Survival: Starting with a Tiny Treehouse

Chapter 268: Side effects of portals

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Xu Xin returned to the third floor and brought the Silver King with him. Coco climbed onto Xu Xin's shoulders as usual and turned to go out.

But this time Mimi was unwilling. She grabbed Xu Xin's legs with her claws and insisted on going with him no matter what.

It stayed in the house all day yesterday.

Although cats are not as energetic as dogs, it can't stand being bored and must go out with Xu Xin and the others.

"Take it with you. Even if it can't go with you, it can still play in my tree house, right Mimi?" Li Wenxi reached out to touch Mimi's head.

Probably because Li Wenxi spoke for it, Mimi did not dodge this time, and Li Wenxi got to pet the big cat as he wished.

Xu Xin thought about it and decided to take it with him.

He had told Ma Hongwei before that Lou Feier had also contracted a mutant beast, so there was no problem in taking Mimi with her.

Moreover, if they went there alone, it would not seem like they were going to cooperate and fight right away. Bringing Silver King and Mimi along would still give them a bit of a bossy vibe.

He also said last time that he would bring some helpers with him.

Although there is a risk of being automatically attacked by the heavy crossbow, Ma Hongwei has such ability and will definitely not set the heavy crossbow to automatically attack.

Moreover, the mutant creatures that had signed contracts with him were all shown as green companion light spots on his map. Based on this speculation, his contracted beasts, including Lou Feier, were actually on the side of the survivors.

As for the survivors, the automatic heavy crossbows will judge them as neutral units and will not actively attack, so there is no problem with bringing Mimi.

"Okay, Mimi will come along today." Xu Xin also touched Mimi's head. Mimi dodged after being touched twice, and stretched out her paws, using her thick pads to push away the hands of Xu Xin and Li Wenxi.

Although Mimi's claws look a little scary, it is very careful and will not hurt its own people.

"Mimi, my strength has recovered today, so don't try to threaten me like you did yesterday!" Lou Feier waved her fist at Mimi.

Yesterday, because of Xu Xin's order, she was restricted in her movements by Mimi. If she made the slightest movement, the big cheetah would immediately stand up and it seemed as if it was going to pounce on her and bite her to death. It was really scary.

Mimi seemed to give her a blank look, then walked to Xu Xin's side, waiting to go down together.

"let's go."

Bringing them to the tree house, Xu Xin called Ah Fu again.

Ah Fu's sonic attack is still very useful and might come in handy.

As for my beloved concubine, she still has to take care of the children, and she doesn't have very strong fighting power, so just let her guard the house.

Xu Xin made a hand sign for Mimi and Afu, but instead of hanging them up, he put them in his backpack.

They are basically transmitted together anyway, and it is easy to lose them if you hang them up, so it is better to hold them by yourself.

After opening the portal leading to Li Wenxi's tree house, Xu Xin stepped in with the people and animals behind him.

The sky was spinning and the ground was falling rapidly.

Two seconds later, his feet touched the ground and Li Wenxi's tree house appeared before him.

Xu Xin was somewhat surprised to find that after experiencing so many teleportations, he had already adapted to it and no longer felt uncomfortable!

However, a group of people fell behind him.

Li Wenxi was fine. After all, she had traveled through it several times and had adapted to it just like Xu Xin, so she could still stand steadily. However, she still had to hold onto Xu Xin's arm with her hand and her face was a little pale.

The remaining few were not so calm.

Lou Feier's legs went limp and she fell to her knees. She leaned over and vomited twice, mumbling, "Oh my God... I feel... so dizzy... Ugh..."

She covered her mouth and tilted her head back, not wanting to vomit the breakfast she had just eaten.

Mimi seemed to take two steps forward gracefully, but then she lost her balance and fell to the ground sideways. She struggled to stand up, but fell to the ground again, and could only make an embarrassed and annoyed cat meow.

Ah Fu flapped his wings twice in the air, then spread his wings and lay on Mimi's body.

Silver King immediately lay down on the ground after landing. Compared with the previous times, its only improvement was that it knew to recover on the spot instead of struggling like Mimi.

"Hmm?" Coco in Xu Xin's arms poked out her little head and looked at the people and animals on the ground.

It jumped down from Xu Xin's arms and circled around them, looking at each one and pushing them with its little paws, as if to say, "What's wrong with you? Why are you all dizzy?"

Li Wenxi just held Xu Xin's arm and stood for a dozen seconds, and he had almost recovered.

She let go of his hand and said in surprise, "I can really adapt! I stopped feeling dizzy so quickly!"

"When you came to my place, you recovered quite quickly." Xu Xin said with a smile.

"It seems so, but I didn't notice it because you've changed so much. Ah..." Li Wenxi turned around and saw Lou Feier sitting on the ground, dizzy and unable to get up, so he hurried over to help her up.

“… I finally understand how you felt back then…” Lou Feier was almost lying on top of Li Wenxi, her face pale. Otherwise, her legs would have been so weak that she couldn’t stand up.

"It's always like this the first time. It will be much easier next time." Li Wenxi comforted her.

Xu Xin looked at the Silver King.

The Silver King was still shaking his wolf head gently as before, looking very dizzy.

Hasn't the Silver King used the portal many times before? Why does it look almost the same as the first time

Xu Xin squatted down and asked Yin Wang: "Are you more comfortable this time than the previous times?"

"... Ouch?" Silver King called out in confusion, then shook his head gently, "Ouch..."

Isn't there

Isn't it becoming more and more adaptable like Xu Xin and the others

That shouldn't be the case. In terms of physical fitness, how could Silver King, a big guy who runs dozens of kilometers every day, be weaker than them

Could it be that... mutants are much less adaptable in this regard? Only the survivors can adapt

Xu Xin stood up and said to Lou Feier, who was still supporting Li Wenxi and looked pale, "... maybe you won't be able to adapt in the future."

“…Ah? What do you mean? Ugh…” Lou Feier felt nauseous again and was about to cry.

"What's going on? It wasn't this exaggerated when I teleported for the first time." Li Wenxi felt a little strange.

The first time she teleported, she just felt dizzy and weak in the legs, and although she felt like vomiting, it was not to the extent of Lou Feier who kept retching.

Moreover, from the feeling of the person who was supporting her, it seemed that Lou Feier had no strength left in her whole body, and she herself just had weak legs and could not stand steadily at the beginning, it was not that exaggerated.

"The Silver King has teleported so many times, but it hasn't adapted. Perhaps the mutant creatures can't adapt to the side effects of the portal." Xu Xin speculated, "Perhaps, this portal is only for ordinary survivors."

Lou Feier's legs went weak and she almost fell to the ground again. Li Wenxi quickly supported her.

“I, I, I… I will never teleport again… It’s too painful…” Lou Feier felt dizzy and nauseous, and a tear squeezed out of the corner of her eye.

Looking at her condition, we can't set off now.

"Let's go up and rest first?" Li Wenxi supported Lou Fei'er and asked Xu Xin, "She can't leave right away in this state."

"...Okay, let's take a break first." Xu Xin looked at the time and nodded.

The time they agreed with Ma Hongwei was within half an hour. Ma Hongwei's tree house was only a little over ten kilometers away from Li Wenxi, and it only took Silver King ten minutes to get there.

Besides, even if he goes a little late, it doesn’t matter, just let him wait.

Li Wenxi brought all the people and animals into her tree house.

As soon as Lou Feier entered the tree house, she fell on the sofa, curled up with her hands covering her head.

"Is it that exaggerated?" Xu Xin glanced at her.

"... It's so uncomfortable..." Lou Fei'er buried her head in the sofa and said in a muffled voice, "I'm going to have another psychological shadow... You are simply a psychological shadow-making machine..."

… Speaking of which, her psychological trauma is really related to Xu Xin. The first one was the death by slitting her throat, the second one was the empty bracelet, and this is probably the third one.

At this time, Yin Wang, Mimi, and Ah Fu also fell to the ground and had not recovered yet.

It seems that the side effects of his coordinate teleportation are indeed much greater for mutant creatures than for survivors.

A portal designed specifically for humans

All we can do is wait.

"By the way, where is Li Yajun? Why can't I see her?" Xu Xin sat on the chair and asked Li Wenxi.

When he came over, he noticed Li Yajun's tree house. Despite the big commotion on their side, Li Yajun didn't even stick her head out.

"Oh, Yajun went out before I came to see you. She said she wanted to help me go mining." Li Wenxi also found a chair and sat down, explaining, "She was very motivated today. I told her not to go out so early, but she still couldn't help wanting to go out and take a look, so I let her go."

"…You gave her a blue-level suit?"

Li Yajun used to wear a green-level suit, but in this temperature, she can’t go out wearing a green-level suit.

"Yes, a blue-level leather armor set. I asked her to go to a mining site in the north, and Aniu followed her." Li Wenxi explained.

"Has he really become the leader of the miners?" Xu Xin smiled and shook his head.

"What?" Li Wenxi hit him. "That's ugly! My name is prospector!"

“Hmm…” Lou Feier was still lying on the sofa feeling uncomfortable.

Because she took up the entire sofa, Coco, who wanted to jump into the sofa and roll around, could only stand at the edge of the sofa, looking at her with her little head tilted.

Xu Xin also chatted with Li Wenxi while waiting for her to recover.

Silver King and Mimi only felt uncomfortable for about five or six minutes before returning to normal.

Ah Fu and Lou Fei'er were much slower, and it took them about ten minutes to gradually recover.

Silver King and Mimi are both intermediate-level mutant creatures, while Ah Fu and Lou Fei'er are low-level ones.

It seems that although the mutant creatures may not adapt to the side effects of the portal, the duration of the side effects will become shorter as their levels increase and their strength increases.

"Finally... I'm finally not feeling so uncomfortable..." Lou Feier sat up from the sofa, rubbing her temples, and said in distress, "This is too uncomfortable!"

"Teleport more often in the next few days and see if you can get used to this side effect like us." Xu Xin said to her.

"I...you...you are a devil!" Lou Fei'er said with grief, "How could I have a master like you!"

"Maybe I can. I don't feel so bad now. Maybe you can do it too!" Li Wenxi pointed at himself.

"… But didn't Xu Xin say that I couldn't adapt?" Lou Feier stood up from the sofa. She was still lingering over the feeling just now, luckily it only lasted about ten minutes.

"嘤!" Coco, who had been waiting for a long time, threw herself on the sofa and rolled around.

"And why is this little guy okay?" She was envious of Coco, who was full of energy. She wanted to touch him, but Coco dodged her skillfully and waved his little paws at her, grinning.

"I'm just guessing. Although you are a mutant, you are also a survivor, so we still need to test it a few more times to know for sure."

"Well... okay..." Lou Feier had no way to refuse and could only agree with a sad face.

Xu Xin glanced out the window of the tree house.

In the south, the tree house was still green, waiting for Xu Xin and his friends to arrive.

"Now that we have recovered, let's go now to Ma Hongwei's tree house."