After two to three days, they rarely encountered Ruin Hunters. The land was vast, and there were more animal encounters.
Just like that, the Old Task Force headed for Tai City according to a map that wasn’t too precise or hardly had any landmarks to use as a reference.
Several days later, a large lake appeared in front of them; this wasn’t smaller than the Lake of Wrath near Redstone Collection. Long Yuehong couldn’t see the end of the water body.
The lake’s water was clear, reflecting the blue sky without any impurities. It was as beautiful as a fairyland.
“How beautiful.” Long Yuehong held it in for a long time but couldn’t think of a suitable poem.
Bai Chen echoed, “The weather is good too.”
“We’ll rest early today and camp by the lake.” Jiang Baimian knew that she and her team needed some time to relax during their long journey; they couldn’t stay tense all the time.
As the jeep stopped, Shang Jianyao pushed open the door and went straight to the lake. He had his eye on an Old World swing and eagerly sat on it.
This Shang Jianyao was the one who valued relationships but was mentally young.
Bang!
The swing collapsed, and Shang Jianyao fell, covering him in dirt.
Long Yuehong forced himself not to laugh to prevent Little White from believing that he had a dark side.
Bai Chen and Jiang Baimian smiled, but they didn’t gloat.
“Why didn’t you check it first?” the honest Genava asked in concern.
Shang Jianyao didn’t show any shame. “I can’t let Little Red beat me to it!”
I’m not a child! Long Yuehong muttered inwardly.
Shang Jianyao continued, “He will definitely offer it to Little White and have her sit with him.”
Uh… Long Yuehong suddenly felt like he had really missed something.
In order to hide his embarrassment, he walked to the lake and looked at the clear, blue water surface. He muttered to himself, “I wonder how the fish meat here is…”
Just as he said that, the fish underwater opened their mouths at him, revealing two rows of white teeth.
Smack!
Several black tentacles streaked out of another relatively large fish and slapped the water as if they wanted to drag Long Yuehong down.
Long Yuehong quickly took a few steps back. “This?”
Jiang Baimian thought for a moment and said, “This place doesn’t belong to the Old World’s Icefield in the true sense of the word. It’s a product of Icefield’s expansion after the Old World was destroyed and climate change. I believe the reason for climate change in this area is related to the bombardment of various high-energy weapons. The pollution left behind must be very serious.”
She was explaining why mutated fish appeared in the fairyland-like lake.
“No wonder there aren’t any settlements around such a large lake.” Bai Chen nodded.
According to her understanding, if there really was such a lake with good water quality and a large number of fish, it would definitely attract a number of wilderness nomads to migrate over in spring; they would only head south during autumn.
Settlements popped out near water and prey.
As she spoke, Bai Chen looked around. Suddenly, she realized that there were a few black spots along the horizon.
They seemed to be boats.