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Du Heng laughed and didn't respond directly. Before saying goodbye, he casually said:

"Little girl, your name always reminds me of the past. At that time, there were many cotton fields near my hometown. Whenever this season, or a little later, you can see countless small clouds falling to the ground. That scene so gorgeous."

Jiang Baimian stood up, smiled slightly and said:

"My father is a biologist who studies cotton improvement, and the month I was born happened to be the harvest season of cotton, so he gave me such a name."

Having said that, she protested with a smile:

"Although you are indeed older than us, you probably won't be able to use the title 'little girl'."

Du Heng laughed:

"My age is much older than my appearance, and I am older than you think."

Without further delay, he smiled and waved his hands:

"I hope to see you again."

"I hope to see you again." Jiang Baimian, Shang Jianyao and others responded politely.

Du Heng waved his hand again, turned his body, bypassed the soil bag, and walked to the north step by step in the dark wilderness where the sun had already set and the moon had not yet risen.

"Ms. Galoran, what about you? Are you going to the north of Yuelu Station too?" Jiang Baimian sat down again and looked at the blond Taoist opposite.

Galoran smiled and replied:

"Don't call me Ms.. On the way to find the 'Tao', there is no distinction between men and women.

"If you want to show respect, I don't mind, you can call me Daoist.

"Of course, it doesn't matter if you want to call me Xiao Luo, Xiao Lan, or Xiao Jia. This is nothing more than seeking different scenery on the road, and there is no distinction between high and low."

"It's pretty, pretty, down-to-earth." Jiang Baimian thought for a long time, and finally came up with an appropriate adjective, "It can be seen that your Hui Tu language is quite good."

"I didn't do it voluntarily." Galoran's answer was completely beyond Bai Chen's and others' expectations.

She then gave an explanation with a constant smile:

"The classics about 'Tao' are all written in gray soil script. If they are translated into Honghe language, they will lose their charm and cannot be described accurately."

After finishing speaking, she threw the finished rabbit bone on the ground, put two oily fingers into her mouth, sucked it a few times, and then wiped it on the clothes indifferently.

Such a casual behavior, combined with her glamorous but somewhat noble temperament, made Jiang Baimian, Shang Jianyao and others a little dumbfounded.

Galoran took out a water bag and drank a couple of sips. Seeing that the people on the opposite side were staring at him in a daze, he chuckled lightly and said:

"Sometimes, we can't even tell the truth from the fake, and we can't even guarantee the most basic survival. What do we still care about these insignificant details? It's better to do whatever we want and leave it to nature."

Having said that, she cast her eyes on the jumping bonfire, and said with an indescribable smile:

"Just like the nobles in the Senate of the 'Original City', they were homeless struggling to survive in the wilderness decades ago. When there was no clean water source, they even had to rush to drink the urine of their companions, but now they have to pay attention to etiquette. Talk about respect and inferiority, talk about all kinds of red tape that actually have no meaning.

"Hehe, when the low-level citizens in the city died of freezing and starvation, they stipulated that the banquet must have one dish and one tableware."

Shang Jianyao, Long Yuehong, and Bai Chen have never been to the "First City", they just heard some rumors, so they really can't answer this topic.

Jiang Baimian nodded thoughtfully:

"It seems that you are from the 'Original City'."

Galoran, the blond Taoist priest, smiled, but didn't give an affirmative answer, nor did he deny it.

Shang Jian Yao saw that the scene was a little silent for a while, so he changed the subject:

"Master Galoran, what is a Taoist priest?"

Galoran thought about it seriously:

"It's really hard to explain...

"Didn't you meet monks? Taoist priests can be regarded as another kind of monks, monks who belong to another religion and believe in different ages."

Hearing the word "Zhi Sui", Jiang Baimian, Long Yuehong and others all felt tingling veins on their foreheads.

Shang Jianyao took the initiative to ask:

"I don't know which Zhisui you believe in?"

Galoran's expression became serious:

"Zhuang Sheng."

"..." All the members of the "Old Tune Group" are a little hard to say.

——After getting rid of the purification method, Long Yuehong and Shang Jianyao shared the information told by this mechanical monk who did not lie to Jiang Baimian and Bai Chen.

Among these information, a very important one is:

The monks believe that this world is just a dream of the past Buddha "Shi Zi Zai Tathagata", so it will be full of all kinds of pain. There is no other name.

That name is:

"Zhuang Sheng"!

Galoran took in all the slightly abnormal reactions of several people, but did not ask any questions.

After a few seconds, Jiang Baimian tentatively asked:

"Did you join the current sect in the 'Original City'?"

Galoran nodded:

"Yes, the Eternal Time Sect."

A smile gradually appeared on her face:

"At that time, my mother had just passed away, and I didn't get along well with the rest of the family..."

Suddenly, Shang Jianyao interrupted the priest's memory:

"When it came to your mother's death, why didn't you feel sad, but why did you laugh instead?"

Galoran laughed, and said in a gray dialect:

"Birth, old age, sickness and death are the natural laws of this world. Just like spring, summer, autumn and winter, there will always be alternation and reincarnation. Although my mother is dead, she still sleeps peacefully between heaven and earth, and is still a part of nature. Maybe one day, she It will start again in another form, just like the end of winter and the arrival of spring.

"Now that you understand this, why do you weep in sorrow?

"If you have this energy, it's better to miss it more."

Shang Jianyao wanted to refute, but couldn't find any loopholes in the opponent's theory, so he could only shut his mouth sullenly.

Vaguely, he even felt that what Galoran said made sense, but it was too extreme.

Just as Galoran was about to continue the previous topic, there was another desolate roar from the north of Yuelu Station:

"Ow!"

This time, the roar became louder and rougher, and there was an obvious change.

After listening to it, Galoran smiled slightly and said:

"It seems that I have to go there too."

She stood up slowly, embraced her right hand with her left hand, and saluted:

"To people without self, a new world is at hand."

Then, she patted off her Taoist robe, and followed the tide towards the north.

"Perfect person is another name for Zhisui..." Seeing the Taoist priest Jia Luolan go away, Shang Jianyao simply explained.

Jiang Baimian had already stood up, looking at the direction where Galoran and Du Heng left. Suddenly, she laughed:

"Really, why don't they have a car and have to walk?

"With their abilities, this shouldn't be too difficult..."

Who dares to trek in the wilderness shrouded in night, who would have no support?

And such people don't need to delay deliberately, waiting for the first batch of relic hunters to trigger most of the dangers.

"It might have happened suddenly." Bai Chen judged from his own perspective.

"Maybe it's to maintain the image." Shang Jianyao said from a direction that normal people would not think about.

"... I somehow feel that what you said makes sense." Jiang Baimian almost laughed, "I mean the history researcher named Du Heng. As for Galoran, she has said it herself. If you want to see all kinds of scenery during the journey, it is natural It's better to walk."

Before the team members could speak, Jiang Baimian pretended to be serious and said:

"What puzzles me the most is another question."

"What?" Long Yuehong, who was in charge of guarding the surroundings, asked quite nervously.

The smile on Jiang Baimian's face could no longer be hidden:

"Shang Jian Yao, why didn't you participate in the 'Chorus' like before?"

She was referring to the first time Shang Jianyao heard the abnormality in the depths of the swamp.

Shang Jianyao glanced at the team leader and said seriously:

"You are so childish."

"..." Bai Chen and Long Yuehong almost laughed out loud, but Jiang Baimian was speechless and could only touch his ear and said, "Hey, what did you say? Really, can't you speak louder? Forget it, let's eat and eat."

After taking the lead in eating compressed biscuits and energy bars, and replenishing the water bladder, Jiang Baimian reminded seriously:

"Be more careful tonight.

"You also heard the movement just now."

When Bai Chen, Shang Jianyao and Long Yuehong all responded, Jiang Baimian turned to laugh and said:

"However, you should rest well when you rest, and you have to continue running tomorrow.

"Moreover, we need to start training your ability to find food. This does not only refer to hunting and searching, but also to distinguish which leaves and roots can be eaten, which parts of which deformed animals can be used in emergency situations, and which things must be injected within how long after eating. Genetic potion, what kind of soil can be used as food temporarily, top it once or twice... Don't think that the previous few days were an adventure on the dust, when the food is still sufficient, this can only be called an armed parade!"

Hearing this, Long Yuehong was frightened, but Shang Jianyao was eager to try.

Jiang Baimian thought for a while and added:

"Also, don't be fooled by those strange religious theories. Although this can indeed provide some spiritual comfort, in an environment like gray soil, it is actually escaping from reality, and there are great hidden dangers."

Long Yuehong nodded and asked curiously:

"Team leader, are there many such strange religions?"

This is something that is rarely mentioned in the "Pangea Biology" textbook.

"There are a lot of people. When people are in pain and despair, it is easy to rely on religion." Jiang Baimian said "huh", "As far as I know, in the main city of 'First City', there are underground religions that can cause a lot of harm. You can probably count on two hands."

After the reminder, Jiang Baimian took over Long Yuehong's task, patrolled the surrounding area, and ordered the team members to review all the encounters that happened today.

That night, they encountered no accidents.Not long after dawn, the jeep started heading north.

Seeing that the destination was not far away, Jiang Baimian, who was in the co-pilot position, began to introduce the team members:

"The residents of Black Rat Town are, in fact, a group of subhumans."

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"Second person?" After hearing this term, words such as "vicious", "malicious", "deformed", "dirty", "pollution source", and "hate humans" instantly appeared in Long Yuehong's mind.

Although he has never met a second person, the textbooks and the people around him say so.

Jiang Baimian seemed to be able to sense what Long Yuehong was thinking at this moment, and said with a "hey":

"Subhumans and human beings are essentially the same, at least the reproduction is not isolated."

Without waiting for Long Yuehong and others to speak again, she continued on her own:

"The group of people in Black Rat Town survived the first winter after the destruction of the old world by catching and eating rats. It is said that at that time, the rats in that area went crazy, and all of them came out of the ground, spreading all over the mountains and plains. Yes, some of them were festered, some had red eyes, and some attacked the living creatures around them indiscriminately.

"Uh... let's go further, let's talk about the group of people in Black Rat Town.

"After the first winter, because the pollution in the area where they originally lived had caused a large number of deaths, they chose to leave and migrate here.

"It's a pity that the nightmare didn't end here. Their bodies gradually mutated, and maybe because they ate too many deformed mice, they turned out to be more and more like mice. Ha, I'm not an expert in this field, and I haven't done any research, I'm just saying this.

"In short, their fine hair becomes black and thick, their bodies are always bent, and their nails become harder and sharper...

"After several generations of reproduction, the current residents of Black Rat Town are generally less than 1.4 meters tall. They like to live in caves and are very good at digging. Correspondingly, their food types have become more diverse. At the same time, they are afraid of strong sunlight. , can only be active in the morning, evening and night.

"They also have a lot of good mutations. For example, they are very talented in mechanics and electronics. Some old world electrical equipment is already badly broken. Corresponding wires and parts."