Chapter 47 047. Fish

   This is the real top of the food chain in this land of grass.

  In Lu Jian's gradually blurred consciousness, such a thought emerged.

  He saw that the group of fish did not directly crash into the bus, but circled around the bus, like hunters waiting for an opportunity, and would launch an attack if Lu jian made a slight mistake.

  The raving in Lu Jian's mouth seems to be the key. Even these behemoths can hardly resist the attack of raving, but obviously their tolerance is slightly higher, as long as they are not close to each other, they will not be affected much.

   I don't know who will be unable to support it first.

   Lu Jian saw a rare scene in this life while suffering from his brain being burned out.

  In the vast, unrevived grassland, the grass over three meters high swayed, and the green light was like the sea, reflecting the dark and deep sky.

  In the silent grass, countless black shadows swam out, as if appearing out of thin air, and gathered towards the bus.

  Those are fish.

  Slightly different shapes of fish, soaring in the sky, just like those ordinary people living in the water, shuttling through the aquatic plants.

  Lu Jian didn't count them.

  He only looks straight ahead.

  In the rearview mirror, Mary, whose throat was torn apart, was still. On her body, weeds were slowly growing, assimilating flesh and blood into a breeding ground for self-cultivation.

  Stone's eyes were bloodshot, he covered his ears with his hands, curled up on the ground, his nostrils and glasses, and his mouth was already bleeding.

  Those two ratmen in the car, something in their bodies was agitating, and finally reached the limit.

   Bang——

  The two bodies exploded, and the limbs splattered, staining the entire carriage yellow.

  Looking at this scene, Lu Jian grasped some inspiration.

   He shut his mouth.

  The maddening babbling suddenly disappeared, and the entire grass fell into the noise of the engine turning and the friction of the tires.

  In this moment of tranquility, Lu Jian let out a cry.

   "Throw these corpses out!"

  He called at the stone.

  Almost at the same time, Lu jian press the accelerator with the crowbar, as if the crowbar integrated with itself was delicately pressed against the pedal and fixed, keeping the bus running forward at the maximum speed.

  He stepped back quickly, picked up the broken head of the rat man, and threw it out of the window.

  When the ugly head flew out of the window, it did not fall in a parabola, but was suspended in mid-air as if the ground had lost its attraction, and was quickly thrown off by the high-speed bus.

  In the night sky where no one was seeing, the head instantly attracted the attention of the fish. For a while, the grassland boiled, and more than ten fish gave up walking with the bus and went to eat the delicious rat man head.

  Lu Jian continued to throw the remains of the two Ratmen out of the window, causing the schools of fish to chase after them and tear them apart in mid-air.

  Lastly he saw Mary, who had stopped breathing.

  The body of this middle-aged woman has been covered with weeds, like a girl surrounded by flowers.

  Lu Jian silently apologized, lifted Mary's body, and threw it out of the car through the door.

  Finally, the few fish that followed the bus also gave up chasing and circled around Mary's body. You took a bite, and I took a bite, pecking at Mary's body and breaking it down in an instant.

  Shitou looked at Lu Jian with fear and awe in his eyes.

"leave me alone."

   Lu Jian said, raised his hand, pulling out a lot of buds that grew from the bottom of his eyes, and pulled them violently.

  The creeper-like shoot twitched suddenly, struggling and wriggling like a wireworm, which caused Lu jian's intraocular pressure to rise and his right eye to turn red.

   But Lu Jian didn't show mercy, he just wrapped around his hands round and round, pulling the sprout out completely.

  The sprout with young leaves was twisted in Lu Jian's hands, and he threw it out of the bus.

Back in the driver's seat, Lu Jian picked up the crowbar, sat on the seat, held the steering wheel with his left hand, and pulled the upper arm of his left hand with his right hand. The grass protruding from the wound bitten by the Ratman pulled it out like a law. Throw it out the window.

  At the same time, in Lu Jian's mouth, the ravings from the distant stars sounded again.

   "■■■■■——"

  The grass and trees on his body trembled and stopped growing. I don't know if it was an illusion. Even the fluorescence of the grass around the bus and the roadside began to dim.

  Stone sat in the last row, covered his ears, and tried hard to endure the babbling of Lu jian.

  Lu Jian saw that the fluorescence had disappeared not far ahead.

  For the first time he wished to see darkness so much.

   After a while, the bus drove out of the grass.

  In other words, Lu Jian saw that the grassland was shrinking.

   It is like a living creature, moving towards the area to the left of the bus.

   "I see. Just as rat swarms move periodically, this meadow moves by itself."

   "The extremely active grassland, soil, air, and those fish constitute a special ecosystem."

   "The Ratman. Take advantage of this ecology?"

   Lu Jian, who stopped raving, was thinking while his brain had not cooled down.

   "The ratmen themselves don't seem to be affected by the grass, just like the fish. Could it be that there is some kind of symbiosis between the two?"

   "The Ratman is responsible for attacking passing vehicles, the grass digests it, and finally becomes the nutrition of the fish, and the nutrition needed by the grass may come from the fish flying in the sky?"

  In the wilderness of the abandoned capital, these ecology seem to be self-contained.

  It is very understandable for Lu to stumble, why the "hound" who is a bounty hunter and Mary who is a biologist have no understanding and warning of this grassland.

   Because I am afraid that none of the travelers who witnessed this strange "creature" survived.

   "You're lucky."

  Thinking of this, Lu Jian said to Stone who was curled up in the passenger seat.

   "You have witnessed a unique ecological structure on this ruin."

"Lucky?"

  Stone couldn't believe what Lu Jian said.

  Lu Jian's ravings still remained in his mind, and he always felt that there was a voice echoing in his ears all the time, some kind of knowledge that Stone didn't understand was trying to change the structure of his brain.

   This made Stone's face livid, as if he was motion sick, and wanted to vomit, but there was nothing in his stomach.

  "I read it in a book before, saying that rat people were originally human beings."

  In order to try to ease the pain, Stone recalled what he had read.

   "They once owned a city, in the era when the abandoned capital was not abandoned."

   "That city is even more glorious than the abandoned capital, more prosperous, more lively, and it is the real city of hope."

   "They relied on the mines in the center of the city to unearth rare ores, and used these ores as fuel to build huge machines."

As he spoke, Stone's tone became calmer, and the pain seemed to go away. He could feel that his confession and memories were reaching a certain harmonious consensus with the chattering ravings in his head, and he even felt incomparably wonderful. I want to express all the thoughts in my head at once.

   "But they dug down, and down, and at last they dug up something terrible."

  "Overnight, the entire city collapsed into ruins."

  "People thought that the city had encountered a disaster and no one survived, but in fact, they all survived."

   "survived, and was dominated by that terrible thing, and became a creature that could not see the sun."

   "They turned into ratmen."

  Hearing this, Lu Jian turned his head slightly.

  He saw that this young man, whose face was covered in blood and had gone through a life-and-death adventure longing for the abandoned capital, was showing a cold and strange smile on his face at the moment.

  *

  (end of this chapter)