Chapter 148 Burning Arrows and Explosive Arrows
After the red mist dissipated, the mess covered by the red mist was completely revealed.
The cracked ground did not recover. The originally flat ground was now cracked with cracks and was covered with small holes.
The blood-striped vines killed by Xu Xin, as well as the blood-spiked vines that died in the conflict with each other, were lying on the cracked ground in pieces.
The scene in front of me looked like a land devastated by war.
Xu Xin tried to step forward. Sure enough, without the red mist shrouding the land, there would no longer be those weird underground creatures emerging from this land.
After kicking the vines under her feet, Xu Xin found that the vines did not become crisp and break with a kick.
"Fresh vines?" Xu Xin's eyes lit up.
He squatted down, grabbed the broken vine and pulled it up.
The branches of the blood-striped vine are very smooth. Even though it is only two fingers thick, the overall weight is not light. Even Xu Xin, who has been strengthened many times, can pull this vine up from the ground. Slightly difficult.
There is no improvement, it doesn't seem to be a resource.
Xu Xin frowned, thought for a moment, took out the boning knife and made a cut on the vine. Suddenly, a milky white viscous juice flowed out from the cut of the dead vine.
Xu Xin hurriedly took out the glass bottle that previously contained the mutated beast potion and tried to collect the juice.
[Mutated vine sap (green): It is flammable and flame-resistant. It will continue to burn after being ignited. It can be used to make burning arrows and burning crossbows. It is also one of the raw materials for making explosives. 】
Xu Hui: "!!!"
Burning arrow! Dynamite!
The juice from this vine is so powerful! It turns out to be the material for making incendiary arrows and explosives!
Xu Xin hurriedly opened his watch and looked through the production list, but did not find the formula for the explosive.
"No?" Xu Xin was a little disappointed, and suddenly he slapped his head, "Explosives must be weapons. Even if there is a production formula, it should be in the weapons and armor production bench!"
This is definitely a strategic resource!
Compared with normal arrows, burning arrows have additional fire damage, which can cause tons of damage to plant-like mutant creatures and mutant beasts with thick hair!
Not to mention explosives, the explosion damage is much stronger than the piercing damage of cold weapons!
Xu Xin can't wait to return to the treehouse to check to see if he has unlocked the formula for the explosive.
However, I didn't expect that the juice of this mutated vine was actually flammable. Plants are inherently afraid of fire, and their sap is still flammable. Doesn't this mean that these mutated vines can be easily dealt with using flames?
After thinking about it, Xu Xin temporarily put this idea behind her.
Unless they appear in a location outside the jungle, such as in the underground maze before, Xu Xin can still try to deal with them with fire, otherwise he will only injure the enemy a thousand times and lose a thousand dollars to himself.
Using fire to attack in the jungle is simply out of your mind. He didn't want to experience another bushfire.
Finally, the vine stopped leaking thick juice, and the glass bottle in his hand was nearly half full.
This kind of juice weighs much more than water. Just half a bottle of juice weighs almost as much as three bottles of water, and it feels heavy in your hand.
He threw the vine that no longer leaked liquid in his hand to the ground. Coco immediately jumped off his shoulder and curiously turned over the wrinkled blood-striped vine with her little paws.
Holding the boning knife, Xu Xin began to collect the mutant vine juice, and at the same time recovered all the crossbow arrows he shot.
There were at least hundreds of broken vines on the ground. Except for less than fifty that were shot to death by Xu Xin, the rest were basically the result of cannibalism.
Make a long vertical cut along the vine and the sap from the vine will flow out in large amounts.
At first, he used glass reagent bottles to fill them, but later he found that there were too many, so he simply made a wooden bucket and poured all the juice into the wooden bucket.
In the end, he harvested a small bucket full of milky white sap, weighing hundreds of kilograms.
As for the vine skin that has lost its juice, it has no effect. It is not even a white-level resource.
Satisfied, Xu Xin put the entire bucket of mutated vine juice into his backpack and found that he was very close to the entrance of the salt mine.
"Keke, is there still danger in this cave now?" Xu Xin asked Keke, who had been following him and watching him collect the juice.
"Hey!" Coco nodded.
It seems that the mine is still not protected by the tree house. He looked up at the two eye socket-like holes on the hill, and the bright white light had disappeared.
Xu Xin plucked up the courage and climbed up the hill two or three times and came to the "eye socket".
Looking closer, this is just a relatively large pit on both sides of the hilly stone ridge. It looks very ordinary.
Unable to find anything shining, Xu Xin didn't dare to wait any longer and hurriedly came down from the hill.
Taking one last look at the hills that looked like a giant's head opening its mouth, and the mine that caused all the hills to be shrouded in red mist, Xu Xin didn't stay here any longer, climbed onto the back of the Silver King, and hurried back to the tree house.
When we returned to the tree house, it was already past midnight.
But Xu Xin didn't feel sleepy. As soon as he got into the tree house, he hurried to the weapons and armor manufacturing table and opened the production list.
The first new crafting items to appear are Incendiary Arrows and Incendiary Crossbow Bolts.
[Incendiary Crossbow Bolt (Green): A simple and practical incendiary crossbow bolt with weak penetrating power and will spontaneously ignite after hitting the target. Cannot be recycled. Magical attacks are sometimes more effective than physical attacks! Burning crossbow arrows (green)*20 require wood (green)*4, feathers (green)*2, mutated vine juice (green)*1kg]
Although it cannot be recycled, burning the crossbow bolts only requires wood and vine sap, which saves a lot of materials.
Xu Xin immediately made forty spare rounds.
Continuing to scroll down, Xu Xin finally saw what he had been looking for.
[Small explosives (green): Small explosives will explode upon impact. They are very powerful and can be used to make explosive arrows and explosive crossbow bolts. Small explosives (green)*20 require vine sap (green)*1kg, saltpeter (green)*2kg, charcoal (green)*20]
Small explosives?
It seems different from what he imagined, but...
Small explosives can actually be used to make explosive crossbow arrows!
There was saltpeter, and Li Wenxi had given him some green-grade saltpeter before, but he didn't have charcoal.
The furnace was right next to it, and Xu Xin immediately threw dozens of pieces of wood (green) into the furnace. Charcoal is fired very quickly. After all, it is a primary material used to make torches. It only took two minutes for twenty pieces of charcoal (green) to be fired.
After preparing the materials, Xu Xin immediately made a small explosive (green).
Twenty small explosives the size of firecrackers appeared on the weapon making table.
After the small explosives (green) are produced, the explosive arrows and explosive crossbow bolts are also unlocked in the production list.
[Explosive crossbow bolt (green): A simple and practical explosive crossbow bolt with weak penetrating power and will explode after hitting the target. Cannot be recycled. Explosion is art! Explosive crossbow bolts (green)*20 require wood (green)*4, feathers (green)*2, small explosives (green)*20]
Made immediately, Xu Xin had 20 more explosive crossbow bolts in her hands.
Taking out his crossbow and carefully loading an explosive crossbow bolt, Xu Xin looked out the window and found a poplar tree far away from other trees. He took aim and pulled the trigger.
"Whoosh -" the crossbow bolt was fired. With the blessing of the advanced crossbow, the explosive crossbow bolt was extremely fast, shooting towards the tree like a bullet.
"Boom!"
The moment the crossbow bolt hit the trunk of the tree, a burst of fire lit up, illuminating the surroundings. With a loud explosion, the entire tree was broken in half, sawdust flew, and the poplar tree's broken edge also After the explosion, it gradually burned and had a tendency to burn more and more intensely.
"Ouch!" "Ouch?" "Meow?!"
Coco, who was about to fall asleep on the sofa, and King Yin and Mimi, who were resting in the corner, were so frightened that they jumped up.
The bat hanging under the treehouse let out a piercing scream, flapped its wings and flew to the window, warning Xu Xin in the treehouse that there was an emergency under the treehouse.
"It's okay, it's okay, I did it, don't panic!" Xu Xin quickly explained.
After hearing Xu Xin's words, Silver King lay down in the corner with relief. Mimi seemed to give Xu Xin a blank look and also lay down. The bat stopped at the window, tilted its head, and after making sure there was no danger, it flew back to the tree house and hung there again.
Coco regained her energy. Seeing that Xu Xin seemed to be going out, she immediately climbed on his shoulder.
Xu Xin and Coco came down from the tree house and came to the broken poplar tree. They poured a bucket of water on it to put out the fire.
The poplar tree was not only broken by the explosion, but also a large section was broken into pieces. The sawdust flew everywhere, and the flying sawdust contained some sparks. Fortunately, Xu Xin specially picked a tree that was far away from other vegetation.
But he didn't dare to be careless. He poured a few buckets of water around where there were sparks, and then he felt relieved.
This power is indeed great, and the damage range is much stronger than ordinary crossbow arrows that can only penetrate and poisonous crossbow arrows that are basically useless nowadays
"However, explosive arrows are the same as burning arrows. They can be used or not used. The explosion can also cause a fire."
Xu Xin was a little troubled. He finally obtained two powerful weapons, but they were not convenient to use in the jungle.
Looking at the watch, it was already two o'clock in the middle of the night. The jungle at night was still terrifyingly quiet even after it fired an explosive arrow.
Returning to the tree house, Xu Xin used saltpeter (blue) to cool down as a habit, and then lay down on the bed.
I really experienced too many things on this day.
……
Xu Xin was woken up by a mysterious sound again.
[Starting today, all survivors have officially entered the second stage of survival. 】
[The content of the activities will be introduced next. 】
[The rainy season is over, the jungle is reborn, and the tree house is nourished by rain and thunder]
[To all survivors who survived the rainstorm season, your treehouse will grow and evolve again for one day and one night. 】
[You must have noticed that the tree house’s protective capabilities are now weakening. 】
[This event is: Treehouse Defense Battle. Not only does the growing treehouse's protective capabilities weaken, it is also much more fragile than before. This time, it's up to the survivors to protect their own treehouses! 】
[Your mission is to protect your tree house in the next day and night! 】
[Friendly reminder, even if the treehouse’s protective capabilities are weakened, never explore areas outside the treehouse’s protection range, otherwise very scary things will happen. 】
[The reward event time is from 6:00 today to 6:00 tomorrow]
[After this mission, the tree house will usher in new upgrades and functions. 】
[The treehouse defense battle begins now! 】
Listening to the content of the event, Xu Xin suddenly woke up.
Treehouse defense? !
This event actually started at six o'clock, without even a warning in advance! (End of chapter)