RNP Chapter 239 Utopia
Chapter 239 Utopia
"What's the big deal? It's better to be safe than to be in danger!" Jiao Jiao said, completely unconcerned!
"Where's Ya Ya? What did Ya Ya say?" Xu Si asked Dou Dou.
"Oh! I'll send it to scout ahead right now!" DouDou said.
Currently, it seems that the crow is the best at verifying the boundary of this grassland.
"What about the deal?" Xu Si asked. With Ya Ya's help, none of them were too worried.
"They are willing to exchange food and fuel, especially food," Fu Xiaojian said.
"There's no shortage of water here, but their food consumption is very high. Also, they reminded us of two things."
He paused, his gaze sweeping over the crowd: "First, at night, it's best if everyone doesn't leave the water's edge by more than fifty meters. Some of them have simply vanished."
"Secondly, don't get too close to the center of the lake, as some of them have disappeared there."
"No wonder there are so few of them! So this grassland is man-eating!" Jiao Jiao exclaimed in shock.
"It's not that scary, just pay attention to these two points!" Fu Xiaojian didn't have too much worry.
His Sequence 3 has a property called "Fate Index", which can be considered a "strongly directional" property.
As long as it is a sequence of extraordinary beings that he has previously interacted with, he can be used as the destination for indexing.
It's just like the worker ants and ant nest in his hand!
However, he can index a much wider range.
If, as Lu Xun said, there is no danger on this grassland, then the convoy should take this opportunity to rest for a few days!
The constant migration was taking its toll, even on him.
In the sky, a crow spread its huge black wings, turning into a gradually shrinking black dot against the scarlet sky, and flew towards the depths of the grassland.
DouDou stood by the car, her little hand on her forehead, looking up, sensing the vision and perception transmitted back by the crows through the contract.
The rest of the convoy began setting up camp.
Tashan used rocks to demarcate the area, and Wang Hu inspected the vehicle while also helping Yao Yao familiarize herself with her own sequence.
Shao Bing led a few able-bodied men to set up a simple security perimeter, while Su Su continued to practice her boxing techniques in silence.
Jiao Jiao brought several children to the lake to fetch water.
They carefully scooped up a handful of water, brought it to their noses to smell it, and then cautiously tasted a little bit.
"It's fresh water, and it tastes quite sweet." This discovery delighted the group.
Xu Si leaned against the car, his star-like eyes slightly closed, but his star veins, like invisible tentacles, quietly extended out, not targeting the Changsheng convoy in the distance, but sinking into the overly "healthy" grass beneath his feet.
There's grass and water, and nothing eerie—it's simply unimaginable.
In the Star Pulse's field of vision, this place has moist soil, intertwined grass roots, and is full of vitality, no different from before the apocalypse.
"Brother Xu." Dou Dou's voice interrupted his thoughts.
The little girl ran over, still clutching her vortex shell in her arms, a hint of confusion on her face.
"After flying a distance, the scenery around me seemed to be repeating itself. It was clearly flying in one direction the whole time."
Xu Si and Fu Xiaojian, who had just walked over, exchanged a glance.
"Visual illusion? Or spatial distortion?" Fu Xiaojian whispered.
This was the first time they had encountered such a situation.
"Let the crows fly further away." Fu Xiaojian didn't believe that this grassland was boundless!
"Okay." DouDou nodded, closed her eyes, and focused on communicating.
"By the way, does your cow eat the grass here?" Fu Xiaojian asked.
After this guy went into hibernation in the cave, he completely shut himself off.
However, not eating or drinking for a long time is not a good thing!
The team still needs it to work!
"Huh? I don't know either! Then I'll restore it and see if he'll eat it!" DouDou hadn't seen NiuNiu eat anything else.
After DouDou finished speaking, she gently stroked the warm spiral patterns on the shell of the vortex cow.
As she whispered intently, the rainbow-like luster on the surface of the vortex shell spun faster, like a breath gradually awakening from slumber.
A few breaths later, the shell trembled slightly, and a crack appeared at the top. Niu Niu poked out its soft, slimy head and tentacles, looking somewhat bewildered.
When DouDou carefully placed it on the grass, it first shrank back warily, and then, as if attracted by the tender and juicy grass under its feet, it tentatively touched a blade of grass with its antennae.
Under the tense gaze of the three, the whirlpool slowly opened its sucker-like mouth, rolled up a small clump of grass, and began to chew it slowly and deliberately.
A moment later, it made a soft, satisfied "grunt" sound and its eating speed noticeably increased.
"It's eating! And it seems to really like it!" DouDou's eyes lit up, and she looked very happy.
To Xu Si and Fu Xiaojian's surprise, Niu Niu did not revert to its original size.
This was somewhat unexpected for them.
Fu Xiaojian nodded immediately; this was at least good news.
"Caw caw!" At this moment, a slightly anxious and puzzled sound came from the sky.
DouDou frowned, sensing the contract for a moment, her little face turning pale.
"Uncle Fu, Brother Xu! Ya Ya kept flying in one direction, but somehow it flew back."
"Old Xu, go check out the valley we came from!" Fu Xiaojian seemed to have thought of something bad, and then said to Xu Si.
Xu Si didn't delay and immediately took off on his sword. In his starry eyes, there was only endless grassland, no towering mountains or ridges.
……
Meanwhile, the members of the Changsheng team seemed to have been paying close attention to this side as well.
"Hehe, looks like they haven't found their way out either!" The cool boy said with a smug look on his face.
Lu Xun frowned deeply. If the other side was also helpless, they would really be trapped here.
After all, they had limited supplies, especially food, which they had very little of left.
"Xiao Zhou, you should pray that they can find a way out!" said the young woman named Yue Li.
"This place is nice, but I don't want to be trapped here!" The bald, burly man said with a serious expression.
"Brother Tiesheng, are we really going to be stuck here?"
Realizing the seriousness of the problem, the boy named Xiaozhou could no longer maintain his cool persona.
They've been trapped here for many days.
Although there are no strange attacks here, they can't stay here forever!
Even if this is the best utopia in the apocalypse, it is by no means their utopia.
……
Xu Si swiftly flew away on his sword, his figure cutting through the air currents above the sea of grass, heading back the way he came.
The crimson light in the star's pupils reached its peak, stretching the field of vision to its limit. Yet, all that could be seen was an endless, undulating sea of green.
There are no canyons, no cliffs, and not even a trace of the outline of a mountain range.
Their path seemed to have been silently swallowed up or completely erased by this overly "healthy" grassland.
The blood-red sun hung in the western sky, casting a long, thin shadow across the sea of grass.
Xu Si hovered high in the sky, remained silent for a moment, and did not continue the pointless journey, as the distance was already well over twenty kilometers.
He then turned around and went back.
By the time of landing, the convoy had been mostly settled in.