After walking around the ruins of the town for most of the time, Kasia returned the way he came. On the edge of the clearing, Kasia had carved out a small area of shelter in the collapsed houses as a makeshift resting place. Then he returned to the limousine, where he had brought everything over and found a dry place to pile them on.

It was only about 5 p.m. at this time, and the sky tended to get darker, but it would take about two hours until it was completely dark. Kasia grabbed her firearm and headed along the edge of the town.

The vegetation grew more and more luxuriant, and there were wild grasses on the ground, which soon overshadowed Kasia's knees. In a short time, the air around me became colder, the mountains obscured by thin clouds took on a sense of oppression, a few clear rivers loomed among the green trees on the slopes, and in front of them, the calm pale blue lake remained perennially empty, and all the not-so-beautiful clouds in the sky were rubbed.

The touch on the skin became much stronger, and after opening the cross pupils, Kasia clearly felt that what was hitting the bare skin was more lively.

The area of the lake has grown a little larger over such a long period of time with the infusion of snow water. The water is unusually cool, and you can see submerged stone pavements and some low-rise buildings at the edge of the lake. There were a lot of aquatic weeds, and a flock of huge birds that had returned to their nests skimmed the lake, and on their drooping claws, Kasia saw fish covered with silver scales.

It's not a dead lake, it's not only rich in aquatic plants, but also rich in fish. Beneath the submerged buildings, Kasia was sure she saw schools of fish swimming.

"Is the information skewed?, but it's more likely that when the strange disease spread here, a very small number of species survived and evolved their own resistance. Just like the snakes and birds, they survived, and such a small ecological circle was formed in a few decades. ”

Sharpening a sharp stick, Kasia carefully inserted a fish to serve as a test subject.

It seems to be a fish at the bottom of the food chain, living by eating aquatic plants. The scales seemed to become a little tougher, and the strength of the body swing also amazed Kasia, so strong that when the fish were alarmed by Kasia, the shadows escaping in the water were like sharp swords stabbing out.

And Kasia found several rows of sharp teeth in its mouth, which could barely cut through its own skin when it was tested. Although it is a herbivorous fish, the blood in its body still sheds a layer of skin in Kasia. The idea of eating fish at night was forced to give up halfway through.

"Everything here carries germs?" said Kasia, looking at the lake in front of her, and the mountains behind it, and for a moment wondered where to start. Grote had only told him the name of the place, and the location of the sword on the highest hill there.

"It's a cave, it's a little hidden, but if you look closely, it's still easy to find. Once inside, you should be able to see some symbols engraved in the cave, those are road signs, follow along, and you won't get lost in the cave. After all, it was a cumbersome network of caves, so I put some thought into it so that other people who accidentally broke in didn't find out. That's what Grote said at the time.

After the eruption, Kasia didn't know if the cave network had been affected. But the amount of exploration is a bit large, and I will stay here for a long time.

Lighting the fire with solid fuel and scavenging wood, Kasia continued to look at the note, trying to see if she could get more information from it. The light dimmed, but Kasia, surrounded by the firelight, didn't notice much. The journal was baked again, and close to the limit, Kasia flipped through a few more pages of illegible handwriting.

"Twenty-six diamonds were found today, of high quality, and after processing, it is estimated that they can be sold for more than a million holy coins. There was news from the team leader that a member of the team was sick, as if he had a cold, his body was weak, and his skin had slight allergic symptoms and was slightly red. Will be back tomorrow for a few days of rest here in town、、、"

"Fossilized bones of creatures were found in the condensed lava, and after they were excavated, it was preliminarily determined to be the ribs of some kind of huge ancient creature, about four meters long, and the guns we carried could not leave traces on them, which were very hard. The boss thinks it is valuable and decides to move it back and carve it into a work of art and sell it. ”

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These are the diaries that the team searching for minerals wrote not long after they came here. It can be seen that the spread of the disease is not very rapid, and the people who have symptoms in advance are also those who are weaker. And those who stay in the town for a long time are relatively safe. The address surveyor who wrote this diary wrote that most of their group of people who did not enter the mountains were the last to be "infected".

Kasia was more interested in the massive bone, but wasn't surprised. Such fossilized bones are buried underground in any location. Until he saw the actual thing, he couldn't tell if it was a dragon skeleton or a larger second-class creature.

Carefully closing the diary, Kasia put it aside and muttered, "By the way, according to the words of those old people, these people have not gone out since they came here, and most of them have died here. There was a car back, but there were also people pulling a cart, and in their words, it seemed that there were no minerals found by these people?"

"Where will it be hidden?" Kasia looked up at this time, stunned for a moment, and a misty green glow appeared in the firelight in his pupils.

I don't know when night came, and a layer of mist evaporated from the surface of the lake, covering the calm water, and was glowing a dull green light.

There was something material above the lake, and the brilliance there was dim, but Kasia could see clearly, as written in his diary, under the cloudy sky, the dim multicolored light was rippling in the air like aquatic plants slowly floating in the water.

Kasia stood up and stepped out of the firelight, only to find herself in a strange world.

"These are all germs?" he couldn't figure out the reason for this phenomenon, the lake water also had an extremely dull green color in the open cross pupils, the dense woods on the hillside, and behind him, all the objects here seemed to be smeared with more or less fluorescent powder, and the dim light made it no longer have a substantial night.

Deep in the woods on the slopes, the rivers formed by the snow become more visible, and they are even brighter, like bands of light that run through the area, connecting the top of the mountain that is obscured by clouds with the lake at the foot of the mountain.

"Water!"