Doomsday Traveler

Chapter 106 The Special Features of Prairie County
Heading south from the road ahead, we reached the road at the edge of the jungle. The wolves here must have been frightened and didn't come out to stop us.

But come to think of it, those wolves might not have been scared by the new humans that appeared before.

There is also a Type D new human reserve on the roof. The wolves were previously scared away by the "howl" of this reserve new human. Now that he is sitting on the roof, how dare the wolves come?

Who knows, in the eyes of those wolves, Chai Xin standing on the roof of the car was as majestic as Yao Wei, who was stepping on the heads of new humans, holding a bow and arrow, and holding a dog, with a drone flying over her head, in the eyes of others before.

The vast grasslands were devoid of human settlements. After passing through the jungle and walking for another half a day, we finally reached Caoyuan County, the southern border of Mengxin City.

After passing through Caoyuan County, you can reach Jianshan City, the city south of Mengxin City.

Lu Xian stopped the car outside Caoyuan County.

The architectural style of this county town is the same as that of Tongzhou County and Mengxin City. Every horizontal and vertical stroke highlights the vastness and openness of Mengxin City.

Just like before Lu Xian and Yao Wei entered Tongzhou County and Mengxin City, this old city was lifeless, without any sign of life, as if no one was there.

However, Lu Xian and Yao Wei both knew that nothing in this world could be deceived by appearances.

They hadn't seen many people in those two cities before entering, but after they were there, they saw people everywhere. Especially in Tongzhou County, that guy even tried to give them poisoned water to drink.

So, still be careful.

But just when Lu Xian and Yao Wei were about to observe carefully, Chai Xin's voice came from the roof of the car: "Don't look, there's nothing in here."

"Nothing at all?"

Lu Xian raised his eyebrows, not quite believing it.

"Yes."

Chai Xindao said, "I've been here before. My father has been here before. He said that when he was young, he lived in Jianshan City, but later he couldn't stay there, so he came to Mengxin City.

"Originally, he planned to settle down in Caoyuan County—right here. But it's too close to Jianshan City, and the weather changes so drastically that it's uninhabitable.

"Everything here has been emptied out long ago. There are no wild animals, so we can't hunt. Staying here is just waiting to die.

"So he had no choice but to leave here and eventually went to Tongzhou County."

This is consistent with what Yao Wei once said - people in the north were driven to the north because they could not compete and survive in the south.

But from what Chai Xin said, it seemed as if her father was a little different. Was Chai Xin implying that her father wasn't losing the fight and couldn't survive, but rather that the environment in Jianshan City was too harsh and he couldn't survive there?
So Lu Xian asked: "What happened to Jianshan City? Why can't your father survive there?"

Chai Xin shook his head and said, "I don't know either. He just said it was difficult to live there, but he didn't say much else."

Lu Xian asked again: "What about you? What did you come here for? What did you see?"

Chai Xin shook his head and said, "I didn't see anything special about it. After I left Tongzhou County, I had nowhere else to go, so I remembered my father mentioned this place.

"At that time, I thought, no matter how bad the environment here is, can it be worse than the wild? Finding a place to stay in Caoyuan County is definitely better than living in the wild.

"But in the end I found that this place is really not suitable. For some reason, the wild animals don't come here. The grass here is also very bitter and astringent. After eating it, I can't poop. It's very uncomfortable."

Lu Xian: "..."

It seems that the grass here is really special. Chai Xin said that she is good at making grass cakes, so she must eat grass often, but she just can't eat the grass here.

and many more……

There is another question!
Lu Xian suddenly remembered a question he had overlooked before and asked, "You said you can make grass cakes, which proves that even if you can't hunt other animals, you will still have food and won't starve to death.

"But why did you say before that you were out of ammunition and food?" Chai Xin on the roof of the car said, "You'll starve to death... I used to be able to eat grass. Before I couldn't hunt wolves, I survived by eating grass for a while. I learned the skill of making grass cakes during that time.

"But for some reason, eating grass didn't work for me anymore. I would still feel hungry no matter how much I ate. It just didn't work at all.

"Once I ate grass for a few days and nearly starved to death. Fortunately, I shot a bird and survived.

"But I don't know if it was because I shot too much and the birds stopped coming down, I just couldn't find any more birds to shoot."

Lu Xian guessed that Chai Xin must have changed after he got the fungus stone and gradually found it useless to eat grass.

This situation should not be a characteristic of the D-1 type new human.

According to the manual, the D-1 strain was developed to cope with today's harsh environment. The environment in the apocalypse is harsh and food is scarce. How could the D-1 strain make people hungry and turn them into gluttons?
He thought that this situation occurred because Chai Xin was evolving from a D-1 type new human to a D type new human, which required consuming a lot of energy.

So seriously speaking, this can be considered a side effect of fungus stone.

Misfortunes and blessings are interdependent, and blessings are hidden in misfortunes. It seems that the same is true for the fungus stone and Chai Xin...

Lu Xian asked Yao Wei again: "Do you know the situation in Jianshan City?"

"know."

Yao Wei nodded and said, "Jianshan City is in the mountains, very high up, so it's very similar to places further north. The environment there is indeed very harsh, and there are very few animals that can survive there.

“So it will be safer for us as well.”

Lu Xian understood Yao Wei's words——

There are only a few animals that can survive there, so there should be very few people. It is indeed safer if you don't have to interact with more people.

However, there is one thing Lu Xian still doesn't quite understand.

"But if that's all, how could Jianshan City affect Caoyuan County and make the grass there inedible?"

Yao Wei shook her head: "I don't know."

Lu Xian didn't expect Yao Wei to know.

Yao Wei once said that she came from the south, and the situations she described were probably what she knew when she came from the south.

But Yao Wei did not stay here and seriously study the ecological environment here, so it is normal that she did not know.

But then Yao Wei added, "I saw something very different at the highest point of Jianshan City. This place might have been influenced by that thing."

"what?"

Lu Xian asked.

Yao Wei shook her head again: "I don't know how to say it."

Lu Xian: "..."

It seems that I can only wait and go up to see it in person.

However, when crossing Caoyuan County, Lu Xian was still a little worried, so he released the drone and put it into the air for alert, and there was another wave of ground-to-air coordination.

(End of this chapter)