The four of them rode to Li Yajun's tree house. Li Wenxi waved and said hello, "Hello! No need to get off. We are just passing by. We have things to do. We will come to take you away in the evening!"
Seeing that Li Yajun was about to come down, Li Wenxi hurriedly spoke.
"Is that so... Well, hello everyone." Li Yajun did not come down after hearing this. It was still very cold outside for her who did not have a blue-level suit.
"This is Ji Chaoyang, and this is Qi Xuefei. You should know them." Xu Xin introduced the two people on the white horse to her.
"Hello." Ji Chaoyang and Qi Xuefei rode on white horses and nodded to Li Yajun.
"Hello, hello!" Li Yajun responded immediately.
"Has there been anything unusual nearby during this period?" Xu Xin asked Li Yajun.
"No, I've been observing the surroundings and haven't found anything unusual." Li Yajun shook her head. "In this climate, there are very few flying insects and birds. It's very quiet around here. The only change is that the tree house in the north is gone. It should be you who did it, right?"
"Yes, it is indeed us. Since no, forget it. We will leave first and pick you up later."
"Okay, get busy!"
After some discussion, they finally decided to look towards the east first.
To the southeast of where they are now is the place where they encountered the thick and powerful mutant vines before.
There might really be something wrong with this area, and we might be able to find something special by going there.
The protected area of Li Yajun’s tree house is only six kilometers long. Soon, in less than ten minutes, they reached the edge of the protected area.
“Boo… Boo!”
Just when they were about to reach the edge, Coco suddenly woke up from her sleep and whimpered.
It slowly opened its eyes, and when it saw the scene in front of it, it immediately pushed Xu Xin's belly with its little paws, crying anxiously.
"Stop, the protected area ahead is not connected."
Xu Xin touched Coco's little head. He understood what Coco meant. It was obviously telling him that there was danger ahead.
The Silver King and the White Horse immediately stopped at the edge of the reserve.
The Silver King once again showed some hostility, but perhaps because of the experience it had last time, this time it just bared its teeth towards the outside of the protected area and did not seem to be on the verge of losing its mind.
The white horse next to it did not show any unusual reaction.
"Let's try and see if there's anything unusual with the vines here." Xu Xin rolled off the Silver King.
"Okay." Ji Chaoyang also turned over and got off the horse.
"Huh? Xu Xin, the blood patterns on the Silver King's body are lighting up again!" Just as Xu Xin was about to move forward, he heard Li Wenxi's exclamation from behind him.
"here we go again?"
He immediately turned around to look at the Silver King, only to see that the blood patterns on the Silver King's body began to gradually light up again, and became brighter and brighter, even brighter than the last time in Li Yajun's tree house!
The Silver King originally looked a little tired and had already laid down to rest, but after the blood pattern lit up, it seemed to have immediately recovered all its strength and stood up energetically.
"Hmm!" Coco curiously lay on the blood pattern on the Silver King's back and scratched the bright red hair with her little paws.
Looking at the bloodstains on Silver King's body which were even brighter than last time, Xu Xin touched his chin.
He had an uncertain guess in his mind.
The blood lines on the Silver King's body were brighter than last time, most likely because their current location was closer to the unidentified object that he guessed could affect mutant creatures than Li Yajun's tree house, which was the location where the Silver King's blood lines had lit up before.
As for why it suddenly lit up when they reached their current location, it might be because this thing did not always have an effect on mutant creatures, but only had an effect once in a while.
The evidence is that the blood patterns on the Silver King's body lit up and dimmed while he was running. However, after they arrived at Li Yajun's tree house and sat for a while, the blood patterns on the Silver King's body lit up once.
Then, as they walked away to the north, the blood lines gradually dimmed.
"Could it be..." Xu Xin turned his head and looked at the dangerous area behind him, "Could it be that the special thing is in this inaccessible dangerous area?"
"What's wrong?" Ji Chaoyang and the other man walked over and were surprised to see the bright red bloodstains on the Silver King's body.
All the survivors had witnessed the scene of the blood veins lighting up. During the defense battle, the blood veins and thorns on the vines flickered and dimmed with the beating of the mutant plant's heart.
Ji Chaoyang was the first to react. He looked around and asked, "Are there things around here that can enhance the abilities of mutant creatures like the mutant plant heart?"
"That's my guess too," Xu Xin responded.
He looked at the dangerous area ahead, took a deep breath, and walked slowly forward.
I don’t know how many steps I took, but a familiar sense of crisis suddenly rose from the bottom of my heart.
Step out of the protected area!
He immediately pulled his foot back.
"Card!"
The ground he stepped on suddenly cracked, and the long-lost red dot on the map quickly lit up again.
A thick blood-thorn vine suddenly emerged from the crack in the ground and rushed straight to a height of ten meters!
Against the backdrop of the bleak surroundings, this thick vine covered in emerald green and blood-red appears particularly eye-catching and terrifying!
The blood thorns on the vines were the same bright red as the Silver King's, and even brighter than the blood thorn vines last time!
Xu Xin's tongue suddenly shrank.
He thought of the powerful mutated vines last time.
For a moment, those vines entered the protected area and attacked them. After entering the protected area, the blood patterns on the vines instantly lit up, so that the vine was not affected by the protected area!
Vines with lit blood veins can stay in the protected area for a short time!
Then this vine...!
"Back off, hide!"
Xu Xin yelled and pulled Li Wenxi backwards.
"Ying!" Coco's cry also sounded from behind.
Ji Chaoyang and Qi Xuefei were people who had experienced countless dangers. When they saw Xu Xin's actions, they reacted instantly and subconsciously fell back with him!
“Swoosh—”
The sound of breaking wind sounded above the heads of several people, and a thick vine covered with blood thorns, with a fierce sound of breaking wind, swung past them rapidly at the height of their chests!
"Crack!" The vine hit a poplar tree heavily at an extremely fast speed and with great force. The poplar tree immediately broke into two parts, making a sound of broken trunk.
Sure enough, the vines with lit blood patterns can attack the survivors inside the protected area!
If Xu Xin hadn't reacted quickly and led them all to lie down, this vine would have really hit them directly!
"What's going on?!" Qi Xuefei, who had not experienced those things with them, fell to the ground and exclaimed, turning her head to look at the vine, "This thick vine can actually attack the inside of the protected area!"
After being thrown into the protected area once, the vine did not stop attacking, but continued to launch a fierce attack on the culprit who lured it out - Xu Xin!
The bright blood thorns on the vines that whipped towards them seemed to be stained with the blood of countless lives, which made people feel scared just by looking at it!
But Xu Xin is not afraid!
He was just caught off guard and fell to the ground to dodge because he was afraid that the vine would hurt the people around him. If he faced it head-on, how could he be afraid of a blood-thorn vine that had not even reached the level of an intermediate mutant creature!
The moment the vines were pulled out, he quickly took out his purple-grade steel halberd from his backpack, and with the help of the power amplification, he swung his arms with great force and slashed at the vines that were swung towards him at an angle!
"Card!"
As he expected, the side blade of the halberd cut through the vines without any hindrance, and the blood-thorn vines were cut directly into two pieces like fragile tofu.
A vitality flowed through his body along the handle of the halberd, lifting his spirits.
The cut-off part still flew towards Xu Xin rapidly due to inertia.
He was not panicked at all, he slightly turned his body and dodged easily.
"Bang!"
Half of a ten-centimeter-thick vine hit Xu Xin's back, making a loud noise.
At the same time, the Silver King also pounced from behind. Li Wenxi and Ji Chaoyang on the side had already taken out their crossbows and pulled the trigger almost at the same time, aiming at the root of the half-blood thorn vine that was beginning to dim and shrink.
“Boom!” “Boom!”
Two overlapping explosions were heard, smoke filled the air, and half of the vine slowly fell out from the smoke and fell heavily to the ground.
Its bright red blood spines quickly dimmed, and it twisted twice on the ground, then became completely motionless.