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After a short hesitation, the two skillfully climbed up the big bird's wide back while it was still eating.

After many attempts, they have been able to determine that there is not much risk in doing so.

Most of the ground beasts seem to have their own recipes, and species outside the recipes will basically not be regarded as hunting targets by them unless they have no choice.

The way they distinguish their prey is not by looking at their appearance. After all, there are all kinds of strange things on the ground now. Only by distinguishing them with their breath can they get a more accurate answer.

Under Chu Ci's disguise, their existence was like the most common black vines, even if they walked past the beast's mouth openly, the beast would turn a blind eye.

And they sat on these large beasts, like butterflies landed on flowers, and birds landed on the backs of cattle, and they did not attract the extra attention of these behemoths.

After the big bird swallowed the prey, it drank a few sips of water by the puddle, spread its huge dark brown wings, and flew towards the direction Chai Yuening expected.

It wants to go home, it's going home...

Chai Yuening couldn't help feeling sour in her heart.

In this strange beast, the human will completely disappeared, but Uncle Liu's last obsession still drove this huge body to fly to the human base in the north regardless of the weather.

He used to be an officer there before his death, but his fighter plane crashed on a certain outing mission, and he became a person of no return ever since.

Does he have family?His family must have thought he was dead.

If the Floating Void City could find the base in the fog area earlier, maybe a dozen outer cities would not crash, and maybe he and his family could meet again.

But there are no ifs in this world.

This world is so big, it is a miracle that only belongs to a very small number of people to meet that small base in the vast fog.

But it doesn't matter, from the moment she reunited with "Uncle Liu", Chai Yuening began to firmly believe that she could bring this miracle to the human beings outside.

Because miracles in this world happen all the time.

It was a miracle that they met this big bird that wanted to go home when they were lost.

Miracles make people believe in fate, and believe that there is a destiny in the dark.

Inside and outside the fog zone, the fate of human beings will eventually be connected by this.

The big dark brown bird stopped and stopped on the long way home. Chai Yuening and Chu Ci eliminated many risks for it and hunted some hard-to-catch food.

In the blink of an eye for several days, its body kept changing, and the color of its wings became darker and darker.

It looks more and more strange, so strange that people in the floating city will kill it with artillery fire when they see it.

When the huge floating city appeared in their line of sight, they didn't have a trace of excitement about returning to the crowd, only mixed feelings.

Chu Ci's hands were vines, and he strangled the huge body of the strange beast with a little force. Perhaps it was this slight discomfort that made it fall back to the ground for a while, and kept shaking.

The two people on their backs jumped off the ground, the vines no longer restrained it, it was momentarily dazed and then flew freely into the sky again.

Chai Yuening looked at its back, and watched it fly to the human base.

It is the instinct of every alien beast to hunt humans.

It hurts humans, and humans hurt it to protect themselves.

From the moment he lost his human will, the former officer of the Floating Void City was doomed never to return home.

In the city among the clouds, a fighter plane flew up.

Countless missiles were thrown at the behemoth, and it angrily tore apart the two fighter planes, and the two fighter planes also activated their self-destruct systems at the moment of the devastating blow.

The fire exploded into a dazzling cloud of smoke high in the sky.

The last obsession of the dead fell down along with the huge body that no longer belonged to human beings.

Chai Yuening looked away, someone had come to the end of their fate, but she and Chu Ci still had a way to go.

This road is not too long, and they will go to a distant place within sight.

The black vines here are not dense, and the fog is relatively thin.

They walked in the fog, and the sky gradually darkened.

With luck, a fog light came on in the distance, which was a message from the same kind.

The car quickly stopped in front of them, the window of the front car was rolled open, and a head poked out.

"Where are your teammates?"

"I met a strange beast and fled in the fog."

"Where's the communicator?"

"broken."

Just like that, they boarded the armored vehicle, and the mercenaries in the vehicle handed them two infection test kits. The small kits seemed to have become memories of their previous lives.

Facing such a test again, Chai Yuening was somewhat nervous.

However, everything was exactly as she expected. She had not been injured, so she must have never been infected. Chu Ci was still the same as in the past, and there was no abnormality detected.

Such test results let the mercenary team who "saved" them breathe a sigh of relief.

In such a world, most people are not willing to lend a helping hand to their kind scattered on the ground.

Because those of the same kind may be infected, may suddenly mutate and hurt people, and may implicate the entire team and be unable to return to the base again.

But in the end they chose to give them a ride. After all, in their perception, the two girls who had lost contact with their teammates and were living on a dangerous ground would hardly be able to walk back to the base alive on their own legs.

"Just now there was a huge flying beast that was heading towards the base." A person in the car was looking for something to say, "Did you see it?"

"It's really big. Although it's not a giant beast, it's really scary to grow so big and still be able to fly so high."

"Maybe we can really witness the end of the world belonging to mankind."

"Bah, bah, slap your mouth." The man in the driver's seat yelled in a rough voice, "The military heard this, and they have to punish you for spreading false and terrorist information. That whoever in the Burner team last week, Who is here? How many years have you been sentenced to?"

"The one surnamed Zhao? He was sentenced to three years..."

They were chatting and laughing about these heavy topics, and some of them muttered softly: "Sentenced to three years, can the base last for three years?"

But there was no one to refute such a voice.

The people here may live under this kind of sound every day, and no matter how hard they try to block it, it is impossible to completely press it down.

The fully loaded armored vehicles drove all the way to the human base in the sky.

They crossed the ruins of the outer city scattered on the ground after the bombing, and parked their car near a buoyancy column amidst the desolation.

The communicator called the base, and the base elevator slowly fell for them.

Everything is like a dream. They fled in a hurry more than a month ago, and they came back here again.

The outer city is gone, and the islands hidden among the clouds, now there is only one solitary one left.

It still blocks the sky, but it is no longer what it used to be.

Chai Yuening subconsciously looked at Chu Ci, her eyes that were always calm were no longer calm at this moment.

Chu Ci looked up at the elevator platform that was slowly descending, with an indescribable stubbornness in his eyes.

This is the cage she used to be, the place where she struggled countless times to escape after realizing that she could also choose.

But now, she is back, in order to get a truth that has been hidden for more than 50 years.

In her eyes, there was expectation, bewilderment, nervousness, and even a hint of fear.

Chai Yuening gently held her palm: "Don't be afraid."

Her voice was so soft that only they could hear each other.

Chu Ci pursed his lips, lowered his eyes and nodded.

At the top of the lifting platform, people from the city defense station will not only test their infection status again, but also verify their true identities.

But they no longer belong to the Floating Void City.

The ID card belonging to the human base had already been thrown away by Chai Yuening.

Even if she didn't throw it away, with her original identity, she must have been charged with stealing important samples from the base.

People in the Floating Void City hated the special sample that "attracted" the flying beasts. It was inconvenient for Chu Ci's identity to be revealed, and his words were baseless, so no one would believe him even if he told the truth.

The lifting platform goes up slowly.

Chai Yuening couldn't help compiling lies in her heart.

Her eyes looked very calm, but in fact, she didn't know if she could pass the city defense and take Chu Ci to the base research institute.

Sometimes she didn't know whether her luck was good or bad. On such an ordinary day, a large flying beast appeared outside the floating city. The base was tense for a while, and the guards on the elevator platform were much stricter.

A fighter plane that had just finished the battle, received a mission and came over to supervise and inspect it. It landed next to the elevator platform of the base. The officer who got off the fighter plane was exactly the one Chai Yuening had seen in the E3 area.

At the moment when the four eyes met, Chai Yuening saw surprise in the officer's eyes.

After the surprise, there was an extremely complicated expression change.

It was difficult for her to describe the complex gaze that she tried to bear.

He didn't choose to expose her identity in full view, but just silently watched her and Chu Ci being inspected, and silently watched them unable to take out their ID cards.

The small city guard who was conducting identity verification asked, "Which district are you a resident of? Where's your ID card? Lost it?"

Chai Yuening raised her eyes and replied, "We are from the base of the dungeon."

The mercenaries who were driving them back all cast extremely surprised glances.

"We are from the main city research institute of the dungeon base. The plane that brought us here had a breakdown and we had to make an emergency landing. Because we encountered a strange beast, we got separated from other team members." Chai Yuening said very calmly, "We brought I have obtained very important research results, and I need to hand them over to Dr. Yi Shuyun."

This kind of response made the guards in the small city in front of them a little speechless.

He was very young, and apparently he had never encountered such a situation, so he turned his blank gaze to the silent officer aside.

The officer clenched the gun at his waist and asked coldly, "What did you say?"

The cold words made Chai Yuening take a deep breath, and said firmly: "I have important research results, which must be handed over to Dr. Yi. If you can't decide to let it go, please tell the base research institute for me."

After the words fell, she raised her eyes and looked back at the officer.

No one spoke, and there seemed to be only a dead silence around.

After an unknown amount of time, the officer turned and walked out: "Let's go."

Chai Yuening didn't hesitate, and quickly followed with Chu Ci, and they got into a car with only the officer and them in the car.

The moment the door closed, locked, the officer spoke again.

Chai Yuening: "Is this going to send us to prison?"

"That's something for later. Before that, we have to interrogate it first." The officer said in a deep voice, "Those who stole important experimental samples from the base should always take it seriously."

"I did come with very important research results." Chai Yuening explained.

"The Floating Void City can communicate remotely with the Dungeon City. What important research results can be obtained, and it needs to travel thousands of miles?"

"I didn't go back to the dungeon base." Chai Yuening said lightly.

"Without going back to the dungeon, can you still survive on the ground for more than a month?"

"Yes." Chai Yuening replied with a smile, "If I say that there are still humans in the depths of the foggy area, those humans have taken us in and let us pass on news to the outside world, do you believe it?"

"Impossible, human beings simply cannot survive on the ground..."

Chai Yuening was silent for a long time, and asked softly: "More than 20 years ago, in the military of Floating Void City, was there an officer named Liu Ding?"

In the next second, she saw the flash of astonishment in the officer's eyes in the rearview mirror.

"He...he already...you, how do you know his name?"

"I met him at the base in the Fog Zone, where he had a lot of students, but he dreamed of coming back."

"Where is the base in the fog area? As long as there is a direction, I can pick him up at any time!"

Obviously, the officer believed it, his voice was very excited, trembling with excitement.

Chai Yuening: "Who is he to you?"

He said, "My father."

Chai Yuening opened her mouth, not knowing how to tell the truth.