The monster just stood there without moving.
All the guns in the venue were pointed at it, and all the mechanical jellyfish in the venue were staring at this half-human, half-invader monster.
The scene froze for a moment.
"How did it dodge so many shells? It wasn't wearing any protective clothing..."
Zeng Tao looked at the monster curiously and asked in a low voice. She didn't have much contact with monsters, and the number of times she met them could be counted on one hand.
"I'm not sure." Xu Ying was also a little puzzled. "Maybe he was teleported away and then teleported back?"
In the entire space, thick red fog spread from one side where it was released to the other.
The spreading speed was not fast, but the fog was so thick that one could not see anything one meter away, which was a bit scary.
But in the end, the thick fog spread to the location of the scarlet crystal in the center of the entire underground space.
And a few seconds after the scarlet crystal came into contact with the thick fog, its light began to gradually become brighter!
The red light, which was already almost impossible to look directly at and was dazzling even with sunglasses on, now acted like a red flash bomb, causing Xu Xin and the others to squint their eyes instantly.
"This... Is this the result of the red mist and scarlet crystal appearing at the same time?" Wen Guixin said, covering her eyes with her hands.
The red mist seemed to become thicker and scarlet at this moment, and the speed of its spread suddenly increased a lot.
In just a few seconds, the thick red fog had spread to the location where Xu Xin and the others were.
In an instant, all of them were enveloped in red mist.
At this moment, Xu Xin and his companions could only see human figures within one meter. The turrets, mechanical jellyfish, and monsters on the ground were no longer visible.
It was obscured by a thick red fog.
The scarlet crystal under their feet suddenly lit up after the thick red mist spread.
Then, everyone felt a strong discomfort!
I felt dizzy and had a splitting headache, as if something was about to burst out of my head!
The transparent film they were wearing was useless?!
"Hiss!" Zhao Xiaochuan immediately covered his head.
"Oh, damn it!" Wang Lei's body swayed, and his nearly two-meter-tall body almost fell to the ground.
"The things I'm wearing can't block it!" Wen Guixin said with her hands covering her head and gritting her teeth.
“Head...headache...! Ah! Don’t fall down!” Zeng Tao supported Lou Feier, whose body was a little limp, but she almost fell down, and Jin Yue beside her was also shaking a little.
Faint blood-red stripes seemed to appear on the faces of the three people covered in red mist!
The blood lines and blood vessels in their bodies are showing signs of awakening again!
"Hmm..." Li Wenxi leaned on Xu Xin.
"Should we go out and hide..." Qin Fu felt dizzy and wanted to sit down, but when he thought of the culprit emitting scarlet light under his feet, he forced himself to speak.
He had also experienced blood vein mutation and was in very bad condition.
At this time, Xu Ying grabbed the arms of the two men.
The situation is very complicated now, she wants to get the person out!
"Bing!" Coco suddenly poked her little head out from the Hider cloak, "Bing! Bing!"
Its little paws waved, causing the transparent film that Xu Xin was wearing to wrinkle.
Xu Xin immediately understood what it meant and grabbed Xu Ying's hand: "Wait a minute!"
Then he said to the others: "Everyone, put on all three films!"
Although everyone had splitting headaches, they were still able to hear the words clearly. They quickly took out their two remaining transparent films and put them on.
"Everyone, cover your mouth and nose, let's go down." Xu Xin took the lead and ran towards the edge of the scarlet crystal.
Although the red fog obscured everything, the extremely bright scarlet crystal still allowed for a clear view.
However, thanks to the thick red fog, a portion of the scarlet crystal's light was blocked, so that the light that passed through the red fog was almost the same as the previous scarlet crystal light.
Everyone jumped off the scarlet crystal.
Then, their headaches gradually faded away.
"Huh? It's really gotten a lot better!" Zeng Tao rubbed his head and whispered happily.
"Huh..." Lou Feier stood firm, and said with some fear, "I was just so furious that I almost wanted to attack you..."
"I have the same feeling." Jin Yue whispered.
"Is it the bloodthirsty nature of a low- to mid-level mutant creature?" Qin Fu had already returned to normal. "Luckily, if it was a dozen seconds later, I would have lost control of myself."
"So why did we come down?" Wang Lei looked around, "The red fog here is also very thick."
"We are covered with a transparent film. When we stepped on it just now, the light of the scarlet crystal would shine on us through the gap below." Xu Xin explained, "Now the light of the scarlet crystal has increased, and we can't bear it."
They had almost all wrapped their legs and feet with this transparent film, but there were still gaps.
But if the light of the scarlet crystal only shines from two sides, plus three layers of protection, there will be no problem.
It’s a pity that this transparent film is breathable and cannot block the red mist.
"Then we can't go up? Then the hole I cut on top..." Zhao Xiaochuan raised the cutter in his hand, "Was it cut in vain?"
Xu Xin counted the remaining transparent films in his backpack and found that they were enough, so he gave each person another layer: "If you want to go up again, just put this layer on your legs."
This is also the simplest and most effective method.
It may slightly affect the action.
Li Wenxi rubbed his temple and looked around.
Although her vision was blocked by the red fog, she still had the ability to sense the surrounding turrets and mechanical jellyfish.
"What's going on, sister-in-law?" Xu Ying asked, "Are there any major movements from the machines around here?"
Li Wenxi looked around: "No, these around... Oh, those pipes releasing the red mist have retracted!"
Li Wenxi looked at the second opened wall and said, "It should not be releasing red mist anymore... Hmm? Why can't I sense it?"
She murmured, then opened her eyes and said in understanding, "I see. My ability can no longer sense anything after the World Tree's roots blocked it! In other words, the World Tree's root wall has entangled itself again."
She was unable to observe the metal structure obscured by the roots of the World Tree. She only discovered this after she came to this underground space.
Otherwise, she would have discovered the huge machine behind the root wall long ago.
"Over there?" Xu Xin pointed to where the monster was.
Li Wenxi shook his head: "That side is not closed. It is still open. Moreover, there are still a large number of small mechanical jellyfish surrounding the cave entrance."
Xu Xin and the others frowned.
The monster said it was responsible for leading away these mechanical jellyfish. The stalemate has lasted for several minutes, and there is no action yet
"Ah! There's movement!" Li Wenxi suddenly exclaimed softly, "It's moving, those little mechanical jellyfish are moving! Eh...?"
Li Wenxi exclaimed in surprise: "Why, are they all flying upwards?"
Flying up
Then, Xu Xin and his companions heard continuous "clicking" sounds coming from the entrance of the core of the World Tree above.
"That closed passage... is open again?"
“Yes!” Li Wenxi looked up, “They’ve gone in! Those little mechanical jellyfish… are lining up to go out from that entrance!”
Everyone looked at each other in bewilderment in the thick red fog.
What is going on
Why did you suddenly start going out
"That guy started to act!" Wen Guixin clapped her hands lightly and said happily, "Ha, I knew it would work!"
"But... how did they do that?" Li Wenxi hesitated. "Those little mechanical jellyfish are now flying out! Not a single one wants to stay? Are they just going to ignore this place?"
"No one stayed?"
Everyone was surprised and suddenly overjoyed.
Isn’t that perfect
All the mechanical jellyfish left, and there was no trace of their surveillance at all.
This is simply too good for them!
"But how did it do it? All left?" Zhao Xiaochuan asked puzzledly.
"I'm not sure, but our current situation doesn't allow us to spend time figuring this out." Wen Guixin said, "We should do what we should do."
"It really does what it says." Xu Xin breathed a sigh of relief, and then said, "Indeed, since it has completed its mission, then we should also complete ours."
As he spoke, he looked along the edge of the scarlet crystal.
The three alien invaders were just at the edge of the scarlet crystal.
If they were still in their previous positions, even though the red mist was now so thick that they couldn't see anything, they could find them by just walking along the edge of the scarlet crystal.
"Let's go." Xu Xin began to walk along the edge.
Because the visible distance was less than one meter, he didn't walk fast.
But despite this, he almost stepped on an alien invader lying on the ground.
"Wow, what's going on?!" Zeng Tao exclaimed in a low voice.
“This alien invader is lying down?” Wang Lei stared with wide eyes at the… “first layer” of alien invaders lying limply on the ground.
Yes, it was probably... a layer less than twenty centimeters thick, soft and flat, with the eyes on it tightly closed, and red stripes like engorged blood vessels protruding on their bodies.
"Have these alien invaders also experienced blood pattern mutation?" Xu Ying said to herself.
Before, at another world tree, Xu Yin and his friends had already seen a demented and violent alien invader with bloodstains on his body. They did not expect to see an unconscious alien invader with bloodstains here.
Perhaps it was because the light of the scarlet crystal was too strong, and these alien invaders were only protected by a layer of transparent film, and they had been working here for a long time, so the disposable transparent film had almost lost its effectiveness.
Therefore, under the illumination of the extremely fierce scarlet light, these alien invaders had to endure the extremely strong scarlet light without any protection, and also inhaled the thick red fog.
That’s what led to its current appearance.
Xu Xin had already squatted down and started to feel around it.
They need the cutter in its hand!
"Here." Li Wenxi whispered, and then walked into the red mist away from the scarlet crystal.
A few seconds later he came back with the cutter in his hand.
"The cutter must have rolled over after the alien invader fell to the ground." Li Wenxi whispered, and then handed the cutter to Xu Xin.
Xu Xin looked at it himself and then used his identification ability to identify it again.
"It seems... exactly the same as the cutter we used before?" He was puzzled. "Then why was this guy cutting so slowly just now?"
"Is it possible that the small pieces cut directly from this large concentrated scarlet crystal have the highest energy content?" Xu Ying proposed her own conjecture, "If you cut a large piece first and then divide it into small pieces like Zhao Xiaochuan did, there will be energy loss."
Zhao Xiaochuan suddenly realized what was going on when he heard this: "Come to think of it, every time I cut a piece, I can feel the heat coming towards me. The cut crystal will suddenly heat up and become very hot. Is this the loss of energy?"
It seems that it is really possible.
"That's great." Xu Xin looked at the cutter in his hand and said, "Let's go find other tools."
The group took a few more steps forward and saw two more alien invaders.
The two of them fell together, one covering the other, covering half of the other's body.
"Wenxi, there should be two more cutters here." Xu Xin said to Li Wenxi.
"Well, one is here." Li Wenxi walked to the side and picked up one. Then she looked at the two alien invaders lying limply together, "The other one..."
She pointed at the two alien invaders: "Between the two of them is..."
"Then lift it up!" Wang Lei said, and was about to kick one of them away.
"Don't do it yet!"
"Hey, wait a minute!"
“Don’t kick!”
Everyone stopped Wang Lei immediately.
"Ah?" Wang Lei was a little confused. "What's wrong?"
"Why are you in such a hurry?" Wen Guixin rolled her eyes. "What if you kick it awake and it calls those little mechanical jellyfish over?"
"Ah, this..."
"Let me infect these two first." Wen Guixin squatted down and put her hands on the two of them. At the same time, she turned back to look at the one she had just infected. "After I infect these two, I'll go and infect the other one as well."
This is indeed the most worry-free method.
Moreover, these controlled alien invaders can serve as laborers for them for a period of time.
Li Wenxi raised his head and looked upwards: "Well, those little mechanical jellyfish have really left, and..."
She looked around the scarlet crystal, pursed her lips, and her eyes were full of confusion: "Why are those turrets... retracted?"
"Huh? The turret has retracted?" Zhao Xiaochuan wondered, "Is this true? Is there no protection in here at all?"
"Perhaps they think that the red mist and the super brightness of this scarlet crystal are enough?" Xu Ying guessed.
"It's possible." Lou Feier touched her face, which had lost all the blood streaks. "We are wearing three layers of protection. The light of the scarlet crystal has no effect on us. We have also been injected with gene mutation drugs to make the red fog ineffective against us. They probably can't imagine that we have such a coincidental protection, right?"
"Then our luck is really good, hehe!" Zeng Tao said with a curved eye.
"Even so, we can't be careless." Xu Xin reminded, "We may not be able to stay in this environment for a long time. If you feel uncomfortable, let us know immediately."
At this time, Wen Guixin stood up from the ground.
At the same time, the two alien invaders slowly condensed into shape from the ground.
"Their spirits have almost collapsed." Wen Guixin said, "It's very easy to be infected. Moreover, they have been damaged by this red light. The speed at which the red light damages their nervous system has exceeded their self-healing speed. Therefore, they can no longer expel my toxins. I can control them for a long time, and several hours is probably not a problem."
oh
Xu Xin's eyes lit up.
That’s great!
"Won't they die if they are constantly illuminated by the scarlet crystal?" Xu Ying asked.
Wen Guixin shook her head: "Not for now. Although the speed of destruction exceeds the speed of self-healing, it is not much faster. In this environment, it should not be a problem for them to survive in a coma for a few days. However, they can only live for a few more hours under my control."
No wonder there is red fog directly below.
Before, Xu Xin thought that their strategy was too cruel to the three workers, but now it seems that it is not that cruel.
But when they come, things get brutal.
"Then use them as laborers!" he said immediately. "That way, even if the mechanical jellyfish come back and find that they are still working, they won't think it's a problem."
"I thought so too." Wen Guixin had already walked to the first alien invader lying on the ground and placed her hand on it. "I'll try to control it for a little longer."
"But there are only three of them. So I have to use the cutter, right?" Zhao Xiaochuan raised the cutter in his hand, then looked at Xu Ying, "Sister Yingying, take me up, I will continue cutting."
Zhao Xiaochuan has already put the fourth film on his feet.
"Okay." Xu Ying grabbed Zhao Xiaochuan's arm, and the two immediately disappeared from the spot.
Xu Xin looked at the alien invader who had opened his eyes fully and was standing there in a daze.
Their luck is really good.
"Hmm..."
At this time, Coco poked half of her head out of Xu Xin's arms again, looked up at Xu Xin, and her little ears moved.