The patterned cracked snow on the periphery is more than a hundred meters away from the tree house, and the cracks are very fine, making it difficult to see clearly from the window of the tree house, but they can be easily seen using the control panel.
"Xu Xin! Those patterns are lighting up, lighting up red!" Lou Feier exclaimed, "Those are really blood patterns!"
"I saw it." Xu Xin was also watching this change nervously.
He called Ma Hongwei directly: "What's the situation on your side?"
"The snow around the tree house, nearly a hundred meters away, has cracked, and red light is emitting from under the snow!" Ma Hongwei spoke quickly and in a serious tone, "It feels like something is about to come out of the snow!"
It seems that the situation is similar to theirs. There is also a safe area of about 100 meters around the tree house.
"If you can't hold on, contact me immediately."
He couldn't let Ma Hongwei make any mistakes. Of course, Ma Hongwei had the ability to mutate, and now that the weak period had passed, he could revive after a fatal injury, so he didn't need to worry too much.
"good!"
After hanging up the call, Xu Xin continued to watch the unusual movements around the tree house.
Lou Feier also heard what Ma Hongwei said just now. She frowned and asked, "Are there nearly a hundred meters of cracks around his tree house without any glow?"
"What's wrong? What do you want to say?"
"My parasitic tree house is about a hundred meters away from the main tree house, but..." She pointed to the control panel, "The tree house did not affect the surrounding anomalies."
She operated the control panel and moved the image over there so that Xu Xin could see it clearly.
Sure enough, near the parasitic tree house she owned, there were cracks on the snow that were flashing red light. Those were cracks that appeared a hundred meters away from Xu Xin's main tree house and had nothing to do with the parasitic tree house.
"Could it be because of the survivors?" Lou Feier speculated, "A tree house with survivors will be protected to a certain extent?"
There will be a part of the area around the tree house where there are survivors that will not have blood marks, making it look like it is protected.
"It could also be the other way around." Xu Xin looked at the blood streaks on the ground that were getting brighter and brighter, narrowed his eyes and said, "It could also be that the tree house without any survivors was not among the targets of the attack, so it was directly ignored."
The tree house was surrounded by blood patterns that were becoming brighter and brighter on all sides. Lou Feier didn't know where to aim the control panel. She moved her hand back and forth on the control panel, checking the situation around.
At this time, a slight "click" sound came from the direction of the lake.
Oh no! It's the sound of the ice cracking!
He immediately rushed to the window and looked at the completely frozen lake.
The surface of the lake looked very calm, but the slight sound of ice cracking had been captured by Xu Xin's extremely sensitive hearing.
On the map in my mind, countless red dots of light slowly lit up from the lake.
Then, the thick ice on the lake began to tremble, and "cracking" sounds were heard at different locations. The entire ice surface was slowly turning white, as if it was about to be broken.
However, what made Xu Xin feel a little relieved was that none of these red dots were very bright. Judging from the brightness, although their strength was stronger than that of ordinary wild beasts, they were at most at the level of low-level mutant creatures, and not yet at the level of mid-level mutant creatures.
It seems that, at least for now, the giant anaconda in the center of the lake has not appeared.
"Huh?!" Before he could even breathe a sigh of relief, he was shocked by the changes on the map.
In the hilly resource area three kilometers away from his tree house, a very bright red dot suddenly appeared!
It did not emerge gradually, but appeared suddenly, and the brightness of this red dot was basically the same as the giant anaconda in the center of the lake and the giant crocodile at the bottom of the stream!
He immediately ran to another window and looked in the direction of the hilly resource area.
Over there, the entire mountaintop was covered with snow.
What frightened Xu Xin was that even from such a distance, he could see the thick red fog lingering around the hills!
The red fog appeared again!
As for the interior of the hilly resource area, he couldn't see it from here.
Xu Xin took a deep breath.
A mutation occurred, and the giant beast appeared again!
He didn't know much about the behemoths. He only knew that the behemoths were divided into different camps, and that in the first stage, even behemoths from camps hostile to them, the survivors, would not attack them.
For example, the giant anaconda in the center of the lake, and the blood-marked troll that suddenly appeared near the altar, they did not launch any attacks, but turned around and left. Before leaving, they seemed very unwilling, and roared and threatened him.
According to the giant's message, he could basically guess the origins of these giant beasts.
For example, the giant anaconda should be a pure-blooded giant beast that has not been affected by the blood veins, while the blood vein troll should be a creature affected by both, and is somewhat similar to the monsters underground.
But trolls are humanoid, humanoid creatures, and may well have some remnants of advanced intelligence.
Or maybe it has something to do with the fact that it is still on the surface and has not been thrown underground.
As for the altar, he had previously thought that the altar was something created by the giant, a device used to awaken it.
And the blood-marked troll is also its man, responsible for guarding the altar.
But now it seems that maybe not.
Because the core of the giant's head had been taken away by him, the vision still occurred. Moreover, the giant and the red fog should be opposites. These red fog visions are closely related to the blood-marked creatures.
…After it is safe, he must go to the hilly resource area to take another look, especially the altar!
The altar that opens the underground space on a moonless night!
No matter what, this giant beast must not attack the tree house!
Fortunately, the red dot did not move, but just stood still in the hilly protection area, which made Xu Xin breathe a sigh of relief.
"Crack-crack-" The sound of the ice cracking continued to grow louder and louder in my ears.
Yin Wang and Mimi had already stood up and were leaning over the windowsill, looking towards the lake.
"Crack! Crack!" This time it was not the sound of the ice cracking, but the sound of something gnawing and chewing the ice.
Various sounds entered Xu Xin's ears, making his face even uglier.
He felt that there was danger in every direction, all around him.
"Xu Xin, Xu Xin! Outside! Look outside!" Lou Feier screamed.
Xu Xin had been looking outside, but from his direction he couldn't see anything going on.
"Calm down and tell me clearly what happened!" Xu Xin walked over.
"I can't explain it clearly, it's just very strange. Come and see for yourself!"
The control panel clearly shows what is happening from a bird's-eye view.
A hundred meters away, every ten meters or so, a part of the snow layer was twisting and turning slightly. From the bird's-eye view, it was as if the entire snow surface had come alive!
Then in an instant, the twisted and rotating snow layer of about one square meter was instantly cleared away, revealing the situation underneath.
"This is..." Xu Xin's eyes flickered, "Is it true?"
"Small portal?" Lou Feier also widened her eyes. She had never seen the purple-black vortex in the center of a tornado during the rainy season. She only knew that this vortex was very similar to a portal.
Even the voices are similar.
But Xu Xin knew very well that this small vortex could indeed teleport, but it was completely different from his coordinates.
Although they are all purple-black, his coordinates are more purple, and these small whirlpools are basically close to black. The whirlpools rotate slowly, and people can feel the terrifying power in them just by looking at them!
And there is such a vortex every ten meters or so!
Xu Xin felt his scalp tingling.
You know, last time, the rotation of this vortex caused super strong tornadoes and thunderstorms!
I hope there won’t be any natural disasters this time!
As if to confirm his thoughts, the surroundings changed.
Although the sun was still high in the sky, shining on the snow and reflecting the dazzling white light, snowflakes began to fall from the sky, and they were getting heavier and heavier!
What’s different from last time is that this time the snow was accompanied by very strong winds!
The wind was howling, and the snowflakes that were falling gently and slowly last night were instantly blown into a roaring sea of snow by the fierce wind, spinning wildly around the tree house, with unpredictable directions.
This snow not only includes those that have just fallen from the sky. The biting cold wind shakes the branches, blew away the snow accumulated on the ground like crazy, and swept the snow accumulated last night into the air. Countless snowflakes were blown in all directions by the cold wind!
Outside the window, everything suddenly became chaotic!
The blizzard is coming!
His sight was completely blocked, and he could not see anything outside. At the same time, the sound of the storm covered everything else, leaving Xu Xin with only the roar of the wind, and he was completely unable to perceive what was happening outside.
"This... Is this, blizzard season?" Lou Feier looked at the white control panel that was also obscured by the chaotic snowflakes, not knowing what to do.
"Bing! Bing!" Keke ran to Xu Xin and jumped onto his shoulder, gesturing to him with her little paws, "Bing!"
"Ouch—" The Silver King let out an angry roar at Blizzard.
Mimi's fur was all over her body, her tail was standing up, and her whole body was tense.
Even Ah Fu was flapping his wings in front of the window, looking very restless.
I touched Coco's little head, comforted him, and calmed myself down.
Although the outside world was completely invisible to the naked eye, Xu Xin had a map.
He stared at the map nervously. Apart from the lake surface, there had been no other changes so far.
Just as he was thinking this, a large number of red dots suddenly appeared!
Just like the previous behemoth, there was no process of emergence, no transition from dark to light, it just suddenly appeared on the map!
There is probably only one possibility for it to appear suddenly.
They were really teleported here!
Moreover, the location where they appeared was exactly the location of those purple-black whirlpools!
These red dots were not scattered and irregular like the first beast tide. Instead, after appearing, they slowly moved away from their original positions and chose another location to stop.
Where it appeared, that is, where the purple-black vortex was, red dots were continuously appearing and spreading around in an orderly manner.
Soon, Xu Xin’s tree house was surrounded by dense red dots.
Also surrounded on the map are Ma Hongwei’s tree house, Ji Chaoyang’s tree house to the west, Li Wenxi’s tree house to the east, and Qi Xuefei’s tree house to the north.
All the existing tree houses on the map are surrounded by those red dots!
In other places, there are not many red dots, or in other words, they are very rare. All the red dots are concentrated near the tree house!
His two parasitic tree houses were not surrounded.
Is it because there are no survivors inside
He looked out the window and saw that the snowstorm was getting more severe, and even hail was beginning to appear in it.
The crown of the tree house was constantly being broken apart, and many leaves were torn apart, forced out of the tree house and swept into the horrible blizzard.
Hailstones as big as pebbles took advantage of the treetops being blown apart by the wind and smashed into the windows of the tree house like crazy, scratching his window glass.
Fortunately, his glass was of the same strength as the tree house walls, so although it was scratched, there was no risk of it breaking.
It's a huge snowstorm outside!
In such a heavy snowstorm, he couldn't even guarantee that he could stand firmly, but these red dots were so orderly!
"It's so scary..." Lou Feier couldn't help swallowing her saliva, "What on earth happened outside?"
"Ying!" Keke suddenly looked up at the sky, then, as if in fear, she crawled into Xu Xin's arms, buried her head and cried out in a muffled voice, "Ying..."
Xu Xin touched Coco's head, waiting for the snowstorm outside to end.
There was no way. In this situation, he had no choice but to wait.
"Ah, this... Xu Xin, a heavy crossbow in the tree house was scratched!" Lou Feier suddenly pulled Xu Xin's arm, "Look!"
He looked down at the control panel.
A line of small words appeared at the bottom of the control panel.
The Treehouse Automatic Heavy Crossbow (Green) is broken.
Green level tree house heavy crossbow
This heavy crossbow should be the first heavy crossbow he installed. It was an ordinary green-level heavy crossbow, and he had never dismantled it. Unexpectedly, it was damaged in this snowstorm.
The Tree House Auto-Repeater (Green) is broken.
"Ah, another one is damaged! It's a crossbow!" Lou Feier exclaimed!
Fuck! The crossbow is broken too!
The corner of Xu Xin's eye twitched.
The crossbow was broken, but it was green-level, and he could still contact Ma Hongwei, so he could just ask him for it, but...
He had loaded two hundred explosive crossbows into each of his crossbows! If the crossbow broke, the crossbow would…
"BOOM! BOOM! BOOM! BOOM!"
Sure enough, as he expected, sparks suddenly appeared in the blizzard. At the same time, his tree house was hit by several explosions, and the whole tree house was shaking with the explosions.
"Oh my God!" Lou Feier grabbed the control panel with both hands, a look of fear on her face, "Will this tree house be blown down?"
"Damn it!" Xu Xin gritted his teeth, but there was nothing he could do. He could only hope that the blizzard would stop soon.
The explosions continued, and he seemed to vaguely hear the wailing of animals.
Kill the mutant snow wolf and get points: 30 points
Um
Kill the snow wolf
Xu Xin's tightly furrowed brows finally relaxed, he blinked his eyes, thought of something, and couldn't help but laugh.
It seems that the blizzard has blown the explosive crossbow hundreds of meters away, damaging the red dots outside.
One poor kid even died in the explosion.
As the explosions continued, he heard a total of four warning sounds.
A mutant snow wolf, two mutant snow foxes, and even a mutant snow leopard!
During this time, he began to pay attention to the map.
Red dots were still lighting up around his main tree house, surrounding the entire tree house, but not a single red dot had ever stepped into the 100-meter range.
They have been gathering in an orderly manner in this crazy blizzard, as if they are not affected by the blizzard at all.
This made Xu Xin wonder, this blizzard wouldn't just be around his tree house
Just hanging around his tree house
Were those explosive crossbows that failed just now thrown out directly and blew them up
The crackling sound was still ringing on the window, making him cover his ears in annoyance.
In this manic noise, hearing enhancement is completely a negative buff!
Xu Xin suddenly thought of strawberries (blue), which can affect emotions. During the rainy season, he also relied on these strawberries to calm his irritable emotions caused by the constant thunder and lightning.
He immediately took out one and ate it. His mood gradually relaxed, his mind became much calmer, and he began to think calmly.
Those red dots were undoubtedly transmitted by those purple-black vortices.
Moreover, according to the hint just now, most of those red dots outside are probably mutant creatures.
The mutant creatures were transported by the purple-black vortex...
Xu Xin looked at Lou Feier.
He thought of something.
"What...what happened?" Lou Feier felt a little scared when Xu Xin looked at her. She couldn't help but glance at the bracelet on his left hand and shrank back.
Xu Xin slowly opened his eyes.
There are strong side effects when mutant creatures are teleported! After being teleported, even if they are as strong as Mimi, they will collapse directly to the ground and can't even get up!
Those mutant creatures outside should all be lying down by now, right
Very likely! After the red dots appeared, although they were in order, they all moved at a snail's pace, very slowly.
Moreover, his explosive crossbow just now failed and killed a mutant snow leopard!
Even an ordinary snow leopard is not that easy to kill!
You know, the snow leopard, although it is also a crying monster, it is the muscular brother of the Pantherinae subfamily!
Its physical strength is much higher than that of the cheetah species that Mimi belongs to! Xu Xin doesn't believe that a mutated snow leopard can be killed so easily by an explosive crossbow caught in a blizzard!
Even though it's just a low-level mutant creature.
It should be correct. These guys outside shouldn't be able to move easily now!
Can we take this opportunity to massacre them directly
But unfortunately, it’s a big snowstorm outside right now…
Huh
As if in response to Xu Xin's thoughts, the wind outside became much quieter and the violent snow gradually calmed down.
The snowstorm came and went quickly. It stopped suddenly within just one minute, and the sunlight outside shone on Xu Xin's face.
The ground outside the tree house was a mess, with countless broken leaves and branches scattered around, mixed with the snow.
The forest a hundred meters away was not in a mess at all. The one-meter snow layer was still so neat and tidy, and the whole forest was still covered with silver, showing a peaceful and tranquil appearance. Only a small part of the snow on the branches was blown to the ground by the initial wind, and it became bare again, but it was harmless.
If it weren't for the messy scratches on the glass, just looking at the appearance of the jungle, Xu Xin would have thought that the snowstorm just now was his hallucination.
Not far away, on the lake, there were broken pieces of ice floating slowly, and countless red dots were swimming back and forth in the lake.
Xu Xin looked at his watch. It was only about ten minutes since the blizzard started.
And the fastest of those red dots only appeared for about five minutes.
There is still a chance!
"What's going on?" Lou Feier saw the scene outside and suddenly realized, "The blizzard just now was just circling the tree house?"
She looked at the control panel and exclaimed in surprise: "Xu Xin, those purple-black vortices that just appeared are gone, and the snow surface has returned to being flat. Nothing is left!"
Xu Xin looked over and saw that the neat layer of snow appeared again on the control panel.
But he won't be fooled.
Because on the map, there are already countless red dots lurking near the tree house.
Is it under the snow
"Do you want to kill?" Xu Xin suddenly asked.
"Ah?" Lou Feier was startled. When she heard the word "killing", her expression changed. Her blood-red face turned even redder. She opened her red lips and whispered, "I think."
"Then follow me. Mimi, Silver King, and Ah Fu, let's go down together and teach those uninvited guests a lesson!"
Purple-grade steel halberd, purple-grade steel armor set...
Xu Xin is very confident now! Even if those monsters recover their strength, he definitely doesn't need it!
It's time to start killing!
“Ouch—”