Just like when he approached Ma Hongwei's tree house before, in order not to make any noise, Xu Xin specifically looked for a place with not many fallen leaves on the ground and slowly approached the tree house which was only three or four hundred meters away from them.
Li Wenxi also followed behind him, stepping on the places he had stepped on, moving forward carefully.
Suddenly, Coco, who was lying on Xu Xin's shoulder, moved. Perhaps he remembered Xu Xin's warning just now. Instead of jumping down, he scratched the front with his little paws and made a "ying" sound in Xu Xin's ear.
Xu Xin walked more carefully and whispered to Li Wenxi, "There are people ahead, be careful."
Soon, through the gaps in the bushes, the two saw the scene under the tree house.
"That's... Sister Xuefei!" Li Wenxi exclaimed quietly behind Xu Xin.
Xu Xin's eyelids twitched.
All the trees within a hundred meters around the tree house were cut down, forming an open area around the tree house, which was similar to the choice of Xu Xin and Li Wenxi.
Only about 10 to 20 meters away from the tree house, a woman in blue-grade steel armor was sitting on the ground. Her breathing was a little rapid and her face was flushed from exercise. She was holding her chest with a look of pain on her face and coughing from time to time.
There were at least twenty heavy crossbow arrows stuck crookedly on the ground around her, and several were lying scattered on the ground, with the wooden arrowheads completely deformed.
Although Xu Xin had never seen Qi Xuefei's appearance, this set of blue-grade steel armor was undoubtedly the one he made today. Moreover, Li Wenxi must have known Qi Xuefei's appearance through video chat, so this woman was undoubtedly Qi Xuefei.
However, her newly made steel armor actually looked a little worn out. It was covered with dirt and had several scratches and dents.
These marks were obviously caused by heavy crossbow arrows.
Xu Xin clenched his fists. Being shot by a heavy crossbow arrow would still hurt him even if he was wearing blue-grade steel armor.
The blue-level steel armor is the most defensive set among the blue-level ones. From the perspective of defense, this set of steel armor is not necessarily inferior to the purple-level scale armor. Therefore, the crossbow arrows shot by the green-level heavy crossbow only scratched a few marks on the steel armor and made a few dents.
But the fact that the armor does not receive much damage does not mean that the person inside the armor will not be harmed.
Heavy armor is more about preventing small-scale sharp attacks, such as crossbow bolts, snake bites, wolf bites, spear or sword attacks, and even tiger scratches and bites.
As long as these attacks cannot destroy the armor, the person wearing the armor will not suffer much damage.
But if it's a powerful impact type of attack, then heavy armor won't be of much use.
Just like before, Xu Xin was wearing blue-level armor, but still didn't dare to withstand the wild boar's head-on collision. If he was knocked away and hit hard against a tree, his armor might not be damaged too much, but he would definitely suffer internal injuries!
To give an extreme example, no matter how hard the armor is, if you are hit by a truck and fly dozens of meters away, even if the armor is very hard and not deformed, you will still die.
It is precisely because the armor is too hard to absorb the impact force that all the impact force acts on the human body, which can easily cause internal injuries and damage to internal organs and bones, which can result in minor injuries or even shattering.
The essence of the heavy crossbow lies in its "weight". In addition to its penetrating power, the weight of the heavy crossbow arrow itself is also extremely high. Even if the crossbow arrow cannot penetrate the extremely tough blue-level steel armor, it can still pierce the person wearing the steel armor to the ground.
At this moment, Qi Xuefei was obviously hit to the ground several times by the heavy crossbow, which made her covered in dust and she kept coughing while holding her chest.
"… What's the point of you staying like this? Are you kidding me?" Qi Xuefei supported herself on the ground, slowly got up from the ground, raised her head towards the direction of the tree house, and said in a somewhat weak voice.
Xu Xin and the others could not see the owner of the tree house from their current position. He was looking at Qi Xuefei from a window in another direction.
"Ka!" The sound of the machine twisting was heard, and another crossbow arrow was shot from the side of the tree house. Qi Xuefei twisted her body to avoid it, but was still hit by the crossbow arrow on the shoulder. The crossbow arrow with huge weight and kinetic energy directly knocked her to the ground.
Li Wenxi's face was filled with anger and she immediately pulled out a crossbow, but Xu Xin stood in front of her and stopped her from rushing forward.
"Wait a moment and observe the situation! Acting rashly will not only put Qi Xuefei in greater danger, but will also put us in danger!" Xu Xin shouted in a low voice.
"But..." Looking at Qi Xuefei who rolled on the ground twice and then quickly stood up, Li Wenxi bit her lips tightly.
"This man doesn't seem to want to kill her now, but if you take action, he might really kill her when he sees so many people around!" Xu Xin glanced at the tree house canopy full of heavy crossbows and whispered.
If this person really wanted to kill Qi Xuefei, he could just shoot thousands of arrows at once. Why bother teasing him by shooting one arrow at a time
Fortunately, Qi Xuefei is also a smart person. Xu Xin noticed that when she was rolling on the ground just now, she quickly and secretly stuffed a pill into her mouth, and then she got up quickly.
Xu Xin on the side could see her little movements, but the people in the tree house certainly couldn't see it.
What she took should be the kind of pill that can quickly heal injuries.
"Haha, yes, I was just teasing you!"
A man's voice came from the tree house. It was high-pitched and teasing.
"It's so hard to meet a beautiful woman, it would be so bad to kill you, of course I have to have some fun with you! The armor on you is really strong, if it weren't for this armor, I'm really afraid I would kill you. Wait until you are exhausted, hehehe..."
As he spoke, another machine gun sounded, and a crossbow arrow was immediately shot towards Qi Xuefei!
Qi Xuefei relied on her body that had just recovered and dodged the heavy crossbow arrow. Then she suddenly turned and rushed into the jungle in the opposite direction of the tree house!
"Want to run?"
Three machine gun loudspeakers rang out, and three heavy crossbow arrows suddenly shot over!
However, the three crossbow arrows did not hit Qi Xuefei, but just passed over her head and hit the ground in front of her diagonally.
Three crossbows missed the target and landed in front of Qi Xuefei, causing her to stop abruptly. She almost hit them. She adjusted her body and tried to dodge and continue running.
"Card!"
The fourth heavy crossbow arrow was fired at this moment, shooting straight forward!
A one-meter-long heavy crossbow arrow flew rapidly and hit her right shoulder accurately!
The steel armor still protected her from being pierced by the heavy crossbow arrow, but the huge force still knocked her to the ground, where she fell heavily, raising a cloud of dust.
Xu Xin's tongue suddenly shrank.
What an accurate shot!
He was just wondering, this is just a low tree house. Even if he wants to plant something, he can only plant it within a range of about ten meters. Why did he go to so much trouble to cut down such a large area around it
Now it seems that this might be the effective range of his heavy crossbow! If there are trees, the effect of his heavy crossbow will be reduced!
"Ah!" Li Wenxi covered her mouth and let out a small cry of surprise.
Qi Xuefei covered her shoulder and clenched her teeth tightly. She felt that her shoulder must have been broken.
"how so… "
She now deeply regrets her rash action.
She was actually quite confident in her personal strength, especially after receiving the steel armor set given to her by Li Wenxi.
Wearing this suit of steel armor, she headed westward, exploring towards the low tree house.
After tentatively stepping out of her own protected area, she was pleasantly surprised to find that the protected area of the tree house was connected to hers!
This side leads to the outside!
But she did not contact Xu Xin and Ji Chaoyang, but walked towards the two-story tree house alone.
In her opinion, the two-decker in the tree house should be an ordinary survivor from the next area. She could solve the problem by herself without bothering Xu Xin and Ji Chaoyang.
Although we are partners, it is not good to trouble others before meeting each other. If you can handle it yourself, it is better to do it yourself.
And according to what Xu Xin said, the ordinary survivors on the opposite side should not be aware of the regional confrontation. She might be able to have a friendly communication and explain her intentions to the other party. If the other party agrees, that would be great. If not, it would not be too late to take action then.
The idea was good, but she made the same mistake as Xu Xin just did.
A person who owns a two-story tree house can also be very strong!
When she approached the tree house and was only about ten meters away from it, all the heavy crossbow arrows on the tree house suddenly turned and locked onto her!
She didn't expect that the other party would take action before she even made a move!
If she had seen the heavy crossbows filling the treetops, she would never have entered this empty area!
But as someone who has studied to obtain a doctorate degree, it is normal for her to be a little nearsighted, so it was not until she was very close that she saw the rows of heavy crossbows hidden in the canopy of the tree house.
But it was too late.
Just like that, she was locked by the man's heavy crossbow and couldn't escape.
Although the opponent used all the heavy crossbow arrows to point at her, it seemed that he had no intention of killing her, but just did not let her escape. If she wanted to retreat, the opponent would use his very accurate crossbow arrows to restrict her movements.
During this time, she failed to dodge an arrow, but because of the steel armor she was wearing, she was not pierced by it, and she was not even seriously injured. This made the people in the tree house even more unscrupulous. They knocked her to the ground again and again, and threatened her that if she dared to escape, they would shoot her to death with thousands of arrows.
This person did not come down, but just kept operating the heavy crossbow, and kept mocking her. It seemed that he wanted to wait until she was exhausted and completely unable to move before coming down to clean up the mess. He was really cautious.
It's not like she hadn't considered contacting Xu Xin, Ji Chaoyang, Li Wenxi and the others, but... the watch screen was very conspicuous. As soon as she swiped across the screen, the heavy crossbow from the opposite side would shoot directly at her, making it impossible for her to contact anyone else.
In this way, she had been in a stalemate with the person above in this area for nearly an hour.
"Why are you running? Do you know that once you are within this hundred-meter range, it is my territory? I can kill you before you run out. If you don't believe me, you can try running again." A teasing voice sounded from the tree house.
"What should I do..." Qi Xuefei covered her broken shoulder and clenched her teeth.
She couldn't fall here, otherwise, who knows what that person would do to her, but she didn't want to die either!
She quickly stuffed another pill into her mouth, feeling the pain in her shoulder quickly subside. She struggled to get up from the ground and looked at the man in the tree house with a disgusting smile.
"Hmm?" Qi Xuefei's eyelids twitched.
She discovered that behind the tree house, within the blind spot of the man's vision, two people were walking quickly towards the tree house.
Is that... Li Wenxi
She had a video call with Li Wenxi and knew what Li Wenxi looked like.
The man running over with her is Xu Xin
She immediately became anxious. She wanted to remind the two not to step into the 100-meter range of this person. This person's crossbow was too accurate! This place was completely his domain!
But the two of them had already quickly crossed the 100-meter open area and arrived under the tree house. The man in the tree house didn't notice the whole process at all.
Qi Xuefei's eyelids were twitching and her heart was about to jump out.
These two people are too bold! Didn't they see what happened to them just now
"Why, you're not talking or moving anymore. Are you giving up?" The man began to mock again, "I told you, if you give up resistance, take off your hard tortoise shell, throw your backpack away, raise your hands high, and wait for me to come over and have sex with you."
Li Wenxi under the tree house made a retching expression with a frown on her face, expressing her feelings towards this man: How disgusting!
Xu Xin glanced at her and told her with his mouth not to make a sound!
Coco also waved her little paws.
Li Wenxi nodded and looked at Qi Xuefei, his eyes full of worry.
Just as Qi Xuefei winked at them, wanting them to leave the area quickly and then find a solution, Xu Xin suddenly used sign language to sign to her.
After looking for a long time, she finally understood what Xu Xin meant.
Did he want me to do what the man asked, take off my armor, throw away my backpack, and pretend to surrender
Qi Xuefei's eyes lit up.
With them around, as long as she seduces the man, they can immediately subdue him!
It really works!
Qi Xuefei took a deep breath and decided to do it according to Xu Xin's method.
She covered her fully recovered shoulder, pretending to be in great pain, took two steps forward, and shouted, "I surrender! I will do as you say! Stop shooting with the heavy crossbow!"
As she spoke, she threw her backpack more than ten meters away, and at the same time, she took off her steel armor piece by piece.
Pieces of steel armor fell to the ground one by one, making a sound of metal collision.
All the steel armor was removed, revealing the blue leather armor set underneath, fully displaying her graceful figure.
Xu Xin narrowed his eyes.
This was certainly not because of her figure, but because her leather armor had some blood on her shoulders, legs, abdomen and other parts. It seemed that even though she was wearing a steel armor, the injuries she had just received were indeed serious. Fortunately, she should have recovered now.
Even though she was injured like this, she was able to remain silent. She is so strong.
"You? It seems like you've given up? Come on, raise your hands and come closer so I can see!" The man upstairs' voice had a hint of impatience.
Qi Xuefei listened to him, raised her hands, and slowly walked towards the tree house.
"Yes, yes, come closer, oh, with this figure and this face, I am so lucky!"
"A little closer, a little closer!"
Finally, the man upstairs couldn't stand it anymore and yelled, "Oh! My little beauty, I'm coming down!"
As he spoke, the tree canopy below the tree house opened up, and a thin-looking man jumped down from the tree house with the roots of the tree house wrapped around his waist. He stared at Qi Xuefei, who had her hands raised high, and pounced directly at her!
"Now!" Xu Xin's eyes focused, and he suddenly swung the halberd in his hand towards the man who was still in the air!
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