world of ruin

"Chell."

A deep male voice came from the other side of the tablet, as elegant and deep as a cello, with a slight rise in the end.

Cheer's heart trembled, and he called respectfully: "Boss."

"what's up?"

"Boss, Ding Nuosen is dead." There was a trace of fear in Cheer's eyes, the boss asked him to take Ding Nuosen back, but now he is dead, half of his mission has failed.

There was a moment of silence over there, Cheer was under a lot of pressure, and his back was wet with sweat unknowingly.

"Grance..." About 2 minutes later, a low laugh came from the other side: "If you die, you will die. You should bring the target back as soon as possible."

"Yes, boss!" The tone over there was flat and even slightly smiling, but Cheer did not dare to relax at all.

"Boss, how are you?" After the connection was hung up, the two people next to him asked hastily.

Cheer wiped the sweat off his face, "Let's go, we must not miss this time!"

They were half a day late, and Qi Ran and his party had already arrived at the foot of Xunhuang Mountain.

Xunhuang Mountain has a beautiful scenery and was a famous tourist attraction before the end of the world. It has a sea of ​​clouds and strange peaks, and the most famous one is the colorful Luochi.

The mountain road was narrow and steep, and when they drove halfway up the mountain, they were blocked by several tourist buses and had to get off to clear the obstacles.

Fortunately, there were so many of them, they didn't waste much time, and went up the mountain before dark.

Twin Mountains are two interdependent mountains, and they are on the mountainside in the middle of the two mountains.

It is not suitable to travel at night, so they decided to stay here tonight.

"Brother, I want to sleep with you." Qi Zheng said to Qi Ran anxiously.

Qi Ran looked at his clingy younger brother with a headache, "Go and live with Xing Yi."

"Don't!" Qi Zheng said displeasedly: "I'm going to sleep with you." He didn't know Xing Yi well, he didn't feel safe in this barren mountain, and his brother was the one who was reliable.

"Qi Zheng!" Qi Bin appeared behind him at some point, and scolded, "Don't pester your brother, sleep with me tonight!"

"Ah..." Qi Zheng wailed, but the old man was full of majesty, Qi Zheng didn't dare to play tricks, gave Qi Ran a resentful look, and followed Qi Bin into the house wanting to cry without tears.

Qi Ran looked at him amusedly and turned his head three times a step, and waved his hand to show comfort.

"Let's go." Qi Ran turned to Gu Hao and said.

They are in a hotel on the mountainside, the zombies have been cleaned up, and the rooms are freely allocated.

The hotel is small, with three floors, and the first floor is the dining room.

Qi Ran and Gu Hao found a double room on the third floor.

The bed sheet was stained with blood, Qi Ran took out a new bed from the space and put it on.

Xing Yi knocked on the door when he was about to clean up.

"A team member reported the news about Ning Shao."

Qi Ran straightened up abruptly, staring at him nervously, "Where is it?"

"Xiao Li can perceive the position of people through the fluctuation of supernatural powers. Ning Shao appeared in Bashi before."

"Bashi?" Qi Ran frowned, Bashi is in the northeast of S Province, and N City is located on both sides of the province.

Xing Yi was afraid that he would run over impulsively, so he hurriedly added: "I have already sent people there, and they will bring them here when they find them."

Qi Ran suppressed the excitement in his heart, his slightly curved phoenix eyes were full of surprise.

"Thank you." He knew how difficult it is to find someone in the last days, Xing Yi... must have spent a lot of effort.

Xing Yi smiled and said in a low voice, "You never have to say thank you to me."

--What I do for you is willingly.

His voice was very soft, Qi Ran didn't hear it clearly, and looked at him suspiciously.

"It's okay, it's getting late, you guys rest." Xing Yi hurriedly left after speaking.

Some feelings are deeper than friendship, but not like love.

Xing Yi only hopes that it is enough for him to watch him silently and protect him.

Gu Hao listened to them talking, without saying a word.

Qi Ran spread the bed sheet, felt the hot gaze behind him, turned around, "What's wrong?"

Gu Hao shook his head.

He didn't know what was wrong with him, but he just watched the thin figure swaying in front of him, and his eyes couldn't help but froze on it.

In front of his eyes was the perfect arc outlined by the flexible body when he bent over, he pretended to be calm and looked away.

What's going on here?

Qi Ran looked at him in a daze as he turned around and took out a map of City N to grind carefully.

The sky was getting dark, the circuit was disconnected, and there was only dim candlelight in the house.

Qi Ran sat in a car all the way in a daze. After marking the location of the base and the specific route, he lay down on the bed and fell asleep. The map was thrown aside.

After awakening the power, his physical strength increased. Even in the cold mountains, Qi Ran only wore a linen shirt. When he was sleepy, his eyes were hazy, and there seemed to be a smear of water mist.

Gu Hao didn't need to sleep, seeing him gradually closing his eyes and falling asleep, he blew out the candle by the bed and stared quietly.

The memory in his mind was chaotic, and he couldn't help being anxious and irritable. Only when he looked at the person in front of him could he calm down.

I don't know when it started, it was difficult for him to take his eyes off this person.

It was dark in the mountains, and after the candles were extinguished, only the light of the moon was reflected in the house.

Seeing the slightly raised corners of his lips from those cold eyebrows, Gu Hao hoped that time would stop there.

"Who?!"

Suddenly there was a low voice in the dark night, followed by gunshots.

Gu Hao's eyelids moved slightly, and Qi Ran opened them suddenly.

--The voice is next door, it's Qi Bin and Qi Zheng's room!

Qi Ran ran over quickly.

There was only the sound of tense breathing in the room, and Qi Ran turned on the flashlight.

"Brother!" Qi Zheng was undecided, and when he saw Qi Ran, he threw himself into his arms.

He was in a deep sleep, and he didn't hear Qi Bin's low shout, and when the gunshot woke up, there was no one in the room.

"Where's grandpa?" Qi Zheng looked at the empty bed next to him, still in shock, not understanding what happened.

"What's wrong?" Xing Yi and the others were also awakened by the gunfire, and rushed over one after another.Seeing that there were too many alarmed people, Shen Qiao comforted them to go back first, and asked all members of the Shuguang team to be alert.

"Someone came, and grandpa fired." Qi Ran said in a deep voice.

The bullet marks couldn't be more obvious, it was Browning who never left Qi Bin.And this familiar spatial fluctuation seems to be Qi Fan who escaped the assassination.

As the candle shadow flickered, Qi Ran saw some white spots, and bent down to pick up a piece of paper from the ground.

"Thousand-hole tree?" Qi Zheng read through the moonlight, "What is it?"

Qi Ran looked at the three black characters with cold eyes.

The Thousand Hole Tree, a rare spiritual variant plant, is located on the highest peak of Xunhuang Mountain, Qianxun Mountain.

After establishing the Baize base in his previous life, he led a team to clear the surrounding mountains to establish a defense line, and happened to come across this thousand-hole tree.

At that time, he had already reached the seventh level, and he still suffered a big loss in the face of this sixth-level spiritual mutant plant, and almost wiped out his entire army.

What's more, he only has the fifth rank now.

When Qi Ran saw the word, he understood what Qi Fan meant, a flame ignited at his fingertips, and the paper instantly turned into ashes.

"Xiao Ran?" Seeing that he was silent, Xing Yi called softly.

Qi Ran said in a deep voice: "Tomorrow you follow the original route, and I'll go find Grandpa."

"I'll go with you." Xing Yi said quickly.

"You take them to N city first, Xiaozheng has been to Zhulong, let him show you the way." Qi Ran said.

Xing Yi looked serious, "Do you know who it is?"

Qi Ran nodded, and said to Qi Zheng: "You go with Xing Yi, and I will tell Dad and Second Uncle about Grandpa tomorrow."

Qi Zheng nodded obediently, hugged his waist and asked nervously, "Brother, when will you meet us?"

Qi Ran rubbed his head, "I'll go to City N when I find Grandpa. When you're not around, listen to Xing Yi and don't make trouble."

Qi Zheng was only in high school, he was still a child in his heart, so he was worried.

"Understood, brother, be careful." Qi Zheng raised his face and said seriously, "I'll wait for you to come back."

Qi Ran showed a soft smile and told him and Xing Yi to go back to sleep.

It was just past midnight at this time, and it was cold.

Because the number of guards doubled for the night raid just now, Qi Ran looked out of the window, the shadows of the mountains and forests at night were shaking, and it was dark and silent.

Xing Yi originally wanted him to bring a few team members to go with him, but Qi Ran refused.

Qian Kongshu's illusionary ordinary supernatural powers went to die for nothing, even he and Gu Hao could not guarantee that they could resist the illusion created by the sixth-level spiritual power.

Early the next morning, Qi Ran left some supplies behind and set off with Gu Hao.

The sky was hazy, and there was still crystal clear morning dew on the trees and grass. Qi Ran pushed aside the branches in front of him and looked at the opposite mountain peak.

Qianxun Mountain is to the west of Shuangzi Mountain. There is a Luochi on top of the towering peak, and the Thousand Hole Tree is on the small island in the center of Luochi.

"Over there?" Gu Hao asked.

Qi Ran nodded, they had already reached the top of Twin Mountains, facing Qianxun Mountain.

The mountain road is rugged, and the animals and plants have mutated again. The two walked with extra care.

Because I am not familiar with the road, it was almost noon when I arrived at Qianxun Mountain.

"Do you think he will come?" Qi Fan asked with a smile, leaning against the thick tree trunk.

Qi Bin's dark brown coat was stained with blood. He was tightly tied under a tree with his eyes closed.

Qi Fan didn't care about his silence, and tied him here this time to make sure that even if he knew the danger, Qi Ran would definitely come here.

As a reader of "Salvation in the Last Days", he knows very well how much Qi Ran attaches importance to relatives and friends.

Qi Fan used to scoff at this the most, no matter how important other people's lives are, they cannot compare to his own!

Playing with the Kunyu in his hand, Qi Fan said to himself: "This thousand-hole tree is a mutant plant of the sixth-order spiritual system, and the illusion it creates is pervasive. Without the Kunyu, let me see what he will do!"

The thousand-hole tree grows in the lake, and the entire island in the lake is under the control of its spiritual power. Once entering the small island, it will fall into its illusion.

As the golden finger of the protagonist, Kun Yu happens to be able to suppress the illusion.

Qi Fan didn't act rashly this time, relying on Kunyu not afraid of the spiritual illusion of Qiankongshu, he tied Qi Bin here, and it was bound to make Qi Ran never return.

Little did they know, with his third-level spiritual power, Kunyu could only keep awake for a while, and when he set foot on this small island, the final outcome was already doomed.

Illusions, if they can be easily perceived by people, are not called illusions.

The roots of the thousand-hole tree surround the entire small island. When Qi Fan was in a deep illusion and couldn't extricate himself, a tree root quietly protruded from the ground, piercing his head quickly and precisely.

The oval crystal nuclei are instantly sucked dry by the tree roots and turned into fine powder.

And Qi Fan, who finally killed Qi Ran in the illusion and became the overlord of the last days, still had a smug smile on his lips.

To die with satisfaction may be the best ending for him.

Qi Bin next to him closed his eyes tightly, and his breath became lighter and weaker.

Because there is no power, Qian Kongshu just detained him in the illusion, and did not take his life.However, what is consumed in the illusion is mental power, and when the mental power is exhausted, the body will naturally die.

Knowing that the illusion of Qiankongshu was silent and unexpected, Qi Ran reminded Gu Hao to be careful, and approached the island with a small white boat by the lake.

The area of ​​the island in the lake is small, but the trees are densely packed, each tree is tall and lush, and the thousand-hole tree in the center faintly protrudes.

Stepping off the boat, Qi Ran was extremely alert.

Qian Kongshu sensed the aura of the supernatural being, and the roots moved slowly underground.The breath of the same level made Qian Kongshu instinctively afraid, and his movements became more and more slight.

Gu Hao looked around, his eyes condensed.As soon as he landed on this small island, he felt like being spied on, and he couldn't help showing his sharp fingertips with a sense of crisis that he had never felt before.

"The illusion under the thousand-hole tree is almost flawless, keep your mind clear and don't let it sneak in." Qi Ran reminded: "Don't believe what you see."

Although not all the sights in the illusion are false, most of them are allusions of memory, and it is easy to indulge in unconsciously.

The author has something to say:

The thousand-hole tree is my favorite setting, and the illusion assists can make a splash~

I wish everyone a happy Lantern Festival!I like eating chocolate glutinous rice balls~