Chapter 73, Civilization Before the Catastrophe

In the eerie woods, the sound of leaves rubbing against each other was as if there were some horrible creatures traveling through the canopy, and everyone looked at the eerie white figure in front of them and held their breath, as if they were afraid that they would provoke the other party with their “anger”.

In this kind of place why there will be a woman’s back to them scratching the tree, all the people do not understand.

But the more they couldn’t figure it out, the deeper the fear in their hearts became.

Ren Xiaosu realized that Yang Xiaoguan beside him was also so nervous for the first time, and he could see the other party’s pursed lips, as well as the other party’s hand holding the gun looked a little white because of the excessive force.

Xu Xianchu’s gray shadow was right in front of him, as if he was guarding against the woman in white suddenly pouncing on him, but that woman was still dozens of meters away from them.

“How about a detour?” Ren Xiaosu whispered, “Maybe she won’t follow us.”

As a result, just as he finished speaking, a gust of wind came up from the woods, and it was as if the white-clothed woman’s body floated up out of thin air.

Xu Xian Chu gritted his teeth and said, “Can’t avoid it, if this little kid stops us, what else to go to Realm Mountain!”

Saying that, only to see Xu Xianchu unexpectedly drive the gray shadow forward and backward towards the white-clothed woman, Ren Xiaosu and Yang Xiaoguan glanced at each other, both of them did not expect Xu Xianchu to be so courageous in this kind of situation.

Some people usually talk a lot, but when it comes to big things, they are weak, nervous and timid. Some people were different, the more dangerous they were, the calmer they were, and the more ruthless they were!

“Follow,” Ren Xiaosu said.

The next moment Ren Xiaosu and Yang Xiaoguan tacitly followed behind Xu Xianchu, the few of them were now a grasshopper on a rope, so the two of them couldn’t watch Xu Xianchu take risks alone.

Liu Bu trembled and said, “What should we do? Follow up?”

“What if that kind of thing appears around us as well?” Luo Xinyu said in fear, after saying that, she also followed, followed closely by Wang Lei.

Liu Bu was even more scared when he saw that he was left alone, he whispered, “Wait for me!”

Ren Xiaosu said behind Xu Xianchu, “Once you realize that you can’t match her, use your Gray Shadow to trap her and buy us time to set fire to her.”

Xu Xianchu, Ren Xiaosu, and Yang Xiaoguan all had guns on their bodies, which for the time being was everyone’s strongest means of attack in plain sight, and if this white-clothed woman wasn’t even afraid of bullets, then there wasn’t really much we could do!

Xu Xianchu answered in a small voice, “Okay …… I’ll leave my back to you guys, pay attention to the surroundings.”

Ren Xiaosu had some doubts in his mind, perhaps it was because the people in the barriers hadn’t experienced those lives in the market town, so it was easier for them to trust others compared to the stragglers.

Sleeping in a market town had to be guarded by someone, and it was simply impossible for people who grew up in such an environment to give their backs to others.

Was this the difference between a market town and a wall?

The three people cautiously approached towards the woman in white, only the closer they got, the more odd they felt in their hearts ……

Originally, Ren Xiaosu was catatonic, because this posture is the easiest to send force, the result of this moment he stood in place and slowly stood up straight: “What the hell is this?”

Xu Xianchu also confused, he drove the gray shadow swaggering toward the “white woman”, directly the other side from the tree “pick” down ……

This is a …… tattered female plastic doll, seems to be the kind that can be inflated.

“Uh,” Ren Xiaosu walked to Xu Xianchu side to see half a day: “What is this?”

“I don’t know,” Xu Xianchu shook his head, a few of them had never seen this thing before so they had said they didn’t recognize it, “But it looks like it’s pretty worn out.”

Ren Xiaosu asked, “Isn’t it something in the barriers.”

“Haven’t seen it in the barriers,” Xu Xianchu denied again.

Everyone was lost in thought at the mannequin, they were all a bit teary eyed, just such a broken thing had scared them all just now! It wasn’t until they got closer that they realized something was wrong!

“Wait, there’s something else under the tree,” Ren Xiaosu unintentionally saw an iron box at the roots of the gnarled tree.

Ren Xiaosu poked the rusty iron box with his dagger, but it turned out that the iron box had long since decayed beyond recognition, and it crisped into a pile of crumbs with the slightest touch of the dagger.

Inside the iron box were a few pieces of slightly reddish paper, and when the iron box shattered, the pieces of paper also turned into powder along with the iron box, leaving only one object in the iron box in the blink of an eye.

It was a piece of green plastic, or rather two pieces of plastic wrapped a piece of green paper together, the green paper was painted with crooked as if tadpole-like mysterious lines.

“This ……” Xu Xian Chu froze for a long time as he looked at the ‘piece of plastic’ in Ren Xiaosu’s hand, “Could this be something left behind by human civilization before the Calamity? Or is this both? Plastic has a degradation time of up to a few hundred years, and that’s still the time it was buried underground, so while everything else decayed, this was still preserved.”

“But what is this strange pattern? Could it be hiding some secret?” Yang Xiaoguan also frowned in confusion.

“Do you guys see if this thing looks like a map?” Liu Bu and the others who had already arrived by now said, “The square pattern is actually filled with turning symbols, it looks like a labyrinth!”

Xu Xianchu and Ren Xiaosu’s eyes all lit up as they said, “Could this be the map of that mysterious city in the Realm Mountain!?”

“Hehe,” Luo Xinyu said, “Look guys, there are words on it.”

Because of the decay, the plastic sheet had also become tattered and yellowed, but after Luo Xinyu reminded everyone, they still noticed that there was a small line of words underneath the mysterious pattern.

Ren Xiaosu carefully recognized it and read it out, “Please scan the QR code for payment?”

The group of people were all confused, “What’s a QR code, and who is the payment to?”

“What, you have to pay to get through the labyrinth?”

Because there was a break in civilization, some information of the pre-catastrophe civilization was unknown to everyone, some were discarded by humans because of their uselessness, and some were shattered in that dark era of existence.

People never saw these things in the barriers or market towns, so its use was a mystery.

Anyway, it’s not a maze map right ……

Ren Xiaosu looked at Xu Xianchu, “Are you sure that’s some kind of mysterious town where there’s an evolutionary mystery?”

“Then how else can we explain the changes in Realm Mountain today,” Xu Xianchu said.

“That’s also true ……,” said Ren Xiaosu, “There are always secrets hidden in the mountains, but I always thought that the city or whatever, might not be that mysterious… …”

“Let’s go, we’ll only know if we’ve seen it,” Xu Xianchu carefully put the QR code into his breast pocket, as if he was afraid of breaking it.

“Is this broken mannequin still with you?” Liu Bu asked.

“Bring it, in case it’s useful,” Xu Xianchu said.