The Immortal Ruins - Chapter 35 The Strange Fruit On The Peak

Jiang Shaoliu had not seen Xiao Bai for serval days. The tiger’s belly had become swollen and heavy, as if he was being very well fed in the meantime.

Jiang Shaoliu got out of the vehicle and Xian Bai immediately threw himself on him, affectionately sinking his big head into his arms.

The huge grey wolf behind him whined and sunk back, but it felt better after Liu Guang comforted it.

The black bear was looking much better. It sat in the back hesitantly.

Chen Anguo walked over to the black bear and patted it on the head. “I’ve named this guy Da Hei.”

Da Hei nodded and grunted softly.

“Hey, he understands you!” Jiang Shaoliu said in surprise.

Chen Anguo shook his head, “Xiao Bai has been helping me train him. I’ve tested him yesterday and he has an IQ equivalent to a two-year-old child’s and can understand simple commands.”

“Wow, well done, Xiao Bai!” Jiang Shaoliu gently scratched the tiger’s head. Xiao Bai huffed with pleasure.

The military was feeding him well and he could eat as much as he wanted. He had been enjoying himself in those past few days, especially since he could push the black bear around whenever he wanted.

“Why don’t we get back to headquarters on foot? It’s only three miles from here.” Liu Guang jumped on the wolf’s back and pointed to the distance: “Let’s have Xiao Hui and Xiao Bai race.”

Jiang Shaoliu jumped onto the tiger and patted him on the head: “Come on, Xiao Bai, don’t lose me face!”

Chen Anguo didn’t want to participate since he had to drive the armored car and Da Hei hadn’t fully recovered yet.

“3, 2, 1” Jiang Shaoliu clapped: “Go!”

The wolf and the tiger shot out at full speed.

Seventy miles southwest of Yungang city.

This area used to be Baita Airport, but after the great changes the landscape had stretched to ten times its original size.

Monstrous beasts roamed the land while tall waterfalls and deep streams murmured in the dense forests that had cropped up everywhere.

Rusting aircraft wreckage lay near a collapsed, seven-tier white pagoda. Thick vines grew over many abandoned ruins; rubble lay all around.

Three human masters were resting near the white pagoda. One of them stood up and squinted into the distance.

“That’s the Valentine Valley and the Liang Duan cliffs,” he said. “I heard they are named after the lady from the Gangxing Group who first discovered them.”

Far away lay a great mountain which looked as if it had been cloven in half by a gigantic axe, in the center of which was a deep valley no more than two miles wide, with sheer cliffs on either side. The peak of the mountain disappeared in the clouds.

The second master didn’t even look up. “What about them?” he said with a mouthful of energy bar. “There are more three-ringed monsters in there than rocks. The three of us alone have no business setting foot in there, unless you’re curious about what being eaten feels like.”

The third one looked up and glanced at the mountain, then he pointed his smart watch at it and began taking picture. “I’ll put a photo on my Weibo Moments. Now we’re as cool as her.”

The first one was going to make a snarky comment, but then he spotted something far away. “Hey, what’s that?”

Wispy clouds were rolling up the steep cliff faces like boiling water overflowing from a pot. A faint glow penetrated the clouds shrouding the peak of the mountain. The rosy clouds rising slowly from the Valentine Valley could be seen from dozens of miles away.