Chapter 240 Not afraid of the vines in the protected area
The four of them rode to Li Yajun's tree house. Li Wenxi waved and said hello: "Hello! Ah, no need to come down, we are just passing by. We still have things to do. We will take you away in the evening!"
Seeing that Li Yajun was about to come down, Li Wenxi said hurriedly.
"That's it... um, hello, everyone." Li Yajun didn't come down even after hearing this. It was still very cold outside for someone like her who didn't have a blue-level suit.
"This is Ji Chaoyang and this is Qi Xuefei. You should know them both." Xu Xin introduced the two people on the white horse to her.
"Okay." Ji Chaoyang and Qi Xuefei rode on white horses and nodded towards Li Yajun.
"Hello, hello!" Li Yajun responded immediately.
"Is there anything unusual nearby during this period?" Xu Xin asked Li Yajun.
"No, I've been observing the surroundings and haven't found anything unusual." Li Yajun shook his head, "In this climate now, there are very few flying insects and birds. The surroundings are very quiet. The only change is that in the north The tree house is gone, it must have been made by you, right?”
"Well, it's indeed us. Since it's not there, forget it. We'll leave first and pick you up later."
"Okay, get to work!"
Several people discussed it and finally decided to go east to have a look.
The southeast side of where they are now is where they encountered the thick and powerful mutated vines.
There might be some problems in this area, and you might be able to make some special discoveries there.
The protected area of Li Yajun's tree house is only six kilometers long. Soon, in less than ten minutes, they reached the edge of the protected area.
"嘤...嘤!"
Just when he was about to reach the edge, Coco suddenly woke up from his sleep and let out a drowsy cry.
It slowly opened its eyes, and when it saw the scene in front of it, it immediately pushed Xu Xin's belly with its small paws and screamed anxiously.
"Stop, the protected areas ahead are no longer connected."
Xu Xin touched Coco's little head. He understood what Coco meant. It was obviously telling him that there was danger ahead.
Silver King and White Horse immediately stopped at the edge of the reserve.
The Silver King once again showed some hostility, but this was probably due to its experience last time. This time it just bared its teeth at the outside of the protected area and did not appear to be on the verge of losing its mind.
The white horse on the side had no unusual reaction.
"Let's try to see if there is anything unusual about the vines here." Xu Xin got off Silver King.
"Okay." Ji Chaoyang also got off his horse.
"Huh? Xu Xin, the blood lines on Silver King's body are brightening again!" When Xu Xin was about to move forward, Li Wenxi's exclamation came from behind.
"Again?"
He immediately turned back to look at Silver King, and saw that the blood lines on Silver King's body began to gradually light up again, and became brighter and brighter, even brighter than the last time he was in Li Yajun's tree house!
The Silver King originally looked a little tired and had already laid down to rest, but after the blood lines lit up, it seemed to have regained all its strength immediately and stood up energetically.
"Hey!" Coco lay curiously on the blood lines on Silver King's back, picking at the bright red hair with her little paws.
Seeing the blood lines on Silver King's body that were even brighter than last time, Xu Xin touched his chin.
He had an uncertain guess in his mind.
The blood streaks on Silver King's body were brighter than last time, probably because the location they were in now was closer to Li Yajun's treehouse, where the Silver King's blood streaks were lit up before, than the one he suspected could be there. Unknown objects that affect mutated creatures.
As for why it suddenly lit up when they reached their current location, it may be because this thing does not always affect mutant creatures, but only affects them every once in a while.
The evidence is that the blood streaks on Silver King's body lit up and dimmed before when he was running. However, after they arrived at Li Yajun's tree house and sat for a while, the blood streaks on Silver King's body only lit up once.
Then as they walked further north, the blood lines gradually dimmed again.
"Could it be..." Xu Xin turned her head and looked at the dangerous area behind her, "Could it be that that special thing is in this inaccessible dangerous area?"
"What's wrong?" Ji Chaoyang and the others came over and looked surprised when they saw the bright red and dazzling blood lines on King Yin's body.
The scene where blood streaks lit up has been witnessed by all the surviving survivors. During the defense war, the blood streaks and blood thorns on the vines flickered and dimmed with the beating of the mutated plant's heart.
Ji Chaoyang was the first to react. He looked around: "Are there things around here that can enhance the abilities of mutated creatures, like mutated plant hearts?"
"My guess is the same." Xu Xin responded.
He looked at the dangerous area ahead, took a breath and walked forward slowly.
I don't know how many steps I took, but a familiar sense of crisis suddenly rose from the bottom of my heart.
Out of the protected area!
He immediately retracted his feet quickly.
"Click!"
The ground he stepped on cracked instantly, and the long-lost red dot on the map quickly lit up again.
A thick blood-thorn vine suddenly emerged from the gap in the ground and rushed ten meters into the air!
Against the backdrop of the bleak surroundings, this thick green and blood-red vine looked very eye-catching and terrifying!
The blood thorns on the vines are actually the same bright blood red as those on the Silver King! Much brighter than the bloody thorn vines last time!
Xu Xin's pupils shrank suddenly.
He thought of those powerful mutated vines from last time.
Those vines entered the protected area for a moment and attacked them. After entering the protected area, the blood patterns on the vines also lit up instantly, so that the vines were not affected by the protected area!
The vines that light up with blood streaks can stay briefly in the protected area!
Then this vine...!
"Back away, hide!"
Xu Xin shouted, pulling Li Wenxi and throwing herself backwards.
"Hey!" Coco's cry also sounded from behind.
Ji Chaoyang and Qi Xuefei are also people who have experienced countless dangers. When they saw Xu Xin's actions, they reacted instantly and subconsciously fell back with him!
"Whoosh——"
The sound of breaking wind sounded above the heads of several people, and a thick vine covered with blood thorns, with the violent sound of breaking wind, quickly flew past their original chest height!
"Crack!" The vine hit a poplar tree heavily with great speed and force. The poplar tree immediately broke into two pieces, making the sound of the trunk breaking.
Sure enough, the vines with the blood streaks lit up can attack the survivors inside the protected area!
If Xu Xin hadn't reacted quickly and brought them all down, this vine would have hit them directly!
"What's going on?!" Qi Xuefei, who had never experienced those things with them, exclaimed after throwing herself to the ground, turning her head to look at the vines, "This thick vine can actually attack the inside of the protected area! ”
After the vine was thrown into the protected area once, it did not stop attacking, but continued to launch a rapid attack on the initiator who lured it out - Xu Xin!
The bright blood thorns on the vines that were violently pulled out looked like they were stained with the blood of countless lives, which made people feel scared just looking at them!
But Xu Xin is not afraid!
He had just been caught off guard. He was afraid that the vine would hurt the people around him, so he fell to the ground to dodge. If faced head-on, how could he be afraid of such a blood-thorn vine that has not yet reached the level of an intermediate mutant creature?
The moment the vines came out, he quickly took out his purple-grade steel halberd from his backpack. In conjunction with the increase in strength, he swung his arms with great strength and tilted towards the vines thrown towards him. Pick and chop!
"Click!"
As he expected, the side blade of the halberd cut through the vines without any hindrance, and the blood-thorn vines were cut into two pieces like fragile tofu.
A surge of life force spread along the halberd handle to his whole body, lifting his spirit.
The section that was cut off was still thrown towards Xu Xin rapidly by relying on inertia.
He didn't panic at all, turning slightly to one side and dodging easily.
"Bang!"
Half of a vine ten centimeters thick hit behind Xu Xin, making a loud noise.
At the same time, Silver King also rushed up from behind. Li Wenxi and Ji Chaoyang on the side had already taken out their crossbows, aiming at the roots of the half-blooded vines that were beginning to dim and retract, and they fired almost simultaneously. the trigger.
"Boom!" "Boom!"
Two overlapping explosions sounded, and smoke filled the air. Half of the vines slowly fell out of the smoke and hit the ground heavily.
Its bright red blood spurs dimmed quickly, and it twisted twice on the ground, and then stopped completely. (End of chapter)