. The next moment, his body seemed to be elongated, directly over the fire, and the saber at his waist was pulled out quickly, extending along his arms into A straight line.

The mutated creature opened its sharp mouth, and Luo Yuan had already stood up. Just when he lowered his head less than an inch, the sharp point of the knife pierced through its chin in an instant, quickly passed through the upper jaw, and finally pierced through the back of the head. Its mouth was immediately caught by the blade. Stop, can't move anymore.

The mutant beast twitched a few times, and the pupils of its eyes gradually expanded.

It wasn't until this moment that Zhong Chuqiang came to his senses. He turned around and looked at the twitching mutant beast that was caught by Luo Yuan's saber and froze there.

Although Deng Chao next to him was also afraid, he stared at Luo Yuan with fiery eyes, with a look of admiration on his face.

Luo Yuan withdrew the knife, grabbed its fur, and threw it beside the fire: "Everyone, be careful, this place is not safe."

Everyone was afraid for a while, their backs were covered with cold sweat, and they were all touched by the mutant beast, but they didn't even notice it. If Luo Yuan hadn't discovered it in advance this time, there might be downsizing here.

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After this time, and in the future, as soon as there is any disturbance, everyone immediately becomes highly vigilant, and looks behind their backs from time to time. Although most of them are scaring themselves, they also scare off many low-level mutant beasts who are trying to attack. .

The night passed quickly, the sky gradually brightened, and the mutant beasts hunting around gradually dispersed.

Except for Luo Yuan, everyone looked exhausted, and their spirits were tense all night, which was more tiring than a day of hard work, but it was obviously not the time to rest, and everyone started to get busy, cooking and collecting firewood He collected firewood a lot, but he dared not go far.

The forest here has become extremely strange and extremely dangerous. It no longer has everything that was familiar before the end of the world, and there is even a hidden crisis at every step. Everyone tied their trouser legs tightly, and then wrapped several layers of leaves before they dared to go outside.

Naturally, Luo Yuan was not included.

In the forest in the early morning, there is a clear and corrupt smell.

In the bushes, a weird little beast with golden stripes on its back watched its surroundings vigilantly, poked its head out of the cave cautiously, flapped its ears slightly, and listened to the surrounding movement, seeing that there was no danger for a long time, it Quickly rushed to the branch of a big tree, holding the buds of the leaves with fluffy hands, quickly gnawed on the delicate stems and leaves, and moved flexibly and efficiently. In just a few seconds, all the leaves on a branch The young leaves have already entered its stomach.

As Luo Yuan's footsteps approached, its whole body trembled, its fluffy hair stood on end in an instant, it jumped up and down the tree quickly, and after a few jumps, it quickly got out of the bushes, and there was no more movement.

This place is located in a valley, and the air is filled with water vapor. Luo Yuan sniffed the damp smell in the air, and kept walking forward. After walking a few hundred meters, Luo Yuan heard the sound of splashing water. In the distance, there is a three-meter-wide stream, which is crystal clear and murmurs through here.

There are many fish in the stream, many of which are half a meter long.

The discovery of the water source put Luo Yuan in a good mood, and he was planning to catch a mutant fish with a spear on the spot before going back. At this time, he heard a scream coming from a distance. The voice seemed to be Zhao Yali. His heart skipped a beat. He hurriedly speeded up and returned to the original road. When he returned, he saw the crowd gathered together, their faces were heavy. With a hint of horror.

His heart couldn't help but sink!