The post-apocalyptic world has a space full of supplies.

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Following the light and sound, the five of them quickly arrived at the location where the red light was flashing. It was here that Gu Nanfeng and the others understood why Lu Yuan's system kept repeating that they were trapped.

At this moment, Lu Yuan was no longer on the same level as them. He was in a dense thicket of vines. After he fell, it was unclear whether he slid down through the gaps between the vines or whether the vines wrapped him up as they kept wriggling.

"It's Lu Yuan!" Lin Yun peered through the gaps in the vines toward the red light and indeed saw Lu Yuan in his mecha. However, his mecha was different from the ones they usually saw; it was probably activated to protect Lu Yuan. Lu Yuan in his mecha was now twice the size, so it was clear he hadn't slid down from the gap.

"These vines got him caught in them." Pei Sihao kicked a bone hanging from a nearby vine. It was hard to tell if it was from an animal or a human, or even a zombie, but in any case, only bones remained.

"It seems that these vines use living organisms as a source of nutrition." In fact, Gu Nanfeng had seen quite a few bones along the way, so he guessed that the reason these vines were so huge was probably because they were "fed" with flesh and blood.

"Damn, no wonder those bears stopped chasing us." Ji Lang put Yang Xiao down from his back, but Yang Xiao was still unconscious.

"This gap is quite small, it seems I'll have to go down." After discovering Lu Yuan, Pei Sihao circled around the area. Apart from the gap that Lin Yun had just observed, the gaps between the vines were all very small, and this opening was not large for them either.

“It’s too dangerous…” Gu Nanfeng wanted to stop Pei Sihao from taking the risk, but Lu Yuan was also a very important friend of theirs, and besides Pei Sihao, only the unconscious Yang Xiao could go down into this gap, so he remained silent.

"Don't worry, I'll be careful." Pei Sihao patted Gu Nanfeng on the shoulder, nodded firmly at him, and then took out a rope from his backpack.

"Be careful, I'll hold you here." Ji Lang couldn't stray too far from the unconscious Yang Xiao, so he tied the other end of Pei Sihao's rope around his own waist, acting as a steadfast support.

"Okay." Pei Sihao nodded and jumped down through the gap. Below the gap was a thick vine, so Pei Sihao's jump was very easy.

Gu Nanfeng and Lin Yun were watching through the gap. In fact, he had a lot of confidence in Pei Sihao's skills, but he was increasingly unwilling to see Pei Sihao take risks. Along the way, he had come to understand his own heart, but the timing was not right. So what he needed to do now was to protect Pei Sihao and get through this apocalyptic ordeal together. Whether it was clearing out the zombies and ending the apocalypse on Earth, or leaving Earth and entering the interstellar era as Lu Yuan had said, he wanted Pei Sihao to be with him.

While Gu Nanfeng was distracted, Pei Sihao had already leaped down several vines, getting closer and closer to Lu Yuan, who was flashing red light. These vines now looked like ordinary withered branches, completely unlike their agile state when they had been darting around and attacking them just moments before.

"We're here!" Pei Sihao landed steadily next to Lu Yuan with his last jump.

Lu Yuan's mecha now looks like an aircraft suit, chubby and bulky. If it weren't for the fact that the entire mecha was hard as a rock, Pei Sihao would have thought that a large chunk of it was lying there.

"How is it?" Lin Yun asked.

"Still dizzy, how do I restore this mecha to its normal form?" Pei Sihao's first half of the question was in response to Lin Yun, while the second half was a question to Lu Yuan's system.

No sooner had he finished asking than Lu Yuan's mecha began to return to its original state at a speed visible to the naked eye. Soon, the giant "" disappeared, and Lu Yuan reappeared in front of Pei Sihao in his normal state. His special mecha seemed to have vanished completely; it was impossible to tell that Lu Yuan was wearing an exoskeleton.

"If we can only enter the interstellar era in the end, I also want this kind of mech." Pei Sihao looked up at the gap above, where Gu Nanfeng was peering down.

"Okay, I'll go back and study it, and I'll definitely make one for you." Gu Nanfeng nodded and smiled at Pei Sihao.

"It's a promise." Pei Sihao said, then helped Lu Yuan up from the ground. He planned to use his rope to carry Lu Yuan on his back and tie him up before crawling back.

"Speak..." Gu Nanfeng was about to respond to Pei Sihao when Ji Lang interrupted him.

"I advise you not to make promises you can't keep. Haven't you seen the movies?" Ji Lang said, and Gu Nanfeng was stunned. Of course he had seen the movies. Many characters in movies made important promises to important people, and then never came back.

"Stop scaring people!" Pei Sihao and Ji Lang were quite familiar with each other. Hearing him scare Gu Nanfeng like that, and Gu Nanfeng was indeed frightened, although he said that, he was still a little happy inside.

"Stop talking, be careful." Gu Nanfeng heard Pei Sihao interrupting, and turned back to look into the gap.

"I understand..." But before Pei Sihao's words had even faded, the vines in front of Gu Nanfeng and the others began to wriggle. Their feet swayed, and they watched as the gap through which Pei Sihao had gone began to slowly shrink.

"Quick, pull them up!" Gu Nanfeng shouted immediately.

"I can't pull the rope!" Ji Lang was also a quick-witted person. As soon as he felt the vines under his feet move, he started to pull the rope back. But no matter how he pulled, he couldn't move the rope tied around his waist, whether it was the wrong angle or something else.

Gu Nanfeng watched as Lin Yun and Ji Lang tried their best to pull the rope, but they still couldn't budge it at all. While helping them, he looked down through the narrowing gap.

"Brother Gu!" Pei Sihao cried out in surprise. The vine beneath his feet collapsed, and he and Lu Yuan, whom he was carrying, fell into the pile of vines once again. Then, those vines that seemed to have no vitality suddenly started to move, wrapping Pei Sihao and Lu Yuan up and down, and pulling them into the unknown depths.

"Holy crap!" Ji Lang and the others could clearly feel the pressure of the rope. The vines they were on were still only trembling slightly, and the gap was no longer getting smaller. But the rope was getting tighter and tighter, which meant that Pei Sihao and Lu Yuan were sinking deeper and deeper.

With a "bang," the buckle around Ji Lang's waist snapped, and the rope vanished from their sight in an instant. Gu Nanfeng tried to grab it, but failed.

The three of them tried to squeeze through the gap where the rope disappeared, but they couldn't even squeeze through the gap in the first place, and now even Yang Xiao's body couldn't fit through. Gu Nanfeng struck the vines with lightning several times, and the vines seemed to feel the pain, shaking violently several times, making it impossible for them to stand up. They could only stop and think of another way.