The Guide to the End of the World: Four Sentinels Compete for Favor

Ai Wanxin's muscles were tense, one hand already grasping the hilt of Cixing's knife, and he saw a dark leopard quietly poking its head out from the weeds.

The deep red eyes stared at her quietly.

Ai Wanxin finally breathed a sigh of relief.

"Where is your master?" she asked, touching the black panther's head.

The black panther rubbed against her palm, but Yin Yanhan did not appear from the mist.

Ai Wanxin understood that Taowu was sent to accompany her.

Not bad.

She let the little fox out.

The little fox shrank in size and became half the size of a human, looking somewhat like it did in its previous life.

"Go and see if there are any living people nearby," she ordered.

Two figures, one black and one red, suddenly dived into the thick fog.

Ai Wanxin continued on her way and jumped over a deep ravine. She saw a sparse pine forest. Under the inch-deep pine needles, yellow-brown mushrooms poked their heads out.

Some of these mushrooms have their caps fully opened, while others are still curled up.

Not to mention that she didn't know what kind of mushroom this was, even if she did, she would never touch it.

Ai Wanxin carefully avoided the bump on the ground and walked forward about ten meters. Just as her right foot landed, she heard a soft sound: "Puff—"

She slowly raised her foot, and a thin wisp of pale blue smoke curled up from between the loose needles.

"Puff, puff, puff--" Like popcorn frying in a pot, the mushrooms in the pine forest exploded one after another, and the light blue spore smoke instantly dyed the thick fog into light green.

Ai Wanxin quickly held her breath and ran quickly in the direction she came from.

Green Smoke doesn't run away, he's not stupid!

After a few steps out of the pine forest, Ai Wanxin leaped into the air and tried to cross the deep ravine. The distance of more than 3 meters was no problem for the sentry.

But after becoming airborne, Ai Wanxin felt her knees go weak and all her strength was gone, and her body fell uncontrollably into the deep ravine.

Before she could condense the fire whip, a black shadow leaped down like lightning, its body rapidly expanded in mid-air, and with a "bang", Ai Wanxin landed steadily on Taowu's broad back.

Taowu stepped back and forth on the mountain wall with his steel-sharp claws, then turned around and jumped out of the deep ravine.

After a short while, Ai Wanxin had purified all the toxins in her body. She slid off Taowu's back and fell back to the ground.

The little fox, who was a step late, circled around her body anxiously.

Ai Wanxin smiled and said, "Oh, it's not a big problem."

"It can't be that I'm the only one who encountered something strange, right?" In order to find someone to take the blame, Ai Wanxin dialed Pei Junlin's channel.

"Brother Pei, how are you? Did you encounter any danger?" Ai Wanxin asked happily.

There were a few strange howling sounds coming from the other end of the radio. Pei Junlin dodged the monkey's slap and said nonchalantly, "No, baby. The animals here are all very docile."

As if in response to his words, the big monkey grabbed a handful of mud from the ground and threw it straight at him.

Ai Wan switched to He Yang's channel contentedly.

"Do you miss me, sweetheart?" He Yang's voice, wrapped in the sound of the wind, came from her terminal.

"Captain He, how's your progress?" Ai Wanxin asked curiously.

"Buzz--" The hair-raising sound of flapping wings came from the other end of the radio.

"Steady - advance -" He Yang's voice took a sharp turn in the middle, and it was obvious that he was being chased by something in the air and his butt was smoking.

"That's great." Ai Wanxin hung up the phone.

It seems that I am not the only one who is being chased around.

She thought happily.

Taowu shrank back to the size of a black panther and walked forward to rub the back of Ai Wanxin's hand.

"Brother Han? I don't know which channel Brother Han is on, so I won't ask." She said generously.

Taowu looked at her inexplicably happy back and said silently through the mental connection: Who is to blame for this? It's your own fault for not telling her the channel!

Going around the pine forest in front of him, Ai Wanxin continued moving into the mountains.

After noon, the thick fog that blocked the view gradually dissipated, and a corner of a brick-red building was faintly visible in the shade of the jungle.

Ai Wanxin frowned slightly. Are there houses in this mountain?

In her impression, the east side of Jinsong Peak has been developed into a tourist attraction, but only a plank road for climbing the mountain has been built. The west side, which is where she is now, is still undeveloped.

There are houses here, maybe there are survivors.

Ai Wanxin made up her mind and walked quickly towards the brick house.

The brick house hidden by the woods slowly revealed its true appearance.

It was a two-story red brick factory building with walls covered with rust-red ivy. The old glass windows were covered with yellowed newspapers, making it impossible to see clearly what was going on inside the factory.

She stepped over the fallen barbed wire and caught a glimpse of an overturned two-wheeled wooden cart in front of the factory gate.

Ai Wanxin's eyes narrowed.

Lao Qian’s fat colleague said that Academician Yang and his team hired a donkey cart from a local to go into the mountains. Is this the one?

Ai Wanxin's spirits lifted. She took two steps to the gate of the factory. Seeing that the iron chain of the gate had fallen to the side, she put her hand on the rusty iron gate and pushed gently, but the iron gate did not move at all.

The door was blocked from the inside!

Ai Wanxin walked around to the side of the factory building. The window glass covered with newspapers was shattered all over the floor. The inside of the window was welded shut with iron bars. The factory building was dark and nothing could be seen.

She reached her hand into the window and placed it on an iron bar. She saw the iron bar slowly turn red and shiny. With a "bang", the finger-thick iron bar was melted and broken off by her.

Taowu jumped lightly onto the window frame and placed his claws on another iron bar. He then saw that the iron bar behind the window was like ice cream under the scorching sun, all of which turned into molten iron and dripped down.

Ai Wanxin grinned, how could she have forgotten it?

Ai Wanxin took down the rotten and dilapidated window frame, leaned on the windowsill, turned over and jumped into the factory, followed by Taowu and the little fox.

What hit my nose was the smell of damp dust mixed with mold.

Ai Wanxin had learned her lesson. She took out a filter mask from the space and put it on, then looked at the situation inside the factory.

This seems to be an abandoned mechanical processing plant. The huge old and rusty punching machines cast heavy shadows in the dark factory.

In the direction of the gate, two small lathes were pushed to the side of the door, blocking the gate. It was obvious that someone did it on purpose.

There were several large steel cylinders lying over by the window, with the word acetylene marked in red on a white background.

Ai Wanxin waved her fingers, and Taowu and the little fox jumped into the shadows respectively. She drew her sword and slowly stepped into the center of the factory.

Near the end of the factory, on the platform of a machine tool, Ai Wanxin saw a small hill tightly covered with oilcloth.

She lifted the oilcloth and revealed several brand new instruments underneath that clearly did not belong to this factory.

Ai Wan was delighted and was about to summon the little fox and Taowu back when she suddenly felt a huge force on her ankle, pulling her into the hole under her feet.