When the first glimmer of light in the morning illuminated the entire town base, the doors of several houses in the building opened wide, and several men and women in combat uniforms walked out of their respective residences.

Someone who woke up early to seize the well and wanted to fill the first bucket of cold water that had been soaked all night heard the movement, thinking that someone had left the door early, slept drowsily, sat up from the bed, and looked out the dirty window with blindfolded eyes. .

Seeing that it was a few evolved people living in the building, she immediately retracted her body, lying on the bed and muttering complaints.

Some young people who got up hurriedly jumped down from the missing half corner of the stairs, still biting a hard brown rice cake in their mouth. This kind of brown rice cake is the staple food of ordinary people after the end of the world. Strong and large-yield brown rice mixed with stalks and kneaded into a hard dough, people with bad teeth can gnaw sour gums.

He bit the cake with his teeth, still putting on his clothes, jumped downstairs in twos and threes and then grinned: "Sorry to get up late."

Seeing his teammates who had been waiting downstairs for a long time, the young man scratched his head, stretched out his hand and passed the pancake to a slightly tired female evolutionary person next to him, "Have you eaten, don't take a bite?"

This female evolutionary person is Zhou Fang. At this time, he avoided the young man who came near him with disgust, "Stay away from me, how long have you not brushed your teeth!"

She was wearing a military green assault suit today, with her own handy machinery pinned to her waist. At this time, she looked heroic and quite heroic.

Looking at the watch, she patted the captain next to her on the shoulder and said: "Wait, I will be back as soon as I have something to go out."

After Zhou Fang hurriedly walked away, the young man was still eating the hard brown rice pancakes, looking at her back, and curiously asked the captain beside him, "Did she go to tease the man over there again?" "

Zhou Fang looked at a new man next door a few days ago, and he immediately caused a stir in the whole team. Several of the teammates in the same team sneaked to the neighborhood to see, what kind of man it is that can make this person's eye The female deputy team above the top buckled.

However, men look at themselves as the most handsome, others are not as handsome as themselves, so several people did not see how special from Jin Yang, but thought that the female evolution person who followed him was really good-looking.

These teammates all concluded that Zhou Lan could not rob the girl, and waited secretly for her deputy team to deflate, but she didn't expect her to run for a few days and still enjoy it.

The captain of the team is a middle-aged man with evolutionary ability of Level 4 Evolution. He shook his head slightly, "No, she has been in a panic and fell in love with the girl again these days, saying why she wants to grind people to our team. Come here. I don't understand what you young people think."

At this time, in the small single building not far from the building, a faint scent wafted along the window. The courtyard door was opened in advance by the owner. She walked in and looked in through the transparent window. To a young and beautiful woman wearing a pink bunny apron, with her long hair tied to one shoulder, was busy in the kitchen.

Zhou Lan looked at it for a while, and made a mouthful of dissatisfaction. She stood outside the window and hesitated. Finally, she curled her fingers and knocked on the window.

Yin Yiliu, who was preparing breakfast in the room, heard the movement and glanced out of the window, then walked over and opened the window, "Why are you here? Didn't you say you are going to pick up someone today?"

Ever since I scared Zhou Lan at the entrance of the alley that day and praised Jin Yang’s little white face, Zhou Lan didn’t come the next day. Yin Yiliu thought she would just give up, but after a day, she knocked on again. For the door of my own house, the goal seems to have turned to myself.

"Yeah, but the one from the other side came very slowly. I will go out this time for at least one day or three or four days, and I will bring you a gift when I come back." Zhou Lanchong and Yinyi Liu squinted and smiled, she heard footsteps The sound came into this hall from the other end, and suddenly felt a little guilty, and the sound was unconsciously lowered by two points.

"Then I'll leave first, remember to miss me!" Zhou Lan kissed Yin Yi Liu Fei, and then turned out of the yard.

Jin Yang wore a black loose shirt when he was at home. His hair was slightly longer and his eyebrows were somewhat covered. At this time, he glanced blankly at the empty window and suddenly understood what it means to lift a rock and hit himself in the foot. .

He frowned in dissatisfaction, as if some snubbed dog complained silently to Yin Yiliu and drew a follower back. Yin Yi Liu Quan couldn't see it, and he coughed and smiled in his heart.

"I cooked the quick-frozen glutinous rice **** I saved earlier in the morning. They are stuffed with sugar and sour dregs you love.

She scooped the hot glutinous rice **** out of the pot and put a big bowl in front of Jin Yang. The steaming steam reflected the glutinous rice **** in the white soup, and she was very appetite.

Jin Yang's inexplicable dissatisfaction and jealousy were all overwhelmed by this bowl of sweet and sour dumplings. Although he never said what he liked to eat, Yin Yiliu would be unconscious when he was eating. Observe what he uses the chopsticks the most, and do it for himself next time.

This feeling of being taken care of by people is really good. The person who has been alone for more than 20 years is suddenly stunned by the silent warmth, which makes his heart full.

Jin Yang was a little naive when he ate glutinous rice balls. He had his own quirks and obsessions in some aspects. For example, he had to use a spoon when eating these soft and waxy balls. Once the chopsticks pierce the skin of the glutinous rice **** to let the stuffing out, or mix in the soup, he will be secretly angry like a kindergarten kid and silently remove the broken rice **** out of the bowl.

Since Yin Yiliu caught his cute and somewhat paranoid little hobbies, he suddenly seemed to have opened a new world to tease him, and would add a little block to him from time to time.

Seeing that the spoon was pierced by Yin Yiliu, who couldn't help but smile, with his chopsticks, Jin Yang suddenly took on a helpless look. The bright red sugar hawthorn slowly flowed out of the deflated skin, and he was greeted by the water vapor. In the mouth.

A sweet and sour taste immediately filled Jin Yang’s mouth. His sweet teeth were soft. He ate with stuffy head. Suddenly he remembered that he was very hungry when he was a child. When the nanny didn’t pay attention, he took a spoonful of it with a spoon. Jin Rumeng's glutinous rice **** were brought into his mouth.

His throat was a little sore from the hot hawthorn stuffing, but the sweet taste kept him deep in his heart.

The garden filled with sweet and sour dregs is like a thorn in his heart. No matter how rich he is later, how many delicacies and delicacies he can eat, he is all alone and cooks himself a bowl of dumplings in the lonely and cold night. .

But now it’s different. As soon as I open my eyes and remember Liu’s life, I will linger around myself, and there will be cooked food lively and lively being put on the table while she is talking and laughing. The taste is similar to his childhood. Hidden in the corner and swallowed silently.

He endured the hotness and swallowed in his throat, and it was this kind of heat that burned his softest part to make him feel the reality of the people around him.

He is no longer alone in the dark night, he is no longer the little pitiful who was despised and humiliated by everyone when he was a child, nor is he the jealous of the business community who was later jealous of the people around him.

He is an ordinary person who longs for warmth, nothing more.

Yin Yiliu, who had been holding his cheeks and smiling while watching him swallowing, suddenly noticed the fluctuations in his mood, felt something was wrong, and hurriedly held his hand that was still delivering the soup spoon in his mouth.

She opened her mouth to say something, but in the end she didn't ask or say anything. Instead, she frowned and said, "What are you doing so fast? If the skin of the glutinous rice **** is eaten too fast, it will fall into the stomach and make you indigestible. "

In fact, Yin Yiliu knew that Jin Yang must have had a bad past. Sometimes she could see men standing silently by the window while she was busy, watching the sun sinking outside the window, and the darkness engulfed him. As if to disappear by your side.

When she was flustered, she would rush into the darkness of no one, find some topics to dispel the lingering loneliness of Jin Yang, the man smiled at her, but the bottom of her eyes was still deeply bound by the past.

As time passed, Yin Yiliu was relieved.

No matter what Jin Yang's past is, in his own eyes, he is the most powerful existence, no longer an image imprisoned by a book, but a living flesh and blood.

I would be worried because of his silence and shy because of his smile.

If Jin Yang is trapped in the past, she is willing to accompany her to the center of the whirlpool step by step.

At the same time, outside of Rongcheng, Zhou Lan and his party had quietly arrived at the designated meeting and location.

The weather in Rongcheng, which is about to enter June, gradually heats up. A fresh species that is unique to the end of this season also begins to emerge on the edge of the swamp. Strings of small red flowers blooming like fruits are densely packed on both sides of the swamp. When the leaves are opened, more than a dozen flowers can fall on a leaf pole.

At this time, a series of flower buds are already in full bloom, rendering the gloomy and silent swamp muddy brilliance.

Zhou Lan squatted on the ground, took out the clean veil in her arms, folded a large hand in her palm, hugged the sticky broken roots with the veil, and placed it in the pocket of her assault suit.

A teammate around him saw that the deputy captain, who had always disliked these flowers and grass, started to fold flowers, and he immediately leaned forward with a smile and wanted to fiddle.

Zhou Lan frowned and kicked the messing teammate next to him. The baby seemed to have to protect the bunch of flowers in the palm of her hand, "Don't touch it randomly, I will give it away when I come back."

"Vice team, if we only come back in three days and five days, your flowers will be dried up into a pile of scum."

There was a sullen smile next to Zhou Lan, and Zhou Lan's face suddenly looked a little ugly. She was about to kick again. The captain by her side saw someone coming from far away, and whispered to stop the teammates laughing and playing around.

"Everything is more serious, they are here."

At this time, a group of people walked out of the dense forest on the other side of the swamp, and the leader sat on the back of the tall mutant beast. He was wearing golden armor, and at this time a dazzling golden light was shining in the sun.

Zhou Lan could hear the people around him muttering: "My dear, this is made with gold, my eyes are going to be blind..."

As the mutant beast approached, a group of people came to the vicinity of the team. The evolutionary man in gold armor was printed with a huge slightly folded wings logo, and Yin Yiliu and Jin Yang had just arrived. The signs on the group of people that Rongcheng met in the jungle were exactly the same.

The mutant beast is a third-level mutant horse. It has a pointed horn on its head like a unicorn. Its fur is shiny and black. Its large and flexible eyes look down at the people in front of it, and its nose is moist. There were nasal noises.

Zhou Lan always felt that they were despised by a horse, but they also had to admit that the appearance of this group of people was very proud, and they looked different from the people they were playing at the Xiaopo base these days.

There are two first-class mutant beasts beside the mutated horse, and two evolutionary people are also carried on their backs, and their logos are exactly the same as those of the leader.

This logo may not be known to Yin Yiliu and Jin Yang, who have nothing to do with external dynamics, but Zhou Lan and others know that it is called "Freedom Wings" and is the logo of the most popular large-scale group on the mainland today.

After the Wasteland Era, an alliance spontaneously formed among some small bases not managed by the central base and the military.

This alliance was not in the eyes of people at the beginning, because every day there are countless large and small teams rising and being destroyed, this group silently develops and implements their ideas.

When the double-winged logo appeared in everyone's eyes again, there was already a formal and loud name.

Mercenary Alliance.

As the name suggests, the Mercenary Alliance is a group of idle evolved people who are not controlled by any forces. Any evolutionary person or group registered in it must wear the "wings of freedom" logo, and they are also the largest group today. The group that takes over the task of mercenary.

An ordinary-looking middle-aged man walked out from behind this high-profile evolutionary man with golden armor. At this time, he smiled and shook hands with Zhou Lan’s captain, and Zhou Lan and others were also clearly in front of this person. Respect a lot.

Xu Xin, the current lord of Fancheng next door.

If Rongcheng is a chaotic and idle place of freedom, then Fancheng led by Xu Xin is more like the Rongcheng of Yan Chengmiao's era, everything is in order, with clear laws and regulations.

As the closest base to Rongcheng, part of the moat outside of Rongcheng also flows through the territory of Fancheng. That is to say, the level 6 intelligent creatures in the river water will not only harm Rongcheng. Once there is a disturbance, Fancheng will not be spared. .

Xu Xin has always admired Yan Chengmiao. The traffic and trade between the two bases were the most frequent when Master Yan was alive. Now some regulations and systems in Fancheng have been gradually improved through exchanges.

It is a pity that Yan Chengmiao and his wife died in the hands of Shen Zhiyu. Xu Xin was heartbroken and indignant, but was unable to intervene in the interior of Rongcheng.

He was most uncomfortable with the thief, and the business of the two bases was completely cut off.

It’s just that although the trade was broken, it’s the safety of the base. After the mutant electric eel appeared, Xu Xin was still deeply anxious. He once wanted to talk to Shen Zhiyu about jointly encircling and suppressing the mutant electric eel. I didn't expect that Shen Zhiyu could be so vicious and directly fill the river with his people.

For this sixth-level intelligent creature, even Xu Xin was not sure about it. He had been negotiating with the people of the mercenary alliance, hoping to get their help, but because the opponent's appetite was too high, the price was too high and he didn't agree.

Until recently, he heard that Shen Zhiyu had hit the Yan family brother’s orphan, and he couldn’t sit still. He gritted his teeth and agreed to the mercenary alliance’s request. The opponent sent a senior figure in the alliance. , Is a sixth-level evolutionary, and there are several fifth-level and fourth-level mutant electric eels in common encircling and suppressing the river.

Zhou Lan’s team had always been led by Yan Chengmiao, and the captain had a good relationship with the Yan family. Later, after the fall of the Yan family, the team gradually declined. Many of the former partners in the team were snobbery and chose to leave. They can trust the back.

Xu Xin thought of their team for the first time. After contacting, Zhou Lan and the others were very willing to make a little contribution to this operation, and it was considered to be dedicated to the former Lord Yan.

After a few people exchanged greetings, they decided to explore the topography around the moat before they disturbed Rongcheng.

The evolutionary people from the Mercenary Alliance hadn't spoken much and looked very arrogant. Zhou Lan could see the teammates around him winking at him, secretly piercing the evolutionary people with their nostrils.

At this time, the moat was quiet, without any waves, and there was no trace of a giant water monster hiding here.

The evolutionary man of the mercenary alliance with a gold armor had never come down from the mutation right from the beginning to the end. At this time, looking at the dark and sticky mud around it, his brows were tightly frowned, "Where is the sixth-level mutant beast?"

Xu Xin knew that these mercenary alliance members were very temperamental, so he explained it in a good manner, saying that he would first explore this trip and familiarize himself with the surrounding environment, but his expression was still twisted.

As they went deep into the swamp, the legs of several evolutionary people were deeply plunged into the mud, and there was resistance to taking two steps.

Just as they were approaching the edge of the lake, they suddenly heard the voice in the mud.

Although the voice is very small, they are sure they will not miss it.

Zhou Fang grabbed the arm of the person next to him, and listened for a long time anxiously: "Listen, is someone calling for help?!"

It's true that she didn't misheard it. Someone was indeed calling for help in a low voice. The voice intermittently seemed to be about to die soon. Several teammates around her became anxious, "Someone has fallen into a swamp, look for it!"

After searching for a while, the intermittent calls for help in Zhou Fang's ears were still unreliable. When Zhou Fang was upset, the teammates who had flowed far away suddenly shouted in surprise, "Brothers here! There is a cave here! , The sound seems to come from here!"

Zhou Fang turned around with joy, lifted his feet and rushed over there. The mud under her was no more than her knees, and a little mud was brought up when she walked. In order not to stain the bouquet in her pocket, she inserted the bouquet between the buttons on her chest.

There was Xu Xin's voice behind him: "Don't act rashly, be careful..."

But before he finished his words, the young man who was already excited and started to dig through the mud and wanted to save people suddenly staggered down, and the whole person fell into the mud and made a muffled noise.

Zhou Lan's heart beat and shouted towards the place where there was no figure suddenly; "What's wrong with you, Xiao Wang?!"

Not far from Xiao Wang’s fall, another man screamed, and his body sank severely. Zhou Lan finally saw clearly this time. Her pupils shrank slightly and shouted: "Yes, there is a mutant beast attack. !"

She did see a huge furry limb that was wrapped around the man just now, and then pulled him into the mud. The thick mud plunged into the man’s nose and mouth like concrete, and immediately suffocated him. Can't even call for help.

The missing person is not her teammate, but a fifth-level evolutionary person in the mercenary league.

An atmosphere of tension and panic suddenly tightened everyone's hearts.

In the evening, the hot sunset fell on the long moat, and the water surface was quietly shimmering, and the scene was very beautiful.

Yin Yiliu cooked chicken at night. The breast of the chicken was scorched. At this time, there was a faint burnt smell of fat dripping on the ground. She hurriedly wiped it off with a paper towel, and her fingers were a little red. .

The smell of barbecued meat permeated the whole room, and she took a deep breath, preparing to ask Jin Yang in the living room to come out for a meal.

When she passed the window next to the kitchen, she glanced at the orange-red sky outside the window, and suddenly thought of the girl who knocked on the window every morning and evening.

She shook her head and smiled, as she was about to put the cooked chicken on the table, the window was suddenly clicked.

Turning around, she saw a girl standing outside the window. It was not Zhou Lan who said goodbye to herself with a smile in the morning.

Yin Yiliu thought about it and put the roast chicken on the table. Since Zhou Lan is here, it is also polite to socialize to entertain her with a chicken leg. But when she opened the window and saw the state of the woman standing in front of her, Yin Yiliu was stunned.

Zhou Lan was wet with a few drops of mud on her head and face. Almost all of her lower body was smeared by the mud, and she was desperate.

At this time, seeing the window opened, I looked at Yin Yiliu in a daze.

"What's the matter with you? Go into the house and wash your body and change into clean clothes?" Yin Yiliu didn't know what happened to Zhou Lan, but the woman's condition was visible to the naked eye.

Zhou Lan grinned reluctantly, and drew a handful of red flowers from her chest, which was already a little wilted, and handed them to Yin Yiliu's hand, "A good gift..."

Yin Yiliu looked at the little flower with his head hanging down in his hand, and hurriedly found a vase and filled it with water to plug it in. At the same time, she looked at Zhou Lan with a bit of worry on her face, "What's the matter with you?"

Zhou Lan thought of what happened in the mud today, and her body trembled slightly.

The mutant beasts in the quagmire kept dragging the teammates around them, and the level six evolution man who had been unwilling to go down to the lake jumped off the mutation and used his own evolution ability to force the monsters hidden in the quagmire out.

It was a huge mutant plant almost three meters in length, and a pair of terrifying hairy compound eyes were as big as two basketballs. This spider had been living under the mud and was a class 4 tometic spider.

It can imitate human voices to seduce humans, making them think that they have their own kind around them to relax their vigilance, unexpectedly drag people under the mud, and brutally shred them with sharp abdominal feet.

In the end, although they succeeded in beheading this cunning spider in the mud under the resistance of the sixth-level mutant, the lost teammates could not come back. Three people died before the mercenary alliance began to act. That sixth-level evolutionary person is extremely angry, and may not help out in the end.

Zhou Lan didn’t know how she came back. Her mind was filled with scenes from the death of her teammates. At last, her eyes were fixed on the sparkling lake. A huge oblate head was halfway out of the lake, and the spots were upstream. Walking Zidian.

It was a huge mutant beast, watching the panicked and frightened human with a playful gaze, and immersed in the deep water for a long while.

At that moment, Zhou Lan suddenly understood that there was no sudden suffering, perhaps all of this was due to the manipulation of that intelligent creature.

Zhou Lan felt sad and angry when he thought of his teammates who were still around during the day, who was smiling and guilty.

She suddenly thought of something, she slammed Yin Yiliu's palm like a life-saving straw, "You, do you have a high evolutionary ability? Can you help us, please!"

She really doesn't know what to do. She only knows that Yin Yiliu's strength is at least a fifth-level or even sixth-level evolutionary person. She can't wait to let the sea monster die immediately.

Looking at Zhou Lan's excited and irrational eyes, Yin Yiliu frowned slightly, she slowly pulled out her wrist from Zhou Lan's clenched hand, and it was already red.

She was silent for a while before opening her mouth: "Sorry."

Zhou Lan's expression gradually fell silent, and her hands slowly dropped.

Yes, people don't know anything, what are they going crazy?

Besides, even if Yin Yiliu is really a high-level evolutionary person, why should he let others charge for his teammates?

After Zhou Lan calmed down, she suddenly felt that she was just like a mental illness who was rushing to the hospital. She looked at Yin Yiliu and was still tentatively asking her own situation. She reluctantly smiled and replied, and stumbled out of the yard. .

Seeing Zhou Lan's back gradually disappearing from the field of vision, Yin Yiliu's brows frowned for a long time. She knew that Jin Yang was already standing not far behind her at this time, and neither of them spoke.

The setting sun outside the window exudes the last afterglow, spilling into the open window.

The little red flowers in the vase were now draped with a faint golden light, and the slender shadow stretched a long way on the table.