Doomsday Sequence Caravan: I Have a Mechanical Heart

The wild fruit grove was quite large. After Ling Hao and Song Weiwei arranged for people to collect them, they gathered a good four or five hundred pounds of wild apples. Although they tasted sour, they were real fruit.

For them in this era, that is a luxury that is hard to come by.

After all the wild apples were collected, each person received one, and the rest were put into the warehouse for unified management and distribution.

After gathering the wild fruits, Ling Hao didn't rush to leave. His gaze fell on the corpses of the two giant pythons. "Cheng Jun, do you think we should take some snake meat?"

"Let's roast it and eat it after the rain stops."

"We don't have any salt." Cheng Jun's eyes lit up, but then he frowned again as if he had thought of something.

"It's right next to the sea," Ling Hao smiled slightly. "You can easily get some coarse salt, can't you?"

"Besides, we've collected pickled vegetables, chili sauce, and things like that."

"You can also eat it directly after it's baked."

"That's true." Ling Hao laughed upon hearing this. "Just wait and see."

He then looked at Yao Zhe and said, "Here, give me your knife."

"I'll cut some snake meat to take back with me."

"Is snake meat delicious?" Yao Zhe asked curiously.

"Whether it's good or not, you'll know once you try it." Cheng Jun said, plunging the long knife into the snake's body and beginning to cut it.

Su Mu did not leave either. An Xin stood beside him and suddenly sensed something. She pointed to the valley to the south and said, "There is demonic energy over there."

"Is it dangerous?" Su Mu glanced at her.

"It's not dangerous." An Xin shook her head.

"Let's go take a look," Su Mu said, walking in the direction An Xin pointed.

"Where are you going?" Yu Yao asked, and quickly followed.

"Go to a place with demonic energy," An Xin replied coldly.

"I'll go take a look too." Yu Yao hurriedly followed, glancing at An Xin's back with a hint of sadness in her eyes.

Although she knew that An Xin had a dual personality, she still felt uncomfortable being treated so coldly all of a sudden.

"Be careful." Ling Hao noticed the three of them making a fuss and quickly reminded them.

"Did they discover something?" Cheng Jun looked up and asked.

"It should be." Ling Hao nodded, then thought for a moment and added, "Once the snake meat is cut up, let's go take a look."

"Okay," Cheng Jun replied, then turned to Yao Zhe, "Take this snake meat and go back to the ship first."

"If you can't take them all at once, take them in two trips."

"Okay, Brother Cheng," Yao Zhe quickly replied.

Su Mu and his two companions walked south for a hundred or two meters and arrived at the entrance of the valley. They looked inside and found that the valley was not very large, only a few hundred meters deep. The vegetation was sparse, and they could vaguely see something deep inside.

Su Mu used his resource sensing ability and discovered a mysterious aura deep within the valley, which piqued his interest. "Let's go."

First, they walked inside.

"This seems to be where those two snakes live." Yu Yao was startled when she saw the crawling marks more than a meter thick in the woods. Then she guessed what was going on, "Could it be that those two giant pythons weren't guarding that wild fruit grove?"

"What are they guarding deep within this valley?"

"That's possible," An Xin replied, her tone still indifferent.

After a few minutes

They walked through the mountains and forests and came to the depths of this valley, where a circular clearing about a hundred meters in size appeared before them.

In the middle of this open space stands a ten-meter-high pyramid-shaped altar. The altar is covered with moss, which has turned it green, giving it a unique and charming appearance.

To the right of the altar was a snake den, several tens of meters in size, and in the center of the den lay three snake eggs. Each egg was fifty or sixty centimeters in size, with faint blue patterns on it.

"Such huge snake eggs!" Yu Yao exclaimed in surprise. "If we cooked them, the plate would be enormous."

"They'll be out soon," An Xin said, glancing at it.

Su Mu glanced at the three snake eggs before turning his gaze back to the altar. Clearly, the two giant pythons were guarding the altar. Moreover, the mysterious aura he sensed was located at the top of the altar.

He couldn't help but become more curious about what the altar was used for.

While pondering, I walked up.

"Where are you going?" An Xin asked quickly.

"Let's go up and take a look," Su Mu said calmly. "You and Yu Yao go check on the snake eggs first."

"Okay," An Xin replied. Then she and Yu Yao walked towards the three snake eggs.

As Su Mu approached the altar and placed his foot on it, he felt a profound sense of antiquity. It was as if an aura from ancient times was flowing around him.

His expression unconsciously turned serious.

He walked up step by step, quietly, and the higher he went, the stronger the aura from ancient times became. It was as if this altar was a bridge connecting to the ancient past.

Soon, he arrived at the top of the altar.

This area is only two meters square and is covered with moss. In its center, there is a three-centimeter-wide circular groove, in which sits a round, bluish-gray stone.

The mysterious aura came from this stone. Out of curiosity, he squatted down and planned to take the round stone out of the groove to take a look.

Just in case, he stored some mechanical heart energy in his hands.

The moment his hand touched the round stone, there was a cracking sound, and the surface of the stone shattered, revealing a crystal-clear, water-like blue jade pendant with strange patterns on it.

Su Mu was immediately stunned, but before he could withdraw his hand, a dazzling blue light suddenly burst forth from the blue jade pendant, so bright that he couldn't open his eyes for a moment and quickly raised his hand to shield them.

Nine streams of light appeared on the cyan jade pendant and entered the altar.

The next moment, the entire altar began to light up rapidly, level by level, from top to bottom.

Su Mu quickly stood up and looked down at the altar, not understanding what had happened.

Soon, the light reached the bottom of the altar, but it didn't stop there; it continued to spread outwards to the surrounding open space.

Golden patterns began to appear on the previously empty ground, bearing some resemblance to those on the jade pendant.

In less than a minute, the golden patterns spread across the entire open space, and even beneath the snake's nest, streaks of golden light appeared.

An Xin and Yu Yao stood there, both looking at Su Mu in shock, not understanding what had happened.

Ling Hao and Cheng Jun, who were rushing towards the scene from a distance, were also astonished. "What happened? Why is there such a commotion?"

"Let's go, let's go take a look." A look of worry flashed across Ling Hao's face, and he quickened his pace.