Doomsday Sequence Caravan: I Have a Mechanical Heart

"Previously, this area was guarded by those two behemoths," Nie Xiaoying explained. "Now that they're gone, the wandering monsters from the depths have started to spread here."

"I understand." Ling Hao's expression turned serious upon hearing this. "You may leave now."

"Be careful when you eat later."

"Okay." Nie Xiaoying nodded and agreed.

As dusk settled, the bonfire on the beach grew ever brighter.

The raging flames shot up two or three meters high, illuminating a radius of fifty or sixty meters.

Su Mu stood not far from the fire, looking at Cheng Jun with a hint of exasperation. "I was just going to pickle some fish, and you put in so many branches, making the fire so big."

"Now look what's happened, we can't bake it anymore."

"I was just thinking that if the fire was bigger, the fish would cook faster." Cheng Jun scratched his head and smiled a little embarrassedly.

"The fire was too strong and it burned right away." Su Mu sighed softly, then turned and walked towards the woods.

"Where are you going?" Cheng Jun asked, quickly following after him.

"Let's find some more twigs," Su Mu said without turning his head. "Let's build a small fire and slowly roast the fish."

"I'll go with you," Cheng Jun said hastily as he rushed to Su Mu's side.

A few minutes later, Su Mu set up a small fire, found some branches to build a rack, and placed the fish grilling tongs on it to start grilling.

An Xin squatted down next to Su Mu, watching the fish gradually turn golden brown with longing eyes, and couldn't help but swallow her saliva. "When will it be ready?"

I'm starving.

"No rush." ​​Su Mu glanced at her. "If you're really hungry, eat something first."

"No, no," An Xin quickly shook her head. "I want to save room for the grilled fish."

"Then just bear with it a little longer," Su Mu comforted softly.

"Sigh." Cheng Jun coughed lightly and sighed again, "It seems you reserve all your gentleness for women."

"Get out of here. What would it be if I were gentle with you?" Su Mu felt embarrassed when he heard this.

"I misspoke, I meant good temper." Cheng Jun realized what he had said and quickly corrected himself, "It's your good temper."

"If you disgust me again," Su Mu said speechlessly, rolling her eyes at him, "I'm not going to grill fish for you anymore."

"I'm not going to say anything more," Cheng Jun quickly changed his mind and laughed.

After a few minutes

The snake meat there was sliced ​​thinly, so it was grilled very quickly.

Yuyao brought some over, squatted down next to Chengjun, and said, "Try it, I grilled it."

"You can grill meat too?" Cheng Jun was quite surprised. He picked up a piece, tasted it, and his eyes lit up immediately. "Spicy and flavorful, it's really good."

As he spoke, he picked up another piece and started eating.

"No need to rush, these are all yours." Yu Yao's eyes also showed joy as she watched Cheng Jun eat with relish.

"Then I'll eat it all, what will you eat?" Cheng Jun was taken aback.

"There's more over there, I'll go get some more." Yu Yao said, handing the plate in her hand to Cheng Jun, and got up to leave.

An Xin glanced at Yu Yao as she left, then whispered to Su Mu, "When did they get so close?"

"I don't know." Su Mu shook his head. "Maybe they've been secretly dating for a while now."

"That's possible." An Xin thought for a moment and agreed wholeheartedly. "I was saying that Yao Yao doesn't talk to me much anymore."

"So he has someone in his heart."

Cheng Jun didn't hear what the two were saying and continued to enjoy his roasted snake meat.

After a moment, Ling Hao brought over two plates and handed them to Su Mu, saying, "Try them."

"It tastes good." Su Mu took a piece. "I didn't expect that you could remove all the fishy smell from this snake meat."

"We had some wild apples," Ling Hao explained. "I got some apple juice and pickled them."

"Oh, I see." Su Mu suddenly realized. "Do you have any apple juice left? Marinate the ones that weren't roasted too."

"I'll go get some," Ling Hao said, and went to the other side of the campfire.

half an hour later

As the group was eating grilled fish, Nie Xiaoying suddenly sensed something and quickly looked towards the woods.

By this time, it was completely dark, and the forest was pitch black; nothing could be seen. The shadows of the trees swayed back and forth in the firelight, creating an eerie and terrifying atmosphere.

"They're here?" Ling Hao glanced at Nie Xiaoying and asked in a low voice.

"It's wolves." Nie Xiaoying shook her head. "So many wolves, running towards us like they're fleeing for their lives."

"So, does that mean those wandering monsters are behind the wolf pack?" Ling Hao's expression turned serious upon hearing this.

"Yes." Nie Xiaoying was silent for a moment, then nodded. "But they didn't approach us; they stopped about five or six miles away."

"Moreover, there is an aura of lordship controlling them."

"It can even use wolves to test us?" Ling Hao realized something. "It seems that this Lord-level monster is probably quite powerful."

As he spoke, he looked at Song Weiwei and said, "Have someone take the food back to the ship to eat."

"A wolf is coming."

"Okay." Song Weiwei responded and stood up to begin arranging for the ordinary people to return to the ship.

Su Mu and the others arrived at Ling Hao's place. "What happened?"

Ling Hao repeated what Nie Xiaoying had said to him.

"Then we need to be careful." Upon hearing this, Su Mu couldn't help but think of his encounter at the junkyard. "Back then at the junkyard, the Lord's Ghost that could control the Wandering Ghosts could not only control those Wandering Ghosts."

"And they can also be used to heal one's injuries."

"There are at least 1,500 wandering monsters here," Nie Xiaoying's voice suddenly rang out. "And they are very difficult to kill within the domain."

"These guys are really insidious," Cheng Jun couldn't help but curse. "They actually chose to make their move at night."

"I can't even see it clearly."

"Let's not talk about that for now." Ling Hao pondered for a moment, then arranged, "We'll stay here on the beach."

"When wolves come, kill them."

"If something strange comes, kill it."

As his voice faded, green eyes began to appear in the distant woods—the wolf pack had arrived.

"These wolves are just ordinary nocturnal beasts, leave them to me." Yao Zhe said, taking a step forward with his long sword in hand. Electricity crackled on his legs and on his sword, making a crackling sound.

After a while, the wolf pack arrived at the woods about 70 or 80 meters away.

Yao Zhe didn't wait any longer. His figure suddenly disappeared, transforming into a bolt of lightning and rushing towards the wolf pack.

Then, streaks of lightning flashed among the wolves, followed by their screams of agony.

"This kid's speed is really impressive." Cheng Jun crossed his arms and couldn't help but sigh. "If he can advance to the Xuan rank, he'll probably be even stronger."