The crown of the World Tree in the distance quickly changed from lush green to withered yellow.
Within a minute, the entire World Tree turned extremely withered and yellow.
Then, the leaves began to fall.
Xu Xin and his team are still more than ten kilometers away from the World Tree, which is still quite far.
But among the vast expanse of yellow sand, the three emerald green world trees are the most eye-catching.
The change of the World Tree at this moment immediately caught their attention.
"That world tree must be the one we blew up!" Zeng Tao said, tiptoeing and looking over there with eyes wide open.
"It's that tree." Xu Ying nodded very confidently.
"That world tree... is about to wither?" Li Wenxi was also a little stunned.
That is the most important world tree for the alien invaders!
If that world tree withers and is destroyed, then...
The World Tree withered very quickly.
In just the minute they were discussing in disbelief, the withered yellow leaves on the crown of the World Tree had already fallen in large areas.
The World Tree began to become bare.
A giant wooden structure resembling a tree house was revealed.
Then, the entire World Tree began to collapse!
A huge crack stretched from the top of the World Tree to the bottom.
It was very conspicuous. Even Xu Xin and his friends who were more than ten kilometers away from the World Tree could see it clearly.
"The World Tree has cracked!" Zhao Xiaochuan's eyes almost popped out, "Holy crap! It actually cracked!"
Following his cry of surprise, the entire World Tree in the distance instantly cracked apart!
Just like it was split by an axe from above, the two halves, left and right, began to fall to the sides!
And during the dumping process, the fragmentation process continues.
Countless fine cracks began to appear on the trunk of the World Tree and the tree house structure, and then more and more cracks appeared!
Because the World Tree that was split into two halves and fell to the sides did not actually hit the ground, it had already disintegrated.
Not only did it disintegrate, the entire World Tree turned into sawdust all over the sky the moment it completely split apart!
Along with the falling leaves, the area around the destroyed World Tree looked like a scene after a sandstorm had risen and then gradually subsided.
“Really…really ruined…?”
Everyone couldn't help but feel a little dreamy.
That is the most important world tree for the alien invaders!
"Fuck..." Zhao Xiaochuan cursed again, "What's going on? Is the situation so chaotic here with the alien invaders?"
"I feel like we don't need to go and see..." Li Wenxi murmured, "They seem to be finished..."
"This civil strife is really interesting." Xu Xin muttered to himself, and then said to the others, "Let's go and take a look. We must be careful."
For some reason, there were densely packed "landmines" along the way.
They need to proceed with caution.
Lou Feier walked in front, exploring the way under the command of Li Wenxi.
A group of people followed behind her, treading on the path she had walked.
The journey was calm and nothing happened.
Apart from…
"Ah, the sapling of the World Tree has grown!"
“It grows really fast!”
…
"Oh my god, this world tree is growing faster than the previous one!"
"This... It's only been ten minutes? How come it's almost taking shape!"
“Boo! Boo!”
…
"This is... already grown, right?"
"Let me see... Hiss, less than twenty minutes have passed!"
Everyone paid close attention to the World Tree in front of them that was destroyed and then grew again.
In just over ten minutes, the entire World Tree had returned to its original appearance.
It can even be said that the new world tree has already grown before the wood chips floating in the air have completely fallen.
"Two world trees have already withered..." Zeng Tao stared at the world tree that had not withered, "Hey, do you think this third tree will wither soon?"
"Fei'er, turn left 30 degrees and keep going." Li Wenxi reminded Lou Fei'er from behind.
"good."
"Is there a possibility that the World Tree has actually withered?"
Zhao Xiaochuan looked at the World Tree and said.
"From what I've observed, that World Tree seems to be much smaller than when we came here before, and its leaves are obviously much greener!"
"That's indeed the feeling." Xu Xin nodded.
The newly born world tree is much smaller than the previous world tree.
After all, the original world tree has been growing for nearly a thousand years.
Moreover, the color of the crown leaves of the old world tree is indeed closer to dark green, while the new ones are emerald green.
This can be clearly seen from the main world tree that was destroyed and reborn before their eyes.
There is indeed a color difference between the crown of this world tree before it was destroyed and after it was reborn.
Now, the crowns of these three world trees are similar in color, all of which are new tender emerald green, rather than dark green.
"That means that the three world trees in front of us now have actually been replaced." Li Wenxi said as he watched Lou Feier's actions.
"The things in there must be gone, right?" Zeng Tao kicked the sand and said, "After our world tree was destroyed, weren't the things inside completely gone? Only the tree houses that can be reborn are left..."
"Not necessarily." Xu Ying shook her head. "The time and space inside our world tree is quite special, so when our world tree was destroyed, everything inside was destroyed, but this is not necessarily the case here."
"However, when the World Tree was completely shattered just now, I didn't see anything falling from it. Did you see it?"
Xu Xin looked at the three world trees and said.
It's windy.
Under the influence of the wind, the crowns of the three world trees began to sway in the wind.
"No." Several people shook their heads.
"It seems like everything has turned into powder." Lou Feier, who was walking five meters ahead, turned around and said, "Besides the powder, there are only the fallen leaves that haven't completely fallen to the ground. I don't see anything else."
The scene just now was spectacular.
The entire World Tree was "cracked" in half and crumbled into powder as it fell to the sides.
During this time, everyone was staring at that place with wide eyes, so if anything else fell, it would definitely be noticed.
But it didn’t.
"It seems that the things in the World Tree have probably turned into powder along with the World Tree." Xu Xin concluded.
"Wow... If there is still someone in there, then wouldn't it be just..." Zeng Tao shrank her neck and said.
"If that's true, then I think this might be their purpose in destroying the World Tree." Xu Ying looked at the three World Trees with their crowns swaying in the wind and said, "To eliminate the roots?"
That's actually possible.
"Anyway, we'll know once we get there. Let's speed up our pace," said Xu Xin.
At the same time, he turned and looked behind him.
A sandstorm that covered the sky and the sun began.
Behind them was a wall of sandstorm that stretched as far as the eye could see.
Blocking their way back.
It was as if... they had entered a dungeon that prohibited them from leaving until it was completed, so their escape route was blocked.
"Oh shit, let's go, the sandstorm is coming!"
Zhao Xiaochuan also looked back like Xu Xin, and immediately hurriedly reminded everyone!
"Don't worry, the sandstorm shouldn't come." Xu Xin said.
They were now close to the World Tree.
The World Tree has the effect of stabilizing the sand. The closer you are to the World Tree, the closer the ground becomes to soil.
Now the ground under their feet is mostly white soil.
So, they don't have to worry about that at all.
What they need to worry about now is...
"Hey, do you feel that the radiation is getting stronger..."
Lou Feier, who was walking in front, turned around, her brows furrowed, her hands rubbing her temples.
"I'm already feeling a bit sick..."
"Yes, the radiation is obviously stronger now."
Before the World Tree completely grew out, Xu Xin already felt a dull pain in his head.
"Everyone, take out a pot of radioactive grass." Xu Xin said, and took out a pot as well. "If you feel it's inconvenient, just pull the grass out. This grass can still protect against radiation for two hours even if it's pulled out."
Beside him, Xu Ying had already pulled out the grass, then rolled it into a ball and stuffed it into her pocket: "You need to change it once an hour."
"We have studied the efficacy of this grass. It can maintain its ability to absorb radiation for about an hour. After an hour, its efficacy will begin to decline, and it will be completely ineffective after nearly two hours."
Zeng Tao tossed the flower pot in her hand and said, "Well... an hour is long enough, let's just take it down. It's troublesome to hold a flower pot in my hand all the time."
"Besides, if there is a special situation, I won't be able to free my hands." Li Wenxi also imitated Xu Ying and crumpled the radioactive grass into a ball and put it in his pocket.
keep going.
Lou Feier's walking speed and Li Wenxi's command also became much faster.
Most of the factories in the industrial zone have been completely destroyed, leaving only ruins.
However, there is still an intact factory near the World Tree.
However, the doors of these factories are closed.
Xu Xin and his companions had no interest in going in to check.
After all, there are "landmines" everywhere here, and they all want to get out of this area as quickly as possible.
Soon, they passed through the factory.
"Fei'er, turn 30 degrees to the right and go straight for 200 meters, and you will be out of this minefield!"
"Great, we're finally out!"
"Let's go!"
Everyone quickened their pace and quickly walked out of the minefield.
At this time, they were only about one kilometer away from the edge of the new crown of the World Tree.
The three world trees before they withered were larger than the current three. Xu Xin and his team are now only four or five hundred meters away from the crown of the original world tree.
But now, this new world tree is smaller.
"Looking at it from this close, this new world tree really looks a lot smaller." Zeng Tao exclaimed.
"Actually, our tree is also much smaller." Lou Feier said, looking at the three trees.
"Ah? Really?" Zeng Tao was stunned for a moment, "I don't feel anything."
"Of course there is. The previous one was able to cover the entire Crystal City, and now the new one has exposed a circle of the Crystal City." Lou Feier said.
"The internal space of our tree is too big. It doesn't matter whether it is small or not. We can't see it from inside anyway." Zhao Xiaochuan said.
"Speaking of which, if we calculate according to the outside world's time, our tree only continued to grow for four or five days after it matured, right?" Li Wenxi said, "Four or five days is a lot of growth."
"It feels like our world tree is growing according to its internal time."
Xu Xin said, and then stopped everyone's discussion: "We have already entered the enemy's hinterland, let's get nervous!"
As he spoke, he raised his hand and rubbed his ears.
The dull pain started again.
At this time, he had three balls of radioactive grass stuffed in his pockets.
And these three groups have not yet begun to fail.
"Do you think there's something strange here?"
Xu Ying pointed to the flat land.
The ground was covered with fallen leaves from the World Tree, which were blown everywhere by the wind.
A few fallen leaves also scraped onto Xu Xin and the others' bodies and faces.
"Nothing strange?" Zeng Tao looked around. "Except for the fallen leaves all over the ground, it's pretty much the same as when we came here last time, right?"
"Almost... This is the biggest weirdness." Xu Xin shook his head a little uncomfortably.
The radiation here is so strong, why does it look so normal and unchanged
Clearly, this world tree had just withered and collapsed and reborn, but here...
Not a single alien invader
Where have they all gone
"They all... went into the World Tree?"
Xu Xin looked at the world tree in front of him.
This world tree is the main world tree. In the underground space of this world tree, there used to be a complete giant concentrated scarlet crystal.
And just now, this world tree withered and was reborn.
"Yeah, why is there nothing here?" Others also began to feel strange.
"The ground has been repaired." Xu Ying murmured to herself.
Yes, the ground was repaired.
Originally, the root of this main world tree was blasted through by the main gun of the alien invaders' giant ship.
There should be a big hole blasted through the root, through which you can see the root of the World Tree.
And now, the big hole is gone.
Everyone looked towards the location where the teleportation formation was originally located.
There was also a shelling there.
At this time, there was a huge pit.
But this pit is quite different from the previous ones.
This huge pit covers a very large area, almost occupying the entire area surrounded by the three world trees.
But the entire pit is only about ten meters deep.
The entire pit is very flat.
This turned out to be a regular, circular pit!
This is not the pit that Xu Ying blasted with the main gun of the giant ship, but a...
A huge pit built by humans!
and…
"That pattern, look at it, that pattern!"
Li Wenxi's eyes shrank, he grabbed Xu Xin's arm and shook it violently, pointing at the huge pit.
The ground that had been blasted through had been painted with scarlet dye and some scarlet lines, forming a very complex yet regular pattern.
The scarlet pigments were even fluorescent, and even under the sunlight, they could feel that the scarlet lines were emitting a scarlet glow.
The light was even a little dazzling.
It can even compete with the sun in the sky.
"This is a teleportation array pattern, a teleportation array pattern of a large teleportation array!" Zhao Xiaochuan looked carefully at the pattern in the huge pit and said in shock, "The alien invaders actually drew a teleportation array pattern here again!"
"Ah, isn't this similar to the teleportation array we have over there!" Zeng Tao reacted, "The teleportation array next to our tree house shoots out a purple-black beam of light from the center of a pit like this!"
"It's this pit. It's much bigger than our pit." Lou Feier said in amazement, "It seems that this pit didn't exist when we came here last time?"
On the side, Xu Ying's expression became a little ugly.
She gritted her teeth and said, "They are going to rebuild the teleportation array here! And..."
She looked at the teleportation array.
"This thing used to draw the teleportation array is obviously made of scarlet crystal!"
Scarlet, emitting a dazzling scarlet light.
It is indeed the characteristic of concentrated scarlet crystal.
"Since they can use scarlet crystals to draw teleportation arrays, it means that they still have a lot of concentrated scarlet crystals! Otherwise, they should keep the scarlet crystals as the source of life!"
Xu Ying bit her lip and said, "Did our mission... fail?"
Her words made everyone silent for a moment.
… is that so
"No, you succeeded."
At this moment, an extremely hoarse and unpleasant voice suddenly came from behind everyone.
Before everyone could turn around, something extremely shocking suddenly happened before their eyes!
Right in front of them, in the center of the huge pit, an extremely thick purple-black beam of light suddenly rushed up!
Straight into the sky, straight into the universe!
At this moment, the entire sky seemed to darken for a moment!
A purple-black beam of light reaching into the sky appeared before their eyes again!
The teleportation array of the alien invaders' base was restored right before their eyes!
“This… this!”
Xu Ying turned around suddenly and looked at the figure behind her.
Maybe it shouldn't be called a shadow.
Because this guy has only human form, but his whole body is pitch black and covered with eyes.
However, it was much more pleasing to the eye than other alien invaders at this time, because it was wearing human clothes that covered most of its eyes.
It even had a hat on its head.
"you… "
Xu Ying wanted to question it, but was stopped by Xu Xin.
"You did all of this that we saw along the way?"
Xu Xin frowned slightly and looked at it.
It just said that they succeeded...
“It’s not all my doing.”
The monster's mouth split open at the back of its head.
It was obviously in a good mood.
"But, I was the one who guided you."
Is that really the case
Xu Xin's hand tightened.
It was Li Wenxi who grabbed her hand.
At this time, Lou Feier had already stood in front of Xu Xin without making a sound.
In her hand, she still held the weapon that was specifically designed to kill alien invaders, and was pointing it at the monster.
Although the monster had been helping them before, its actions this time were obviously...
However, Xu Xin still reached out and pressed down Lou Feier's raised hand: "Don't be so nervous... Zeng Tao, take back your giant cannon!"
He looked at Zeng Tao with a frown as he took out the huge cannon, put it on his shoulder and aimed it at the monster.
"Using a cannon at this distance, do you want to die together with her?" Xu Xin slapped her on the head.
No, we can't even die together.
The monster in front of me can obviously be teleported!
It should have just been teleported directly behind Xu Xin and the others, otherwise it would not have been so silent.
"I...oh..."
Zeng Tao put away the cannon with a look of grievance.
“… You guys are really hostile.” The monster’s mouth cracked open and then it softened slightly, as if he was smiling bitterly, “I have helped you a lot.”
"Similarly, we have helped you a lot."
Xu Ying said bluntly.
"I'm afraid this situation is all part of your plan! I knew you didn't tell us the truth before!"
The monster was speechless for a moment.
Xu Xin also looked at it and sighed softly: "Ever since Yingying discovered that nuclear bombs could not destroy the concentrated scarlet crystal, I was very sure that you might have another plan to hide from us."
This monster has a very high status in another time and space.
It is very likely that it knows the properties of concentrated scarlet crystal.
After Yingying came into contact with concentrated scarlet crystal, she realized that nuclear weapons could not completely destroy scarlet crystal.
Since Yingying could see it in such a short time, the monsters who are more familiar with the scarlet crystal should know that human weapons cannot destroy the scarlet crystal.
But even so, it was it that proposed the plan to use nuclear weapons to destroy the Scarlet Crystal.
"I am indeed hiding something from you, but I am also indeed helping you. I have no intention of becoming your enemy."
As the monster spoke, it raised its "hands" in a very human way, imitating humans, and the eyes on its hands even blinked a few times.
"Everything I do is beneficial to our future survival. I hope you will believe me and give me a chance to explain."
Its posture is still very low.
"Of course." Xu Xin once again suppressed the gun that Lou Fei'er had raised. "You have indeed helped us a lot, and you have never really harmed us."
Even if the other party has problems, you can't turn against them now.
Not to mention that the other party has never harmed them.
It has been helping mankind since another time and space.
"Come up with me and sit down. I will explain everything to you."