"Oh? Can we go back now?"
After Xu Xin and Xu Ying informed everyone of the situation over there, they immediately chose to return.
Compared to here, the World Tree where time flows a hundred times faster is more suitable for them now.
Moreover, Li Wenxi and his group had already explained their actions there to Ji Chaoyang and his group.
Everyone agreed that even if the alien invaders still had a certain amount of power and still wanted to attack the World Tree, it was unlikely that they would come again, at least in the short term.
And this short term may be a few days, weeks, or even months.
But even the shortest few days are enough for them to develop in the World Tree for a year or two.
Therefore, if you can go back, go back as soon as possible. This is their assessment of the current situation.
Anyway, there is a way out, we can retreat to this world tree on the sea.
The explorers passed through the coordinate portal and came to the world tree.
The situation around the World Tree also surprised them a little.
"Haven't you gone in to check the situation yet?" Ji Chaoyang asked.
Xu Xin shook his head: "No."
He was brought here by Xu Ying to set the coordinates, and since Xu Ying could not enter the World Tree, he did not go in to check it out himself.
Ji Chaoyang glanced at Xu Ying, then said, "Then I'll go in first to see the situation and see if the hundred-fold time flow rate has been changed."
He reached out and touched a thick root of the World Tree that penetrated vertically into the ground.
They will enter the World Tree through this root.
"Well... my authority is still there. It seems that this world tree is not completely new." Ji Chaoyang said.
His authority to enter and exit the World Tree and control the World Tree was granted to him by Xu Xin and Xu Ying, the two real owners of the World Tree.
He originally thought that after the World Tree was destroyed and reborn, his authority would need to be re-granted.
I didn't expect it was not necessary.
"That's natural."
Xu Ying said behind him.
"The weapons that the alien invaders used against the World Tree only made the trunk and crown of the World Tree above ground wither. It is impossible for them to destroy the most important part of the World Tree, the World Tree root system that spread over hundreds of kilometers in radius."
"As long as the roots are still there, this World Tree will still be the original World Tree. The authority we have granted you will naturally not be changed."
Ji Chaoyang nodded: "That's the best. I don't need to bother you to grant the permission again."
As he spoke, the hand that was touching the roots merged into them.
Half of the body was inserted into it.
Xu Ying, who was behind him, was startled when she saw this and subconsciously took two steps back.
Then he bumped into Li Wenxi behind him.
Ji Chaoyang paused for a moment, turned his head to look at her, and then entered the roots of the World Tree.
"Haha, we can finally go back to our own World Tree!"
"Hurry, hurry, I want to go in and sleep for a day and a night! It's only been a few minutes outside anyway."
Behind him, Wang Lei, Ma Hongwei and others followed closely, and couldn't wait to enter the World Tree.
"Yingying, you really have already..."
Li Wenxi reached out and supported Xu Ying's body, saying with some concern.
After Xu Ying bumped into Li Wenxi, she was still a little weak and almost fell down.
If Li Wenxi hadn't held her up, she might have really fallen down.
This made Li Wenxi truly aware of her current situation.
"Hmm..."
Coco lay on Xu Xin's shoulder and blinked at Xu Ying.
"I… "
Xu Ying quickly stood up and subconsciously glanced at Coco.
"Bing!"
Coco shrank her head and jumped directly onto Xu Xin's back. She grabbed Xu Xin's shoulders with her two claws and showed half of her head to look at Xu Ying.
Sure enough, it was scared again.
"Alas, I really can't hide it from you." Xu Ying said helplessly, "But, don't worry too much for now."
Ji Chaoyang and others have entered the World Tree one after another.
In addition to Xu Xin, Xu Ying and Li Wenxi, Lou Feier, Jin Yue and Shi Wanyun also stayed.
"You guys should go into the World Tree and take a look at the situation first." Xu Xin said to them, "I... need to go talk to some giant beasts first."
He can communicate with the giant beasts by reading their thoughts.
These behemoths should have been within the Crystal City all along, so they most likely witnessed the scene after the World Tree was destroyed.
Maybe you can learn something by chatting with them.
"I won't go in, I'll stay with you."
Li Wenxi said.
Needless to say, Xu Ying cannot enter and exit the World Tree at will now.
Even if she is one of the two true owners of this world tree.
"Then I'll go with you. What's the use of me going in?" Lou Feier waved her hand.
Jin Yue said nothing and didn't move.
"Then me too!"
Zeng Tao's arm had already reached into the roots of the World Tree. Seeing this, he immediately withdrew his arm and jogged back.
"No, you don't have to follow me."
Xu Xin waved his hand.
Then he turned to look at Shi Wanyun and said, "You guys, go up and check the situation first. If there is no problem, go back to the World Tree on the sea and bring them back."
Shi Wanyun is the owner of the World Tree, and Lou Feier was previously responsible for managing personnel order, so they would be more suitable to do this.
"Oh, and you can ask them if they want to come back. If they want to stay there, that's fine too."
Not everyone likes time to flow a hundred times faster.
There were people who liked to live outside before them.
However, the situation has not yet settled down. If they still want to live outside the World Tree, they might as well just stay there.
Shi Wanyun nodded gently: "Okay, I understand."
"Okay then..." Although Lou Feier was somewhat reluctant, she still nodded.
"Ah? Am I coming too?" Zeng Tao pointed at herself, then stepped back with a wry smile, "Uh... That's enough for you guys, right? Why don't I go take a rest..."
"Don't run!" Lou Feier grabbed her, "Come with us!"
"Wow... I'm so tired! I want to rest!"
"Why are you tired? We are all equally tired!"
At this moment, the roots of the World Tree in front of them began to deform.
Zhao Xiaochuan crawled out from inside.
"Brother Xin, how long have we been in there?"
"About one minute." Xu Xin looked at the time and said.
"Well, that's no problem." Zhao Xiaochuan confirmed, "I've been in there for more than an hour."
It seems that this new world tree has not changed much.
"Brother Xin, why don't you go in?" Zhao Xiaochuan asked puzzledly.
"I'm going to communicate with those giant beasts." Xu Xin explained, and then asked, "So, there are no changes in there?"
"There must have been changes," Zhao Xiaochuan said with regret, "The tall buildings inside, as well as the vegetation we planted, have all disappeared. However, there is a little surprise, the tree houses we planted in the World Tree are still inside!"
Is the tree house still there
Xu Xin's eyes lit up.
Each of these survivors’ tree houses is a processing plant!
Previously, most of them were planted inside the World Tree, and only twenty or thirty trees were left outside the World Tree.
He originally thought that those tree houses might have disappeared along with the withering of the World Tree.
But I didn’t expect that there is still one
This is indeed a big surprise.
Those tree houses are their original possessions!
"It should be because the tree house planted in the World Tree is equivalent to the World Tree's 'parasitic tree house', right?"
Li Wenxi speculated: "The characteristic of the parasitic tree house is that as long as the main tree house is not dead, the parasitic tree house can be resurrected at will."
"Brother Chaoyang also speculated so." Zhao Xiaochuan nodded, "Although the tree house is still there, all the items in the tree house are gone. All the tree houses are empty. Oh, by the way, Brother Ji Chaoyang and the others went underground. They said they wanted to look around and see if there is any potential crisis."
"Um... that is to say, our equipment..." Zeng Tao asked tentatively.
"Well, it's all gone."
"Ah..." Zeng Tao rolled her eyes and lamented, "Those automated devices were created with my hard work..."
"Did you create all of this?" Xu Xin glanced at her.
"At least half of it is!" She puffed out her chest and then said with a bit of disappointment, "But it's all gone... Oh, I don't think I'll have to go through it all again. I finally managed to automate all the weapon manufacturing..."
Then she shook her head and said, "Forget it, never mind, let Ma Hongwei do it all!"
"Uh..." Zhao Xiaochuan was a little confused, "Then I'll go back first. Brother Xin, it feels like a waste of time to chat outside like this. You guys should come in soon."
As he said that, he waved to a few people and went back in.
"Since we've confirmed there's no problem, then we won't go in." Shi Wanyun said to the girls, "Let's go and bring those people back."
They left through the teleportation array.
Xu Xin also brought Li Wenxi and Xu Ying to a giant beast.
A giant deer is currently sleeping.
The snoring was like thunder.
"Ah, he fell asleep." Li Wenxi looked up at the giant deer's terrifying antlers that were nearly ten meters long.
"Hey, big guy!" Xu Ying shouted at it.
“——”
The giant deer's head moved and its eyes slowly opened.
Xu Xin began to communicate with it.
Communication is very simple, because the IQ of such a giant beast is not inferior to that of humans.
He soon learned the information he wanted to know from the giant beast's inner voice.
"All the chariots surrounded the World Tree and injected the potion that destroyed the World Tree into the trunk of the World Tree."
"Then, the speed at which the World Tree withered accelerated. Within two minutes, the leaves on the entire World Tree's crown turned completely yellow and fell off. The World Tree became a giant bare tree."
"At the same time, cracks began to appear on the body of the World Tree and gradually expanded, becoming like pottery that was about to crack."
"Finally, in just five minutes, the entire World Tree collapsed. It didn't collapse like one side, but like a building being blown up, the whole thing shattered and instantly collapsed into dust all over the sky. Then it floated away with the wind."
Xu Xin squatted on the ground, gently pinching the dust on the ground with his fingers, and at the same time explained the final situation of the World Tree to Li Wenxi and Xu Ying.
Um…
It's not all dust.
It has a very dry sawdust feel.
"That is to say, we are now standing on the same World Tree as before."
Li Wenxi stepped on the dry fallen leaves on the ground a few times, making a "crunching" sound.
"It actually turned into crumbs directly, this is really amazing..." Xu Ying muttered softly.
Xu Xin was not surprised: "Just like we speculated before, those chariots should be the last resort of the alien invaders' leader to attack the World Tree. It is normal for them to have a stronger degree of destruction on the World Tree."
"That's true... Then what?" Li Wenxi asked curiously, "What happened then? Where did those chariots go? Did they leave?"
She looked around.
The surrounding jungle had long been destroyed, turning into a large, slightly undulating plain.
Able to see far away.
But there were no chariots.
You know, it has only been an hour since the World Tree was destroyed. According to the speed of the chariot itself, it should not have run too far.
"Those chariots..."
According to the behemoth, after the World Tree completely withered, a purple-black light appeared under the car.
Then, accompanied by the blooming of purple-black light, all the chariots disappeared on the spot.
"Ah... In other words, after completing the task of withering the World Tree, those chariots were teleported away directly?" Li Wenxi asked in surprise, "After the World Tree withered, they left immediately?"
"Yes, they left immediately." Xu Xin nodded, "Without any hesitation, they left even before the World Tree debris in the sky had completely dispersed."
Teleport away.
"After destroying the World Tree, will we just teleport away..." Xu Ying whispered to herself.
Under normal circumstances, space teleportation is restricted around the World Tree.
But after the chariot destroyed the entire ground part of the world tree, the remaining world tree roots will use energy mainly to repair the ground part.
So at this time, teleportation is not restricted.
"And the reason why those chariots are moving so fast is probably because if the ground part of the World Tree is restored, their transmission will be restricted again."
"They must leave before the World Tree fully recovers."
Xu Xin nodded.
What Xu Ying said does make sense.
"But... it seems that these tanks are probably completely automatic." Xu Ying raised her head and thought for a moment, "They may... simply be automatic machines running according to automatic programs."
"The giant ships were destroyed. They were activated for some reason and then attacked our World Tree. They have only one mission, which is to destroy our World Tree."
"And after they succeed, they teleport back automatically."
"As for their ability to teleport, that's normal. After all, their speed is too slow. If they return at the same speed after completing their mission, it would be a waste of time."
"They use teleportation to return automatically, which makes sense."
This reasoning makes some sense.
"But if they are returning, where are they returning to?" Li Wenxi pondered, "Could it be... returning to the alien invaders' lair? But we have never seen that..."
"If they are returning to the alien invaders' lair, these military facilities should return directly to the town surrounding the teleportation formation."
Xu Xin thought for a moment and said.
"The World Tree was destroyed an hour ago, before we fired the main guns of the giant ship. If these tanks had returned at that time, it is very likely that... they had been destroyed by us."
"Oh!" Xu Ying clapped her hands and laughed, "That's perfect, isn't it? What we are most afraid of now are those tanks, right? As long as they don't come back..."
"It's just a possibility." Xu Xin corrected, "And my personal opinion is that those chariots did not return to the alien invaders' lair."
Li Wenxi opened his eyes: "You mean..."
She turned her head and looked in the direction of the wreckage of the three giant warships of the alien invaders.
"That's right, these chariots came out from the giant ship. If they want to return, they should return to the giant ship." Xu Xin nodded.
“But the giant ship has been destroyed, and only the wreckage is left?” Li Wenxi thought it unlikely.
Xu Ying pondered: "It is possible that part of the interior of the giant ship was not destroyed. The fact that these tanks are still intact is evidence."
"That means..."
The three of them looked in the direction where the giant ship crashed at the same time.
Over there, there might be a chariot army with giant ships that could push down this world tree!
Moreover, perhaps at some unknown time, they will set out to attack us again!
"We definitely can't let these tanks get so close to us!" Li Wenxi bit her lip and said worriedly, "This is too close!"
More than a hundred kilometers, even for those extremely slow tanks, it would only take a few hours to travel.
And they had absolutely no way of stopping the chariots from advancing.
"Maybe we should go over there and take a look." Xu Xin said.
A map appeared in Xu Xin's mind.
It’s a pity that the distance over there is too far, more than a hundred kilometers to the east.
He hadn't been there yet, so the map didn't show what was going on there.
"Ah? Now? Let's not go now..." Li Wenxi hesitated, "Our nuclear strikes over there are too intensive, and the radiation over there..."
Xu Ying also felt that it was inappropriate: "Besides, what's the point of going there? We can't... ah, can we... teleport those chariots away?"
Her eyes lit up.
"How to teleport away?" Xu Xin asked.
"The alien invaders' teleportation device."
Xu Ying pointed to the crystal house where Xu Xin placed the coordinates.
"Your coordinates definitely won't work, but the teleporter will."
"Why don't we draw teleportation patterns under those chariots and teleport them directly to a very far place? With their speed, even a little distance would be an insurmountable obstacle for them."
"It would be better to have a sea between them, so they can't get over here!" Li Wenxi took over the conversation.
"You guys are really thinking too far ahead." Xu Xin laughed, "I'm just a little worried. I'm not sure they are over there yet."
"Hmm... why not go check it out. The more I think about it, the more uneasy I feel."
Xu Ying said as she grabbed the two men's arms.
Then Xu Xin hit him on the head with a bang.
"It hurts! What are you doing! Ah..."
Xu Ying reacted immediately.
Her action just now was to teleport with the two of them.
There's nothing she can do about it, she's really used to it.
Just like for a person who walks frequently, if he wants to go to a certain place in front of him, he just needs to take a step.
Suddenly losing her "legs" made her feel a little at a loss.
"Hmm... I'm really not used to it..." Xu Ying muttered.
“Do we really want to go there? The radiation over there…” Li Wenxi asked with some concern.
"It's not a big problem." Xu Ying said, "I experienced the radiation from the explosion just a few minutes ago. As long as I have Sister Xuefei's pills, I will be able to recover."
"… If I have to go, I'd better go alone." Xu Xin said, "I'm just going to go over there to confirm the situation. There's no need for all three of us to take risks. If there's a problem over there, I'll just set up a coordinate there and return, connect the two places, and then consider the follow-up situation."
"Is it really okay? Otherwise, let's wait until tomorrow." Li Wenxi suggested, "At least Ji Chaoyang's prophecy tells us that we will be fine until tomorrow."
"Yeah, okay." Xu Xin nodded slightly.
At this moment, the sound of a portal condensing could be heard from the crystal house nearby.
Afterwards, a large number of people walked out of the crystal house one after another.
Shi Wanyun, Lou Feier and the others came back with their people.
These people were sent into the World Tree one after another.
And Ji Chaoyang also came out at this time.
"Why haven't you guys gone in yet?" He walked up to Xu Xin and said.
He was in good spirits at the moment, and looked like he had... had a good rest.
Although he had only been inside for a dozen minutes, he had spent a lot of time in the World Tree.
Without waiting for Xu Xin to speak, he said, "We have almost prepared everything inside. It won't be a problem for those 10,000 people to move back now."
"You guys are really quick." Xu Xin said with a smile.
"No, it's because we have more time. So, you have been outside all this time..."
Xu Xin told him their previous guess.
"Is that so..." Ji Chaoyang pondered for a moment, then raised his head and said, "Then I really have to get rid of you in this matter."
The only one who could go to investigate was Xu Xin.
Because only he can place the coordinates.
"Well, I'll go there now. You guys...just try to rebuild your home first."
"Okay, leave this to us."
Ji Chaoyang went back.
"Then... the lair of the alien invaders..." Xu Ying asked.
"Once we have determined the situation here, we will go over and take a look." Xu Xin said, "You can rest here for a while."
He pointed to the dozens of tree houses around the World Tree and said, "You can go to those tree houses to rest for a while. I'll be back soon."