dawn effect

Chapter 163 Green Mist
Salt is not only an urgently needed substance for humans, but also an electrolyte balancer that wild animals dream of. With salt springs, the physique of organisms will be much stronger, and some minor injuries and illnesses will not cause an avalanche effect of the immune system and electrolyte system in the body. It is equivalent to an extra life insurance.

This is a paradise for herbivores, but fortunately, carnivores are only attracted by them, and the number is far less scary than herbivores.

However, the road ahead was more cautious. At least Tangning had seen herds of mastodons, antelopes, and musk oxen.

The feces of large animals can also be seen everywhere on the road. Obviously, they also use this place as a convenient migration channel.

Finally, the leaves above the head became thinner, and a large town appeared in front of him.

This town is some distance away from the highway, and the military obviously hasn't cleaned it up, and there are a lot of undead and mutants.

"Xiaozhi, have you found a suitable place?"

"Father, Xiaozhi suggested to go to the bridge outside Chiyu Salt Industry Company, which is the end of the drinking water reservoir for residents of Laimu Town. On one side is the waterworks, on the other side is the Salt Industry Company, and in the middle is the bridge. It is far away from the town. Immortal There will be fewer people and mutants."

"What about the mutant beast? There should be salt and water there."

"I didn't see it on the satellite map. Maybe the salt in the factory area was searched by the residents during the catastrophe, and the area was also isolated by the water purification pool of the water plant. Most animals see it as a trap and won't go there easily. .”

The analysis made sense, Tangning followed suit, "Then go there."

Soon, the container truck came to the top of the bridge. Under the bridge was a pool of green water that stretched to the distance. From the bridge, you could see a group of buildings behind the woods in the distance. To be precise, that was Laimu Town.

It was still in the afternoon, Tangning did not go directly to the bridge, but parked the car under the shade of the forest at the bridge head to prevent being detected by other satellites.

Tangning clicked on the communication with Weiyuan: "Heavy rain, Duan Zhao, I'm here, and now I'm going to search the salt company and water plant."

"Well, candy, be careful."

After hanging up the communication, Tangning ordered Xiaozhi alone: ​​"Xiaozhi, simulate my chip signal on Skynet."

"Roger that!"

Tangning inserted a cold stiff wooden shielding plate on the back of his leather armor and put on a helmet. In this way, his signal was completely blocked.

The activity track of Tangning's personal ID that everyone can find is actually simulated by Xiaozhi, and from now on, only Xiaozhi can communicate with Tangning through an encrypted channel, and that channel is completely independent of the Security Bureau's personal chip monitoring system Besides, what Skynet got was actually a fake signal, not Tangning's real activity information.

After finishing her attire, Tangning got out of the car and began to search the waterworks behind her.

If it is possible to restore part of the power facilities of the waterworks to supply power to the container vehicles, there is no need to drive the vehicles to the bridge and open the roof to charge, which will undoubtedly reduce the risk of exposure.

This place is very close to Jingyan, and Tangning doesn't know if Jiazhou Skynet may monitor this place, so it's better to be careful.

The waterworks of the same period obtained pure water through membrane infiltration without using chemicals such as chlorate ions to kill viruses. However, in order to be better for the human body, after the waterworks obtained purified water, they would add mineral elements needed by the human body.

Therefore, the current waterworks are generally composed of power workshops, flow filter pools, pure water pools, water quality allocation workshops, finished product pools, and water delivery stations.

Of course, the waste water rich in microorganisms and nutrients obtained after water filtration is usually accompanied by a compound organic fertilizer plant, or an ecological farm operated by the water plant itself for the consumption of town residents.

So is this waterworks.

Needless to say, the power workshop and the storage tank, the filter tank is a pool of running water densely packed with permeable membrane tubes.

Now these ponds have of course become a paradise for aquatic plants such as duckweed water lilies, cattail reeds, etc. The environment similar to a stagnant swamp has become the home of countless fish, water birds, small mammals, and reptiles.

Tang Ning walked along the former concrete road among the reeds, and within a few steps, a pair of pheasants were startled and flew further away.

This kind of environment used to be Tangning's favorite. If you find a place like this, you don't have to worry about the food.

But today's purpose is not this.

Pulling out the bone knife and mobilizing the power, Tangning began to sense the surrounding power field. In such a place, there may be mutant beasts ambush.

The steel protective plate and metal fiber mesh of the protective clothing shielded Tangning's electric field signal, and the leather armor painted with frosty wood powder shielded most of Tangning's power field, but the metal helmet was not painted with frosty wood powder. The head can still sensitively collect the external power field.

There were several mutated creatures tens of meters away, but they seemed to have sensed Tangning and were approaching here.

Tang Ning stretched out her hand to her back, and just pulled out the Zijiao Bone Knife half a foot after being instilled with her supernatural powers, the supernatural power fields retreated quickly as if they were greatly frightened, and disappeared out of Tangning's range in a blink of an eye. .

The more powerful a mutant creature is, the more sensitive it is to supernatural powers. Although the mutant beasts here covet Tangning's supernatural powers, they are not yet strong enough to challenge him.

Soon, Tangning found the power dispatching workshop.

Sure enough, like most of the power generation equipment in the post-catastrophe period, the main problem is the battery, and most of the rest are intact.

Fortunately, Tangning didn't need the energy storage part, he only needed to be able to generate electricity.

But first, we must solve the mutant in front of us.

This mutant is extremely rare, and has evolved a layer of fish and reptile-like scales to protect itself from the high humidity of the water plant.

From the webbed hands and feet, it can be seen that this is an aquatic mutant, a very rare branch of mutants.

Although living in water, the body still remains tough and dry. This is an unsolvable contradiction, but this mutant has solved it.

The mutant didn't have any undead or low-level mutants to help. Tangning slowly raised her hand to her back, then suddenly drew her long knife and attacked the mutant.

The mutant let out a roar, and actually spewed out a cloud of green mist. The green mist was thick and spread very quickly, enveloping the two of them in an instant.

However, the mutants completely underestimated Tangning's ability. Even in places that were too thick to be seen, Tangning's helmet still had bio-electromagnetic field detection equipment, infrared detection equipment, and Tangning's own ability to perceive supernatural powers.

Even if this mutant was shrouded in green mist, to Tangning, it was as eye-catching as a burning beacon tower on the peak of the night mountain.

The blade of the transparent bone knife cut across the group of abilities without a sound.

Then, the power group disappeared, indicating that the strange mutant was cut in two.

Tangning took out an empty bottle from her backpack, filled the bottle with Green Mist, and opened the window of the workshop to let the green mist escape.

Non-toxic, this thing is a pure smoke bomb, I don't know if this mutant that survives independently has other abilities.

The green mist finally dissipated. Tangning squatted down, turned on the video, and recorded the physical characteristics of the mutant.

The mutant's eyes, especially the pupils, have become larger, which is to gain better power in the dark and underwater. A thick layer of horny shell has evolved on the lips, and the mouth with sharp teeth has more skin on the upper and lower sides. Two rows of tiny hollows and a few fleshy whiskers should be the organs that feel the shock waves of the underwater creatures.

The weird mutant has no hair. It should be where the eyebrows should be. Now there are two long meat tubes, which are breathing holes. They are usually close to the scalp and can move underwater. If necessary, they can float to a position close to the water surface. , breathing through a meat tube.

Creatures are always looking for a way out for themselves. The environment here makes undead people rare, and mutants cannot develop in the direction of dominating the group, so they have evolved a mechanism to develop underwater and protect themselves through smoke.

It's just that this mutation has already been cut in two by Tangning, and the rest is left for Qiu Yi to research.

After dragging the mutant aside and the green fog dissipating, Tangning began to repair the power workshop.

After much difficulty, she managed to piece together a set of power generation equipment. Also in order to prevent being detected, Tangning did not activate the wireless transmission equipment. Instead, she found two cables and dragged them to charge the vehicle.

Next, Tangning walked along a stream beside a bridge, followed the bushes to the bottom of the bridge, nimbly climbed to the opposite side of the bridge, passed through the woods to the wall of the salt company factory, and climbed over with the branches of the big tree. go in.

There were many undead and mutants in the salt company. Tangning got very close under the protection of the leather armor before being discovered by the undead, and before he had time to react, Tangning slashed his head.

The undead wandering around in the factory area are not workers' clothes. This is an ideal shelter. It seems that some residents who came to Mou Town went here to take refuge during the catastrophe.

However, the mutation still broke out in the refuge, and no one was spared in the end.

After clearing out the undead outside, Tangning began to inspect the interior.

Sure enough, in the warehouse of the Salt Industry Company, Tangning had just opened the locked door when she heard a familiar roar coming from the warehouse.

A group of undead rushed towards Tangning.

Tangning didn't retreat but advanced, her steps followed a mysterious rhythm, and the long knife flew around her body quickly, chopping down six or seven undead people in an instant.

There are also two mutants here, but their abilities are only between the third and fourth levels, and there is no special mutation. Under Tangning's knife, they are no different from ordinary mutants.

After cleaning up the warehouse, when Tangning opened the back of the warehouse, she found a horrible sign.

A dozen or so human corpses were buried in salt in several plastic turnover boxes.

Because of the effect of salt, these corpses are basically well preserved except for a lot of dehydration.

The corpse was dissected into body parts and placed. Obviously, this was not a special funeral, but a protein reserve.

Tangning shook her head, closed the warehouse door again, and went to inspect the production workshop.

The production workshop is the place where underground black brine is extracted for salt processing. The equipment here is very rusted, and almost all metal parts have turned into brown and green rusty soil. The corrosion effect of salt on metal and the accelerated aging effect on plastic are There is no doubt about it.

Even the surrounding cement walls, due to the erosion and displacement of salt, crystallized white salt flowers, which looked like a bas-relief forest mural painted on the wall, the picture was the dense white cedar on the snow field.

Although the picture was very strange, Tangning knew that this place was very dangerous. The support structure of the entire workshop was already corroded, and it would collapse if not careful.

Even bacteria are not easy to survive here, and it is also a forbidden area for undead.

(End of this chapter)