None of the people on the ship spoke, sinking into silent sadness, driven by Liu Tian’s emotions.

Shangguan Xiaolong let out a long breath. He had finally completed the TOEFL that Liu Zhenglong had given him back then and had brought these words to his daughter without missing a single word!

After doing all of this, Shangguan Xiaolong returned to his ship.

Fatty sister Gong Xue did not read her romance novels at this time. Instead, she was sitting at the bow of the ship, staring blankly at Qin An on the Lu Fei ship. Her eyes rolled. She did not know what was on her mind, not even paying attention to Shangguan Xiaolong’s movements.

By the end of April, the river had completely melted, and there was no more ice in the water.

The warm spring breeze, mixed with the irritating smell of both banks, poured into the river, causing everyone on the boat to become much sober.

Continuing along the way, after arriving at an open area of water, a small city that had grown in length by more than two thousand meters appeared on the shore. This was the resupply station at the end of the first section of the Dark Road in the Northern Heavens, and there was no special name for it.

Looking from the river, Qin An, Liu Ru and the others were all stunned. They temporarily forgot the sorrow brought to them by the news of Liu Tian’s father’s death. They were only curious about the fantastic little city in front of them.

With the small city as the center, with a radius of 500 meters, there were many huge trees growing on the river bank! These trees were about a hundred meters tall, and their trunks were thick. The smallest trees were about three meters in diameter.

There were intricate branches growing across the trees, forming a semi-circular tree wall with a width of 500 meters, completely protecting the entire small city. Outside these tree walls was an endless forest.

Lu Fei had always been sullen. Seeing the turnaround station, she became excited. She was very happy and jumped on the boat. “Alright, alright, people can’t be revived!” Sister Liu Tian and everyone else, don’t be too sad! Look, that’s the first turnaround station. We can finally go ashore! After walking in the river for ten days, I feel like I’ve gone crazy. ”

She turned around and looked at Qin An and the others who were in a daze. She immediately understood why they were so shocked, so she opened her mouth to explain.

By the way, I heard that mutated creatures called tree insects are rare in the Central Plains and Jiangnan?

Then let me introduce you to a strange apocalyptic creature that you can’t even imagine!

The trees that you see protecting the small city are called mutated trees. They are actually animals now!

When they are parasitized by mutated caterpillars, we call them tree worms, they will obtain the ability to quickly extract all kinds of complex elements from the soil, and then form a completely new metabolic constitution, and even have organs such as heart and blood vessels! It possessed tissue that was like a cell!

The mutated trees near the first transfer station had only a first-grade mutation of the tree insects in their bodies, so the mutated beasts were almost equivalent to dead creatures! However, the smell emitted by their bodies was something the zombies did not like, so with these mutated trees around, the zombies would not easily attack the turnaround station unless there were high-level mutated zombies among the zombies!

When it comes to Shenshu City, you’ll be even more surprised!

The parasitic tree insects in the mutated trees had already reached the third level of mutation, and there were even fourth level mutations!

With such a high mutation level, the mutated trees had gained real life. People raised them as pets and fed them food. And they surrounded the city, protecting the soldiers and civilians in the city!

There’s something even more amazing. Do you know how these mutated trees reproduce? Instead of growing seeds, they need to go through a sexual process and give birth to their own babies! In other words, these high-grade mutated trees were divided into male and female!

Mutated tree babies are another mutated creature. They can pull their roots out of the ground and walk freely on the ground! They have smarter intellect than their parents and can communicate better with humans!

We call this mutated tree baby Treeman! These treants weren’t as smart as humans!

“They are more like puppies. Through raising and training, they can complete some human commands. They are all very cute!”

Qin An and the others were speechless when they heard this! Even Liu Tian, who was originally filled with sadness, stopped crying and was attracted by Lu Fei’s words.

The world had changed so quickly!

Trees are intelligent because of the parasitism of mutated insects, and they actually inherit their offspring in a vivid way? ! Isn’t this too fucking amazing? He had simply become an essence!

Suddenly, Qin An remembered the mutated tree that he had encountered when he was in Smoke City. It was brought to the moat by the Wanguo City Mutant. At that time, he had cut down the tree and used it to warm the people in the city! Qin An didn’t know that it was already a living being with intelligence.

Lu Fei continued, “Ah, what a pity! There aren’t many mutated tree insects. After they enter a large tree to parasitize, although they can infinitely multiply into many insects, they can’t get out of a large parasitic tree and go to other trees. If they forcefully operate, they will die!”

Therefore, in principle, a mutated tree insect could only parasitize a large tree. They would reproduce within the tree, allowing the tree to have an immortal life without being affected by the outside world!

If there are enough mutated trees, we can build more protected areas! Ah, but they’re not that many!

Oh right, the mutated tree still has heaven and earth, that’s the number of zombies! They are big trees parasitized by corpse-shaped tree insects, and they like to eat mutated trees the most! It was as if zombies liked to eat people!

“Anyway, this is a very magical place. Everyone, welcome to the Dreamland of Doomsday, the northeast of China!”

After Lu Fei finished saying those words, the five boats had already rowed into the open door on the first turn of the boat, which was standing on the surface of the water.

The walls of this small city were only about ten meters long, but because of the mutated trees around it, people felt as if they were in a deep basin, surrounded by towering green cliffs!

After entering the city gate, there were several hundred square meters of water. There was a simple dock built here. There were staff on the dock who quickly docked the five boats. After that, Lu Fei, Zuo Shanshan, and Hu Wenwu went to a house on the shore to pay for the charter.

After disembarking, Qin An looked around.

On the other side of the town, a seven-storey residential building was built. Below the residential building, there were countless stalls. Many people were coming and going on stalls. It was obvious that they were doing something like trading or trading. This was a fairly large-scale bazaar. Unlike before the apocalypse, although there were about a few thousand people in this market, there was no noise. Although there was a Mutated Tree Wall as a cover, if people could make sounds that could attract zombies, the zombies nearby would still pounce on them. Therefore, the rules here were that they could not make a loud noise, but could only whisper in a low voice!

Qin Ontario turned on his super hearing and didn’t notice any potential danger. So he turned back to the cabin and picked Li Na up, standing on the shore with the others.

Not long after, Lu Fei returned. She walked in front of Qin An and the others and said, “Alright, my team members!” It’s now past three o’clock in the afternoon. I’m in a good mood, so I’ve decided to take you poor people shopping! Remember, everyone can only consume two Hundred Cities Gold Coins. In the future, you must help me earn it all back! After shopping, I’ll take you out to a restaurant and have a good meal. Then, I’ll stay in a few houses in the building over there for the night. I’ll leave the first turnaround station at 8 a.m. tomorrow and enter the second section of the Northern Heavens Secret Road! I made an appointment with the three cubs and Zuo Shanshan. We’ll leave together tomorrow! “Although I don’t like them, it’s much safer for someone to travel together along the path of the Northern Heavens Secret Road. In order to have more chances to continue living, we can only choose to travel together!”

After saying that, Lu Fei ignored the other two groups of people and called for Qin An and the others to directly walk towards the market.

At this time, Zuo Shanshan and Hu Wenwu also returned to their respective teams. The things they had told them were almost the same as Lu Fei’s. In other words, the three groups of people would have their own activities, and then they would meet up tomorrow morning to continue their journey.

Just as Qin An’s group was about to leave, Gong Xue, the leader of the five-man Hero Guild, suddenly walked out of Zuo Shanshan’s group and said, “Brother Qin An, wait a moment!”

Qin An was slightly stunned. He stopped and turned his head. He didn’t know why this fat sister suddenly called out to him.

The fat sister walked to Qin An’s side, her face actually blushing a little.

Qin An hadn’t spoken to this fat sister on the waterway these past few days, so he was naturally very unfamiliar with her.

The fat sister bit her lower lip with her snow-white teeth. She first looked at Li Na in Qin An’s arms, then looked at Qin An. She mustered up her courage and said, “Brother Qin, do you really not remember the name Gong Xue?”

Qin An looked at the pair of bright eyes of the fat sister and shook his head after being stunned for a long time.

The words Gong Xue seemed to be familiar, but Qin An really couldn’t remember that he had known a woman called Gong Xue in his life. Why would the fat girl suddenly ask him such a question?

When the fat sister saw Qin An shaking her head, her fat face trembled for a moment, and then she sighed sadly.

“Well, you are a noble man who forget things.

However, you didn’t have much contact with Gong Xue at that time. It’s normal that you don’t remember the name Gong Xue!

Brother Qin, I just want you to know that I know you! This may be the first time you’ve seen me, but I’ve actually seen you a few months ago! And helped you do something important to you! ”