Doomsday Paradise

Chapter 158 Earth Dragon
Yu Yawen laughed and said, "Is there any bondage or not? We all live here now. This is home. I guard the house and watch the door. It's not considered bondage."

Sun Ying also nodded, "Okay, it's good to have Yawen here. By the way, Zhiyuan, I wondered, should this place be fenced off?"

Qin Zhiyuan nodded, "I'm also thinking about it. This place is too important, so I'd better settle in the base as soon as possible to be at ease. So I thought, let's extend the fence to this side, how about expanding the area?"

After breakfast, Qin Zhiyuan wanted to take Qiao Miwei out to have a look at the surrounding environment. He didn't know if this place was suitable for building a wall. Qiao's mother pursed her lips and drove the two of them out. She snickered and blushed, she knew that Mother Qiao must have misunderstood, but they really wanted to inspect this mountain, there was absolutely no other meaning, but before she could say anything, they were dragged out by Qin Zhiyuan After arriving at Taoyuan, a small path was artificially excavated next to the entrance of the tiankeng. The steps were a bit steep, and you needed to use your hands and feet to go up. Qin Zhiyuan crawled ahead, and pulled Qiao Miwei back from time to time. After a few minutes, the two of them came to the Tiankeng. above the pit.

The current weather is still hovering around [-] degrees, and even those plants that have mutated are listless in the sun. When the two came out, they chose cool but shading clothes, and their heads and faces were still carefully wrapped. Guessing that this tiankeng should have been formed during the earthquake last year, but looking at the surrounding vegetation, she overturned her guess. I am afraid that this place has existed for a long time, but it has not been discovered, and there are many trees and vines on it. They fell to the bottom of the pit along the wall, forming a unique scenery. They walked around the pit while talking, and Qiao Miwei was surprised after a while. She pointed to the bottom of the pit and said, "Zhiyuan, over there Are there any green plants?"

Qin Zhiyuan looked along Qiao Miwei's hand, and couldn't help being surprised when he saw a cluster of green plants at the bottom of the pit, "Really! This is too strange."

Qiao Miwei said, "Why don't we go down and have a look?"

Qin Zhiyuan looked at the surrounding terrain, pulled the vines again, shook his head and said, "Don't worry, go from below after the detour, these vines are actually not that strong, I'm afraid they can't bear our weight."

"Okay." Qiao Mi slightly raised his head to look at this direction, and then said, "This place is backed by the sun, so I'm afraid the sun isn't shining on it."

Qin Zhiyuan took Qiao Miwei's hand and walked forward, "You will know after a while, let's go and see first."

"Yeah." Qiao Mi nodded obediently, but she was surprised again when she took a step, "Zhiyuan, look!"

Qin Zhiyuan looked down, and his brows frowned. He kicked the thing, and the body should be a snake, but he had never seen a snake with two wings, although the small wings were only the size of an adult's palm. , fleshy, the veins on it can be clearly seen, and the thin meat film is translucent, but it is obvious that this snake-like thing is dead now, and it turned over with a kick.

Qiao Miwei also stretched out his foot and kicked the thing, and the snake's body was turned over like this, exposing its belly. Only then did the two of them see clearly that the belly of this thing was ripped open by some animal, exposing the inside The red, white and white inner hide just died tragically, its belly was torn into flocs by sharp claws, "It's a new dead."

Qin Zhiyuan nodded, "Yes, it seems that the blood has only coagulated not long ago, and it took no longer than half a day to die." He bent down and picked up the thing that looked like a snake but not a snake.

Qiao Miwei quickly backed away and turned his head in the same direction. The death of this thing was too ugly, "What are you doing with it?"

Qin Zhiyuan said, "Go back and ask who knows what kind of animal this is."

Qiao Mi asked suspiciously, "Isn't it a snake? It just has an extra pair of wings, and everything else is exactly the same as a snake."

Qin Zhiyuan shook his head, "It's hard to say, if it's really a snake, can sunlight not only mutate animals, but also change their shape?"

After hearing this, Qiao Miwei couldn't help worrying, "Aren't these animals more ferocious after changing their forms?"

Will it become more ferocious? Qin Zhiyuan couldn't answer. Thinking of the rat tide they had experienced before, both of them were silent. Although the rat tide did not reappear during this time, they still dare not relax. Terrible, keep your nerves on edge all the time.

Qin Zhiyuan carried the dead object in one hand, and led Qiao Miwei to continue moving forward. He didn't expect to pick up several dead animals like this along the way. Not only this kind of animal, they also saw a lot of dead bodies of super big ants and mice , One by one, they fell into the woods, looking rather pervasive.

Qin Zhiyuan also picked up an ant to study, probably these ants have also mutated, their size is as big as the largest grasshopper, their shells are very hard, and their pincers are even bigger than their bodies. Look, if you pinch someone, there will be blood.

Both of them had a bad premonition in their hearts, and they were not in the mood to continue patrolling. They hurried back and brought these two things to Qiao's father and mother. Qiao's father liked to study ancient history, so when he saw the snake-like The snake couldn't help but gasp when it picked something up, raised its hand to hold the thing in its hand, and carefully studied its fleshy wings for a long time.

Mother Qiao didn't know that thing, so she just leaned over to watch the excitement, and heard Father Qiao's voice, knowing that he should know this kind of animal, so she asked, "Old Joe, do you know this thing?"

Father Qiao pondered for a long time and said, "This creature should be an earth dragon. I have only seen it in ancient books, but this is the first time I have seen it with my own eyes."

Earthworm?What was that? Qiao Miwei and Qiao's mother looked at each other, then turned to look at Qin Zhiyuan, thinking that he would know, but unexpectedly Qin Zhiyuan also looked blank, Qiao Miwei asked curiously, "Dad , What is an earth dragon?"

Father Qiao put the animal back on the table, wiped his hands with the towel next to him, and said after recalling, "I can't remember the specific book, but I still remember some stories about this animal. The ancient emperors After death, they will choose a location with excellent Fengshui to be buried. Those places are also called dragon veins. These animals will grow in tombs with good Fengshui. Their shapes are generally like snakes, but they have two more wings than snakes. This kind of animal usually lives underground, and now I don’t know if it’s an omen to see this kind of creature on the ground, and they are still dead.”

"What happened to the dead?" Mother Qiao asked.

Father Qiao thought for a while and said, "Let's put it this way, for burials, these things are like totems, mascots, or dragons and phoenixes in our mouth. Now that they are dead, it is very likely that Feng Shui has changed, or Is there some kind of disaster?" After he finished speaking, he sighed, waved his hands and said to the three people, "What I said is just a guess, after all, I just like to read ancient history, and I don't study Feng Shui and fortune-telling, it's just a wild guess , don’t worry about it.”

Mother Qiao sighed, "What kind of psychological burden is there? Now that the world is like this, I can bear any unbelievable things that happen."

Qiao Mi slightly raised her hand and attached the back of Qiao's mother's hand, "Mom, don't be pessimistic. No matter how many disasters there are, we can survive. At worst, we will bring in all the people from the base, and let's say goodbye to the earth."

Mother Qiao shook her head, "Impossible, I always feel that there is a root here, and this root is deeply rooted in the earth. If the earth is really destroyed, then this place will probably disappear as well."

Qin Zhiyuan said with a smile, "That's okay, our whole family is together, even if we die, we won't be alone."

Qiao Mi rolled his eyes at him, "What are you talking about, don't talk nonsense, by the way, let's go to the green plant I found just now, maybe we will find something."

Qin Zhiyuan nodded, "Okay, it will be dark in a while, let's hurry back before it gets dark."

Mother Qiao held them back and asked, "What are you going to see?"

Qiao Mi slightly raised his finger and pointed in one direction, "There are green plants in the tiankeng, and they haven't mutated. Let's go and have a look."

"Oh, then be careful." Mother Qiao let go of her hand and instructed.

"Don't worry, we'll be back soon." Qiao Miwei pulled Qin Zhiyuan out of Taoyuan without saying a word.

The sun outside had already slanted west at this time, and the remaining blood red dyed the sky and the earth black and red. With the purple plants, everything looked so weird, but for someone who has lived in this environment for several months All this was nothing to the two of them, and they held hands and walked step by step into the depths of the tiankeng, "The last time we came in with Brother Daying, we just walked around the periphery, and we really didn't pay attention to the inside." I've seen it, but I didn't expect the scenery here to be quite beautiful."

Qin Zhiyuan didn't reply, he clenched Qiao Miwei's hand, and took every step carefully, keeping his other hand in front of him, so that he could push open the gate of Taoyuan to take refuge in case of danger.

Seeing his cautiousness, Qiao Mi couldn't help becoming more cautious, she asked in a low voice, "What's wrong?"

Qin Zhiyuan shook his head, listened carefully, and said in a low voice for a long time, "There are things in front, it seems that there are quite a few, I don't know what they are doing."

Qiao Miwei also listened for a while, but she didn't hear anything, only the rustling sound from the leaves as the breeze blew through the trees. Seeing how careful Qin Zhiyuan was, she simply stopped talking, and raised her hand to place on the gate of Taoyuan. Come on, ready to escape at any time.

Qin Zhiyuan's footsteps stopped. After a long time, he raised his foot and took a step forward. Qiao Miwei followed cautiously, but when her foot fell, she stepped on a brittle branch and made a clicking sound. Crisp.

Not good, Qin Zhiyuan's heart was full of alarm bells, he quickly pushed open the gate of Taoyuan, dragged Qiao Miwei to run in, the moment he entered Taoyuan, he looked back and found countless mice and earth dragons rushing towards them, he quickly After closing the door, he raised his hand in fear and rubbed his arms.

(End of this chapter)