Love and passion, cutting up the wasteland

Lu Mengping raised the knife and checked its edge.

If you look closely, there are many gaps.

Not all of them were left behind during the confrontation with Mist Man just now. This ring-headed straight-edged sword had been following him for a long time and had already cut off many heads and limbs.

He looked at the blue body on the ground.

If you want to use this knife to chop a few more fog men like this, it may not be enough.

There have always been many speculations about the origin of the Fog Man, which can be regarded as one of the many mysteries in this world.

The only thing that is certain is that when the hive queen of a hive tribe dies or leaves her tribal area, the original tribe members will be irreversibly transformed into mist people.

Strangely, those wandering bees who had previously left the hive clan on their own would not be affected.

This mechanism is unknown to the rest of the world, as no one has witnessed the transformation of a Hive Man into a Mist Man.

There are only a few people who have even seen the fog people. For the survivors, all they can recall are the screams of their companions and the blurry evil spirits that haunt the thick fog.

But players are different.

These are all verifiable. For example, if you kidnap the hive queen frantically, then an event called "dead bee flooding" will occur in the tribe.

As for the fog people we call now, they come from "Kirishima".

——Kirishima is not an island, it is just a valley shrouded in thick fog.

However, because these zombie hive colonies are spread throughout the valley, it has become more dangerous than the deep sea.

This is where the name "Fog Man" comes from.

It is said that there is an isolated city in the center of Kirishima...

"But why did Kirito from Kirishima come to the hub?"

Lu Meng followed the small bone dog and checked the corpses everywhere.

Originally, the bone dog's injury had not healed yet. He had just pounced again, and now the bandages all over his body began to ooze blood again.

Lu Meng had no choice but to carry it on his shoulders.

The bone dog squirmed but didn't resist.

It smelled that the large group of fog men here had left, so it brought Lu Meng here. Unexpectedly, it bumped into a straggler.

"Is it fog?"

Lu Meng is reminded of the recent climate change in the hub.

The Hive tribe is extremely adaptable to the environment and will not be stopped by drought. However, except for scattered villages, the two major Hive tribes in the west and south do live in humid environments.

The predecessors of the current Kirito, the "Northern Hive Tribe", also live in areas with humid air like Kirishima, and they rarely leave Kirishima.

Perhaps the humidity of the air does have certain limitations on hive people like the Mists who are more instinctive.

However……

"This is too far."

Kirishima is not only thousands of miles away from the hub, but also separated by two large areas.

There is also a military base defense set up by the Holy Kingdom in the middle, specifically to prevent the invasion of the Fog People...

unless……

"The Holy Kingdom's defense line has fallen."

Lu Meng looked to the north, thinking about the situation there.

Although I can't say that I have a favorable impression of the Holy Kingdom, I have to admit that this powerful country has indeed resisted the invasion and harassment of various "demons and ghosts" on its borders, ensuring the survival of humans within its borders to a certain extent.

It is not difficult to understand the hostility towards non-human races in their teachings.

If the Holy Kingdom's military base on the western front is captured, the fog men may indeed spread to the southern province of "Oakland Bay".

Then, a small or more group of fog men took advantage of the changes in the hub station's environment to go south and enter the city.

The good news is that the Holy Kingdom will not get involved in the hub in the short term, and the Fog People in their territory are already a mess.

The bad news is that even if just a few wandering teams of Fogmen enter the hub, they're a pretty formidable threat.

"But that's not the more terrifying situation - if these fog people are not from Kirishima, but are new fog people transformed from the surrounding hive tribes... then the entire periphery of the hub station may have been surrounded at this moment. …”

Lu Meng only killed a low-level fog artificial bee, which had the strength of a warrior.

Further up there are the Zombie-Zombified Heavy Fog Man, and the Fog Man Prince...

No wonder the group of bone dogs that Zhang Ying saw migrated together strangely.

Not because of any hunting activities, but because the living space was squeezed out by the overflowing fog people.

They are running for their lives.

Before the bone dog's mutation, the outside world must have been overrun with dead bees.

The killing of fog men is not only for eating, but more often than not, their eating itself is a ritual.

Killing for appetite will always be satisfied, but killing for ritual can never end.

The more the merrier.

If a living person is captured by the Fog Men, they are tied to a pillar and eaten alive by them - starting with the limbs.

No wonder the camel was eaten while standing.

Presumably, the Mist team used ceremonial torture pillars to fix the limbs of the camel in advance, making it impossible for him to fall down. However, the subsequent torture pillars were dismantled and taken away, and that was how he came to be. Weird picture.

"Could this be the crisis the hub is facing?"

I don’t know how many fog people groups under the leadership of heavy fog people... even the lowest level fog artificial bees have the strength of warriors.

If these creatures who only know how to kill are allowed to enter urban areas, it will definitely be a disaster for ordinary people.

Lu Meng immediately made a decision: "I want to move to the neighborhood!"

If there is a big chaos, avoid the countryside; if there is a small chaos, avoid the city.

What this means is that when a real earth-shattering disaster occurs, you should avoid places where people gather, because when order breaks down in an instant, your kind are often the source of the chaos.

The few encounters in this world have fallen into this category.

If there were another real crisis of annihilation in the hub, he would flee to the wilderness at all costs and survive alone.

And when encountering general danger, you have to find a way to go to the place where the order finally collapsed. With the help of collective strength, you can sometimes get through it.

For example, in previous famines, if the famine did not break out, the first people to starve to death would be the farmers who could produce food. In times of war, aristocratic families would also raise private soldiers and form forts to increase the probability of continuation.

This is also the situation Lu Meng is facing now.

Once the Fog Men invade, the scavengers living in the ruins and wastelands will definitely bear the brunt. It is unknown how many casualties there will be.

On the contrary, in residential areas where gangs are stationed, it is possible to organize defensive forces.

Although the Fog Man's individual strength is terrifying, he does not have much intelligence after all, and his weapons and equipment are also extremely poor. In addition, Lu Meng had just learned that the gang might be equipped with crossbows. Even though it might be difficult to defend, there was still much hope.

Lu Meng and Huo Buyang's current home was in ruins, and he didn't want to face the raids by the Fogman team alone.

However, not everyone is eligible to live on the streets.

If ordinary waste pickers want to become residents of a certain street, rent and taxes are a threshold that cannot be passed.

Not to mention the subsequent identity screening.

Lu Meng may be able to join a gang by showing his strength, but gangs are originally subordinate organizations of Fang City. For ordinary new residents, identity screening is mostly just a formality, but with the sensitivity of his identity, it is simply It's door-to-door delivery.

Fortunately, he knew there was a person or organization that could solve this problem.

The black market has never been short of opportunities.

…

The bone dog corpses all over the ground were basically mutilated. The meat and internal organs had been hollowed out, and the layer of animal skin had also been torn into pieces.

However, in line with the principle that thieves never leave empty-handed, Lu Meng hastily peeled off a few dog skins with relatively intact bone plates, chopped off a big dog head, and finally pried away several sharp bits from the mouths of several big-bone dogs with a dagger. dog teeth,

These teeth are actually good for making homemade arrowheads.

I saw the small bone dog on his shoulder twitching again.

He took out a piece of cloth and put the head that he had cut off from the fog man on his body.

"Speaking of which, it's time to give you a name." Lu Meng patted the dog on his shoulder:

"How about 'Monroe'?"

The little bone dog twisted even more violently.

"Oh, you're a male." Lu Meng withdrew his checking hand, "Then let's call him 'Xiao Gu'. It's easy to remember."

Thanks to book friends and fellow Taoists for giving me a magic weapon!