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After a while, hearing Wu Yingying's footsteps fade away, Yun Hai locked the door from the inside.
Feeling mentally exhausted, he cleared his mind, closed his eyes, and quickly fell asleep.
He didn't sleep soundly all night.
Yun Hai occasionally heard the roars of wild beasts from behind the mountain. Not too far from the mountain peak, some roars sounded particularly painful.
With his keen senses, he smelled a strong scent of blood. In such a situation, how could he sleep soundly?
As daybreak approached, things outside finally quieted down, and Yun Hai fell into a deep sleep.
He didn't know how long he slept, but he was awakened by a knock on the door. He opened his eyes and saw that the pink blanket hanging on the window let in the sunlight. It was already broad daylight.
Standing up and stretching, Yun Hai got up and opened the door. He was surprised to see Liu Ming standing at the door with a wide smile.
"Ah Hai, Uncle Liu came to see you, and I happen to have some things to discuss with you."
Without giving Yun Hai a chance to refuse, Liu Ming squeezed into the doorway sideways.
"Here, eat this, rice balls alone aren't enough."
Walking to the bed and sitting down on his own, seeing Yun Hai close the door, Liu Ming took out a pack of sausages from his pocket and placed it on the bedside table.
"The items in the warehouse and kitchen have been registered and gathered together, and there are always a few people guarding them. Don't worry, these sausages were taken by Si Yan and the others from the bags of the deceased tourists, and they're considered personal property."
"What do you want to talk about?" Yun Hai remained calm.
"I didn't realize it before, Ah Hai, you're actually so calm and decisive when facing problems. You've completely changed from before."
Yun Hai smiled faintly and asked directly, "Can we get straight to the point?"
"Ah Hai, you can also see it. There are so many people in the hotel, not to mention that the food won't last long, water is the most important thing."
"If we can get the bottled water from the small supermarket on the mountain peak, then this water will be our private property, and others won't be entitled to drink it."
"Lao Qi and I have organized more than twenty people, and all the equipment is ready. But everyone is afraid that they won't be able to return after leaving, and without someone brave and calm to lead, it's impossible. Ah Hai, what do you think, you lead the way to search for water and various packaged foods in the supermarket, and everyone brings them back together. You'll definitely get your share."
Liu Ming spoke incessantly, with a smile on his face.
Frowning slightly, Yun Hai hesitated for a moment and said, "I'll observe the situation outside later, and then give you an answer."
It was just a polite refusal. With the Alien Queen as his loyal and powerful "bodyguard," as long as something exists on this vast mountain peak, whatever Yun Hai wants, the Alien Queen could probably get it.
"Okay." Liu Ming smiled, raised his wrist and looked at his watch, and said, "Breakfast is about to start, do you want to go down together?"
"I'll come later."
Yun Hai said, seeing Liu Ming out, closing the door and walking to the window, lifting the blanket and curtains and looking out.
With just one glance, he couldn't help but take a cold breath, and his entire being was completely stunned.
The Yangshan that Yun Hai was familiar with had completely changed.
The ground on the mountain peak was completely covered with a layer of green moss, and the pine trees on the edge of the cliff had grown at least five meters taller overnight, and now they were more than fifteen meters tall.
The branches were lush and covered the sky and the sun, and the roots forcibly tore the ground on the mountain peak into large spiderweb-like cracks.
The green grass that grew stubbornly from the gaps in the stone slabs, when Yun Hai saw it yesterday, was only the length of a palm, but after one night, most of it had grown to be more than half a person's height.
Some of the grass had also bloomed with various colors, the small ones were only the size of a fingertip, and the large ones were as big as a human face.
The mountain peak, which was originally clean and flat, had become a primeval forest overnight.
The scenery in the distance was even more exaggerated. Almost all the empty spaces that were originally visible on the sides of the mountains surrounding Yangshan had disappeared, replaced by thick green shade.
Towering ancient trees rose one after another.
Thick vines were like the bodies of snakes.
A terrifying black shadow flashed across the distant sky.
In Yun Hai's widened eyes, within his range of vision, whether it was the mountains or the ground, everything was covered in thick shade.
The green color, which was always pleasing to the eye and soothing, was now incredibly dazzling in Yun Hai's eyes.
"Tok tok..."
His dazed gaze returned, he put down the curtains and blanket, first put the bag of sausages on the bedside table into his pocket, and then Yun Hai walked over and opened the door.
"Three people committed suicide last night, two of them were women who lived together, their husbands were all dead, and the other was our female classmate."
Just as he closed the door, Cui Hao whispered.
Yun Hai's body, which was walking towards the window, paused, sighed, and said nothing.
"Did you see the scene outside?" Cui Hao followed.
"The cause of biological mutation may be a virus, but their need for energy cannot be changed. Mutant animals may be able to grow larger by swallowing other creatures, but what about these plants? Could it be that even the soil has mutated?" Yun Hai couldn't understand it.
"The soil is certainly the key. According to the results of our discussion, everyone believes that these wildly growing plants, after their genetic cells mutated, the way they absorb energy has also changed. Perhaps they can obtain the energy needed for growth directly from sunlight and air, who knows."
As he spoke, Cui Hao sighed deeply, smiled bitterly, and continued, "Unfortunately, so far, only other creatures have mutated. We humans are as if we've been abandoned by God. In this apocalyptic world where all creatures are competing for life, humans are still stuck in the past."
Yun Hai was silent.
Suddenly, a roaring sound rang out, and the two of them quickly looked up at the sky. Instantly, a group of fighter jets shimmering silver in the sunlight flashed across the sky and flew straight towards the southern horizon.
There were as many as sixteen planes, and the group of fighter jets had entered supersonic flight, and soon disappeared behind the towering mountains in the south.
"What exactly is happening in the south?"
A look of fear appeared on Cui Hao's face.
A thought came to his mind about the two Alien eggs that fell with the meteorite rain, Yun Hai's mind was filled with various thoughts, and he was silent for a while.
"Liu Ming just came to find you, right?"
Seeing that Yun Hai didn't speak, a hint of disappointment flashed in Cui Hao's eyes, and he changed the subject.
"Mm." After a while, Yun Hai nodded.
"The level of danger outside is difficult to estimate. The mountain peak has now become like a thicket, and some herbivorous insects and animals will naturally migrate there."
Looking at the mountain peak that had completely changed, Cui Hao's expression was very bad. He cheered himself up and said again, "If they don't grow larger but only undergo other mutations, such as entering the human body, or containing deadly toxins, then after leaving the hotel, every step will be full of danger."
"But we can't keep staying here." Yun Hai walked to the window, lifted the curtains and pointed to the mountain wall behind a small store not far away.
"Do you see the vines extending above? In our hometown, we call them Biteng. The oldest ones are no thicker than a finger, look now, they're as thick as a child's arm."
"That's not the key. Like most plants, Biteng has phototropism, and the direction of extension is all upwards. Look again there, the vines extending in the shadows are not growing upwards, but are all crawling towards the hotel uniformly. Why do you think that is?"
Hearing Yun Hai's words, and looking more closely, thinking of a certain possibility, Cui Hao couldn't help but be shocked.
"You all heard the sounds last night, right? I have a hunch that those painful roars of wild beasts definitely have something to do with that Biteng."
Yun Hai's face was very ugly, he paused for a moment, and continued, "Parasites can control humans to attack their own kind crazily and eat raw flesh and blood, plants eating humans, it's not strange in this broken world."
"If my estimate is correct, its roots are very far from here, planted in the back mountain. There are no more mutant creature attacks on the mountain peak, it must have been killed by it. And it clearly sensed that there are people here, so it's growing in this direction. Although the speed is a little slower, but according to last night's progress, at most seven days, it will climb onto the walls of the hotel."
"The hotel is our last barrier. If we can't stay here, in this vast Yangshan, where else can we survive!" Cui Hao muttered to himself, his face ashen.
Yun Hai sighed and said nothing.
He had only just noticed the mutation of the "Biteng," and for its abnormal growth, Yun Hai could only consider the worst possible scenario.
Seeing that Yun Hai didn't speak, Cui Hao opened his mouth and wanted to say something.
Suddenly, seeing Yun Hai's expression change and turn his head to look at the western side of the mountain peak, Cui Hao was shocked and quickly looked over there.
In just a few seconds, suddenly, a huge "buzzing" sound rang out, and then a large cloud rose from the foot of the mountain, appearing in the terrified eyes of Yun Hai and the others.
There was no knowing how many there were, covering the sky and the sun. Cui Hao had only seen the same situation on the TV science and technology channel when introducing bird migration, but what rose into the sky at this time were not birds, but terrifying giant mosquitoes.
Many of them were hitting the glass of the windows. These giant mosquitoes had slender bodies nearly ten centimeters long, and their mouthparts were like sharp needles, reaching half the length of their bodies. Cui Hao had no doubt that if a human was surrounded by them, perhaps in just a few seconds, they would become a mummy.
"Oh God! The insects have mutated..."
Actually, if something big really happens, I wouldn't mind temporarily believing.
Looking at the giant mosquitoes that were crazily hitting the glass up close, Cui Hao made a painful sound like a sleep talker, with a desperate expression.