Compared with when the "Old Tune Team" just returned from Qifeng Town, the scenery on the wilderness was even more withered, as if it had entered early winter from late autumn overnight.
"Is it snowing soon?" Long Yuehong looked at the leaden sky outside the window and guessed expectantly.
He has only seen snow in textbooks and slides.
"At this time in previous years, it was almost time for snow." Jiang Baimian replied casually while driving.
Bai Chen, who was in the passenger position, glanced in the rearview mirror and said:
"There may have been several snowfalls on the north side of the swamp."
The northernmost part of the Kuronuma Wilderness is connected to the ice field, which is a freezing world.
However, because the Kuronuma Wilderness is large, the weather in the area south of the swamp is not so extreme, and it belongs to the type of four distinct seasons.
"I really want to see what it means to be white." Long Yuehong withdrew her gaze and sighed.
Shang Jianyao, who was sitting upright, immediately responded:
"This is not an auspicious word."
"Why?" Although Long Yuehong knew that Shang Jianyao Dog couldn't spit out ivory from his mouth, he still couldn't help but ask.
He is very sensitive to such topics as good luck, bad luck, fate.
Shang Jianyao laughed:
"Think about it, when everything on the earth is covered by a blizzard, leaving only a vast expanse of white, can it be auspicious?"
"It's ...... too too" Long Yuehong had to admit that what Shang Jianyao said made some sense.
Listening to the conversation between the two, Jiang Baimian added:
"Every winter, I don't know how many wilderness wanderers freeze to death, and snow is a disaster for them, right, Bai Chen?"
"Hmm." Bai Chen pulled the gray scarf around his neck, "The houses in many settlements are in disrepair, and they are easy to collapse when the snow falls, and many people don't have enough clothes, let alone keep warm."
Long Yuehong was silent for a while, and then sighed after a long time:
"It's better to be a company."
In any case, the staff can have winter clothes and a solid hot water bottle.
At the high level, there is more energy rationing, and you can turn on the heater for an hour or two from time to time - if you can snap it up or trade it.
Speaking of "Pangu Creature", Long Yuehong suddenly thought of something and asked quite scaredly:
"Team leader, you say, if our mission plan is really seen and leaked by the hidden people of the 'Life Sacrifice' Order, will the cultists on the surface ambush us in Shuiwei Town?"
The route can be changed, but the destination cannot be changed!
"Faced with this situation, we can send bait to test it first." Without waiting for Jiang Baimian to answer, Shang Jianyao's smile had already become bright.
He patted Long Yuehong's shoulder and said:
"This glorious task is entrusted to you."
"Why me?" Although Long Yuehong was reluctant to admit it, she still knew that she was the weakest person in the group, and she really couldn't afford to be a bait.
On the one hand, this was really dangerous, he was very scared, on the other hand, he felt that his psychological quality was not yet at the level of the team leader and Bai Chen, and it was easy to mess up the task of decoy.
——Long Yuehong divided the psychological quality of the members of the "Old Tune Group" into four gears, he himself was the lowest fourth gear, and the upper gear was Jiang Baimian and Bai Chen, who were in the second gear at the same time, and Shang Jianyao was the only one.
Shang Jianyao explained "seriously":
"Because you look like bait."
"......" Long Yuehong couldn't figure out the logic behind it for a while.
"Don't scare him!" At this time, Jiang Baimian, who was driving, laughed and scolded Shang Jianyao.
She turned to Long Yuehong and said:
"I have a question for you:
"Do the people in the company know where Shuiwei Town is?"
"I don't know." Long Yuehong first answered subconsciously, and then suddenly realized. "That's right......"
Only then did he remember that one of the important reasons why Shuiwei Town was able to continue relatively safely from the destruction of the old world to the present is that it is hidden and difficult for outsiders to find.
When Jiang Baimian reported this matter, he consciously concealed the specific situation of Shuiwei Town, only saying that he had met their hunting team in the wilderness.
After figuring it out, Long Yuehong was quite ashamed:
"I forgot this."
"You are mainly prone to panic when you encounter a situation that may bring danger, remember to calm down and think more about it in the future." Jiang Baimian taught first, and then said with relief, "Well, can you think of the fact that the outside members of the 'Life Sacrifice' Order ambushed us at the intended destination, which is quite good for you who have only been to the surface for the second time."
Long Yuehong, who was praised, suddenly became more confident.
He changed his mind and said excitedly:
"So, this possible danger is not in Shuiwei Town, but in Weeds City?"
The two scheduled destinations of the "Old Tune Team" are Shui Wai Town and Weed City.
Compared with Shuiwei Town, Wild Grass City is a more famous city between the three major forces of "Pangu Creature", "First City" and "White Knights", and is well known by many relic hunters and wilderness wanderers, and there is no problem of not finding it.
Before Jiang Baimian could speak, Shang Jianyao was already equally excited and said to Long Yuehong:
"This is in good shape, keep it!"
Good condition...... Wait, why should I get excited? What a serious and dangerous thing this is! Long Yuehong suddenly wanted to raise her hand and pat her face.
"What are you excited about?" Jiang Baimian scolded Shang Jianyao again, and then said to Long Yuehong, "Not bad, it's good to be able to react so quickly. On the way to the next, we all have to think about how to enter Weeds City without exposing ourselves, and how to determine whether there is a problem with the company's intelligence personnel there.
"Yes, team leader!" Long Yuehong responded loudly.
He felt that he was slowly transforming into a trustworthy team member.
After the jeep drove for a while, Bai Chen looked outside for a long time, frowned and said:
"There are many traces of animal migration."
Hearing her words, Long Yuehong realized that there were many footprints crowded in a place on the grayish and yellowish wilderness, as if stepping on a road connecting the north and south.
"The climate this year is not normal, many monster groups are migrating, and the animals should be similar." Jiang Baimian recalled the news and news he had seen and heard, and his expression seemed to be quite touching, "For many wilderness wanderers, this winter is sad."
As soon as she finished speaking, a group of strange birds flew over in mid-air.
They are much larger than crows, with their bodies covered with black feathers and their skulls exposed and stained with filth.
The birds flew lower and lower, and soon fell into the swamp not far away.
During this process, they did not make a sound, and they were quiet as if they did not exist.
When Bai Chen saw this scene, he said with a slight sigh:
"Dead Bird......
"There seem to be a lot of dead bodies over there."
"Dead bird? This is a crow?" Long Yuehong asked curiously.
He remembered that textbooks mentioned that many places in the Old World regarded crows as ominous things, calling them dead birds.
Bai Chen withdrew his gaze and explained specifically:
"This is a distorted creature, we all call it a dead bird or a bone crow.
"They only eat dead corpses, and where they gather, there must be death."
Jiang Baimian, who was driving, nodded lightly and added two sentences:
"This kind of aberrant crow is amazing, it can still live well with its skull exposed.
"They are not aggressive towards living creatures, but if they come across, be careful. They can stick out a tube in their mouths, similar to flies, from which they spit out digestive juice, which is very dangerous and can melt the corpse into juice very quickly, making it convenient for bone crows to eat.
"Since this digestive juice can melt dead corpses, then I think it should be effective on living people."
Long Yuehong thought about the scene and immediately hissed.
"Then the question is." Shang Jianyao said with great interest, "How is the meat quality of this crow? What does it taste like to eat while grilling?"
Jiang Baimian glared sideways at this guy:
"This kind of crow itself is aberrant, coupled with the characteristics of the food and living environment, I don't know how many toxins and germs it carries."
After she finished speaking, Bai Chen suddenly spoke:
"The meat is very good."
Jiang Baimian held the steering wheel in one hand and touched his ears with the other:
"Have you eaten it?"
"Well, it was a winter like this and there wasn't enough food. Compared to humans, I think eating bone crows is more acceptable......" Bai Chen said in a reminiscence tone, "The meat quality is surprisingly good, and their eggs are the best eggs I have ever eat......"
Shang Jianyao and Long Yuehong raised their hands at the same time and wiped the corners of their mouths.
After doing this, Long Yuehong woke up and felt ashamed.
Shang Jianyao turned his head to the side and said to him seriously:
"I used the 'Reasoning Clown' to control you, so you did the same thing as me."
"Really?" Long Yuehong was relieved and frightened.
"Fake." Shang Jianyao replied with a smile.
Jiang Baimian ignored the conversation between the two in the back seat, and asked Bai Chen curiously:
"Won't you be poisoned or infected with a disease?"
"Poisoning may not be obvious, but it's okay." Bai Chen subconsciously glanced out the window, "But there were more than ten or twenty of us at that time, almost half of them were sick and dead, and their corpses fed more white bone crows......"
The corners of her mouth curled up slightly, with a bit of ridicule for who she didn't know who she was directing.
"On the gray soil, sometimes, you can only weigh the lesser of two evils." Jiang Baimian sighed sincerely.
In such an exchange, the gray-green Jeep Mercedes-Benz got into the swamp before it was getting dark in the wilderness, and arrived at Shuiwei Town in circles.
Because they already knew each other, had dealings, and belonged to people they could trust, after Bai Chen came forward, the guards put them directly into the town and parked the vehicle outside the old location - a wooden shed at the corner of the wall.
As soon as Jiang Baimian got out of the car, he saw an acquaintance.
"Dog." She smiled and said hello.
Nicknamed Gouzi, the face of the town guard member wearing a gray windproof suit suddenly turned red and muttered:
"I, my name is Ding Ce......"
Bai Chen didn't give the dog a chance to continue, so he asked directly:
"Where is Mayor Tian?"
Ding Ce's expression suddenly became sad:
"Mayor, the mayor is sick.
"Quick, it's almost over."
(End of this chapter)