Chapter 97

It was close to noon, and it was the hottest time of the day.

The sun's rays, penetrating through the clouds from the sky to the ground, were scorching hot, and even with the protective clothing on, there was an unnatural stinging sensation.

That was the performance of the whole caravan when the intense radiation penetrated the protective suit and pricked their skin. Other than feeling nothing, the rest of the caravan probably felt a sense of danger.

Monnie squeezed her body even closer to the zero, and her thin body felt more clearly that the omnipresent radiation of the earth was invading her.

And at such a hot moment, even through the clothes, zero still maintained its normal temperature.

Monnie clung to him, somewhat lowering the rising temperature.

Another source of heat reduction came from the top of Lala, whose round body was slouched listlessly over Monnie's head.

The temperature of these strange beasts was much lower than that of humans. This was more or less due to the fact that the Gold-Eating Worms had been living underground for a long time.

Now, it serves as a hat for Monnie, largely avoiding the sun's direct rays on Monnie.

After circling more than half of the ruins of Morin, Lala's craggy body suddenly seemed to be stimulated by something and suddenly became very taut.

Monnie felt something and instinctively reached for Lara.

He took the animal down and looked at it. His round eyes were filled with confusion, and the diamond emblem on his forehead glowed with a strange green light.

Monnie felt strange, but soon after, the green light on Lala's forehead disappeared and the animal returned to its lazy state.

"What's wrong?"

Noticing the movement behind him, Zero asked as he drove.

Monnie shook her head. "Nothing."

After a short interlude, the caravan had already bypassed Morin and started walking on the road to Phoenix City.

The road was getting better, which made everyone heave a sigh of relief, as if the temperature on the ground was not that high anymore.

Mony, still holding on to her zero, said in a low voice, "I wonder how Bessemos is doing?"

He hadn't told him about the behemoth, so he'd assumed that Bessemos had disappeared in the confusion of Titan City.

Now that he heard Moni mention it, Zero's eyes reflected onto the seemingly endless highway and the thousand-mile stretch of clouds as he said indifferently, "It should be returning back to its hometown. After all, it doesn't belong here."

"But does it recognize the way back?"

Monnie asked again.

There was silence on the empty highway.

He did not know the answer to this question.

In the gradually fading city of Morin, the image of the caravan was reflected in a pair of eyes.

The old office building now had a sloping section on the fifteenth floor.

Cement and steel bars with broken sections exposed to the air are charred black, and hexagonal black crystals can be found on their surfaces.

It was the mark of a highly heated object, and wounds like these were unparalleled in Morin.

The eyes appeared at the window on the fourteenth floor, and the shadowy outline of the body was vaguely human-shaped, which made a blade-mantis perched on the opposite side of the building envious.

The Bladed Mantis was an insect-type mutated beast. Its body was hundreds of times larger than its ancestor's, and it was as big as an eagle.

Its outer shell was dark green and had a metallic luster. In fact, this biological armor was abnormally tough, allowing the bladelike mantis to withstand most of the violent attacks.

Its arms were curved and knife-like, and the other side of the blade was covered with dense, irregular rows of sharp teeth, allowing the mantis to cut through the surface of many creatures or inorganic objects.

The mutated beast likes to live in high places, such as this blade-wasp mantis hiding in a fifteen-story building.

Normally, they would hunt other mutated beasts or even live corpses for food.

Today, however, the contours of the human body in the opposite building allow the Blademaster mantis to have a different taste.

Its scarlet compound eyes locked onto the target of the opposite building. It spread out a pair of hard wings and with a whoosh, rushed out of its hiding place.

The blade-mantis flew through the air in a dark green arc, heading straight for the window.

The next moment, the roar of a beast came from the window.

In the dark space, mantis flashes of azure-green blades of light constantly, but most of them were bluish-purple bolts of lightning.

The battle ended in less than a minute. Many of the mutated beasts that were hiding near the building were silently watching the battle. When the broken body of the Blademaster was thrown out of the window, almost all the mutated beasts that wanted to take advantage of the situation gave up on the idea.

The body of the mantis, hanging on the window ledge, fell to the floor with a loud crash.

A huge figure flew out from the building, and at that moment, the mutated beasts arrived at a new species that had never appeared in Morin.

The strange creatures with lion heads, eagle wings, and humanoid bodies made the mutants instinctively afraid.

Thus, they retreated into the deepest shadow.

The figure of the strange creature flying over the city was seen by a pair of wise eyes.

The owner of the eye was a huge wolf that was as big as a calf. It had snow-white fur that was dozens of centimeters long, making it look like a noble.

The huge white wolf was lying on the roof of a gymnasium in the city. Through the pieces of glass under him that shone with natural light, there were many giant wolf silhouettes moving in the gymnasium.

Although they did not have noble white hair like this wolf, from the height, these wolves should belong to the same race.

After retracting his gaze from the strange creature in the sky, the white wolf headed towards the entrance of the gymnasium.

On the streets of the city, a dozen huge wolves, covered in gray, black, or light brown fur, were galloping toward them with patches of bright red blood on their bodies.

The blood was not their own, but another creature.

Those creatures occupied most of the land. They were humans who claimed to be the masters of all living things.

But now, a few human corpses were being dragged back to the gym by these wolves.

On a day when food is hard to find, these bodies will become food for cubs and adult males.

At least under the leadership of his wise Brian, no member of his clan dared break this rule.

On the highway, there seemed to be obstacles ahead of him.

The obstacles were two armored tanks, as well as a dozen corpses on the road and outside.

The corpses were dressed as soldiers, and on the camouflage uniforms of armoured vehicles and corpses, there was a phoenix emblem.

The caravan stopped, because Cumberg recognized that both the chariot and the soldiers belonged to Phoenix.

The coat of arms revealed their identities, and not far from the highway, obstacles like these appeared one after another, extending all the way to the end of the highway.

With just a glance, Lingcun knew that there were at least a hundred corpses lying on the highway.

Following the deep marks on the armoured vehicles, God knows what huge mutated beasts attacked Phoenix City's army.