Epoch of Twilight

With today's scorching hot weather, the human body is losing water almost all the time, and the amount of drinking water consumed every day is astonishing, almost five or six times that of ordinary weather. Coupled with the large number of people, the amount of water consumed every day is by no means What a small number.

Although I planned to use the leaves to collect dew before, the total amount is limited after all, and it is time-consuming and labor-intensive. At most, it can only solve the basic physiological living water. As for the domestic water, there is no way.

Under such high temperature, I feel uncomfortable without taking a shower for a day, and if I don’t wash for a few days, my whole body will smell bad.

With the current medical conditions, once you get sick, you can only die, and life and death are life and death. Moreover, this kind of collection method is too risky and extremely unstable. Once it encounters a strong wind at night or is destroyed by a mutant beast, it will be a disaster.

A stable water source has become the biggest problem facing the current team.

This time, even Luo Yuan, who has always been calm, couldn't hold back anymore. He walked around and kept sniffing the air, carefully distinguishing the humidity ratio in the air. The humid air often has a hint of sweetness. Moisture, while the dry air has a coarse earthy smell. With his strong physique, this is not difficult at all. He quickly identified the most intense water vapor, which came from a distance with the airflow. come flowing.

Then, he closed his eyes again, and listened carefully along the place with the thickest humidity.

Everyone looked at Luo Yuan's strange movements with weird expressions, but no one dared to disturb him. This was the first time Luo Yuan showed his keen five senses in front of everyone.

Luo Yuan's face was focused, and there was a sound of system prompts during the period, but he didn't seem to notice it.

"The source of water should be there, I seem to have heard the sound of water." Luo Yuan suddenly opened his eyes, a gleam of joy flashed across his face, and said loudly.

Immediately, he strode towards the rock wall in front, and a group of people hurriedly followed.

After walking along the rock wall for more than a hundred meters, everyone could faintly hear the sound of rushing water, and if there was no sound, they might not be able to detect it if they didn't pay attention deliberately. Only then did they feel how far the gap between themselves and Luo Yuan was. How far. If ordinary people are separated by a hundred meters, even if they yell, they will still be indistinct, indistinct, and indistinguishable, not to mention the faint sound of water.

After walking for tens of meters, the sound of the water became louder and louder. Some sharp-eyed people could already see the water pool reflecting the moonlight under the night.

A clear spring water gurgled out from the half-meter-high rock crevice, and fell into the pool below. The pool is not big, only three or four square meters, but the most rare thing is that this pool is running water, crystal clear, Clean and bright.

"It's spring water, that's great!" Cao Lin said loudly in surprise, she seemed to be unable to restrain her emotions, and her whole body trembled slightly.

"It's so clean, I think the water must be sweet." Zhao Yali also looked excited.

With the depletion of water sources near the camp these days, everyone is drinking sewage.

When mixed in the soup, it can barely enter the mouth when mixed with the umami taste of the food. Once you drink it directly, you will be overwhelmed by the smell of dead bodies and the dry and disgusting smell of mud.

I didn't feel it before when I didn't compare it, but now when I saw the crystal clear spring water, everyone was emotionally overwhelmed and couldn't help themselves.

Even Mu Wenwen, who has always been expressionless and immersed in her own world, couldn't help but evoked a smile. The momentary expression of emotion seemed to destroy some of her mysterious power that people unconsciously ignored, and made several people subconsciously Glancing at her, a trace of surprise and astonishment flashed across her face.

It seemed that everyone noticed that this woman who had been living with everyone was actually a charming beauty.

Mu Wenwen was taken aback for a moment, she seemed a little unaccustomed to it, and a little flustered, she quickly restrained her smile, and became expressionless again.

A few people looked at it for a while, as if they had forgotten something, and were soon distracted by other things, everything seemed natural.

Even Luo Yuan was affected by this mysterious power. He looked away, and a shadow seemed to sweep across the corner of his eyes.

He saw a tree!

He couldn't help but be surprised, the giant almost cut down all the trees near the old nest, except for weeds, there was nothing else, and this solitary tree 70 to 80 meters away seemed too dazzling.

The roots of this tree are thick, and most of them are exposed outside. They are thick and knotted, twisted and twisted, forming a huge spherical shape, like countless entangled giant pythons. Through the gaps in the roots, it is actually It grew on a boulder more than ten meters high. However, as the root system became more and more prosperous, the boulder inside was already full of fine cracks. The reason why it can still maintain its basic shape and not be torn apart is obviously the reason for the restraint of these roots. .

Compared with the huge root, the tree body is relatively short, only about eight or nine meters high, and the leaves are sparse. On the forked branches, a few sporadic fruits are hanging on it. The post-apocalyptic plants seem to have undergone a mutation , rarely bear fruit, but this tree actually has fruit, which made Luo Yuan unavoidably a little curious.

"You guys stay here first, I'll go over there to have a look!" Luo Yuan said.

That tree was obviously not an ordinary mutated tree. Around its roots, he saw a snow-white skeleton, which looked eerie and creepy in the night.

Luo Yuan explained the matter to Huang Jiahui and others, and warned them not to come over no matter what happened, so he walked forward with a saber in hand.

He stopped seven or eight meters away from the strange tree, and in front of him was a thick bone area, most of which were bones of various mutant beasts, but some belonged to giants, not many, only about five or six tools, perhaps left by giants who entered here by mistake.

This tree is really mysterious. Apart from the bulbous roots, its trunk is also weird and extremely twisted. The whole branch seems to be a piece of yellow and purple towel that has been wrung out, showing spiral spirals.

The area near the root of the tree is covered with bumps the size of a baby's fist, which look densely packed. If someone with dense phobia sees it, his head will probably turn big.

Although the tree was motionless and didn't feel dangerous, Luo Yuan didn't rush in.

The nature of plants as a race makes each of these carnivorous mutant trees the most patient hunters. In ordinary times, they are basically like ordinary big trees. Only at the moment of hunting do they show their ferocious faces.

With a movement in his heart, he suddenly exuded a powerful aura. The air seemed to freeze, and an unspeakable oppressive aura enveloped the entire space. While exuding the aura, he carefully observed the strange tree.

When the blade advanced to the expert level, his aura was already quite strong, and even light green creatures would be temporarily shocked when they were caught off guard.

But this strange tree remained motionless, as if it was an ordinary mutant tree.

Luo Yuan was a little puzzled. He hesitated for a moment, and walked forward slowly. The bones under his feet looked very brittle, and when he stepped on it, there was a crisp and cracking sound of "pop" and "pop".

Perception is like a holographic radar, reflecting everything around, even the roots of the underground trees have not fallen at all. He held the handle of the knife tightly, the muscles of his whole body seemed to be loose and tight, and every step was in the best position to exert force. Once the strange tree made any attack moves, it would definitely usher in a thunderstorm-like attack.

But gradually, his expression became more and more puzzled. Everything showed that this strange tree was harmless to humans and animals. Even standing in front of the strange tree and touching its weird and rough bark, there was no reaction at all.

"No, if this tree is really an ordinary mutated tree, then how can there be so many bones, and..." He picked up one of the bones, and broke it with a crisp sound: "This bone is too It's fragile, don't talk about mutant beasts, I'm afraid an ordinary wooden stick before the end of the world is tougher than him, obviously because of the loss of a lot of organic matter inside."

Immediately, with a flash of his saber, a piece of bark the size of a palm was peeled off by him, and a bright red liquid like blood slowly seeped out from the trunk, and at the same time, a strange The fragrance gradually diffused.

He picked up the piece of bark and performed an identification technique. Suddenly, his body was shocked!

"Wisdom Bark"

"Rarity: Blue."

"Weight: 300g."

"Attribute: none."

"Additional Abilities: None"

"Evaluation: This is the bark of a rare wisdom tree. Behind every wild wisdom tree, a wise race will be born. Its value cannot be estimated. As for this piece of bark, it may be a good collection .”

He was stunned for a long time before he came back to his senses and looked at the fruit on the tree again.

The fruit was quickly knocked down by a stone, and after picking it up, he used an identification technique:

"wisdom fruit"

"Rarity: Blue."

"Weight: 100g."

"Attribute: none."

"Additional ability: open wisdom."

"Evaluation: This is a rare fruit of the tree of wisdom, which can slightly stimulate the development of the cerebral cortex again and open up wisdom! It is effective for intelligence below eleven."

His face was a little dignified, and his heart seemed to be heavy with a boulder.

"How could there be such a mutated tree? How could there be such a fruit? Is this a coincidence of natural evolution, or was it deliberately arranged by some mysterious force?"

In fact, he has always had a feeling that this mutation seems to be aimed at humans. Beasts can evolve naturally, insects can evolve naturally, and even plants can evolve naturally, but humans alone have not changed for a long time, as if There is some kind of mysterious power that is oppressing human beings, even trying to exterminate them.

In terms of biological essence, there is no essential difference between human beings and other creatures. Even mice with great individual differences have 80% of the same genes and share 99% of similar genes. As for primates, Genes are almost identical to humans.

However, primates can mutate and evolve, but humans are almost the same as before the end of the world, and only a very few individuals can break through the blockade of this power by devouring the flesh and blood of other mutated creatures.

The reality is icy cold and despairing, human beings seem to be forgotten by nature, without any change, they are completely allowed to struggle and perish.

"I'm afraid this kind of thing is also spawned by that mysterious force, and the purpose is to support other races to replace humans." Luo Yuan felt a little suspicious. He looked at the devil-like fruit in his hand, and when he pinched it hard, it was crushed by him. The pink flesh splashed everywhere, and there was a tempting fragrance.

He looked at this tall tree of wisdom with sharp eyes, and the next moment he raised his saber sharply!

The look changes!

Time passed slowly, he seemed to be petrified, and he did not move for a long time.

In the end, he slowly inserted the knife into the sheath, and looked at the corpse in the distance.