“Oh my!”
Although Coco never clearly expressed why the stone statues were not dangerous, the little guy always insisted on this point.
"Xu Xin, what do you think?" Ji Chaoyang asked Xu Xin, "You have been in close contact with those stone statues. Do you think they are dangerous?"
Xu Xin was silent for two seconds, then shook his head: "At least when I approached them, they didn't give me any sense of danger, which is why I dared to jump into the group of stone statues. And..."
Xu Xin looked at Coco, who was lying on the table and blinking at him: "Coco has no problem sensing danger so far."
"Actually, you don't have to worry so much." Xu Ying fiddled with her nails as she leaned lazily on the sofa. "Even if those stone creatures are attacking the World Tree, they are far less dangerous than the survivors from a thousand years ago. What you should discuss most now is how to deal with the person who knocked Xu Xin down."
What Xu Ying said does make sense.
"Okay, let's assume that those stone beasts are not a threat to us." Xu Xin touched Coco in his arms, "What do you think of the person outside the World Tree?"
Everyone looked at the bullet shell that Coco had brought back and was placed on the table.
This is the clue left by the other party.
"Yingying, how strong are those survivors?" Qi Xuefei looked at Xu Ying and asked.
Xu Ying sat up straight on the sofa and pointed at her nose: "Do you know my strength?"
"Very strong, much stronger than me." Ji Chaoyang said.
Xu Xin had also felt her strength and speed. At least he and Xu Ying were not on the same level.
"My physical abilities are far superior to yours." Xu Ying stretched out a finger and pressed it on the wooden table in front of her.
With a "crack", several cracks spread out in all directions on the wooden table along the place where Xu Ying pressed down.
"How can it be so much better? I can do this too."
Zeng Tao stretched out her finger and imitated the pressure.
"Kachcha!"
With this move, her fingers pierced directly into the wooden chair.
During the few months of living in the World Tree, Zeng Tao's abilities have become even stronger, and she now has a tendency to fully control her abilities. She can control her own weight so that it won't always be that heavy.
"Actually, I can do it, too." Wang Lei raised his hand, "I won't demonstrate it."
"Um... You guys have your own special enhancements, so I can't compare to you." Xu Ying was a little embarrassed. "In terms of strength, I'm at least several levels stronger than the rest of you. In terms of reaction speed, I'm much stronger than Fei'er, who has the fastest reaction speed among you."
Lou Feier nodded with deep understanding: "Her burst speed and reaction speed are faster than mine."
"After all, I have lived for three hundred years. Although I have not focused on strengthening my combat abilities, the three hundred years of physical strengthening has still made my abilities beyond those of ordinary people."
As she spoke, Xu Ying pointed at herself again and said, "Here comes the point. I have lived for three hundred years and have not been strengthened in combat. You still cannot match my physical abilities. Even if you can compare in some aspects, you are still far behind in other aspects."
Everyone nodded in acknowledgement of this.
"And the other party has lived for thousands of years. During these thousands of years, their bodies have been constantly strengthened. Some of them are 'order maintainers' who are specialized in combat. From the perspective of strength, if I don't have the ability to control time and space, I don't want to meet them at all."
Xu Ying's words made everyone fall into deep thought.
A few seconds later, Zhao Xiaochuan spoke first.
"It seems that personal physical fitness doesn't have much effect now, right?" he objected.
"No matter how strong the opponent's physical ability is, if he can't fly with a sword or transform his fighting spirit into feathers, he will be just like that in front of modern weapons. I want to know how powerful the weapon in his hand is."
As he spoke, he picked up the shell on the table and said, "With this weapon, at our current level, are we capable of fighting against the enemy?"
"This is what I want to say now." Xu Ying stretched out her hand to Zhao Xiaochuan, and Zhao Xiaochuan understood and placed the shell in her palm.
She picked up the shell and said to everyone, "The weapons in their hands are powered by alien invaders' technology. Compared to what we have now, they are stronger, not weaker. At the same time, even if they are not 'Order Maintainers', the physical strength of each of them is far beyond the special forces you know, and can even be compared with Superman."
Xu Ying's words silenced the entire audience again.
"However, you don't need to worry too much." Xu Ying changed the subject and said with a smile, "Although the weapons and equipment in these people's hands have the technical support of the alien invaders, they are not very powerful. The weapons given to humans by the alien invaders are all within the level they can control. They can't give humans the most advanced weapons. For example, this."
She threw the shell in her hand onto the table, making a crisp metallic sound.
"Although this thing is also very powerful, it is not much stronger than our weapon. The weapon in my hand from another time and space is a weapon made with the most advanced technology stolen from alien invaders. It is far stronger than this weapon."
"So that's how it is..."
"It's good that it's not much stronger."
Xu Ying's words eased the tense atmosphere a little.
"But..." Li Wenxi said worriedly, "If you take out your weapon from another time and space, won't you..."
Wen Guixin said to Xu Xin: "Those weapons are in your hands, right? Don't use them until the last minute!"
During this period, Xu Ying got along well with everyone and made great contributions in helping other survivors enter the World Tree. Naturally, everyone did not want to see her being wiped out of the world.
Xu Ying pursed her lips and said, "We can use it when necessary. Of course, there is no need for it at this stage! After all, we have a very powerful world tree. As long as we are inside the world tree, we will be invincible. However, things outside the world tree are a bit troublesome."
The residents of the underground world and the survivors who come to seek refuge with them, these are all issues that need to be considered.
"The weapons of the underground world have been developed for thousands of years." Ji Chaoyang placed a special pistol on the table.
The pistol is very small, only the size of a palm, but its power far exceeds that of pistols from thousands of years ago, and can even reach the level of sniper rifles from thousands of years ago.
And this is just a small personal self-defense weapon, not a regular weapon.
In addition, during the thousand years of weapons development in the underground world, laser weapons, drones, and even small nuclear weapons have been developed, and are now being manufactured in large quantities thanks to the abundant resources within the World Tree.
"Well, maybe we are not as good as them in terms of large weapons, but in terms of small weapons, that is, weapons for individual combat, we are not inferior to them."
Xu Ying picked up the small pistol and started playing with it.
"Hey, don't move. Be careful of accidental discharge." Xu Xin held her hand.
"Tsk, how could it possibly go off in my hand?" Xu Ying curled her lips and put down the gun.
"Fortunately, the one attacking us now is just a civilian, not the so-called... 'Order Maintainer' you mentioned." Zeng Tao sighed, "Those Order Maintainers don't have the ability to fight like me, right? That would be too strong..."
Ji Chaoyang said at this time: "This point... has not been confirmed yet?"
He looked at Xu Xin, Lou Fei'er and others and asked the most important question: "Are you sure that the person who attacked you is the survivor you saw in Shi Wanyun's tree house? At present, there is no evidence to prove this."
"Hmm... there is a similarity." Lou Feier pointed at the shell casing. "In Shi Wanyun's World Tree, the survivor also shot me. The effect of that shot was similar to the effect we witnessed when Huihui was shot."
There was no gunfire, no explosion, just a simple "buzz" sound behind me, and a big hole appeared on the wall of the tree house.
It was the same before Huihui was injured. After a flash of light, there was no explosion, and a big hole was hit in Huihui's wings. Then it rolled down with a scream.
"Two weapons, maybe the same one... Wait." Lou Feier looked at Shi Wanyun and Jin Yue. "When we were there, after that man attacked me, did any shells fall to the ground?"
"... I didn't notice it." Shi Wanyun shook her head, "I just saw him raise his hand, and the weapon in his hand... was very small."
"No." Jin Yue said, "I can be sure that at least it didn't fall to the ground."
"Then at least the weapon is not the same." Xu Xin said, "How could such a small weapon have such a large shell?"
The bullet shell that Coco brought back was as thick as two fingers, a very large bullet shell.
"That's for sure." Xu Ying leaned back on the sofa. "The small pistol that Fei'er just mentioned can't hit a pterosaur flying at high speed in the sky. This bullet shell must have been left by a sniper rifle, and the person who used the rifle was very skilled, able to hit the wing with one shot."
Sniper rifle...
Xu Xin narrowed his eyes: "In other words, someone has already set up a sniper rifle there, waiting for me to come back and then attack me?"
If that's the case...
"If that's the case, the person who attacked Xu Xin is unlikely to be the man you three met who came looking for his son." Ji Chaoyang expressed what Xu Xin was thinking.
"Ah? Why?" Zeng Tao asked puzzledly.
"... Because the other party didn't have time and probably didn't have the shooting skills." Shi Wanyun replied.
"Too late?" Lou Feier said to herself, "Well... indeed, we had just said goodbye to that person not long ago, and had just teleported back from Area 1 when we saw the scene of Xu Xin's accident."
"Ah, that is to say, unless the other party was teleported here with you, otherwise, he would have no time to prepare." Wang Lei clapped his hands and said in sudden realization.
"But... he couldn't have been teleported here by you two." Xu Ying looked at the beam of light from the teleportation array outside. "The teleportation array here has been affected by the World Tree. Without our permission, they can't use it. Unless... you brought him here."
Xu Ying looked at the three people.
Deep down in her heart, she still seemed to not completely believe the three people in front of her.
Among the current team of explorers, only three of them are not members of that team in that time and space.
Having lived for three hundred years, experienced two of the most desperate eras of mankind in two time and space, and just been betrayed by a friend, she would naturally doubt everything that could be doubted.
"Huh? Of course we couldn't have brought him here." Lou Fei'er said unhappily, "Are you doubting us? If we really brought him back, what would we have to hide?"
"I just said it casually. It's possible. If it's not the case..."
Xu Ying sighed, "If that's not the case, then unless that man has the same ability to travel through time and space as I do, he can't get here so quickly. This is near the mature World Tree, the location most affected by the World Tree. It's impossible for them to teleport here using their method. Basically, they can only attack from a distance."
"Oh?" Ji Chaoyang grasped the key point of this sentence, "According to what you said, the situation in which large-scale mutant creatures were teleported here to attack..."
"Oh, that can't happen." Xu Ying nodded.
Everyone was surprised.
"Why didn't you say so earlier..." Xu Xin shook his head helplessly.
Xu Ying looked innocent: "I thought you all knew that the area around the World Tree is the World Tree's territory. How could we allow such a situation to exist? However, the teleportation range that the World Tree can affect is not very large, only about 50 kilometers in radius, which is much smaller than the range of the World Tree's root system."
"It's already very big!" Wang Lei shouted, "Fifty kilometers in radius is already very big, already... huh? Wait, those petrified creatures were found within a radius of forty or fifty kilometers. Could they have been teleported fifty kilometers away and then moved towards this side?"
"Hey..." Xu Ying opened her eyes wide and looked at Wang Lei, then lowered her head and whispered to herself, "So you really don't know... Ah!"
Her head was flicked by Xu Xin, and she immediately glared at Xu Xin: "Why did you flick me? It's obviously you who are stupid, sister-in-law, look at him!"
"Well, Yingying, you're wrong this time." Li Wenxi pinched her face hard.
"Woo woo..."
"Let's get back to the topic." Xu Xin clapped his hands.
"Now it is basically certain that the person who attacked me should not be the one you three met." Xu Xin said to Lou Feier and the other two.
Xu Ying started to complain again: "I have long thought that it is not the case. It is impossible for civilian personnel to have such a sniper rifle. It is good to have a small gun for self-defense...ah!"
She covered her forehead which was flicked again and glared at Xu Xin fiercely.
"Why didn't you say it earlier?" Xu Xin rolled his eyes, and then he became worried again.
Since that person was not the survivor that Lou Feier and the other two met, who could it be
"Is it... the order maintainer?" Ji Chaoyang looked at Xu Ying who was rubbing her forehead and asked.
"Of course, only the Order Maintainers have this kind of thing." Xu Ying said as a matter of course, "That's why I told you to be careful. The Order Maintainers have obviously been targeting you. Well, it would be strange if they didn't target you. You are their biggest trouble in the past thousand years."
Is that so…
Um…
Xu Xin suddenly remembered something, something he almost overlooked.
"Yingying, you said that the other party can no longer teleport to our area, right?" Xu Xin asked.
"Yeah, what's the problem?"
"Then... can it be teleported out?" Xu Xin asked.
"Of course not." Xu Ying said.
"Then..." Xu Xin looked at Shi Wanyun, "Shi Wanyun was able to be teleported out because she is one of us?"
"Of course, we have given her the authority to enter and exit the World Tree at will." Xu Ying looked at Shi Wanyun, "It is normal for her to be able to teleport with the teleportation device."
… Then how did the red dot that he had seen before and that suddenly disappeared on the map in his mind disappear
Wasn't it teleported away
etc…
Xu Ying said that people with time and space abilities can still teleport...
Besides her, who else has the ability of time and space