Living on a deserted island, the cold female president regards me as king

Should he not...

Do you want to eat these empty shells?
Can this be eaten too?

A few thoughts flashed through my mind, but subconsciously, I stopped in front of Wu.

With the previous experience and lessons, no matter what, even if I starve him to death, I will not let him eat these things.

Otherwise, once this guy eats too much, his body will mutate again.

I'm afraid that at that time, his little remaining humanity will be completely wiped out, and he who has lost his humanity will be indistinguishable from those monsters.

I don't want to add another enemy to us in this situation.

"Woooo!"

Seeing me standing in front of me, Wu was obviously dissatisfied.

But he subconsciously glanced at Karen who kept sneering, then his Adam's apple rolled a few times, and he lowered his head.

"I really don't understand what you are thinking."

Karen curled her lips and looked at me with displeasure, "Look at the detector. Next, which way should we go?"

"Ah."

I took out the detector, opened it and saw that the red dot displayed on the screen was much closer to us.

But at this distance, the specific position of the red dot can probably be determined.

I have performed missions for the company in this place for a long time, so I am quite familiar with the terrain environment here. From a distance, I recognized at a glance that the position of the red dot on the screen is the center of the tiankeng .

It is also the original excavation site.

Radiation source, right there!

"How far is it?"

Karen sat down on the spot, opened my backpack, took out two bags of compressed biscuits, and chewed them with relish.

Not far away, not near.

I glanced at the ground in front of us. There are cracks everywhere, some of which are as wide as four or five meters.

The road is not easy to walk.

"almost."

I mumbled, took a bag of biscuits from her hand, and sat down too.

The ghost knows that other than those dead giant scorpions, there are other terrifying creatures here. We'd better wait for our physical strength to recover before continuing to set off.

After all, cleaning up the gravel on the way down is also a great consumption of the body.

While we were eating and drinking, Wu stood beside us quietly, looking at us helplessly, chewing biscuits one bite after another.

Karen glanced at him from time to time, but most of the time, she had ill intentions written all over her face.

"Don't stare at us, disgusting!"

Hearing Karen's scolding, Wu stiffly turned his back to us, and the hand growing behind him was constantly dancing, looking a little restless, or...excited?

After eating, drinking and resting for a while, I checked what we had left of food.

Can last two more days.

After these two days, I have to be hungry.

Counting the journey back, it will take us at least one and a half days, so we must find the source of infection within half a day.

Half a day, twelve hours, no delay.

As soon as my physical strength recovered, I got up first, stepped on the empty shell of the giant scorpion, and walked towards the central area at the bottom of the sinkhole.

The cracks on the ground criss-crossed, but the empty shells of these giant scorpions acted as a stepping stone.

The empty shells are very hard, and most of them are more than three meters long. When facing some places that are difficult to jump across, they can just be moved over to step on their feet.

Of course, this method is limited to places where the crack width is narrow.

As for those cracks whose width exceeds three meters, we can only use our own abilities to jump directly over them.

Fortunately, both Karen and I have a good grasp of our abilities.

Outburst of force, so let's get to the other end of the chasm with unerring precision.

But among us, Wu does not have such ability. Although he is not a normal person like us, he has nothing to do in the face of this kind of crack.

Helpless, I could only endure the disgust from my heart, and jumped over with him in my arms.

"How does it feel?"

At this time, Karen still did not forget to tease me.

I could only smile helplessly, shook my head, and continued on my way.

After half an hour like this, after we had crossed about 20 or so cracks, I finally felt something was wrong.

The distance seems to be farther than I imagined?

I glanced at the crow that I was carrying upside down, and then at the crack in front of me, feeling dizzy for a while.

The further we go, the more empty scorpion shells we see.

There are more than I imagined.

It was at this time that I realized that the giant scorpions we encountered when performing missions here were just the tip of the iceberg among the giant scorpions living here.

Their number is unimaginable.

It's just that I'm very curious now, what is the reason why they started to die in large numbers?

"see it?"

After going forward for more than half an hour, Karen and I had to stop, and Wu was thrown aside by me.

"I saw it."

I nodded, took a deep breath and walked to the edge of the crack, then looked at the ground on the other side, far away.

This crack, no, the width, can't even be called a crack anymore.

It's a rift!
To get to the other side, we have to cross a distance of at least 30 meters!

The corner of my mouth couldn't help twitching, because I even felt that even if I had wings, I might not be able to fly over, let alone jump.

No matter how strong the strength of my legs is, there is absolutely no way to support me across such a long distance.

But it's not like there's nothing you can do.

Because, it can be clearly seen that strips of things similar to tree roots connect the two sides of the rift valley.

There are a lot of them, and they seem very strong, and should be enough for us to climb this chasm.

It's just that I always feel that these things like tree roots are very unusual. After all, I have entered the giant scorpion's lair here, which goes deep into the ground, but during the process of entering, I have never seen anything Something like this appears.

Obviously, this thing only emerged after the last catastrophe of landslides and ground cracks passed.

"I think this thing is alive."

Karen was squatting not far from me. After watching quietly for a while, she said something that made my hair stand on end.

Live?

How can it be?These things seem to be no different from ordinary tree roots.

But after thinking about it carefully, I fell silent.

Because the more I think about it, the more I think it is wrong, and when I think about my experience of being here more than once, I feel that what Karen said is very likely to be true!