Wilderness Age

Because of this episode, Yu Ze and others postponed their plan to cross the river, and followed the young man back to his foothold.

Several people exchanged names on the way.

The young man is Tao Zheng. He was originally a senior student. He was an intern in a local machinery factory. His hometown and school were not here.

Tao Zheng took them into a large flat-floor factory building. According to reports, this was originally a large assembly line workshop of a certain factory. Because the space was large enough to be waterproof and airtight, they used it as a garrison point.

As soon as several people entered the gate, they were stared at by hundreds of pairs of eyes, more or less surprised.

"All the living people in Lianhuazhou are here, most of them are local residents, and a small part are migrant workers." Tao Zheng explained casually.

These people are obviously not very welcoming to new outsiders.

Yu Ze glanced back coldly, distinguishing from those provocative or indifferent eyes who might be supernatural beings.Lianhuazhou is not very big, and there are [-] to [-] permanent residents plus floating population. Although we don't know what happened, tens of thousands of people died. How could the hundreds of people who survived have no support.

"At first we thought that the biochemical crisis was coming, and zombies were running all over the place, but later we found out that it was spiders, they would parasitize on the corpses of food, whether the parasitized animals or people, they rot very slowly, from a distance It seems that they still retain a little vitality, but they are actually quite dead. They control these corpses and walk around. They are really living corpses. The spiders eat from the inside to the outside, leaving a layer of skin at the end. It was so big that a wave of small spiders would fatten it up, it was so scary that it made people's scalp tingle, and then the bridge broke, and the range of spiders' activities was fixed on the opposite bank, and it would be better if they didn't come over."

After finding a place for a few people to sit down, Tao Zheng chatted about the dangers he had experienced here, and was also very curious about the experience of Yu Ze and the others, and wanted them to talk more about outside things.

Zhou Xiaotong stared at him curiously: "You didn't look like you were afraid when you mentioned this."

Tao Zheng smiled shyly: "That's now, and I was so scared at the beginning."

A man in overalls passed by, saw a few people sitting idle, and there were some unfamiliar faces, with unhappy expressions on their faces, he shouted at Taozheng: "Xiao Tao, dinner is about to start, what are you doing?" Are you still sitting here?"

Tao Zheng looked back: "Brother Lei, I just ran back and forth, please let me rest for a while."

The man named Brother Lei glanced over Yu Ze and the others, left behind a sentence of "hurry up".

"Do you still have food supplies here?" Wu Wei expressed surprise, the order here is not like a doomsday survivor stronghold.

"Well, we gather all the supplies we can find around, and distribute them evenly when needed. After spending so long, it's impossible to eat as before, but we still can't die of hunger."

Adopting the wartime rationing system is the most appropriate approach in special times, but it is not a long-term solution for the people of Lianhuazhou. After all, they only consume without production, and being trapped in a corner to sit and eat is the end of the day.

After euphemistically mentioning this point, Tao Zheng also nodded frequently with a look of despair on his face: "Of course we also know this. The problem is that there are wolves in the front and tigers in the back. Lianhuazhou is trapped in the middle of the water, and we can't get out."

Then he raised his head, with confusion and thirst for knowledge written in his eyes: "This is why Brother Lin asked me to find you when he saw you. You came to the island from the south bank, right? The north bank is still confusing, how did you pass through it and enter Lianhuazhou Island?"

It... sounds like they are more afraid of the willow forest than the weird spiders to the north.

However, their experience of walking through the willow forest can be summed up without any danger. It was thanks to Chu Xingzhou that they subdued the wood spirit.

Chu Xingzhou: "Can I ask who Brother Lin is?"

"He's the person in charge here." Tao Zheng looked around for a while, "He's not here now, you should be able to see him after dinner."

Chu Xingzhou and Yu Ze glanced at each other, remembering to watch them from a high place, and they knew each other tacitly.

"Can you tell me what the Willow Grove was like before we came?"

A flash of memory flashed across Tao Zheng's face, and he said, "I don't know."

"..."

Tao Zheng saw a row of suspicious faces on the opposite side, and sighed: "I really don't know."

His gaze swept over several people, and stayed on Yu Ze's face.

Yu Ze didn't avoid Tao Zheng when he gave up crossing the river to take back the kayak, so Tao Zheng knew that this was a space power user.

"You should be more than one of you with supernatural abilities, so is it that some of you with special abilities helped you pass through the willow forest?"

No one answered this question, Tao Zheng sighed again, a little frustrated.

"When the bridge was not broken, apart from coming to the island to look for food, the spider would occasionally go to the south bank, only occasionally, because at least once out of three times, the spider was chased away by some kind of existence in the willow forest And, what I'm talking about is a giant spider, an adult one, with eight hairy legs spread out and a body length of three to four meters. Its combat power is comparable to that of a tank. To tell you the truth, there are also supernatural beings among us, who can fight giant spiders at close range We have fought, the monster that can crush the giant spider is really not something we can resist, and more importantly, we can't find out what it is that hides in the willow forest. It... seems to be an invisible monster. How can I fight such monsters that I can’t see, touch or even feel?”

The invisible monster hiding in the willow forest—isn't that the wood spirit?

From what other people heard, it was such a ferocious species.

It happened that the guy named Lei came to urge Tao Zheng again, and Tao Zheng left a sentence "I'll go first" and ran away in a hurry.

Judging from the short conversation just now, Tao Zheng came forward to stop them and bring them back without malice. Their purpose was just to find a way to leave Lianhuazhou and get rid of the current predicament. as an important opportunity.

"If that vicious invisible monster is...then we can beat it all the way without fear of any spiders?" Zhou Xiaotong looked at Chu Xingzhou expectantly.

Chu Xingzhou was sure that it was indeed a wood spirit, but: "Don't rely too much on it."

Yu Ze was also worried about the wood spirit: "If it has encountered a giant spider, why didn't we make it clear when we asked?"

"It's not that it concealed it on purpose." Chu Xingzhou helped Mu Ling explain that the bridge on the north shore had been broken for a long time, and the scene Tao Zheng said that the giant spider was hunted down happened earlier. And they all knew that the wood spirit was only born a month ago, and despite its eloquence now, the wood spirit at the beginning acted on instinct. It gained common sense, experience, and knowledge through absorbing the opponent's memory in battle, and only in this way did it open up its wisdom.

It grows at an astonishingly fast rate, and at the age of one month it is comparable to a primary school student.

But elementary school students can't tell what happened in infancy.

So it can't be blamed for this.

Wu Wei not only can't trust the intelligence of the wood spirit, but also can't trust its character: "Xiaozhou is right, we still have to rely on ourselves at critical moments, and we can't rely on it. If it betrays us at a critical moment, we will die? "

Suo Tianyou rubbed his chin and asked another question: "I was thinking, if the little spider's combat power is five, the giant spider's combat power is ten, and the wood spirit's combat power is fifteen, what is the combat power of Chu Xingzhou to subdue that guy?"

Chu Xingzhou: "..."

Suo Tianyou's eyes were eager to try, and he wanted to know where Chu Xingzhou's current upper limit was.

Chu Xingzhou: "You have overlooked a problem. Wood spirits can drive giant spiders all over the ground. There are factors of restraint in race and ability. It does not mean that they are crushed in terms of combat power. Tao Zheng and the others take it for granted because they don't understand the inside story. At the same time Reason, I was able to subdue the wood spirit because of factors other than combat power, it doesn't mean I completely defeated it."

The biggest factor may be that the wood spirits are playful and want to rely on them.

Suo Tianyou was a little persuaded, but he still wanted to fight.

In fact, in the early days of the end of the world, everyone was confused. Humans and monsters were developing chaotically and barbarously. Only when the bases and city-states gradually stabilized in the later period can we have a clear judgment and test standard for the abilities of monsters and supernatural beings.

Based on the experience of his previous life, Yu Ze can conclude that Chu Xingzhou's current ability level is ahead of most of the ability users, which is a good thing for their team, after all, monsters are much faster than humans, and they still There is a long way to go.

On the other side, Tao Zheng was also reporting his impressions and thoughts on this group of outsiders.

"They probably used some method to get through the willow forest, but they kept avoiding talking about it. I was afraid that they would be upset by asking too much, so I haven't found out yet."

"Brother Lin, I don't think they are bad people. They went north to find relatives. There are women and children in the team..."

"Talk to them... We are running out of supplies. If we stay any longer, we may even have cannibalism."