Chapter 159 True and False Cave (Another 4,000 words!)
"We must find the heart as quickly as possible!" Xu Xin looked at the tree house surrounded by vines, and a strong sense of urgency arose spontaneously.
Although according to the progress of the blood glow, it will take at least five or six hours before they are fully strengthened, but who knows when these vines will move, and maybe they will attack the tree house before they are fully strengthened. .
These vines are not the sporadic blood-striped vines in the morning, but blood-thorn vines covered with blood thorns! In terms of the power of whipping, it is much stronger than the blood-striped vines whose main attack method is thrusting, and will also cause stronger damage to the treehouse armor.
Xu Xin has left the treehouse. Now the treehouse can only rely on the treehouse armor for defense. Once these vines attack collectively, they may not be able to hold on for long.
"Hey!" Coco climbed onto Xu Xin's shoulders, pushed Xu Xin's face, and pointed at Silver King and Mimi.
As soon as Xu Xin turned her head, she noticed something strange about Silver King and Mimi.
Both beasts were staring at the vines swinging in the wind with blood-red eyes. Mimi arched her back and tensed her body. Silver King also let out a low roar, as if he was about to rush into the vines again. .
Ah Fu flapped his wings in mid-air, not daring to land on Mimi's back.
"You two, calm down." Seeing this, Xu Xin gently stroked the backs of the two beasts and smoothed their fur.
...The character shortcomings of the mid-level mutated beast appeared.
He is extremely aggressive and unafraid of death. He is like a natural warrior, but once he is injured, he will pursue the enemy relentlessly and madly, regardless of his own physical strength and situation.
All the intermediate mutated beasts that Xu Xin encountered were like this, without exception.
Both the mutated hare and the mutated wild cat died because they were too fond of fighting. The mutated swordfish during the rainy season was also led to the tree house by Xu Xin because of this characteristic, and was finally shot through the head with a heavy crossbow and died.
He didn't expect that even Mimi and Silver King would be in this situation.
In the process of breaking through just now, there were a lot of vines, and some of them would attack them. Xu Xin had a purple-level scale armor and was not injured, but Mimi, who was at the front, and Silver King, who was responsible for dealing with both sides, might More or less scratched.
However, they were only minor skin injuries, but despite this, the two beasts still had the tendency to rush into the vines and kill them.
This is not a good sign.
Fortunately, with Xu Xin's comfort, the two beasts quickly stabilized.
"Ouch?" Silver King also imitated Coco and tilted his head, seeming to be wondering why he wanted to rush into the vines just now.
Mimi was stunned for two seconds, and then shook her whole body like a soaked cat, as if to shake the unrealistic thoughts out of her body.
It seems that the two beasts themselves are aware of their gaffe and are adjusting their state.
Fortunately, they can still listen to Xu Xin and control themselves, which greatly reduces the probability of problems.
No more wasting time. Xu Xin turned on her back and looked around.
According to Ji Chaoyang, the entrance to the cave is only a few hundred meters away from the tree house, and it is the newest one.
It's easy to find within a radius of several hundred meters. Xu Xin looked at the map and saw that there were no new cave signs within a one kilometer radius. This map is mainly used to identify living creatures.
"Coco, can you sense that big monster and know which direction it is?" Xu Xin asked as she touched Coco's tail, which crawled onto the back of Silver King's neck.
"Hey..." Coco raised her little paw, pointed at the tree house, and then pointed at the bottom of the tree house.
"What do you mean?" Xu Xin's expression changed.
"Hey!" Coco raised her paw again and made a giant monster gesture, and then pointed to the bottom of the tree house.
"...The heart is right under the tree house?!"
"Hey!" Coco nodded her little head.
Xu Xin took a deep breath.
No wonder.
No wonder Coco has been surprisingly clingy since this morning, following him around no matter what, and even lying on his lap while he was carving. No wonder it had to go out with Xu Xin when she told him to stay in the tree house.
...It turns out that it has always been able to feel that danger is around it, and that heart is under the tree house!
He suddenly thought of what Ji Chaoyang said to him.
"This hole is not bottomless, but is diagonally downward, toward the tree house. The sound came from the hole."
The direction of that hole is towards the tree house! It seems that the same is true for Ji Chaoyang. The heart deep in the cave is actually under the tree house.
Directly under the tree house, the root system of the tree house should be the strongest. I don’t know how the heart appeared in that place.
No matter, since the "heart" is under the tree house, the entrance is not too far from the tree house. It's not that big at just a few hundred meters in radius, and there's a weird aroma wafting out from the back entrance, making it very easy to find.
Xu Xin ordered the beasts to split up. He and Coco went to the south together, while the other three beasts went to the other three directions and just found a hole in the ground and shouted.
As the blue-level fruits on his body continued to increase, Xu Xin ran effortlessly and used his current super eyesight to patrol around.
The trees were very lush and the line of sight was severely blocked. Xu Xin could search like a carpet, but still found nothing.
"Hey!" Coco suddenly screamed, pointing her little paw in one direction.
That was further away from the tree house. Now Xu Xin's position was five or six hundred meters away from the tree house.
However, he still trusted Coco and ran towards that side.
Sure enough, before running a few dozen meters, I smelled a faint fragrance.
It's the smell of diluted red mist!
Xu Xin quickened her pace, and finally found a hole about one or two meters in diameter in the middle of the tree.
"Well done Coco, I still have to rely on you!" Xu Xin rubbed Coco's head hard.
"Hey!" Coco raised her little head.
As expected, the hole was just like what Ji Chaoyang said, diagonally downward and deep, with a slope of about 30 degrees, and the direction was exactly facing the bottom of the tree house.
It seems that this is the hole.
Xu Xin took a breath and prepared to shout to call the other three beasts.
"Ouch——"
Before he could shout, the Silver King's wolf howl sounded from the east of the tree house.
"...Huh?"
What's going on? ! Isn't the hole on his side? Did something happen to the Silver King?
Xu Xin glanced at the map. There were no red dots around the Silver King's position. It also stopped at one position and did not continue its action.
On his side, a dark circular logo has appeared, representing the cave Xu Xin just discovered. Once you discover a cave, you can mark it on the map, which is quite convenient.
"Let's go to Silver King's side to take a look first. Something may have happened there."
"嘤!"
Xu Xin had just taken two steps when Ah Fu's thin scream came from the northwest direction of the tree house. On the map, Ah Fu also stopped at a cave and did not move.
"What's going on?" Xu Xin had already noticed something was wrong.
Could it be that there are many caves in this place!
There was nothing unusual about Mimi's red dot. After hearing the wolf howl of the Silver King, it ran directly towards the Silver King and quickly arrived at the Silver King's location. However, it heard Ah Fu's cry again and stopped. Two seconds later, he ran towards Ah Fu's position again.
"Let's go find the Silver King first." Xu Xin wasted no time and ran quickly in the direction of the Silver King.
However, the distance of a thousand meters could be reached in two minutes with Xu Xin's current physique. Coupled with the buff effects on his body, he didn't even have to breathe heavily.
Tens of meters away, Xu Xin could smell the fragrance.
Sure enough, there is a cave here too!
Quickly walking through the jungle, he saw the lying Silver King and a two-meter-diameter hole beside the Silver King.
The moment he discovered the cave, another cave mark appeared on the map. Looking at the two identical cave signs on the map, Xu Xin sighed.
Sure enough, there are several burrows. This is troublesome.
Xu Xin stepped forward and looked into the cave. Sure enough, it was also diagonally downward, toward the bottom of the tree house. A faint fragrance wafted out, almost exactly like the cave he found.
"Ouch!" "Ouch?" Coco began to communicate with Silver King.
Mimi is also back.
After the beasts communicated for a while, Coco began to make gestures to Xu Xin.
Xu Xin understood immediately: "Afu, is there a cave there?"
"Hey." Coco nodded.
Xu Xin turned around and said: "Go over there first!"
He wanted to mark the hole first so he wouldn't find it later. Perhaps only one of these caves truly leads to the "heart".
Ji Chaoyang was able to find it in one go, probably because he relied on his hearing enhancement to search all the way. Only the hole in the ground that actually leads to the heart can make the sound of heart beating.
If there were many entrances, Ji Chaoyang should also tell him that the sound came from multiple directions, and he was just looking in one direction. Since there is no such thing, it is very likely that only one underground hole is real.
He sent another message to Ji Chaoyang, but still no response. Fortunately, there was no dust on his name, which at least meant that he was still alive.
Silver King was very fast. In less than a minute, Xu Xin saw Ah Fu hanging upside down on the tree and the hole below it.
Turning over and getting off the wolf, Xu Xin took a closer look at the cave. With his extraordinary eyesight, he could see every detail of the cave. Unfortunately, this cave is not much different from the previous two caves, in terms of size, shape, slope of the passage, or the pale red contaminated soil on the walls of the entrance and cave.
At least he couldn't tell the difference.
"Coco, can you detect the difference between these three holes?"
Coco tilted her little head, and then gestured with her little paws: "嘤!"
"Are all three holes dangerous?"
"嘤!"
...It seems that he can only choose randomly. I hope his luck will be better.
After marking these three caves, Xu Xin was still worried. He asked Silver King to run around to see if there were any undiscovered caves. Silver King has good endurance, so a lap is just a warm-up.
He raised his watch and clicked on the [Explorers] group.
In the group, a few people who had not gone out, including Li Wenxi, Zhao Xiaochuan, Qin Yunlong, and Qi Xuefei, were still chatting.
"Everyone, has any of you gone out?" Xu Xin asked.
Wen Guixin: "I have come out and am looking for the cave you mentioned, but I haven't found it yet."
Wang Lei: "I came out too! I came out with the help of Sister Xue Fei's pills!"
Xu Xin was a little surprised when Wang Lei came out. He looked through the records and found out how he came out.
Qi Xuefei: "I have a new pill here. Its efficacy has been confirmed. It can recover all injuries within two hours. The cost is high. I only have one here now. If any of you are willing to go out, I can take this pill." Give it to him.”
Wang Lei: "What do you mean? How are you going to get out?"
Qi Xuefei: "You can now make explosive crossbow bolts. Put on your armor, grab your weapons, take some painkillers, and rush out! As long as you don't die, you can ensure that your injuries are healed by taking this pill after rushing out."
Zhao Xiaochuan: "Oh my god...it sounds so tragic..."
Li Wenxi: "We can't just leave Xu Xin and Sister Gui Xin outside. Ji Chaoyang can't be contacted now, and their information is too little. Otherwise, give it to me. I have blue-level iron armor. I shouldn't be too seriously injured if I force my way out." ”
Zhao Xiaochuan: "How can I let little beauty Wen Xi get out! Give me the pills and I'll get out. I can run fast!"
Li Wenxi: "Then...whoever goes out, I will give him my blue-level armor."
Wang Lei: "!! Real or fake!"
Qin Yunlong: "Send me a blue-level armor set?"
Then, several men in the group began to compete for this spot. Finally, there was silence for a while. Maybe they discussed it in private and decided that it was Wang Lei.
This method is quite clever, but it is still too reckless. If you are restrained by vines and unable to move, you will be dead.
However, now that Wang Lei has come out, he must have his own solution. Xu Xin said nothing more, but Li Wenxi actually gave away the blue-level armor, which surprised him.
The organization seems to be growing more cohesive.
Xu Xin immediately shared his situation and information in the group.
Li Wenxi: "Oh my God! The heart is actually under the tree house!"
Zhao Xiaochuan: "...Brother Xin, why did you say it? I'm so panicked now that I can't do anything..."
Qin Yunlong: "The vines will get stronger as they kill...then we really can't do anything. It all depends on you."
Wen Guixin: "There are actually so many holes! This is a bit uncomfortable!"
Wang Lei: "What else can you do? Just go down if you find one, or come up and find another one...ah! I found one here!"
Not long after Wang Lei broke out of the siege, he found one directly.
Wang Lei: "I'm going down first to explore the way for you. If it's fake, I can tell you what's inside!"
At this time, the Silver King also came back, which meant that there were no other caves around, which made Xu Xin breathe a sigh of relief.
"There should be only three holes around my tree house. I have observed it and there is no difference in appearance. I can only try them one by one. I wish you both good luck."
After Xu Xin finished speaking, she turned off the watch projection and looked at the underground passage with a slope of thirty degrees in front of her.
Let’s start with this cave. This was the first time he had entered the underground passage. Since he came to this world, he has been dealing with the underground.
The passage is two meters wide, and it is perfectly possible to bring the two big guys, Mimi Silver King, in.
Xu Xin decided to let Mimi and Ah Fu explore the way ahead. The cave is Ah Fu's home field, and Mimi's reaction speed is very fast, so even if there are any traps, it will basically not be harmed. Silver King is responsible for cutting off the queen, and he and Coco are in the middle. He has long-range weapons in his hands that can support both front and rear.
Without wasting any more time, one person and four beasts stepped into the cave. (End of chapter)