"We should be able to communicate today, right?" Xu Xin opened his watch. Still no one was talking on the regional channel.
Then he saw the private message Li Wenxi had just sent him: "Have you recovered?"
"Hmm?" He turned and looked at Li Wenxi.
Li Wenxi was also looking at him, with surprise in his eyes: "Our communication has been restored!"
Could it be that after the beast tide surrounding the tree house recedes, the tree house will also resume communications
He immediately sent the message in the Explorer.
Xu Xin: "Has anyone restored communication?"
Sure enough, the message was sent!
There was an immediate response from the explorers.
Wen Guixin: "??? Huh? How come he can talk all of a sudden? I saw no one talking on the regional channel, so I thought he hadn't recovered..."
With Wen Guixin's ability, she could probably repel the beast tide faster than him.
Qi Xuefei: "Can you see what I said?"
Ji Chaoyang: "It should be that only those of us who dispersed the surrounding beast tide will be able to restore communication, and others will not be able to receive our news."
Li Wenxi: "Hey, I found it! I sent a private message to Xu Xin and found that we could communicate!"
Wen Guixin: "It seems that I am the only one who dispersed the beast tide... Those guys are so slow! Forget it, I will go and help them."
Xu Xin: "You should be able to control the mutant creatures, let them act as mounts for you, and take you away, right?"
Wen Guixin: "It's OK, but after a beast is infected, if it runs at full speed, it usually only lives for ten minutes, which means I have to change it every ten minutes. And under normal circumstances, how can I find a big one to ride... Most of the time is still wasted walking."
Indeed, under her ability, all living things become consumables, which is not very convenient for long-distance travel.
Li Wenxi: "Now that the wild animals have returned, there should be a lot of deer, horses, cows and the like on the road. It should be quite convenient."
Wen Guixin: "... It's not convenient at all. They are afraid of me. It's OK to shoot them with a crossbow from a distance. As soon as I get close, they run away. I'm not fast, so there's no way I can touch them. I can't infect them at all..."
It seems that she is quite afraid of being kited because of her abilities.
"Yeah, I caught one!" Wen Guixin cheered in the channel, "A mutant mad bull rushed directly towards me, and I caught it immediately. Finally, I don't have to run away!"
It seems that they don't have to worry about that side anymore. With Wen Guixin's help, the beasts can be easily dealt with.
Ji Chaoyang: "Xu Xin, have you guys dealt with it? Why don't we get together and discuss our respective situations today."
Xu Xin also had this idea, but before that, he had other things to do.
"Maybe in half an hour. I have other things to deal with. Come to my place in half an hour. My place is basically undamaged."
Ji Chaoyang: "Okay, I'll go to your place in half an hour."
Xu Xin looked at the bloodstained Li Wenxi and said with a smile: "You should go take a shower quickly. I will go back and clean up."
Li Wenxi looked down at the blood on his body and said embarrassedly, "That's right, I'll come find you in half an hour."
After saying goodbye to Li Wenxi, Xu Xin activated the portal and returned to his tree house.
He did not return to the tree house, but immediately walked towards Ma Hongwei's tree house.
Over there, there should be purple scales that were blown off the giant anaconda!
Ma Hongwei's tree house is located to the southeast of Xu Xin's tree house, far away from the lake to the west. It was chosen there by Xu Xin on purpose.
Wait... southeast
Xu Xin suddenly thought of something and his brows slowly furrowed.
The army-like beast tide attacked the tree house from the northwest, and the final whistle that ordered all the remaining mutant creatures to retreat came from the southeast.
He was a little confused at the time. How come the commander and the army were not in the same direction
Could it be that...
Xu Xin quickened his pace and rushed to Ma Hongwei's tree house.
As long as the main tree house is not destroyed, the parasitic tree house can be reborn infinitely, so at this time, Ma Hongwei's tree house has grown out of the ruins.
When planting the seeds of a parasitic tree house, a blue-level parasitic tree house only takes ten minutes to grow, but repairing it is much slower.
However, it was not particularly slow, and the tree house had already begun to grow. At this rate, before night fell, this parasitic tree house would once again become the original intermediate tree house.
It’s just a pity that all the heavy crossbows in the tree house, as well as the generators and batteries he equipped here, were wasted.
Xu Xin began to rummage through the ruins.
He saw no purple light at all.
When he first arrived, he thought the scales were buried under the rubble, after all, his ability to discern wouldn't allow him to see the light if his vision was blocked.
But after searching all the ruins, his face looked a little bad.
No.
Nothing at all.
Not only were there no purple-level scales, there was nothing here except for the broken wood left over from the shattered tree house.
In Xu Xin's understanding, none of the things that should exist exist.
The damaged generators, batteries, furniture, decorations, and even the dozens of heavy crossbows installed on the outer wall of Ma Hongwei's tree house, were left without even a trace of debris.
What's happening?!
His conjecture just now came true? The reason why the mutant came to the southeast was to...
Come to Ma Hongwei to pick up junk
No, this is not junk. After all, there are purple scales in it!
This mutant human controlled the army of mutant creatures to attack from the northwest, while he himself secretly came to the southeast and swept away all the resources here!
As for why I stole their stuff...
Xu Xin took out an axe from his backpack, the axe he had taken from the mutant human.
Special Iron Axe (Blue): This iron axe was originally made by survivors. After being blessed with mysterious power, it causes ten times the felling damage to the tree house, and can cut down the tree house faster!
This axe can explain a lot of things.
These mutated humans originally intended to cut down the trees and loot the things inside the tree house!
The introduction of this iron axe also said that it was originally made by a survivor. This axe was probably snatched from the survivors and then blessed by mysterious power!
These people control mutated creatures and specialize in burning, killing and looting the survivors!
They are not in the same camp as the survivors, so why not just call them predators
On Li Wenxi's side, he also saw the figures of mutant humans, or predators.
It seemed that this tide of mutant creatures was orchestrated by these predators, for the sake of the resources they had collected during this period of time.
And the survivors, like a group of fattened pigs, are going to be slaughtered today!
It's just that they were raised too fat, causing Xu Xin and his men to become more powerful than these predators who controlled the mutant creatures.
The above is Xu Xin’s own guess.
He stared at the now-looted ruins, his eyes narrowed.
This guy who controlled the beast tide saw that he could not cause any substantial damage to Xu Xin's tree house. Just then a giant anaconda emerged from the lake and destroyed Ma Hongwei's tree house, so he simply changed his target.
It let the beast tide launch a fierce attack from the northwest, trying to see if it could break through Xu Xin's tree house, while also making Xu Xin focus entirely on the northwest.
It secretly came to the southeast and stole everything in Ma Hongwei's tree house, as well as the purple scales that were blown off the giant anaconda!
But it might not have expected that Xu Xin's tree house was so powerful that it could capture all five intermediate mutant creatures in its beast tide!
This should be the fact, it is almost certain.
As for how to verify it, it depends on what information he can get from the mutant human in the bracelet.
… This is a trick it has set for me!
However, the other party's losses were not small either.
Xu Xin touched the backpack, which contained five entities of intermediate mutant creatures. There was still a high possibility of obtaining purple-level materials from them.
Well, it’s not a loss at all.
On the map, there are no decent red dots around. Most of them are as strong as rabbits and wild cats, just ordinary beasts.
Xu Xin stopped dwelling on this matter and turned to walk towards the tree house.
I'll go back and take a shower first. This body of blood is sticky and smells bad, it's really uncomfortable.
When they arrived under the tree house, Mimi and Yin Wang had already come out of the Red Mist Cabin and were lying at the door. When they saw Xu Xin coming back, they stood up.
Xu Xin brought them upstairs and released the snow wolf whose injuries had not yet fully recovered, so that they could get to know each other.
Lou Feier moved a chair to the control panel and sat there observing the surroundings. She had already noticed Xu Xin coming back, so she stood up and asked, "Is Wen Xi done yet?"
"Yeah." Xu Xin nodded and raised his hand to check the time.
It's noon now, time for lunch.
So he said to Lou Feier, "Make lunch. Ji Chaoyang and the others will be here soon. Make more. I will talk to them and ask them to bring you into the Explorer."
Lou Feier performed well this time, and Xu Xin was ready to fulfill his promise.
Lou Feier immediately opened her eyes wide, then nodded vigorously: "Okay, I understand, I will go and make a sumptuous meal now!"
As she said that, she trotted to the kitchen. Xu Xin could also tell that she was in a good mood.
Coco was lying on the sofa, snoring softly, while Ah Fu, who had exhausted his strength before, was leaning against the window, looking a little sick.
Silver King Mimi was circling around the Snow Wolf. The Snow Wolf, a low-level mutant creature, was surrounded by two mid-level mutant creatures and could only lie on the ground and shiver.
Xu Xin first went to the bathroom to wash the blood off his body and the steel armor, then came out wearing a set of leather armor.
No wonder Li Wenxi likes to wear leather armor at home, it is indeed comfortable. Even though the purple-level steel armor is already very thin, this soft leather armor is still much more comfortable to wear than the hard steel armor.
A fragrance wafted from the kitchen, and Xu Xin couldn't help swallowing.
It is much more comfortable to have a cook serving you than to cook for yourself.
Soon, Li Wenxi, Ji Chaoyang and Qi Xuefei all came over, and Xu Xin pulled them up to the tree house.
The three of them were all stunned when they looked at the table full of food.
"Sit down, Lou Feier did it."
"Such a sumptuous meal?" Ji Chaoyang raised his eyebrows. "This is the first time I've eaten such a sumptuous meal since I came to this world. You really know how to enjoy it."
"Life is short, so try to have fun in the midst of suffering. If you keep a string tense all the time, it will break." Xu Xin sat down on the sofa and said with a smile.
Li Wenxi immediately came over and sat next to him, grinning at the other two, "Fei'er's cooking is delicious. I came to eat this morning, too, and ate a lot, but now I'm hungry again."
Qi Xuefei also sat down and said with a smile: "You guys really know how to enjoy yourself. Should I come to eat with you guys in the future? With the portal here, it's like visiting you every day."
"Come on, no problem!" Lou Feier came out of the kitchen carrying the last plate and placed the dish on the table. "Now it's ready! You can all come. I've been practicing my cooking skills since I was a child. I guarantee you'll be satisfied."
Lou Fei'er continued to play the role of a good girl in the eyes of other members.
As for cooking, there was no way around it. When she was a child, if she didn't cook for herself, she would go hungry and the nanny would not cook for her.
Since she could not reach the stove, she learned to cook by standing on a small stool, thus mastering her cooking skills.
Several people sat around the table, started their meal, and began to discuss what had happened today.
Everyone explained the situation near the tree house and the number and situation of the mutant creatures.
It basically matches what Xu Xin saw on the map.
Ji Chaoyang went to help Qi Xuefei after cleaning up the area around his tree house.
"Although I can't contact you, I know you will definitely go to help Li Wenxi." Ji Chaoyang smiled, "So I went to help Qi Xuefei."
“Hehe…” Li Wenxi leaned against Xu Xin and laughed secretly.
Xu Xin also had a smile on his face.
Not much, his mind was calculating something else.
This time, the scale of the beast tide that each tree house suffered was probably affected by two factors.
One is the level of the tree house, and the other is the number of survivors.
On Xu Xin's side, he was in the highest-level purple tree house, and there were three survivors. Among them, Ma Hongwei's parasitic tree house was a blue-level one, so he was most threatened by the beast tide. Not only were there many low-level mutant creatures, but there were also five intermediate-level mutant creatures.
Although Ji Chaoyang lives in the highest-level purple tree house, he has not allowed anyone else to live in his tree house. He is the only survivor in the entire area, so the scale of the beast tide is much smaller than Xu Xin's.
It was even smaller than the one on Li Wenxi's side. Li Wenxi was a blue-level treehouse, but she had Li Yajun and Le Youfang parasitizing there, and with her, there were three of them in total, which led to a large scale of the beast tide, which was larger than Ji Chaoyang's side.
On Qi Xuefei's side, there is also a blue-level tree house, but there is only the parasite that Ji Chaoyang brought there. There are only two survivors within the tree house, so the scale of the beast tide is the smallest.
Xu Xin told others his speculation.
"That should be it." Ji Chaoyang pondered for a moment and agreed.
He didn't have Xu Xin's map, so he could only analyze the information he had just received: "Every one of us has heard that strange whistle. It was indeed caused by the mutant humans I predicted."
Um
etc…
Xu Xin suddenly thought of something.
The mutant human that he predicted seems to be different from the person in his bracelet, right
What he predicted was the kind of human that Xu Xin encountered in the underground city, who seemed to have reverted to their original form, like an ape, with their bodies covered with fur, right
But the person in his bracelet looked similar to Lou Feier and Ma Hongwei after their outbreak mode.
What's going on
Could it be that the person in his bracelet was not the predator he had just speculated
The meal was almost over, and Xu Xin told the others his guess about the predators.
"You mean, our biggest enemy now is another group of humans? Mutated humans?" Qi Xuefei's expression was a little solemn.
“… most likely.”
Ji Chaoyang held the axe, pondered for a while and said, "Your guess is consistent with my latest prediction to a certain extent. Why don't you release the mutant human? He is here right now, so we can find a way to get some information from him."
"Okay." Xu Xin nodded and turned the bracelet.
"this… "
“Oh my god!”
The mutant human that suddenly appeared on the floor made Qi Xuefei and Li Wenxi exclaim, and even Ji Chaoyang took a deep breath.
Xu Xin and Lou Fei'er were mentally prepared, as they had seen this before.
This mutant human still looked the same as before, his body motionless, his eyeballs bulging. The moment he came out, his eyes slowly moved, as if scanning everyone present!