bookrandom Chapter 167 Accompanying
Chapter 167 Accompanying
"Tiger, why did you come along? It's only a few dozen miles, Pipi and I can handle it..."
Walking along the route he had explored many times before, the fisherman scratched the back of his head, puzzled.
Pipi, standing to the side, also twitched its ears, wary of potential threats around it while curiously watching Cangnian beside it.
"Ow~!"
Cang Nian simply let out a casual "howl," without any real meaning, leaving the fisherman momentarily confused.
That's right, he went with the fisherman.
However, he wasn't there to protect the fisherman; he was there to investigate.
As expected, this surge in spiritual energy resurgence is a global phenomenon.
Recalling the earthquake that accompanied the previous spiritual energy revival tide, and its absurd duration, Cang Nian boldly guessed that the earthquake's impact was most likely global.
Otherwise, almost a month has passed. If it were only the snowy mountains of Northeast China, or even just the area near my home that was affected by the disaster, wouldn't rescue and relief teams from all over China have come to help?
Although I don't encounter ground-based disaster relief teams in this remote, desolate area, surely there must be planes flying overhead?
Cang Nian remembered that before the tide of spiritual energy revival, he occasionally saw passenger planes flying by, but after the tide of spiritual energy revival, they disappeared, which undoubtedly confirmed his guess.
Therefore, Kangcheng is likely now an isolated city, and as the fisherman said, the road is severely damaged and shows no signs of recent use.
Therefore, in the short term, the only city that might be able to deal with them is Kangcheng.
That's why Cang Nian wanted to get a general idea of Kangcheng's current situation.
Is the order sound?
How many armed forces are there?
What is its level of evolution?
What are the main policies now?
These are all things that Cang Nian is curious about.
Similarly, it is also an important indicator related to the safety of one's own family.
After all, as the spiritual energy resurgence progresses, the range of activity that evolved creatures can take will only expand.
After overcoming the initial chaos, humanity will eventually expand its territory.
If we put ourselves in others' shoes, we can roughly deduce what humanity will do next.
It's nothing more than this: after the earthquake disaster, many people died, and that night many people awakened their superpowers and became evolved beings.
Then, everyone worked together to carry out disaster relief and rescue those buried by the earthquake.
But Kangcheng is a city with several million people. With so many people needing to eat, and with the earthquake disrupting long-distance transportation, food may become scarce.
At this time, the people of Kangcheng will likely search for food in the surrounding towns and villages. However, spiritual energy will nourish plants, and some crops may evolve to become more productive. But compared to the vast number of wild plants, they will most likely have their living soil taken over.
There wasn't enough time to grow crops in the short term, so humans naturally turned their attention to the surrounding forests.
Therefore, humans, who expand their range of activity in search of food, will one day find themselves intersecting with their original range of activity.
Cangnian felt that it was better to know more than to be caught off guard in the event of a conflict.
The other Cannes residents didn't share the same experiences and feelings as the fisherman and his family. To them, his family was just another member of the group, no different from any other wild animal.
It's possible that quite a few brainless evolved creatures, after gaining immense power during evolution, have already included humans in their diet.
However, given the social and organizational nature of humans, individual evolved organisms cannot achieve anything significant and will only be ruthlessly suppressed.
The foolish behavior of these creatures will undoubtedly make humans feel disgusted and hateful towards all evolved beings.
My own family is no exception.
What Cangnian needs to do is to gather information and plan ahead.
……
Soon, before the sun had even set, Cangnian followed the fisherman to the broken road.
The river next to my house, if traced upstream, is the River Cam, which flows through Kangcheng.
Then, on the other side of the River Cam, is actually the place where Cang Nian got into the fisherman's pickup truck years ago.
As can be seen, much of this road is buried by mud and sand from the mountainside, with only intermittent, broken sections of the road surface visible.
Then, the man, the tiger, and the dog followed the trail of the road westward.
"We're finally here! Pipi! We're home!"
As the sun set, the fisherman stood on tiptoe, gazing at the edge of Kangcheng gradually emerging in the sunset. He hugged Pipi beside him, extremely excited.
Woohoo~!
Pipi, echoing the fisherman's excitement, rubbed against him and let out an excited whimper.
However, after the initial excitement of finally seeing Cannes again after going through so many hardships, the fisherman's expression turned somewhat worried.
How can Kangcheng still bear any resemblance to its former self?
High-rise buildings collapsed, and makeshift tents and simple houses could still be vaguely seen.
In addition, there is a surrounding wall that is not yet completed, seemingly intended to protect against external dangers.
If it weren't for the faint lights coming from the city, the fisherman would have thought that Kangcheng was already a dead city.
Clearly, the earthquakes brought about by the spiritual energy revival tide caused immense damage to Kangcheng.
Unfortunately, Kangcheng is located in the northeastern snow-capped mountains. It is not at a plate boundary or an earthquake zone, so the earthquake-resistant measures of the buildings are far inferior to those of Shuzhou, which has suffered from earthquake disasters in the past.
The earthquake that day was incredibly powerful, lasted an unprecedented duration, and its destructive force was naturally extraordinary.
"Tiger, I'm home now."
You probably want to see how things are going in Cannes.
Please confirm whether it's safe where you are.
If you want to see it, I won't stop you.
Perfect timing! We haven't used any decrees today, so I'll save a few invisible decrees for you.
I'll keep five as backups, and the remaining ten should be enough for you to explore for two and a half hours.
Leave as soon as the effect is over.
Then, the fisherman turned to look at Cang Nian and said seriously.
He was initially puzzled as to why Cang Nian had followed him, but he had figured it out quite well along the way.
As for instructing Cang Nian not to hurt anyone, the fisherman felt it was unnecessary.
After all, Cangnian had already cleverly saved Tiger Dad and the others before the spiritual energy revival, so he obviously wouldn't do something as unwise as harming people.
"Law! Invisibility! Law..."
Then, the fisherman gave a series of soft shouts, each time condensing into a small ball.
This was the first time Cang Nian had ever seen how a fisherman stored the laws and regulations.
However, the process was not fancy at all; the moment the decree was released, the ball of light contracted and quickly condensed into a small sphere.
"Then, Tiger, farewell!"
The fisherman handed ten beads to Cang Nian and waved his hand.
The fluffy Pipi next to him also waved its paws, just like him.