"How dare you say that!" Zeng Tao, who followed him in, got angry when she heard him say that. "Do you know that the big guy you brought back almost destroyed our tree house!"
"That was the most appropriate solution I could think of at the time."
Qin Fu looked much weaker than Zeng Tao, and his whole body felt very lethargic.
His ability consumes energy, so he is more mentally weak and naturally cannot be as energetic as Zeng Tao is now.
He is now like a drunk man. Although he has not consumed too much energy physically, his brain is not enough.
"So, now that I'm alive, the trolls should have been driven away. What's the situation now, boss?"
Qin Fu looked at Xu Xin and asked.
"Are you kidding? With my help, it's easy to kill that troll!" Zeng Tao puffed out her chest and said proudly.
"... The troll is dead?!" Although he was in a depressed state, Qin Fu suddenly opened his eyes wide.
"No, he's not dead." Xu Xin shook his head. "He's probably still alive."
"Ah?" Zeng Tao was stunned, "Didn't you just say..."
"That's right."
Neither of the two people present knew what they had just experienced, so Xu Xin briefly explained it.
"Huh? The entire upper body exploded. How can he not die like that?" Zeng Tao was completely shocked. "The head is gone? The head ran away by itself?"
She didn't quite believe it, so she ran to the window and looked out.
"... I didn't expect that Ma Hongwei's heavy crossbow could actually do this." Qin Fu was also very surprised, "I thought we could only drive the giant monster away."
"Wow... the area outside was flattened!" Zeng Tao exclaimed as he lay by the window, looking at the location where the weapon exploded.
"So..." Xu Xin asked Qin Fu, "What did you experience and do in the hilly resource area these two days? Why did you get targeted by that blood-marked troll?"
He did say something briefly when he was running back, but it was too vague.
Xu Xin needs to know the details.
"Ah, my experience." Qin Fu glanced out the window and smiled bitterly, "It's really, too wonderful. If I tell you about it, you may find it unbelievable."
Qin Fu began to talk about his experiences during this period.
At that time, six explorers including Xu Xin were trapped in the underground world.
At first, he just ran around because he was bored staying in the tree house.
After visiting all the other treehouse clusters of the Explorers and chatting with most of the people, he teleported back.
Just as he stepped out of the teleportation array exit, he noticed something unusual around Xu Xin's main tree house.
Because of his abilities, he is very sensitive to changes in his surroundings.
The plants around him are his eyes.
At that time, he could clearly sense signs of animal activity in the jungle only two hundred meters away from him.
But when he looked over with concentration, the existence that caught his attention had disappeared.
It disappeared, but it caught his attention.
If it was just an ordinary animal, even a mutant creature, it would not be able to escape his eyes.
He went to check it out immediately.
"At that time, I found darkening lines on the ground at that location," Qin Fu said.
"Textures? What patterns?"
"It's probably... the same pattern as a mutant creature." Qin Fu thought for a moment, "but it seems a little different. Moreover, the pattern is obviously incomplete. And when I passed by, it was already very dim. It disappeared completely after only seven or eight seconds."
"I tried to touch that place, but didn't find anything unusual. Do you have any idea about this?" Qin Fu looked at Xu Xin and asked.
"Why don't you ask me if I have any ideas?" Zeng Tao interrupted.
"Oh? You have?"
"No."
“…” Qin Fu was in a bad mental state, had a headache, rolled his eyes and didn’t want to talk.
Xu Xin began to understand what Qin Fu had discovered.
He should have discovered... the culprit that caused the mysterious disappearance of survivors in various areas at that time.
He was also the culprit who caused Shi Wanyun to be inexplicably teleported to the back of the planet.
Those things are elusive and set traps around the survivors' tree houses. If you step on one, you will be teleported to a very far place like Shi Wanyun.
And those dim lines should be the lines of the unfinished teleportation array.
He suddenly remembered that Lou Feier had also noticed something unusual before. After rushing over, she found a lost tree house core.
If this is the reasoning, then the enemy is using the energy from the core of the tree house to set up the entrance to the teleportation array around the tree house.
Like his coordinates
"Then what?" Xu Xin asked.
Qin Fu continued to explain.
At that time, after he concentrated his mind, he found that the source of the abnormality was still to his northwest.
After he looked towards the northwest, the other party suddenly moved!
Still heading northwest.
In just two seconds, the other party was beyond his exploration range and disappeared.
He immediately chased after him again.
After advancing a few hundred meters, we sensed the source of the anomaly again.
As a result, when he sensed it, the other side began to move away quickly.
In this way, he chased all the way to the northwest.
"No way?" Hearing this, Zeng Tao couldn't help but speak, "Are you a little stupid? Anyone can see that this is a bait to lure you over, right?"
Xu Xin also nodded.
If it's like this all the way, then the intention is indeed too obvious.
"Of course I know." Qin Fu shook his head, "But I still followed him."
With the support of his own abilities, he has a very clear grasp of the surrounding situation.
With such confidence in his own abilities, even though he immediately realized that the other party was trying to attract him, he still followed.
After all, it is not certain that the other party has malicious intentions towards him.
In fact, it’s mainly curiosity that’s at work.
He had never walked around here, and it was too boring to stay in the tree house, so it would be nice to go out for a walk.
Soon, he was taken to the hilly resource area.
After arriving at the hilly resource area, the source of the anomaly completely disappeared.
And he also knew what the other party wanted him to see.
At that time, he was also attracted by what he saw.
"I don't know if you know, but in that area, there is a small area of trees that are still green. They haven't withered in the cold winter. It seems like it's summer."
What
The corner of Xu Xin's eye twitched slightly.
It seemed like he really didn't know.
When the cold winter came, he seemed...
I have never been to the hilly resource area.
Over there... there has always been a forest of trees that have not withered
"There is such a thing?" Zeng Tao was a little surprised. "Why?"
"I was also very curious at the time." Qin Fu continued.
He knew that the source of the anomaly had attracted him to this place, probably to draw his attention to that area.
He hesitated for only a moment before deciding to explore further.
The other party's intention to lead him was so obvious that it made him feel that the other party had no hostility.
If the intention is really to lure you into a trap, then such an obvious seduction is really stupid.
Instead, this seems to be guiding and leading the way.
He felt that there was something that was guiding him to discover this place and explore it.
Of course, he was not that stupid. He first climbed up the surrounding hills and looked into the resource area surrounded by hills.
"The green area is actually not small, at least several hundred meters in radius." Qin Fu said, "And in the center of the lush jungle, there is an altar surrounded by it."
…Is it really that altar
If it was that altar, then perhaps it wouldn't be so surprising.
It is normal that an altar with such magical power that even fierce beasts dare not approach it can protect the surrounding jungle during the cold winter.
“So I decided to explore it.”
Qin Fu, who had a super-large-scale early warning of danger, was very confident in his abilities, and he was also a casual person, so he went straight into the hilly resource area.
Then they soon reached the edge of the dense bushes, went deep into them, and walked to the altar.
Then, his abilities came into play.
The trees beside the altar seem to have been alive for a long time and have been strengthened.
In other words, the trees near the altar have also mutated.
Their roots are very deep in the soil, even close to fifty meters deep!
Moreover, these roots spread densely and entangled underground.
Relying on his own abilities, Qin Fu easily explored the underground of the altar clearly.
As a result, he immediately found the entrance to a secret passage leading underground.
The entrance was under a poplar tree.
Not under the crown of the poplar, but under its trunk.
That’s right, if the thick poplar tree was not cut down, ordinary survivors would not be able to find this secret passage.
But Qin Fu discovered it with his own abilities.
He cut down the poplar tree and dug about half a meter deeper, and the entrance to the passage appeared.
After opening the entrance, he jumped in without much hesitation.
"You are so brave..." Zeng Tao curled her lips, "You dare to go in."
"You must have a spirit of exploration." Qin Fu showed a somewhat tired smile, "Since we are here now."
Given his current mental state, his eyelids are starting to tremble as he continues talking about this.
Xu Xin handed him a blue orange and asked him to hold on and continue talking.
Qin Fu continued to tell his story while picking at an orange.
It is called a secret passage, but in fact it is just like a pipe.
That's right, the passage is circular, with a diameter of only about two meters, as if it were a pipeline buried underground, transporting something.
This pipe is very long from front to back, and seems to extend outward to the outside of the hilly resource area, while inward, it leads directly below the altar.
Following the principle of proximity, Qin Fu groped towards the bottom of the altar.
Then…
"Then I got lost." Qin Fu said embarrassedly.
"Ah? Lost? You got lost in a pipe?" Zeng Tao was a little unconvinced. "Can't you just go back the same way?"
"That's not a pipeline at all." Qin Fu shook his head. "It's a pipeline maze."
Another underground maze
After Qin Fu entered, he walked forward about a few dozen meters and three forks appeared in the pipeline.
He chose the middle one because that direction was directly below the altar.
But when he walked forward about twenty or thirty meters, he began to realize that something was wrong.
His abilities actually began to fail.
Moreover, the pipe ahead began to bend, and after walking a few steps, I saw a new fork in the pipe.
"At that time, I knew that I had entered a very complicated underground maze, so I planned to return to the first fork and take a long-term view." Qin Fu said, "But..."
"... You can't find the way back?" Xu Xin guessed.
"… That's right." Qin Fu nodded a little tiredly, "I clearly only walked through one fork, and I clearly remember that it was the middle road, but when I was going back, I got lost."
His abilities completely failed in the pipeline, and what was even worse was that the watch could no longer communicate with the outside world.
At that time, he was completely trapped in the underground pipe maze.
Fortunately, there is no danger in the maze, unlike the previous dungeon maze, which had mutant creatures and people would fall if they stepped on empty space.
This is just an ordinary stone pipe that can drive people crazy and get lost.
"Stone pipe?" Xu Xin suddenly asked.
"Huh? Didn't I just say that?" Qin Fu was stunned. "It's a stone pipe, but it's very smooth, just like polished marble."
Stone pipes.
The floor of the altar, the altar table, and the surrounding stone pillars are all made of stone.
Could it be the same material
The pipes and the altar are made of the same material…
By the way, when he was offering the sacrifice, those blood-red patterns should have crawled along the stone to the sacrificial table, right
"It's too complicated in there, and the stones can't leave any marks at all, so we can't engrave any words on them." Qin Fu said helplessly.
"It won't leave any traces?" Zeng Tao asked, grasping the point, "You can't carve it?"
"I can carve it." Qin Fu shook his head and said, "The hardness of that stone is only blue-grade stone. I can still carve it, but..."
"The carved marks will be restored." Xu Xin said.
"That's right." Qin Fu nodded. "I realized this after making many detours. I always carved words at the fork in the road, but after walking for a long time, I never encountered any carvings I had seen before. Later, I carved words at the original place and waited for a while before I found that the carving marks would automatically repair themselves in about three minutes."
"The stone can repair itself!" Zeng Tao was a little surprised, and then said to herself, "If it is used as a weapon, it can be damaged at will..."
Xu Xin was not surprised.
The ground of the altar will repair itself automatically. This is something he knew when he fought the Blood-Patterned Rabbit.
It seems that the material of the underground pipes is indeed the same as that of the altar on the ground.
"Anyway, I walked inside for at least ten hours, and finally, probably by luck, I came to a place that was not a pipe: a stone room underground."
Qin Fu looked at Xu Xin: "The dagger I gave you is stuck in the middle of that room."
This is how the bronze dagger was discovered
"The introduction of the dagger really shocked me at the time, but I didn't think too much about it at the time, because when I took out the dagger, the surroundings began to shake, and then the stone wall began to break."
And at that moment, his perception ability that seemed to have been blocked was restored.
In his perception, the altar on the ground was collapsing!
And now, he is at the lower edge of the altar!
Fortunately, the stone room had another exit. With his perception, he knew that this road was the way back to the ground, so he ran along the passage at the fastest speed!
This time I ran at least nearly a thousand meters.
When he came out, he was already at the edge of the hilly resource area.
He looked in the direction of the altar, only to find that it was no longer visible.
It completely collapsed.
Hearing this, Xu Xin narrowed his eyes slightly.
The altar...really collapsed
He remembered that he had found a passage underneath the altar table on a moonless night, but the passage was very short and blocked.
Didn’t Qin Fu explore there
"Then what? How come you haven't gotten to the point after talking for so long?" Zeng Tao urged, "Where's the troll? Why hasn't the troll appeared yet?"
"... After I returned to the ground, the troll appeared." Qin Fu's eyes flickered for the first time, as if he still had some lingering memories of the scene at that time, "The troll was actually transformed from a hill!"
Hearing this, Xu Xin's eyelids twitched.
Qin Fu looked at Xu Xin again and said with a wry smile: "Boss, let me say that the location of your tree house is really too dangerous. There are really monsters all around here."