Chapter 184 Parasitic Tree House
Xu Xin immediately took out his shovel (blue) and dug into the roots of the tree house.
When he dug down a tree with a shovel, he could clearly feel the feeling of digging and collecting. This feel is different from ordinary digging.
"There's something going on!" Xu Xin was delighted and continued to dig with the shovel.
Upon seeing this, King Yin stepped forward and wanted to help, but Xu Xin stopped him. Although I don’t know if seeds can be found by digging up a tree house, but if so, only using a shovel can 100% guarantee that the seeds will be dug out.
Digging shovel after shovel, although every time it feels like collecting, the process is very long.
In the past, those poplar fruit trees could be dug down in just one or two or three times at most. This treehouse is just a green-level [low treehouse], and it’s already dead. I didn’t expect it to be so difficult to dig.
Isn't it impossible to dig it out?
Xu Xin did not stop what she was doing and continued digging.
After digging for nearly half an hour, the roots of the tree house were exposed. When he felt that there would be no seeds left in the tree house and wanted to give up, he finally heard a subtle cracking sound from the tree roots.
Small cracks appear from the roots and gradually become apparent. Then, the half of the broken tree trunk above the ground, riddled with holes, began to sway slightly, teetering on the verge of collapse.
Xu Xin stretched out her hand and pushed gently. The broken tree trunk was uprooted with its broken roots, and fell to the ground with a crash, raising a cloud of dust.
In the soil pit where the tree trunk originally stood, a light yellow walnut-sized seed lay quietly in it. It was about the same color as the surrounding soil and was quite inconspicuous.
Xu Xin is very familiar with seeds of this size and color. When he first came to this world, he held a seed like this for two days before planting it!
"There really is a tree house seed!" Xu Xin was overjoyed and immediately picked up the seed from the pit.
[Parasite tree house seeds: Seeds obtained by digging up ordinary tree houses can be used to plant parasitic tree houses.
A parasitic treehouse does not have a treehouse core and requires a host to provide it with nutrients and treehouse capabilities. It can only be planted within the protected area of a normal treehouse, with its roots connected to the roots of the host.
The shape of the tree house planted from this seed has nothing to do with soil fertility, but only depends on the original shape of the tree house before being dug. 】
"...Isn't this the kind of tree house seed we had before?" Xu Xin looked at the introduction and opened her eyes a little wider, "Parasite tree house seed?"
The core of the tree house is the crystal white orb he just obtained, which can provide growth energy for the tree house.
But the tree house that can be planted with the seed in his hand has no core, and can only be planted within the tree house protection zone, parasitizing on the roots of other tree houses, and surviving by sucking nutrients from other tree houses.
...He was also thinking about whether he could mass-produce treehouse cores by planting treehouses and then cutting them down. It seemed that he was overthinking.
This seed is not like the previous tree house seeds. Planted in soil with different levels of fertility, it will grow into different levels of tree houses.
Xu Xin recalled the dilapidated two-story tree house just now.
In other words, if he plants this seed within his protected area, no matter what grade of soil it is, it will eventually grow into the shape of that two-story tree house.
"Isn't this equivalent to transplanting the tree house directly?"
Xu Xin squinted his eyes, realizing the meaning behind this function.
If all treehouses can dig out seeds, wouldn’t digging out other people’s treehouse seeds and planting them within their own protected areas be equivalent to an organization centered on him?
However, he still doesn't know the relationship between the parasitic tree house and the host tree house. Maybe the host can completely control the parasitic tree house, or maybe the host must provide something to the parasitic tree house.
He decided to go back and plant the tree house seeds near his tree house to analyze the situation.
The tree trunks on the ground cannot be wasted either.
He took out his iron ax and chopped down on the trunk of the tree house.
But unfortunately, there is nothing special about the trunk. Because this tree house is a low tree house (green), the material cut down is ordinary green grade wood.
By the way, if he cuts down his own treehouse, he should be able to get purple-level wood...
There must be a treehouse core in his treehouse. The treehouse core he obtained this time is called [the core of the low and small treehouse], so his should be called [the core of the tall and small treehouse], and the functions must be different.
He has no way to chop down his own treehouse, but if he encounters other people's treehouses in the future...
...High-level resources can really make people have evil thoughts. But in this world, this is not considered an evil thought.
If you don't belong to the same camp, it's just the jungle of the jungle.
"Mimi!" Xu Xin called out, and a few seconds later, Mimi, who was walking around, jumped out of the jungle and stepped beside him lightly and silently.
"Let's go back."
There was nothing left here, so he decided to go back and study the two special resources he obtained this time, [Treehouse Core] and [Parasite Treehouse Seed].
Riding on the Silver King, one man and four beasts began to rush back.
[We have returned to the treehouse protection area. 】
While Silver King was running, Xu Xin's ear sounded again.
During that section of the journey, although we were outside the protected area, we were indeed not attacked.
It seems that, as mentioned in the introduction, even if the tree house is dead and the seeds are dug out, the roots are still deterring underground creatures.
However, if there are no special circumstances, I still won’t come to this area. The protected area here is actually like a scarecrow in a wheat field. It can only act as a deterrent. Once underground creatures discover clues, they will still swarm up.
In the first treasure chest event, those underground creatures must have been forced to emerge from the ground. If this situation continues in the future, and the underground creatures that are forced out find that they will not die after coming to the surface, then this area will no longer be safe.
Silver King was very fast. In less than ten minutes, Xu Xin had returned to his tree house. He sent several beasts back to the tree house, and he was going to go down first to find a place suitable for planting a tree house.
"Hey!" It could be seen that Xu Xin was about to go out again, so she jumped directly on his shoulder.
Xu Xin touched its little head and took it out of the door.
"Where should I plant this seed..." A map appeared in Xu Xin's mind.
There is still too little information at the moment. He doesn't know what the function of this parasitic tree house is and how it is different from an ordinary tree house. But since they are all tree houses, it would be more appropriate to stay closer.
Ultimately, he decided to plant the treehouse at the very edge of his plant heart's protective perimeter. In this way, the parasitic treehouse can be protected by the heart of the plant and function as a sentry tower.
Arriving nearly a hundred meters away from the tree house, Xu Xin planted the seed.
Because the parasitic treehouse obtains nutrients from the roots of the host treehouse and has nothing to do with the soil, he did not use blue-level soil, but planted it on a piece of ordinary soil.
The moment it was planted, a bud broke out of the ground and began to grow at an extremely fast speed.
This speed is countless times faster than when Xu Xin planted his tree house!
"Hey!" Coco, who was lying on the ground and observing very closely, was almost poked by the rapidly growing tree house seedlings. He jumped back on Xu Xin's shoulder after two or three times, grinning at the seedlings on the ground.
"So fast!" Xu Xin was also shocked. In just a few seconds, the seed had grown into a small tree.
His treehouse took two hours to grow, but this treehouse probably only took a few minutes, right?
Xu Xin touched the small tree that had grown to the thickness of an arm.
[Low parasitic tree house seedling (green): It will take another 4 minutes and 43 seconds to grow into a tree house. 】
Five minutes! So fast!
Xu Xin took a few steps back, stroking Coco's big fluffy tail while observing the growth of the tree house.
Five minutes later, a two-story low tree house appeared completely in front of him.
The lowest point of the tree crown is only three meters high, and the highest point is only ten meters, not even as high as the trunk of his own tree house.
He reached out and touched the treehouse that had grown.
[Low parasitic treehouse (green): A treehouse without a treehouse core, now parasitic on a tall treehouse (purple). Because it is parasitic on the roots of the host and does not have a strong root system, the parasitic tree house does not have its own protected area.
Parasitic tree houses cannot be transplanted, but as long as the host does not die, they can regenerate within a period of time even if they are cut down. Once the host dies, the parasitic treehouse will die with it. 】
...This kind of tree house can be regenerated infinitely as long as the host does not die!
This has great strategic significance! Xu Xin's brain began to work rapidly.
If many treehouses are transplanted into his protection area in this way, an extremely powerful team can be formed. In the event of a disaster or war, as long as his treehouse is not destroyed, all the treehouses parasitic in his protected area will all regenerate after a period of time and return to their original appearance!
Automated post-disaster reconstruction!
Xu Xin looked at the newly grown tree house.
Under this tree house, he could feel the feeling of being integrated with the tree house under his own tree house. As soon as he thought, the roots of the tree house wrapped around his waist and brought him and Coco together. Arriving inside the tree house.
The first floor of the tree house is empty. The area of more than 20 square meters is still too small in Xu Xin's opinion. There is only one screen embedded in the wooden outer wall of the tree house on the entire first floor. The screen is black and there is no start up.
He walked forward and touched the screen, which instantly lit up.
[Parasite tree house host launches]
[Current treehouse holder: Xu Xin. If you need to change the holder, you need to operate it in the host tree house. 】
[Currently all functions are locked and need to be unlocked in the host treehouse. 】
The three prompts made Xu Xin's eyes brighter and brighter.
From this point of view, as the holder of the host tree house, he has supreme control over these parasitic tree houses!
The holder of the treehouse can be replaced. If he changes the holder of the treehouse to another person, then that person can control the roots of the treehouse to enter and exit the treehouse at will, and can also use the ability of the treehouse to make, etc.
The ability of this treehouse also requires him to control the host treehouse, that is, the screen in his treehouse to unlock it.
But he doesn't need to go back to the treehouse, because he has a purple-level treehouse watch, which has all the abilities of the treehouse.
Opening the watch, it displayed the virtual main business, and he saw a new main option appeared on it.
【Parasite Tree House】(End of Chapter)