Chapter 587 Melee on the Ground
The flying mutant creatures were the first to rush into Crystal City.
From a distance, these flying mutated creatures are birds of prey with wingspans exceeding two meters, and some even reach four or five meters.
Fortunately, Xu Xin did not see anything like the pterosaurs among these flying mutant creatures.
From this point of view, there should be no advanced mutant creatures in the herd this time.
At least not yet.
This is good news.
Because they are fully capable of blocking this level of beasts!
"Everyone, pay attention to the sky above. The flying mutated creatures have entered the Crystal City and will be close soon!" Xu Xin said in the group.
The situation on the ground is not optimistic either.
The beast tide that originally surrounded Crystal City on the ground has now completely poured into Crystal City.
In the map in his mind, the part of Crystal City has been completely shrouded in red dots!
Under the siege of such a huge group, the more than two hundred survivors in Crystal City were already stretched thin to deal with the creatures on the ground, and they also had to face the beasts that jumped up from time to time to destroy the heavy crossbows.
It is really difficult for them to distract themselves from attacking the flying creatures in the sky.
"This...!"
"I may find a way to take care of heaven!"
"I will use a heavy crossbow to attack the sky!"
Sure enough, they were a little confused after seeing Xu Xin's words.
Xu Xin immediately said: "Prioritize attacking the ground beasts and clearing out the number of ground beasts! I want you to pay attention to the mutated creatures in the sky and don't let them cause damage to you, the tree house and the heavy crossbow!"
"Got it!"
"I still have half the ammunition! Enough to hold on for a while longer!"
"You used it too fast! I still have more than half of it!"
"Save ammunition! Aim at dense locations to attack, so that every round of ammunition has maximum effect!"
"I'm in charge of this street on the east side! Don't let our bombing ranges overlap!"
"Then I can send out a big bird to attack the sky!"
No need for the members of the Explorers to say anything, this group of survivors spontaneously began to carry out the most effective attack and planning on the herd!
After all, they are survivors who have survived to this day, and they are still the best in Area 1 and Area 188. These people have already become veterans in the survival world.
There is no need for them to direct what to do.
The traveling speed of flying mutant creatures is much faster than that of ground mutant creatures, and it is far faster than the speed of underground mutant creatures.
In just ten seconds, they had already crossed half of the Crystal City and were completely approaching the World Tree.
However, when they flew into Crystal City, a small number fell directly.
They are the larger ones among this group of mutated creatures!
"Affected by Crystal City!" Xu Xin immediately thought of the principle and reminded in [Explorer], "These flying mutant creatures are not completely without the blood of giant beasts!"
It seemed that the opponent had not found a sufficient number of flying mutant creatures without giant beast bloodline, so a group of flying creatures with relatively thin giant beast bloodline were mixed into the group.
They may also want to try to see if they will not be affected by Crystal City at high altitude, but unfortunately, according to Afu's test, as long as they can see, they will be affected, and the raptor's vision range is far beyond Humans and other mammals basically fell in large numbers as soon as they entered the scope of Crystal City.
Within a few seconds after entering Crystal City, the entire flying legion was destroyed.
But the remaining flying mutated biological groups were not affected at all. They came quickly, directly passed the heavy crossbow defense line of two hundred survivors, and swooped towards the World Tree!
Their target is the trunk of the world tree, not the crown.
The tree canopy is too lush and vast, almost covering half of Crystal City. It would be a huge project to completely destroy the tree canopy, not to mention that the tree canopy can repair itself. The speed of their destruction may not be as fast as the repair. speed.
The other party knew very well that only by destroying the trunk could the World Tree be destroyed, and attacking the crown was useless.
As a result, all the flying mutated creatures did not attract the slightest attention from the crown of the tree. Instead, they flew directly under the crown of the World Tree and swooped towards the trunk.
It's so fast!
At this moment, three raptors suddenly flew out of the window of Wen Guixin's tree house, and flew quickly towards the flying herd!
Just like three fighter planes taking off from the ground, they climbed towards the enemy fighter group swooping in the sky!
Moreover, their goal is also very simple, which is to hit them!
If you hurt the other party, you will earn it!
The flying mutant creatures did not surround the World Tree like the ground mutant creatures. They flew collectively from the north of Crystal City. The overall formation was like geese flying south, showing a standard herringbone.
This formation is to reduce the overall flight resistance.
Usually the one leading the group is the strongest and the most tired.
The three birds of prey flying out of the window of Wen Guixin's tree house were aiming at the tip of the herringbone formation!
In an instant, three birds of prey crashed into the enemy's flying formation. The entire formation of the flying mutant creatures was directly disrupted. Sharp bird calls sounded and feathers flew around!
Among the group of explorers, Wen Guixin spoke: "What are you doing standing still! Blast them!"
As she spoke, the treehouse repeating crossbow on her treehouse began to exert its power, scattering dozens of explosive crossbow bolts into the air in an instant!
At the same time, explosive crossbow bolts were also scattered from several other tree houses!
To deal with targets in the air, there is no point in using heavy crossbows or super-heavy crossbows. Explosive crossbow bolts are the most suitable!
But the mutant raptor is very flexible in the air, and it is not that simple to hit it.
Most of the explosive crossbow bolts were dodged by the mutated raptors in the air and landed among the mutated biological groups on the ground.
And under the coverage of the exploding crossbow bolts all over the sky, a small number of them still directly hit the mutated raptors in the air!
"Boom, boom, boom, boom, boom!"
The double explosion on the ground and in the air made the surroundings of the World Tree instantly illuminated by fire extremely brightly!
For a moment, it seemed like fireworks were being set off under the World Tree, accompanied by feathers all over the sky, and it was even a bit beautiful.
The mutated raptor affected by the air explosion fell off from the air in large pieces.
But there were still some parts that were not affected. They completely ignored the others and rushed towards the World Tree at extremely fast speeds!
Then it passed over the trunk of the World Tree, and its sharp claws were like sharp knives, scraping across the trunk of the World Tree!
"嗗——————!"
Such voices kept coming to Xu Xin's ears!
Every raptor leaves a mark several meters long and half a foot deep on the trunk of the World Tree!
For a time, the trunk of the World Tree was riddled with holes!
Fortunately, the entire trunk is a full ten meters in diameter, and even the mark half a foot deep has not penetrated the bark of the world tree.
However, the raptors that passed over the trunk of the World Tree and caused considerable damage to the World Tree drew a circle in the air and turned back to swoop towards the trunk of the World Tree again!
"嗗————!"
"嗗————!"
In an instant, countless raptors were flying around the trunk of the World Tree like flies around rotten fruit, flying back and forth crazily. Each flight would cause scratches of several meters on the trunk of the World Tree!
Moreover, they actually started to attack a certain location very disciplinedly.
Within a few seconds, the target location was struck more than a dozen times, forming a ravine that was four to five meters long, more than ten centimeters wide, and a foot deep!
If this continues, no matter how rough and thick the World Tree is, it will still be unable to withstand it!
The explorer members around World Tree began to hesitate when they pointed their hands at the control panel.
This group of mutated raptors is too close to the trunk of the World Tree. If they were shot over, it would probably cause even greater damage to the World Tree!
It is simply a thousand injuries to the enemy and a thousand losses to oneself!
Fortunately, before they could think of a better way, in the blink of an eye, the heart of the plant showed its power.
Under the influence of the World Tree, the height that the vines controlled by the heart of the plant can attack has doubled several times!
The original heart vines of the plant were only ten meters long at most, but now, they are piercing straight into the sky twenty or thirty meters high!
Countless vines emerged from the ground, like a bamboo forest rising from the ground, directly piercing half of the flying raptors flying in the air!
In addition, the vines are extremely flexible, and when pierced through the air, the number of mutated raptors was once again reduced by nearly half.
Under this crisis, the remaining raptors no longer focused on attacking the trunk of the tree house, but screamed and climbed rapidly upwards!
Originally, they chose to attack nearly thirty meters above the ground, but now, in order to avoid the attacks of plant vines, they had to fly to higher areas.
However, they still did not choose to stop attacking and escape. Instead, they changed to another area, aimed at the trunk of the World Tree at a height of about seventy meters, and started attacking crazily again!
This time, the vines controlled by the plant's heart were out of reach.
Each of them stretches straight upward like bamboo, but their length has reached its limit at fifty meters.
The vines controlled by the heart of these plants swung in the air a few times, and finally could only retract downwards dejectedly.
"Fuck me!"
In the treehouse nearby, Wen Guixin put her hands on the window sill, stuck her head out, and shouted loudly into the air.
Immediately, the infected raptors around them quickly gathered and rushed towards the group of uninfected guys!
In just a few dozen seconds, the three raptors released by Wen Guixin had already infected most of the mutated creatures that came flying this time!
And this group of infected raptors climbed directly towards the group of raptors that were madly attacking the World Tree at an altitude of 70 meters!
Their number is already greater than that of the enemy!
The final result is obvious.
This group of raptors was completely wiped out.
Either he was blasted to death by the explosive crossbow bolt, or he was pierced to death by the heart of the plant, or he was directly infected by Wen Guixin's ability and was controlled by him and could only wait to die.
And the battle on the ground is already beginning to end.
The balance of victory has begun to tilt towards them.
There are not many mutated creatures on the main ground that can cross the ravine. It is really difficult for these guys to fight against the vines that crazily emerge from the ground. Almost few of them have reached the trunk of the World Tree.
Even if it is achieved, after one or two attacks on the tree trunk, it will be pierced by several vines, and then sucked into a mummy, becoming nourishment for the heart of the plant.
The main enemies that the herd behind them have to face are already their own people who have rebelled after being infected by Wen Guixin's ability.
The "internal strife" among the beasts directly made the scene extremely bloody and chaotic.
Most of the people in the treehouses surrounding the World Tree had exhausted their ammunition, watching the farce going on near their treehouses.
The newcomers were a little confused.
"What happened? Why did these guys start fighting among themselves?"
"Why are there so many rebels? And it seems... there are more rebels than non-rebels?"
"Haha, don't you guys understand? This is the ability of our sister Guixin!"
"When I saw the herd of beasts attacking this time, I felt that there was no pressure on the defense at all!"
"That's right, with Sister Guixin here, the beasts and so on are just here to deliver food!"
In the [Crystal City Survivors] group, everyone was discussing.
Because they have all stopped what they are doing, even the survivors who still have ammunition left have stopped.
In the current situation, they no longer need to attack.
Xu Xin looked at the ground outside the window and once again sighed at Wen Guixin's ability.
Too strong.
It's really too strong.
Although she has long known the power of her ability on the beasts, she still can't help but be amazed when she sees it with her own eyes again.
This time, if it weren't for Wen Guixin's ability to back it up, they might not be able to save the world tree at all.
The mutant biological groups on the ground and in the air alone are enough to destroy the World Tree!
At this time, his watch vibrated again. It was Qin Fu calling.
"Boss, those guys who drill holes under the ground are less than 500 meters away from the World Tree. But their speed has slowed down a little now, and their movements are much lighter. It feels like they don't want people on the ground to find out. them.”
I really want to steal my house secretly, and I actually want to lower my voice.
The sound was indeed small enough. It was mixed in with the chaos on the ground. Even though Xu Xin now had enhanced hearing, he was completely unaware of the unusual movements under the ground.
If this really doesn't interfere with their actions and allows them to secretly dig under the World Tree and remove or destroy the core of the tree house...
This group of people may be suddenly hit by defeat just when they are rejoicing in victory.
That's so ironic.
Fortunately, under the observation of Qin Fu's ability, they could already see the movements below the ground at a glance.
"How many meters above the ground are they?"
"Five meters, just like before, it is not far from the ground. People came from all directions and dug out... twenty-three passages. In each passage, there are two creatures the size of tigers and leopards."< br>
That is, forty-six in total.
This number is not a lot, but underground, it is not a small amount.
Fortunately, each of them will be dug directly out of the ravine at a depth of five meters, so that the explorer members can directly attack the ravine and kill them.
Their plan to steal the house is meaningless.
At this moment, Ji Chaoyang suddenly said something on the Explorer Channel.
"East of Crystal City! Behemoth!"
What? !
Xu Xin turned directly to look at Dongfang.
That's where his treehouse originally stood.
Then, his pupils shrank suddenly.
I saw, in the east, a huge... dinosaur, running towards the Crystal City!
……Dinosaur? ! (End of chapter)