Chapter Fourteen The Second Epoch
Hearing this Mandarin with a strong dialect flavor, Li Qing and others looked at each other. The dialect that can speak dialects and is almost similar to the place where they live has given everyone a greater understanding of the mission world they are in.
"Where is this?" The man woke up in a daze and asked again.
"This should be our problem." After seeing the indigenous people gradually recovering their minds, Li Qing said: "We saved you. Before you fell into a coma, you were caught by a creature that looked like a mouse and a monkey. Do you have an impression of this?"
"Hmm...ahhh" the Aboriginal nodded.
"Okay, this is the situation now. We have saved you, but we have to ask you a few questions. You can just use them as an answer. If you are not satisfied with the answer, I can leave you here." Li Qing pointed to the jungle in the night - the situation is obvious. With the current situation of that person, he will probably be eaten by other animals after three minutes.
"Okay...what do you want to ask?" After waking up, the man gradually became clear and no longer found his position as he did at the beginning.
“Where is this?”
“Hebei”
"Which Hebei, is China's Hebei on Earth?" Li Qing confirmed.
"Yes...ah." The man took a deep breath on the ground. He was very weak and had difficulty speaking. But even so, he still looked at Li Qing with the eyes of a mentally ill patient, unable to understand why he asked such a nonsensical question.
"Is this earth the earth of the solar system? It has seven continents and four oceans, the moon, sun and eight planets?" Li Qing continued to ask another more nonsensical question.
"Yes..." the man answered again, his eyes changed several times.
After asking the question, Li Qing looked back at the people behind him, and their eyes also showed a clear look, "This is the earth we are familiar with. It's basically true. The general situation is the same, but the environment seems to be very different."
After Li Qing finished speaking, he asked the man below: "How many years are there now?"
"218." The man has gradually adapted to the question like Li Qing. Although he was surprised by the strangeness of the question, he had to answer the question if he wanted to survive.
"It's been 18 years." Li Qing frowned and pointed at the surroundings again, "How could the surroundings be like this?"
"Isn't it caused by the red fog?" The man couldn't understand what Li Qing was asking this time, and hesitated whether to speak.
"Well... you can treat us as someone who travels through another place. In our place, the earth is peaceful, there is no red fog, and the surrounding environment is not that complicated." Li Qing explained a little and asked back: "Do you understand what I mean?"
"Time travel..." The man understood the word. After a little breath, he nodded stiffly, "I understand this time."
"Then let's talk about it. This has always been like this, or has it become like this recently?"
"It turned out like this in the summer of 2014. At that time, the thick red fog appeared from the sky and the ground, causing all living things to undergo crazy changes. The evolution of all living things has been millions or even hundreds of millions of times faster. Until now, organisms are mutated every day, and new species are generated every day. The creatures are rejuvenated to the extreme. With the survival of the fittest, only the most powerful species have survived."
"It sounds like the Cambrian." Li Qing couldn't help but say after hearing this.
"Yes, it is the Second Cambrian period, which is called the Second Cambrian period. It means that the Second Cambrian period is coming to Earth again." The man explained.
"Who is the Cambrian?" Zhang Qinliang asked from behind when he heard this.
"The Cambrian is an era on Earth, about 500 million years ago." Li Qing turned around and explained to Zhang Qinliang: "It is probably that there was no major change within a billion years after the birth of life on Earth. Single-cell life lasted for more than one billion years, and the evolution rate was very slow. Then, after a strange event more than 600 million years ago, life on Earth began to evolve wildly. The branches and sources of all species we know advanced were formed at that time. The evolution rate of the Cambrian 200,000 years was countless times faster than that of the previous ones and the subsequent five hundred million years. It is not an exaggeration to describe it as the speed of light. Many scientists have speculated about the eruption growth of species during that period, but now it seems that it was caused by the red fog.
Li Qing rarely explained it to Zhang Qinliang in detail. After all, the mission world they are in is in such a situation. It is very necessary to understand more.
"Oh, other species have become very hungry, I understand." Zhang Qinliang nodded clearly, "What about humans, have humans changed?"
"Humans have evolved several times, but their speed can only be considered middle or middle or lower among all species." The man replied.
"Oh, God will not favor the same species every time." Li Qing nodded: "But the speed is not fast, but there is still evolution. How many times stronger are you than before the catastrophe?"
"Three or four times?" The man was not sure.
"Damn, there are more than a dozen points in ordinary people in this world," Zhang Qinliang shouted again from behind: "No wonder the rat and monkey didn't wear you to death."
"Are there any particularly powerful people? Isn't it said that ethnic mutations will produce super mutations?" Li Qing has some research on biology - this is due to his previous research on "Anatomy". In these books, there are usually some paradigm biological knowledge.
"Yes, there are very powerful...but very few." The man responded again.
"Where is the city? Is there any?"
"Yes, I'll be ready...to go to Beijing." The man took a breath and replied again.
"Where are you?"
"In Dingzhou City."
"Dingzhou..." Li Qing didn't have a deep impression of this city. After thinking about it for a while, he searched for the location of this city in the map he remembered in his mind. It was a small city, between Shijiazhuang and Baoding, and the north of Baoding was Beijing. The distance was not very far, both in the middle of Hebei.
"What are you going to Beijing? Can't you live in your city?"
"We have escaped. A few times ago, there were many people who escaped from Shijiazhuang. When they passed by here, they said that a big willow tree came to the south. It was very powerful. They said that the places where its tentacles passed by... All the cities were destroyed and everyone was dead. The tree was about to head north, so we could only escape to Beijing. According to legend, only nuclear weapons can stop the tree. I don't know what's going on, but everyone ran away, so I ran away."
"Big Willow Tree?" Finally heard the name of the opponent's camp. This time everyone's interest was ignited. Chen Si, who had been silent, stepped forward and asked, "What is the big willow tree?"
"I heard it is a tree that can eat people's brains, and its roots can keep growing. It is said that it has been as big as a few provinces. I don't know if it's blown up." The man replied.
"Eat human brains, you should use the human brain. Otherwise, no matter how powerful a tree is, if you don't have wisdom..." Li Qing guessed, thought for a while, then temporarily put down this slightly longer-term question, looked up and said, "Do you know the way out?"
"Well, there are the sites of the expressways in the past. Although the expressways are now destroyed by crazy-growing plants, there are still gravel residues left behind. Following the traces of the gravel, you can find the city." The man suddenly became excited when he said this, "You have to take me with me, I know the way."
"Yeah." Li Qing nodded, then signaled Ding Kun to carry the man up, "You'd better find the route quickly, otherwise we all have to die here."
"This is definitely" the man quickly agreed, it was related to his life. The man even forgot his injuries temporarily, and hurriedly pointed a direction for Li Qing, "Although I am not familiar with this area, I will definitely not be able to touch the expressway in this direction. It is a north-south road, a long strip, and it is easy to find is that you have found the way, so you can't leave me."
"Don't worry, we also need an indigenous person here." Li Qing nodded, and the team set out again in the darkness.
In this jungle, it is very dangerous to travel at night, and the speed is not very fast. A few people walk around and stop, and finally find a relatively safe place to rest in the second half of the night - it is not that they don’t want to walk, but they really can’t walk anymore. There are too many hunters at night, and none of them are on the team without any injuries. The entire team emits a strong smell of blood. Some hunters can smell this smell from thousands of meters away and come over to follow or snipe the team.
Fortunately, the hunters here are very cautious in hunting, just like real nature - they will not attack the trialists who are desperate like zombies. Most of the hunters attack tentatively, or follow them from afar to see the strength of these "prey" themselves.
In real nature, when hunters catch food, most of them will not choose what they are not sure about. If a hunter is not hungry, it will not even attack a species that can be taken down by itself but will hurt itself. Because if a hunter is injured during predation, it will affect its predation ability for a long time. Even if it is a group species, the injured body will also affect its status in the race
Therefore, for many reasons along the way, Li Qing and others encountered many dangers, but not many of them were truly fatal.
But in the middle of the night, more and more hunters followed behind and observed. Everyone felt that if they continued, they would definitely encounter a "big guy" they could not deal with. So after weighing the pros and cons, they still found a "small cave" and temporarily rested in it.
Chapter completed!