Chapter 30: Forest City
The highway in front of me was a mess. Things like road signs had long been destroyed by mutated plants. There were mountains all around as far as I could see.

The tiny humans standing on the highway feel as if they are in a maze.

Zhao Xiaoxiu searched through her phone, trying to find a map or something else that could help her locate the location.

I couldn't find the map, but my phone has a built-in compass function.

She was delighted, feeling a little relieved after being away from the main group.

I quickly opened the compass software and looked up towards the north on the needle with great anticipation.

At nine o'clock in the morning, the sun is hanging in the sky, shining brightly!

Zhao Xiaoxiu’s eyes widened. You told me this is the north?
He stomped his feet hard, turned off the screen, and became even angrier!

Seeing the cub carrying its small backpack and running forward again, Zhao Gang, who encountered such a situation for the first time, had his eyes turned into vertical pupils, which rolled around in his eye sockets with fear.

We dare not say, we dare not ask.

I can only follow behind silently.

Zhao Xiaoxiu was speeding on the highway and saw tire marks all over the ground.

Following these traces, it seems not difficult to find the right direction.

After all, this is the only road leading to Taoyuan Base.

But I just feel sad and want to cry.

Suddenly, a person appeared in front.

"Are you also the survivors who fell behind?" he asked loudly in surprise, and ran towards the father and daughter excitedly.

Zhao Xiaoxiu narrowed her eyes, stopped, raised her little hand, and ordered calmly in a childish voice: "Hold him!"

The blood-red tentacle, which was only the size of a little finger and had been following the little girl pitifully, suddenly extended and expanded, and swung towards the man who was running towards her.

The expanding flesh wrapped around the man's entire body and pinned him to the ground.

"Dad." Zhao Xiaoxiu stretched out his hand behind him again.

Zhao Gang immediately pulled out the hatchet hanging next to his backpack and handed it over, his pupils flashing with excitement.

Zhao Xiaoxiu took the hatchet and roared "Ah!". He raised the hatchet, jumped up like a small cannonball, and swung the hatchet at the man's head as he asked in horror, "What are you doing?"

The hardness of a human neck and a hyena neck is different.

I didn't control it well the first time and cut it crookedly.

Zhao Xiaoxiu swung the knife again.

This time the sharp blade successfully cut off the man's twisted and terrifying head.

The head and body were separated in an instant, but there was no bloody scene.

There were only heads still roaring and bodies struggling and squirming but without the ability to fight.

Zhao Xiaoxiu grasped the handle of the hatchet with both hands, pointed the knife at the ugly head, and with one blow of the blade, sent it flying under the highway.

Now I feel completely relieved!
"Humph, you stinky ghost, you still want to trick a kid." Zhao Xiaoxiu put the knife on his shoulder, turned around and raised his chin proudly towards his father who was clapping his hands, motioning him to follow, and strode forward with high spirits.

But this time the pace was noticeably faster.

Children's tempers come and go quickly. Zhao Gang wiped the nonexistent sweat from his forehead and breathed a sigh of relief.

The sun gradually rose, but it was already October and the sun had lost its fiery energy.

All around were tall mutant shrubs and eerie forests. When the sun came out, Zhao Xiaoxiu felt that the yin energy in his body had dissipated and the yang energy had become abundant.

Many characteristics of the mutated plants are still similar to before the mutation, and they like sunlight.

But if exposed to the scorching sun, it will become the same as before the mutation, and will wilt if exposed to the sun for too long.

The father and daughter walked smoothly on this section of road at noon. Except for a few ghosts that appeared occasionally, no mutant plants or animals appeared. Zhao Xiaoxiu, who was originally very excited and thought that she could kill ghosts, had walked for most of the day without encountering any mutant plants or animals. She felt a little regretful.

At around three o'clock in the afternoon, the father and daughter had been walking on the highway for six hours and reached the end of this section of the highway.

A man-made hill lies across the middle of the road, blocking the passages on both sides.

However, just on the left side of the hill, there is a loess road that allows you to get off the highway and drive into the nearby urban area.

The traces of the large army passing were very clear. The grass leaves were crushed into the soil, and the overgrown loess road revealed its original appearance.

They were chased by a group of mutant pigeons and were not able to escape until they came to this place.

There are more than twenty cars parked here, and there are also processed human corpses and a large number of mutant pigeon corpses nearby.

It is not difficult to see that the large army had a brief rest here.

Zhao Gang pointed to the side of the loess road, which was open and safe, and motioned Zhao Xiaoxiu to stand there.

He symbolically picked up his weapon and went to the parked cars to see if there were any usable cars or any remaining gasoline.

At this moment, after six hours of reflection, the old father has realized what made his cub angry.

Therefore, he urgently needed a means of transportation.

But the very fact that the cars were left behind shows that they are no longer useful.

The vehicle can still be driven and has not been locked.

But none of the cars had any gas left.

Without gas, the car can't move even if it can still be driven.

Zhao Gang shrugged apologetically at his cub.

Zhao Xiaoxiu didn't have much hope in the first place, so naturally she didn't feel disappointed.

He stretched out his hands, hugged his father's thighs, and smiled cheerfully, "It's okay."

Zhao Gang felt warm in his heart. He hung the bed sheet in front of his chest, motioned Zhao Xiaoxiu to come up, and carried her away.

Zhao Xiaoxiu was well aware of her own physical strength. She didn't bother to be polite with him. She got into the sling made of bed sheets and put her arms around her father's neck.

The father and daughter continued on their journey.

The power of nature is so vigorous that grass can grow in a house that has been unoccupied for a month.

The city, which has been abandoned for more than ten years, has long been filled with green, and there is no trace of steel and concrete.

The whole city is surrounded by green plants, which grow and reproduce freely on the land.

Vines like bridges hang between the buildings, and the electric wires are wrapped with blooming flowers.

Mutated birds built nests in the trees, and their chirping sounds echoed throughout the forest city.

A bunch of huge purple mutant parasol mushrooms occupy this forest city. They exude strange sweet fragrance, and circuit-like blue electric light covers their bodies, emitting psychedelic and dazzling light even in the dark.

Any living thing passing by it will gradually become dull, and involuntarily move towards the fungus stalks at the bottom which are wrapped by countless hyphae, and become their nutrients.

This is a city that has been completely abandoned by humans, but because of these mutated animals and plants, a beautiful dreamlike forest scene has been rebuilt.

Zhao Xiaoxiu rode on her father's neck, and her adult vision allowed her to see the entire city clearly.

The dreamlike forest city scene before your eyes is beautiful, dangerous and fascinating.

However, no matter how beautiful and stunning the scenery is, it is nothing but bubbles in the face of the instincts of hunger and thirst.

Zhao Xiaoxiu swallowed with a dry throat and slid down from her father's shoulder. She took out the water bottle from her bag and shook it, but there was no sound.

There's no water.

(End of this chapter)

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