Crossing: Leading everyone to survive

The sky gradually brightened, with only a few remaining stars shining in the pale blue sky. The earth also became hazy, as if covered with a layer of silver-grey gauze.

When Gu Chengming and the other three were ready, they stepped into this unfamiliar land for the first time. The school was on the outskirts of the forest. To the east was the depths of the forest. The trees here were huge, but fortunately they were on the outskirts and had a wide view. However, they did not plan to go deeper. Gu Chengming could feel that those rats might be at the bottom of the food chain. Even the rats almost killed them, not to mention other terrible creatures.

They planned to go to the west, which was the huge mountain range. From afar, they could see the shadows of some creatures moving around, which meant there might be water there. Anyway, they were just going there to feel out the terrain, and they could retreat if they found something wrong.

"Are you planning to go on a picnic?" Gu Chengming looked at Hongyu carrying a big bag and a small bag.

"Isn't this just taking precautions?"

"Put down all the useless things and try not to spend the night outside. I always feel like there is something in the dark."

Hongyu walked in the first place, constantly dealing with the thorns with a fire axe. Gu Chengming behind him tightly grasped the baseball bat in his hand and looked around vigilantly.

Jiang Xueying tied her hair into a single ponytail and looked around sharply, but her eyes would always look at Gu Chengming intentionally or unintentionally.

"Finally got out of this place," Hongyu rubbed his sore shoulders.

"What's up? Do you need a rest?" Gu Chengming asked.

"No need, it's a small matter."

"Okay, let's keep going forward. There seems to be an open area ahead."

After walking for about 5 kilometers, they encountered the second creature here. It looked very much like an elk, but its horns were as sharp as knives, and its body was much larger. It was also a social animal.

"Chen Ze".

“I’ve already made a note of it.”

“Then let’s see if we can get around it.”

Before Gu Chengming finished speaking, the saber-horned deer, which was originally wandering around, suddenly ran in all directions, and the light blue figure behind it was still chasing it closely. The light blue energy on its body became more and more, and its speed became faster and faster. It knocked the deer to the ground and bit its neck. The saber-horned deer kept struggling but to no avail. Only then did Gu Chengming realize that the figure was a wolf. The light blue energy on its body merged with its hair. After confirming that the prey in its mouth was dead, it wanted to leave, but suddenly flashed to the other side.

"Damn! Am I seeing things? That is a wind blade!" Hongyu couldn't help but make a sound when he saw this scene.

Three figures suddenly surrounded it. They were wearing animal skins that could barely cover their entire bodies. The only female raised one hand, and soon, a condensed wind blade shot towards it. It dodged sideways and ran straight towards her, but a strong big hand had already smashed it to the ground, making a hole in the ground.

"Niux"

"Keep your voice down," Gu Chengming scolded Hongyu and turned back, just in time to meet the eyes of another person.

"I've been spotted. Run."

After saying that, he took Jiang Xueying's hand and prepared to run back. After they had run a few steps, a gust of wind blew them down. When they tried to get up, they found that they were already on their faces.

"This must be teleportation. It came here from such a long distance."

Seeing this, Gu Chengming and the others all got into fighting stances.

"who are you?"

Hmm? Chinese.

Gu Chengming and the others looked at each other after hearing this.

"Hello, we are merchants passing by, and we were separated by monsters."

"Merchant, is it the one who does the material exchange?" asked the burly man in the lead.

"Yes, we invented a new thing, it's called down jacket," Gu Chengming took off his clothes and handed them over, and the strong man put them on and tried them on.

"It's a good thing, how much is this?"

"Just four pieces for now," Gu Chengming winked at them, signaling them to take them off.

"So is there anything you guys want?"

“We want to understand the life in this place.”

Hearing this, the girl looked at the sturdy man. He nodded and took out a book made of animal skin and handed it to Gu Chengming. The cover had the words "Biological Atlas" written in an unknown black pigment.

"If there's nothing else, we'll leave first," he said and walked to the back, but he held the baseball bat tightly in his hand.

After watching Gu Chengming disappear, the girl asked the strong man.

"They don't look like businessmen at all, why should we let them go."

The strong man just touched her head

"Of course I know they are not businessmen, but I don't know their background, and the cold wave is coming soon, so it's better to avoid some trouble."

After leaving their sight, Gu Chengming gradually started to run. They didn't know how long he ran before he stopped.

"Oh, I was so scared, I thought we were going to reopen," Hongyu covered his chest and slowly adjusted his breathing.

"There is actually magic in this world. Do you think we can learn it?" Zhou Chenze said excitedly.

"I don't know, let's survive first."

"What should we do now? Just go back like this?" Jiang Yingxue looked at Gu Chengming.

Gu Chengming looked at the somewhat dim sky and said, "The days in this world seem to be very short. Let's go back first. At least this time we are not in vain."

“Is that the book?”

Gu Chengming lowered his head and said nothing, just playing with the necklace around his neck.

He hadn't expected that it would actually work. It seemed that he didn't have to touch the corpse with the necklace, as long as it was within a certain range. Through the biological illustrations, he learned that the two creatures they had just encountered were Sabre-Horned Deer and Wind Wolf, and that group of mice were called Long-Clawed Ground Rat. After absorbing their energy, especially the Wind Wolf, he felt that the gem in the necklace was faintly emitting a light blue glow. Now he was really just one step away from reaching the critical point.

Maybe winter is approaching, the sky darkens very quickly, and the time difference in the other world is also different. The watch clearly shows 4 p.m., but it is already mostly dark. However, Gu Chengming and his friends still rush back to school before dark. But as soon as he entered the school, Gu Chengming found something wrong. There were a lot of fresh bloodstains around the cave entrance, and there were obvious signs of dragging.

"Those beasts are coming again," Hongyu saw this, picked up the fire axe and rushed to the base camp, while the others followed closely behind.

When they arrived, they found that the outer wall had been badly damaged.

"I'll be in front, Hongyu will assist me, Xueer and Chenze will pay attention to both sides," said Gu Chengming, and then he rushed in first.

As soon as they got inside, they saw several long-clawed groundhogs pulling the corpses and trying to transport them to the cave entrance. Gu Chengming had just arrived and blocked their way. When they saw him, they dropped the corpses and rushed towards Gu Chengming.

"There are five of them here in total, three of them are mine and Hongyu's, and you can each take one. You don't have to kill them, just hold them back."