Blue Star

Two days later, the archeology was scheduled to start at noon, and the time to leave the city was postponed to determine whether the bad weather would repeat.

During the two days of taking Iris home for training, Gu Li found that the mermaid’s food is not unacceptable to flour, such as bread made from flour and potatoes without any seasoning are fine, but that’s all. .

Seafood is now a forbidden food. If you want to avoid being discovered while following the archaeological team, you must eat the same food as other people.

But in this way, Iris is easy to dehydrate, and the dry skin seems to have a sense of self-protection. After a certain period of time, a small amount of sticky film will be formed, and symptoms of weakness will appear.

It is definitely unrealistic to bring a lot of seawater. He can only bring more sea salt to relieve this symptom.

Iris sat upright on the wooden dining chair in the living room, his eyes followed Gu Li who was packing up.On the table was a piece of bread that had been eaten twice, and a glass of milk that Gu Li planned to let him try.

Gu Li stuffed the glass bottle containing sea salt into his backpack, and said to Iris, who was sitting still, as he passed the living room: "If you don't eat now, you will only have less food to eat later than now."

A spouse like Gu Li is hard to come across in Haizhong. They don't seem to be very powerful, but they are extremely fierce.

Iris picked up the milk and tasted it with his tongue, then seemed to find something delicious, and drank it in a gulp like a human drinking water.

He cast his eyes on the kettle for boiling milk in the kitchen, and walked in while Gu Li was not paying attention.Throw the bread with two bites into the milk, and drink directly from the kettle after the bread is decomposed by water.

His throat hurts when he eats dry food, but it tastes surprisingly good when he puts it in milk.

"What are you doing?" Gu Li asked after taking the packed backpack and putting it on the dining table.

Iris seemed to have done something bad and was discovered. He quickly hid the kettle behind him, with milk all over his mouth.Facing Gu Li, he licked off the corner of his mouth with dodge eyes.

Gu Li couldn't help having a headache, and took a few steps forward to take the kettle. There was indeed half a piece of bread that had been soaked and not eaten at the bottom of the kettle after drinking it.

Just as they were planning to educate them about the value of food, the sound of the archaeological team gathering came from outside the door.He tossed his military jacket to Iris, then put on his backpack and quickly put on his weapon.

"We have to hurry up, the archaeological team will not wait for latecomers."

He hung the new coming code plate on Iris and himself respectively, which is a must-have for every person who goes out of the city.Once unfortunately infected, this code plate will become their new name.

The team gathered at the exit of the second town, and the leader of the archaeological team was a middle-aged man with many years of experience in going out of the city.His name is Osid, with dark skin, eccentric temper and selfishness. In his eyes, Elder Keerqi has no prestige.

The neat military uniform set off the majesty of the tall and burly figure, the dagger was pinned to the left side of the leather buckle belt, and the heavy crossbow inlaid with twelve speed crystals was carried on the back.He walks steadily, looks stern, and his unsmiling appearance may scare a child to tears.

Ossid glanced at Gu Li and the others who came to gather at the end, waved his arms, frowned and said, "Get out!"

Gu Li patted Iris' arm, and then walked to the right side of the team with the rest of the people who stepped on the spot.

Osid is a person who is extremely strict with others and himself. Gu Li already knew this when he entered the army training at the age of 15.

"Eighty push-ups on the spot, if you can't do it, you can get out now." Ossid said.

Gu Li leaned down and performed a set for Iris to demonstrate. I didn't want Iris to imitate his standard posture and do it faster than him. He didn't even take a breath after finishing eighty. It's like just taking a light walk.

Ossid glanced at the few people who finished first, and then directed: "You and the first team, you, you, you." He pointed to a few people who moved slowly, "Go to the second team, and the remaining three Team. Enqueue."

Several people were quickly assigned to the ranks. Although Gu Li was the elder of Ke Erqi, he was just an ordinary soldier without any authority.In order to be able to go out of the city with the archaeological team, this was proposed by him when he applied for qualifications.Only in this way, Captain Ossid was willing to agree to join him without listening to the patriarch's wishes.

The soldiers in the archaeological team are different from the soldiers who usually protect the town. Although they all live in Kirchi, they are separated for food, lodging and training.Because they have to go out of the city frequently and the death rate is high, the people in the archaeological team have a higher style of behavior and vigilance than other soldiers.

Gu Li jogged with the team to the gate of the fifth town, where the patriarch and elders were waiting nearby.Except for the patriarch, the other eight elders stood in a semi-arc at the gate of the city, holding sacrificial ornaments in their hands, manipulating the magnetic field of the crystal ore to pray to the warriors who left the city.

The patriarch stood at the gate of the city, holding a scepter inlaid with blue crystal ore in his hand, opened his hands and raised his head to the sky and said: "I wish my warriors can return safely."

After closing his words, he manipulated the crystal magnetic field on the scepter to slowly open the city gate connecting the dangerous periphery.

The outer wall separated by a wall is the former sixth town. The ruins that were destroyed and collapsed are covered with moss and fungi, dense bushes, and slightly poisonous plants are almost covered with ruins.

Under the ruins with the smell of mud and rotting wood, the group of reptiles that were about to move, were stimulated by the magnetic field emitted by the elders and retreated into the distant jungle.

Ossid looked at the ruins outside the city gate, and kissed the code plate hanging around his neck like every time before.Then he gave an order and led the team to jog out of the city.

This is the second time for Gu Li to go out of the city. The last time he came out with his brother was a few years ago, and the growth of plants has already been turned upside down.At that time, he didn't meet the conditions for being in the first and second teams. After leaving the city, he followed the logistics team and stationed in the base. There was no more information except for the ruins and the wildly growing plants.

After leaving the city gate, he looked back at his brother standing in the town. Gu Yu didn't have too much emotion, but just silently said to him, "Come back alive".

Gu Li turned his head to keep up with the team, his thick-soled military boots nimbly climbing over the piled up ruins.In this direction, Osid should lead the team to camp in the past.

The young man who followed Gu Li on the left seemed to be a newcomer to the army, and he was born in the archaeological team.This is not surprising, every year the archaeological team will quickly find new replacements after someone is injured or injured.Looking at the entire archaeological team, it seems that except for the captain and a few main players, all of them are new faces.

The young man was probably in his early 20s. When he followed Gu Li over a moss-covered broken wall, he lost his footing. The heel of his military boots slipped and almost fell.

Gu Li raised his hand and grabbed the man's arm, reminding him: "If you fall down, you have to go to the third team to cook."

The man was grateful when he stood firm, "There are not so many mossy obstacles in training, I'm really not used to it."

"First time out of town?" Gu Li asked.

"Yes, but I have been training for three years, and I am confident that I can bring useful things back to the town alive." The man said confidently.

Seeing that Gu Li was silent, he stretched out his hand politely: "My name is Remy, and I come from the grain area of ​​the fourth town. Thank you for helping me just now."

"Keer Qi Gu Li." Gu Li shook hands.

Remy looked surprised, "You are the elder who secretly followed this time? I thought it would be a..."

Gu Li smiled and said: "I am just like you now, a soldier who needs to obey orders, not an elder."

Remy looked at Gu Li, and soon turned his attention to Iris who was next to the elder.He was a new face that he had never seen during training, but his actions were no worse than the main force, and could even be called better.

"Iris." Gu Li introduced.

Remy was stunned for a moment when he heard the name, but then he extended his hand in a friendly way: "Hello, the person with the same name as Lan Xing."

Iris looked hesitantly at the hand reaching out to him, and imitated Gu Li's way to hold it, but did not let go in time.

Remy smiled and said, "You are really strong."

Gu Li pulled Iris' hand away awkwardly, and whispered, "Let go after holding it."

But Iris's mind didn't seem to be on him. Looking at Remy jogging with the team, he said blankly, "Roast chicken?"

Gu Li was inexplicable, he had never said the word roast chicken to Iris.

Remy looked at Iris in surprise, "It seems that you, like me, also want to eat something with meat. The last time I ate roast chicken was ten years ago, but unfortunately even captive creatures now I can't even eat it."

Iris didn't seem to understand, but he roughly knew that roast chicken is something that can be eaten.

Osid, who was walking at the front of the team, stopped at a place covered by bushes, pulled out the dagger at his waist and roughly cleared out a place where the crystal ore was supported by rusty wire.

Then he raised his hand to signal the soldiers to stop, and assigned: "The third team set up camp, the second team guarded, and the first team cleaned up vegetation and insects with me."

Gu Li taught Iris to wear gloves to prevent insects and ants from biting. Although the mermaid will not be infected again after being bitten, he cannot let the infected person behave too uniquely.

Iris looked at the insects crawling around on the moss in the cracks in the ground, and then looked at Gu Li with questioning eyes.

After a few days of getting along, Gu Li could completely understand Iris's eyes, and immediately said, "You can't eat it."

Gu Li took out a bottle of water mixed with sea salt from his bag and stuffed it into Iris's backpack, "Drink water if you feel uncomfortable in your mouth. Except for what I gave you, you can't eat anything else."

While talking, Gu Li suddenly saw a green plant beside Iris.Spiky flower vine, the leaves are roughly oval, with acuminate tips, and the back of the leaves is pale and raised.

He had seen the hand-drawn drawing of this plant in his plant notes, and he had the impression that it was marked extinct.However, the plant in front of me is slightly different from the one recorded in the notes. There are hard thorns on the stems and front of the leaves of the plant, and the body is much larger than the record.

From the recorded length of 10 to 21.5 centimeters, it becomes nearly one meter in front of you.He was not willing to bring out his notes, otherwise he could do a comparison now.

He put on his gloves and went up to check. The leaves were generally the same as the records, except that the place where the seeds were wrapped had changed into a shape resembling a fig fruit.

The fingertips of the leather gloves touched, and before he could take off the sample, his arm was suddenly pulled back by Iris.

The top of the fruit cracked quickly and spread out like petals. Bright red vines with sticky nectar shot out from the center of the fruit, wrapping around Iris' wrist in front of Gu Li like crazy.

The vines were densely covered with tiny barbs, and even the leather gloves were scratched a few times.

Iris raised his hand and tugged, but the broken vine seemed to have a life of its own, tightening quickly like a poisonous snake after strangling its prey.

Gu Li hurriedly grabbed Iris' hand and manipulated the magnetic field to drain all the moisture in the vines.The shriveled vines collapsed, withered and fell, tossing painfully on the ground for a while, completely losing their vitality.

Just before he had time to shock the mutation of the plants, there was a sudden scream from the third team not far away.Among the dense large fungi, a spiky flower vine that was nearly two meters high radiated vines, dragging the soldiers who were camping into the blooming fruit and swallowing them whole.

The unfolded part of the fruit quickly closed, secreting a large amount of sticky nectar, corroding the soldier's body like a beast eating.

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Yu Ling:

Little knowledge about plants: Tenghuateng (extinct), a climbing shrub of the family Annonaceae, Tenghuateng genus, a unique species in China, produced in Hainan Island, growing in dense mountain forests, and currently there are only type specimens of this species.The spiky flower vine in the story is mutated, the fruit part is not so exaggerated, there are no thorns on the stem and leaves, and only the midrib of the back of the leaf is slightly hairy.

In addition, I wish my goddesses a happy holiday~(づ￣3￣)づ╭?～