The drifting city of the last days

"Yunfan, can you take a look at the situation below?" Liang Wen didn't hurry to let them go down the valley, he walked to the edge of the crack, carefully looked at the bottom of the valley, and then turned to Shao Yunfan.A few small pieces of gravel rolled down with his movements, making a rustling sound.

Shao Yunfan frowned in embarrassment, "I tried it just now, but I didn't see anything for the time being. The limit range of my exploration is about 500 meters, and the depth of this rift should have far exceeded 500 meters." Squatting on him The evil spirit on his shoulder combed his claws carefully, and didn't feel anything wrong for the time being.

Luo Zhen paced around and looked around, looking for traces of the previous mission team.Their landing place and marching route are basically the same as yesterday's team, and along the way they can also find the footprints they left during yesterday's march.If those people had gone to the bottom of the valley yesterday, there must be climbing ropes nearby.Sure enough, within a few minutes, he found a few ropes still hanging by the stone wall not far away.

Xia An volunteered, "Why don't I fly down to have a look first?" His flying speed is fast enough and his defensive power is good enough, usually enough to protect himself.

"There is a flare in the backpack. Use it to notify us when the situation is dangerous." Liang Wen nodded helplessly. They underestimated the depth of the rift, and they should have selected more mutants who could fly.

"One hour, you have to come back no matter whether you reach the end, or we will assume that something happened to you." Luo Zhen squatted at the mouth of the valley, frowning and looking at the steep stone walls on both sides. All climbing ropes have groove-shaped dents at the corners. The soil and stone texture does not seem to be strong, and it is likely to collapse under too strong external force.In such a place, even rappelling becomes somewhat difficult.He randomly picked up a rope and looked at it. The bottom end was intact and not broken, so where did the person go?

Xia An made a "wrapped on me" expression, lightly clenched his fists with Luo Zhen, and immediately spread his wings and flew towards the bottom of the valley. Ten seconds later, the figure with huge black wings shrank into a Tiny black dots.

"The military's requirement is to make contact every six hours. Their first and last contact was at [-] noon yesterday, claiming to have found the source of the signal." Seeing Luo Zhen checking the ropes, Liang Wen took the information in hand. also provided. "My guess is that they either died down there, or they were trapped somewhere where the signal didn't work."

Luo Zhen raised his eyebrows, "It won't be long before we know the answer."

While waiting for Xia An, Liang Wen and Luo Zhen were not idle. After finding a suitable rappelling point, they took out the climbing rope from their backpack and tied it.The batch of climbing ropes they use is three for each person, each 100 meters long. Now the depth of the rift is obviously beyond expectations, and only a few people can be used together. Of course, the ropes left by the previous team are also tested. be fully utilized by them.

While tying the knot, Luo Zhen explained the rope usage skills to Shao Yunfan, Huahua and others, making full use of the time.Qi Liang listened absent-mindedly, turning his head to look towards the bottom of the valley from time to time.

Liang Wen secretly looked at Luo Zhen's knotting technique. He was skilled and his speed was not inferior to his own. This person seemed to be very familiar with military items. Could it be that he was also a soldier before?

It wasn't until Xia An returned safely that Qi Liang heaved a sigh of relief.

According to what Xia An saw, the vertical depth of the rift valley is between 1000 and [-] meters. There are a lot of gravel and dead wood piled up at the bottom of the valley, and hot spring-like water with white steam is everywhere, which affects visibility and smells like sulfur. It was also extremely heavy. He took a cursory look, but found no traces of mutated animals or people.

"Are you sure the people from the scientific research team are down here?" Li Ji tied the knife behind his back, so as not to be inconvenient when he went down later.

"According to the signal from the receiver, it should be below where we are now. They should be hiding somewhere with their instruments." Liang Wen said firmly, signaling everyone to prepare to leave.

The people were divided into five groups, and they climbed down the cliff with ropes, about 400 meters. Luo Zhen and Huahua, who were in the lead, could smell the sulfur smell that Xia An said, and even the air around them became inexplicably humid stand up.From time to time, a few sand-yellow weeds emerged from the gaps in the cliffs on both sides, embellishing the yellowish-brown stone walls with tenacious vitality.If one looked up, the gloomy sky turned into a long and narrow slit, hanging above everyone's heads, appearing cramped and depressing.

Could there be any toxins in the sulfur gas?Luo Zhen stopped at the edge of the stone wall and looked at the strangely colored plant growing beside it.Otherwise, how did the whole team from yesterday disappear?

"Don't stop, go down quickly, or I'll bump into you!" Shao Yunfan shouted at Luo Zhen dissatisfied.I don’t know if the car in front is solely responsible for the rear-end collision caused by sudden braking on a one-way street?

Luo Zhen raised his head and hooked the corners of his mouth, "You can jump into my arms." There seemed to be an air vent at the bottom of the valley, which made his clothes and trousers rattle.

Bi Xie, who was squatting on Shao Yunfan's shoulder, moved his front paws twice, then jumped down in Luo Zhen's direction without hesitation, landed firmly in Luo Zhen's arms, and then jumped onto his shoulders, swinging happily The tail rubbed against Luo Zhen's neck with the top of his head, as if begging for praise.

Luo Zhen: ==! ! ! ! !

Seeing Luo Zhen's black face, Shao Yunfan laughed so hard.

"Hey, I'm afraid I'll be blinded by you!" Huahua couldn't bear to look straight at her and turned her head away. Her graceful figure jumped down while dragging the rope. During the ups and downs, they were thrown down dozens of meters.

200 meters further down, some small caves began to appear occasionally on the cliffs on both sides. The size alone did not seem to be able to hide people, but it seemed to be hiding places for some animals.

Most of the caves are empty, and a few of them are inhabited by mutated animals ranging from level one to level two.Shao Yunfan carefully checked along the way, there were no mutants with the intention of attacking, and they also tried not to disturb the "quiet" life of others.

The first attack was on Li Ji's side. Several mutated scorpions rushed out with their pincers high, trying to attack Li Ji and the other team member who was closest to him.A cloud of miasma-like black smoke rose from Li Ji's body, and the mutant scorpions pounced on him limply fell to the bottom of the valley.In the process of falling, he was thrown up and down by the strong airflow at the bottom of the valley.Shao Yunfan was also blown by the strong wind and couldn't keep his eyes open. The closer to the bottom of the valley, it seemed that the wind was getting stronger?He motioned for the evil spirit that had fled back to his shoulder to get into his arms, so as not to be swept away by the wind later, who knew that the little guy raised his chin proudly and didn't even look at him.Get swept away by the wind?It's too insulting to its character as a dragon son!

Luo Zhen frowned, poison gas?Could it be that Li Ji is also a mutant who can release poison?

The other man just waved his palm a few times, and the two mutated scorpions were cut into several sections. It looked like Wu Shi's wind blade.

The surrounding wind seems to be getting stronger, raising soil and sand to hit the stone wall with a crackling sound, and it will bounce on people from time to time.Wu Fei learned a lot after being slapped on the forehead twice by the stone, and tried hard to protect himself with a hat, it hurts too much!

Xia An, who was flying in the air, was like a huge kite, and was blown to one side or another. Blue Mountain stretched out its roots and dragged him back from the air, making him grab the rope and escape to the edge of the cliff together.Xia An grabbed the rope in confusion, where did such a strong wind come from?

"Hold on, everyone. The wind seems to be getting stronger." Liang Wenchao shouted to the crowd, and at the same time he tightened his backpack tightly. The receiver was on him, and he must not lose it.

At this moment, the evil spirit that had fled back to Shao Yunfan's shoulder raised his head fiercely, and anxiously scratched Shao Yunfan's shoulder with his claws.

"No, take a quick look around." Luo Zhen could clearly see the movement of evil spirits under Shao Yunfan, something was wrong!

Shao Yunfan closed his eyes in doubt. There are indeed many mutated animals nearby, but there are very few third-level animals and the distance is far away. Now it seems that they should not pose a threat to their team of all third-level animals.

"I didn't find any particularly dangerous mutants!" Shao Yunfan cupped his mouth with one hand, and shouted hard at Luo Zhen. The strong air current blew their ropes around, making them very unstable.

"It's not a mutant." Luo Zhen stared at the rapidly rolling cyclone from below, his face darkened suddenly, it was a hurricane!

"Hurricane! It's a hurricane!" Someone screamed.Everyone raised their heads, and a few hundred meters away from them, there was a howling wind, flying sand and rocks, and in the narrow gap of the rift, a gray-black cyclone that had already formed was rushing towards them quickly, like a ferocious giant snake, rampaging and violent. devours everything around it.The situation in the entire rift changed, and Luo Zhen watched helplessly as the canyon it passed through widened a lot.In a few seconds, the width of the cyclone has expanded to more than [-] meters, rushing towards them.Luo Zhen and the others at the front bear the brunt.

"No, jump off!" Luo Zhen hurriedly built a square platform with ice cubes against the cliff, and at the same time shouted at Shao Yunfan on top, motioning him to jump into his arms.

Lanshan immediately turned into a huge peach blossom tree, with half of its root system sticking firmly into the cliff, and then using the other half of its root system to form a net bag to wrap the little Taoist, Qi Liang and Xia An who were closer to him in it to protect it.

Huahua's beautiful black hair spread out in the wind, and a giant rose bloomed between the rock walls. Countless blue thorns grabbed Wu Shi, Wu Fei and Liang Wen beside her like ropes, and tied them tightly. on the cliff.The rest of the mutants also immediately showed their abilities, trying to lock themselves on the cliff.

Shao Yunfan gritted his teeth, grabbed the evil spirit on his shoulder and jumped down in Luo Zhen's direction.If you don't find a place to hide, you will be blown to the sky!

The moment Shao Yunfan landed on Luo Zhen's ice platform, Luo Zhen hugged him tightly, and the white ice quickly covered the top, sealing the two of them firmly in the small space.

Crackling!The hurricane smacked the gravel with thunder and thunder outside the ice layer, making a terrifying sound.The ice layer and even the cliff were trembling, as if it would be swept away at any moment.In the face of the power of nature, everything seems insignificant.

Luo Zhen's chest heaved violently, layers of ice thickened to fight against the hurricane, and his energy was also rapidly consumed.Shao Yunfan was forced to stick in front of Luo Zhen, his left ear felt his rapid and powerful heartbeat, and his right ear was filled with the roar of the hurricane. Although it only lasted a few seconds, it seemed as long as a century.

Just when they thought everything was coming to an end, there was a muffled sound from the cliff behind them, and the earth and rocks collapsed. Shao Yunfan felt the world spinning instantly, and Luo Zhen's arms around his waist tightened even more.

Oops, the cliff collapsed!

This was Shao Yunfan's last thought before he fell into a coma.