Chapter 1178: 1178
Duan Juan quickly took out a gas mask and put it on to prevent herself from breathing in any poisonous gas .
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In the post-apocalyptic era, gas masks were standard equipment for the people who often traveled out of the bases . Almost everyone carried a gas mask, in case they ran into some kind of poisonous gas .
Shui Mingjun and Yan Huiguang, who both spent a lot of time in the outside world, silently took out their masks and put them on .
As the black smoke covered a wider and wider area, the surrounding plants were all turned into sands, blown into the air . Gradually, the whole area became a desert .
“So, it’s a desert this time?” Lin Qiao watched the smoke grow larger and the area change . The wind spread the smoke and brought it toward the trees that she and her friends were standing on .
Seeing that, Lin Qiao and Duan Juan both leaped backward and quickly left the tree . Next, the surrounding trees started to wither and turn into sand slowly . Only the higher-leveled mutated trees were maintaining themselves .
Soon, the surrounding mutated trees all turned into sand and collapsed . Only two level-five trees were left standing there, releasing the energy in their nuclei to keep themselves safe .
The day they ran out of energy would be the day they died .
“What the hell is coming out? Why does this smoke contain such a horrible power?” Duan Juan and Lin Qiao moved onto a tree hundreds of meters away . Watching everything in front of them turn into sand, they were both surprised .
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Lin Qiao steadied herself, then looked at those cracks silently . A couple of seconds later, she said, “It’s coming out!”
The others landed near her at that moment . Hearing what she said, they all fixed their eyes on the cracks .
Soon, the smoky cracks on the highway had grown meters wide . The three-hundred-meter-long sector of the highway was covered with giant cracks like that before the ground stopped shaking .
“Roar…” But right then, a weird sound was heard from the underground, which attracted everyone .
They soon saw a huge, blood-red claw reach out of a crack and sink into the ground loudly, leaving a few deep cuts on the cement road .
“Red? Such a large claw!” Lin Qiao saw the claw and narrowed her eyes .
The red claw was at least as large as a car . As the strong arm propped on the ground, a gigantic and red head was squeezed out of the crack . That weird-looking creature had a pair of curved horns, underneath which was a pair of round ears . It looked around with blood-red eyes .
That claw was huge enough, yet its head was three times larger than the claw . The crack on the ground wasn’t even large enough for its head to come out, so it needed to squeeze itself out .
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The head of that creature actually looked like the head of a cat . It didn’t have fluffy fur though . Covering its claw and face was thick, hairless, blood-red skin . The erect pupils in its round, red eyes made it look very much like an enormous, strange cat .
“Roaroooooo…” The strange, red cat opened its huge mouth and uttered a roar toward the sky, baring its sharp teeth . A thick stream of dark smoke came out of its mouth along with the roar . Then, it struggled to pull another claw out of the ground, then the third, the fourth, and then… a fifth one!
“Oh… Those aren’t all its claws, right?” Yan Xiao had a bad feeling when she saw the fifth claw came out .
Next, the giant cat struggled upward even more intensely than before . The crack on the ground was slowly widened, exposing the rest of its body . Abruptly, it shrank downward slightly and then lunged out, caused a thunderous sound .
Bang! The ground was blown open and it finally came out .
“Roar…” A six-footed, blood-red, hairless, enormous cat landed on the ground, wagging its tail which looked like the tail of a snake . It seemed to be excited . After roaring at the sky, it took a few circles swinging its tail, then finally stopped moving and twitched its nose to sniff at the air .
Watching its movements, the others on the scene automatically held their breath and restrained their vibes, in case the cat discovered them and attacked them .
Anyhow, what they were worried about didn’t happen . The six-footed cat, which was at least eight meters tall and ten meters long, wagged its over twenty meters long tail and sniffed around, then leaped toward the other direction . In the midair about twenty meters away from the ground, it suddenly disappeared .
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“It… It’s gone!” The people didn’t see that coming . They thought the creature would cause a stir in the area or at least some loud noises . However, it only made a few circles after coming out from underground, and then leaped into the sky and disappeared .
Lin Qiao knitted her brows as she kept staring at the ground . The space inside the cracks had become quiet again . She carefully observed the crack where the cat crawled out from, then suddenly blinked and turned to the other direction .
In that area, a giant, mutated bird rose from a tree that was turning into sand, hovering in the air and then landing back on the ground .
‘Eh?’
Lin Qiao carefully looked at that bird . The bird was standing on the sanded ground but was suffering no harm at all .
The bird was only at level two . However, it stood on the sanded ground perfectly unharmed, without being affected by whatever turned the whole area into the desert .
Puff! Puff! Puff! Some noises were heard from the other side too .
The bird rose again, then spread its wings and flew toward that area .
“Errrr!” After flapping its wings a few times, the bird suddenly thrust both legs into the sanded ground, and then rose into the sky again . A rabbit that was as large as a medium-sized dog was held in its claws as it flew away .
“They’re alive,” Lin Qiao murmured with surprise .
“What are alive?” Duan Juan didn’t understand .
“The bird and the rabbit . The bird is only at level-two while the rabbit has no level at all . It’s just mutated . They were in the dark smoke, but they survived,” Lin Qiao pointed at the bird that was flying far away . It meant that the black smoke was only harmful to plants, and not to animals .
“Is that so?” With confusion, Duan Juan looked at where she was pointing at, then at the three-hundred square meter area that had already turned into a desert . Suddenly, she saw a few cat-sized rats dart out of the sand and flee into the forest .
Those rats did seem unharmed .
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