Chapter 131 - wolfsmoke

Zero had to admit how beautiful that beautiful figure was when she was shuttling back and forth between the mutated plants. Atasha's movements were light and agile, with a hint of dancing in the air. With a leap, she seemed to draw the attention of the onlookers, as if the heart of the entire world was beating.

From her soft, boneless hands, to her shockingly curved waist, and then to her long, firm legs. When she moved, her body naturally showed a rhythmic beauty, making it almost impossible for her to look away from the elegant figure.

Just this morning, Gunnar had asked the chief of the Shinryan clan to take Atetha and her two companions away from Death Canyon, to save more time crossing Death's Ridge. At first, she didn't want to, because she and many of the Shamans had a natural hostility towards outsiders like Zero. But like the rest of the people, she had only the highest respect for Gunnar, who had almost changed the fate of the Shapeshifters.

Since the request had been made by Gunnar, neither the patriarch nor Natasha could afford to dishonor him. That was why the black girl was unwillingly bringing Zero along. As if to vent her anger, Atasha brought the two of them and stabbed them into the dangerous mutated plants. Fortunately, before they left, Gunther gave them some powder.

The powder could cover up the smell of Zero and Mony, making most of the mutated plants on Death's Ridge treat them like normal trees. However, this powder was useless against mutated beasts. This was the reason why the two of them had been able to find the zero point after traversing the forest last night, but were instead attacked by the Firelizard Snake.

After a long journey without stopping, Atasha and Zero were fine, but Monnie couldn't take it anymore. The silver-haired girl's face was covered in sweat. As she was constantly travelling, her body temperature was constantly rising, causing her face to flush abnormally red. She was less hostile to the girl, who was only twelve or thirteen years old.

Furthermore, although Monnie was still a minor, she had already displayed the astonishing potential of a peerless beauty. As for beautiful things, Atisa, who had lived in the jungle all her life, knew how to appreciate them. Although she didn't say it out loud, she did like Monnie quite a bit. Seeing how tired the little girl was, Atasha couldn't bear to keep walking. Besides, the person she was hostile to didn't even gasp for breath.

Seeing Zero's expression, Atasha knew that even if he ran for a day, Zero might not be exhausted before her.

Thus, the three of them found a place to rest. Atasha had grown up in the Death's Ridge, unlike an outsider like Zero, the black girl could easily distinguish between normal plants and mutated humans. Under Atasha's lead, they found a relatively safe forest area and rested under a towering cedar tree.

Zero took a leather bag out of his army bag. Inside the bag was pure water from the life source of the Semitic people. There were five or six such bags, but Zero naturally did not have any of them. These were the equipment that Gunther had used to explore the world, and he had given them all to Zero today.

He handed the leather bag to Monnie, who took it from him. She took the water bag from him and drank three gulps before returning it to him. The girl knew that the bags of clean water weren't much, that they would last only seven or eight days, so Monnie drank very little, even though she was still desperately thirsty.

Zero drank less than she did, and he just took a sip. However, his physique was different from Monnie's. Although it was only the weight of a mouthful of water, it could sustain his body's organs for most of the day with zero capacity.

However, Atasha didn't rest. She stood on top of a tree twenty meters away from the ground and pointed ahead. "We're almost at Death Valley. You guys rest for ten minutes and then continue on your way."

Zero smiled bitterly. How could he not see that Atasha did not want to stay with them at all? The black girl only wanted to finish her mission and return home. The black girl immediately stepped back, and Zero tactfully stepped on the other side of the tree to keep her at arm's length. Right in front of them, they were at the highest point of a certain mountain. Further up was a steep downhill. As far as the eye could see, the forest that covered the entire God of Death Ridge seemed to have been cut off by scissors at the foot of the mountain.

Beyond the green edge of the line were red and brown rocks.

This reddish brown "carpet" extended all the way to the area known as Death Valley. Even though that place was called a canyon, when Zero saw it, he knew that it wasn't a canyon. It was clearly a mountain range with a deep ravine that ran through the mountain. It was just that the ravine was too large, which was why it seemed to form the topography of a small-scale canyon.

In this canyon, Zero could see countless ghostly blue lights floating about. They filled every nook and cranny of the canyon, causing people to frown. These dark blue lights were the Flowers of Death. The names of all the deaths in the canyon were due to the unique landscapes within the canyon. Every day, strong gales would erupt within the canyon, blowing the Flowers of Death into the sky, forming a natural barrier of the Death Canyon.

Looking at the canyon, Zero guessed that the majority of the boulders were thrown out during the cataclysm. It was because of the meteorites that the canyon was filled with radiation. And it was precisely because of them that the Flower of Death could become such a deadly flower. The radiation from the Death God Ridge, as well as the changes in animals and plants, were all thanks to the canyon that was so close to them.

Zero was often shocked by this natural scene, but suddenly, he heard the screeching from the side. It was unknown when the African woman had turned around and looked in the direction they had come from, covering her mouth as she gasped in shock.

He followed her gaze, his heart pounding. In the forest at the edge of Death's Ridge, a dazzling cloud of smoke rose from the ground. From this direction, the smoke was only as thick as an arm, but if the distance was calculated, it would be a huge smoke dragon with a thickness of ten meters. In other words, there was a huge fire going on in that direction.

Could it be a wild forest fire? As he thought of this, the young girl's body trembled. As a child who grew up in the mountains, it was natural that she had seen mountain fires before. Moreover, even though the smoke was huge, he could not see how fierce the fire was. He could not help but wonder what Atasha was afraid of.

Just as he was about to ask, the girl suddenly jumped down the tree. Zero quickly followed and shouted, "What's wrong!"

"It's our village … Our village is on fire! " The girl's eyes were already overflowing with moisture. She could no longer afford to care about zeros. She turned around and ran towards the village of the Flash Clan.

Zero picked up Monnie and followed her. The fire in the Flash Clan's village was quite sudden. Even if it was an ordinary plant in the forest, the water in its body was extremely high, making it difficult for it to naturally start a fire.

Plus, as soon as they left, the village was on fire. No matter how one looked at it, these were man-made traces that were more obvious.

On their way back, both of them were burning with anxiety, reaching the limit of their speed. Zero had the agility boost of the fifth step, so even with Monnie on his back, his running speed was not slow. The rare thing was that Atasha's speed was not much slower than his. The two of them quickly flew through the forest, leaving only two faint afterimages behind. Not to mention the fact that the mutated plants couldn't be captured, even the mutated beasts hiding in the mountains didn't notice it until they passed by.

Just like this, the two of them spent less than half the time they took when they arrived and returned to the Shan village after an hour or so. However, when he arrived at the village entrance, he was stunned.

The entire village was engulfed in flames. Trees, wooden houses … Everything that could be burned was in the sea of fire. Thirteen wooden posts were erected at the entrance of the village. On the wooden posts, men of the Flash Clan were pierced through and nailed to the wooden posts as if they were on a string of fires. The stakes were arranged in two rows, and one of them was not of the Semitic race, but of the prophet Gunnar.

Gunther's clothes had been stripped off, and his hands, chest, throat, and legs had been nailed to a wooden stake that had been deliberately placed in the shape of a cross. Beneath the wooden stake, blood flowed all over the ground. Someone had used blood to write a line of words beside him.

"Zero, I'm waiting for you!"

Zero immediately knew who did it.