Chapter 307: Survivors, predators?
"Should we be able to communicate within today?" Xu Xin opened his watch, but no one on the regional channel spoke.
Then he saw the private message Li Wenxi just sent him: "Have you recovered?"
"Huh?" He turned to look at Li Wenxi.
Li Wenxi was also looking at him, with surprise in his eyes: "Our communication has actually been restored!"
Could it be said that after the tide of beasts surrounding the tree house subsides, the tree house will also resume communications?
He immediately sent the message in [Explorer].
Xu Xin: "Has anyone restored communication?"
Sure enough, the message was sent!
And there was a reply immediately in [Explorer].
Wen Guixin: "???Huh? How come you can speak suddenly? I saw no one spoke on the regional channel, so I thought it had not recovered..."
With Wen Guixin's ability, she might be able to repel the beast tide faster than him.
Qi Xuefei: "Can you see what I said?"
Ji Chaoyang: "It should be just those of us who have dispersed the beast tide around us. Communication will be restored and others will not be able to receive our news."
Li Wenxi: "Hey, I found it! I sent a private message to Xu Xin and found out that we can communicate!"
Wen Guixin: "It seems that I am the only one who has dispersed the beast tide...those guys are so slow! Forget it, I'll go help them."
Xu Xin: "You should be able to control mutant creatures and let them serve as mounts for you and take you with you, right?"
Wen Guixin: "Okay, okay, but if a beast is infected and runs at full speed, it usually only lives for ten minutes. In other words, I have to change it every ten minutes. And under normal circumstances, how can I I just found a big guy that I can ride... Most of the time is wasted on walking.”
Indeed, with her ability, all living creatures have become consumables, which is indeed inconvenient when traveling long distances.
Li Wenxi: "Now that the wild animals have returned, there should be a lot of deer, horses, cows, etc. on the road. It should be very convenient."
Wen Guixin: "...it's not convenient at all. They are all afraid of me. It's okay to shoot them with a crossbow from a distance. As soon as I get close, they run away. I'm not fast, so I can't hit them anywhere." They can't be infected at all..."
It seems that with her ability, she is quite afraid of being kited.
"Oye, caught one!" Wen Guixin cheered in the channel, "A mutated mad cow rushed directly towards me, and I caught it immediately, and finally I didn't have to run away on my own!"
It seems that there is no need for them to worry over there. With Wen Guixin here to help, the beast herd and so on can be easily dealt with.
Ji Chaoyang: "Xu Xin, have you already dealt with it? Why don't we get together and discuss our respective situations today."
Xu Xin also had this idea, but before that, he had other things to do.
"In half an hour, I have other things to deal with. Come to my place in half an hour. My place is basically not damaged."
Ji Chaoyang: "Okay, then I'll go to your place in half an hour."
Xu Xin looked at Li Wenxi, who was covered in blood, and said with a smile: "You'd better take a shower quickly, and I'll go back and clean up."
Li Wenxi lowered her head and looked at the blood all over her body, and said sheepishly: "That's right, then I'll go find you in half an hour."
After saying goodbye to Li Wenxi, Xu Xin activated the portal and returned to her tree house.
He did not go back to the tree house, but immediately walked in the direction of Ma Hongwei's tree house.
Over there, there should be purple scales from the giant anaconda that was blown off!
Ma Hongwei's tree house is located to the southeast of Xu Xin's tree house, far away from the lake in the west. Xu Xin specifically chose this location.
Wait...southeast?
Xu Xin suddenly thought of something and frowned slowly.
The army-like tide of beasts attacked the tree house from the northwest, but the whistle that finally caused all the remaining mutated creatures to retreat came from the southeast.
He was still a little strange at that time. Why are the commander and the army not in the same direction?
Could it be that...
Xu Xin quickened her pace and rushed to Ma Hongwei's tree house.
As long as the main treehouse is not destroyed, the parasitic treehouse can be reborn indefinitely, so at this time, Ma Hongwei's treehouse has grown strongly from the ruins.
When planting the seeds of a parasitic tree house, the blue-level parasitic tree house only takes ten minutes to grow, but the repair is much slower.
However, it is not particularly slow. Now the tree house has begun to bloom. At this rate, before night falls, this parasitic tree house will once again become the original intermediate tree house.
It's just a pity that the treehouse is full of heavy crossbows, as well as the generators and batteries he equipped here.
Xu Xin began to rummage through the ruins.
He didn't see the purple light at all.
When he first arrived, he thought the scales were trapped under the ruins. After all, if his line of sight was blocked, his discerning ability would not be able to see the light.
But after rummaging through all the ruins, his expression became a little uncomfortable.
No.
Nothing.
Not only are there no purple-level scales, there is nothing here except the broken wood left after the tree house shattered.
In Xu Xin's perception, none of those things that should exist exist.
The damaged generators, batteries, furniture, decorations, and even the dozens of heavy crossbows placed on the outer wall of Ma Hongwei's tree house did not leave even a single fragment.
What's going on? !
Did his suspicion just come true? The reason why that mutated human came to the southeast was to...
Come to Ma Hongwei to pick up rags?
No, this is not junk, after all, there are purple scales in it!
This mutant human controlled the army of mutant creatures to attack from the northwest, and secretly came to the southeast, wiping out all the resources here!
As for why you want to steal their things...
Xu Xin took out an ax from his backpack, the ax he had taken from the mutated human.
[Special Iron Ax (Blue): This iron ax was originally made by survivors. After being blessed by a mysterious power, it causes ten times the damage to the tree house and can cut down the tree house faster! 】
This ax can explain a lot of things.
These mutated humans were originally going to cut down the tree house and loot the contents of the tree house!
The introduction of this iron ax also says, [Originally made by survivors]. I'm afraid they snatched this ax from the survivors and then blessed it with mysterious power!
These people control mutant creatures and specialize in burning, killing and looting survivors!
They are not in the same camp as the survivors, so why not just call them [Predators].
He also saw mutant humans, the predators, on Li Wenxi's side.
This tidal wave of mutated creatures seems to have been organized by these predators for the resources they collected during this period.
The survivors, like a group of fattened pigs, are being slaughtered today!
However, they were so fat that Xu Xin and the others became more powerful than the predators who controlled the mutated creatures.
The above is Xu Xin's own guess.
He stared at the looted ruins, his eyes narrowed.
The guy who controlled the beast tide saw that he could not cause any substantial damage to Xu Xin's tree house. Just as the giant anaconda emerged from the lake and destroyed Ma Hongwei's tree house, he changed his target directly.
It allowed the beast tide to launch a fierce attack from the northwest, and while trying to see if it could break through Xu Xin's tree house, it also caused Xu Xin to focus entirely on the northwest.
And it secretly came to the southeast and stole everything in Ma Hongwei's tree house, as well as the purple scales that were blown off the giant anaconda!
But it may not have thought that Xu Xin's tree house was so powerful that it had left behind all five intermediate mutated creatures in its beast wave!
This should be the case, almost inseparable.
As for how to verify it, it depends on what information he can get from the mutated human in the bracelet.
...This is a trick set up by it!
However, the other party's losses are not small.
Xu Xin touched his backpack. There were five corpses of intermediate mutant creatures in it. From their bodies, it was still very possible to obtain purple-level materials.
Well, it’s not a loss anyway.
On the map, there are no decent red dots around. Most of them are rabbits and wild cats, and they are just ordinary beasts.
Xu Xin stopped worrying about this matter and turned around and walked towards the tree house.
Go back and take a shower first. This whole body was covered in dirty blood, sticky, and smelled bad. It was really uncomfortable.
When they came to the tree house, Mimi and Silver King had already come out of the red mist cabin and were lying at the door. When they saw Xu Xin coming back, they both stood up.
Xu Xin brought them up, and at the same time released the snow wolf, which had not fully recovered from its injuries, so that they could get familiar with each other.
Lou Fei'er moved a chair in front of the control panel and was sitting there observing the surroundings. She had already noticed Xu Xin's return, so she stood up and asked, "Is Wen Xi's side over yet?"< br>
"Yeah." Xu Xin nodded and raised his hand to look at the time.
It's noon now and it's time to have lunch.
So he said to Lou Fei'er, "Let's make lunch. Ji Chaoyang and the others will be here soon. Make more. I'll talk to them and get you to join the Explorer."
Lou Fei'er performed well this time, and Xu Xin is also ready to fulfill her promise.
Lou Fei'er immediately opened her eyes wide, and then nodded sharply: "Okay, I understand, I'm going to make a sumptuous meal now!"
After saying that, she trotted to the kitchen, and Xu Xin could also see that she was in a good mood.
Coco was lying on the sofa and snoring slightly, while Ah Fu, who had exhausted all his strength before, was leaning by the window, feeling a little sick.
Silver King Mimi was circling around Snow Wolf. Snow Wolf, a low-level mutant creature, was surrounded by two intermediate-level mutant creatures. He could only lie on the ground and tremble.
Xu Xin first went to the bathroom to clean the blood on her body and armor, then put on a leather armor and walked out.
No wonder Li Wenxi likes to wear leather armor at home, it is really comfortable. Even though the purple-level steel armor is already very thin, the soft leather armor is still much more comfortable to wear than the hard steel armor.
The aroma wafted from the kitchen, and Xu Xin couldn't help but swallow a mouthful of saliva.
Having a cook waiting on you is much more comfortable than cooking by yourself.
Soon, Li Wenxi, Ji Chaoyang and Qi Xuefei came over. Xu Xin pulled them into the tree house.
The three of them were stunned when they looked at the food on the table.
"Sit down, Lou Feier did it."
"Such a rich meal?" Ji Chaoyang raised his eyebrows, "This is the first time I have eaten such a rich meal since I came to this world. You really know how to enjoy it."
"Life is short, and you have to enjoy the hardships. There is always a string that is stretched, and it will break." Xu Xin sat down on the sofa and said with a smile.
Li Wenxi immediately came over, sat down next to him, and smiled at the other two people: "The food Fei'er cooks is delicious. I came to eat this morning too, and I ate a lot, but now I'm hungry again." .”
Qi Xuefei also sat down and said with a smile: "You will still enjoy it. Do you want me to come to you for dinner in the future? With the portal here, it is equivalent to visiting every day."
"Come on, no problem!" Lou Fei'er walked out of the kitchen carrying the last plate and put the dishes on the table, "It's all here! You can all come. My cooking skills have been practiced since I was a child. It’s up to you, I guarantee you’ll be satisfied.”
Lou Feier continues to play the role of a good girl in the eyes of other members.
As for cooking, there was nothing she could do. If she didn't cook for herself when she was a child, she would go hungry and the nanny wouldn't cook for her.
From the time she couldn't reach the stove, she learned to cook on a small stool, thus developing her cooking skills.
Several people sat around the table, started the feast, and began to discuss what happened today.
Everyone explained the situation near the tree house, the number and situation of mutated creatures.
Basically consistent with what Xu Xin saw on the map.
After Ji Chaoyang finished cleaning up the area around his tree house, he went to help Qi Xuefei.
"Although I can't contact you, I know you will definitely help Li Wenxi." Ji Chaoyang smiled, "So I went to help Qi Xuefei."
"Hehe..." Li Wenxi leaned next to Xu Xin and smiled secretly.
Xu Xin also had a smile on her lips.
Not much, he was calculating something else in his mind.
This time, the scale of the beast tide suffered by each tree house should be affected by two factors.
One is the level of the tree house, and the other is the number of survivors.
Xu Xin's side is the highest level purple level treehouse, and there are three survivors. Among them, Ma Hongwei's parasitic treehouse is still a blue level, so he is the greatest threat from the beast tide. Not only are there many low-level mutant creatures, There are also five intermediate mutant creatures.
Ji Chaoyang's side is a purple-level treehouse, the highest level, but he has not allowed anyone else to live in his treehouse so far. He is the only survivor in the entire area, so the scale of the beast tide is much smaller than that of Xu Xin. .
Even smaller than Li Wenxi’s. Li Wenxi is a blue-level treehouse, but Li Yajun and Le Youfang live there, plus there are three of them in total, resulting in a large scale of beast tide, which is larger than that of Ji Chaoyang's.
Qi Xuefei's side was also a blue-level treehouse, but there was only the parasite that Ji Chaoyang had brought there. There were only two survivors within the treehouse, so the scale of the beast tide was the smallest.
Xu Xin told others his speculation.
"That should be it." Ji Chaoyang pondered for a moment and agreed.
He didn't have Xu Xin's map, so he could only analyze it from the information he just got: "Each of us has heard that strange whistle. It was indeed caused by the mutated humans I predicted."
Um?
Wait...
Xu Xin suddenly thought of something.
The mutated human being in his prophecy seems to be different from the person in his bracelet, right?
What he predicted was the kind of human being that Xu Xin encountered in the underground city. He seemed to be atavistic, like an ape, and his body was covered with downy hair, right?
But the person in his bracelet looked similar to Lou Fei'er and Ma Hongwei after they exploded into mode.
What's going on?
Could it be that the person in his bracelet was not the [Predator] as he had just guessed?
The meal was almost done, and Xu Xin told the others his guess about the predators.
"You mean, our biggest enemy now is another group of humans? Mutated humans?" Qi Xuefei's expression was a little solemn.
"...It's very possible."
Ji Chaoyang held the ax, pondered for a while and said: "Your guess is consistent with my latest prediction to a certain extent. How about you release the mutant human being, who happens to be here now, and we can find a way to get rid of him Get some information from him.”
"That's fine." Xu Xin nodded and turned the bracelet.
"This..."
"Oh my God!"
The mutated human suddenly appeared on the floor, making Qi Xuefei and Li Wenxi exclaim, and even Ji Chaoyang took a slight breath.
Xu Xin and Lou Feier were mentally prepared, as they had already seen it before.
This mutated human was still the same as before, with his body motionless and his eyes bulging. The moment he came out, his eyes slowly moved, as if he was scanning everyone present! Thanks to [Guanhe 1987] for the reward of 500 starting coins, [Qingfeng? ? ? ] A reward of 100 starting coins, [Qiankunpeng] a reward of 100 starting coins, thank you three for your support, thank you!
(End of chapter)