Xu Xin made a wooden barrel and taught them step by step how to collect the juice.
Silver King picks up the vine, and Mimi uses her claws to cut a hole in the vine to let the vine juice flow into the bucket.
The Silver King obediently picked up the vine and aimed it at the barrel.
Although Mimi was reluctant, she didn't say anything. She waved her claws and made a vertical scratch on the vine. But the look she gave Xu Xin made him feel a little disgusted, as if saying, "How dare you let such an elegant leopard do such rough work?"
Looking at the two animals working, Xu Xin nodded with satisfaction.
"Hmm?" Coco pointed at herself with her little paw, asking, "What am I doing?"
"You, you and Ah Fu, cheer for them!" Xu Xin touched Coco's head hard, turned around and walked out of the tree house.
Hanging in the air by the roots, he looked at the vines that were constantly attacking the tree trunk, as if he was looking at roots of points and bomb raw materials.
Continuing with the same old trick, Xu Xin continued to shoot at the roots of the vines with the crossbow.
These blood-veined vines were unable to attack Xu Xin who was more than five meters tall, and their roots were unable to move, so he could only obediently wait to be killed.
One by one, the vines fell under Xu Xin's crossbow, smashing to the ground with a loud noise.
He used the same method to bring up the dead vines, while also attracting more vines to grow out of the ground.
The land was already full of cracks and holes as the vines continued to break out of the ground, but since it was just mud, it didn't matter. Instead, it seemed like these vines were loosening the soil under Xu Xin's tree house.
He discovered that no vines would grow in the places where vines had grown before. This was probably because there were only a few vine seeds in this piece of land, and all of them had broken through the soil and were cleared away by him.
That means, at least for now, these cleared locations are safe.
Xu Xin continued to lure out and kill the blood-veined vines in batches, and then sent them to the tree house in batches, allowing Silver King and Mimi to collect the juice of the mutant vines.
Soon, he cleaned up the area of about 100 square meters under the tree house and obtained thousands of points. At the same time, Silver King and Mimi were even more efficient than him. Every time he brought vines up, the two beasts had already dealt with the previous batch and lay beside the wooden barrel waiting for him.
In the end, he once again obtained a bucket of 100 kilograms of mutant vine juice.
At this time, people could stand under his tree house because all the vines under the tree house had been cleared away by him.
But we still can't take it lightly.
Xu Xin checked the soil and confirmed that these vines did not grow out from the ground, but grew from seeds in the soil about thirty centimeters deep, because the land below thirty centimeters was intact and there was no sign of any holes.
As for the vines outside the protected area and the blood-veined and blood-thorn vines in the red fog, they definitely came out from deep underground. After losing their target, those vines will slowly shrink back into the ground.
The blood-veined vines under the tree house are probably just the appetizer in this battle to defend the tree house.
He gathered hundreds of vines, wrinkled from the extraction of their juice, around the tree house, surrounding the protected area he had cleared.
Although these vines have been basically hollowed out, there is still some flammable juice remaining. If mutant beasts attack, he can ignite these vines and form a circle of fire wall around them to prevent them from entering easily.
Of course, this circle of vines is still some distance away from the outer jungle, and the ground is all land with no vegetation, so even if it is ignited, it will not affect the jungle. Otherwise, it will cause a jungle fire.
Everything was ready. Xu Xin breathed a sigh of relief, returned to the third floor of the tree house, and snuggled directly into the sofa. He hugged Coco, who was also snuggling on the sofa, and rubbed her.
"Hmm." Coco cried out, changed into a comfortable position in his arms and continued to rest with her eyes closed.
In the regional channel, everyone was chatting idly because they couldn't go out.
"Those vines down there are still attacking, won't they get tired?"
"Although the armor hasn't been damaged for such a long time and there's no danger, the sound of it hitting is really loud..."
"And the tree house was shaking, just like a thunderstorm before the rainy season. It was really torture."
"How pitiful! Fortunately, I didn't go out. By the way, why don't you try to attack them, such as shooting them with bows and arrows?"
"Attack? If I just stick my head out, those vines will keep coming out. Who dares to go out and attack? The more you attack, the more vines there will be!"
Most of them own small tree houses that are too low, especially those survivors who only have one floor. They dare not even look out of the window.
The vines attack the trunk of the tree house from below, and cannot be attacked from the window. If you want to attack them, you must hang under the crown of the tree house like Xu Xin, or go out directly, but this will only make the vines more and more.
They couldn't be like Xu Xin, who could rely on the advantage of being protected for more than five meters to slaughter the vines. Only survivors who had a tree house on the first two floors or above could use his method. Because the bottom of the canopy of the first two-story tree house was seven meters above the ground, while Xu Xin's first three-story tree house was ten meters.
The nine explorers were all in the lowest initial second-floor tree house, so they should all be able to clean up under the tree house like Xu Xin did.
"Have you all been out?" Xu Xin asked in the group.
Zhao Xiaochuan: "No, the two elders didn't let us go out, so I stayed in the tree house obediently."
Li Wenxi: "This tree house defense battle shouldn't be that easy, right? Can we just stay at home?"
Wang Lei: "I went out for a while. Didn't Boss Ji say that there would be no reaction above five meters? So I went down to take a look, but I accidentally went too low and attracted the vines..."
Wen Guixin: "Pfft, you are too stupid. If you have brought it out, just kill it. I have already cleaned up the bottom!"
Wen Guixin's words once again caught Xu Xin's attention.
Wen Guixin's points in the previous hunting activities almost surpassed him and Ji Chaoyang who were able to kill intermediate mutant beasts. Unexpectedly, he was able to clear the vines so quickly this time.
She is indeed very strong in killing wild beasts and monsters.
Zhao Xiaochuan: "What? Clean it up? Did you kill all the vines down there?"
Wen Guixin: "Yes, although there are many of them, each one is very weak. Isn't it easy to kill them?"
Qin Yunlong: “I tried, but I couldn’t kill them even if I broke them. How did you do it?”
Wen Guixin: "Well... I jumped directly. If you use my method, you will be seriously injured if not killed. You should ask Xu Xin and Ji Chaoyang for a better solution."
Qi Xuefei: "Don't be afraid of getting hurt. I have cultivated many blue-level hemostatic herbs. As long as you don't break a leg or an arm, there will be no problem."
These days, Qi Xuefei has been selling hemostatic herbs and pills in the name of explorer. According to her, the second batch of new blue-level pills will be available soon, and by then everyone will be basically free from illness and pain.
Li Wenxi: "But it hurts... Let's just forget about jumping."
Ji Chaoyang didn't say anything. He should be trying to go out like Xu Xin.
But Wen Guixin's toughness was a bit outrageous. She just jumped down? Xu Xin simulated the process and result of his own jump in his mind, and shuddered immediately.
No, he can't do it.
These people really have special skills.
Xu Xin was not stingy and directly told these people how he killed the vines.
Qin Yunlong: "The weak point of the vine is actually the root. I should have thought of it earlier. Use a crossbow to shoot at the root..."
Wang Lei: "There's actually such a stupid method! Playing with vines!"
Xu Xin: "The juice of the vine can burn. It can be used to make burning arrows and explosives. Remember to collect it."
Wen Guixin: "??? So the juice from the slimy lake is a resource? I cut it into pieces and went down to collect the resources to see how much is left."
At present, there are no more vines growing around Xu Xin’s tree house, but he does not plan to expand it further outward.
He hasn't had breakfast yet. After being active for so long, he is hungry. Besides, Mimi and Yin Wang can't just work without eating.
While the others had no food to eat, he did. He had an entire ice cellar full of mutant beast meat, seven or eight thousand kilograms, which was enough for these two big eaters to squander for the time being.
Xu Xin took the meat out, put it in the kitchen to process and thaw it, and then gave it to Yinwang Mimi and Ah Fu.
The three mutant beasts seemed more interested in the mutant beast meat than ordinary wild beast meat.
Coco continued to follow Xu Xin to eat the fried dishes and grilled meat.
He put the last bite of meat into his mouth. Although the meat was extremely delicious and a warm current flowed through his body, he was still a little dissatisfied.
"I don't know when we can have staple foods like rice and wheat..." Every meal every day is meat. Even though Xu Xin is a meat lover, he still finds it a bit too much to eat meat as a staple food every day.
Humans are omnivores, not carnivores.
“Ouch—”
"Bing!" The Silver King suddenly let out a long howl, startling Xu Xin who was about to clean up the dishes and Coco who was lying on the table holding her stomach.
Looking at Silver King, he was pleasantly surprised to find that the blood patterns on Silver King and Mimi's bodies were actually emitting a faint red light, just like when they were in the red fog, with a kind of enchanting beauty.
"This is, evolving! Are they finally going to become intermediate mutant creatures?" Xu Xin stared at the two beasts without blinking.
Ah Fu, who was eating with them, didn't change at all. He flapped his wings and lay down by the window again.
Coco walked over to Yin Wang and Mimi and nudged them curiously, but Xu Xin pulled her back: "Don't disturb them!"
"Hmm..."
The red light on the two beasts became more and more conspicuous. The Silver King could not help but let out another wolf howl. Even Mimi, who usually didn't howl much, let out a roar.
Then, the two beasts lay down beside the long cabinet containing the radioactive stone and fell into a deep sleep.
…sleep again
Although they fell into a deep sleep, the blood patterns on their bodies did not fade, but were still bright and vivid, and flashed from time to time.
On the map, among the three green spots of light representing companions, the spots of Silver King and Mimi are flashing and tend to become brighter.
It seems that when they wake up, they will become two intermediate mutant beasts.
but…
Didn't expect them to be upgraded along with the tree house.
Now the tree house's protective ability has been reduced, and there may be a large number of enemies invading. As a result, his two generals fell into a deep sleep, which is really embarrassing.
Xu Xin rubbed Keke's big furry tail and said, "Keke, now we can only rely on you to resist the invasion. Please fight for your dignity."
Coco tilted her head: "Hmm?"