The flames burned silently, because the woods were almost entirely filled with dead trees, and the fire became more and more intense, and it seemed that it would soon turn into a violent wildfire.
After confirming that the green beetles would not return for another attack, Lowe successfully emerged from the woods and reorganized his army.
After the attack by the green beetle, the number of people in Luo Chenggong's team was reduced by dozens again. However, Li Fugui unexpectedly discovered that Lin Shunan's side did not have many casualties. Because Lin Shunan's people had been gathered together, Li Fugui was easy to identify.
This was somewhat beyond Li Fugui's expectation. He originally thought that Lin Shun'an would suffer a lot of casualties when he followed Luo Chenggong, but the casualties were actually Luo Chenggong's people.
Seeing the gradually growing fire, Luo Chenggong ordered the team to set off for Peicheng immediately.
Li Fugui stood on the bus, looking at Chen Tianran's body that had turned into a pile of flesh, and an inexplicable sadness floated from the bottom of his heart.
Maybe one day he will be unlucky and die miserably at the hands of some insect or something else. Will someone collect his body that day?
It was still abandoned on the roadside like Chen Tianran, slowly losing its temperature in the cold temperature, turning into an inexplicable mass. In the end, it might be eaten by some animal, or it might just lie there quietly. In place, thick dust accumulated over time, and no one noticed it.
Thinking of this, Li Fugui shuddered suddenly.
"There will never be that day, there will never be that day..."
He was not sure about the future, but Li Fugui could only comfort himself in this way.
The enemy of the dark age is not only the rampant monsters and bugs, but also the almost collapsed emotions. Once the emotions collapse, even if they don't encounter bug monsters, they will commit suicide due to boundless despair.
The atmosphere in the carriage was deathly silent.
Li Fugui leaned against the car window and silently practiced his vitality. The appearance of the green beetle put a lot of pressure on him. Without strong support of his vitality, he would not be able to deal with a green beetle if it targeted him.
He has to practice until he is strong enough to compete with the green beetle, so that he will not be so passive when he encounters the green beetle next time.
Lu Zijing, who had been feeling a little depressed since the death of Chen Xingle in the facial incident, was sitting alone in a corner.
Qian Shen was exercising crazily on the side, which surprised Li Fugui. Li Fugui originally thought that Qian Shen would become depressed after experiencing the deaths of Qian Dewang and Fang Wan, and finally died of depression.
But Qian Shen was only a little depressed in the first two days after rushing out of the Human Face Village, and then he picked himself up and worked hard to exercise his body. Maybe he attributed the death of his parents to his own uselessness.
Li Fugui didn't know that what Qian Shen thought had nothing to do with him.
Qu Jiacheng and the remaining scientists huddled in a corner and intensely discussed some academic topics, including many entries about Neozoidae and dark energy organisms.
Only then did Li Fugui realize that among the new scientists were biologists, they were re-constructing the biological systems belonging to those terrifying monsters based on the original biological systems.
Shen Aotian was still taciturn, Gao Hechuan stood next to Zhu Huizhi and was looking for a topic. Facing the bearded Gao Hechuan and Zhu Huizhi, who looked impatient, Wang Tianxuan sat in his corner and practiced hard. .
After more than ten rounds of filling and releasing vitality, Li Fugui noticed that there was one more unit of vitality in his body, which meant that he had broken through seven units of vitality reserves and reached the eighth unit of vitality!
Li Fugui exhaled a breath of turbid air, eight units of vitality, which meant that he could kill eight red beetles at once.
"Can eight units of vitality be able to fight against the green beetle?" Li Fugui thought in his mind.
Suddenly the bus slowed down and stopped slowly, and a voice came from the front of the car:
"Hello! Chief Luo has something urgent to ask Comrade Li!"
Hearing this, Li Fugui had an ominous premonition in his heart. He stood up and was about to get off the car when his vision changed. Li Fugui suddenly noticed a huge and hazy thing not far in front of the team, covering the sky and almost covering up the dim light in the sky.
Following the soldiers to the front of the team, Li Fugui finally got a close look at the thing that was blocking out the sky and the sun.
It turned out to be a barrier similar to fog!
Just like the fog that occasionally appears in autumn in the sunny era, a hazy Tyndall light shines through Luo Chenggong's flashlight.
But these fogs seem to be bound by an unknown layer. It looks like a transparent glass cover filled with smoke, and the smoke is rippling in the glass cover.
"What is this?" Li Fugui said in surprise.
To be honest, although Li Fugui has lived in darkness for decades, he has never seen anything like this, just like he has never seen a human face.
Sometimes Li Fugui doubted himself whether he would be reborn in the original world, because he didn't recognize any of the monsters in front of him except the insect.
Hearing Li Fugui's voice, Luo Chenggong came back to his senses, shook his head and said: "These look no different from ordinary fogs, and even the light transmittance is not as good as those fogs in our cities, but they It seems like they are bound together by something.”
Li Fugui came to Luo Chenggong and looked carefully into the fog in front of him. The light transmittance of the fog was not good. In the haze, Li Fugui could see some strange plants growing about ten meters away. The top is more like moss, but it grows as tall as a piece of short grass, emitting a weak gleam in the dark environment.
There seemed to be some plant rhizomes next to these strange mosses. Those rhizomes sprang out from the ground and then plunged into the ground not far away. Dark red light spread and flickered on the rhizomes.
"These fogs don't seem to pose any threat, but these fogs cannot be taken out of that unknown realm. Once they are separated, the fogs taken out will quickly disappear." Luo Chenggong said, and in front of Li Fugui, he He reached into the mist, and then used a glass bottle to cover part of the mist and bring it out.
The glass bottle escaped from the fog without any hindrance, but in less than a second after the glass bottle emerged from the fog, the fog in it disappeared. It was so fast that Li Fugui didn't even have time to check the process of the fog dissipating.
"Because no samples were collected, there is no way to analyze what these fogs are, but they look different from our usual fogs. These fogs are not composed of water vapor. They should be more like some kind of miasma." A voice suddenly sounded. , Li Fugui discovered that there was a short and thin old man standing next to Luo Chenggong.
After finishing speaking, the old man added: "The miasma caused by something is not clear whether it is a threat or not."
"Miasma?" Li Fugui asked in shock, "Wouldn't that damage the human respiratory tract?!"
"Well, maybe, who can say for sure in this case?" The old man chuckled.
After saying this, the old man didn't say anything else, shook his head and turned around and left.
"His name is Luo Yiming, an expert in physics and biology." Luo Chenggong explained at the side.
At this moment, Li Fugui had no intention of paying attention to who the old man was. He only cared about what method should be adopted in the current situation.
"By the way, have you sent anyone into the fog?" Li Fugui suddenly thought of such a key question.
No matter what you look at from the outside, it's just a guess. It's better to send people directly into the fog. Sometimes the stupidest method can achieve better results than any clever talk on paper.
Facing Li Fugui's question, Luo Chenggong replied helplessly: "Before you came, we sent a few soldiers in to check the situation, but I don't know why. Whenever the soldiers went in, something seemed to interfere with their vision. Obviously, We can see him but he doesn't seem to see or hear us."
"The instructions I gave them were to return the same way no matter what happened, but the strange thing was that the soldiers didn't know what happened after they entered, and they suddenly disappeared without a trace without taking two steps."
Hearing this, Li Fugui frowned, this mist actually had such a strange ability.
But at present, it seems that they have no other choice but to enter the fog in front of them. It is impossible for them to abandon the vehicle and walk around the entire city. What's more, the current miasma is almost blocking the sky and the sun. I'm afraid they will be overtaken by the insect army before they can get around it.
"There is no other way. I'm going to tell you to prepare rags. No matter what is hidden in the fog, we can only break through." Li Fugui finished speaking solemnly, stood up and left.
Back in the car, Li Fugui said to everyone: "Everyone, there is a large foggy area ahead. Experts from Luo Chenggong analyzed that it is likely to be miasma caused by some kind of creature. We are currently very close to Peicheng. All we have to do is break through this miasma before us."
After explaining, Li Fugui ordered everyone to tear the extra clothes into pieces and wet them all with urine.
When Li Fugui was a child, his home only had an old-fashioned TV set with only a few watchable channels, one of which played anti-Japanese TV dramas all year round.
There was a plot in the TV series where urine was used to block the poisonous gas attack in Little Japan. Li Fugui didn't know if he could prevent the miasma in front of him, but he can only say that it was better than nothing.
The team moved forward slowly, and everyone on the bus stood alertly by the windows. After all, no one had ever entered this fog, and no one knew what creatures were hidden in this fog.
Li Fugui didn't know what would happen after entering the fog, so he could only nervously hold the unsheathed sword in his hand to ensure that he could launch a counterattack as quickly as possible when encountering danger.
The bus quickly drove into the fog, and the fog caressed my face.
Li Fugui only felt his eyes flickering. When his eyes refocused, a jaw-dropping sight came into view.
Different from the dryness and death in the outside world, there are strange plants everywhere after the fog, and tall and thick trees cover all the dim light in the sky.
Under this dense green umbrella, Li Fugui could not even see the sky, as if he had traveled to a primitive forest somewhere in an instant.
There are strange plants everywhere that emit a faint light. Among them are the strange moss and dark red rhizomes that Li Fugui had seen when he was outside. These luminous plants make this originally dark forest look very bright, even The visibility is much higher than the dim light outside.
Suddenly Shen Aotian patted Li Fugui on the shoulder, which frightened the highly nervous Li Fugui and almost cut him off with a knife.
"Look at the back." Shen Aotian said softly and pointed to the back.
Li Fugui cautiously stuck his head out and looked behind, and then Li Fugui discovered a terrifying thing.
The road they originally came from had disappeared at some point, leaving only a thick wall of fog!
