Traveling through the new apocalyptic era

Chapter 274: An unexpected event on the mountain
Since they had decided to go into the mountains, Li Qi found Zhang Wu and Hong Yu, two people who often went into the mountains with him, early the next morning.

Yang Beijia and Zhou Yi also wanted to go together. Li Qi originally didn't want them to go together, but when he thought about how Yin Ling caught two pheasants by herself yesterday, and they were new here, it was understandable that they wanted to go out for a walk.

So in the end, it was Yin Ling and his five companions plus Li Qi and his three companions, while grandma stayed at home.

"This time we will go to the mountain that is a little further to the north." Li Qi pointed in a direction, which was the direction from which Yin Ling and the others came.

"Over there... people are missing, so why don't you go there?" Xu Jing gestured. He remembered what they had discussed before, that people were missing in the mountains over there, so basically no one would go there.

Li Qi nodded when he heard this, "We are stationed here, so we need to check the situation of the surrounding mountains from time to time."

After roughly understanding it, everyone nodded and got into Li Qi's convertible pickup truck and set off in the cool morning breeze.

"When I got on the car, I actually had the illusion of going home. It felt like I had been away from technology for a long time." After this period of torture, Yang Beijia has become less squeamish and has no complaints about working in the fields.

Everyone nodded when they heard this. It was only a week, but it felt like a lifetime ago.

The pickup truck headed north, and the road was easy to drive on. However, after driving for half an hour, everyone got out of the car, and Li Qi drove the car into the grass on the side of the road.

Although this place is considered very safe and car thefts are basically non-existent, people who stay here have enough basic living supplies, and every household has a car, but most of them are solar-powered cars. Only a small number of people have oil-powered cars, and due to the current scarcity of fuel, people don't usually drive them.

"Everyone follow closely and don't fall behind. Although we have cleaned up this mountain, we cannot guarantee that there is no danger." Li Qi was in front, Zhang Wu followed behind, and Hong Yu was in the middle.

Yin Ling was holding a crossbow in her hand, which Li Qi had given her temporarily after he learned that she could shoot arrows and use a crossbow.

It was a weapon of the unified standard of the Psychic Department. From this, Yin Ling guessed that Li Qi and the other practitioners were arranged to stay here, and they were staying here with a mission.

In addition, the two gentlemen, Xu Jing and Fu Gang, were each given a machete and an alloy rod. As for Zhou Yi and Yang Beijia, they came for a walk and were only given a hiking stick each.

Although they came here to hunt, Li Qi and his two companions walked around the foot of the mountain like forest rangers, and then began to climb the mountain. They also stopped next to some vegetation from time to time, as if they were checking something.

The group climbed the mountain, which was one thousand meters above sea level, for two and a half hours, stopping and starting. During the climb, they encountered some small animals, but because they were on an upward journey, no one took action.

Yin Ling occasionally saw broken trees and large pits that were neatly covered with vegetation, and could tell that the mountain had been cleaned up with great effort.

At the top of the mountain, everyone ate some dry food and started to go down the mountain.

We originally thought that it would be faster to go down the mountain, but we found that we had changed the direction and there was basically no trace of any road along the way. We had to rely on Li Qi to lead the way.

There are grass as tall as a person, hundreds of years old trees, a completely natural ecology, and no trace of human beings.

Fortunately, Yin Ling and her friends had also experienced two days of climbing wild mountains before, so although it was more troublesome to walk, they could still barely keep up.

Not long after they started walking, a few bumpkins from another world (except Yin Ling) witnessed the magic of the practitioners here.

Perhaps because there were so many of them, as they were walking they saw two wild pheasants flying by.

"Pheasant, there's a pheasant!" Yang Beijia was the most excited. She danced with her hiking stick as she watched the pheasant jumping away, wishing she could fly up and catch it.

The others were also very excited and were about to chase it. Then Fu Gang just took two steps in the direction of the pheasant, and the pheasant immediately stopped moving in the grass.

"Dead?!" Fu Gang screamed. "It was Hong Yu. He has three spiritual roots of gold, wood and fire, and he specializes in gold. He was the one who did it just now. Don't get excited. The mountain road is very steep and it's easy to get into trouble." Li Qi quickly explained to everyone.

Several people looked at Yin Ling, who was the best at learning the local language.

In fact, Yin Ling noticed it when Hong Yu made his move.

"It was Brother Hongyu who used the gold-related supernatural power to attack. It should be a metal hidden weapon. Brother Fu, please bring the pheasant over for us to take a look." Yin Ling said to Fu Gang who was running in the front.

As soon as the words fell, there was another moment of silence.

"Oh my god, gold type! Hidden weapon! Just a few seconds!"

"I didn't even see this big brother take action!"

"So amazing! I'm so envious! I want to practice it too!"

For a moment, everyone except Yin Ling was very excited. After all, they came from an ordinary and peaceful world. Firstly, they seldom entered the undeveloped mountains, let alone encountered wild animals on site. Secondly, although everyone knew that they could practice here, they had been here for so many days and had done nothing but work in the fields and learn the local language. How could they have the chance to see this kind of supernatural power?

And now, in front of them, just now, although they didn’t see the whole process of what happened, the result was right in front of them, and they couldn’t help but be excited.

Fu Gang used all his strength and moved nimbly through the grass and brought back the two pheasants. Several people gathered around the pheasants to study them, and when they saw the little finger-sized iron nails on the pheasants' necks, they couldn't help but touch their own necks.

Xu Jing fell silent as he looked at the pheasant that was still bleeding and dying. He then looked at Li Qi and the other two and couldn't help but sigh in his heart. They were just living under someone else's roof like lambs to be slaughtered at any time.

It's easy.

After the first time, followed by the second and third time, he witnessed the power of the gold and wood elements. Only Li Qi's fire element was not suitable for use here, but his agile skills were beyond the reach of several people.

During this period, Yin Ling stopped the little black rabbit who was eager to try countless times. It was the most excited when seeing the prey. It was a pity that Yin Ling did not give it the opportunity to perform, otherwise there would be no chance for others.

However, just when everyone had reached the halfway point of the mountain with great success, an accident occurred.

Yang Beijia was originally walking in the middle, but as there were more prey, everyone carried a few prey on their backs or in their hands. Yang Beijia, Zhou Yi, and Yin Ling were girls, so they did not have as much physical strength and took less.

But even if she only took a pheasant, Yang Beijia walked slowly behind the team, but fortunately everyone was walking and stopping, which did not affect the speed. It was only when she turned a corner that she was attracted by a flower on the tree.

There were vines wrapped around the tree, with an inconspicuous little flower blooming on the vines. When Yang Beijia passed by, the pheasant in her hand was hooked by the vines. When she was pulling it, she saw the little blue flower with two petals and a green stamen in the middle. The whole flower looked like a blue butterfly.

Although Li Qi has repeatedly stressed the need to remain vigilant with every flower and blade of grass, outsiders without practical experience still cannot imagine what plant mutations are like, and cannot even understand them, even though they have witnessed the magic of cultivators.

I didn't think much about it because the flower was too small and grew on a vine as thick as a middle finger, so it didn't seem to have any aggressive nature at all.

Yang Beijia changed the pheasant to another hand and leaned over slightly with her right hand, which was closer, to pick the wild flowers.

The change happened in just a moment. As soon as I approached the wild flower, the vine moved. The seemingly soft and resilient branch pierced the approaching hand very quickly.

"Ah!" A scream rang out in the quiet mountains.