“How far are we from Crane Deer Mountain?” Seeing Xu Song and Yue Zheng studying the map, Luo Wen’an walked over with his arms crossed, wrapped in a blanket. There was no choice; it suddenly started pouring rain outside. Originally, it was still scorching hot summer, but now it seemed like autumn had come.
“Not too far, but the road into the mountains is difficult. Our traveling speed might slow down,” Yue Zheng pondered for a moment. “I estimate it’ll take us about seven or eight days on the mountain road.”
“That’s not bad, we’re almost there.”
At this point, the group was still near the urban area of Y City, not yet at the foot of the mountain. Putting together the two parts of the journey, it was already quite good to reach the destination within ten days.
“Why does this rain outside seem endless?” Mother Xu frowned, looking outside. The “big umbrella” built by Wang An and Tiancheng completely covered several cars and Abu under it. From the four sides of the “umbrella,” you could clearly see the dense rain curtain outside, splashing in all directions, almost blocking the view in all directions, making it difficult to see the situation in the distance.
Fortunately, the parking spot chosen by the few people was a highland, so they didn’t have to worry too much about the water getting too high and flooding the cars.
“Now, it’s better than last year when there was such a big hail.” Xu Song twirled the pen in his hand, bored, looking outside. Suddenly blinking, he turned to Yue Zheng. “Do you think… such heavy rain will have any effect on those seafood?”
Everyone in the RV suddenly paused, then their eyes involuntarily widened.
Those shrimp soldiers and crab generals grew up in the water. Although most of the water on land does not contain salt, it’s different from their previous living environment. But, if they could come onto land, why couldn’t they handle water without salt?!
“Well, the situation on the base side might be different from ours, right? Maybe it won’t rain there!” Luo Wen’an laughed dryly twice, secretly praying in his heart, hoping that those fish wouldn’t smell the scent and come looking for them. Otherwise, if a huge one came and flattened these cars with one butt, they would be in big trouble!
Unfortunately, the pouring rain did not spare B City Base. After the heavy rain started, the people in the base couldn’t help but be extremely vigilant. Although at first, many people didn’t realize the connection between the heavy rain and being besieged by marine creatures, seeing the tension above, the ordinary members of the base naturally became extremely cautious.
“The mutant creatures over there seem to be moving!”
“What’s going on? How are they moving?”
“The rain is too heavy! It’s hard to see clearly, but it seems like they’re moving!”
“The rain… the rain seems to be flowing outward?”
“What rain? Doesn’t rain fall to the ground and flow downhill?”
“No, the speed is different! The rain on the ground is flowing very fast!”
Everyone lowered their heads and indeed saw the rainwater at their feet swiftly gathering outward. As everyone was stunned, suddenly, not far away, a white wave rushed towards them!
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The battle resumed, and both sides were plunged into another state of anxiety.
“Boss! Should we use electricity?” The other side uses water, but water conducts electricity. Now is the time to fight back!
“No! It will hurt our own people!” Now that there is rain everywhere, who knows if using electricity to counterattack will accidentally injure their own people?
“Our shoes are all anti-electric!”
“The rain is too heavy, the water on our bodies is all connected, do you think that if we discharge now, the ones who fall will definitely be our own people?!” If there is only water on the ground, it’s fine to use electricity to attack while wearing anti-electric rubber shoes. But now, with such heavy rain, who can guarantee safety?
The man swung his fist angrily. “The rain is so heavy, we can’t see the situation over there at all!”
“Let the electric ability users prepare. We can use this method when the rain just stops. Our ammunition is still enough. For now, we can only tough it out.”
In the heavy rain, besides the seafood using rainwater to strengthen their attack, those mutant birds also wanted to take advantage of the opportunity to fly up and cause trouble in the heavy rain.
However, firstly, the base had radar, which could detect movements from all directions at any time. Secondly, the rain was too heavy, and most birds simply couldn’t fly in heavy rain, so they had to give up.
At present, in terms of mutant animals, it mainly relied on those marine creatures to attack – the range of the giant waves was too large. Even if the mutant creatures mixed in, they were very likely to be knocked away by their own waves.
The heavy rain lasted for three full days before gradually subsiding.
The road became quite muddy, but fortunately, the caravan team led by Xu Song relied on Tiancheng and Wang An’s abilities to clear the way, so there weren’t any major issues.
Laboriously constructing a special “path” on the muddy ground, the team slowly made their way toward the direction of Crane Deer Mountain.
Meanwhile, at the base to the north, shortly after the heavy rain stopped, the soldiers stationed there quickly cleaned off the rainwater from themselves. Some electric ability users bent down and began discharging electricity along the still muddy ground, which still held a considerable amount of rainwater – electric discharge!
Purple electrical flashes mixed with white flashes, dazzling everyone for a moment. Spreading out indiscriminately along the damp ground, the electric discharge caused some of the smaller mutant creatures nearby to fall to the ground directly!
Those soldiers closer to the front felt their vision whitening, with the ground around them glowing. The sight almost made them lose their balance, but fortunately, they remembered the reason for the current situation and didn’t dare to fall down, otherwise, the result would have been the same as the mutant animals on the other side.
“Quick! Prepare the generators! Electric ability users, prepare for long-range attacks!” The attack was effective! Upon discovering this situation, the base immediately implemented the pre-agreed tactics and began to counterattack!
In the heavy rain, many defense personnel were wounded by the hidden arrows in the giant waves. At this moment, everyone was holding their breath. After waiting so hard for an opportunity, who would let it slip by?!
The output ports of the generators were connected to the ground, and some logistical personnel connected the water pipes from the base – you like water, don’t you? Then have some more!
The water was mixed with electric currents, and the electric ability users occasionally threw lightning balls into the gathering place of the mutant creatures. The tide of battle seemed to have suddenly turned!
After walking for a full five days, the group finally arrived at the foot of Crane Deer Mountain.
Looking at the towering trees that had grown up here, Xu Song sighed softly.
“Is there any situation nearby?”
Xu Song shook his head. “Not much of a problem. Besides scattered mutant creatures and mutant plants, there’s nothing else.”
“Let’s go, up the mountain.” Yue Zheng ordered calmly, and the group immediately began preparing to climb the mountain again.
Because they had assistance from abilities, this time everyone decided to drive the cars directly up the mountain. The various changes after the apocalypse made everyone prefer to adopt a plan of collective advance and retreat during their actions, rather than risk any irreversible consequences due to temporary separation.
At this moment, Zhao Xin was driving, with Wang An and Tiancheng still in the co-driver’s seat.
Xu Song and Yue Zheng climbed onto the roof of the car, clearing away branches and obstacles along the way that might hinder the car’s progress. Everyone remained on high alert, nervously paying attention to the surroundings.
Although Tiancheng and Tianyou hadn’t found anything unusual, and Xu Song had confirmed the area’s safety, everyone was well aware that this was the crucial location that had triggered the outbreak of the apocalypse. If anything unexpected were to happen here, no one would be surprised.
The car cautiously drove up the newly constructed ramp, and after a day and a half of hard work, it successfully reached its destination. What surprised everyone was that – along the way, they hadn’t encountered any unexpected events.
A huge crater, resembling the aftermath of an explosion, lay quietly in the valley not far away.
Xu Song stood in front of the car, his brow furrowed, staring at the crater in the distance.
“What’s wrong?”
“There’s something.”
“What something?”
“Zombies?”
“Mutant animals?”
“Plants?”
Everyone asked in confusion, guessing randomly.
“It’s coming out!” Xu Song suddenly pointed toward the direction of the crater, surprising everyone as they looked over and saw a mass of black smoke emerging from it.
Its volume was much larger than the usual black haze they had seen before. It looked like many black mists entwined together, resembling an enormous black fog.
Xu Song took a deep breath and raised his hand. Currently, among the members of the team, only his ability could affect this black mist. So even though this thing was massive, only he could hold it back!
As soon as the white light net was deployed, the black mist seemed to target it like it had found its prey, transforming into a sharp blade and rushing towards Xu Song’s direction –
“Sss—” The continuous sound seemed never-ending, as all the black mist that entered the white net was eradicated without a trace, just as usual.
But they seemed endless, continuously surging out of the crater, rushing into the white light net one after another.
Gradually, sweat dripped from Xu Song’s forehead. This was the first time he had encountered such a feeling of exhaustion when using his ability since it upgraded to level four.
“Why does it keep coming?” Luo Wen’an and the others’ faces were also very tense. They knew very well that if Xu Song couldn’t stop it, then nobody present would be able to!
“Why does it keep attacking like this?” Su Daji’s words surprised everyone. These black mists seemed to have consciousness. Previously, once they discovered that Xu Song’s fire was their nemesis, most of them would choose to flee. But now, this large mass of black mist seemed to know that advancing meant death, yet it still kept rushing towards Xu Song’s white net without end – as if it were suicidal!
Finally, the last wisp of black smoke emerged from the crater and rushed onto Xu Song’s white net with a “puff,” dissipating.
When Xu Song withdrew his hand after ending the ability, everyone was surprised to find that after the white net disappeared, behind it, a mass of white, transparent mist had condensed!
The moment the white net was lifted, the mass of white mist suddenly rushed towards Xu Song, and he felt his vision blur, completely losing consciousness…
“Xiao Song!”
Omg did he purify it? Is he going to get that energy now? Or is it dangerous?? 😭 I need to know! Thank you translator!
Cliffy mist action… 👀 Thanks for the update 🤣❤️🤣❤️🌳
Thank u for the update😘😘😘 but when can I jump off this cliff u gave me