The drifting city of the last days

Bixie flapped its wings and landed in front of that person. When Luo Zhen and Shao Yunfan got off it, it immediately rolled on the spot and turned into a palm-sized sprint back to Shao Yunfan's shoulder.

Noticing that the winged beast suddenly disappeared, the physique-type mutant looked around in panic, trying to find out where the evil spirits were hiding.The coat on his body was extremely worn, the cuffs were a little unthreaded, and a button was missing.The hair and beard almost covered half of his face, so he couldn't see his original appearance at all.

"Hello, my name is Shao Yunfan, and I'm a member of the Jinghua base search team." Shao Yunfan showed a professional smile, introduced himself and stretched out his hand to the man, trying to ease the tension of the other party.

"Jinghua Base?" The man's expression was a little dazed, as if he didn't understand the meaning of the word, his voice sounded dry, and his lips were full of chapped red marks.

Luo Zhen looked around, "Are you a member of the scientific research team who came to investigate the anomaly? We have received a distress signal."

"Are you here to save us?" The eyes of the physique mutant suddenly shone brightly, like lights suddenly lit in the dark night, "Great, really great!"

"What's your name? Where are the others? We received information that there are three survivors." Shao Yunfan took out his last half bottle of water from his backpack and handed it to the man. "Drink some water to moisten your throat first."

The man took it, raised his head and took a big gulp, then carefully pinched the bottle cap to seal the mineral water, holding it tightly in his hand, unwilling to drink again, "My name is Wang Renhong, and I'm the leader of the scientific research team. There are two people in the cave ahead, I will take you there."

"You are Professor Wang?" Shao Yunfan and Luo Zhen exchanged glances in surprise. The man in front of him and the elegant middle-aged man in the information clearly had a very different style.

The man nodded, raised his hand to greet Luo Zhen and Shao Yunfan, and asked them to follow him forward, "Where is the Jinghua base you mentioned just now? Are you the only two coming?" Although these two people looked very powerful, But it is not easy to rescue the three of them out of the valley.

"Jinghua Base is the survivor base established on Continent 2 after the earthquake. The earthquake has already torn the entire land of Huaguo to pieces. Continent 2 is a relatively large part of it."

"Torn apart? You mean the Eurasian continent was shattered?" Wang Renhong stopped in shock.The situation outside is even worse than theirs?

"Hmm..." Shao Yunfan introduced to Professor Wang everything he knew about the Jinghua base.

"I knew it, the matter must be very serious." Under the overturned nest, there is no end of eggs.Wang Renhong was silent for a long time, then let out a long sigh, and started walking again, the mineral water bottle in his hand was crackling.In the face of the power from nature, human beings are immature and fragile after all.

"Actually, there is a situation that you will definitely be more interested in." Luo Zhen raised his eyebrows, "The pattern of the entire continent's fragmentation is exactly the same as the original anomaly. It is the 31 active anomalies."

"You mean..." Wang Renhong stopped again, frowning, as if recalling the location of those places, "So, what we are now is the center of Continent 2?"

"That's right, the remaining four anomalous points that tend to be more stable are the central areas of the four known larger continents. So," Luo Zhen looked at Wang Renhong, "I guess there must be some connection here."

"Young man, you are right. If it were me, I would definitely think so." Wang Renhong smiled and raised his hand to pat him on the shoulder. Luo Zhen was almost a head taller than him, and it took a lot of effort to pat him. "But all the information I know belongs to the country, and I can't disclose it to you casually. At least, not yet." After returning to the base, he will know whether the information in his hand needs to be kept secret.

"I just want to know one thing," Luo Zhen raised the corners of his lips. This professor only uses encrypted channels for distress signals, obviously he would rather die than leak his information. "According to your judgment, has the disaster stopped, or has it just begun?" Could what he and Shao Yunfan encountered in the cave have something to do with the reason Professor Wang and the others came here?This question has been on his mind since last night.

Wang Hongren was stunned, and then lowered his eyelids, "To be honest, I can't answer your question, because the information I know now is not enough to deduce the answer to this question. But if you must ask my personal opinion, I can only It is said that there is a possibility that it will continue to deteriorate.”

"Thank you." The possibility of deterioration means that there is a chance to control it. Luo Zhen nodded sincerely towards Wang Renhong.In any case, Wang Renhong did not evade his question.

deterioration?

Shao Yunfan stared at the two of them with round eyes. Animals and plants came to eat humans as food. The whole Huaguo was broken into several pieces. All the cities were either soaked in water or razed to the ground. The survival rate of humans was only a few dozen How can it get worse?Is this nightmare over yet?

They walked along the bottom of the valley for nearly a quarter of an hour, repelling two groups of mutated animals on the way, and finally came to Wang Renhong's hiding place.It was a cave with the entrance on the cliff, about ten meters above the ground.

Wang Renhong raised his head and whistled, a simple rope ladder was thrown down from the entrance of the cave, and the three climbed up along the rope ladder.The entrance of the cave is relatively narrow, Luo Zhen and Shao Yunfan can only crawl into the cave with their waists bent.The cave was shaped like a gourd, and after climbing seven or eight meters into it, the space suddenly opened up, at least enough to allow them to straighten their waists.

"Professor, who are they?" It was a dark and thin young man who came to set up the rope ladder, and he couldn't help being surprised when he saw Luo Zhen and Shao Yunfan.He walked with a limp, as if he had injured his right leg.

"Rescue team, they are here to save us." Wang Renhong handed the water bottle he had squeezed all the way to the young man.Their food is still sufficient, only drinking water is extremely scarce.

Shao Yunfan looked around curiously. The cave was very dry, as if it was surrounded by two caves, one small and one large.In the big hole inside, there are many wooden boxes stacked against the stone wall. The top is covered with an army green rain cloth. The boxes are painted with white paint and numbered with a mixture of English and Arabic numerals. mud.It is estimated that it is an instrument or material of the scientific research team.Next to the wooden box was a pile of oddly shaped objects, one of which was dripping water into a stainless steel basin.Shao Yunfan waited, and it took about two seconds on average for a drop to fall.

There were also three folded wire camp beds in the cave, and on one of them lay a man in a coma.On the other side, two simple writing desks were built with stones and wooden boxes, and a handwritten note was spread out on one of the desks. Obviously, before they came, the black and thin young man was still writing fast.Among the three survivors of the expedition, only Professor Wang is a mutant.

"Pack up our things, we are going to leave." Luo Zhen said to Wang Renhong and the dark and thin young man.

Wang Renhong looked at his watch and shook his head, "No, it's too late. In about 5 minutes, a hurricane may appear."

"Why is there a hurricane today?" Shao Yunfan couldn't help but change his face when he thought of what happened before.Wu Fei and the others don't know what's going on?

"Every morning from 02:30 to 05:30 is the period when the magnetic field is disordered and the mutants are most irritable. Between [-]:[-] and [-]:[-] in the afternoon, a hurricane will appear at any time. If we want to leave here, we can only leave here between [-]:[-] and [-]:[-] Choose this relatively safest time slot." The black and thin young man scratched the back of his neck and replied on behalf of Wang Renhong.After he finished speaking, he picked up a giant pot-like object from the table, dragged it to the hole, and skillfully sealed the hole.

"So we'd better wait until noon tomorrow?"

"That's right. I chose to release the distress signal at noon because that time is the most stable." Wang Renhong nodded, "The three of us, the documents on the table, and the two instruments must be taken away. .” He pointed to the two wooden boxes on the far side.For more than two months, they have also been trying to find a way to leave, but they always failed.Other materials can be discarded, but the two instruments must not be damaged.

Professor Wang and the dark and skinny young man started to sort out the notebooks on the table. Tomorrow, it's best to rescue him first, and then go to meet his teammates.Luo Zhen looked at the evil spirit on Shao Yunfan's shoulder. Five people and two wooden boxes can be taken out at most three times, right?Both he and Shao Yunfan were injured, it was too unrealistic to climb up.

The little guy turned his head with a dark face, pointed his butt at Luo Zhen angrily, and gave them a ride, don't even think about it!

"It won't do it!" Sensing the boy's resistance, Shao Yunfan reported to Luo Zhen in a low voice.

Luo Zhen raised his eyebrows, pinched its neck hair and brought it in front of him, and began to negotiate with the evil spirit, "Take them up, and help you make ten third-level beads."

To ward off evil spirits, raise eyebrows, erect eyes and turn your head away, so that you can't bend when you are mighty.

"Give you a smooth day?"

Bi Xie hesitated and turned his head to look at Luo Zhen, and turned back after two seconds.No, that won't work either!He is a divine beast, how can he be used as a mount for others casually!

"Let you lie on your chest and sleep casually?" Luo Zhen used his trump card.This guy likes to sleep on Shao Yunfan's chest the most. He tried to attack him a few times, but he was thrown out by him who was extremely vigilant. He never succeeded.

The four claws of evil spirits fluttered up, and two round eyes stared at Luo Zhen, really?Can you lie on your chest casually?Is it okay to get under the clothes?

Shao Yunfan couldn't bear to look directly and covered his face, look at your promise!

The negotiation ended with Luo Zhen's overall victory.

After dinner, Shao Yunfan was just about to practice spirituality, when he suddenly remembered the vein-shaped light nets he saw yesterday, except in that cave, he had never seen such a scene before.

"There is something I forgot to tell you," Luo Zhen said with closed eyes beside Shao Yunfan, "I was in that cave yesterday, and saw many strange optical networks underground."

"Optical network?" Luo Zhen opened his eyes, and what Shao Yunfan could "see" wasn't the aura ball or spirit weapon bead that had always been mutated?Could it be that those optical networks are also spiritual energy? "What kind of optical network?"

"Well, it's a bit like the veins in the leaves. There is a very thick main vein, and the rest are very thin, and many of them are connected with each other." Shao Yunfan tried hard to recall.

"You said you saw a vein-shaped optical network underground?" Before Luo Zhen could say anything, Professor Wang came over excitedly and grabbed Shao Yunfan's shoulder.

Shao Yunfan's eyebrows twitched, and Wang Renhong grabbed his wound.

"Professor, Xiao Bu has an injury on his shoulder." Luo Zhen pulled Professor Wang's hand away in displeasure.

"I'm sorry," Professor Wang was also a little embarrassed for his recklessness, "You just said that you can see the optical network underground? Can you draw it for me to see?"

Shao Yunfan blinked in embarrassment, "I'm not very good at drawing... I can only try." He picked up a stone and began to sketch the shapes in his memory on the ground.

Not only Professor Wang, but the dark and thin young man also gathered around, staring at the figure Shao Yunfan drew on the ground, "Professor, is this a bit like the energy field of the abnormal point we measured with the instrument?"