Chapter 268 Exploring the Yangshan Water Restricted Area
“Brother Liang, come and see.”

Zhao Kai approached the small puddle where the poisonous toad was originally staying, his face suddenly changed, and he hurriedly called Liang Yuan.

Liang Yuan was dissecting a poisonous toad with Ding Yan. When he heard his cry, he asked, “What’s wrong?”

He turned around and walked over, and saw several human remains lying in the puddle.

The remains had turned into white bones, and in the puddles, there were densely packed fist-sized black tadpole-like creatures.

These tadpoles are pitch black, have no ears or noses, but have sharp teeth and a large mouth.

“Damn it, are these the offspring of that poisonous toad?” Zhao Kai couldn’t help but curse.

Liang Yuan nodded: “That should be the case. This poisonous toad hunted passing creatures and ate them with these tadpoles.”

“These guys are unlucky. They probably passed by here and were caught by it.”

Zhao Kai couldn’t help but say, “This is strange. These people can’t have escaped from the mining area, right? If they want to run, they should run in another direction. The west is the famous restricted area. What are they doing here?”

Liang Yuan shook his head: “It may not be from the mining area. It may come from outside, or it may come from Meishan across the street.”

Zhao Kai was stunned: “Come from Meishan? Why don’t you stay in Meishan and come here?”

Liang Yuan shook his head slightly: “These are all our guesses. It’s hard to say the specific situation. Let’s kill these tadpoles first. These things will form a nest in their lifetime. I’m afraid they will cause great harm when they grow up.”

Zhao Kai nodded and said, “I don’t know if these tadpoles can be eaten or not, and whether they have any nutritional value.”

Liang Yuan said: “These have eaten human flesh, so don’t eat them if you can.”

Zhao Kai nodded quickly: “I mean, I don’t know if tadpoles that have never eaten human flesh can be eaten.”

“I do not know.”

Liang Yuan set a fire that directly dried up the puddle and burned all the tadpoles inside to death.

There was a burnt smell coming from the puddle.

You know what, the taste was quite tempting. Zhao Kai smacked his lips, but when he saw the corpses being pulled out, he suddenly felt nauseous again.

At this time, Ding Yan had already finished dissecting the poisonous toad corpse, and then shouted: “No rune bones were found.”

Liang Yuan stood up and said, “Let’s go. We should be close to the river. Otherwise, we wouldn’t have encountered this poisonous toad.”

“Wait, Brother Liang, there’s a backpack here.”

Suddenly Zhao Kai shouted and found a backpack covered in mud in the nearby grass.

Liang Yuan came over and said, “It should be these corpses.”

Zhao Kai opened his backpack, rummaged through it, and found some water, snacks, lighters and other things.

He collected them all and found a notebook in his mouth.

He immediately took out his notebook and said, “Wow, I actually ran into someone who writes a diary.”

The laptop wasn’t seriously dampened, probably because the backpack was pretty waterproof.

When I opened the notebook, a pink cartoon-patterned signature pen fell out.

Zhao Kai immediately realized that this might be a girl’s notebook.

He opened the notebook. The handwriting on the notebook was beautiful, and the neat and clean writing style was revealed between the lines.

“June 6, heavy rain.”

“Brother Xiangyang, my parents and I have escaped. Are you okay? We are now on Meishan Mountain. The flood is about to submerge my home. We have nowhere else to go but up the mountain.”

“On July 7, it rained heavily. We didn’t know how long the rain would last. We found a cave, but there was already someone inside. Dad knew the person. His name was Yang Tongshan. Dad was very cautious with him. He asked me to call him Uncle Shan. I hated the way he looked at me.”

“July 7th, heavy rain. Brother Xiangyang, where are you? You said you would come to Meishan to find me, I missed you so much. Uncle Shan went out with dad to find food. I don’t know why, he came back early today and generously shared his food with me.”

“July 7, heavy rain. I don’t think there is anything worth remembering in this world, except you.”

“On July 7, I killed him, that beast, but Dad…he’ll never come back.”

“August 8, heavy rain. Brother Xiangyang, I’m so tired. I don’t want to live a life of being sold back and forth like this anymore. Mom said she knows a way to awaken my superpowers. Maybe… if I awaken my superpowers, I can come find you.”

“August 8, heavy rain. Brother Xiangyang, I have awakened my superpowers. I have awakened my water-related superpowers. I can escape by water. From now on, this flood will not be able to trap me anymore. But…but my mother…my mother is dead. I no longer have a mother.”

“September 9, heavy rain, Brother Xiangyang, I plan to leave this cage-like Meishan. I’m going to find you, please wait for me.”

“October 10, heavy rain. Brother Xiangyang, I escaped. I got rid of those people. Please wait for me.”

……

The diary stops here, and half of the notebook is still empty.

Zhao Kai felt a little upset, handed the notebook to Liang Yuan, and said, “Brother Liang, Meishan doesn’t seem to be as good as we thought.”

Liang Yuan took the notebook, read it through, and remained silent.

This is a story about a girl’s mental journey from an ordinary girl to a person with special powers step by step.

The man who supported her throughout the whole process was a man named Brother Xiangyang.

There was not even her own name left in the entire diary.

It can be seen from Liang Yuan’s notes that she likes to record her life.

From the beginning, when large characters describe her daily life, you can see that she has a cheerful personality.

But the more I read, the more I find that her writing is less warm and more capable and concise.

Liang Yuan could imagine that after experiencing countless hardships, this girl would gradually grow into a mature and steady psychic.

Unfortunately, she never found her brother Xiangyang in the end, and died just after she reached Yangshan.

Liang Yuan sighed, put away his notebook, and asked, “Is there anything in her bag that can prove her identity?”

Zhao Kai rummaged through his backpack and suddenly found a photo sealed with tape in the interlayer.

The photo shows a family of three, a middle-aged couple, and a girl with a sunny smile and making a “V” sign with her right hand.

The girl looked pretty, about eighteen or nineteen years old, about the same age as Dong Yan.

Zhao Kai turned the photo over and there was no text on the back.

Liang Yuan took the photo and looked at it, then said, “If you have a chance to go to Meishan, you can ask around. If her brother Xiangyang has also gone to Meishan to look for her, give this thing to him.”

Zhao Kai nodded, and thinking of the beautiful figure in his heart, his expression became a little depressed. He clipped the photo in the notebook and then stuffed it into his arms.

Even though he and Liu Feifei were together, sometimes when it was late at night and everyone was asleep, Xiaoman’s voice and smile would still appear in his dreams.

Liang Yuan seemed to see what he was thinking and patted him on the shoulder gently: “It’s all in the past. Life must go on. People must look forward.”

Zhao Kai forced a smile and hummed.

Seeing this, Liang Yuan could only sigh.

For some things, it is useless to ask for comfort from others, and it takes time to heal slowly.

At least the current Zhao Kai is much more cheerful than when he first met him.

The appearance of Liu Feifei is the panacea that can heal his emotional trauma.

It’s just that the scars of past trauma can still be seen occasionally.

The three continued to move forward, and soon they heard the sound of flowing water and the strange croaking of frogs.

Liang Yuan and the other two immediately slowed down their pace. They could clearly feel the presence of many mutant creatures around them.

Liang Yuan’s mental power spread out, and everything within a radius of fifty meters was reflected in his mind.

“Twelve mutant frogs, one mutant venomous snake, and three mutant lizards.”

Liang Yuan instantly sensed the locations of the mutant creatures around him, and a solemn look appeared in his eyes.

The density of mutant monsters here was indeed beyond his expectations.

Within a range of just fifty meters, there were actually sixteen mutant creatures hiding.

Suddenly Ding Yan exclaimed, pointed to a fallen tree not far away, and said, “Look over there.”

Liang Yuan turned his head and saw that the fallen tree had withered, but millstone-sized fungi had grown on the trunk.

“Is it Ganoderma lucidum?” Zhao Kai couldn’t help but exclaimed.

Ding Yan shook her head: “No, Ganoderma lucidum is dry, not like this. It should be some kind of mushroom. I don’t know if it can be eaten.”

Liang Yuan asked, “Have you ever encountered mushrooms when patrolling the mountains before?”

Ding Yan said: “Yes, we have encountered quite a few, but most of them are poisonous. We basically take them back to have Doctor Yang and his team identify them. So far, we have only found three types of mushrooms that are edible.”

“Of these three types, only two can be eaten directly, and the other one needs to be boiled in boiling water for more than 20 minutes before it can be eaten.”

“At present, they have been handed over to Song Wen’s plantation for cultivation. Aunt Li and Song Wen have confirmed that this type of mutant fungus plant reproduces very quickly and has an amazing yield. It does not require a high external environment and can be cultivated as the main vegetable.”

Zhao Kai immediately said, “This is the first time I’ve seen such a large mushroom. I’ll pick it and bring it back for Dr. Yang and the others to study.”

As he said this, he was about to walk over to pick the millstone mushrooms.

Liang Yuan grabbed him and said, “Wait a minute, there’s something down there.”

Zhao Kai was startled and stopped immediately, and asked, “Is there something?” “You will know if you look at the frozen ground under it,” Liang Yuan reminded.

Zhao Kai immediately stretched out his hand and pressed on the ground, and suddenly a large amount of frost quickly covered him.

Soon the ice layer froze the water vapor in the soil, and the temperature dropped rapidly.

There was a sudden loosening underneath the millstone-sized mushroom, and then a striped snake with a color similar to that of the mushroom crawled out from under the wood.

Its body is not thick, only the size of an adult’s arm, but its body color is the same as dead bark, and its dense scales look extremely creepy.

At this time, it raised its head, spit out its tongue, and looked in the direction of Liang Yuan and the others!
“There is indeed a problem!”

Zhao Kai’s face changed slightly, and he immediately increased the degree of freezing.

The dead bark venomous snake sensed danger and immediately twisted its body rapidly, quickly wrapping itself around the tree.

Seeing this, Zhao Kai waved his hand and suddenly several ice cones shot out!

Bang bang bang!
Three ice cones, like three flying knives, shot towards the poisonous snake accurately.

However, the poisonous snake’s scales vibrated, three crisp clangs were heard, and the ice cone exploded, but it was unharmed!

However, Zhao Kai’s attack instantly annoyed it.

The next moment, it suddenly shot up and disappeared from the tree in an instant!

brush!
There was a grey shadow in the sky, almost imperceptible to the naked eye.

Zhao Kai felt a gust of wind blowing towards his face, and he subconsciously shrank his head and bent over to dodge.

With a bang, a snake’s tail hit him.

Zhao Kai groaned suddenly, staggered, and had a large area of ​​​​bruises on his shoulder!
“Fuck, that’s fast!”

Zhao Kai was shocked and immediately activated his special ability. A layer of ice armor quickly condensed around his body!
Liang Yuan was surprised when he saw this scene.

It seems that Zhao Kai has made some progress during this period. He seems to have made new progress and innovations in his control over ice powers.

Although the ice armor protected Zhao Kai, Zhao Kai could not keep up with the mutated poisonous snake.

The air was full of afterimages, gray-white figures that almost disappeared right in front of eyes every time they bounced, making them difficult to capture.

Ding Yan’s expression became serious and she said, “It’s so fast, I can’t keep up.”

Liang Yuan nodded and said, “The speed of this mutant venomous snake should have reached more than 35 points of agility. It’s normal that you can’t keep up.”

As he said this, his eyes suddenly focused and a mental attack was launched violently.

Bang!
A gray figure in the air suddenly lost control and crashed into Zhao Kai’s ice armor.

The next moment, the cold air from the ice armor spread, freezing it instantly.

Zhao Kai immediately grabbed the poisonous snake with one hand and increased the intensity of the frost coverage.

Suddenly the whole venomous snake was frozen, and its body, which was still struggling and twisting, gradually became stiff.

Zhao Kai saw that the snake’s pupils had split open and bloody liquid was flowing out of the pupils.

“Brother Liang, your mental power is getting stronger and stronger.” Zhao Kai couldn’t help but sigh.

Liang Yuan smiled and said, “No wonder the people in the shelter call this place a restricted area. Among these mutant creatures, many have single attributes exceeding 35 points, which is equivalent to the combat power of Tu Long, Wu Meng, and Li Yuefeng.”

“It would be difficult for ordinary people with special abilities to move forward here.”

He walked to Zhao Kai, grabbed the mutant poisonous snake, and gently wiped it. Suddenly, a crackling sound was heard, and the flesh and bones of the entire snake were torn apart.

Liang Yuan looked around and didn’t find the rune bone. He shook his head and threw it away, saying, “Let’s go.”

Ding Yan and Zhao Kai looked at each other and couldn’t help but let out a sigh of relief. This area really made them feel pressured.

However, what made them even more stressed was that, without them realizing it, the gap in strength between them and Liang Yuan had become so huge.

The two still remembered that when they were in the building, it was very difficult for Liang Yuan to kill Liu Erlong. It has only been a short time, but he has reached a level that they couldn’t understand.

Zhao Kai followed behind Liang Yuan and couldn’t help asking, “Brother Liang, how strong are you now?”

Liang Yuan didn’t stop and smiled, “How strong? I don’t know. I don’t have a specific comparison object.”

“Let’s assume Wu Meng, how many Wu Mengs do you think you can beat?” Zhao Kai asked.

Liang Yuan thought for a moment and said, “It’s hard to say.”

“what?”

“At my current level, numbers are actually meaningless. If there are tens of thousands of Wu Meng standing in front of me, I can use a mental shock to knock them all down.”

“Do you understand what I mean?”

Zhao Kai: …

He stopped asking. If he asked too many questions, he would find it hard to accept the blow.

At this time, the three of them finally reached the river.

The riverside in front of me was full of various plants, and on the water surface, there were a lot of duckweed and strange plants that looked like water chestnuts floating.

These plants spread out very far before emerging from the water.

Because the water here is relatively flat, it seems to be clearer.

You can see many mutant fish flashing by at the bottom of the water.

Occasionally, the shadow of a huge monster would stir up large pieces of duckweed and create waves.

Liang Yuan saw that there were many frog monsters lying on the duckweed, croaking.

Those duckweeds obviously don’t look very big, but their buoyancy seems to be extremely amazing, and they can actually support a giant mutant frog that is half a person’s height!

Liang Yuan said: “Wait for me here.”

After saying that, he jumped up. Ding Yan and Zhao Kai could hardly see his movements. The next moment, they saw Liang Yuan appeared on the duckweed.

The mutant frog closest to him saw Liang Yuan, suddenly opened its mouth and stuck out its tongue.

Woo!
The tongue shot out at me at high speed like a bullet.

Liang Yuan did not dodge, but flicked his fingers.

Woo——!
The air pressed by the fingertips burst into a sharp roar, and a stream of air whistled out.

Bang!
The airflow collided violently with the tongue and exploded.

Suddenly the tongue turned into a cloud of blood mist, the frog twitched in pain, and fell into the water with a bang.

The smell of blood immediately attracted a large number of mutant fish, and the water in that area suddenly rolled violently, bubbles popped up, and duckweed swayed.

Liang Yuan looked around and the mutant frogs seemed to be aware of the horror of the creatures in front of them, and they turned around and jumped into the water.

The water was rippling, but Liang Yuan didn’t pay attention to these mutated monsters. Instead, he stepped hard on the duckweed under his feet.

This duckweed is very resilient and has strong buoyancy.

Even if you stomped your feet on it, the duckweed would only sink a little bit and then immediately come up again.

Liang Yuan was curious, so he squatted down and pulled hard at a duckweed.

I pulled it hard, but found that I almost couldn’t move it.

His heart moved slightly, and he immediately increased his strength and exerted force suddenly.

However, the sudden burst of force caused the duckweed under his feet to lose its force and he was pulled directly towards the duckweed on the opposite side.

Liang Yuan was speechless. He did not continue to pull it, but instead used his mental power to probe directly into the bottom of the water to investigate.

However, I found that the root systems of these duckweeds are extremely developed, and the stems have been sunk into the mud at the bottom of the water, clinging tightly to the deep mud. No wonder it is difficult to pull them out.

At the same time, he observed that the duckweed looked like a thin layer floating on the water, but under the water there was a very thick layer of leaves.

The leaf is hollow and filled with translucent plant fibers. Each plant fiber is in the form of a hollow tube.

Liang Yuan thought for a moment, “So these duckweeds actually rely on their internal structure to store a lot of air to achieve such strong buoyancy?”

“These duckweeds can naturally be made into rafts for water transportation.”

“Liang Yuan, be careful!”

Suddenly, Ding Yan on the shore seemed to have discovered something, her face suddenly changed and she exclaimed!

But in the water not far away, a giant dark red creature emerged.

The part that sticks out of the water has ferocious spines, and the part that is above the water alone is nearly one meter long!
Most of its body is at the bottom of the water, covered by duckweed.

At this moment, the dark red thing covered with thorns was approaching Liang Yuan silently!

It is less than ten meters away from Liang Yuan at this moment!

But from the time Ding Yan reminded her until she finished speaking, the distance between the two was only two or three meters!

The speed was so fast that Ding Yan and Zhao Kai’s faces changed drastically!
(End of this chapter)