Zombies take me as air

Chapter 380 Boulder
Kong Qi was worried that the fog was poisonous, so she hid in the space every time the fog appeared, and went out when the fog cleared.

In the central area of ​​the hinterland, the temperature reached 30°C, and Kong Qi changed her spring clothes into summer clothes.

With a homemade fresh fruit milk popsicle in her mouth, she dug up a beautiful flower and sent it to the new world, where she placed it in a specially prepared basket.

Tian Niu will collect the things in the basket regularly, and she will plant the plants with roots in the flower garden.

Most of the plants that Kong Qi would send to the New World were flowers and plants suspected of being medicinal herbs. She was not sure, so she dug them up and sent them to the New World.

Plant it first, and let's talk about whether it can be used later. Tian Niu opened up another flower garden for these plants, which is a 'big shed' covered with plastic sheets.

Keep these plants separate from those native to the new world so they don't spread.

Even the soil for planting plants is packed in unused containers and not directly planted in the ground.

Kong Qi walks among the tall plants. Although they are not trees, they can cover her entire vision. She has to walk and cut all the way with a machete to move forward.

She has never seen ancient plants, so she cannot be sure whether some strange-shaped flowers and plants are species from tens of millions of years ago.

It took her several days to get to the pole, and there were animals running around her on the road, but they didn't attack her.

They hunted other animals and ate delicious meat, but they turned a blind eye to Kong Qi.

This is very similar to the zombies in the early stage of the disaster...

Kong Qi took pictures of them, but they ignored them. These weird-looking animals are not dinosaurs, they are more like mutant animals from other places.

There are three-eyed, six-legged birds, and one-eyed, eight-armed apes. The 'base' is still the base of modern animals, and it has been innovated and upgraded on the original basis.

There are independent food chains in the central area, and there are also herbivores. They are the meals of carnivores, but this does not mean that they are weak. Herbivores have the ability to save their lives. Animals at the top of the food chain want to eat It's not that easy to be full.

When Kong Qi came to the pole, what he saw surprised him deeply. There was no meteorite, no Castle Black, and there was only a not particularly tall fruit tree in the center of the pole in the southern continent.

This fruit tree is not as tall as the surrounding plants, so Kong Qi only found it when she got closer.

Although the fruit tree is short, the fruits on it are each as big as a watermelon. If it is as heavy as a watermelon, the branches must not be able to bear the weight of the fruit.

So Kong Qi reckoned that the fruit might be hollow, and it looked big, but it wasn't heavy.

The surface of the fruit is smooth, purple and black are intertwined into regular patterns, like a spiral shape.

Staring at one for a long time, Kong Qi felt dizzy.

The leaves on the tree were as round as those of a water lily. Kong Qi went under the tree and wanted to take a closer look. The lines on the leaves were asymmetrical. The color was dark purple, while the leaves were light purple. The veins looked like human 'Blood vessel'.

Kong Qi took out a temperature-measuring instrument and put it on the trunk, and then did a few more tests. The results showed that the tree just grew weirdly, and it didn't have the effect of heating.

If it has, then its method must be very different from what Kong Qi can understand.

She stood under the tree and wanted to pick a fruit to have a look, but just as she stretched out her hand, the fruit she wanted to pick suddenly moved!

She immediately hid in the space without any hesitation, and almost at the same time, the fruit suddenly glowed, as if the camera had turned on a flash.

It's just that the light is dark purple, not dazzling, like lightning hidden in the clouds, covered by thick dark clouds.

She was alone at the moment, and she had to be careful, if something happened to her, no one could move people from the new world to help her.

Of course, the fruit will not move by itself, and there may be living things inside.

She didn't dare to touch the fruit anymore, but there was nothing else around that could be related to the 'abnormal climate'. Only this tree was more suspicious, especially the fruit on the tree, which was even more suspicious.

But the purple light from this fruit can't be sunlight, can it?

The fruit trees themselves don't heat up, so how did the ice in the southern continent melt?
Kong Qi flew high into the sky on a soil bird and circled over the central area for a few weeks, but found nothing else that could attract people's attention.

The cold air is still there, but the jungle below is protected by some kind of power.

This area gave her the feeling that someone had specially built a greenhouse.

There was no obvious evidence on the ground, so she thought of trying it underground.

She started digging about three meters away from the fruit tree. The shovel turned over the soil. After digging for about 20 minutes, the shovel hit a stone.

She changed the location and re-dig, because the stone shoveled by the shovel was quite large, and she didn't want to work hard to dig it out, so she changed the location and re-dig.

However, she changed three places in a row, and she shoveled the stones after digging for more than ten, two or ten minutes.

The texture and color of the stones were exactly the same, and she suspected that they were the same stone, although the distance between the three pits was more than six meters.

But the stones buried in the ground vary in size, maybe what she dug up was a huge stone.

Thinking of this, she continued to lengthen the distance, and then she realized that digging in this way was not an option, because no matter how far she went, she could still dig this stone.

She dug the last hole ten kilometers away with the same result, same stone at the same depth.

She put away the shovel and rode the soil bird back to the edge of the jungle, and dug down where the plants started to grow tall and lush, and found the same stone again.

She flew back with the soil bird, and flew to a position about [-] kilometers away. After landing, she continued to dig a hole, and still dug the same stone at the same position.

Perhaps the whole subsurface warmer area of ​​melting ice is the rock's 'territory'.

She dug dozens of pits in different positions and directions, and she could find that stone everywhere, and the stones were all black with purple lines.

Although the texture of the stone is different from the purple fruit on the strange tree, the color is exactly the same.

Kong Qi wanted to knock a piece out of the stone and keep it as a sample, but the stone was so hard that it wouldn't drop slag even if it was hit with a hammer.

She now suspects that the source of the climate anomaly near the pole of the southern continent is this underground stone!

This stone is not only large in size, but also has a smooth surface, as if it had been artificially polished, not like a natural one.

Kong Qi wanted to drill a hole in it with an electric drill, but the electric drill turned off when it touched it, and it didn't work anyway.

Kong Qi thinks this thing is really strange, but she can't turn over the whole area to see the whole picture of this stone

She used the space to check inside the stone, but unfortunately the height of her space was not enough, she could see something vaguely deeper in the stone, but she couldn't get close to it.

She can't get out of space in the stone, can't move to the depths.

It's also been a long time since she practiced moving huge objects like buildings into the space.

Even if she could move the huge underground boulder into the space and then move it out, and put it in a different position, she couldn't do it.

Because if the stone is the source of the warmth here, if she changes the position of the stone, the plants and animals in the central area will die, and the villagers will be affected.

She was there to help them, not to make their survival more difficult.

The stone has been buried underground for a long time, and it feels earlier than the plants growing on the ground.

Besides, the surface of the Southern Continent is covered with a thick layer of ice. If the stone appeared underground after the disaster, first of all, it could not have fallen from the sky, like a meteorite, but it could have suddenly appeared underground like a tiankeng.

Kong Qi didn't quite understand either, so she zoomed in on the pit, the soil layer, and the connection between the soil layer and the stone, took pictures, took a high-definition video, and took it back to Lu Xiangbei to watch.

As far as her personal judgment is concerned, she feels that the stone is not like a tiankeng. It suddenly appeared underground, and it is firmly bonded to the soil layer. It should have stayed underground for a long time.

Kong Qi finished all the things that could be collected and photographed, and then returned by the soil bird.

There was no need to walk any further on the way back. She flew directly from the sky back to the village, and then walked back to the village.

No one in the village expected her to come back so soon. They thought she was walking back and forth, and it would take a long time to go back and forth on the road.

When she returned to the village suddenly, she first saw her villagers were surprised, and then she seemed to think of something, and asked her if she was in danger on the way, so she turned back halfway?
Kong Qi smiled and shook her head and said, the journey went smoothly.

She didn't explain further, and then went to look for Lu Xiangbei where he and the villagers dug the shelter.

But he didn't work on the planned land, not only Lu Xiangbei, but also the strong laborers in the village.

Kong Qi rushed back to the village, the old woman's house where they lived temporarily, and when she returned to the old woman's yard, Lu Xiangbei was indeed at home.

Seeing her come back, let her go back to the house to rest.

Before Kong Qi left, Lu Xiangbei left enough food and water for her to come back, so Lu Xiangbei hasn't eaten with the villagers these days.

The villagers thought that Kong Qi was going back and forth on foot these days, and when they saw her return to the village, they went back to the house to rest, and they didn't think it was strange.

When Kong Qi entered the room, she handed her mobile phone and camera to Lu Xiangbei, and told him to quickly watch the content behind the video, which was the video of her taking pictures of the boulder.

Lu Xiangbei skipped the previous videos and played the last dozen or so videos. When he saw the black and purple-patterned stones at the bottom of the pit, he said:
"It's this kind of stone, and we also dug it. Because its construction period was put on hold, we tried several places, and the bottom of the village is full of this stone."

"You can continue to look back. I dug a lot of places. It is estimated that wherever grass grows in the entire warm area, there is this stone underground. It should be a whole piece, and I suspect that the melting of the ice layer has something to do with it."

Lu Xiangbei watched every video carefully, Kong Qi happened to take this time to go back to the New World to change clothes and take a shower, after tidying up, she came out to continue discussing the matter of the stone with Lu Xiangbei.

They decided to go to the edge of the warm zone to dig again, but today Kong Qi had already excused herself to go to bed early and hid in her room, so they decided to go again tomorrow.

Kong Qi did not have a good rest for several days, so she went to bed early to get a good night's sleep.

In the early morning of the next day, Tian Niu cooked meals in the New World and delivered them to the space. They finished their breakfast in the space and headed out with their shovels.

Lu borrowed a carriage from the village chief of Beiguan, and he told the village chief that they were going to the edge of the warm zone to have a look.
The village head sent them a guard with weapons, and the three set off early in the morning, heading towards the edge of the warm zone.

Even if the village chief didn't send someone to protect the two of them, they shouldn't be injured. Kong Qi went out alone and came back unscathed. The villagers wanted to see her.

With the addition of Lu Xiangbei, who is so powerful at first glance, the two of them will be fine when they encounter wild beasts.

But the village chief felt that since they were visitors from afar, they should be taken care of.

The three of them drove the carriage to the edge of the warm area. Lu Xiangbei first dug a deep pit at the edge where there was no ice and snow. There were indeed those black-bottomed purple-patterned stones underneath.

They walked to the ice-covered area again, shoveled off the snow and shaved off the ice shell, and dug another deep hole in the soil layer. This time, no such stone was found at almost the same depth.

This is equivalent to confirming Kong Qi's conjecture that the ground is warm where there are black stones, and the area where there are no black stones is still cold.

Kong Qi asked Lu Xiangbei to continue digging. She jumped into the pit and used the space again to try to get into the black stone, but unfortunately she still failed.

The thickness of the black stone far exceeds the length, width, and height of her space. No matter if you walk horizontally, vertically, or from top to bottom, you can't penetrate into the stone.

When she was doing this, the guards sent by the village head were looking for a convenient place on the ground. When he came back, Kong Qi had already climbed out of the deep pit, standing by the pit and discussing with Lu Xiangbei, how can I get into the stone?

He couldn't get in the conversation, so he silently guarded the side with a gun in his hand, paying attention to the movement around him.

Lu Xiangbei watched Kong Qi's video several times, including the strange fruit tree.

The boulders underground are too big for human beings, and they can't be destroyed by chopping with knives, axes, and hammers. If you want to get into the rocks, you must use these tough methods.

Lu Xiangbei believes that if there is space in the stone to hold things, like a safe, there must be a way to open it.

He felt that the key was in that strange fruit tree.

Kong Qi said with some uncertainty: "The fruit will glow, it doesn't seem like it was released randomly, it is similar to an attack method for self-protection. If we want to touch that tree, we don't know what the consequences will be."

They seem to be discussing to blow up the ginseng fruit tree now.

What Kong Qi was worried about was the "punishment" she would get later, and Lu Xiangbei thought about how to study the function of the fruit tree under the premise of safety.

The entire warm area is covered with that rock, and if the villagers want to build shelters, they can only build shelters in the still cold area outside.

They have to go back and ask the villagers and the village chief for their opinions on this matter. If they want, they can also build a shelter under the ice.

The three of them returned to the village, went straight to the village chief's house, and reported their findings to him. The village chief immediately called the villagers to hold another meeting in the square in the village.

Go to the ice area to build a shelter, although the distance is a bit far, it should be safer.

When giant beasts come and cannot see humans, they will naturally prey on animals in the warm zone. In this way, humans staying in the cold zone will be safer.

(End of this chapter)