abyss rose

Chapter 53

Everyone says that this world is huge, but Chai Yuening has lived for half of her life. The two major human bases and the risk zone below level [-] are her whole world.

That is a world where you can run from one end to the other end with at most one tank of gas.

Compared with Chu Ci's world, Chai Yuening's world may be thousands of times bigger, but compared with this world, it is so insignificant that it is not worth mentioning.

After leaving the area she was familiar with, she also fell into a daze, and the compass in the bag became the last thing she could rely on.

Chai Yuening knew that if he went back, the oil in this armored vehicle would be enough to return to the floating city.

But it was impossible for her to go back, she could only take Chu Ci to the deeper fog area.

The alien beasts on the ground prey on each other, and their appearances are becoming more and more strange as they continue to mutate.

Long worms with bat heads and wings, birds with scales and gills, multi-legged arthropods with mammalian fur.

They are not as big as a fist when they are small, and can be as tall as half a building when they are big. The only thing they have in common is their strange shape and certain infectiousness.

Fortunately, Chu Ci has become much stronger than before, and now he can conceal his breath in a small area anytime, anywhere, which allows them to avoid most of the strange beasts that do not feed on black vines.

They crossed a wasteland, drove on a broken expressway, and entered the ruins of a strange city again.

Thigh-thick black vines can be seen everywhere, entrenched in the dense fog like black pythons, wishing to crush this dilapidated old world relic.

After two days of stop and go, the car ran out of gas.

They packed some important supplies, carried the packages on their backs and continued on their way.

While resting in an old building, Chai Yuening said in a flat tone: "The road ahead will become more and more difficult."

Chu Ci said, "Maybe we can meet a car."

Chai Yuening shook her head: "There won't be any, even if you are really not afraid of death, the fuel storage of ordinary vehicles will not be able to drive here, unless they don't want to go back."

There are no human gas stations on the ground. Even if most vehicles carry enough fuel to drive here, they will not be able to reach here at all because they need to save enough fuel for the return journey.

Because of this, since entering the depths of the foggy area, there have been no traces of human actions in recent years on this road.

In this case, not to mention finding a car for transportation, even food can only be found in the ruins of the old world to find expired products that can be imported.

"In the depth of the fog zone, the only means of transportation that can go deeper is the plane."

As Chai Yuening said, he unscrewed the cap of the bottle, raised his head and took a sip of water.

Chu Ci blinked and said seriously, "Maybe we can find a plane."

Chai Yuening was almost choked.

"That's even more impossible." Chai Yuening explained, "It's not that easy for the plane to have an accident. If there is no accident, it will definitely be driven back to the base. If there is an accident, there is a high probability that it will be directly damaged, and nothing will be left behind."

After finishing speaking, she sighed: "Besides, even if I can find the plane, I won't fly it."

After listening to Chu Ci, he fell into deep thought.

Chai Yuening couldn't guess what she was thinking, and she remained silent as always.

After a night's rest, they got up and went on the road again.

After five consecutive days of walking, they didn't have much food on their bodies. Faced with the physical exertion of walking non-stop every day, no matter how economical they were, it would be difficult to survive ten days.

But I don't know where the next city is located, and I have nowhere to go if I want to find something to eat.

When Chu Ci heard what Chai Yuening said, he didn't want to eat right away.

She said that she could absorb nutrients underground, and she turned her feet into vines and burrowed into the soil to demonstrate to Chai Yuening.

But in the next second, she was pulled up from the ground by Chai Yuening like pulling a carrot.

"We can find food." Chai Yuening said firmly.

But this endless wasteland is so lonely that there is no hope for people.

In another two days, a snake-tailed giant wolf with eagle wings hurried past their heads, briefly blocking the light of the sky and setting off another gust of wind.

If it was in the past, Chai Yuening would have been frightened by it and had a cardiac arrest, but now it is no surprise.

The giant beast was not coming towards them, its goal was the beetle about one story tall not far away—it was already very huge in the eyes of humans, but it was just a meal in front of the giant beast full meal.

The struggle between them lasted only a few minutes, and the beetle has become a buffet for the giant beast.

There was a strong smell of blood in the air.

Chai Yuening subconsciously wanted to avoid the giant beast that was eating, but she never expected that Chu Ci, who was beside her, turned his hands into vines, entangled her body, and entangled the tail of the giant beast at the same time.

The moment the cane tightened, Chu Ci took advantage of his strength to leap, and dragged Chai Yuening, who was completely out of shape, onto the back of the giant beast.

"you……"

"Shh."

Chu Ci erected a vine, and made a gesture of silence with a serious face - if that can still be called a "gesture".

Chai Yuening was dumbfounded.

This giant beast is too big, a human standing on its body is like a fly landed on the back of a bird, as long as it can hide its breath, it will not be discovered by it at all.

After regaining her senses, Chai Yuening understood what Chu Ci meant, but this did not prevent her from turning pale with fright.

The giant beast was still eating, and its incomparably huge body was shaking constantly. Chai Yuening had to rely on the rattan tied around her waist by Chu Ci to stabilize her figure.

She couldn't imagine what it would feel like after this big guy took off.

Such a "means of transportation", perhaps only Chu Ci in the world can sit on it without changing his face.

But afraid of returning home, Chai Yuening finally chose to accept it.

She thought, maybe this is just doing as the Romans do. A human being who wants to blend into a world of other species has to face many inhuman things.

After the giant beast finished its lunch for the day, it flapped its wings and flew into the sky.

Maybe it's because it's too big. The flying ability of this strange beast is not too strong, and it's far from reaching the height where it's hard for humans to breathe.But its speed was so fast that the blowing wind made people's cheeks hurt. They could only choose to lie flat and rely on some vine branches to resist the strong wind.

Chai Yuening never thought in her life that she would live a sneaky life on the back of a strange beast.

I don't know if I should say that they were lucky, but this giant beast I encountered on the road was really a perfect "little slave". It could fly when it was in the sky and run when it was down.Perhaps because of the fusion of the bird's gene, it does not have a strong sense of domain like other giant beasts. It has been wandering around, just like them today.

The most wonderful point is that due to its huge size, ordinary beasts dare not provoke it at all, and it is very safe to hide on it.

The strange beasts were on their way during the day, and they followed suit.

When the strange beast sleeps at night, they will follow suit.

Every time the strange beast landed, it was their meal or convenience time.

It has to be said that this way of traveling has greatly reduced physical exertion, and left a lot of food for a while.

It's just that after five days of such a small day, the big guy "made" himself to death.

This big guy is eating different things every day, and sometimes his body will undergo some changes not long after eating.

For example, on the first day, Chai Yuening witnessed the whole process of the giant beast growing hard carapaces on its limbs, shedding its hair while flying, and finally all the limbs became bald.

These strange beasts are not beautiful one by one, and the uglier they are, the stronger they seem to be the truth of this new world.

The alien beasts only want to evolve into stronger creatures. Every fusion evolution is directional to learn from each other's strengths and make up for their weaknesses. They dare to eat anything in order to become stronger.

Because of this, their "mounts" stared at another giant beast entrenched in the depths of a certain jungle.

Maybe it's envious that it has more legs than it, or maybe it's envious that it looks uglier and more abstract than it. In short, it swooped down the first time it saw the giant beast.

Seeing that the situation was not good, Chu Ci hurriedly took Chai Yuening to hide aside the moment the giant beast approached the ground.

The two giant beasts bit each other for a long time, and finally, the story ended with the death of their "flying mounts".

"That one is still alive." Chu Ci looked at another behemoth that was eating after a narrow victory.

It has snail-like tentacles on its head, and countless soft feet. Its round body is full of bumps, like a giant wet tumor. At a glance, it is even impossible to distinguish the eyes, nose, and ears. Where did it grow.

"No way..." Chai Yuening quickly waved her hand.

The big dead one was her last line of mobility—it was, after all, a furry creature to name.

Chu Ci: "Then find something else."

Chai Yuening breathed a sigh of relief.

It's just that everything in front of her makes her feel uneasy.

This is not a wasteland, not a city ruins, but a huge jungle.

There is no jungle near the base of the dungeon. She grew up freely in the base of the dungeon. She has only seen such places in books. She has learned a lot about living on the ground, but she has never mentioned such a place in any of them. How to survive and where to find food.

The black vines destroyed the ecology of the old world, and most edible plants could no longer grow. However, due to the influence of the black vines, they became things that could infect and mutate creatures.

If these cannot be distinguished, then they cannot be used casually.

Chai Yuening did not tell Chu Ci these concerns, she was afraid that once she spoke, Chu Ci would not want to eat.

She thought, with some biscuits and candy on her, they could go a little further.

Maybe with a bit of luck, they will meet a "big guy" who can run, and they will be able to go to the ruins of the new city to search for the food they need for the next stage.

On the third day after entering the jungle, they ate up the last food they could not export.

Suddenly, it began to rain heavily, and the sky became extremely dark.

They walked in this seemingly endless jungle step by step, from noon to night, and couldn't find a place to rest.

The night was heavy and the rain was heavy, and they couldn't stop walking.

The black vines that can be seen everywhere seem to be the last light here.

It was a bad night, everything seemed to tell Chai Yuening that she was just a human being, and she couldn't survive in a place like this without any human beings.

She felt that she would definitely die here, it was only a matter of time.

She is not Chu Ci, she will be infected, she cannot absorb nutrients from the soil.

She might really not be able to accompany Chu Ci for the rest of her life.

The moment of bewilderment and despair was finally suppressed by Chai Yuening to the bottom of her heart.

She couldn't think like that, let alone think like that.

They supported each other and walked in the foggy and rainy night.

Silent, but never stopped.

It was raining too much and it was a bit cold.

Chai Yuening gradually felt a little dizzy, and the palms holding Chu Ci began to feel a little hot.

Her breathing gradually became heavy, and she tried her best to look into the distance, not to lose consciousness.

In a trance, she seemed to see a yellow light, faintly, in the distance.

That light, like...

Fog lights for humans.

Chai Yuening felt that she must be crazy, because she was hallucinated by the rain.

How could there be humans in such a place far away from human bases and full of strange beasts?

But when she closed her eyes, took a deep breath, and opened her eyes again to look into the distance.

That ray of light grew brighter.

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The author has something to say:

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The stupid author sent the red envelope to the wrong chapter, and sent it to the chapter of the day before yesterday. I just added yesterday’s chapter to QAQ