A group of explorers have been paying attention to Zhao Xiaochuan's movements.
Finally, a few minutes later, Zhao Xiaochuan spoke.
Zhao Xiaochuan: "Everyone, it worked! Those ants couldn't get over the fire wall and were all burned to death! Most of them couldn't crawl out of the fire pit and were burned to ashes. Only a small part of them could crawl out, but the fire of the vines is sticky. Even if they come out, they will be ignited and die after walking two meters!"
Ji Chaoyang: "Even so, are these ants still rushing towards the tree house?"
Zhao Xiaochuan: "That's right. The ants that broke through the vines didn't seem to care about the fire wall at all. They rushed towards the tree house in a swarm. However, the fire wall had blocked them all.
Phew, it's so cool to add points, I can add points while sitting! I just don't know how long this batch of vines can burn, I hope they can hold out until the ants' attack ends.
I’m going to go back to the tree house and clean up the ants that got in earlier!”
Xu Xin was hanging in the air, observing the actions of the ants while paying attention to Zhao Xiaochuan's response.
He put Coco back into the tree house to play with the two little guys. It was too dangerous to let it hang in the air and lie on his shoulder.
After hearing what Zhao Xiaochuan said, Xu Xin was basically certain that these ants were a group of machines that crawled out of the holes in the ground and ruthlessly gnawed at the tree house. This made it much easier to deal with them. At least they wouldn't flee in panic and cause a jungle fire.
Wen Guixin: "Do you want some too? I still have a lot of unprocessed vines here."
Li Wenxi: "Yes, yes, yes, my tree house is full of big ants, so disgusting!"
Ji Chaoyang: "Since it won't cause a fire, you can also use this method. I have a lot of blood thorn vines here, which are enough."
Hearing them say this, Xu Xin temporarily ignored the other people in the explorer, because the ant colony around his tree house began to move again!
All the ant colonies rioted as if they had received orders from someone, like a group of well-trained army ants, and rushed towards Xu Xin's tree house!
These ants moved much faster than before.
Mimi Silver King and his beloved concubine in the ant colony were caught off guard and could only try their best to kill the ants around them.
"Ouch—" The Silver King howled, but it did not stop the ant army's advance. They seemed to have thrown away their fear and turned into war machines completely. They had only one target in their eyes, the tree house where Xu Xin was!
Each vine that emerged from the ground shuttled through the trees, piercing countless ants and absorbing them.
But the piercing attack range was not large, and this time the big ants' speed increased a lot. Soon, an area of nearly 50 meters had fallen. Countless vines were dancing wildly in the ant colony, but they still could not stop the crazy ant colony from advancing.
"Afu, attack!" Xu Xin ordered.
Ah Fu, who was hanging upside down on the tree canopy, simply spread his wings and, without flying down, let out a shrill scream while hanging upside down!
Ah Fu's sound waves were different from the Silver King's howl. This was aggressive, so even though these ants were no longer afraid, they were still frozen by the sound.
The bodies and heads of a group of ants that were close to them were cracked by the shattering.
The ants that were farther away responded faster and continued their attack. As a result, the ant colony, which had been attacking in a relatively orderly manner, was thrown into chaos by Ah Fu's scream, and there were even a lot of trampling incidents.
The vines took this opportunity to begin harvesting the ant colonies in the jungle.
Mimi Silver King and his beloved concubine also became more and more courageous in the jungle.
Mimi and Silver King were intermediate mutant beasts, they were naturally bloodthirsty, the more they killed, the more excited they became. Although Ai Fei had not yet reached the intermediate level and was not bloodthirsty, she could not help herself when faced with all the delicious food on the ground.
"Well done!" Xu Xin praised Ah Fu. Ah Fu's sonic attack was really effective against the ant colony.
Ah Fu responded with a small cry.
Watching these vines continue their piercing attack, Xu Xin touched his chin.
This efficiency is really too low. I wonder if his vines can use sweeping attacks
These vines, as if they were afraid of damaging the jungle, avoided the trees every time they attacked. For such a long time, all the trees were basically unscathed, with only a few leaves scraped off.
Perhaps they didn't want to hurt the trees, so they kept using piercing attacks instead of sweeping? Then could he let the vines go free...
Gotta give it a try.
He landed at the base of the tree house, thought for a moment, and said to the spot where the plant heart seeds were planted: "Plant heart, can you hear me? I know you are alive. Except for the blue-level pine tree, you are not allowed to touch it. Don't worry about the other trees. They were meant to be cut down anyway. Attack with all your might!"
He was going to cut down all the trees within a hundred meters and make a back garden under the tree house. So even if these trees were well protected during the battle, it would be meaningless.
The plant heart obviously heard Xu Xin's words. As soon as he finished speaking, the entire vine group underwent a huge change.
Countless vines suddenly emerged from the ground and penetrated into the trunks of these green and white poplar trees.
Under Xu Xin's stunned gaze, the leaves of the poplar trees began to turn yellow and fall off at an extremely fast rate.
Within a few seconds, the hundred-meter area was covered with dry fallen leaves. Almost all the trees became bare dead trees, and every tree looked completely dead. Only the blue-level pine tree that he was not allowed to touch was still standing.
“…Is it true that even plants can absorb it?” Xu Xin’s eyes widened and he muttered to himself.
Then he burst out laughing.
This vine really helped him a lot. If he had to cut down these dozens of acres of land by himself, it would have been a waste of time and would have consumed the durability of his blue-level axe. He didn't know how many axes he would have used.
Now it was directly cleared away by the vines, which really saved him a lot of effort.
He didn't feel sorry for these green-level trees. After all, green-level timber resources were everywhere, and he had a complete overabundance of them.
Besides, the plant heart absorbs these animals and plants probably to store energy or use it for future upgrades, so it is not a waste.
Even Mimi Silver King and his beloved concubine stopped what they were doing, stunned by the changes around them. Mimi even broke a vine with one claw and wanted to attack the ant vine together!
"Mimi, don't attack the vines!" Xu Xin shouted hurriedly, "I told them to do that!"
After hearing this, the three beasts felt relieved and continued to immerse themselves in killing or eating.
At the same time, the vines stopped piercing and began to sweep across a large area. Although they were not covered with barbs like the blood thorn vines, they still destroyed everything in their path with their powerful force.
Those dead trees were already dry and could not resist the strong whipping of the vines. Countless "crackling" sounds were heard, and all the dead trees around were broken by the vines and fell to the ground, killing countless ants.
All the trees within a hundred meters fell to the ground, and the vines did not stop, continuing to sweep across. Wood chips and ant corpses flew everywhere, and the dead trees were broken into pieces by the vines.
In less than half a minute, the vines controlled by the plant heart cleared the area within a hundred meters around the tree house into an open space.
Although there were no trees to block the ants' movement in this open space, the ants moved faster, but the vines' attack method changed, and there was even a division of labor and cooperation, which made Xu Xin a little stunned.
One part of the vines swept across a large area, killing most of the ants directly, while the other part continued to carry out stabbing attacks to deal with the ants that escaped the net, and at the same time pierced the ants that were killed or disabled on the ground and sucked their food.
It seems that those trees just now really affected their performance!
Because they can continuously absorb the energy of enemy units, the vines never get tired. Their piercing attacks become more and more fierce, and their swinging attacks become more and more rapid and powerful. In addition, their constant cooperation with each other greatly increases their attack efficiency, directly keeping the army of ants within the outermost twenty meters.
The vines inside had slowly retracted towards the ground because they had not seen any units they could attack for several dozen seconds.
"This... This is too strong!"
Xu Xin really felt extremely safe now! With such a strong vine protecting him, nothing could harm his tree house unless it was a giant beast!
After observing for a few more minutes and making sure that these rioting ants would not pose a threat, Xu Xin prepared to go up.
He shouted to the three beasts who were still in high spirits in the distance: "Whenever you want to come up, call me and I'll come down to pick you up!"
"Awoo—" The Silver King responded with a long roar, and then continued to fight.
The reminder sound of killing ants still rings in my ears from time to time.
Kill 100 mutant ants and get 20 points.
Kill 100 mutant ants and get 20 points.
Fortunately, the sound only occurs once for every hundred. If it sounded once for every kill, he would be annoyed to death by the sound of the points reminder.
However, the ants this time were so easy to kill. They only attacked the tree house and completely ignored the survivors. It seemed that everyone would basically get a bumper harvest of points this time! Although the ants killed by the blood-thorn vines would not be counted on their heads, it was still relatively easy to get a few hundred points if they killed them alone.
Back in the tree house, Xu Xin saw Coco rolling on the ground with two pangolins. Coco was only slightly bigger than the pangolins, and the three little guys were playing together.
Seeing Xu Xin coming back, Coco lay on the ground, called out "嘤" to Xu Xin, and then continued to roll around.
"... Have these two little guys grown a little bit bigger?" Xu Xin suddenly noticed a slight difference. Today hadn't ended yet, but his vision was still improving. Although the change wasn't big, he still noticed it.
He picked up the smaller pangolin prince. The little prince, who had already eaten his fill, was very well behaved in his arms. He looked at him with his watery eyes blinking, as if saying, "I'm rolling around. Why are you picking me up?"
Feeling the change in weight, Xu Xin raised his eyebrows.
As expected of a beast with the blood of a giant beast, it had only fed on milk for a few hours, but already changes in its body could be felt.
"Coco, hurry up and bully them two more now. In a few days, they will probably be bigger than you." Xu Xin put the little guy in his arms down and teased Coco.
"Hmm?" Coco lay on the ground and tilted her head.
Isn’t it true? If they continue to grow at their current rate, it is possible that they will grow bigger than Coco in just a few days.
How old are these two little guys? They are not just a few days old, are they? How can they grow such strong scales in just a few days
Xu Xin is really looking forward to seeing them grow up.