"We must find that heart as quickly as possible!" Xu Xin looked at the tree house surrounded by vines, and a strong sense of urgency arose spontaneously.
Although according to the progress of Blood Ray, it will take at least five or six hours for them to be fully strengthened, but who knows when these vines will move? They may attack the tree house before they are fully strengthened.
These vines are not the scattered blood-veined vines from the morning, but blood-thorned vines covered with blood! In terms of whipping power, they are much stronger than blood-veined vines whose main attack method is stabbing, and they will also cause stronger damage to the tree house armor.
Xu Xin has already left the tree house. Now the tree house can only rely on the tree house armor for defense. Once these vines collectively attack, it may not be able to hold out for long.
"嘤!" Coco climbed onto Xu Xin's shoulders, pushed Xu Xin's face, and pointed at Yin Wang and Mimi.
As soon as Xu Xin turned his head, he noticed something unusual about Yin Wang and Mimi.
Both beasts stared at the vines swaying in the wind with bloodshot eyes. Mimi arched his back and tensed his body, while Silver King let out a low growl, as if he was about to rush into the vines again.
Ah Fu flapped his wings in the air, not daring to land on Mimi's back.
"You two, calm down." Seeing this, Xu Xin gently stroked the backs of the two animals and smoothed their fur.
…The character flaws of the intermediate mutant beast appeared.
He is extremely aggressive and fearless, like a natural warrior. However, once he is injured, he will relentlessly pursue the enemy, chasing him madly, completely disregarding his own physical strength and situation.
All the intermediate mutant beasts Xu Xin encountered were like this, without exception.
The mutant hare and mutant wild cat both died because they loved fighting too much. The mutant swordfish during the rainy season was also led to the tree house by Xu Xin because of this characteristic, and was finally killed by a heavy crossbow piercing its head.
He didn't expect that even Mimi and Silver King would encounter this situation.
During the breakout just now, there were a large number of vines, and some of them attacked them. Xu Xin was not injured because of his purple-level scale armor, but Mimi who was in the front and Silver King who was responsible for handling both sides suffered some scratches to varying degrees.
However, they were only minor skin injuries, but despite this, the two beasts still had the tendency to rush into the vines and kill indiscriminately.
This is not a good phenomenon.
Fortunately, with Xu Xin's comfort, the two beasts quickly stabilized.
"Ah?" The Silver King also tilted his head like Coco, as if wondering why he wanted to rush into the vines so much just now.
Mimi was stunned for two seconds, and then shook her whole body like a wet cat, as if trying to shake out the unrealistic thought from her body.
It seems that the two beasts themselves have realized their misconduct and are trying to adjust their status.
Fortunately, they can still listen to Xu Xin and control themselves, so the probability of problems occurring can be greatly reduced.
No more wasting time. Xu Xin climbed onto the wolf and looked around.
According to Ji Chaoyang, the entrance to the cave is only a few hundred meters away from the tree house and it is the latest to appear.
It was easy to find within a few hundred meters. Xu Xin looked at the map and found no new cave signs within a one-kilometer radius. This map was mainly used to identify living creatures.
"Coco, can you sense that big monster? Can you tell which direction it is in?" Xu Xin asked as he touched Coco's tail that had crawled onto the back of the Silver King's neck.
“嘤…” Coco raised her little paw, pointed at the tree house, and then pointed below the tree house.
"What do you mean?" Xu Xin's face changed.
"嘤!" Coco raised his paw and made the gesture of a big monster, then pointed under the tree house.
“…The heart is right below the tree house?!”
"Hmm!" Coco nodded her little head.
Xu Xin took a deep breath.
No wonder.
No wonder Keke has been unexpectedly clingy since this morning, following him around no matter what, even lying on his lap when he was carving. No wonder when Xu Xin told it to stay in the tree house, it insisted on going out with him.
…It turns out that it could always sense that danger was right beside it, and that the heart was right under the tree house!
He suddenly thought of what Ji Chaoyang had said to him.
"This hole is not bottomless, but it is slanted downward, towards the tree house. The sound came from the hole."
The direction of the hole is towards the tree house! It seems that the same is true for Ji Chaoyang. The heart deep in the hole is actually under the tree house.
Right below the tree house should be the place where the roots are most vigorous. I don’t know how this heart appeared in such a place.
Regardless, since the "heart" is right below the tree house, the entrance is not too far from the tree house. A few hundred meters is not too big, and there is a strange aroma when you get close to the entrance, so it is very easy to find.
Xu Xin ordered the beasts to act separately. He and Coco went to the south, and the other three beasts went to the other three directions. They just needed to find the cave and shout.
With the continuous enhancement of the blue-level fruit on his body, Xu Xin ran effortlessly and looked around with his current super eyesight.
The bushes were very dense and the view was severely obstructed. Xu Xin could only conduct a carpet search, but still found nothing.
"嘤!" Coco suddenly cried out, and pointed her little paws in a direction.
That was a direction farther away from the tree house. Now Xu Xin was already five or six hundred meters away from the tree house.
However, he still trusted Coco and ran towards that direction.
Sure enough, before he had run a few dozen meters, he keenly smelled a faint fragrance.
It's the smell of diluted red mist!
Xu Xin quickened his pace and finally found a hole about one or two meters in diameter in the middle of a hole blocked by several trees.
"Well done, Coco. After all, I still have to rely on you!" Xu Xin rubbed Coco's head hard.
"Hmm!" Coco raised her little head.
The cave was just as Ji Chaoyang said, slanting downward with a slope of about 30 degrees, and facing exactly the bottom of the tree house.
It looks like this is the hole.
Xu Xin took a breath and prepared to shout to call the other three beasts.
“Ouch—”
Before he could shout, the howl of the Silver King's wolf was heard from the east of the tree house.
"… ah?"
What's going on?! Isn't the cave on his side? Did something happen to the Silver King
Xu Xin glanced at the map. There were no red dots around the Silver King's position. It also stopped at one position and did not move any further.
On his side, a dark circular mark had appeared, representing the cave that Xu Xin had just discovered. It was quite convenient to mark the cave on the map after discovering it.
"Let's go check out the Silver King first. Something might have happened there."
"Bing!"
Xu Xin had just taken two steps when he heard Ah Fu's faint scream from the northwest of the tree house. On the map, Ah Fu also stopped beside a cave and did not move.
"What's going on?" Xu Xin had already noticed something was wrong.
Could it be that there are multiple caves in the ground
There was nothing unusual about Mimi Red Dot. After hearing the wolf howl of Silver King, it ran directly towards Silver King and quickly arrived at Silver King's position. Then it heard Ah Fu's call again. It stayed for two seconds and ran towards Ah Fu's position again.
"Let's go find the Silver King first." Xu Xin didn't waste any time and ran quickly towards the Silver King.
It was only a thousand meters away, but with Xu Xin's current physical condition, he reached the destination in two minutes. In addition, with the enhancement effect on his body, he didn't even have to breathe heavily.
Xu Xin could smell the fragrance from a few dozen meters away.
Sure enough, there is a hole here too!
Quickly passing through the jungle, he saw the lying Silver King and a two-meter-diameter hole next to the Silver King.
The moment he discovered this cave, another cave mark appeared on the map. Looking at the two identical cave marks on the map, Xu Xin sighed.
As expected, there are several holes in the ground. This is troublesome.
Xu Xin walked forward and looked into the cave. Sure enough, it was also slanting downwards, towards the bottom of the tree house. A faint fragrance wafted out, almost exactly the same as the cave he had discovered.
"Hmm!" "Ah?" Coco began to communicate with the Silver King.
Mimi is back too.
After a few exchanges, Coco began to gesture to Xu Xin.
Xu Xin understood immediately: "Is there also a cave over there, Ah Fu?"
"Hmm." Coco nodded.
Xu Xin jumped onto the wolf: "Go over there first!"
He had to mark the holes first, so that he wouldn't lose them later. Of these holes, perhaps only one led to the "heart".
Ji Chaoyang was able to find it in one go, probably because he relied on his hearing amplification to search all the way. Only the hole that truly leads to the heart will produce the sound of a beating heart.
If there were many entrances, Ji Chaoyang should have told him that the sound came from multiple directions, and he was just looking in one direction. Since there was none, it was very likely that only one hole was real.
He sent another message to Ji Chaoyang, but still got no response. Fortunately, his name was not grayed out, which at least meant he was still alive.
The Silver King was very fast. In less than a minute, Xu Xin saw Ah Fu hanging upside down on the tree and the hole below it.
After getting off the wolf, Xu Xin carefully observed the cave again. With his extraordinary vision, he could see every detail of the cave. Unfortunately, this cave was not much different from the previous two caves, whether in size, shape, slope, or the pale red contaminated soil on the cave entrance and walls.
At least he couldn't tell the difference.
"Coco, can you tell the difference between these three holes?"
Coco tilted her head and gestured with her little paws: "Bing!"
“Are all three holes dangerous?”
"Bing!"
… It seems that he can only choose randomly. I hope his luck will be better.
After marking the three holes, Xu Xin was still worried, so he asked Yin Wang to run around to see if there were any holes he hadn't discovered. Yin Wang had good endurance, so running a circle was just a warm-up.
He raised his watch and opened the explorer group.
In the group, the few people who did not leave, Li Wenxi, Zhao Xiaochuan, Qin Yunlong, and Qi Xuefei were still chatting.
"Everyone, has anyone gone out?" Xu Xin asked.
Wen Guixin: "I've come out and am looking for the hole you mentioned, but I haven't found it yet."
Wang Lei: "I came out too! I came out thanks to Sister Xuefei's pills!"
Xu Xin was a little surprised that Wang Lei came out. He looked through the records and found out how he got out.
Qi Xuefei: "I have a new pill here. Its efficacy has been confirmed. It can heal all injuries within two hours. It is expensive, and I only have one pill now. If anyone of you is willing to go out, I can give him this pill."
Wang Lei: "What do you mean? How are we going to get out?"
Qi Xuefei: "You can all make explosive crossbows, right? Put on your armor, grab your weapons, take the painkiller pills, and rush out! As long as you survive, take this pill after you rush out, and your injuries will be healed."
Zhao Xiaochuan: "Oh my god... it sounds so tragic..."
Li Wenxi: "We can't just leave Xu Xin and Sister Gui Xin outside. Now Ji Chaoyang can't be contacted either, and there's too little information about them. Otherwise, give it to me. I have blue-level armor, so I shouldn't get hurt too badly if I force my way out!"
Zhao Xiaochuan: "Oh my god, how can I let the beautiful Wen Xi go out! Give me the pills, I'll go out, I can run fast!"
Li Wenxi: "Then... whoever goes out, I will give him my blue-level armor."
Wang Lei: “!! Is this true?”
Qin Yunlong: "Give me a blue-level armor set?"
Then, several men in the group began to compete for this spot. After a while of silence, perhaps after a private discussion, they decided that it was Wang Lei.
This method is quite clever, but it is still too reckless. If you are bound by the vines and unable to move, you will be doomed.
However, since Wang Lei has come out, he must have his own solution. Xu Xin didn't say anything more. But Li Wenxi actually sent out the blue-level armor, which surprised him a little.
The cohesion of this organization seems to be growing stronger.
Xu Xin immediately shared his situation and information in the group.
Li Wenxi: "Oh my god! The heart is actually under the tree house!"
Zhao Xiaochuan: "...Brother Xin, why did you say it out? I'm so panicked that I can't do anything..."
Qin Yunlong: "The vines will become stronger as they kill more... Then we really can't do anything. It all depends on you."
Wen Guixin: "There are still so many holes in the ground! This is a bit uncomfortable!"
Wang Lei: "What else can we do? If we find one, we can go down. If not, we can come up and find another one... Ah! I found one here!"
Wang Lei had just broken out of the encirclement when he found one.
Wang Lei: "I'll go down first and explore the way for you. If it's fake, I can also tell you what's inside!"
At this time, the Silver King also came back, which meant that there were no other caves around, which made Xu Xin breathe a sigh of relief.
"There should be only three holes around my tree house. I've observed them and there's no difference in appearance. I can only try them one by one. I wish you two good luck."
After Xu Xin finished speaking, he turned off the watch screen projection and looked at the underground passage in front of him that sloped downward at a thirty-degree angle.
Let's start with this cave. This is the nth time he has entered the underground passage. Since he came to this world, he has been dealing with the underground.
The passage is two meters wide, which is enough to bring two big guys, Mimi and Silver King, in.
Xu Xin decided to let Mimi and Afu explore the way ahead. The cave is Afu's home ground, and Mimi's reaction speed is very fast, even if there are any traps, it will basically not hurt it. Yin Wang is responsible for the rear, and he and Coco are in the middle. He has long-range weapons in his hands and can provide support in front and behind.
Without wasting any more time, the man and four beasts stepped into the cave.