Chapter 160 Red Mist Flower
Slowly walking forward in the cave, Xu Xin began to observe the surroundings.
The cave wall is not stone, but some dry soil. The soil is light red. The entire cave wall is composed of this light red contaminated soil (ash).
With a light touch of his hand, a small piece of the wall broke into pieces, fell onto the slope, and rolled down some distance.
"You guys, please don't touch the wall. It's made of dirt and may collapse." Xu Xin reminded the four beasts.
The underground passage inside this cave is rounded from the bottom to the top. Although the ground is sloped, it is relatively flat, while the top is arc-shaped.
The entire cave seemed to have been drilled by a huge insect, all the way underground.
"Hey..." Coco lay on Xu Xin's shoulder, shrinking her head in fear.
It has a very keen sense of danger, and in its sense, they are approaching danger step by step.
Xu Xin naturally knew that there was danger ahead, but he still had to move forward. Now his treehouse is surrounded by mutant vines. Without destroying the heart, he can't even save the treehouse.
Logically speaking, this road should be less than a kilometer away, but he felt like he had walked for a long time. The further down you go, the quieter you get, and the surrounding area has reached the point where you can't see your fingers. Fortunately, Xu Xin has night vision, so it won't have much of an impact on him.
As mutant beasts, Mimi and Silver King can see at night in a dark environment. Although Coco is not a mutant beast, for some reason, he has never been affected by the dark environment. Not to mention bats, which can locate themselves by emitting ultrasonic waves and are completely unaffected by darkness, which is its home territory.
In the cave, the only sound was their footsteps.
Although his nose had adapted to the surrounding aroma, Xu Xin could still feel that the aroma at this time was much stronger than at the entrance, and even began to be pungent, and a faint red mist began to float around.
Suddenly, a red light quietly lit up in front of him, making Xu Xin's heart skip a beat.
Taking a closer look, he found that the light source was Mimi walking in front, and he breathed a sigh of relief.
It was the blood-red patterns on Mimi's body that lit up slightly.
Is it because of the red mist around here?
The blood lines on Ah Fu's body, which was lying on Mimi's back, did not light up. He looked back at Yin Wang and found that there was also a faint red light on Yin Wang's body.
It seems that intermediate mutant beasts are more sensitive to red mist, or in other words, they can use the red mist more efficiently. Even if the red mist is very thin now, it can still be used to strengthen their own strength.
However, this also sounded a wake-up call for him and made him mentally tense for a moment.
His previous experience in the hilly resource area taught him that in places with dense red mist, the protective effect of tree houses will become weaker, and there is a high probability that mutated creatures will exist.
In the cave, the spear was not easy to use. Xu Xin touched the blue-level iron sword on his waist, holding the crossbow with explosive arrows in his hand, followed Mimi, and walked forward slowly. With.
Mimi also didn't dare to walk too fast, and it could also sense that there was an unknown crisis ahead. When it steps on cat steps, its hind feet will definitely step on the ground that has been stepped on by its front paws to ensure its own safety.
Just like this, after walking for a few minutes, it suddenly opened up before my eyes. One person and four beasts walked into an underground space like a hall.
There is no other exit in the entire space. It seems that it should be the end. There were no vines in this space, nor was there a beating "heart" surrounded by vines, which made Xu Xin a little disappointed.
They must have gone wrong. Xu Xin looked at his position on the map and saw that he was still some distance away from the tree house.
However, Xu Xin was not in a hurry to go back. He was attracted by the plants growing in the middle of this space.
They were three huge, very bright flowers, growing together in clusters. The petals of each flower were as big as lotus leaves, showing bright red like drops of blood, and in the center of the countless petals, there were clusters of yellow The stamens look extremely beautiful.
Xu Xin was a little confused, how could there be such bright flowers in this dark underground?
He did not dare to approach easily. After all, in nature, the more beautiful the creatures, the more dangerous they were.
"Hey!" Coco suddenly shouted.
...it means dangerous!
Xu Xin holds an explosive crossbow and aims it at the bright red flowers clustered in front of him. If there is a problem, he will immediately pull the trigger. Silver King came to his side, Ah Fu flapped his wings and flew up, Mimi arched her waist, ready to burst into pieces at any time.
Suddenly, the stamen of one of the flowers trembled a few times, and a rich red mist suddenly sprayed out from the stamen.
Xu Xin almost pulled the trigger, and Mimi's body trembled. She obviously wanted to take action but held back.
The flowers did not keep spraying out red mist, but just sprayed it for a while and then stopped. The red mist continued to spread in the air, and finally diluted into a light red mist.
A few meters away, Xu Xin smelled the familiar pungent smell.
His eyes gradually widened.
The red mist floating in the air was actually released by the flower in front of me!
The red mist spread around them, and Xu Xin couldn't help but inhale some. At this time, his mental power increased, so he didn't feel any discomfort, but he just felt a little unpleasant.
Beside him, the blood patterns on Silver King and Mimi glowed a brighter red than before, and even the blood patterns on Ah Fu's body glowed faintly.
The three beasts all showed expressions of enjoyment. Their abilities are all enhanced by this red mist.
Xu Xin suddenly had a bold idea.
After experiencing the red mist last night, Silver King and Mimi not only had no subsequent negative effects, they even directly escalated today. This shows that this red mist is actually a very beneficial resource for mutant beasts!
The radiation stone that could enhance the strength of the mutated beasts had cracked, lost its effectiveness and turned into an ordinary stone. He needed other means to enhance the strength of the Silver King and them.
And now, this kind of flower that can produce red mist is right in front of him.
Can he plant it? Build a small room, plant this kind of flower in it, and then let the Silver King and the others go in from time to time to steam the red mist like a sauna...
While he was thinking, the stamen of another flower moved and sprayed out a stream of red mist.
This situation reminded Xu Xin of the sunflower in a certain game, which would produce sunlight every once in a while, and this kind of flower would spray out a stream of red mist every once in a while.
Xu Xin took a tentative step forward.
"Hey!" Seeing Xu Xin walking forward, Keke became anxious. It could clearly feel that there was danger in the stamens! It waved its two little paws and gestured for a long time before Xu Xin understood what it meant.
"There is danger in the stamens..." Xu Xin narrowed her eyes.
The flower is not dangerous, the stamen is dangerous. What can be found in the stamen of a flower?
Could it be...
Xu Xin held a crossbow in one hand and took out his sharp spear with the other hand. The gun was three meters long. He gently poked the stamen of the nearest flower from three meters away.
"Buzz..." A sound of an insect flapping its wings came out from the stamens, giving Xu Xin instant goosebumps.
...There are indeed flying insects in the flower stamens!
And it is definitely a very aggressive insect, otherwise it would not arouse Coco's alertness!
Fortunately, the insects did not fly out due to Xu Xin's touch, but there was no movement after making that sound.
"You guys, retreat, I'm going to bomb them." Xu Xin gave up the previous idea and solemnly gave the order to the four beasts.
If there are a lot of highly aggressive mosquitoes, even Silver King and Mimi may not be able to get away completely. Just like an elephant is powerless against a mouse that burrows into its trunk, small size can sometimes be an advantage.
It's better to nip the danger in the bud.
Several flowers are clustered together, very close together, and one explosive crossbow bolt can blow them all up.
If one shot isn't enough, use two.
Suddenly, the stamen of a flower trembled. Xu Xin relied on her super strength to clearly see that dozens of flying insects with blood-red eyes and spikes on their mouths poked half of their bodies out of the stamen. Like a southern cockroach, its body is covered with thin bloody patterns.
They seemed to have seen Xu Xin and his party, they flapped their wings and were about to fly out immediately.
"Cover your ears!" Xu Xin warned the four beasts, and she no longer hesitated and directly pulled the trigger.
"Boom!"
The explosive arrow exploded on the three flowers, and a huge explosion sounded in the enclosed space, making him temporarily deaf.
But his eyes were not damaged by the strong light of the explosion. Instead, he clearly captured the flying insects in the flowers that flapped their wings and tried to fly out at the moment of the explosion, but were still torn to pieces by the force of the explosion.
efficient!
Xu Xin didn't stop the movement of her hands, she wound up the string again and fired!
"Boom!" "Boom!"
Two more shots were fired, and the violent explosion shook the entire cave. Countless pieces of earth and gravel fell from the top of the cave, which also shook Xu Xin's head and made him faint.
Fortunately, he still had the mental power boosts of oranges and strawberries, so his fainting only lasted for a moment, and he immediately regained his peak energy.
...I hope the entrance to the cave will not collapse due to the earthquake. Xu Xin thought as she rubbed her ears that were temporarily deafened by the shock.
The power of these three explosive arrows was very powerful. Broken blood-red petals were blown everywhere. Burnt petals and insect corpses were spread all over the ground. All the insects in the stamens of the three flowers were not spared, and they were all killed. Exploding.
"Explosive arrows are really useful." Xu Xin turned his head, and Coco on his shoulders covered his ears and locked his head. He flicked Coco's little head and said, "How's it going? Is it still dangerous now?"
Coco looked up blankly at the bombed plants, stayed there for two seconds, and shook his head: "Ugh."
The three beasts behind him also covered their ears and lay on the ground. Ah Fu, in particular, had very keen hearing and couldn't bear the huge explosion. Xu Xin could even see a resentful look on its bat face.
"Ahaha, you guys take a rest, I'll go see those flowers."
He calmed the beasts for a while, then walked forward and observed the three large flowers that he had blown up, leaving only a small section of stems and leaves.
They were all blown up, which is a bit of a pity.
Wait a minute, the roots haven’t been blown to pieces, so it seems okay...
Xu Xin took out a shovel, aimed at the root of half the plant, and shoveled it down.
【Obtain Red Mist Flower Seeds*3】
Sure enough, you can also get seeds!
Xu Xin took three grape-sized red seeds in his hand and looked at them.
[Red Mist Flower Seeds: Planted in fertile soil or higher grade soil, they can grow into flowers that release red mist. This is a flower with magical powers! 】
Sure enough, this flower is not a mutated creature, but a special plant that can be grown!
After this event is over, plant this flower in a small closed room to make a sauna for Silver King and the others!
However, it can only grow in blue-level soil or higher-level soil. Is it so squeamish?
Xu Xin has never seen soil above blue level. If it weren't for this introduction, he would have even thought that blue-level soil was the highest-level soil.
He looked at the soil under the red mist flower. It was glowing blue and was fertile soil. There is only this piece of fertile soil in the entire space, so it is no wonder that these three flowers are all crowded together.
After digging out the soil and looking around to make sure there was nothing else, Xu Xin decided to exit the cave and search for the other two caves.
After calling the four beasts, Xu Xin sent a message in [Explorer] while walking outside, telling them about the situation in his cave.
As a result, Wang Lei immediately spoke up.
"Brother Xin, you're too late!! I'm being chased by these bugs! The armor doesn't protect my face! It hurts me so much!"
This...
Xu Xin was confused. This guy actually had time to reply to the message while escaping.
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