Seven days later.
Blue sky, white clouds, barren ancient mountains, primitive ecological groups, and various mysterious legends.
Along the way, in addition to the Twilight Elves and the Harpy, Lei Luo also saw many alien races that were not common in the human territory, and gradually adapted to the breath melody of the Hengduan Mountains.
but.
As Lei Luo and the old monster got closer to their destination, the surrounding atmosphere seemed to gradually change.
With a serious face, Lei Luo came to an ancient tree.
Lei Luo stared at the cancerous scab layer mixed with light blue and pale on the ancient wood.
As he approached the mutated area, Lei Luo's vegetation elf physique could no longer hear the sounds of vegetation. These polluted plants seemed to be suffering great pain and harbored a deep malice towards themselves.
The scab layer on the ancient wood is constantly changing in color, like water waves, very strange.
Lei Luo scraped off some of the powder with a scalpel.
"Master, there are more and more mutations in the surrounding forest, but they are not deformed mutations, but tend to be mutations in another ecological environment."
Corleone held a red sour fruit in his hand.
This is this sour fruit, which unexpectedly grew a small mouth and swallowed a small lizard, leaving only its hind legs and tail exposed.
"It's indeed becoming more and more like the environment of the land of darkness, Jie Jie Jie Jie, this is just a polluted peripheral radiation area."
Lei Luo took a deep breath.
"The blood-born evil god has such power? How can such a vast forest be mutated on such a large scale?"
The old monster threw the sour fruit in his hand to the ground.
The microbial activity in the soil also seemed to become extremely astonishing, and the speed was visible to the naked eye. The fruit gradually disappeared like a melting ice cube.
"Don't use human eyes to look at the ecosystem outside the Star Curtain Land. The Star Curtain Land is just a greenhouse suitable for living developed by humans. This world is far from as simple as you imagined. Little is known about this world, and even the understanding of the land of darkness is limited to the biological specimens on the surface, and their internal ecological laws are self-contained, completely different from humans."
"knew."
These days, Lei Luo has learned a lot from the old monster's teachings, especially the cognition of biological essence and anatomy, as well as the cognition of ecological food chain.
"Ever since I received the specimen and letter from the old troll witch doctor, I'm basically sure that this place is invaded by blood spawn. Since we humans can go on crusades again and again, it's only natural for those creatures to collude with wizards and in turn invade humans. .”
Lei Luo took a deep breath.
Every crusade is a faith propaganda by the church, and an attack by the power of all human beings in the star-gathering land of the Aurora Bright Empire.
In order to gain the support of the believers, the church has been promoting the evil and terribleness of the land of nightfall in various ways, rendering it a representative of the devil.
But with expedition after expedition, the scholars of the Land of Star Curtain gradually understood some essence.
They are like the extinct Quran goblins.
Born after the cataclysm of this planet, after tenaciously adapting to the environment of this world, they reproduced, and just like humans ruled many alien races in the Land of Stars, the Land of Night ruled by blood-born demons also has countless people of all kinds. biological group.
But it is different from the way humans treat many alien races.
The way blood-born demons treat alien races is like Gulan goblins treat ancient races and humans treat livestock. They are completely captive and deprived, which is the naked oppression and plunder of the food chain ecosystem.
Although scholars know little about this world because of the barrier between the land of night and the vast sea, and the rule of the church, scholars speculate that the creatures in this world probably follow the most primitive rules based on the land of night and the Gulan civilization. Cruel rules of the food chain.
Law of the jungle, natural selection, survival of the fittest.
There is no so-called civilization and moral constraints, only the most instinctive cruelty and wildness of creatures.
Others are regions!
Lei Luo followed the old monster and continued to walk forward.
Along the way, the surrounding ecosystem is undergoing tremendous changes, and creatures are gradually becoming primitive, cruel, and bloody.
In the sky, a faint red mist gradually began to float.
It was like the first floor of the pyramid of the magic eye of the sun and the moon, full of ominous depression, making it difficult to breathe.
Here, the form of the creature is completely different from the Hengduan Mountains.
There was the sound of fighting ahead.
It was an old pine tree common in the Hengduan Mountains, but the leaves of this pine tree had turned blood red at this moment. What was even more frightening was that its branches were covered with animal heads, and there were even a few human servants. Bing's head!
"Tree of Fear!!?"
Lei Luo exclaimed in surprise.
According to legend, more than 3,000 years ago, an ancient dead tree deep in the Thorn Forest mutated.
In one night, it slaughtered a small tribe it sheltered, and integrated their heads into its own body.
This tree of fear possesses the ability to move, constantly plundering and killing all intelligent creatures it sees, using their heads as its own organs, and gradually evolves an unbelievably strange and powerful force, becoming the most widely circulated creature in the Thorn Forest. nightmare.
but.
The tree of fear in front of me is only about thirty meters high, far less scary than the legends say.
"My mother loves me the most, and you will become a part of my mother!"
On the branch of the tree of fear, the words and expressions of the human head seemed to be as natural as before, and the tone was a bit weird, but his consciousness had changed.
A team of mercenaries is fighting the fear tree.
"What kind of monster is this!"
The archer looked terrified and kept shooting arrows.
"My lord, what should we do?"
The captain of the mercenary team was a rough and savage man, he slashed at the attacking branches with his heavy sword, and threw a torch with his other hand.
However, a layer of red liquid was secreted from the surface of the fear tree, which smelled like blood, or it was blood. In the chaos, no one had the heart to observe these details. The key point was that it was not afraid of flames at all.
It's not so much a tree as it is a monster that looks like a tree!
This is a standard mercenary team, two heavy sword fighters, one archer, one scout assassin, and one magician.
The magician is a girl in her late twenties. Although she is still calm and rational, her face is also pale.
Waving the magic wand in his hand, a firebird flew out.
If there is any dark red mist around, it seems to have a certain inhibitory effect on the flame energy. After the firebird landed on the giant tree, there was only a little spark left.
"Don't be entangled by it. Those heads are the humans it devours. It can read the thoughts of food and become a part of it. It is likely to be a mutant tree monster polluted by something."
"This monster, I don't want my head growing on it, I'd rather die!"
"ah… "
The female archer was caught by a branch and hung in mid-air.
She screamed and struggled non-stop, grabbing the bark of her ankle, and unexpectedly stretched out red blood vessels that looked like strands of hair, piercing into her body.
"Kill me, kill me quickly! Woohoo, I don't want to be this kind of monster!!"
The female bow and arrow screamed in despair.
At this moment!
Everyone froze inexplicably.
It's like falling into a bottomless ice cave.
In the eyes of the world, there is only the most monotonous black and white.
Time seemed to be slowing down. In mid-air, the dripping blood was getting slower and slower. It was divided into two parts, two parts into four parts, four parts into eight parts, and it became smaller and smaller until it was completely swallowed up by the gloomy light filled with silence and darkness.
Time seemed to stand still, and the frozen soul lost the ability to think.
A hunched figure slowly walked towards the strange tree.
The soil under the stooped old man's feet, the dark red tentacles like tobacco shreds, were wiped out with a "poof".
He slowly raised his palm,
The hand covered with dark light stretched out to the trunk of the strange tree whose surface was covered with stinky dark red viscous liquid.
Gudong, Gudong, Gudong...
When the skinny old hand retracted, it grabbed a heart.
No.
To be precise, this is a bug nest that just beats like a heart.
"Jie Jie Jie Jie."
There was a gloomy laugh, a sharp pinch of the skinny and old palm, a "bang" sound from the heart, and countless red bugs the size of rice grains scattered densely.
These bugs seemed to be a little uncomfortable with the outside air. After wriggling on the ground for a while, they stiffened and turned into stones!
influenced by.
The dark red viscous, foul-smelling liquid on the surface of the Tree of Fear, like melted ice cream, is constantly flowing.
The lifelike faces on the branches also turned into distorted old ones at a speed visible to the naked eye, making a faint hoarse sound like dying, with more breaths than breaths.
Boom.
The female archer who was hanging in the air fell to the ground.
"Hiss..."
Everyone looked at the old monster in disbelief, gasped, their eyes were a little confused.
Lei Luo came to the female archer, and in her panic and panic, he put the palm of the hand that was surrounded by the black smoke of the Moon Shadow Wraith on her ankle.
"You're infected."
Lei Luo's voice was calm.
The rest of the mercenary group looked over one after another, only the mercenary captain kept thanking the old monster Corleone.
The female archer is very young.
He looked younger than Lei Luo, only eighteen or nineteen years old, and it was uncomfortable to be grabbed by Lei Luo's ankles like this, but his fear overcame his shyness, a blush emerged from his pale cheeks trembling, and he had short flaxen wavy hair His blue eyes looked at Lei Luo expectantly.
The female magician anxiously asked: "Parasite infection, is it malignant? What should I do?"
Lei Luo thought for a while, the insignificant power of the sun in his hand was the most precise scalpel, and the light golden claws were only the size of a nail clipper, which was almost negligible compared to those demon hills. First, he cut off the blood vessels extending into the female archer's body.
"Master, what are these parasites? How to deal with them?"
Lei Luo shouted.
Corleone glanced at the female archer with dead fish eyes.
"Just give her a bottle of natural life energy potion. Natural energy is fatal to these blood derivatives, but pay attention to excretion. After contacting natural energy, they will undergo some energy changes and harden."
"I have gold coins, please help me!"
The girl hurriedly took out a gold coin and a dozen silver coins, looked at Lei Luo imploringly, and grabbed Lei Luo's palm.
"Ahem."
With a flash of Lei Luo's hand, Xiaobai and Lili appeared.
"Where is this?"
Xiaobai felt uncomfortable because of the strange environment around him.
Lei Luo smiled and took out a copper coin and a reagent.
"Ask Lili to urinate a little into this small bottle, and the copper coin will be yours."
"Ah? What you said is true!"
Hearing the copper coin, Xiaobai jumped up excitedly.
After a while, Lei Luo accepted the female archer's gold and silver coins, and Xiao Bai, who was holding the copper coins, happily returned to the space bracelet with Li Li, chanting about nine pieces of butterscotch and so on.
Everyone who witnessed such a scene couldn't help opening their mouths.
The female archer looked a little ugly, and wanted to drink that little thing's urine
But after seeing the fear tree, she didn't dare to hesitate any longer, and swallowed the potion in one gulp.