Restricted area grave keeper

Chapter 216 Improving Rank
It was already late at night, and after the matter was settled, Zhang Tao, brother and sister went back to their rooms to rest.

But before leaving, Zhang Tao seemed to have remembered something, so he came back specially to remind Bai Mo that he must not go out to wander around at night, otherwise it would be very dangerous.

From the beginning to the end, neither of them asked about Bai Mo's origin, nor how he was injured, nor asked for anything in return.

Even though they had the thought of using Bai Mo to receive food, they did not hide anything from Bai Mo, but gave him a chance to choose.

No matter from any point of view, this pair of brothers and sisters can be regarded as rare kind-hearted people.

So facing Zhang Tao's reminder, Bai Mo nodded to express his understanding.

However, his nod does not mean that he will not go out, but that he knows that there is danger outside.

He had just woken up, how could he be able to sleep, and it had been half a year since he lost consciousness, he needed to confirm his current situation, so he sat in the room and waited silently.

After waiting for about an hour, seeing that the surrounding area was quiet, Zhang Tao and his sister should have fallen asleep, so he quietly opened the door.

It was dark outside, and the sky was particularly gloomy, as if covered by a black curtain, but this was not enough to affect Bai Mo's vision.

Stepping over the half-person-high wooden thorn fence, looking around, the head-on will give people a sense of desolation and decay. Surrounded by sparse dry trees, dead trees and fallen leaves are scattered on the ground, gravel is piled up, and the earth walls are spliced ​​​​at random, which looks like Messy and depressed.

This seems to be a village, located in a non-dense forest, with only a few houses around, but I don't know if there are people living in every house, lifeless and lacking in vitality.

Most of the houses are made of earth and rocks. The workmanship is very rough at first glance, and it is obviously built in a hurry.

All the houses in the village should be made by the same person. Zhang Tao's house has a similar layout, and it is even more grand than other houses. At least the space is not small, with several rooms.

After looking around for a while, Bai Mo suddenly understood that this is not so much a village, but more like a temporary refuge.

In fact, there are not a few gathering places like this in today's buffer zone, and most of the people living in them are ordinary people who are not qualified to stay in the safe zone and have little ability.

And in troubled times, if people who have been eliminated like this want to survive, perhaps the only way to go is to keep warm like this——

Although it doesn't make much sense.

The buffer zone is now the outer edge of the restricted area. Although it is not as scary as the restricted area, it is also dangerous. Without the protection of force, even if there are only sporadic creatures in the restricted area, it is enough to cause disaster to such a gathering place.

No one in the gathering place is ignorant of this truth, but they can only do so. After all, they have no other choice.

...No matter at any time, being involuntary is the sorrow of the weak.

"Tick."

Suddenly, water droplets dripped from the sky, as if it was raining.

Bai Mo looked up at the sky, raised his eyebrows slightly, and then walked along the dirt and stone path to the outside of the gathering place, intending to see the situation outside.

The entire gathering place was quiet, and everyone seemed to be asleep. It is worth mentioning that there are wooden fences around each house. I don’t know if it has a special meaning.

Gradually, Bai Mo walked to the outskirts of the gathering place, without seeing a single person.

Zhang Tao said before that people in the buffer zone have no nightlife at all, and the later they sleep, the more dangerous they are. This is the experience that everyone has summed up with their lives in the past six months.

And precisely because of this, no one has known for so long...

At this time, in the sky of the gathering place, there is a gaping bloody mouth, quietly aiming at the whole gathering place.

And what just fell on the ground was not raindrops, but the saliva flowing from that bloody mouth.

Bai Mo had discovered the existence of this thing before, but he didn't pay much attention to it, and only when he was standing next to a dead tree outside the gathering place, could he see the whole picture of the thing clearly——

It was a huge black flower.

It is not pure black, but changes with the environment, as if blending with the night, and the darkness has become its best protective color, so no one has ever noticed this terrifying existence.

The so-called big mouth is actually an open flower bud, with a total of eight petals, and each petal is covered with small and sharp teeth, which keep opening and closing slightly, as if breathing rhythmically and gently.

The thick stem is connected to nowhere, it is covered with tiny holes, and transparent silk threads spread out from it, like a huge spider web, covering the entire safe zone.

Bai Mo thought for a while, and reached out to touch the silk thread, but it didn't elicit any special reaction from the flower.

The silk thread was quite fragile, and he tore it off with a little more strength, but nothing strange happened, only a new thread stretched out from the hole in the stem.

Bai Mo is thoughtful, this flower seems to be waiting to mature, it seems that there should be a while, and nothing special will happen during this time...

Then just wait.

He didn't know why this thing was specially selected here to wait for maturity, but he was very clear about his purpose.

He has experienced two battles in Zheshou Mountain and Equality Paradise successively. His two powers are almost exhausted, and even hurt his origin. Now he is not much stronger than ordinary people, and is quite weak.

Bai Mo didn't know if this was intentional by the God of Destiny, but restoring his strength must be his top priority right now.

...and if you want to speed up this process, you have to use these "supplements".

The temporary concealment of power also means the return of humanity. At this time, he is much less indifferent than when he was in Equality Paradise, and he is not so difficult to approach.

He has heard of the name Boundless City. It is located in the north of the safe zone, not too far away from Dongyang City. However, now that the restricted area has expanded, and large and small restricted areas are interspersed, it is not easy to return to Dongyang City.

Most of Bai Mo's backhands are in the east, and he has very limited control over other restricted areas. The reason why he let the train of death to send him here half a year ago is because he has already paid attention to Boundless City.

In the Equality Paradise before, he had received a message from a person named Wu Ye in the Xinhai Group team that a batch of special corpses had flowed into the Boundless City, and that was his purpose.

It's just that he didn't expect that after half a year, there would be strange changes in the Boundless City, and he didn't know if it was related to what he was thinking.

Bai Mo continued to walk outside while thinking, until he walked out of the woods and saw a large area of ​​wasteland, and then began to turn back.

And at this moment, he suddenly saw a ray of light appearing in the forest, it was very faint, and could barely illuminate an area of ​​about half a meter.

This kind of light between yellow and white is quite special, and Bai Mo immediately realized that it is the same as the spar used in Zhang Tao's home.

He had previously learned from Zhang Tao that this kind of spar is called Zhaoshi, which was found in a certain mine, and belongs to the category of rare treasures. Lighting objects.

The electronic equipment in the forbidden area cannot operate. Although the buffer area formed by the coverage after expansion is not so serious, it also has a considerable impact on the electronic equipment. In addition, the buffer area is a temporarily abandoned territory, and there are few places left Power supply, so Zhaoshi is an essential important item.

In fact, there are still some areas in the buffer zone that still have a complete power supply system, and even have a comfortable living environment, which is the case in Boundless City.

Of course, this has nothing to do with ordinary people like Zhang Tao and the others.

Therefore, the moment he saw the light, Bai Mo quickly realized that the light should be formed by someone covering the stone with a cloth, and it was a very simple flashlight.

only……

Besides him, who else would appear outside in the middle of the night?

Could it be that the Zhang Tao brothers and sisters had already found out that he was not in the room, so they came out to look for him?

Hiding his figure was the easiest thing for Bai Mo. He held his breath, his sense of existence was minimized, and he almost merged with the trees in the darkness. Then he quietly poked out half of his head and looked towards the light the direction of—

It's not Zhang Tao's brother and sister, but a pair of strange men and women.

The two looked flustered. After entering the forest here, they kept looking around, as if they were afraid of something.

Zhaoshi wrapped in white cloth gave off a faint light, illuminating the vicinity of the two just right.

"Hurry up, it will be too late if you drag it on any longer." The man with a cropped cut anxiously urged, "I've studied it over and over again, and only this time point is the safest."

"But..." The woman was very embarrassed.

"Don't worry, there are only so many opportunities. If you don't grasp it this time, it will be difficult next time!"

The man glanced around again, and seeing the woman's hesitant expression, he couldn't help swallowing his saliva.

He tried to touch the woman's arm, but the latter dodged like an electric shock.

Bai Mo watched this scene, secretly thinking about the purpose of these two people coming here late at night.

Meeting in the middle of the night, not hesitating to risk, and looking around to observe, shows that this matter is extremely secret; and judging from the anxious expressions of the two, I am afraid that they are planning to do something urgent...

Could it be...

However, just as Bai Mo was thinking seriously, the man's next sentence made his expression brighten up.

Facing the woman's dodge, the man seemed a little dissatisfied, but he didn't get angry. Instead, he rolled his eyes and looked at the woman with a half-smile.

"Sister Qiaofeng, you don't want your story to spread around..."

His tone was frivolous, and the woman's complexion suddenly changed, she quickly lowered her voice to tell him to shut up, and looked around while speaking, as if she was afraid of being overheard, she seemed very guilty.

Under the constant threat of the man's words, she finally made a compromise, repeatedly emphasizing "just this one time", then turned her head and slowly took off her coat.

Immediately afterwards, under the excited gaze of the man, she took off the sweater inside.

Bai Mo: "?"

What the hell is going on...

No, you guys ran out at night just to do something like this? !

But he soon realized that maybe he had thought things too complicated from the beginning.

In fact, the combination of the three words "male and female", "late night" and "little woods" seems to make the direction of the story very clear...

Seeing that the two of them were getting better and better, Bai Mo shook his head, turned around and chose to leave.

However, not long after he left, he heard a sudden sound of slight footsteps in front of him, also illuminated by the faint light of the stone, and the movement of the person coming was very light.

Bai Mo was a little helpless, why did such things get together, could it be because of the customs of this place?
However, when he saw the appearance of the person coming, he was slightly taken aback.

It was none other than Zhang Rouzhu who came.

She walked very carefully, as if she was afraid of disturbing something, looked around along the way, and seemed to be looking for something.

Why did this guy come out?

Bai Mo was suspicious, and said in a low voice, "Rou Zhu?"

Hearing the sound, Zhang Rouzhu was startled at first, and quickly took out a spell from her bag, but she seemed to recognize it was Bai Mo's voice very quickly, so she held up the Zhaoshi in surprise and pointed it forward.

Bai Mo didn't hide either, and walked up to the girl in two or three steps.

Under the light of Zhaoshi, the two looked at each other for a moment, with some doubts on their expressions, and the next second they said in unison: "Why are you running out in the middle of the night?"

Seeing that Bai Mo actually asked the same question, Zhang Rouzhu was taken aback for a moment, and then angrily said: "You still have the nerve to say that it's not because you are looking for you!"

The girl tried her best to keep her voice down, but Bai Mo could still hear the blame in her tone, "My brother has warned you that it's dangerous outside at night, why do you still have to run outside?"

Bai Mo asked in surprise, "Did you come here to find me?"

"Then why not? It's not just me, my brother is looking for another direction."

Zhang Rouzhu gave Bai Mo a blank look, motioned him to go back with her, and then said solemnly, "I tell you, many people died outside at night before, otherwise there would not be only a few people left in the gathering place."

"Did the creatures in the restricted area do it?" Bai Mo asked.

"Who knows, we are not as bold as you, and no one dares to go out to see." Zhang Rouzhu said angrily.

"I just……"

"You almost died when my brother carried you back. It took a lot of effort to get your life back. Don't accidentally lose it again." Zhang Rouzhu interrupted him.

"Although it is not easy to live, it is better than dead."

Looking at the girl's old-fashioned expression, Bai Mo felt inexplicably touched for some reason.

"Thank you."

The sudden thanks made Zhang Rouzhu stunned for a moment, and swallowed all the words of education later.

"Nothing to thank."

She curled her lips and said pretending to be impatient, "You are a food stamp for us, you should protect your life before we are full."

"it is good."

Bai Mo's answer was simple and neat.

The two are going back.

However, at this moment, a painful cry suddenly sounded not far behind the two, and it sounded like a woman's voice.

The voice was quite suppressed, as if someone had covered his mouth, although it stopped in time, it was still quite clear in the night.

Zhang Rouzhu stopped instantly, lowered her voice and asked, "Did you hear that?"

Bai Mo was silent for a moment, then shook his head and said, "No."

"Didn't you hear a woman's voice?" Zhang Rouzhu slightly frowned, with a hint of worry on her face.

"It should be your illusion..."

"No, my hearing is very good." Zhang Rouzhu said firmly, "There was definitely a painful voice just now, and it was right behind us!"

Are you sure it's pain...

Zhang Rouzhu hesitated for a moment, then said, "I want to go and have a look."

Bai Mo shook his head: "It's better not to go, didn't you say that wandering around in the middle of the night is dangerous?"

"But someone might be in danger now. It's good that I didn't. Since I did..." Zhang Rouzhu seemed very hesitant.

The philosophy of her and Zhang Tao's brother and sister has always been that the more troubled times are in, the more everyone should help each other, so that there will be more chances of survival.

Of course, if nothing could be done, she would immediately turn around and run away.

Seeing the girl's eyes gradually becoming firmer, Bai Mo sighed in his heart, stepped sideways to block her way, and said, "Don't worry, I came from there."

Zhang Rouzhu was taken aback, and quickly asked: "Then what did you see?"

"Hmm." Bai Mo's expression was strange.

"Tell me, what's going on?"

Bai Mo was silent for a long time, as if he was organizing his words, and finally, under Zhang Rouzhu's urging, he replied: "There is a man and a woman over there."

"And then? Get to the point!"

"They...well, they're improving their ranks."

"Promote rank? What do you mean?" Zhang Rouzhu looked confused.

"Do you still remember the golden couple you told me about? There is a task that must be completed..." Bai Mo pondered for a moment, then continued, "And they are completing that task now."

The mission of the golden couple...?

Zhang Rouzhu was stunned.

The air was silent for a while, and at some point in the distance, a slightly suppressed cry sounded again, but at this time, there was no pain to be heard.

Gradually, Zhang Rouzhu seemed to have realized something, and her complexion instantly turned red.

"gone!"

She quickly called Bai Mo and left here as if fleeing.

(End of this chapter)