The enemy entered from underground, Red Kestrel couldn't penetrate buildings to gather information, and it wasn't until they reached the safety passageway in the underground garage that they were discovered.
Zhou Yi led the team and lay in ambush behind the display cabinets.
A white spindle-shaped creature erged from the passage, followed by a second one, then a third... They headed straight for the basent level of the supermarket as though they knew their way around.
They were all Bone Fish.
Bone Fish were not very intelligent; most of the ti, they were either searching for bones or lying still.
They moved in groups but never had a leader; they basically sward following one Bone Fish. Thus, the fish sotis veered to the left, sotis to the right, and sotis swung back and forth, making irregular and unpredictable movents.
Zhou Yi had been trying to attune his consciousness with the Bone Fish, but they turned out to be even more bizarre than the Light Absorption Monster, with no capacity for communication nor expression, simply enjoying the energy they absorbed.
Their greatest advantage was their extrely high birthrate in the Dead Sea.
Using tools on Bone Fish seed a bit beyond their capabilities.
Yet this group of Bone Fish burst in and dived into the tool section, rummaging everywhere.
Red Kestrel hovered in the air, capturing their every move very clearly.
The Bone Fish were, as always, utterly indifferent to electrochanical life. They quickly sward up to the second floor, into the digital and electronics stores, and after swallowing scattered tools, they rummaged around before quickly returning to the underground passageway they had co from.
Red Kestrel followed from a distance, moving forward along the underground parking lot of Da Run Fa, to a hole leading up to the surface.
The Bone Fish stread out of the hole.
Zhou Yi led the Scavenger Team back to Sea God first, and then followed the Bone Fish from afar in a submarine.
The group of Bone Fish swam to the side of a broad river, whose waters twinkled with pinpoints of Death Light. They followed the winding S-shaped river upstream and arrived at the side of an undersea mountain, then expertly swam up the mountain.
This mountain they hurried to had stone stair trails and long city walls, looking like a military base from so cold weapon era. But now, enshrouded by the Dead Sea, the mountain was void of any vegetation, a barren, light-stricken sight.
Zhou Yi saw the na of the place engraved in stone.
Fishing City.
He rembered it was an ancient battlefield, which had beco a tourist spot in his own era, although he had never visited, only heard its na.
Zhou Yi looked at the screen of the remote control in his hand, and the Bone Fish had already reached the inner city of Fishing City, where they were eting with a group of Bone n.
These Bone n each wore different clothes; one of them dumped a bag of bones on the ground. So, the Bone Fish started selecting their favorites and affixing the white bones to their own bodies to further increase their size.
After trading, the Bone Fish each found a spot to lie down and rest; eat and then sleep, just as Zhou Yi had stereotypically expected.
The Red Kestrel transmitted a ssage, "Zhou, it is these Bone n who train the Bone Fish to go out and look for supplies. I am electrochanical life and will try talking to them first, which might reduce their hostility."
With Zhou Yi's consent, the drone lowered its height and approached where the Bone n were.
"Excuse the intrusion, I am the rescue drone from Wasteland Developnt Company, Red Kestrel."
Initially startled, the Bone n relaxed seeing it was a small electrochanical life-form.
One Bone Man wearing a motorcycle helt and dressed in a gray ski suit said, "Are you here to refill your Energy Pack? Or perhaps you need oil? We have both."
"Thank you, but I did not co for supplies."
Red Kestrel said, "I followed that group of Bone Fish here, originally searching for so supplies in the nearby Divine Era Relics. I hadn't expected to find a settlent of yours here."
"Yes. This is Small Mountain Town."
The Bone Man introduced himself: "My na is Chen Shi. Are you from Wasteland Developnt Company?"
"Yes."
"The sa company as Wasteland Express?"
"You know of our company?"
"I do."
The helted Bone Man beca visibly excited, "I saw your Bone Fish delivering goods, but no matter how I greeted them or fed them with bones, they ignored ; they have such strong wills."
Red Kestrel said, "How did you find out about us? Can you communicate with Bone Fish?"
"It's because of 'Tree Monster Territory.' Small Mountain Town and Tree Monster Territory have regular trade; we exchange collected tools and Dead Sea Docunts for Light Seeds and Energy Packs with them. The Bone Fish you see are our helpers and partners. We have been living here for decades and are very familiar with the area..."
Bone Man Chen Shi was quite talkative and outgoing.
Zhou Yi rembered that Tree Monster Territory was one of the nine cities covered by Wasteland Express, located further south, ruled by the sea lord 'Tree Monster Lord.'
The Tree Monster Lord's core city was Tree Monster Territory; he ruled and cultivated the Guangna Species called Tree Monsters.
Tree Monsters lived on land, tall and slim like towering spires, not adept at fighting. They were awakened by mutations from trees under the irradiation of Death Light, their life core being the roots at the bottom. They grew fast, lived long, and could move by relocating when necessary.
Just regularly pruning their trunks and branches could yield a large quantity of wood.
Tree Monster Territory also specialized in exporting wood.
Although he had no direct dealings with the Tree Monster Lord, Zhou Yi was still deeply impressed by the wood-producing Tree Monster Territory.
"The chairman is also here? Small Mountain Town welcos your arrival," Bone Man Chen Shi said amiably.
None of the other Bone n expressed any objections.
Zhou Yi ascended the hill alone.
The looks of the Bone n all ca his way in unison.
"Human beings can actually enter the bottom of the Dead Sea..."
"No need to wear any equipnt, just able to move in the Dead Sea... can humans really achieve such a state?"
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