Wilderness Age

Ding Sheng's anchor is set in the territory of the sharks.

The reason for doing this is also very simple, Ding Sheng and his comrade-in-arms are separated, if they want to reunite, it is almost impossible to rely on luck alone.

The method of establishing the anchor point was discussed by the three people. If it is possible to reunite with comrades through artificial efforts, the most likely thing is that everyone set the anchor point at the same place.

The probability of three people being sent to the same scene in the broken world is extremely low, but through a common anchor point, even if they drift on different routes, there will inevitably be intersections.

Anchor points are like safe havens in turbulent ocean currents.

For the three of Ding Sheng, the territory of the mermaid tribe is the place where they were separated. Therefore, when Ding Sheng set up the anchor point, this was the first option in Ding Sheng's mind. He believed that his comrades in arms had the same idea as him in this regard. .

In addition, any safer map they have visited together is a possible option, and it is the most likely to be anchored by the three at the same time.

The only major premise that they can't control is that they must first swipe out of the place they have been to in countless random teleportations before they can set an anchor there.

The god of luck favored Ding Sheng. After dozens of teleportations, he came to the territory of the merman tribe again, and successfully set up his own anchor here without disturbing the sensitive merman.

While chatting, Chu Xingzhou realized something was wrong.

Where is something weird?

What is wrong?

where……

Chu Xingzhou went through their conversation in his mind, and suddenly he had a flash of inspiration.

Time, is time.

"Ding Sheng, how long have you been in here?"

"Let me calculate, it should be four or five months." Ding Sheng thought for a while, and gave a number. Seeing Chu Xingzhou and Yu Ze's brows furrowed simultaneously, Ding Sheng couldn't help frowning, " Is there anything wrong?"

No, of course not.

Chu Xingzhou: "However, the mutation in the outside world has only started for two months."

"This is impossible." Ding Sheng's retort blurted out, unbelievable, "How is this possible?"

Looking at the determined eyes of the two, Ding Sheng stood up and walked several steps back and forth.

"Could it be that the time flow rate of the Rift World is different from that of the real world? No, no, it shouldn't be two months outside."

Ding Sheng shook his head while proposing a conjecture while overturning it himself.

"Hasn't the apocalypse lasted for several years? It has been more than two years before I came in. Two months... In two months, the order collapsed, and the security base has not been fully established. Our team is searching and rescuing, cleaning up the ruins, contacting Formed into a brother army, the largest security base in the northern plains was established in Raocheng, south of the original capital, and many supernatural beings and ordinary people who came to defect to them were accepted. Intelligence collection, observation, and analysis were carried out through the cracks, and the results were not obtained until one year later."

"Later, the battle continued, with creatures from different worlds, mutated monsters, and some dangerous supernatural beings... We received a mission to hunt down two vicious supernatural beings who slaughtered an entire safe point , one named Zhou Kun, one named Zhou Mei, the two brothers and sisters fled all the way to the vicinity of Pingling Mountain and fell into the crack, when we chased into the crack, it was already two years after the end of the world."

"Why is there a time difference?" Ding Sheng walked up to the two of them and asked, "Which city did you come from, isn't it affected?"

Chu Xingzhou: "Haicheng. We escaped from Haicheng. About two months ago, Haicheng suffered a tsunami and the whole city sank."

Ding Sheng: "Yes, I seem to have heard that the brother of the Chu family was in Haicheng at that time."

"...That shouldn't be two months ago!"

Ding Sheng was puzzled.

Yu Ze: "You said that the mermaids would use illusion to attack. Could it be that their attacks misdirected your perception, making you think it's been so long, but it hasn't?"

He had felt the mental attack of the merman, and the strong sense of oppression was hard to forget.

"Your guess makes sense, but I don't think so." Ding Sheng was almost driven crazy, and he sat down again, "I'm not crazy, nor do I have hallucinations, as evidenced by my fighting literacy, I believe I What I experienced and what I remember are real events."

Chu Xingzhou and Yu Ze looked at each other, and there was one thing they didn't tell Ding Sheng, and that was about Yu Ze's rebirth.

So, there is actually another possibility.

In the cracked world is the old timeline, the timeline before Yu Ze's rebirth.

But...is this possible?

From the sound of it, this seems to be an extremely unlikely event.

Ding Sheng recalled what he had experienced since he entered the rift, those grotesque scenes, the chaotic time, very confusing but unable to find the answer.

Something flashed through Yu Ze's mind, but he didn't catch it.

He was dazed for a moment, and some pictures and sounds flashed in his mind as Ding Sheng narrated, but soon he broke away from that strange feeling.

Yu Ze couldn't figure out what it was.

The question of time remains unresolved for now.

Yu Ze and Chu Xingzhou began to drift in the cracked world together with Ding Sheng.

Leave the abstract world problems behind and face the most practical dilemmas in front of you.

"My brother...how is he?"

In fact, Chu Xingzhou knew that his brother must be fine after hearing only a few words from Ding Sheng. He wanted to ask more but did not dare to ask about his parents. Without psychological construction, the questions asked are still vague and unclear.

I have seen so many partings in the last days, so many that Ding Sheng could see Chu Xingzhou's thoughts at a glance.

He came over and patted Chu Xingzhou's hand.

The two elders had already retired, and they were traveling abroad when the mutation broke out, and they couldn't know their news immediately after the communication was interrupted.

After Chu Xinghe stabilized the situation in the northern base, he entrusted someone with supernatural powers to find his family members. Unfortunately, he got the exact news that his parents had died at the beginning of the last days, and his younger brother Chu Xingzhou was also missing.

Yu Ze held Chu Xingzhou's hand. He knew that on their way north, Chu Xingzhou had always held the hope of reuniting with his family, but now this hope was lost.

Chu Xingzhou accepted the comfort silently.

Ding Sheng began to teach them the specific methods of establishing anchor points.

Yu Ze and Chu Xingzhou decided to set the anchor point on the same territory of the Merman tribe as Ding Sheng.

Because when Yu Ze was in Lianhuazhou, they were suspected to be attacked by mermen. They felt that they could consider two ways to get out of the rift world. One was the merman, and the other was the first landing point when they fell into the rift world .

But the place where they first dropped has no obvious features, it's just an unremarkable wilderness forest, and it's hard to say whether they can be brushed again.

So the sharks are their main target.

In that evening, Mu Ling couldn't bear it again and jumped out to curse and yell at Chu Xingzhou Yu Ze: "Did you forget me again?!—"

The wood spirit is angry!

In the light and shadow of the scene change, Yu Ze covered his ears and closed one eye.

Five days later, they came to the territory of the Merman tribe, the anchor point of Ding Sheng.

"Be careful of that jellyfish-shaped thing, it's poisonous." Ding Sheng reminded them, leading them to walk along the shore of the lake.

"Don't go into the water if you don't have to. The sharks are very sensitive to the current and are easy to be caught by them."

The scene fragments are very large, with a vast lake water in the center.

Surrounding the lake is a piece of fertile land. Due to the existence of the mermaids, there are no large dangerous creatures or populations gathering on the land on the shore of the lake. This can be regarded as the outer extension of the mermaid territory.

Except for the rhinoceros, generally no creatures would compete with the sharks for territory.

The lake is so big that it can't be seen, and there are many large and small islands in the lake, which are completely controlled by the mermaids. It is their homeland, and outsiders can't get their hands on it. The creatures living on the island are either their food or their domestic pets.

Ding Sheng thinks that even in a completely different world, mermaids are the dominant race.

Not long after, Ding Sheng brought them to a certain place, which is located in the northwest of the lake. There are huge boulders on the ground, and walking into it is like entering a maze. He is on guard but rarely sets foot.

"This kind of giant stone forest is generally loved by the Rhinoceros people. They are powerful. These giant stones just make tools and stone chambers for them. However, according to my observations, there are no Rhinoceros people on this map. I don't know if it is the problem of the broken world itself, or this. The mermaids in a territory are too powerful and drove them away." Ding Sheng explained.

Since there were no Rhinoceros, and the terrain was naturally conducive to defense, Ding Sheng hid his anchor here.

"The anchor point is composed of two parts..." Ding Sheng stopped beside a boulder, put down the backpack behind him, squatted down, took out a shovel from the bag and began to shovel the soil. The soil here is soft, which is not Difficult, after digging for a while, Ding Sheng stretched out his arm and directly digged in the crevices under the rock with his hands.

"...Have half of it on your body, and half stay in the world you want to stay in. The two parts echo each other and become the leading line in the broken world—look, this is part of my anchor point."

Yu Ze and Chu Xingzhou took a closer look.

Ding Sheng took out a shell less than ten centimeters in size from a crevice in the rock, and he carefully opened the shell, revealing the shiny pearl inside.

A plump and quite beautiful, pearl.

Other than that, nothing special.

Yu Ze: "...?"

Chu Xingzhou: "...Are you sure this thing works?"

"careful!"

Ding Sheng's reminder was timely, but Chu Xingzhou's action was even faster.

Staring at the transparent streamer phantom limb slowly retracting from the shell, "...is it alive?"

"Oh, it's alive."

"Didn't you bury it in the ground?"

"Yeah, it's amphibious."

Chu Xingzhou: "..."

OK, sorry.

The quiet phantom limb lost its splendor and became invisible again, becoming transparent and invisible, leaving only a beautiful shell of a pearl.

"Don't touch the inside of it. It will bite. If you bite it, you won't let it go. It can kill the living and the dead. If you close the shell like this, it will be as if it is dead. Feel free to touch it."

"Have you been bitten by it?" That's why I had this insight.

"I came back to look for the anchor point, and I wasn't sure if my idea was right. I was caught by it, so I chose it." Ding Sheng explained, "But the anchor point is not only this, but also the other half."

Facing the half-believing eyes of the two, Ding Sheng put away the shells, went to his oversized backpack, and took out two stones, one large and one small.

The big one was a smooth white stone the size of a fist, and the small one was a round pearl the size of a pigeon egg. This pearl was at least five times bigger than the one held in the shell's stomach.

"After escaping from this map and reappearing here without the mermaids besieging me, I guessed that my anchor point had been inadvertently completed halfway."

"This is it." Ding Sheng showed the stone to the two of them. Its luster is very soft, like the best white jade, transparent and moist. I don’t know what it is, but the merman race attaches great importance to it, and after I snatched it by accident, almost all the merman fighters took me as their only target and attacked me wildly.”

It was precisely because of this that Ding Sheng's comrades at that time were able to escape very smoothly despite being seriously injured.

"We said that the function of the anchor point is to connect with the land of this world. The gravitational force between the anchor point and the debris world allows the carrier to follow the pull back to this place no matter how far it is thrown, just like A kite tied with a string, so the more precious, rare and important items can have a greater effect."

"After that time, I was able to return to this Shark Lake so quickly. I think this stone had an effect. When I returned to this map, I also wanted to find more similar items to strengthen the traction of the anchor point."

Ding Sheng discovered that the stone would glow when placed in the water, and it would also have an inexplicable attraction to underwater creatures. His shells were caught by the stone at that time.

"However, I can't demonstrate it to you now. It may attract sharks. When the time is up, we can try it when we leave here."

Ding Sheng showed the precious pearl again: "This is the original pearl in the shell. I was bitten by it at the time, and I happened to be holding this stone in my hand. When I hit it, it spit out the pearl and gave it to me , I took the pearl away and set it free, but every time I came back, it ran back to me. This guy has no legs, and he can crawl all day. Later, he followed me into the stone forest, where he dug I dug a hole and hid in it, and I don’t know how I dug it without hands or feet.”

Ding Sheng patted the shell dearly: "But it's made of a special material, and it's clean without any mud when it's dug out of the pit."

"So, do you think it's this mermaid stone and the interconnection between the pearl and the mother-of-pearl that keeps you coming back to this place?" Chu Xingzhou asked.

Ding Sheng scratched his head: "I think so, or do you have different guesses?"

Chu Xingzhou looked at the shells over and over again, thinking about the relationship between them: "Xiao Ze, what do you think?"

Yu Ze didn't answer him directly, but asked Ding Sheng: "Can I see your stone?"

"Of course." Ding Sheng didn't take it seriously, and handed it over casually, "You can take a closer look at the research and research. Although the experiment was successful, in the final analysis, I don't know what I think is right, or whether it is correct or not. The right result was obtained by mistake, but the path is actually wrong? This kind of technical problem is too much to think about, and I have no one to discuss it. I can only think about it alone, and make all kinds of guesses. Maybe it's a blind cat meeting a dead mouse."

Ding Sheng didn't deny that he was blind, he was a pragmatic person.

Chu Xingzhou saw Yu Ze concentrating on the stone, and began to think about it.

"You said this stone is very important, and the mermaids attach great importance to it, and the shells are also obtained because of the stone."

"Correct."

"But you said that after that time, the sharks would stop chasing you?" Chu Xingzhou asked puzzled, "If it's really important, why didn't the sharks come to chase it back?"

Ding Sheng: "This is also what I find strange. I have been here several times to inquire about the situation in the Merman Territory, but I have not seen the way. To be honest, I don't understand. They seem to have let go of their grievances. Looking at it, I felt that they had also discovered me, but they just didn't move. Compared with the temper when I met them in a daze, it seemed like a different group of people."

It is really hard to understand the differences in races, and they have no way of guessing what the mermaids do, so they can only put it aside for now.

Chu Xingzhou: "From your description, is it possible that this stone is the only one that really works? When you first came back here, you didn't have any pearls on your body. It may not be a complete accident. I think it may be the stone is the key."

"But the first time I came back here was at least half a month, or longer. After I got the shells, I could come back every seven to ten days, and established a very stable cycle. So I don't agree with you, or I don’t completely agree.” Ding Sheng thought for a while, then denied himself, and added, “Or you are right, the stone is the key, the only anchor point, and the shells only help to shorten the cycle, but if there is no stone If not, the anchor point is not established, and the shell is not enough to function."

If this is the case, it may not be good news for Yu Ze and Chu Xingzhou.

Finding native organisms to establish anchor points is a replicable operation.

But if it is a stone, this is said to be a very important treasure that was snatched from the mermen, what is it itself, and how can it be obtained?

And, does it have a second?

"Ozawa, what do you think?"

Chu Xingzhou habitually turned his head to ask Yu Ze.

Yu Ze didn't speak, he didn't know what to say now, because the stone in his hand looked so familiar.

He used to have the same stone in his hand, and the name given by the space system was "Regeneration Stone", which was a special prop to help Yu Ze rebirth.

Is this an important item of the Merman Clan?

So the mermaids attacked him because of this stone?

But - he has been reborn, will the mermaids attack their present self in order to get and use this stone in the "future" in this timeline?

Or, for the mermaids, stones can't affect their own people, so they still remember this event, or even more, this is still the timeline of the past?

The more Yu Ze thought about it, the more confused he became.

Combined with Ding Sheng's equally chaotic time memory, it was even more like being wrapped in fog, and he couldn't figure out why.

"Anyway, let's try first." Ding Sheng suggested, "It doesn't matter if you don't succeed."

Although I don't know the exact transmission mechanism, it is certain that as long as the distance between the three of them is not too far at the time of the morning and evening exchange, those who stay in the same small area will be sent away by the will of the world.

No matter how it is established, Ding Sheng's anchor point has been established. As long as they don't get separated from Ding Sheng, they can always follow him back to this map.

Trying something is better than doing nothing.

Yu Ze and Chu Xingzhou began to look for suitable anchor materials.