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It was a part of the first floor of a ruined building that had not collapsed. Even with Ye Zhongming's carefulness, he thought there was just a crack on it when he casually scanned it.
But it was a stone gate.
Inside, a young man and woman were anxiously waving to Ye Zhongming.
After a slight hesitation, Ye Zhongming rushed over and entered the stone door. Then the stone door closed, and a natural crack in the wall returned there.
"How did you come in? Did you come in on the last feast day and survive until now?"
After Ye Zhongming entered it, his body was always on alert. He found that behind the stone gate was a natural passage formed by countless ruins. There was a turning place not far away, so he couldn't see too far. It was getting dark outside, and it was even darker inside. one slice.
However, based on Ye Zhongming's perception, he naturally knew that the passage was safe and there was no danger.
As for the two people behind him, even if Ye Zhongming is not in good condition now, they are not a threat, which is why he dared to come in.
This young man and woman are both at the three-star evolutionary level.
Hearing the young girl among them ask this, Ye Zhongming keenly caught several questions from it.
The first is that there are living people in Linhai City, and they know that the surrounding areas of Linhai City are blocked by mysterious mutant plants, and no one from the outside can enter.
Secondly, this kind of blockade should be relative. There will be a time called Feast Day that you can enter, but I don’t know if you can go out.
Seeing Ye Zhongming didn't answer, the two young people looked at each other in the last faint light, and then the man said: "Let's get to know each other, my name is Yang Yixi, this is my girlfriend Mao Ying, the second feast I have been trapped here since I came here, a three-star evolver."
At this time, the footsteps of the mummies outside were already nearby. Yang Yixi made a silent gesture to Ye Zhongming, then pointed to the passage, and walked over first with his girlfriend Mao Ying.
This made Ye Zhongming stunned. These two people just handed over their backs to a stranger? Aren't you afraid of meeting some bad guys?
However, although he didn't understand what feast day it was, Ye Zhongming knew that the two of them must know a lot of news, so he decided to go with them.
The passage is sometimes wide and narrow. In some places, three people can walk side by side without any problem, but in other places, they can only crawl forward reluctantly.
After walking for about a few hundred meters, Ye Zhongming found that the passage came to the middle of a sewer well, where a rope was tied. Yang Yixi struck a match, first looked at the top of the sewer well, and then looked at it again. Below, after finding nothing unusual, he whispered to Ye Zhongming: "Follow me, we'll be there soon."
As he spoke, he descended along the rope, with Ye Zhongming still at the end.
As the depth deepened, the surrounding area was almost as dark as thick ink, and it was impossible to see anything clearly. Even with Ye Zhongming's strength as a six-star evolver, he could only see clearly a few dozen centimeters away in front of him with all his strength.
However, Ye Zhongming discovered that the three people had exceeded the depth of the sewer well, and the place where they were now was completely dug manually along the sewer well.
After some estimation, Ye Zhongming discovered that the three of them had almost reached a depth of nearly 200 meters underground!
Finally, the two people in front slowed down a bit, and then the rope rippled slightly, and Yang Yixi jumped to one side.
When Ye Zhongming also landed on the ground, there was already fire inside, and he saw a two-meter-wide long passage with oil lamps burning every ten meters.
"The entrance to our camp is ahead." Yang Yixi pointed forward.
Through the firelight here, Ye Zhongming discovered that this pair of young boyfriend and girlfriend were both very good-looking, but they did not have much of the fierceness and bloody smell of survivors of the apocalypse. Instead, they looked more like people in peacetime.
Isn't there a lot of fighting and killing here? Otherwise, how can you maintain such a temperament?
Soon, Ye Zhongming saw the camp Yang Yixi mentioned, passed the door guarded by a group of survivors, and the three of them entered a bomb shelter connected to this passage.
"Most of the people here are survivors of the second and third feast days. The longest person has lived here for more than half a year, and the shortest person has lived here for more than five months. This is the first time you have been brought here by us. of outsiders.”
Ye Zhongming listened silently. This Yang Yixi had a very good attitude and always had a smile on his face that was rare in the last days.
"Oh, that's where Mao Ying and I live."
Yang Yixi pointed to a small house built with wooden planks, opened the door, and motioned for Ye Zhongming to come in.
The house was very simple, a little damp, and had the same faint sea smell as in the air-raid shelter.
"Drink some water."
Yang Yixi handed Ye Zhongming a cup. There was a layer of water in it... only about two mouthfuls. Moreover, Ye Zhongming felt that the water was a little turbid by the light of a candle.
"Well, this is our condition." Yang Yixi smiled awkwardly, "You have also seen the situation outside. It is a world dominated by tree corpses. It is difficult to find drinking water. There is underground water, but it is all polluted. Yes, we only have one purifier, and we don’t purify much water every day, so the quality is what you have in your hand.”
Ye Zhongming's eyes moved slightly and he asked calmly: "Tree corpse?"
"Well." The person who answered Ye Zhongming this time was Mao Ying. She gestured to the corpses and said: "The puppet controlled by the King of Hell Tree, did you just come in from outside? You must not know about the King of Hell Tree. That thing is actually No one has seen its true face, but judging from the exposed part, it is almost the same as a dead branch, and it can control those dry corpses, so everyone calls it the King of Hell tree."
"The tree corpses are zombies, mutated animals, and humans. After being caught by the King of Hell tree, they sucked up the energy of flesh and blood, implanted their own seeds in their bodies, and turned into the tree corpses you see. They They usually stay in the nest during the day and come out at night to look for survivors or living mutant life."
Ye Zhongming didn't feel anything on the surface, but his heart was indeed shaken for a while.
This was the first time he heard about the King of Hell Tree, the tree corpse, and the control method that was revealed from Mao Ying's mouth, which was so weird that it penetrated people's bones.
"Can you tell me more about it?" Ye Zhongming pretended to feel in his pocket and took out a small silver Russian wine flask from the space. It only had a capacity of a few ounces. It was not filled with wine, but It is a functional drink produced by Roulette. It is very good for restoring and maintaining physical condition. Two sips are enough to keep survivors with three stars or below energetic for two hours.
Seeing the small jug handed to them, Yang Yixi and Mao Ying looked at each other and took it. However, although their personalities were easy-going and friendly to others, it did not mean that they were fools. They did not drink after taking it, but they were very Ask directly what it is.
After getting the answer, both people's faces lit up, knowing that this was something good.
Ye Zhongming smiled, poured the water in the cup on the ground, and didn't care about the two people's distressed looks. He took the wine bottle and poured out some drink, and then drank it in one gulp.
Such behavior undoubtedly won the favor of the couple Yang Yixi and Mao Ying, who told Ye Zhongming about Lincheng in detail.
After listening, Ye Zhongming was shocked.
It turns out that Lancheng was occupied by a group of powerful and mysterious mutant plants more than two and a month after the end of the world. These mutant plants specialize in absorbing the energy of other life forms, turning them into mummies one by one, and use these powers to evolve themselves. .
When these plants evolved to a certain level, the number of evolved life forms in Linhai City dropped sharply, and they began to kill each other and feed on each other. In the end, only the most powerful one remained.
This most powerful mutant plant has taken over the entire city. It has become extremely powerful and dominates everything. And because of its improved evolutionary level, it has also gained very strange and irresistible abilities.
It can control those mummies!
The survivors in Linhai City actually don’t know what happened to this terrifying mutated plant. No one has even seen its original face. But based on the parts of it left on the ground where they were found, everyone calls it It is the King of Hell tree.
"Although those mummies have lost their level, they are still divided into strong and weak ones, and we don't know how to distinguish them. But one thing is for sure, humans, even with the surviving mutated life forms, are simply unable to fight against this current one. The level of the King of Hell tree.”
Yang Yixi took a sip of the energy drink, exhaled comfortably, and then said seriously: "Someone has estimated that the number of mummies controlled by the Yama tree is at least two million among the surviving aborigines in Linhai, and now the number of survivors is only how many?"
"The long mutant plants around the blockade are also part of the King of Hell tree?"
Ye Zhongming heard this and quickly asked, if those things are also part of the King of Hell Tree, then this mutant plant would be too terrifying.
"Those are not, those are Suo Ming Luo."
Deathloe? Another name that Ye Zhongming didn't know at all.
"Well, Suomingluo came to Linhai when those Yama trees were feeding on each other. By the time we found out, Linhai had become an isolated city, and we couldn't get out at all. Suomingluo had surrounded the entire city. , anyone who tried to rush out was devoured. It is said that at that time, the whole city was filled with despair."
Ye Zhongming nodded, which is understandable. In the city, there is the King of Hell tree that no one can fight against. On the outskirts of the city, there is the airtight Death-Lower. You can't defeat it and you can't escape. What else can you do if you don't despair?
"Later, gradually, everyone adapted to being hunted by tree corpses every day on the surface, and began to develop and survive underground. So as you can see now, our camps are all underground. At most, we can only use the basements left behind from the past. Or air raid shelters or other places like that.”
"The King of Hell tree can't do anything to the people underground?"
If it is a mutant plant, then generally speaking, its root system will be the most developed and the most terrifying. In such a situation, it may be more difficult to survive under the ground than on the surface.
Yang Yixi shook his head: "Avoid the area where the King of Hell tree is located. The underground in other places is basically safe."
Ye Zhongming nodded and thought of something again, so he asked: "Then what do you mean by feast day?"
Yang Yixi replied: "Actually, the city of Linhai is not completely closed, but will be opened every once in a while. We call this day a feast day."
"The interval is not necessarily certain. Sometimes it is one month, sometimes it is two months, and sometimes it is even only twenty days. By then, the life-killing Luo will disappear, and both survivors and mutated life forms can enter Linhai."
Then, the young man smiled bitterly and said, "The feast day, the feast day of the King of Hell tree and the life-saving rose tree! For us humans, it is a day of suffering."
Ye Zhongming can understand this. If Suomingluo does not appear, but allows more people to enter the city, and then have a sumptuous dinner with the King of Hell tree, it can indeed be called a feast.
The one who returns to the city is the King of Hell tree, and the one who runs outside is Guisuo Mingluo. There is a clear division of labor.
However, Ye Zhongming thought about it and discovered the problem.
"Before I arrived, there were no survivors around the city, not even zombies. In this case, what's the use of hiding Meili Luo? No one came here at all?"
There's no one around, so the open seafront won't attract anything, right?
Yang Yixi pointed upward: "This is the power of these two mutant plants."
"On the feast day, Kedaver will emerge from the ground, shake its body, and make a hissing sound. Some survivors said that this is a method of imitating the signals of mutated life creatures, and it will be spread out for a long time. Far, far away, causing the arrival of mutated life from far away. And the King of Hell tree will create large swaths of brilliant light at night when the feast day is approaching, emitting from Linhai City, making survivors who can see it from far away think that there is something here What kind of treasure are you looking for?"
"I heard from a survivor who survived the last feast day that many people outside now actually know about the situation in Linhai, but they think there are treasures in the city, so many forces will even enter specifically on the feast day to hunt for treasures here. .”
Mao Ying continued dumbfounded, making Ye Zhongming lament the greed of human beings.
This situation has been going on for a long time, and due to rumors and rumors, Linhai will not only not become a hell on earth, but will be considered a treasure house under the blue sky, allowing survivors to persevere in coming here... to die.
Once this happens, it really becomes a siege where people inside want to get out and people outside want to come in.
The three of them talked for a long time. Yang Yixi felt that the time was almost up. He looked at each other and said to Ye Zhongming a little embarrassedly: "Well, actually, we want to ask you for a favor."
Ye Zhongming was startled, and then he understood immediately. No wonder the two people took the risk to save him, and brought him to their camp to tell him the news. They even gave him the precious water in Lincheng. It turned out that he thought he had it. A road that allows you to enter and exit Lincheng freely!
And they left wanting to know where this road was! (.)
