White sandy beaches, the jungle behind, and distant mountains shrouded in mist.
Squinting his eyes and putting these scenes together, Moore saw a female body lying flat on the sea.
Extremely huge.
Made up of a collection of squirming things.
After seeing the vision to this extent, even the descendant of the Time Dragon couldn't help but feel a surge of nausea. He tried his best to suppress the urge to dry heave, and looked at the boat again, and found that there was only one person on it.
the other side.
Ashley entered the jungle fully armed, recalling the information she had read as she walked inside.
The extinction of life is indeed not an accurate statement. It is more targeted at animals. Lower-level life forms such as plants and fungi actually survive.
“This feels terrible…”
The young knight muttered under her mask.
"Gray algae are actually the degeneration of humans, so could these twisted and weird trees also be transformed from humans?"
It's not her fault for thinking so, but this jungle is indeed weird.
The only difference between normal jungle forests is the density and tree species. Even the densest forests, even the most tree species that like to grow intertwined, will most likely retain the basic dignity of being "trees".
At least you can tell it's a tree.
It has the basic form of a tree, with a trunk pointing upward, which allows you to tell it apart.
It's not like now, where Ashley can't even tell the trunks, branches and roots of the trees in this jungle apart.
They all looked the same, all twisted and entangled together, and the angles of the branches were extremely capricious, growing in all directions. Many times she had to draw out her dagger to force their way through.
They look... from some angles they do look like human corpses huddled together...
In addition, the jungle is dense and not very transparent, and it is quiet and dark inside. Few people can walk here without feeling scared.
After advancing for a while with difficulty, Ashley discovered traces of an artificial road in the jungle ahead.
This should be what was left behind by the first group of people who came ashore. According to the description they wrote, if you continue walking in this direction you will enter the center of the city.
It was a ruin that was also covered by these plants.
Strictly speaking, I am already in the city, but the closer I get to the sea, the denser the vegetation becomes, and I can't see the true appearance of the ruins at all.
"Perhaps this means that plants and gray algae are not the same group?"
Ashley thought.
"Gray algae don't like salt water, so they stay away from the shore."
"The plant forests are trying to squeeze towards the shore... Do they really hate gray algae?"
Curious about these plants, Ashley cut off a piece of rhizome and carefully observed the cut surface, trying to see how it was different from the plants she remembered.
But unfortunately, she is not a professional in this field and has never read any books on the subject, so she can't see anything abnormal.
Putting these thoughts aside, she continued to walk inside and gradually began to feel that her breathing was a little difficult.
When the dust content in the air reaches a certain level, the mask will lose its effect. Ashley vaguely felt that the passage connecting the nasal cavity to the lungs was a little itchy, and her heart tightened, thinking that she had been eroded.
However, she had drunk a sip of boiling blood potion before entering the jungle. Now she no longer suppressed the medicinal properties, allowing it to burst out through the liver, spleen and stomach. She immediately felt a warm current flowing through her body, and the itchy feeling in her throat disappeared.
It really works.
Moore didn't lie to me, I am the only one who can do this job.
It has come to this point, and there is no point in wearing a mask. Ashley simply took off the mask to increase the efficiency of holding oxygen, and moved quickly, jumping off several raised stone platforms.
"call……!"
With deep breaths, she inhaled a large amount of mycelium into her lungs, but they were all killed by the high temperature in the process, and not a single one was successfully eroded.
But you can't stay too long.
"No harm doesn't mean no discomfort." Moore's original words rang in my ears, "Normal people will get a sore throat and phlegm even if they sleep in a closed air place. When these things accumulate, it will be very uncomfortable."
Controlling her breathing rhythm, Ashley entered the ruins of the unknown city, and the scene before her eyes gradually changed from "large amounts of stones covered with gray-green vegetation" to "occasionally covered stones."
The surface is all grey...
Coming to a collapsed wall, Ashley reached out and wiped it, leaving a deep scratch.
It wasn't that her fingers were so strong that they could cut the stone.
What she cut open was actually the gray algae colony attached to the surface of the stone.
Collect some on the stone...
She took out a small bottle with the number 1 on it and scraped some bacteria into it with the blade of a knife. Ashley sealed the bottle and put it in her waist bag, then continued forward.
whoosh-
She saw a dark shadow rush out from the front and go sideways to the other side.
what is that?
Living thing?
Ashley's spirits lifted as she quickly chased after it, wanting to see what it was.
It would be best if we can catch them, but if we can’t, we should find a way to collect the bacteria on their body.
After following the black shadow for a distance, Ashley gradually began to frown.
She felt something was wrong.
The shadow was flying so fast that he couldn't even see what it looked like. Theoretically, he shouldn't be able to catch up with it at this speed. But it seemed that it was intentionally controlling itself so that he could keep up with its pace.
Is it intelligent?
Is it leading me somewhere?
Ashley was too focused on staring at the black shadow. If she had paid more attention to the places she ran past, she would be shocked to find that the gray fungi covering the surface of the entire city ruins were flowing forward like water, which was exactly the direction she had been guided!
Finally, she chased the shadow to an abandoned building and ran to the center of the hall alone.
This place... is not a palace, but probably a church or something like that.
She looked up and was impressed that the hall still retained its grandeur after so many years.
Then she opened her eyes wide - watching the endless gray fungi gather from every gap and condense into a hazy giant in the center of the hall - where the statue should have been!
What is this——
She immediately took down the heavy crossbow.
Then he remembered that the substance that made up the opponent was gray algae, so he threw away the heavy crossbow and took out the pistol.
"Who are you……"
The giant bent over, making a buzzing sound.
It sounded like countless voices speaking at the same time, dull and sharp, and extremely unpleasant.
Ashley was surprised that it could actually speak, and stammered, "This...shouldn't I be the one asking you this?"
“Ask… me…?”
"Yes! Why can you...you still talk after becoming like this?"
"yes……"
The giant raised his head.
"why……"
It seems its brain isn't working very well.
Ashley hesitated, not knowing whether she should take the opportunity to sneak away.
"Oh! I remembered!"
The giant suddenly raised his voice.
"In order to survive..."
"You must... survive..."
"play hard……"
"Only if you want to survive..."
Chapter 34: People Waiting for the Flame (Two in One)
At the same time that Ashley was getting a huge scare, a medium-sized speedboat was on its way back to look for the fleet.
Coming out of the cabin, Aman saw Darent standing by the side of the ship smoking. Feeling confused, he immediately walked over and observed the other person's expression from the side.
With his brows furrowed and the smoke blown away by the sea breeze, the leader of the fleet seemed to be worried.
"There's nothing unusual along the coast." A'man thought for a moment and began to speak, "What's wrong... Isn't this good news for you?"
"If you would replace 'you' with 'we', that would be great news."
Darent turned his head and looked at him, grinning.
This bastard is still the same as before. Even at this moment, he still has the mind to make fun of others...
A'man was speechless about his bad character. He knew that this matter had nothing to do with his attitude. This wooden man was simply making fun of him.
"I've always been curious." Aman decided to be honest with him, "I don't understand why you insist on exploring this place, especially with your expression... Are you hoping that something bad will happen to you?"
"No." Darent shook his head. "I just think everything has been going too smoothly so far."
"Shun Li? Gray algae fungus is also called Shun Li?"
"Isn't it? Think about it, we are facing a piece of land that was once moved away from the familiar world - moved to another dimension, and immersed in an environment where normal humans are unlikely to survive for at least two hundred years. And after it returned, it only gave us gray algae fungi - a viral bacteria group with a very low lethality rate and infection efficiency."
Darent half-raised a hand, "I just think this is too weak."
"If I were Gray Mist, if I were a character who could control Gray Mist, or at least influence Gray Mist, then I definitely wouldn't give this land back so easily. I would at least make some big moves."
"What kind of big commotion?" Aman curled his lips. "An unrestrained Aisha Continent? The entire continent has become alive, and there is a super giant whose ankles can only be seen?"
"You are well-informed and have a vivid imagination, Your Majesty."
"Call me Aman."
"Okay, Your Majesty."
Aman completely abandoned the topic and asked, "So you suspect that the people of Eclipse have some conspiracy?"
"Their resistance is too weak." Darent said noncommittally, "When they completely withdrew from the east coast of Icarolin, it could be understood that they were helping Yinsel prepare his plan to become a god. But now Yinsel is dead, the Undead Fleet, the Sunflower Reverse, and the Fissured Wolf are all internally divided. Logically, this is the time to recruit new blood, but they didn't make any moves. Instead, they were defeated by us from Icarolin to Aisha."
"I did hear about it." Aman also leaned his elbows on the railing and looked at the white waves cut by the hull below. "Many people were captured and killed... The noise you made was not small at all."
"Do you think it's appropriate?" Darent asked him back, "Is it reasonable that the evil organization that has been able to suppress so many people for the past two hundred years is so weak and has no resistance at all?"
This is indeed unreasonable.
If you think this way, then Aman feels that he can understand him a little bit.
And because he had been a prince and a king and had held a high position, he understood better how complicated things a decision maker had to worry about.
Every person is a precious resource, and he doesn't want to lose any of them. The so-called "selection of superiors" is just an excuse in his eyes, and he believes that such a country is not what he wants to create.
Is that why I ended up hanging out with the Sara people?
Invisibly, Sarah fits part of my fantasy. Although it still has many shortcomings and many deficiencies, it is the closest one.
Am I just subconsciously getting close to it?
For no reason, A'man felt a little irritated.
He felt that he was a little too hypocritical, so hypocritical that it made people feel sick. He couldn't help but think of the dark-skinned "Miss Bull", and how she always spent a lot of time working on the deck during the voyage, and she and he were always the last ones to rest.
When I asked her why, I got a strange answer.
"Because I want to see more of the blue sea."
Right...? But it's not strange at all, because she is a native Elsa. She grew up in the scarlet sea of blood, mud, fat, and bones. She has long been accustomed to its horror and filth. After Elsa returned, she was naturally curious about the blue sea.
No wonder she hates me.
Given her situation, she was lucky to be alive. She didn't dare to ask for more, and it was normal for her to look down on someone like him who gave up on himself.
