After the red fog dissipated, the devastation that had been hidden by the red fog was completely revealed.
The cracked ground did not recover. The originally flat ground was now cracked into strips and covered with small holes.
The blood-veined vines that were killed by Xu Xin, as well as the blood-thorn vines that died in the conflict, were all lying in pieces on the cracked ground.
The scene before me looked very much like a land devastated by war.
Xu Xin tried to walk forward. Sure enough, without the red fog covering the land, those strange underground creatures would no longer come out.
Kicking the vines under his feet, Xu Xin found that these vines did not become brittle and did not break when kicked.
"Fresh vines?" Xu Xin's eyes lit up.
He squatted down, grabbed the broken vine and pulled it upwards.
The branches of the blood-veined vine are very smooth. Although it looks only two fingers thick, its overall weight is not light. Even for Xu Xin, whose strength has been strengthened many times, it still finds it a little difficult to pull the vine up from the ground.
There was no improvement, it didn't seem to be any resource.
Xu Xin frowned, thought for a moment, took out a boning knife, and cut the vine. Immediately, a milky white sticky juice flowed out from the cut of the dead vine.
Xu Xin hurriedly took out the glass bottle that previously contained the mutant beast potion and tried to collect the juice.
Mutated vine juice (green): It is flammable and flame-resistant. It will continue to burn after being ignited. It can be used to make burning arrows and burning crossbows. It is also one of the raw materials for making explosives.
Xu Xi: “!!!”
Burning arrows! Dynamite!
The juice of this vine is so powerful! It is actually the material for making burning arrows and explosives!
Xu Xin hurriedly opened his watch and looked through the production list, but did not find the formula for the explosives.
"No?" Xu Xin was a little disappointed. Suddenly, he slapped his head and said, "Explosives must be weapons. Even if there is a recipe, it should be on the weapons and armor crafting table!"
This is definitely a strategic resource!
Compared to normal arrows, burning arrows have additional fire damage, and can cause tons of damage to mutated plant creatures and mutated beasts with thick hair on their bodies!
Not to mention explosives, the explosion damage is much stronger than the piercing damage of cold weapons!
Xu Xin could no longer wait to return to the tree house to check if he had unlocked the formula for the explosives.
However, I didn't expect that the sap of this mutant vine was actually flammable. Plants are afraid of fire, and their sap is flammable. Doesn't this mean that it is easy to deal with these mutant vines with fire
After thinking about it, Xu Xin temporarily put this idea behind him.
Unless they are outside the jungle, such as appearing in the underground maze before, Xu Xin can still try to deal with them with fire, otherwise it would be a waste of time and effort.
Using fire in the jungle was simply insane. He didn't want to experience another jungle fire.
Finally, the vine stopped oozing out sticky juice, and the glass bottle in his hand was nearly half full.
This juice is much heavier than water. Just half a bottle of juice weighs almost as much as three bottles of water, and it feels heavy in the hand.
He threw the vine in his hand, which was no longer oozing liquid, to the ground. Coco immediately jumped off his shoulder and curiously turned over the wrinkled blood-marked vine with her little paws.
Holding the boning knife, Xu Xin began to collect the juice of the mutant vines, and by the way, recovered all the crossbow bullets he shot.
There were at least hundreds of broken vines on the ground. Except for the less than fifty that were shot dead by Xu Xin, the rest were basically the result of infighting.
Make a long cut vertically along the vine and the juice from the vine will flow out in large quantities.
At first he used a glass reagent bottle, but later he found that there was too much, so he simply made a wooden barrel and poured all the juice into it.
In the end, he harvested a small bucket full of milky white juice, weighing over a hundred kilograms.
As for the vine skin that has lost all its juice, it is useless and is not even a white-level resource.
Satisfiedly putting a whole bucket of mutant vine juice into his backpack, Xu Xin found that he was now very close to the entrance of the salt mine.
"Coco, is there still danger in this cave now?" Xu Xin asked Coco, who had been following him and watching him collect the juice.
"Hmm!" Coco nodded.
It seemed that the mine was still not protected by the tree house. He looked up at the two eye-like pits on the hill, and the bright white light had disappeared.
Xu Xin plucked up his courage, climbed up the hill in two or three steps, and came to the "eye socket".
Looking closer, it is just a relatively large pit on both sides of the rocky ridge of the hill, and looks very ordinary.
Unable to find anything glowing, Xu Xin didn't dare to stay any longer and quickly came down from the hill.
After taking a last look at the hill that looked like a giant's open mouth, and the mine that caused all the hills to be shrouded in red fog, Xu Xin did not stay here any longer. He mounted the Silver King's back and hurried back to the tree house.
When we returned to the tree house, it was already past one in the middle of the night.
But Xu Xin was not sleepy at all. As soon as he went up to the tree house, he hurried to the weapons and armor manufacturing table and opened the production list.
The first new crafting items to appear are the Burning Arrows and the Burning Crossbows.
Burning Crossbow (Green): A simple and practical burning crossbow with weak penetration. It will self-ignite after hitting the target. It cannot be recovered. Magic attacks are sometimes more effective than physical attacks! Burning Crossbow (Green) * 20 requires Wood (Green) * 4, Feather (Green) * 2, Mutated Vine Juice (Green) * 1kg
Although it cannot be recycled, the incendiary crossbow only requires wood and vine sap, which saves a lot of materials.
Xu Xin immediately made forty rounds as backup.
Continuing to flip through the pages, Xu Xin finally saw what he had been looking for.
Small Explosives (Green): Small explosives that explode when impacted. They are powerful and can be used to make explosive arrows and explosive crossbows. Small Explosives (Green)*20 requires vine juice (Green)*1kg, saltpeter (Green)*2kg, charcoal (Green)*20
Small explosives
It seems to be different from what he imagined, but...
Small explosives can actually be used to make explosive crossbows!
He did have saltpeter, and Li Wenxi had given him some green-grade saltpeter before, but he didn't have charcoal.
The furnace was right next to him, and Xu Xin immediately threw dozens of pieces of wood (green) into the furnace. Charcoal burned very quickly, after all, it was the primary material for making torches. It only took two minutes for twenty pieces of charcoal (green) to burn.
After preparing all the materials, Xu Xin immediately made a small explosive (green).
Twenty small explosives the size of firecrackers appeared on the weapons production table.
After the Small Dynamite (green) is crafted, the Explosive Arrow and Explosive Crossbow are also unlocked in the crafting list.
Explosive Crossbow (Green): A simple and practical explosive crossbow with weak penetration. It will explode after hitting the target. It cannot be recovered. Explosion is art! Explosive Crossbow (Green)*20 requires Wood (Green)*4, Feather (Green)*2, Small Explosives (Green)*20
Produced immediately, Xu Xin had 20 more explosive crossbows in his hands.
Taking out his crossbow and carefully loading it with an explosive bolt, Xu Xin looked out the window, found a poplar tree that was far away from the other trees, took aim, and pulled the trigger.
"Swoosh-" the crossbow was shot out. With the support of the advanced crossbow, the explosive crossbow shot at an incredibly fast speed, like a bullet.
"boom!"
The moment the crossbow hit the trunk of the tree, a flash of fire lit up, illuminating the surroundings. With a loud explosion, the whole tree was blown in half, wood chips flew everywhere, and the broken edge of the poplar tree gradually burned after the explosion, with a tendency to burn more and more fiercely.
“Bing!” “Ah?” “Meow?!”
Coco, who was curled up on the sofa and about to fall asleep, and Yinwang and Mimi, who were resting in the corner, were so frightened that they jumped up.
The bat hanging under the tree house let out a shrill scream, flapped its wings and flew to the window, warning Xu Xin in the tree house that there was an emergency under the tree house.
"It's okay, it's me, don't panic!" Xu Xin hurriedly explained.
Hearing Xu Xin's words, Silver King lay back in the corner with confidence. Mimi seemed to give Xu Xin a blank look and also lay down. The bat stopped by the window, tilted its head, and after making sure there was no danger, it flew back to the tree house and hung there again.
Coco became more lively. Seeing that Xu Xin seemed to be going out, she immediately climbed onto his shoulders.
Xu Xin brought Coco down from the tree house and came to the poplar tree that was blown down. He poured a bucket of water on it and put out the fire.
The poplar tree was not only broken, but also shattered into pieces, with wood chips flying everywhere, and the flying wood chips were more or less sparking. Fortunately, Xu Xin specially picked a tree that was far away from other vegetation.
But he did not dare to be careless. He looked around for sparks and poured a few buckets of water before he felt relieved.
This is really powerful, and the damage range is much stronger than the ordinary crossbow that can only penetrate and the poison crossbow that is basically useless now.
"However, explosive arrows are just like burning arrows. Don't use them if you can. The explosion will also cause a fire."
Xu Xin was a little troubled. He had finally obtained two powerful weapons, but they were not convenient to use in the jungle.
Looking at the watch, it was already two o'clock in the middle of the night. The jungle at night was still eerily quiet even after it shot an explosive arrow.
Back in the tree house, Xu Xin habitually used saltpeter (blue) to cool down and lay down on the bed.
A lot happened on this day.
…
Xu Xin was awakened by the mysterious voice again.
Starting today, all survivors officially enter the second stage of survival.
Next, I will introduce the content of the event. Survivors, please listen carefully.
The rainy season is over, the jungle is reborn, and the tree house is also nourished by rain and lightning
For all the survivors who survived the rainy season, your tree houses will grow and evolve again over a period of one day and one night.
I'm sure you've all noticed that the tree house's protective capabilities are now weakening.
This time the activity is: Tree House Defense. The growing tree house not only has a weakened protective ability, but is also much more fragile than before. This time, it is up to the survivors to protect their own tree house!
Your mission is to protect your tree house and survive in the next day and night!
Friendly reminder, even if the protection of the tree house is weakened, do not explore the areas outside the protection range of the tree house, otherwise very scary things will happen.
The time of this reward activity is from 6:00 today to 6:00 tomorrow
After this mission, the tree house will have new upgrades and features.
The battle to defend the tree house begins now!
Listening to the content of the event, Xu Xin instantly came to his senses.
Defending the Tree House?!
This event actually started at six o'clock, without even any advance warning!