Fortunately, they had set up traps and killing devices within 300 meters and 500 meters of the evil tree, which were enough to trap all the evil spirits inside. Then they took the opportunity to seal the evil spirits so as not to leave the evil tree with a chance to take advantage.
This process was not as simple as it seemed. After the handlers dealt with the evil spirits that had dropped from the scene, it was already night. During this period, Xu Dongyou had been catching up on sleep and resting. When night came, it was time for Xu Dongyou and the others to keep watch.
As for the three researchers, they were still in a state of extreme excitement. This was their first time to study the evil tree at close range, although they were still within 500 meters of it.
They were very curious about where this evil tree came from and how this small world was created.
The director and a few others were discussing something, but in order to prevent the tree from hearing their plans, they were all using psychic watches to talk.
The inexplicable attacks of the evil spirits on them during the day proved that the tree did have a certain level of intelligence, or instinct. Just like animals and monsters, it did not have the same thinking ability as humans, but this did not prevent them from feeling fear and changing their original plans in response to specific circumstances.
This is not a good thing.
This also means that the difficulty of destroying the tree has increased significantly, but no matter what, they still have to act according to the original plan.
It was soon late at night.
Xu Dongyou was not sleepy, but he felt bored. He was about to use his psychic watch to browse the Internet, but after a while, he vaguely sensed that the gray fog around him seemed to become thicker.
He immediately put down his psychic watch and instantly saw several figures swaying not far away.
No, it should be said that there were several evil spirits. Their bodies were almost obscured by the gray fog, but with Xu Dongyou's increased strength, as long as he concentrated his mind, he could see the bodies under the gray fog, and although they looked different, they all had weird expressions on their faces.
The evil spirits were obviously heading this way.
Xu Dongyou immediately stood up and made a gesture to the people on night watch. The others immediately understood and woke up others. Everyone was prepared and began to deal with these evil spirits.
By the time we finished, it was already daybreak.
Everyone then approached the defense formation, and found that two of the traps had been broken. No wonder these evil spirits could launch a night attack. It can be said that if Xu Dongyou had not intervened in the first place, these evil spirits would have been wiped out.
"Reinforce and repair the traps. Everyone, please stay alert." The director immediately gave the order.
Everyone started moving.
Xu Dongyou was looking carefully at the damaged opening nearby. The ground was muddy and traces of chaos could be seen. It was a bit strange because evil spirits would not leave footprints. In addition, when everyone built this place, they deliberately smoothed out the traces nearby.
Logically speaking, this kind of thing shouldn't happen here.
The director walked by, glanced at the traces of chaos, and said in a voice that no one else could hear: "You are sick too?"
Xu Dongyou came back to his senses, shook his head, and whispered: "Nothing special, I just wonder why there are such traces of chaos here."
The director replied: "Because someone deliberately destroyed this place, allowing the evil spirit to escape smoothly. But you also know that the evil spirit will not leave traces or footprints. So, this person can only destroy his own footprints because he is afraid of being recognized."
Xu Dongyou was stunned.
He had never thought of this, but it also meant that among the people who entered this world, one person was a traitor!
Xu Dongyou couldn't figure out what this person's purpose was, and he was even more worried about whether the other party would continue to do something else in secret.
Director: "This is why I'm telling you this. Your five senses can sense useless things. Pay more attention to it and find this person."
Xu Dongyou nodded and agreed. At the same time, he thought of another important thing, "Director, is it possible that other handlers have guessed the same thing as you? Will they become suspicious and wary of other handlers because of this? At that time, it may affect the whole team to be suspicious of each other.
Director Xi: "You should have guessed the consequences, so we must find this person as soon as possible to prevent more people from realizing this."
Xu Dongyou nodded, looking serious: "I will."
In the next few days, the group was probably worried that they would be exposed, so they stopped destroying the traps. The evil spirits were trapped in the traps and were sealed and eliminated the next day.
In addition, no new evil spirits have been sent in, resulting in the number of evil spirits on the tree becoming more and more. This is also the plan of the processing bureau. To consume these evil spirits and then deal with the evil spirit tree, they can also take the opportunity to do some testing and analysis experiments.
As the days passed, the evil tree seemed to be getting more and more anxious, and it no longer tried to send evil spirits away. Everyone also perked up, suspecting that the evil spirit was probably holding back a big move.
Around the second half of the night, Xu Dongyou vaguely heard some noise coming from afar. He opened his eyes and looked around, but did not see any evil spirits.
Everything seemed to be just his illusion.
But Xu Dongyou had great confidence in his five senses. He did not call other handlers, but kept walking out with the dagger in his hand. After walking for about ten minutes, he finally saw the source of the sound.
Something seemed to be crawling out of the dirty ground, but due to its huge size, only a few hairy legs were exposed. Xu Dongyou knew at a glance that it looked very much like a spider.
But the legs of this spider are almost as tall as an adult man, which is enough to show how huge the spider must be.
Could it be that the evil tree realized that evil spirits were ineffective and simply replaced them with the monster closest to them? Unfortunately, he was caught by himself first. Xu Dongyou immediately pressed the psychic watch to transmit the danger warning to the handler, and then rushed over with a dagger to chop off several spider legs outside.
The monster's unique blood, which was like gutter oil, immediately leaked out from the edge. Xu Dongyou suppressed the urge to vomit. Without even looking at the monster's legs that were still twitching on the ground, he used his magic power to control the land and quickly squeezed the monster's body that was still buried underground.
The ground began to surge continuously, and Xu Dongyou's demonic power was constantly being consumed. He squeezed harder again, until the monster finally tried its best to crawl out of the ground, but its body had already been broken beyond recognition. Its hundreds of eyes stared at Xu Dongyou fiercely, and it let out a weird scream.
At this time, about a quarter of Xu Dongyou's demonic power had been consumed. He was not afraid at all and quickly controlled the dagger to kill the monster. The monster let out an unwilling roar and fell to the ground without breathing.
Xu Dongyou breathed a sigh of relief. At this time, everyone else heard the noise and rushed over. Seeing the monster's corpse on the ground, they were shocked and silent for a moment.
No one expected that Xu Dongyou's strength would increase so quickly that he could even easily eliminate monsters by himself. They silently imagined whether they could do this.
Then there was silence again.
Xu Dongyou turned his head and smiled as friendly and harmless as always with everyone else. Coupled with his exceptionally beautiful face, it was easy to associate him with a very good-looking face. He looked very harmless and trustworthy at first impression.
But it is people like this who have almost accomplished what they cannot do.
And more than once.
One of the handlers' eyes flickered, and he contained murderous intent.
Xu Dongyou suddenly glanced at this person, then quickly looked away. When he went back to rest, he silently sent a message to the director, telling him the name of the person he suspected.
Just now, that person obviously had murderous intentions towards him. Although it was only for a moment, Xu Dongyou still sensed and captured it.
The bureau immediately responded by asking Xu Dongyou to keep his troops in place and not to reveal any movements.
Xu Dongyou said he understood, and continued doing what he was doing. However, after he easily killed the monster, everyone seemed to have a subtle change in their attitude towards Xu Dongyou. At least unlike before, some old handlers still had an inexplicable arrogance and sense of superiority towards Xu Dongyou, but now they all treated each other like peers, and even showed a hint of awe and flattery.
Xu Dongyou was a little uncomfortable with this change, but it was not easy for him to directly tell these people not to do that, as it would put them all in an awkward position. The only thing he did was to remain the same as before, respectful to the elders and friendly to others.
As a result, everyone developed a better impression of Xu Dongyou.
After all, if you think about it carefully, if they had done so many things, they would have become arrogant long ago, but Xu Dongyou has always remained true to himself, which is the most rare thing.
Everyone is willing to be friends with such people.
I don't know if it was because Xu Dongyou's easy killing of the monster gave the evil spirit tree a great sense of crisis. In the next few days, the monsters launched sneak attacks in the second half of the night, as if they were trying to consume Xu Dongyou's energy. But Xu Dongyou was not stupid. When he encountered danger, he and others immediately fought back. The rest of the people should sleep, so as not to have no energy to deal with the evil spirits during the day.
At the same time, after confirming that the small world would not devour humans, other handlers who had been prepared long ago also entered and began to deal with the evil spirits together.
Just half a month.
Most of the evil spirits on the evil spirit tree have been killed, leaving only two or three evil spirits that look very powerful and still remember where they are. At the same time, they did not forget to set up nearly twenty traps around it.
As a result, some monsters were injured by the traps as soon as they appeared, and then died miserably when the handlers rushed over.
The handler who was secretly doing things finally couldn't sit still anymore, he had to find a way, otherwise if he continued like this, the evil tree would really be killed.
And this is the moment that the Bureau and others have been waiting for.