Chapter 680 Scarlet World Tree Core
Wen Guixin and others, who had already entered the World Tree, were still moving forward in the trunk.
"Why haven't you arrived yet..." Wang Lei looked behind him from time to time.
Behind them, the path they walked continued to grow forward, basically at the same speed as the alien invaders eroding the trees of the World Tree.
Their passage has always been maintained at a length of about five meters.
Wang Lei was always afraid that the healing speed of the World Tree behind would speed up and squeeze them all to death inside.
"Don't be so afraid. Even if we can't get in, we won't die." Xu Ying couldn't help but rolled her eyes slightly, "With me here, what are you afraid of?"
"That's right..." Wang Lei touched his head in embarrassment.
"Speaking of which..." Qin Fu was standing at the back, reaching out to touch the wall that was growing and healing from time to time. "The World Tree heals very quickly. Even if we use nuclear weapons to attack the World Tree, our naked eyes will not be able to capture the world. The damage to the tree will heal in an instant, right?”
Qin Fu looked at Xu Ying.
"That's right." Xu Ying nodded, "But this is information from that time and space. That time and space was only three hundred years after the war, and now it is one thousand years after the war. It is normal for changes."
As she spoke, she looked at the "slime" alien invader in front of her. At this time, Wen Guixin was touching the thin alien invader that was attached to the wall and corroded forward with her hand.
Because she was afraid that something might go wrong with the alien invader at this critical juncture, she had been controlling her toxins to erode the alien invader deeply, preventing the alien invader from regaining any sanity, otherwise all her previous efforts might be in vain.
"The alien invaders have now invented a potion that can wither the World Tree. Isn't it normal to slow down the self-healing ability of the World Tree? What are you afraid of?" Zeng Tao said with an indifferent expression.
Although she said this, she was the person closest to Xu Ying at this time, and even her whole body was close to him.
It keeps growing from behind, which is really scary!
She was afraid that the price would suddenly rise sharply later. If that happened, she would be the closest to Xu Ying, so at least she would not be left behind.
If it were wrapped by the trunk of the crazily growing World Tree...
Zeng Tao shivered slightly.
Woohoo... It's so scary. I knew I should have been with Xu Xin and the others just now...
"How far do we have to go..." There was already a layer of fine beads of sweat on Wen Guixin's forehead.
She has to keep infecting a target and ensure that the target does not die from over-infection. This kind of precise operation is still too difficult for her.
She was really walking on thin ice now, for fear of accidentally killing this slime alien invader.
"It should be close." Zhao Xiaochuan looked back and said, "According to my estimation, we should be very close to the core area of the trunk of the World Tree now."
"Is it the core area of the trunk of the World Tree?" Wen Guixin cheered up, "Isn't the World Tree just a large tree house? You should still remember that the trunk of the tree house is hollow, right?"
"Of course I remember." Zeng Tao replied quickly, "Not only is it hollow, but there is also a part of the treehouse core buried underground in the soil in the hollow tree trunk. When we dug the treehouse core, weren't they all from the hollow Did you dig it into the tree trunk...eh?"
Zeng Tao's eyes suddenly widened: "Then if we continue to move forward and enter the hollow area of the trunk of the World Tree, wouldn't we...be able to see the core of the World Tree?"
Everyone was refreshed.
"Then we have to get there first..." Wen Guixin gritted her teeth at this time, "Hurry up... hurry up! You should hurry up!"
She felt like she was losing control of the toxins injected into the alien invaders' bodies.
If these toxins were allowed to explode instantly, the alien invaders would probably die in an instant.
Although they won't be trapped here, their plan will be completely disrupted, basically meaning that all their efforts will be wasted.
She didn't want their plan to fail because she didn't control her abilities well!
Wen Guixin's erosion of the alien invaders continues, and the alien invaders' erosion of the trunk of the World Tree also continues.
But no matter how much Wen Guixin urged, it still eroded forward at such a fast speed. This was probably its fastest speed.
"Sister Guixin, you..." Xu Ying also noticed that Wen Guixin's expression was a little reluctant at this time, and her face changed.
But she couldn't do much to help and could only pray that Wen Guixin could persevere.
In front of them, the alien invaders are eroding forward, and behind them, the trunk of the World Tree is constantly growing and healing. Everyone is like a pest walking through the trunk, eating the trunk and moving forward step by step.
One meter, two meters.
Ten meters, twenty meters...
Finally, with a belated "click" sound, the wall attached to the slime-like alien invader suddenly slowly fell forward.
As the wall collapses, light penetrates through the gaps created by the collapse.
scarlet.
With a "boom" sound, the wall attached to the alien invaders fell forward and collapsed, hitting the ground and falling apart!
The thin piece of alien invader that was originally attached to the wall also bounced up the moment it fell to the wall and fell apart, returning to its previous appearance of a lump of slime.
At the same time, all its eyes that had been closed before were opened, but their eyes were very dull, and all their eyes were staring motionlessly in the direction they were facing.
It was obvious that the alien invader was unconscious.
"We're finally here...!" Wen Guixin's legs softened and she almost sat on the ground.
This kind of delicate operation is really not suitable for her...
I was exhausted, I felt like my brain cells were running out of energy, and I was extremely mentally exhausted.
However, her attention was immediately attracted by what was in front of her, and she slowly opened her eyes.
Not just her, but everyone present looked shocked.
"This is... the core of the World Tree?" Wang Lei murmured to himself.
That's right, what appeared in front of everyone at this time was an extremely huge spherical crystal that was half buried in the soil.
Because only half of it is exposed to the earth, everyone can only see half of the crystal ball.
Although there is only half a crystal ball, the height of this crystal ball reaches nearly twenty meters.
This is a huge crystal ball with a diameter of nearly forty meters!
Of course, the core of the World Tree itself should be extremely huge, which everyone is mentally prepared for.
But they didn't expect that the core of this World Tree didn't emit bright white light like their World Tree.
The core of this World Tree is actually a scarlet crystal!
This scarlet crystal emits scarlet light, illuminating the entire hollow area of the World Tree blood red.
Xu Ying looked up.
This is indeed the hollow area of the trunk of the World Tree.
The World Tree here is not the World Tree over there where the internal space is expanded a hundred times, so when you look up, you can see the dome of this space.
This space is about a hundred meters high, which is exactly the height of the tree trunks under the canopy.
"Ah!" Suddenly, Wen Guixin cried out anxiously, "Don't die!"
Everyone looked away from the huge scarlet crystal in front of them and looked at Wen Guixin, or in other words, at the alien invader she controlled.
At this time, Wen Guixin had put her hand on the "slime" again.
Even though all the eyes of this slime were open now, she pressed it directly on two eyes, but she didn't care. Instead, she looked anxious and ugly.
"How..."
Before Wang Lei finished speaking, everyone saw that the alien invader under Wen Guixin began to dry up.
The originally relatively round "Slime" body began to shrivel up quickly. The shriveling speed was unusually fast. It was like a balloon that had been punctured. In just a few seconds, it became a corpse on the ground. A piece of skin.
"I..." Wen Guixin looked at the skin blankly.
She tried to step on it with her feet, and the skin shattered like a layer of crisp seaweed.
"This..." She slowly raised her head and looked at everyone, she was about to cry but had no tears, and she was still a little helpless.
The alien invader she controlled was finally unable to withstand the toxins she repeatedly injected into his body, and died.
"Wow... this is too extreme!" Zeng Tao squatted down and poked the dry fragments on the ground with his fingers, "If we die earlier, we won't be able to get in!"
The rest of the people looked at each other again.
He was obviously waiting for it to take the group of them to the underground space, but they died directly...?
So what should they do now?
"This... what should we do now?" Wang Lei said at a loss.
This is not even the inside of the World Tree’s canopy, but just the hollow area of the World Tree’s trunk!
Qin Fu did not panic and said calmly: "An Xin, since this slime brought us here, it means there must be a way up or down here, just look for it."
That's true.
Everyone looked around.
"Anyway, let's explore the surroundings first," Xu Ying said.
That's all.
"I'm sorry." Wen Guixin felt a little guilty, "If my control was stronger..."
"What are you sorry for?" Wang Lei waved his hand, "If it weren't for you, we wouldn't be able to get in. Let's take a quick look around to see what's around."
"Same."
Xu Ying's attention was now focused on the most conspicuous thing in the hollow area of the tree trunk - the huge scarlet crystal located in the center of the entire area.
Everyone else's eyes were also focused on this huge crystal hemisphere.
"Is this the core of the World Tree?" Zhao Xiaochuan exclaimed, but also a little excited at the same time, "Why is the core of the World Tree red? Isn't this the 'source of life' of the alien invaders we are looking for? ”
"No." Qin Fu looked at the scarlet crystal, "We all know that the red light emitted by the source of life is very strong, so strong that even a small piece of it will make people uncomfortable. We are not from those factories. Did you steal a lot?”
Xu Ying touched the backpack she had been carrying on this trip.
She and Xu Xin each took a part, and now she has more than a dozen of those small scarlet crystals in her backpack.
"But the light emitted by this crystal is very soft. To be honest, it is quite comfortable when it shines on the body." Qin Fu shrugged, "So, this cannot be what we are looking for."
Indeed.
This crystal didn't look like the target they were looking for.
"But, is this the core of the World Tree?" Zeng Tao asked doubtfully, "Isn't the World Tree a product created using the earth's white crystals? Why is the core of this World Tree scarlet?"
"This is their base camp." Wang Lei thinks this matter can be easily explained. "Isn't it normal for their base camp to be special? Maybe this World Tree has a genetic mutation?"
"Are you kidding..." Qin Fu was speechless, "This is a scarlet crystal..."
"What on earth is going on...?" Xu Ying also thought of the problem at this time.
She felt her heart tighten.
What is scarlet crystal?
It is the source of life for alien invaders!
They knew before that the process of converting crystals from white crystals into scarlet crystals was extremely cumbersome and impossible to achieve on Earth. The crystals had to be sent back to their home planet.
Because of this, the concentrated scarlet crystal is extremely precious.
Their plan is also based on this. Destroy the concentrated scarlet crystal, and the alien invaders will lose their source of life and flee in panic.
But the huge, non-condensed scarlet crystal suddenly appeared in front of them, as if mocking their plan.
If alien invaders can already create scarlet crystals on Earth, then their plan will be useless!
"I asked, can we go back home?" Qin Fu looked at the giant scarlet crystal and felt that he had lost his motivation.
He also thought about the meaning of this huge scarlet crystal.
"...No, this kind of thing is impossible." Xu Ying walked towards the scarlet crystal.
It should be impossible for alien invaders to refine scarlet crystals on earth.
There's something wrong with this giant scarlet crystal!
The closer she got, the more she felt something was wrong.
Because the closer she got, the more comfortable she felt, and she even felt relaxed.
This is the characteristic of white crystal.
She walked over to the huge crystal and reached out to touch it.
"...This is not a scarlet crystal." Her frown slowly relaxed, and she exhaled a long breath, "This is the normal core of the World Tree, a crystal white crystal."
"White crystal?" Zeng Tao raised her head and looked at the whole crystal, "But is it red?"
Xu Ying was also a little confused about this.
The properties displayed are obviously those of white crystal, so why does it show the color of scarlet crystal?
Somewhat weird...
Um?
Xu Ying thought of a possibility.
Her eyes slowly opened.
"Ah, I know!" She clapped her hands, looked up at the huge crystal in front of her, and gradually backed away.
As she retreated, gradually, the entire core of the World Tree appeared in her field of vision.
After seeing the whole crystal clearly again, her eyes became brighter: "I know what's going on!"
"Ah? What's going on? Isn't this really a scarlet crystal?" Wen Guixin asked.
"No, of course not." Xu Ying smiled, "However, this scarlet light has something to do with our goal."
Several other people were puzzled.
What's the meaning?
"Think about it, where can we see the core of our World Tree in our World Tree?" Xu Ying reminded.
"Where...the underground space?" Zeng Tao replied.
In their World Tree, in the underground space, which is the control area where Ji Chaoyang and the others are now, you can see the core of the World Tree.
The underground space is an area wrapped by the roots of the World Tree, and directly above the entire area, part of the core of the World Tree is exposed.
The reason why that area is very bright is due to the light emitted by the core of the world tree that is exposed in the dome.
The upper part of the core of the World Tree, like the core of the tree house, is above the ground, which is the part that Xu Ying and the others are seeing now.
In this way, the location of the core of the World Tree can be determined.
Below the core is the underground space, and the lower half of the core is exposed in the underground space. The upper part of the core is the hollow area exposed in the center of the trunk of the World Tree.
That is the area where they are now.
In layman's terms, the core of the World Tree is stuck in the ground, with the underground space below and the hollow area of the trunk above.
"Oh..." Qin Fu suddenly realized, "So that's it."
"What is it like?" Zeng Tao turned to look at him, with a look of curiosity on his face, "Why is this happening?"
"Think about it, where is the target we are looking for now?" Qin Fu asked.
"You mean that scarlet crystal? Isn't it in the underground space?" Zeng Tao pointed down.
"Oh!" Wen Guixin also understood, with the same astonished expression, "I understand too..."
"What? How come you all understand?" Zeng Tao looked confused.
"Not everyone understands, at least I don't understand." Zhao Xiaochuan pointed to his nose.
"I don't understand either." Wang Lei scratched his head.
Xu Ying explained to them.
The reason is actually very simple.
As mentioned just now, underneath the core of the World Tree is the underground space, and the scarlet crystal that emits extremely dazzling scarlet light is located in the underground space of the World Tree.
The light emitted by the scarlet crystal reversely penetrated the core of the World Tree located in the dome of the underground space, illuminating the entire core of the World Tree blood red.
The core of the World Tree is like a lens, allowing the light of the scarlet crystal located underground to pass through it to the ground, to where Xu Ying and the others are now.
Therefore, they saw such a core of the World Tree that seemed to be emitting scarlet light but was actually very normal.
As for the evidence...
Xu Ying had just observed the entire core of the World Tree. The scarlet color of the lower part near the ground was obviously heavier than the upper part, which confirmed her conjecture.
The scarlet light shines from bottom to top, and the white crystal is not completely transparent, so naturally the color shines lighter as it goes up.
By the top, the red is very light.
Strictly speaking, this is not a scarlet World Tree core, but a gradient-colored World Tree core.
From bottom to top, it gradually changes from heavier scarlet to bright white.
Just because the whole crystal was too big to observe the whole picture, and everyone was shocked by the scarlet light, they didn't notice this situation at the first time.
"In other words, this scarlet light is actually released by the scarlet crystal?" Zeng Tao finally understood, and then said excitedly, "Then we are very close to the scarlet crystal now! The crystal is right under our feet. ! You can see the light, so close!”
"Although it's right at your feet..."
Qin Fu stepped on the ground and said helplessly: "But we don't know how to get down. The guy who knew how to get down just died."
Everyone looked around.
Yes, how to get down?
The scarlet crystal is already close at hand. (End of chapter)