It's not such a coincidence.
Because the figure that appeared next to the transmission device was not anyone Xu Xin knew.
He is a man who looks very ordinary.
After being teleported here, he looked around and then looked up at the tree house next to him.
At this time, Xu Xin and Xu Ying stood there motionless and winked at each other.
The two men were wearing invisible cloaks, so as long as they didn't move, the newcomer wouldn't be able to find them.
The man next to Shi Wanyun's tree house suddenly stretched out his hand towards the tree house.
Immediately afterwards, the roots of Shi Wanyun's tree house seemed to have heard the owner's order. They all lowered down, wrapped around the man's arms, and pulled him up into the tree house.
After the dense canopy closed, it seemed as if nothing had happened.
Both of them were shocked.
Xu Ying glanced at Xu Xin. The meaning in her eyes was very clear, asking: "Are you sure this is Shi Wanyun's tree house?"
Xu Xin gave a look back, saying...
Not so sure.
He had never been here and had never actually seen Shi Wanyun's tree house.
But he knew that Shi Wanyun's tree house was near the teleportation array, and there was another teleportation device around it. And most importantly, he had heard Shi Wanyun say that the floor of her tree house was one floor higher than his own.
And this tree house perfectly meets these conditions.
…I think so, right
But why can this man go up there casually
At this time, Xu Ying took out a walnut-sized device from somewhere and squeezed it gently.
Immediately afterwards, Xu Xin felt dizzy.
He glanced at the little thing in Xu Ying's hand, then looked at her with a questioning look.
"Sound wave interference device." Xu Ying whispered, "Once it is turned on, the sound within a two-meter radius will not be transmitted. It relies on creating reverse sound wave interference and offset, which is similar to the ability of noise-cancelling headphones from thousands of years ago. At first, you may feel uncomfortable and dizzy when you are disturbed by this sound wave."
"... So now we can talk?" Xu Xin whispered.
"Yes, but it's better not to be too loud, otherwise it can be heard outside."
Xu Xin nodded.
He looked at the tree house: "According to my guess, this tree house is most likely Shi Wanyun's tree house."
"If that's the case... then it's going to be a bit troublesome."
Xu Ying bit her finger, her expression somewhat conflicted.
"The owner of the tree house has been changed?" Xu Xin thought of what Xu Ying had just told him.
"That's a possibility," Xu Ying whispered, "but in my opinion, it shouldn't be. I did say just now that a normal tree house can change its owner, but there is a prerequisite... that is, the original owner must be killed. In other words, if you want to change the owner of a non-parasitic tree house, you must kill the original owner first. At least that's how I know."
Xu Xin's eyes moved: "But Shi Wanyun is not dead."
He looked down at his watch. "At least her name is still on the tree house system. I just can't contact her."
"Well, so the owner of this tree house has most likely not been replaced."
Xu Ying's eyes were always on the relatively tall tree house.
The man in the house did not come out of the tree house for a long time.
"So what's his situation?" Xu Xin asked in a low voice.
At the same time, the two of them slowly moved towards the tree house.
"Who else do you think can enter a tree house besides the owner of the tree house?" Xu Ying did not answer directly but asked in a low voice.
"…someone who has been given authority by the master?" Xu Xin speculated.
He is familiar with this.
His tree house gave Li Wenxi the right to enter and exit at any time.
And just now, they also gave the explorer members the power to enter and exit the World Tree at will.
"This is also a possibility. Have you heard Shi Wanyun talk about who she gave permission to enter her tree house?" Xu Ying asked.
"No." Xu Xin shook his head. "She didn't say that. So there shouldn't be any."
Shi Wanyun was very careful and would not even allow anyone to parasitize around her tree house, so it was unlikely that she would give anyone else access to her tree house.
"Then let's just believe her for now." Xu Ying whispered, "If we rule out these two possibilities, there is only one possibility. That is, this person's control over this tree house is even greater than Shi Wanyun's."
Xu Xin was startled at first, then Tong Kong shrank back, looked at the tree house and said, "You mean, the man just now came from the World Tree that colonized this area?"
Xu Ying had just told him that Area 1 was within the influence range of the alien invaders' colony world tree.
Although Shi Wanyun's tree house is not a parasitic tree house, the relationship between her tree house and the nearby world tree is basically the same as that between a parasitic tree house and the main tree house.
"Yeah, that's what I mean." There was a hint of excitement in Xu Ying's low voice.
"Wait... If that's the case, then that person..." Xu Xin suddenly remembered something and frowned, "I remember that the only person who can control the parasitic tree house and enter and exit the parasitic tree house at will is... the owner of the main tree house, right?"
Just like, Xu Xin himself can control the parasitic tree house, but Li Wenxi, who is given the authority, cannot.
"Yeah, that's true." Xu Ying turned her head and smiled, "Brother, you are quite smart."
"That means, this man..." Xu Xin narrowed his eyes.
"It is very likely that he is the owner of the World Tree and the person in charge of this area."
Xu Ying looked at the tree house whose windows were completely blocked by dense branches and leaves, making it impossible to see the inside. There was a gleam in her eyes, and it was unknown what she was thinking.
"This also explains why this person is able to use the teleportation device so skillfully. This is a big problem, but... it is also a very big opportunity!"
Regional Director…
The owner of a world tree!
Just like...
That monster that's completely black and has eyes all over its body
"Wait... something seems wrong." Xu Xin immediately raised an objection, "The owner of the World Tree is a human? Didn't you say that those alien invaders hate humans very much?"
"Those are ordinary alien invaders."
Relying on the invisible cloak and the small noise reduction device, Xu Ying and Xu Xin had walked silently to within ten meters of the tree house.
"If it's that guy, that's not certain. We can't guess his attitude towards humans."
Xu Xin knew that the thing she was talking about was the half-human, half-monster creature that Shi Wanyun had seen, the one that made people's sanity value drop dramatically.
"... I said before that its mother is human. Actually... um?"
Xu Ying was about to say something, but suddenly, she seemed to realize something and uttered a puzzled sound.
"What's wrong?"
"... The smell of mutant blood? That man... is drawing teleportation patterns inside!"
As Xu Xin spoke, a purple-black vortex suddenly appeared under his feet.
"You want to..." Xu Xin was shocked.
"We can't let him teleport away, we have to capture him alive! We can definitely get some information from him that we don't know!"
Xu Xin didn't even have time to react before he fell directly into the teleportation vortex.
Afterwards, the two of them immediately appeared inside Shi Wanyun's tree house, and in front of them was the man who looked ordinary.
At this moment, the man was looking at them in astonishment, and under his feet was a teleportation array pattern that had already been drawn.
A purple-black vortex has appeared.
The man was even about to fall in!
"Don't run!"
While the man was still in shock, Xu Ying had already grabbed his arm and was about to pull him out.
"Don't… !"
The man uttered a cry of surprise.
Then, the purple-black vortex under his feet fluctuated and suddenly became extremely unstable.
The moment Xu Ying pulled the man out, the purple-black vortex suddenly expanded several times.
In an instant, all three of them were swallowed up by the purple-black vortex.
…
"How many times have I told you to give me a heads up before you teleport?"
Xu Xin looked angrily at Xu Ying who was lowering her head in front of him and scolded her.
"If I were any later, it would be too late..." Xu Ying lowered her head and looked at her toes, "If I were any later, he would have just run away..."
"So what now, we run away with him?"
Xu Xin rubbed his still dizzy head and looked at the tree in front of them...
Giant trees.
At over a hundred meters high, it seems somewhat dwarfed by the tree canopy that stretches for several kilometers.
One, the world tree.
The two of them were brought directly to the edge of the World Tree by the teleportation just now!
That man is indeed related to the World Tree!
and…
Xu Xin looked behind the World Tree.
That is the east, the direction where the sun rises.
He actually saw... a sparkling scene.
Endless.
"ocean… "
Xu Xin's eyes twitched slightly.
Unexpectedly, just ten minutes after they mentioned the ocean, he saw it.
And the mysterious man who brought them here is now...
Xu Xin looked at the ground beside him.
"This guy fainted."
Xu Ying used her foot to turn the man who was lying on his back on the ground over.
His face was extremely pale and his whole body was stiff.
His eyes were tightly closed and there was even foam coming out of the corners of his mouth.
"He won't die, will he?" Xu Xin frowned.
"No, it seems that he was just... frightened by the chaotic space-time." Xu Ying couldn't help laughing, "This guy thought we would fall into the cracks of space-time and be torn apart, so he fainted from fear. Of course, as the initiator of space teleportation, he was indeed the one who suffered the greatest impact."
"You mean..." Xu Xin looked at her, "Do you know this will happen?"
"Yes. But with me here, these are no big deal." Xu Ying waved her hand with a nonchalant expression, "I'm very familiar with this kind of thing. There's no way anything will happen between the two of us."
… The fact is that both of them were unharmed, Xu Xin was just a little dizzy, and that person… just lay on the ground and fainted.
Xu Xin shook his head helplessly.
Given her current condition, she still dares to do such a thing. It seems that simple space teleportation is not enough.
"If I hadn't taken action, this person would have been torn to pieces in the space-time rift." Xu Ying squatted down, looked at the man in front of her, and poked his nose and eyes. "Fortunately, he is not dead."
"... Don't you care about the situation around you?" Xu Xin couldn't help but ask.
As soon as this girl came here, she has been paying attention to the person on the ground, completely ignoring the world tree around her and the ocean not far away.
A gust of wind blew by, carrying a hint of saltiness in the humid air.
You can even hear the sound of the waves!
"There's nothing to say here, brother, you have the tools to collect living things, right? Hurry up and collect this person, we'll be back soon."
Xu Ying suddenly became nervous and grabbed Xu Xin's arm.
"Varied… "
"Quick! Do as I say! Go back and explain!"
Xu Ying's tone made Xu Xin subconsciously nervous. He immediately put the man lying on the ground into his bracelet, and then a purple-black vortex immediately appeared under their feet.
At the last moment before falling into the whirlpool, Xu Xin seemed to see a flash of light on the World Tree just above their heads.
Then, the two of them appeared directly next to Shi Wanyun's tree house, a hundred meters away from the tree house.
"What's going on?" Xu Xin rubbed his increasingly dizzy head and asked immediately.
Xu Ying breathed a sigh of relief: "Huh~ Fortunately I ran fast, otherwise I would have died there!"
"Hmm... ? Explain!" Xu Xin's voice sank.
"Why are they so fierce all of a sudden?" Xu Ying shrank her neck. "The weapon on the World Tree has locked onto us. In a few seconds, we will be vaporized."
... locked by the weapon of the World Tree
Xu Xin immediately thought of the flash of light he had just seen.
Oh my goodness, is that the weapon of the World Tree being fired
"But fortunately, we brought that guy back and got a lot of rewards!" Xu Ying snapped her slender fingers, making a crisp sound, "Look, I'll make him spit out everything he knows!"
Xu Xin still had doubts about the World Tree and the sea: "Over there..."
"Don't worry, I've been there. If you want to go, we can go there anytime." Xu Ying smiled, "But not now. It's too dangerous now."
"No, what I want to say is that the world tree we just saw is not the one that belongs to this guy, right?"
Xu Xin turned his bracelet and thought about it.
"You said before that this place is at least 600 to 700 kilometers away from the sea, and the influence range of the World Tree is no more than 500 kilometers." Xu Xin looked towards the east, "The World Tree is right by the sea, so close to the sea. Even if it is located at the nearest seaside, 600 to 700 kilometers away, it can't affect this side, right?"
"Brother, you are so smart!" Xu Ying gave Xu Xin a thumbs up.
"Stop it." Xu Xin patted her head skillfully. "What's going on?"
"Um... that World Tree is definitely not the World Tree nearby." Xu Ying thought for a moment and explained, "That is the World Tree used for defense at the seaside. It is used by those alien invaders to prevent those mutant monsters in the sea from landing at the seaside. It is equivalent to a marine defense line."
The ocean is a world that even alien invaders cannot conquer.
It is normal for them to be on guard against any monsters in the sea that could land on the sea.
"Haha, we've suffered a great loss in this regard before. Ah, I mean, in that time and space, when we were still pretending to be submissive to the alien invaders, there appeared in the sea a group of beasts capable of landing." Xu Ying explained.
"… But," Xu Xin was a little confused and turned the bracelet, "Why did this person appear there?"
"Why not just ask him directly?" Xu Ying looked at Xu Xin's bracelet and smiled in a way that was a bit... scary.
…
"Are we unable to go back..." Lou Feier leaned against a thick tree trunk that grew in a spiral shape like a twist, looked up at the cloudless sky, and sighed, "Where on earth is this..."
"There are a lot of bugs on the tree behind you." Jin Yue reminded with a tired look on her face.
"Ah?" Lou Feier suddenly jumped up from the tree trunk and looked back.
I saw a large number of ant-sized insects crawling out from the spiral cracks on the tree trunk.
The moment Lou Feier's back left the tree trunk, the insects stopped moving and then crawled back into the gap collectively.
Three seconds later, the trunk became neat again.
Lou Feier felt her scalp tingling: "This bug is coming for me..."
"It's best not to touch anything here. Everything here is very weird."
As Shi Wanyun spoke, she stepped on and killed an unknown long insect that was about to climb onto her shoe.
"... So, where should we go now?" Lou Feier looked around, "What is going on here..."
Around them, there is a...
The endless sea of sand.
Only a few strange bare trees growing like twists of dough stand oddly in the desert, making it look less desolate.