Chapter 182 The Broken Tree House
Xu Xin called Ah Fu in, and one person and two animals finished the meal quickly.
When they arrived on the first floor, Silver King and Mimi had basically finished dealing with the pile of vines. There were many shriveled vines scattered around, and four buckets of mutant vine juice were placed on the ground.
Seeing that they had finished processing the last one, Xu Xin put away the mutant vine juice. The total amount was more than 400 kilograms, which was enough for a period of time.
"You two did a good job, do you want to take a break? Or we can leave now."
"Ouch!" Silver King yelled, indicating that he was full of energy and didn't need to rest. Mimi also paced to his side. It was obvious that he couldn't wait to go out.
After taking the four beasts to the tree house, Ai Fei had come back. It seemed that the mine had been mostly dealt with.
Next time he goes to the mine, he will have to add some waterproofing measures to the mine, otherwise it will be bad if it rains and gets flooded. The same is true for the cave where the beloved concubine lives.
In fact, generally pangolins do not have a fixed residence, and they basically change places every two or three days, so Aifei may not have any awareness of waterproofing. However, the soil is actually relatively unimportant. As long as it is not a super heavy rain, the water will generally be absorbed by the soil.
Because Ai Fei still had to take care of two little ones, Xu Xin didn't take it with her. Moreover, it was not fast and would slow them down.
He originally planned to let his concubine dig another hole in the ground near the tree house to use it as an underground space for planting red mist flowers and build a "sauna" for them. But once the steel frame structure became available, he gave up the idea of building underground.
It's better to just build a small room on the ground, so you don't have to worry about water getting in when it rains.
Let’s wait until he comes back to talk about this. Now he can’t wait to find other people’s tree houses!
After getting on the wolf's back, Coco followed suit and climbed onto the back of Silver King's neck. Mimi paced back and forth beside her, while Ah Fu lay on top of her. All ready.
Xu Xin touched Coco's tail, pointed in the east direction and said: "Let's go over there! Don't run too fast, I want to observe carefully."
"Ouch--" Silver King let out a habitual howl and started running.
Soon, they ran out of the resource area and came to a place that Xu Xin had not explored before.
With his discernment ability, he knew that there was no resource area here, so he had never explored it before.
He usually moves between the tree house and the northwest hill resource area. He only came to the east when he obtained the copper treasure chest in the [Jungle Exploration Activity].
But this side is indeed as he imagined, very deserted, probably due to the second stage. There is not even a fruit tree here, and there are large tracts of white grade poplar trees, occasionally dotted with green light, which are in line with the spawn point. Almost as barren.
After walking for so long, not only did his identification ability fail to find any usable resources on the ground, but his alchemy ability also failed to find any alchemical materials.
...This place is too barren.
Xu Xin's current treehouse protection range is nine kilometers in radius, and he is now almost at the edge of the protection range before the upgrade, which is about six kilometers.
There was a small hill 100 meters or 20 meters away. Xu Xin let the Silver King run over, while she turned over and got off the wolf.
To be honest, he now has an inexplicable fear of these hills. He always feels that these raised hills in the jungle are disguised by monsters.
"Coco, is there no danger in this hill?"
"Huh?" Coco tilted her little head to show that she didn't notice the danger.
Also, if there is danger, it will take the first step to protect itself.
Xu Xin climbed to the top of the hill in two or three steps, and Mimi jumped to the top of the hill with him very dexterously and easily.
He looked towards the east. Wherever he could see, there was still a dense jungle, with no end as far as the eye could see.
The identification ability only has a range of one kilometer. He did not see the light of any resources within this kilometer, which means that there is nothing worth exploring nearby.
"That's...?"
In the southeast direction, about six or seven kilometers away, within the distance that his current vision could clearly distinguish, Xu Xin saw a special tree that was a bit taller than the surrounding trees. The dense branches and leaves were like Look, it’s a banyan tree.
Found it, the treehouses of other survivors!
Judging from the height, it should be a double-story tree house, with the tree crown much smaller than his. It should be the kind of low tree house that is one floor itself, with an additional floor added during the dungeon activities.
Well, a treehouse for ordinary survivalists.
"Can you see the tree that is similar to our tree house?" Xu Xin asked Mimi.
The pupils in Mimi's eyes shrank into a vertical line, then she nodded and let out a soft cry.
This actually surprised Xu Xin.
Although the visual range of ordinary cats is larger than that of humans, and the visual sensitivity is many times that of humans, most of them are short-sighted and can only see things close up clearly, and everything in the distance is blurry.
He didn't expect that Mimi could actually see things seven or eight kilometers away.
Can this mutation actually enhance vision? He is increasingly confused about the direction of this mutation.
It seems that as long as one can control one's mind and not lose one's will, this mutation will develop in a favorable direction. Perhaps, it can really be called an evolution.
Xu Xin and Mimi came down from the hills, turned over and pointed in the direction of the tree house: "Silver King, go in that direction."
The Silver King howled in response and started running again.
At this stage, there are no wild beasts or mutated creatures around, and one person and four beasts are advancing without any hindrance.
After a minute or two, Silver King was almost nine kilometers away and should be about to step out of the dividing line.
"Silver King, slow down!" Xu Xin was still very cautious.
Judging from the distance, he should have already entered the protected area of the tree house he just saw. The current location should be the overlap between his tree house protected area and that tree house protected area.
After taking two steps forward, a voice suddenly sounded.
[Reminder, don’t leave the tree house more than nine kilometers, otherwise something you don’t want to see will happen. 】
"Stop!" Xu Xin called out to stop Yin Wang and Mimi.
"Huh?" Coco turned her head and didn't understand why Xu Xin stopped.
What does this prompt sound mean again? Doesn’t other people’s treehouses protect him?
However, judging from Coco's attitude, there didn't seem to be any danger, but Xu Xin felt that she should still be more cautious. He pointed to the jungle ahead and said to Mimi: "Mimi, quickly go around the forest in front and be careful."
Mimi is not afraid of things that come out of the ground.
Mimi instantly jumped forward and jumped outside the protected area in one step. Then she looked back at Xu Xin and began to walk slowly.
Xu Xin: "..."
He felt despised.
"Let's go." Xu Xin said helplessly to King Yin.
He suddenly discovered that among the four humans and beasts, he seemed to be the only one unable to detect the existence of mutated creatures underground.
Silver King Mimi and Ah Fu are both mutated beasts, and they should be able to sense whether there are mutated creatures around them. Coco is special, and it's okay. Only with him, the map can only see whether there are enemy units above the ground.
But it doesn't matter, they are his contracted beasts, and their abilities are his abilities. It seems that he doesn't need to be so careful in the future, they will remind him.
Silver King stepped out of the protected area.
[If you leave the protected area, survivors will not be protected by the tree house. It is recommended to return immediately! 】
This reminder is really bluffing. If people who don’t know the truth hear this, they really don’t dare to move forward.
One person and four beasts continued to move towards the tree house.
"The surrounding area is really desolate..." Xu Xin sighed.
He was indeed lucky and found a place with mountains, water and resource areas. Although there were more beasts when the beasts awakened, and there was a giant anaconda in the lake, at least there was no shortage of anything around him.
It is really difficult to take root in a place like this in the early stage.
Continuing to move forward, Xu Xin saw a patch of green in front of her eyes.
It's not the green of the resource area, but a small patch of green, the color of the tree house and a small patch of green-level trees planted by the survivors near the tree house.
These green-level trees should be planted after enriching the soil with fertilizer.
Other than that, the surroundings are still so desolate.
Xu Xin quickly arrived under the tree house.
He frowned as he looked at the tree house.
What's going on? Why is the trunk of this tree so damaged?
Although the crown of the tree seems to be very prosperous, the leaves have begun to turn yellow, and the trunk looks like it has been chopped into pieces. There are no treehouse armors installed, and there are scratches several centimeters deep on them, and there are even some Punctured pair of piercing holes.
Apparently, this is a treehouse that had its fair share of vine attacks at yesterday's event.
This tree house should be close to death.
His hearing is now very strong and he can hear everything going on around him, but the entire treehouse is very quiet, as if no one is there.
Being so close to his treehouse, he should be from the same area.
Could it be that the treehouses of those who disobeyed and died during the day were why they were attacked like this at night?
Xu Xin came to the tree house and touched the trunk.
[The dying low treehouse (green): A dilapidated treehouse that has lost its owner. A treehouse that loses its owner will dry up and die after 24 hours. The remaining survival time of this treehouse is: 5 hours and 21 minutes. 】
Sure enough, there was no one in the tree house, and the owner of the tree house was dead!
Moreover, the time is wrong!
According to time estimates, the owner of this tree house died in the attack by vines and ants last night.
...isn’t it right?
Although some people who refused to listen died in their area during the day, after Xu Xin and others distributed the heart fragments at night, the number of people displayed on the regional channel never dropped again.
Xu Xin checked the number of people on the regional channel again. It was 3,016 people. There was nothing wrong with it. That was the number of people last night. What's going on? The owner of this tree house is not from their area?
(End of chapter)