Ye Xuan walked for about two hours following the guidance of Fan Jiangcai and the footsteps left on the ground, and finally saw the extremely tall pine tree they mentioned.
He stopped under the tree, looked up at the pine tree, which was thicker than ordinary mutant plants, and whispered to the vines wrapped around his wrist: "Is there something wrong around here? Going this way, the less mutated plants will be?"
There are few people in the northwest, and there are many places that have not been developed, and this mountain is one of them.
According to common sense, there should be many annual plants on this mountain before the end of the world, and after the end of the world, there is a greater possibility that such annual plants will become mutant plants, but when he walks to this place, it can be regarded as a deep mountain. After entering the middle place, I didn't see many mutated plants, which is really abnormal.
The movement of the vine dangling on his wrist paused for a few seconds, and then it floated into the air. First, it bent forward and made a gesture of nodding. The vines stretched into a straight line, pointing straight towards the depths of the woods.
Ye Xuan studied his movements for a long time, and asked uncertainly, "You mean to say that there is a problem here, but it's not dangerous?"
Vines nodded again.
Ye Xuan looked at a pair of vines that were eager to try, then glanced at the forest that could not be seen at a glance, took out a bottle of energy drink and a prepared sandwich from the space, leaned against the tree and ate them all. Standing up straight, he waved to the vines: "Let's go, since you said that there is no danger, then I will go in with you to have a look. By the way, I told you before that I want you to learn human characters. Why did it take so long? You still rely on gestures, are you not obedient?"
Vines: ...do you remember this
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After walking for more than ten minutes, Ye Xuan finally walked out of the forest, and saw the place that Fan Jiangcai and the others had mentioned that there were no plants around.
Unlike the forest that did not fall much snow just now because of the leaves blocking it, this piece has accumulated a thick layer of snow after two consecutive days of heavy snowfall because there are no plants to buffer it, which is almost bigger than that of an adult. Human knees are even higher.
And the traces of Fan Jiangcai and the others staying here overnight have long been covered up by the freshly falling snow.
Fortunately, when they chose a place to spend the night, they didn't foolishly search for a low-lying area that would be easily buried by snow, but instead searched for as high a place as possible. This allowed Ye Xuan to find him in a vast white world. That rather hidden hole.
Although the vines didn't give him any hints, after walking outside the cave, he knew with just one glance that this invisible cave was the place he was looking for.
He looked around, making sure that no powerful mutated plants or animals would suddenly appear to block his retreat, and then stepped into the cave cautiously—
Wait a moment!
After walking more than a dozen steps, before reaching the place where the light from the entrance of the cave disappeared, Ye Xuan suddenly found that his ability level had improved significantly, almost reaching the edge of the middle stage of the fifth level!
But he obviously just broke through the fifth level not long ago, and he is still in a stable stage of strength, how could he improve
Ye Xuan suddenly had a bad premonition in his heart. He stopped on the spot, stood quietly for a few minutes, closed his eyes, and carefully felt the changes in his abilities. Same as before, nothing changed.
"This is not right..."
He was sure that he had the feeling that his ability level had improved after entering the cave, but now he stood here for a few minutes, which was much longer than the few steps just now, but he didn't feel any change in his strength, which was obviously inappropriate. Common sense.
He raised his head and asked the vines hanging in the air: "Do you know what's going on?"
The vines that had been hanging in front of Ye Xuan suddenly stopped in place after hearing his question, froze for a few seconds and then slowly nodded their heads, just keeping the human-like ninety-degree bending motion and not moving .
Ye Xuan looked at it puzzled, and guessed: "Are you expressing a request to me?"
The vines bent at a wider angle.
This is strange!
Ye Xuan and Vine have been together for quite a few years. Most of the way they get along is that Ye Xuan provides Vine with supernatural powers and instructs it to do something. Although the vines would often act like a spoiled child to him on weekdays, asking for a piece of mutated beast meat to absorb or ask for some supernatural powers, but those were all trivial matters, asking him to do something like this solemnly , Ye Xuan met for the first time.
Thinking of the two lifetimes before and after, especially the help that vines had given me when I was reborn in this life, the feelings that accompanied me for many years still helped sensibility overcome the rationality of self-preservation in a rare way.
"Hey, you lead the way, let's go!"
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After walking past the outer part of the cave where Fan Jiangcai and the others lived, Ye Xuan saw a path so narrow that at most two people could enter side by side, took out a flashlight from the space, and walked carefully into the crevice where there was no light at all. middle.
This road is dark and winding, even if Ye Xuan holds a flashlight in his hand, it can only help him to illuminate the road under his feet, it is not enough for him to see the roads blocked by the protruding rocks, he can only vaguely I feel that although I am climbing high and feeling low now, I should have been walking in one direction.
In other words, he was walking towards the center of the mountain.
I don't know how many hours I walked, but Ye Xuan, who had strengthened his physical strength but felt that his legs did not belong to him as if they were filled with lead, was about to stop again and take out food from the space for a short-term supply. At that moment, he finally saw a glimmer of light that did not belong to the flashlight in front of him.
He bit his lip, put away the energy drink he just took out, picked up the flashlight and walked quickly towards the light.
A few minutes later, Ye Xuan finally saw a natural stone room of about ten square meters after turning over a platform that was as high as two people, and a dark green diamond-shaped light-transmitting crystal in the center of the stone room was the one he saw from a distance. to the light source.
Even though it was deep in the mountains, Ye Xuan felt at this moment that he had come to a virgin forest with few people. What he could smell was the fragrance of grass and trees, and even some unknown flowers.
As if bewitched, he walked towards the unknown crystal in the center of the stone chamber step by step, and then stretched out his hand towards it.
"boom-"
The moment the fingertip touched the crystal, the indestructible crystal suddenly turned into a stream of light and poured into the little leaf mark on Ye Xuan's left palm, and Ye Xuan also passed out on the ground at this moment.
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"Attention everyone in the base in city b, please pay attention to everyone in the base, there is a wave of zombies in the four directions of the base, southeast, northwest, and it is expected to arrive at the gate outside the base within ten minutes! Immediately go to the nearest city wall to prepare for a long-range attack; other abilities immediately gather at the nearest city gate, and go out of the base with the troops to fight; ordinary people, please go to the nearest small square according to the division , ready to support! Again, everyone please pay attention, the zombie wave will... "
"Ye Xuan, I'm in charge of guarding the north gate with the troops, come with me!"
"Damn it, there's a fucking group of psycho zombies directing!"
"What level is the ice-type zombie that looks like a college student in the front? My attack is useless against it!"
"It can't be done, our powers have been exhausted, and the crystal nuclei have all been absorbed!"
"Ye Xuan, let's take a gamble?"
"Ye Xuan, be careful!"
…
When Ye Xuan woke up from the coma, his face was already covered with tears unknowingly.
He finally remembered the complete experience of his previous life, to be precise, the experience after his thirty-fourth birthday.
In the tenth year of the end of the world, one month after his birthday, on a seemingly ordinary morning, a rare special alarm suddenly sounded over City B, directly breaking the tranquility of the day.
Zombies, many times more than the previous zombie sieges, surrounded the entire city b base without any warning, directly pulling the b city base into a life-and-death battle against the zombies. Ye Xuan, the b city base, The permanent residents, of course, also participated in the war under the call of the base.
He happened to be with Zhang Shaoqi when the alarm sounded, and he dragged them to the North City Gate where he was in charge of defending.
At that time, none of them thought that this zombie siege was organized not only by spiritual zombies, but also by several high-level zombies. Those high-level zombies are invulnerable to swords and guns, water and fire. A single zombie can kill hundreds of supernatural beings fighting on the frontal battlefield, and they can tear apart the temporary formation by themselves. It's a big hole, and it can only rely on a large number of elemental abilities to defuse its attacks again and again on the city wall.
However, the level of the strongest supernatural beings in the base is also lower than that of the leading high-level zombies below. Even if Ye Xuan and other wood-type and purification-type supernatural beings continue to provide them with crystal nuclei for assistance, it is still impossible It is difficult to fill the huge gap caused by different levels of abilities.
Seeing that the supernatural beings on the city wall have exhausted their physical strength and supernatural powers one by one, the zombies below are still showing no sign of retreating. The base has no choice but to let the supernatural beings on the high wall go down to participate in the battle at close range. , trying to use a more lethal close-range attack to find an opportunity to kill the few high-level zombies headed by them.
after that…
Ye Xuan raised his hand and wiped his tear-filled eyes again, and recalled the last scene in his memory.
At that time, among all the supernatural beings who could still fight on the northern city wall, the strongest were Zhang Shaoqi of the fire type and him of the wood type. After a brief discussion, the two of them decided to join forces to deal with the ice-type zombie.
According to their plan, he took the initiative to spawn several mutated plants with powerful attack capabilities. Taking advantage of the few seconds when the ice zombie was restrained, he entangled its limbs with vines, and then Zhang Shaoqi took this opportunity to release He condensed the fireball that he had condensed for a long time.
The fireball hit the zombie's face, melting most of its face instantly.
The two of them thought that the zombie would die, but in the next second, two long ice swords appeared in midair, piercing straight through their chests. At the same time, the screaming zombies also fell to the ground.
It died, but took them with its final attack.
After realizing this, Ye Xuan completely lost consciousness.