Epoch of Twilight

This tree is not big, seven or eight meters high, no more than half a meter thick, bare and stunted. What attracted Luo Yuan's attention was that the bark was smooth and rosy, like human skin, giving people an extremely weird feeling.

Although he didn't feel that there was any danger, he still remained cautious. He pressed the handle of the knife, his aura looming.

But until Luo Yuan approached, this weird big tree showed no signs of moving.

"Looks like it's just an ordinary big tree!"

Luo Yuan's expression also relaxed. He picked a branch and jumped on the spot. When he jumped into the air, suddenly the knife flashed and the branch fell down.

At this time, Luo Yuan felt the big tree, and his body seemed to tremble for a while, and then he regained his composure.

Luo Yuan jumped down and looked at it carefully for a while.

This big tree didn't move at all, like a normal plant, if the branch that fell was not still twisting and twisting like a snake, it would have really been tricked by it.

"I didn't expect plants to have the ability to pretend to be dead!" Luo Yuan thought to himself, this is actually quite normal, the nature of creatures is to seek advantages and avoid disadvantages, although Luo Yuan did not show his strength, but the aura he exudes is comparable to that of a dark blue creature Don't give in too much, a tree whose strength is no more than a light blue tree, unless it wants to die, it will never provoke such a mutant humanoid beast. If it has a stronger sense, I am afraid it will notice that there is a genuine one nearby. The dark blue monitor lizard is already the overlord among most mutated creatures.

This is also the reason why Luo Yuan came all the way so quietly, otherwise, no matter how rare the creatures in the Radiation Land were, they would not have passed the journey without any surprises or dangers.

He looked at it for a while, and didn't want to cause any complications, so he let it go.

Just as he picked up the branch, the branch was stimulated and wanted to wrap around the back of his hand. Luo Yuan snorted coldly and shook it vigorously, the branch suddenly convulsed like a cervical vertebrae. Luo Yuan used an identification technique, and the information in his mind couldn't help but make his eyes light up.

"Branches of the Radiant Tree;"

"Rarity: Light Blue;"

"Weight: 3kg."

"Additional ability: absorb radiation;"

"Evaluation: Radiation trees generally live in areas of nuclear radiation. The high concentration of radiation makes the trees undergo adaptive evolution. They feed on radiation and occasionally eat mutant creatures. It is extremely aggressive, but its juice is It is the best raw material for anti-radiation agents, mostly used in medical treatment.”

Now that everyone was exposed to radiation, Luo Yuan didn't dare to stay any longer and returned soon.

"This branch is not poisonous." Wang Shishi looked at the twitching branch with disgust on his face.

"Don't worry, it's not poisonous. I'll squeeze it into juice later, and everyone will be fine after drinking it," Luo Yuan said.

"It's too scary. Plants can move even if you don't want it." Cao Lin said with some fear.

"Hey, women should like this thing the most." Huo Dong couldn't control his mouth, and said a naughty joke with his mouth.

Several men laughed knowingly, and even Luo Yuan laughed.

Not only Huang Jiahui and Cao Lin blushed after experiencing such battles, but even girls like Wang Shishi blushed. Huang Jiahui gave him a hard look: "Don't make such jokes in the future!"

The other women also didn't give him good looks.

Huo Dong shut his mouth embarrassingly, he couldn't afford to offend these women, so he had to apologize repeatedly.

Next, Luo Yuan took the branch and asked Huang Jiahui to take out a few wooden bowls. With both hands, he twisted the branch vigorously like squeezing a bed sheet, and quickly squeezed out a large bowl of red blood-like juice. Everyone drank a small bowl, and even Luo Yuan was worried that his body would not be able to withstand the radiation, so he also drank a bowl.

The tree sap is not as unpalatable as imagined, there is a touch of sweetness in the bitterness, and there is a fragrance of grass and trees. After drinking it, the spirit can't help but be lifted.

The effect was immediate, and Wang Xiaguang's spirit improved a lot soon, and those with milder symptoms recovered immediately.

In order to avoid incomplete removal of the nuclear radiation in the body, Luo Yuan went to cut a few more branches and put them in the package, then climbed up on the monitor lizard, and left the place quickly.

Because of the existence of the nuclear radiation area, a few people walked tens of kilometers more in vain, but the monitor lizard is huge, and can take four or five distances with each step, and its agility is as high as 15 points, even if it is only in dense forests. Walking in the jungle, the speed can reach 20 to 30 meters per second, which is why Luo Yuan is worried that its speed will make everyone fall off and slow it down.

So despite the long detour, at two o'clock in the afternoon, I rushed to the highway again.

It was tens of kilometers away from the Tianzhu tree area, and the road surface was not damaged.

Everyone walked onto the expressway and looked behind one after another. A volcano several hundred meters high was already standing in the distance, and thick smoke was still emitting from the crater. There were no buildings in the vicinity for more than ten kilometers. The area is covered by solidified volcanic rock.

It even included the small half of Hedong City.

The vicissitudes of life, the annihilation of creatures, and the mighty power of nature are pale and powerless to describe in any language.

Everyone was shocked, unable to recover for a long time.

"Will it erupt again?" Huang Jiahui asked suddenly, looking at the thick smoke like a column of smoke.

"It's an active volcano, but after venting this time, I'm afraid it will take a long time to erupt again, but it might not be surprising if it erupts in the next moment." Luo Yuan said.

"If the volcano erupts again, wouldn't Hedong City be in danger? Besides the survivors, there are still hundreds of thousands of people living in the underground base." Huang Jiahui said, her face turning pale.

"Sister Huang, life and death are up to us. We can't protect ourselves. Why do we care so much?" Cao Lin said, she felt a little conflicted when she mentioned the underground base. They were scattered, and she didn't have any good feelings for the people in the underground base.

Not only Cao Lin, but others also looked disapproving.

"My daughter may be inside!" Huang Jiahui was silent for a while, and said with a sad face, "I thought she would be safe, but I didn't expect that even the underground base is not safe."

Her ex-husband is the squadron leader of the Armed Police Force, so both as a guard force and as a position, she is a priority. She let her daughter follow her ex-husband because it was safer for her.

Everyone looked silent.

A trace of grief flashed across Huo Dong's face. His eight-year-old son was also scattered in the crowd. He had already given up hope for this. Given the chaotic scene at that time, such a young child had no life at all. There is hope that he will survive, but sometimes hope that he will survive.

"In the last days, no one knows when they will die. Maybe today, maybe tomorrow, we are the same, so don't think too much, at least now they are much safer than following us!" Luo Yuan hugged Huang Jiahui and said in a deep voice : "Your daughter will be fine, let's go!"

Huang Jiahui nodded, but still looked behind from time to time, her face blank.

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After stepping on the high speed, the monitor lizard's walking speed suddenly increased, giving full play to its high agility attribute, and its speed directly increased to hundreds of yards.

The surrounding scenery receded quickly, and the whistling wind blew head-on.

Everyone tightly grasped the blankets under them, with nervous faces, and Wang Shishi even held on to Luo Yuan's arm tightly, for fear of being thrown out.

Before dark, we finally arrived at the cross-sea bridge.

Luo Yuan made the giant lizard stop, frowning and looking into the distance, his face was ugly: "Damn, it seems that we can only take a detour again."

The former sea-crossing bridge that was as long as a giant dragon is now broken and twisted in many places. Thick steel cables hung messily on the viaduct, several huge cement slabs hung in the air, and even the huge stone piers, which were the pillars of the viaduct, were knocked across the tidal flat by terrifying force.

Now is the low tide period, except for a few low-lying lands with seawater, the other places have almost turned into an alluvial plain. Looking down from the sea-crossing bridge, sparse plants have grown underneath , if it takes a little longer, there may be another forest here.

What made Luo Yuan's heart even heavier was that there were huge footprints on the beach, which were obviously left by marine life. However, these creatures should have left when the tide ebbed, at least he didn't see the figures of these huge creatures at a glance.

"If we want to take a detour, we can only take the provincial road. I'm afraid it will take hundreds of kilometers and go through a forest, and I don't know if there is any road there." Huang Jiahui's face was ugly: "Can we go from below?" walk over."

"The tidal flat is too soft. I'm worried that I'll run into a swamp. If I sink, it will be dangerous." Luo Yuan hesitated. He's not afraid of anything else, but he's afraid of hitting a swamp. Strong is useless.

"Don't think about it yet, it's getting dark already, let's talk about it tomorrow." Luo Yuan looked at the sky and continued.

Because the sea-crossing bridge spans the sea, it is more dangerous than the land, so the defense force here is far more stringent than the highway in front. Just on both sides of the entrance of the bridge, there are two symmetrical defenses covering an area of ​​thousands of square meters. fortifications.

Three armored vehicles were parked rusty at the gate, and after entering the gate, there were two multiple rocket launcher vehicles inside. More than three meters long and densely packed like a honeycomb, the rocket launchers are densely packed together, giving people a huge deterrent force.

Coupled with the fortifications, there are more than a dozen machine gun holes with powerful firepower. Luo Yuan guessed that even if they encountered a beast horde, they might be enough to resist.

Luo Yuan asked the giant lizard to stop at the door and walked into the fortification. The first floor was the control center. It looked very messy inside. The ground was covered with documents and cigarette butts. It seemed that the retreat was in a hurry. He noticed a On the desk, even personal items such as photo frames were not taken away.

Luo Yuan turned the corner and pushed away an office, facing a rotten stench.

As if disturbed by Luo Yuan, countless black beetles scrambled to leave here.

In front of the office, a white bone wearing a major's military uniform was lying on his back on the seat. The skull had fallen off the ground, and there was a circular hole in the temple. A pistol fell from the place where the hand bones hung down. It was obviously a suicide.

What seems to be going on here?