An Zhe didn’t understand the cause of the plane’s failure and asked, “So why?”

“I don’t know.” The colonel rarely spoke these three words.

Then he added lightly like he remembered something, “The PL1109 also had an engine failure before it landed safely.”

The PL1109 was the base’s most advanced fighter plane. Listening to Lu Feng’s meaning, it seemed all aircrafts were now at risk of failing. Not long ago, when An Zhe left the human base, he had looked back at the main city and seen the slowly falling PL1109. It turned out that at that time, Lu Feng had already made a trip to the edge of life and death.

“That…” An Zhe whispered. “Then you won’t take a plane in the future?”

Lu Feng said nothing and only rubbed An Zhe’s hair.

They met Xi Bei and briefly talked about the situation before moving on. Everything in their field of view was the wilderness.

Xi Bei looked around. “There really are fewer monsters. There used to be quite a lot here.”

An Zhe knew what this meant. Whether large or small, many creatures died and became part of the mixed-type variants. Since the total number of monsters had decreased, this place looked much safer but the individual monsters were much more dangerous.

However, all these changes occurred within 10 days. The weak monsters were swept away. This process was too fast. An Zhe recalled the monster who greedily ate the gene. Its actions seemed too impatient.

There was a similar scene in his memory—it was the end of autumn in the Abyss.

In winter, the Abyss would become wet and cold. After snowfall, the ground and trees were icy. Many monsters would no longer come out and would hide in warm caves. In order to survive the entire winter, they would furiously kill each other, desperately eating more blood and flesh to store nutrients for the winter. Or they would tow enemies into the cave as food reserves. The month before winter arrived was the most dangerous and bloody time in the Abyss.

Now the same killings were happening outside.

The journey wasn’t long. All along the way, they were cautious enough to choose hidden routes to walk. Perhaps it was luck but they didn’t encounter any horrible mixed-type monsters.

They departed at 8 o’clock and it was 9:30 in the morning when a city half buried in sand appeared in front of them.