Epoch of Twilight

Luo Yuan stood on the branch and looked up at the sky, lost for a long time.

However, he couldn't see anything in the sky except for the dots of stars. Everything he saw tonight had a huge impact on his mind, and everything seemed like a dream.

After a while, he came back to his senses, walked back to the cave numbly, and moved the boulder away. Wang Shishi was still in a deep sleep, snoring lightly, and hadn't slept all night, but there was no sleepiness on his face. Looking at Wang Shishi, he sat on the bear skin in a daze,

He felt that he needed to be quiet.

What is the purpose of extraterrestrial civilizations coming to Earth?

Whether it is a simple scientific research investigation, or preparing to conquer the earth, whether it is a strange visitor who came without warning or a pure enemy, and even the crazy mutation of animals and plants in the past few years, whether it is related to this, nothing is known.

Luo is far from clear whether the reconstruction area or the only remaining civilization forces of mankind have noticed this group of extraterrestrial forces, but the possibility of this is extremely slim.

It is more than 600 kilometers away from the reconstruction area. It is completely within the sphere of influence of mutant beasts. It is a restricted area for human activities. Even high-altitude unmanned reconnaissance planes rarely come and go. What's more, the behavior of this unknown extraterrestrial civilization is quite cautious and active. It was late at night, and the chances of finding it were pitifully small. If Luo Yuan hadn't happened to pass by here in order to find the tree of wisdom, away from the reconstruction area, he might have been at a loss.

As for the spacecraft that may exist in space, for the vast space, finding it is not as simple as finding a specific fine sand in the sea, just hiding behind the moon, or stationed in the planetary belt, with the level of human technology, Can't find it at all.

What's more, the strength shown by this extraterrestrial civilization is far stronger than that of the earth. Just like the radar in World War II, there is no solution to the current invisible aircraft. Even if the spacecraft appears in the outer atmosphere of the earth openly, it may be difficult to find .

Today's reconstruction area is very powerful, and the explosion of science and technology has made the strength of the reconstruction area skyrocket. Although the current population is less than one-tenth of what it was before the end of the world, in terms of conventional military power, it is more than ten times stronger than before the end of the world. However, In fact, the battle between humans and mutant beasts has always been in a stalemate, falling into a certain balance. The mutant beasts cannot advance an inch, and humans are also unable to regain their homeland.

The battle is not only on the front line, but also goes deep into the hinterland. This is an all-round war, in the sky, on land, underground, from mutant beasts as big as mountains, to flies and bacteria that breed in cities. The entire reconstruction area is like an isolated island in the sea, with huge waves on the outside and torrential rain on the inside. Once a certain balance is broken, it will be like a domino, and it will immediately fall into the crisis of overturning.

But now there are more extraterrestrial civilizations with unknown enemies and friends...

The more he thought about it, the more pessimistic Luo Yuan became, and the future of mankind seemed to be overcast.

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The sky was getting brighter, Luo Yuan rubbed his face vigorously, exhaled foul breath, seventeen points of will, let him quickly control his negative emotions, no matter what the future holds, life will go on.

"Brother Luo, you're up." Wang Shishi woke up, sat up and stretched.

"Well, have something to eat, and we'll set off after breakfast." Luo Yuan said, looking at Wang Shishi's sleepy face, ignorant and ignorant, ignorance is a blessing, at least he doesn't have to bear this heavy pressure.

There was still some left over from last night's dinner, except that the barbecue was as hard as a rock, and the insect eggs were still edible. The two of them had a simple breakfast and set out on the road again.

The cool morning is the rarest and most comfortable time of the day. At this time, the high temperature has dropped, and the breeze blows on the body, and I feel that the whole pores are breathing. Because of the fog last night, the ground looks a little damp. Walking in the forest, from time to time There are drops of water dripping down.

However, before the drop of water fell, it was suspended in the air by an invisible force. After a day's rest, Wang Shishi was full of energy, and all the fatigue from last night had recovered. happy.

The air here is gradually carrying a salty and humid smell, and the sea is not far away. Half an hour later, concrete wrecks covered with moss and vines can be seen from time to time on the road, but apart from these, there are no human beings. traces of civilization.

The layer of dead leaves several meters thick on the ground covered up everything. If it wasn’t for the coordinates showing that this place is already Mushi County, it would be hard to believe that this primeval forest was still a village with a population of more than 200,000 a few years ago. city ​​of.

Luo Yuan flew into the air, identified them, and continued walking forward.

Yaozi Mountain is 30 to 40 kilometers away from Mushi County. People are extremely rare. There are no people in the area for several miles. Before the end of the world, there were no roads except for a dirt road. Now there are no roads, which can only be identified by naked eyes. .

On the map, the name Yaozi Mountain cannot be found at all. It is just an inconspicuous peak in a rolling mountain range, and no one knows it except the locals.

Compared with before the end of the world, there are basically barren hills here, with sparse plants, and even bare hills at all. Now, the plants are all over the place, and the plants are huge. The plants with a height of 100 meters will undoubtedly greatly increase the difficulty. Take a look at the nearby area. Most of the continuous mountain peaks are only a few hundred meters high. It is undoubtedly whimsical to find a mountain top similar to a waist, just as the name suggests.

If you want to find it, you can only find it by following the waterfall.

This is not difficult, Luo Yuan's keen ears have already heard the sound of the rumbling waterfall, but the wanderer said that the migration was half a year ago, when the sea level rise had just started, and this place was still in a dry zone.

But now, judging by the salty smell in the air, this place has become a coastal area, with a humid climate and abundant rainfall. In addition, it is a mountainous area with a huge drop in terrain. Waterfalls are no longer rare. There are seven or eight places where the sound of waterfalls can be heard from a distance.

But it's okay, it's just a matter of time.

Luo Yuan searched everywhere, and when it was close to noon, he came to the fifth mountain with a waterfall. Just looking at it, Luo Yuan's eyes lit up. This mountain is not high, with a drop of about three or four hundred meters. The strange thing is that The shape of the mountainside is slightly sunken. If the plants are removed and the body is thinned, it looks exactly like the "waist mountain" that the wanderers call it from a distance.

A waterfall slanted down from the bottom of the mountain, and it fell with a bang. It was a waterfall formed by an underground river. The water volume of the waterfall was not abundant, and the drop was not high. Luo Yuan just found here.

Luo Yuan left Wang Shishi where he was. After all, the front is not safe. Those who can scare the Hui people into panic and flee, and the whole family migrate, are at least level 6 creatures. Level 6 creatures are not bad, and he can handle them easily. What's more, when encountering a level seven, such a huge object, even just a pounce and a jump, can cause a large area of ​​damage. Once encountered, even he will only go all out, and he can't take Wang Shishi into consideration when fighting.

He carried the saber knife and walked lightly. The mountain road here was rugged and extremely steep. Several man-eating vines that looked like living creatures spread quietly like snakes. They tried to attack, but Luo Yuan swung his knife to cut them off one by one.

A few huge piranhas bloomed in the shade of the trees, with colorful colors and bursts of sweet fragrance, and there were piles of dead bones nearby.

Not far away, a huge plant with a height of 100 meters is slowly moving. With every step, the roots as thick as a python will be pulled out of the ground, or penetrated into the ground, causing earthquakes, and the trunk is full of cracks. The "old" bark combined into a huge fuzzy human face, and as it walked, the expression changed slightly.

Most of the plants here seem to have turned into animals, and there are three tree people that are rare to see in just a few kilometers.

Luo Yuan slapped a bloodthirsty mosquito away. Hearing the louder and louder waterfall, his speed suddenly increased.

A few minutes later, Luo Yuan lightly jumped onto a boulder, and there was already a waterfall in front of him.

The terrain here is relatively flat, and the ground is covered with large and small oval stones. The drop of the waterfall is only more than ten meters, falling into the deep pool below, and finally forming a river more than ten meters wide, winding along this rocky beach into the valley.

The strange thing is that the plants here are quite sparse and much smaller in size. At first glance, there are only a few scattered trees growing on this rocky beach. Besides, there are very few vigorous vines and weeds.

And the strange plant with a height of 50 to 60 meters near the pool, under this low "shrub", obviously stands out from the crowd.

The bulbous roots, the sarcomatous bumps, the sparse leaves, the extremely twisted towel-like trunk, and the fruits the size of a baby's head all indicate its identity.

"wisdom Tree"

Luo Yuan's eyes lit up, and his breathing was a little short.

This wisdom tree is much bigger and stronger than the one found before, and its color has also changed. The previous one had a yellow and purple trunk, but this one is completely purple, even a little hairy. Black, seems to be filled with corrupt blood.

The level of this wisdom tree is obviously higher than the original one!

But although he was eager, Luo Yuan didn't act rashly. He looked around carefully, there was no living thing nearby, and even the chirping of insects and birds in the ordinary forest seemed to have disappeared, which was just extremely abnormal.

Carefully feeling the air, there seemed to be a slight depression left, which made Luo Yuan frown slightly.

He hesitated for a while, then held down the handle of the knife, and moved forward slowly. At the same time, his perception expanded to the limit, and he carefully searched for the movement nearby, but he didn't feel anything wrong at all. As he walked in step by step, he quickly felt Knowing that the pool has been covered.

Originally thought that the mutated beast was in the pool, but it turned out that it was not found at all.

The pool is not deep, only three or four meters, and its radius is no more than a hundred meters. There is no dark hole at the bottom, except for a group of "small fish" a few meters long wandering in the water, there is nothing.

In the last days, creatures of this size can only be called small fish.

Luo Yuan heaved a sigh of relief. It seemed that it was a false alarm. The mutant beast that was here might have died, or had already left. Unexpectedly.

On the contrary, the bones under the Wisdom Tree are a bit weird. I didn’t notice it from a distance, but it feels weird when I’m nearby. Luo Yuan found that each of these bones is extremely huge, and even one of the thigh bones lying on the ground has a long bone. It was about ten meters long, with a thickness of 1.5 meters, like a huge stone pillar, which fell on the skeleton at an angle. It was a few times larger than the soul-devouring beast Luo Yuan had seen before, and such smaller bones were everywhere nearby. yes.

One or two is fine, but here are all such bones, piled up like a mountain near the wisdom tree, the entire sea of ​​bones is as thick as 40 to 50 meters, occupying tens of thousands of square meters, Luo Yuan noticed that the bones underground had melted. It is gray-white bone powder, and it is unknown how many powerful mutant beasts are buried in it.

He suddenly felt a little uneasy in his heart, this sea of ​​bones could not have been done by that Huiren Clan, with the bones here, even any mutant beast could wipe out the Huiren Clan.

At this time, he faintly smelled blood, he sniffed it lightly, looked sharply at a certain place in the sea of ​​bones, suddenly his face changed drastically, there were countless translucent filaments growing from the trunk of the tree of wisdom, like silkworm cocoons Generally, one of them is tightly wrapped.

The body was apparently still quite "fresh", having been placed there not long ago, perhaps even yesterday.

His heart became more and more heavy. This mutant beast didn't go away at all, but went to hunt far away. With his own strength, a considerable part of this sea of ​​bones was formed by the seventh-level mutant beasts. It was definitely not an ordinary seventh-level monster. A level mutant beast, possibly even an eighth level.

He glanced at the tree of wisdom not far away, hesitated for a moment, then moved his body, jumped a few times, and stood beside the tree trunk, not daring to drag it any further. God knows when this terrifying creature will come back.

He drew out the saber-chopping knife, and the 1.5-meter-long knife glow violently swallowed in the air. In an instant, the light of the knife was like a rainbow piercing the sun, and it disappeared in a flash. Down, the thick tree trunk began to roll fiercely like a boa constrictor turning over.

A large number of skeletons were flying in the air, and the fierce wind blew the nearby trees down one after another. Like ice-cold dripping into boiling oil, the bone sea was stirred into a pot of thick porridge, and a series of explosions occurred, like rolling thunder. These tree trunks were half a meter small and one or two meters thick, and there were thousands of them. Under the violent rolling and shaking, even the sky was covered. The movement of the Wisdom Tree before it died was comparable to a berserk seventh-level mutant beast.

As time passed by, Luo Yuan walked back and forth in the distance, looking anxious in his heart, but he could only wait patiently.

The fruit of wisdom is basically useless to him, what is useful is the "heart of wisdom".

However, the conditions for the formation of the "heart of wisdom" are quite harsh. Only when the wisdom tree suffers irreversible damage, most of the nutrients will shrink from the trunk to a certain core on the tree.

This is equivalent to a seed. After the crisis is over, the seed will take root and germinate on the original corpse again through the gathered nutrients, and rejuvenate again. This is the survival method of the tree of wisdom.

But it will take some time, no matter how anxious Luo Yuan is, he can only wait patiently for it to automatically activate this protection mechanism.