Chapter 474 476 Dry Blood Tree

This huge and thick-skinned monster is at the peak of level three and has the innate ability to manipulate the land. In the blink of an eye, it created many cracks on the ground. Ning Qingyun made a prompt decision, put away his motorcycle, activated his flying backpack, and flew out.

However, the monster was chasing relentlessly. Despite its huge size, it was actually quite fast when running on all fours. The ground shook violently with "bang bang bang" sounds, and sand and rocks flew everywhere, covering the sky and the sun. The huge noise alarmed the monsters within a radius of hundreds of miles, and some sleeping monsters woke up one after another.

Ning Qingyun listened to the roars of monsters one after another and thought to himself, no wonder this place was marked as a dangerous area on the map. He didn't know what was so strange about this mountain area that it hid so many monsters.

He had to get rid of these monsters as soon as possible, otherwise he would be in trouble if he was surrounded by them.

Ning Qingyun took out a fist-sized ball from the gem space, swung his arm and threw it at the monster. With a "bang", the ball hit the monster's face, and with a "pop", it stuck to the monster's face. The ball was filled with strong glue, which was specifically used to attack the monster's face.

The monster shook its head violently, but instead of getting rid of the ball, the mucus that flowed out of the ball covered its entire face.

The monster roared angrily, stood on its hind legs, raised its two front legs, and forcefully tore the glue on its face. The glue was torn into all kinds of strange shapes by the monster, but it still stubbornly stuck to the monster's face.

Ning Qingyun knew that this little trick could only stop the monster for a moment. He took advantage of this moment to fly out of the crack area, took out his motorcycle, and ran away quickly.

He traveled at lightning speed and was attacked by countless monsters along the way. He used up several of the Vajra Talismans that Xianxian gave him. Finally, he got out of the mountains.

Ning Qingyun didn't want to get entangled with these monsters, not because he was afraid of them, but because he wanted to conserve his strength. After passing this red danger area, there would be an even more dangerous area ahead.

After passing through a lush forest, climbing over two low and flat barren hills, and crossing several winding rivers, Ning Qingyun arrived at the most dangerous place on the road as the sun began to set.

This place is marked on the military map with a dark red color like coagulated blood. The area is described in one sentence on the map: the army had sent two fully armed expedition teams carrying weapons of mass destruction to explore this area, and no one survived.

In front of Ning Qingyun was a forest of dead trees with strange shapes. The dead trees were an average of more than two meters tall, with intertwined branches, looking dense and messy. All the trees in the forest seemed to be covered with a layer of dried blood, and some trees were surrounded by a thin blood mist, giving people a lifeless feeling.

I don’t know if it’s affected by the color of the forest, but the sky above the forest is filled with a strong blood color. Judging from the blood-red area of the sky, this piece of dead forest covers a vast area and stretches as far as the eye can see.

Ning Qingyun took out another map from the gem space. This was a mission map issued by the mercenary mission center. The red dot in the center of this map was exactly the dead forest in front of him where the military map showed no survivors.

This is the most difficult mission on the bounty list of the Mercenary Mission Center in the Capital Safety Zone, and it is also a hidden mission that only mercenary groups above five stars are eligible to view.

The contribution points given for this task are not many, only three thousand, but the gold coin reward is as high as one hundred thousand. That's right, the reason why Ning Qingyun chose this task is because it is the highest bounty in the history of the Mercenary Task Center.

Most of the treasures in Ning Qingyun's hands came from the Yunwu Secret Realm and could not be sold easily. The fortune he had accumulated before the end of the world was all invested in the arms in the Chongzhou mountain area. Even his reserve gold was hidden there. The mercenary group's daily income was used to pay the team members' living expenses, various allowances, medicines, weapons, and protective equipment, and there was not much left after consumption.

He bought a piece of land not far from the land bought by Xianxian, and paid the deposit with the money he got from the batch of grain he brought back a few days ago, so he was really short of money.

This place is not far from the armory and is just on the way.

The mission requirements are written in the top corner of the mission map: get a three-forked or higher dead blood tree, including its complete roots.

Ning Qingyun checked his commonly used weapons, the state of his internal spiritual energy, the storage location of emergency medicines, and the flight backpack behind him to ensure that the fuel tank was full and in normal condition.

Ning Qingyun put on the defensive robe and the pair of boots that were waterproof, heat-insulating and could increase agility that he got in the underground palace of the Yunwu Secret Realm. He then took out a transparent spherical helmet from the gem space. There was a thin tube inside the helmet connected to the oxygen cylinder hanging on Ning Qingyun's waist.

This helmet is completely enclosed when worn. It not only has a defensive function, but also can isolate the outside air to prevent inadvertent inhalation of external toxins.

Ning Qingyun had done a detailed investigation before taking on the task. Although there was very little information about the dead forest, he could still make some general guesses based on the limited information. For example, this dead forest was likely to contain miasma, or tiny creatures that were highly toxic and difficult to detect.

Ning Qingyun checked from top to bottom, making sure there was nothing missing, then stepped into the dead woods.

The dead blood tree is two to three meters tall, and its branches are as crystal clear as blood jade and can emit a unique fragrance. The older the tree is, the more branches it has. The research institute once obtained a broken branch of the dead blood tree. After research, it was found that the blood-colored juice flowing from the broken branch of the dead blood tree contains vitality and can be used to make drugs to delay the aging of the body.

Most of the trees in the dead forest are ordinary dead trees. Ning Qingyun held a long knife and gently scratched a branch whose shape was similar to that of the dead blood tree. After the blood-colored substance on the surface of the branch was scraped off, the dry wood underneath was revealed, indicating that this was an ordinary dead tree.

Ning Qingyun was walking in the dead forest, his feet stepped on some dead branches and broken wood from time to time, making a creaking sound. Suddenly, Ning Qingyun slipped and in front of him was a sticky wetland with bubbling bubbles. In the middle of the wetland grew a thick dead tree with three branches on the trunk. The branches were thick and curved. Ning Qingyun was wearing a helmet and could not tell whether the dead tree was emitting fragrance, but he saw a layer of blood mist surrounding the dead tree.

Ning Qingyun activated the flying backpack, flew to the dead tree, and slashed it with his sword, peeling off the layer of dirt, revealing crystal clear branches. That's right, it seemed that this was the dead blood tree mentioned in the mission.

(End of this chapter)