Ji Chaoyang's words really surprised Xu Xin.
Although he guessed that this person was not a predator who controlled the beasts, but a mutated survivor, he never thought that this matter was related to the continuous disappearance and death of people in the surrounding area.
Could it be that the disappearance of people in the surrounding areas is because the predators forced them to mutate into their current appearance
wrong.
Xu Xin looked at the axe in his hand.
The axe does belong to the plunderer team. Ji Chaoyang also said that those furry monsters also hold axes in their hands.
This kind of axe is specifically designed to attack tree houses. In other words, these furry monsters, these "plunderers", will directly cut down the tree houses and then seize the resources in the tree houses.
Before that, Ji Chaoyang also told him that those survivors who disappeared or were suddenly eliminated had left behind a dying tree house that had not been dug or chopped down.
This shows that those strange deaths should have nothing to do with the predators.
"How do you see the connection between the two?" Xu Xin asked, referring to the connection between the person in front of him and the survivor who died inexplicably.
"... Wait, what are you talking about?" Qi Xuefei asked puzzledly. She didn't know what the two were talking about.
"Well, I'll tell you about this." Ji Chaoyang was ready to tell everyone else everything he had discovered. He looked around and was startled, "Li Wenxi, is... asleep?"
Um
Xu Xin looked towards the sofa, and saw Li Wenxi holding Coco, leaning on the armrest of the sofa, nodding his head, like a sleepyhead who was falling asleep in class.
The people present looked at each other and couldn't help but laugh.
I've been extremely nervous for the whole morning and am really tired. Now that I've had a full meal, it's normal for me to feel drowsy.
However, everyone present needs to know what is coming next: she cannot continue to sleep.
Xu Xin walked over and patted Li Wenxi's face: "Wenxi, wake up, don't sleep anymore."
In the end, Li Wenxi just snorted softly, smacked his lips twice, and then muttered, "I can't eat any more... It's too much... But it tastes so good..."
Wow, classic sleep talk returns for a limited time.
Xu Xin sat on the sofa and patted her face again: "Wen Xi, wake up, get up!"
As a result, no matter what he did, Li Wenxi would not wake up. She even wrapped her arms and legs around him, rubbed against him in his arms, and then fell asleep again in this position.
Xu Xin: “…”
If there weren't so many people here, he would really...
However, he immediately noticed something unusual.
He frowned, grabbed Li Wenxi's shoulders and shook her a few times: "Wenxi? Wenxi?"
In the end, Li Wenxi still didn't wake up. Instead, Coco, who had just fallen asleep in her arms because of his actions, slipped out and fell to the ground with a thud.
"Hmm?!" Keke suddenly woke up and jumped up from the ground, "Hmm?"
“Pfft, there are so many people here now, and the way you’re doing it…” Lou Feier laughed and teased as she looked at Li Wenxi who was wrapped around Xu Xin like an octopus.
"This is, he can't wake up?" Ji Chaoyang noticed something unusual and frowned.
"Can't wake up?" Lou Feier and Qi Xuefei were both shocked and rushed over.
The two of them also used various methods, which were much more exaggerated than Xu Xin's actions, but they failed to wake Li Wenxi up.
She was still clinging to Xu Xin and sleeping soundly, but her face was made red by Lou Feier and Qi Xuefei.
"What on earth is going on?" Xu Xin was also a little panicked.
"This... Why did Wen Xi suddenly fall asleep?" Qi Xuefei also frowned. She took out a pill and said, "Otherwise, feed her this pill. It can cure any injuries."
"Is this... a disease?" Xu Xin was a little hesitant. Li Wenxi could still talk in his sleep, and it seemed that he was simply asleep.
Moreover, that pill will cause weakness. Although the beast tide has passed, who knows when it will come back again. It is better not to take it if you can.
"Hmm?" Coco climbed onto the sofa and stood up. She tilted her little head and pushed Li Wenxi with her little paws.
"Hmm..." Li Wenxi moaned softly, rubbed twice in Xu Xin's arms, and slowly opened her eyes.
Then she found that everyone around her was standing and looking at this side, while she was sitting on Xu Xin in a very indecent manner. She screamed suddenly, turned over immediately, sat down next to Xu Xin, lowered her head, and her face flushed.
What’s going on!
How did I fall asleep while still hugging Xu Xin so tightly... There were so many people watching, it was so embarrassing!
She glanced up at the others furtively.
What made her feel relieved, but also a little puzzled, was that no one else was looking at her, but were all staring at Coco who was standing on the other side of Xu Xin.
"Hmm?" Seeing that everyone present was looking at her, Coco tilted her little head, not knowing what was going on.
But it didn't think much about it because it had already smelled the fragrance of the food.
There are only leftovers on the table.
"Bing! Bing!" Coco immediately cried out twice in dissatisfaction, as if asking why it wasn't woken up for dinner. Then it crawled to the dining table, picked up a piece of cake with one paw, and began to eat clumsily.
"This..." Xu Xin looked at the little fellow who was eating at the table, as if he had seen some new species.
Just now, no matter how they shook Li Wenxi, Li Wenxi did not wake up. Instead, this little guy pushed him with his little paw, and Li Wenxi woke up immediately.
Li Wenxi just fell into a deep sleep and couldn't wake up. Could it be that this little guy was responsible
Speaking of Coco, it has become more and more sleepy recently.
It was obvious that Xu Xin had not taken it out today and it had rested in the tree house for a whole day. However, it was still sleeping soundly in the middle of the day. The little foodie didn't even eat. The smell of the food and the sound of their conversation didn't wake it up. If it hadn't been shaken to the ground by Xu Xin just now, it would probably still be sleeping.
Moreover, Li Wenxi had just been holding Coco who was soundly sleeping.
From this point of view, the possibility that she was influenced by Coco is very high!
"What...what happened? I took a nap, why is the atmosphere here a little weird?" Li Wenxi saw that no one was talking and everyone was looking at Coco on the dining table. She felt a little panicked. She pulled Xu Xin's arm and asked in a low voice.
Xu Xin turned to look at her and asked, "Nothing, are you feeling okay now?"
"Uncomfortable?" Li Wenxi was a little confused, but still answered, "No, on the contrary, I feel refreshed, as if I had just eaten a blue-level orange."
That's good. Xu Xin was afraid that Coco would harm others or even him, which would make it difficult for him.
Let Li Wenxi stay and ask about the situation later.
"I'm glad you're okay. Let's put this matter aside for now. I will figure it out myself. Let's get back to the topic." Xu Xin took another look at the little guy who started eating as soon as he woke up, then turned to look at Ji Chaoyang.
Ji Chaoyang nodded and told about the strange things that happened in other nearby areas.
"What you said is true!" Lou Feier began to swipe her watch. "In the past few days, the number of people in District 187 has been inexplicably declining rapidly, making everyone panic. Today... Hmm? The number of people is not reduced?"
The number of people in Area 187 remained the same as before the communication was disconnected.
"The number of people in District 188 has not changed." Qi Xuefei pointed at her watch and said, "It should be a communication problem."
Now most people are in a state of no communication, and the regional channels have not changed for a long time, naturally including the number of people in the above regions.
Xu Xin was a little worried that after the actual data was updated, the total number of people in the regional channel would drop significantly.
However, the other survivors also had heavy crossbows and dozens of explosive crossbows they had prepared. In addition, the tree house was low-level and there were few people, so they would not encounter a strong beast tide, so it should not be a problem to survive.
I hope so.
Ji Chaoyang continued, "Yesterday I was exploring in a direction far to the south. Over there, I saw a dying tree house. Around that tree house, I met a mutant who looked very similar to it. The blood veins grew on his skin, without any hair. If it weren't for the blood veins, he would look no different from a normal person."
Ji Chaoyang's words made everyone present fall into deep thought.
Xu Xin spoke up and expressed his previous conjecture, and then concluded: "Judging from the properties of the axes in the hands of the predators, they are obviously here to destroy the tree house, so this mutation may not be caused by the predators."
Ji Chaoyang nodded slowly: "My guess is that this man might have just happened to be encountered by the predator, and was included in the herd, and had to obey orders to attack. The predator can command mutant creatures, so it makes sense for him to command this man."
As he spoke, he looked at the man on the ground who was still staring, but his expression was no longer ferocious.
The man couldn't even blink, and his eyes could only move slowly.
Xu Xin's mind moved. His eyes could move, so maybe he could communicate.
"Were you really a survivor before?" Xu Xin squatted in front of the man, "If so, look to the left, if not, look to the right."
The man's child's hole began to shrink, and then under the gaze of everyone, his line of sight began to slowly shift to the left.
"We can really communicate! He can understand what we say!" Li Wenxi said in surprise, "He... is he really a survivor?"
Xu Xinze and Ji Chaoyang looked at each other.
Guessed it
"Are you and the group of mutants and furry monsters outside who are attacking us together? Look left, not right."
The man's gaze did not shift, still looking to the left, motionless.
"Are you their companion?"
Hearing this, the man's gaze began to move slowly to the right, telling Xu Xin that he was not a companion.
Xu Xin narrowed his eyes.
He was a little skeptical about this.
If he was not a companion, then why did he have a special axe in his hand? According to what Ji Chaoyang and the others saw, the tools held by those furry monsters were that kind of axes.
Lou Feier also thought of this and said to Xu Xin: "Xu Xin, you should sign a contract with him. In this way, he will not lie when answering your questions!" She herself has a deep understanding of this.
Xu Xin was actually a little hesitant.
He doesn't have many mutant beast contracts left.
Including the ones he obtained in the dungeon, and the ones Changyin made for him, he had a total of eleven Mutant Beast Contracts.
He used one on Ah Fu, two on Mimi, gave one to Li Wenxi, used one on his beloved concubine, one each on Lou Feier and Ma Hongwei, and just contracted a Snow Wolf King. In total, he has used eight cards.
Now, he only has three contracts left in his hand.
Now that the long seal has disappeared, these three contracts must be used sparingly.
As for this mutant human, he didn't know whether this person could recover or whether he would always look like this.
Even if he can recover, if he doesn't have any special abilities, it would be a waste of his contract to contract an ordinary survivor.
Just when Xu Xin was struggling, suddenly, a sharp whistle was heard not far from the window!
The whistle was so shrill that Silver King Mimi and Snow Wolf, who were lying in the corner, stood up and became alert.
The whistle sounded so familiar that everyone stood up suddenly. Ji Chaoyang immediately ran to the window and looked out.
A map instantly appeared in Xu Xin's mind, and he looked for the exact location of the red dot from the direction where the whistle came from.
Although the wild beasts in the jungle have returned and there are many red dots on the map, he immediately saw a red dot that was much brighter than the ordinary wild beasts around it, and it was moving away from the tree house at an extremely fast speed.
Too fast!
"Uh..." As the whistle sounded, the mutant human in front of him also made a painful and hoarse sound from his throat!
The sound was so creepy that it made the people around shudder.
With a hoarse groan, the mutant human became hideous again. His eyeballs bulged out and his face gradually deformed. His originally motionless mouth opened slightly, as if he wanted to say something but couldn't.
"Not good!" Qi Xuefei's face changed and she immediately took out a pill and wanted to put it into his mouth, but it was too late.
A horrible scene happened.
"Bang!"
Blood and flesh splattered everywhere, splashing all over Qi Xuefei who was squatting in front of the mutant man.
"Hmm?" Coco, who was eating, looked at the food splattered with blood on the table, held Kuaizi motionlessly, and blinked twice.
Including Ji Chaoyang, who had turned his gaze away from the window to look over here, everyone was so shocked by the horrifying scene before them that they were speechless.
The mutant man’s head exploded!
Right in front of them, his eyeballs bulged, his face deformed, and then, he exploded!
Xu Xin's heart sank as he looked at the blood-spattered interior of the tree house.
The bright red dot on the map had long disappeared. Its speed was too fast, almost as fast as that of the Silver King.
how so
Is it here to kill and silence people
What secrets do these mutants hold