Blue Star

The bushes rustled, and three beams of mineral light quickly shuttled among the leaves.

Gu Li led the way, and when he passed a lotus pond, he suddenly found Iris sitting on the bank with his back to him.

The mermaid turned back to its original body, with half of its tail hanging in the lotus pond, and a large number of blue light spots secreted from the fish's tail scattered scatteredly on the water surface.

"It's Iris!" Mimir gasped and called out.

Iris, who heard the movement, turned back nervously, and found that Gu Li was looking at him, and neatly put away the fishtail and put on his clothes.

Gu Li only stood still for a few seconds, then changed the direction of the mine light and continued to move forward.

Mi Mier looked back and forth between the two of them, seeing Gu Li not stopping, he could only keep up.

"Elder Gu Li, don't we wait for Iris?"

Gu Li didn't say a word.

Dao Porling was out of breath, "You don't care about yourself, whether he likes that fish or not."

Mimir hesitated, "But, he seems to be following, shouldn't we wait?"

Dao Porling was out of breath from running, and leaning on his knees with both hands, he bent down and said, "Wait is the second thing, anyway, I can't run anymore, old man." He raised his head and shouted to Gu Li, who was at the front of the line: "Stinky boy, run so fast!" Come on, I don't know my third grade!"

Gu Li stopped, looked around with the mine light and hit the two of them, "Those parasitic things will catch up soon, we have to keep a distance. The road to the Fifth Goddess Pillar will not be too far, and it should be done before dawn." can arrive."

He opened his pocket watch and checked the time, it was 25:[-] in the morning.Logically, the sky should have been bright long ago, but when I looked up, there was no light at all on the dark clouds.

The closer to the blue star, the darker the boundary. Although he had prepared for it long ago, he still felt uncomfortable when he was actually in it.

The good news is that the rain has stopped, but the humidity of the surrounding fog is too high, and the rain-soaked clothes can't dry for a while, and running against the skin is very uncomfortable.

Iris quickly caught up with them, Dao Porling seemed to see a savior, put his hands on Iris' shoulders, and said with difficulty: "Hurry up, old man, I can't run anymore, your boy is in good health, carry me on your back." Run. Gu Li is right, if we don’t run, we will all become nests of parasites.”

Iris glanced at Gu Li, who didn't want to pay attention to him, and squatted down to really memorize Dao Porling.

Dao Porling was overjoyed, it was rare for this fish to listen to him.Pointing at the head of the fish, he smiled at Gu Li and said, "This kid was fine when he wasn't clinging to you. It's a good thing he didn't run too far."

Gu Li looked back, "Let's go, follow closely."

It was three hours after arriving at the Goddess Column, at 11:30 in the morning, the dark sky still hadn't brightened.

There are more creatures here than near the canyon, but still less than the jungle before.

Occasionally, mutated animal bones can be seen in the bushes. There is no obvious trauma, and they should have died of natural causes or illnesses.But it was strange that these mutated creatures showed no signs of being bitten by bugs after they died.In the wild, especially in the jungle, it is a bit unreasonable.

There is no town under the Fifth Goddess Pillar, which is beyond Gu Li's expectations.But it’s not that there is nothing. There are several large-scale laboratories around the cylinder, which are still well preserved.

The ground plants outside the laboratory grow very regularly, and there are still ground spikes used for camping on some square land, as well as heavily oxidized tent fabrics and some daily necessities.

It seems that from the very beginning, the ancestors planned to migrate from the hospital to the fourth Goddess Pillar.For the convenience of many people, a rest area was temporarily built here.

However, the materials used to build the laboratory are very good, the doors and windows are tightly fitted, and the walls are thicker than Kirch's military laboratory.

Dauporin struggled to get off Iris's back, and with the help of the mine light, approached the laboratory to study the wall material.It took a long time to rub his beard and said: "It's so thick, can people still breathe when they go in?"

"It should be wearing protective clothing."

Gu Li kicked the bottle next to his feet, which seemed to be specially used for breathing.There are straps and waist buckles on the back of the bottle, breathing tubes and masks connected to the valve, and several sets of torn white jumpsuits piled up beside it.

These jumpsuits are made of better material than any of Kirch's clothes, or, in other words, there is no similar material in Kirch.It can be seen that the development of the ancestors is far above them.

The heavy iron door of the laboratory was suddenly pulled open by Dao Porling.

Gu Li was frightened, but it was too late to stop him.

"What are you doing! Don't go in!"

There are not too many creatures in the vicinity, and the laboratory has been built into a fully enclosed type, and the ancestors used special materials to enter and exit.Obviously, these laboratories contain radiation from which living things must be isolated.

However, Daoporing and Mimir had already walked in before him, coughed for a while in the laboratory and said in a muffled voice: "It's okay, there's nothing wrong here, it just smells bad."

Daoporing raised his hand and waved under his nose, saying: "The outside is so humid, but the inside is so dry. It's really well done in this closed form."

Gu Li came in with an ugly face, made sure that there was no uncomfortable radiation in the laboratory, and then sighed: "If you encounter such a laboratory in the future, don't open the door easily."

Dao Porling waved his hand, "It's been more than 200 years, what danger can there be? Even if there is radiation in the laboratory, can it be as strong as the crystal ore we come into contact with? The talent driven by the Kirch wizard is much stronger than the radiation in the experiment .”

Although Gu Li disagreed, he had to admit that what Dao Porling said was true.But after all, what they are now touching is unknown territory, so it is always right to be careful.

The interior of the laboratory has been well preserved. Papers, medicine bottles, and instruments are all in a brand new state, and even some rust-prone irons are shiny.

The experimental table is full of syringes and reports for research, and the ink in the pen beside it is not even dry. It looks like the experimenter just left.

There are six observation rooms in the room, and three or four unknown instruments are placed in almost each observation room.

The appearance of these instruments is very special, roughly oval, and can be opened from the middle.The bottom is filled with wires and conduits that follow the shape of the instrument from bottom to top and into the thick walls inside.

The size can lie down an adult, like an improved ceramic bathtub with an extra layer of cover.The position where people lie down is also made into the shape of a human body.

Gu Li opened one of them to check, and found that the inner wall of the instrument was filled with ferrofluid.Looking out along the conduit, the equipment connected at the end is filled with broken and useless crystal ores, like waste rocks that have been extremely absorbed by the wizard.

Electrical appliances, wires, light tubes, all the appliances in this laboratory seem to restore the scenes in the storybook.Those who have never been in contact and have no historical records are all real.

"It's really interesting, the ancestors actually refined the crystal ore into liquid?" Dao Porling fumbled for the instrument at the end of the catheter.

On the top of the equipment is a groove for stacking crystal ore, and the glass tank at the bottom is used to carry the smelting ore liquid. He couldn't help but praise: "This method is good! It is more convenient than our refining and suppressing crystal powder. If I can move one back, I will use it in the future. You can use a fine needle to inject inhibitors, and you won’t have to drink such a bitter thing.”

Gu Li shook his head helplessly, and walked out of the observation room to look through the reports piled up on the laboratory table.However, they were pleasantly surprised to find that most of the reports were written by Patriarch Elder.

"Elder Gu Li!" Mimir screamed, and pointed to the portrait hanging on the top of the laboratory, "It's Chief Elder!"

Gu Li put down the report and looked up, only to see the portrait photos hanging on the wall, all of them were researchers in research uniforms.

Headed by Patriarch Elder, and then Zack.He has seen the appearance of these two ancestors before, and although they look very young in the photo, he can still recognize them at a glance.The researcher after that is not clear, he has never seen it anywhere, and he has never heard of it.

Dao Porling came out of the observation room in a hurry, squinted his eyes and looked around and said, "Excluding Zach, there are exactly 32 people! Could it be that these researchers were the first ancestors who founded Keerqi?"

When Kirch was first established, there were a total of 32 wizards.It's just that less and less people got the inheritance later, and when it came to Gu Li's generation, they only remembered Patriarch Elder.For the rest of the elders, not to mention their appearance, they didn't even keep their names. When the younger generations talked about it, they would only talk about the talents their ancestors possessed.

There was a sound behind Gu Li.

Iris, who had been silent for a long time, didn't stand still, leaning on the medicine cabinet against the wall with one hand, turned his back and didn't know what he was doing.

Seeing that Gu Li was looking at him, he quickly stood up straight and walked out of the laboratory without knowing where he was going.

Gu Li turned back to Dao Porling and said, "You look for clues first, I'll go and have a look."

Outside the laboratory, Gu Li put away the mine light and followed behind Iris.

Seeing that the fish ignored him, he took a few steps forward and grabbed Iris's arm, and asked in a bad tone, "What's wrong with you?"

Iris wanted to turn around, but just turned half of his face and turned back, as if he was afraid of being seen by him.

Gu Li went around, and Iris turned his face sideways, covering his left eye with curly bangs.Fearing that Gu Li would get close, he even pushed Gu Li away.

"You're angry," Iris said.

"Yes." Gu Li did not deny it.

"Your hearing is very good. You deliberately pretended not to hear me when I called you." He didn't step forward, but said, "Your soaking cycle is about once every five days. If it rains, you don't need to soak."

When he spoke, he fixed his eyes on Iris' left eye, "Afraid of what I will see? Afraid that you will mutate? Or are you afraid that if I get infected, it will affect you?"

"No, Gu Li is fine. No, it won't affect me." Iris replied anxiously, and when he turned his head, his bangs staggered to cover his left eye.

The dark blue pupil of the left eye was covered with infected purple venom at some point.From the pupil to the outside, it forms a regular gradient with the original dark blue.Not only that, but a few tiny lavender translucent scales grew out of the forehead on the left side.There are obvious claw marks on the skin, and a softer film has formed where the injury was.

Iris couldn't control the spread of toxins in his body, so he secretly pulled out these mutated scales by himself.

Realizing that Gu Li saw it, he angrily raised his hand to tear it.

"Don't move." Gu Li felt depressed, "Do you want to get infected again?"

He clenched Iris' clawed hand, and said softly, "Where else is there? Let me see."

Iris didn't answer, but Gu Li smelled a bloody smell coming from his abdomen.The rain-soaked military uniform was dull in color, and it was difficult to see whether there was blood staining on the black cloth.

He knew early on that Iris's fins had purple venom from an infection.It's just that the mermaid's body didn't show signs of rejection, so he didn't pay too much attention to and ask about the symptoms.This time he needs to hide to deal with the mutation. It seems that for Iris, the venom is not the "blessing in disguise" he imagined.

Since the wizard's talent failed, Iris's mind-reading talent also disappeared.He couldn't hear what Gu Li was thinking like before, he could only observe Gu Li's emotions intuitively.

"Do not be angry."

Gu Li said anxiously: "Unbutton the button."

Iris refused, so he did it himself.

"Gu Li, don't look..." Iris grabbed Gu Li's hand that unbuttoned him.

"Untie it." Gu Li emphasized his tone.

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Yu Ling:

Thank you Huaxie Lingxiaocute for the fish food X2!