Returning from the abyss

Chapter 815 Stronghold
After carefully studying the distribution of the pillars, Lu Ning found that these things seemed to have been dropped at random, and did not have a familiar arrangement as she thought.However, each column is somewhat different, and these differences are not recorded in the records, probably because those researchers really didn't have time to conduct more detailed research at that time.

She found the sixth pillar. After all, according to the records, this pillar can almost be said to be a turning point. The whole town fell asleep because of the fall of this pillar. Lu Ning was actually very curious.It was now emitting a soft golden glow, like an unblinding sun, but the texture was still as soft as the one she had tested.This time, Lu Ning didn't try any more abilities. She just tried it with a knife and found that the effect was similar, so she gave up.

So... the most important question is, after the sixth pillar fell, how did the seventh and eighth pillars cause the townspeople to mutate?She didn't feel the difference between these pillars, and Requiem couldn't perceive the difference between these pillars. She could only feel the mysterious familiar and disgusting feeling.

She randomly picked one of the two pillars and walked over.

Just halfway through this time, Lu Ning felt a little discomfort.The pillar that was slowly emitting green light was not far in front of her eyes, but Lu Ning felt that her body began to have an instinctive resistance, resisting to walk over, resisting approaching.

But an inexplicable intuition began to form in her mind—she had to go there, if she didn't do this, she would miss something, and it must be something she regretted.

This sense of contradiction is almost the same as the feeling that the column gave me.After Lu Ning thought for a while, she continued to take steps. She didn't know which side was right, but she knew that she could take some risks now.It is impossible to safely touch the scene core of the distribution center without any risk.

She walked up to the pillar, and suddenly heard a slight cracking sound.Looking left and right, Lu Ning didn't find anything broken. She looked at the pillar suspiciously, but suddenly realized that she was the one who broke.

In the area from her shoulders to her neck and chin, the flesh rolled up, and some dark things were churning between her bones.She didn't feel the slightest pain, but instead felt that she was getting stronger.Lu Ning raised her hands, and her skin began to rot, and it could be seen that the skin was no longer flesh and blood, but some black substances, which exuded a decayed but full of vitality. It exists in the end.

Lu Ning took another step forward, raised her head, and looked at her reflection in the crystal.Now, even her eyes have rotted away, there are only two ghostly fires and a lot of blood in her eye sockets, but she doesn't feel anything wrong with her vision at all.

"It's amazing..."

The contradictory and weird feeling just now began to be harmonious and unified. Lu Ning stretched out her hand and touched the soft surface of the crystal pillar. She felt like a dream, but at the same time she was awake.Her fingertips began to exert force slowly, and then the rotten skin fell off her hands, and only the black parts began to enter the crystals, and those parts did not emit eye-catching colors. Perhaps black itself is a kind of precious color bar.

She didn't understand why she thought so.

With her palm submerged, Lu Ning raised her right hand again, this time holding Bailuweishuang in her hand.

chap!
The sharp sword cut off her palm from the wrist without any hindrance, and then the black palm was swallowed by the pillar. Lu Ning took two steps back and shook her head slightly: "The price is a bit high...but fortunately gain something."

She shook her right hand, and the rotten skin had grown back, and then touched her chin, and the bloody flesh had also returned to its original shape.The feeling just now was terrible, as if someone sent you to a warm and soft big bed after working continuously for three days and three nights, you can fall asleep as long as you close your eyes.

Never wake up again.

Type A virus?Lu Ning cautiously looked at the road she had come. It was not accidental, perhaps from the very beginning... no, from a long time ago?She was glad that she was able to explain everything to her father early and cut off the warmth of nothingness, otherwise she might become like Zhao Xihua this time.

A left hand, a lesson, she thinks it is quite profitable.Lu Ning smiled lightly, turned around and walked back to the car, started the car, and left the town overnight.

The directory must be in the hands of the previous general manager. After experiencing it personally this time, Lu Ning probably understands why the director led people away like a madman.To be honest, it would be reasonable for him to keep the remaining researchers alive instead of killing them.

So where would such a person go?Lu Ning guessed that since they couldn't resist the temptation brought by Type A virus, they would definitely be inclined to look for it.The reason for the three copies left in the virus directory has not yet been clarified, but such an important thing will definitely not only have information in one research institute.

She stopped at a gas station on the way and took a nap.She has already verified that her own monsters do not attack before. Only E-type virus individuals will not actively attack her, but the derivatives they produce do not have this characteristic, and they will still rush up when encountering Lu Ning.However, the derivative individuals are basically not very effective in fighting, so Lu Ning is not worried.

When she was going to go on the road again during the day the next day, she found a car slowly approaching on the road.

It was a minibus with a dilapidated appearance, even the windows were damaged and covered with blood.Seeing this, Lu Ning was not in a hurry to drive, but the minibus stopped when it arrived at the gas station, and immediately a few people wrapped in tattered clothes got off the bus, holding oil drums in their hands, and rushed over to think Get some oil out.

Lu Ning took a closer look at the people who got off from the back of the car. There were men and women, old and young.The older ones stared at Lu Ning with vigilant eyes, and their bodies were also at the front and side, protecting the people in the middle.Although the clothes are rather tattered, the spirits of these people are actually not bad. Even if they are old people, it can be seen that the end of the day has not been able to grind them to the point of misery.

The problem is that there is actually not much gas left in such roadside gas stations.

One month after the doomsday, production stagnated and supplies began to run short.Maybe durable items can still be found, but consumables are hard to come by in areas with fewer monsters.If people want to get materials, they have to produce them by themselves, or go to places where there are many monsters to collect them, or go to find places like hidden granaries. In short, it is not so easy.

The same is probably true of the people in this car, and this problem cannot be solved by ordinary superpowers.

Fuel - a non-renewable resource even before the end.

After checking it all over and finding nothing, those carrying the oil drums sat down on the ground as if drained of strength.At this moment, Lu Ning took a step towards them and asked, "It seems that you are in a little trouble?"

"Trouble?" A man raised his head and smiled wryly: "It doesn't count, at most we have to abandon the car, but how long will it take us to find a place where we can settle down?"

"You seem to be a lot of people, and you have some special abilities to be able to travel so far, right? Where did you live before? Have you been wandering since the end of the day?"

"Do not."

At this time, a person came out from the convoy. He was in his 50s, and his appearance was a bit old, but he looked quite majestic.He walked over and looked at the empty oil drums in the hands of those people, with a sad expression on his face: "The girl who can travel alone in the last days should be a very capable person. And we were in a small village before. Just because it was going to be bulldozed and turned into a reservoir, the residents moved away, and there were no monsters. But after half a month of stability, a group of moth-shaped monsters rushed into the village, killed our companions, and destroyed the village. Our house, we tried our best to escape, and we only relied on this minibus for transportation all the way, but today it seems... there is no other way."

"I have fuel in the trunk, and I also have a map nearby, and I know some places where supplies can be obtained." Lu Ning compared her hands behind her, "Although it may not be the model you want to use, but you probably don't. Will pay attention to so much. But... I am not a person who will help others in the end."

"It can be seen that you must have a purpose in talking to us." The man nodded, "We have nothing, what do you want?"

"How many of you are there?" Lu Ning asked.

"There are 23 in this car."

"That's right. To put it simply, I now want to build a stronghold in a suitable place. I can provide initial material assistance and help find a safer place. I may never come to this stronghold in my life, but what? , There must be someone here, and when I come here, I must be able to carry out basic supplies here. Do you understand what I mean?" Lu Ning said bluntly.

"...Do you mean to let us guard a stronghold for the rest of our lives?"

"Of course not. You have to ensure the number of permanent residents here. Even if you find a suitable place to live and report this base to them, you still have to abide by the number of people who stay here for about 20 people. It cannot be abandoned. And At the very least, for you, you cannot switch to another place within half a year, that's the condition."

The man showed a wry smile: "Half a year? Within half a year, can this doomsday end? Can we restore order? You... Your conditions are actually very good for us. If you can do what you said For early help, it’s fine even if we wait for you here for a year or so. But... I also can’t make any longer-term promises.”

In fact, Lu Ning didn't need him to promise her life. After the two had a good conversation, she first gave them a bucket of fuel collected on the road from the trunk, and then asked carefully about the composition of the team.

Surprisingly, all the people in this car have some superpowers, although most of them are useless, such as making ripples on the water surface, or levitating an object that does not exceed ten grams, but these People also try their best to use these abilities in their lives, which also makes the journey of wandering easier.

There are only three young people with combat superpowers. One can turn leaves and branches into knives, one can eject stones like bullets, and the other can make people or monsters feel numb like electric shocks through contact.

Lu Ning was more satisfied, and only those who can use their superpowers and protect the team through superpower cooperation can easily become a stronghold for her to rest assured.

As for the location, when she saw these people, she was thinking about where she was going.

The Yuexiutan Research Institute is also a top scientific research institution among the national research institute materials brought out from Canglonggang, but the geographical location of the research institute is located on the edge of the urban area, and I am afraid that it cannot avoid the outbreak of the first batch of monsters in the doomsday.It's just that with the research institute's ability to block and keep secrets, there may be room for the data to be recovered.

After such a long time, the regional monsters have already fixed their chassis, and the wandering monsters must have scattered, and there are fewer monsters that can stay near the research institute.

So what if there are fixed monsters out there?

The scarlet lightning pierced through the giant five-meter-high multi-eyed monster that looked like an ape, and tore the monster based in the research institute in half from its waist.Then Lu Ning turned around and threw out the invisible blade of the distorted glove in her hand, twisting its upper body into several pieces in the air.

"Just one, it's really easier to handle." Lu Ning shook her hand, and it was rare for her to make a full shot. She seemed to be a little bit too strong.Now the monsters here in the research institute don't produce any derivative individuals, which saves her the trouble of searching and eradicating everywhere.

"Girl is so powerful, you don't really need a stronghold, right? One or two monsters can't do anything to you." The leader led the people over. After seeing Lu Ning's power, he didn't tremble, but She began to think about what purpose Lu Ning had in looking for them.It seemed that he was really thinking about his own team, how to deal with someone he couldn't afford to offend.

"I don't worry about it now, but it doesn't mean I won't need it in the future. It's my style to plan ahead."

"That being the case... of course I have no objection. We are at the end of the road, and if someone is willing to help, he will not refuse."

"Then follow me into the research institute. There should also be underground equipment here, and Yuexiutan has agricultural research here, and has its own greenhouse. Even if there is damage, you can restore part of it."

　It is explained here in advance, and a post will be posted in the book review area later.

　　As I said before, I will prepare for the exam in May, and I basically don't have time to update it.What I want to talk about now is to make some adjustments according to the current state.

　　I wrote this book out of interest. I believe that people who often read the starting point can also infer the performance and income of this book from some data. I don’t care much about these. Conflict, I will not focus on writing.In the future work, I may face some overtime and other situations. In short, I may not have the time to write every day as before.

　　Daily updates can be maintained in April, but it is estimated that from the end of April to the beginning of May, this book will enter the update stage of resignation, but there is no need to worry about finishing the book, because I have prepared all the scenes by the end of the book. It just takes time to write.

　　And this volume has also entered the countdown. To express my apologies, I will slightly spoil the title of the next volume - Fatal Filming.

　　Finally, thank you for your support so far, and thank you every reader who left a comment.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)