Chapter 879: Testing

Starting at the same time, Lu Weiyi and Qin Jin were much faster than the others. Before long, the others could no longer be seen behind them.

Maybe it was because it was just night, and they could still see zombies after entering the neighboring city, which surprised the two of them who originally thought they were trapped by the mutant giant tree. But after thinking about it, it seemed to make sense.

If they never moved, there would be no news that a zombie kingdom was being built here.

Lu Weiyi was just about to discuss with Qin Jin whether to bypass the opponent, but Qin Jin had already killed the zombies in the distance with one blow.

After taking decisive action and harvesting the heads, he said to Lu Weiyi, "The Zombie King can see everything through the eyes of the zombies within the coverage range of his ability."

"Oh, sharing the same brain and eyes, so powerful." Even if Lu Weiyi could control the zombies with his mental power, he could only influence their actions by influencing their consciousness. It was impossible for him to see everything through their eyes from thousands of miles away.

Having never heard such news before, Lu Weiyi couldn't help but be curious, "Then you can also know the terrain conditions through the eyes of the zombies here."

"Their energy field is too strong. If I do this, it would be equivalent to fighting against the zombie inside his brain, which consumes a lot of energy."

But their energy can't withstand the consumption now.

Lu Weiyi withdrew his gaze with some regret.

"How do you usually fight against wood-type mutants or mutant plants with your mental strength?" Qin Jin thought of his previous dodging skills when he was attacked by the wood-type zombies as he approached this place. "Didn't Zhuang Mingxu give you special training?"

"My special abilities are enough to deal with many situations, and... I don't have free time." Lu Weiyi's tone sounded a little aggrieved. Qin Jin was speechless for a moment and could only ask dryly, "Then how did you deal with Gu Sheng before?"

"Weapons? Our base has crystal core weapons. Those energy-like things are effective against energy bodies," Lu Weiyi said proudly, "My brother is such a little genius."

"..." Qin Jin.

Qin Jin didn't want to talk.

He suddenly felt a little regretful. Perhaps as soon as he regained consciousness, he should have found some scientific personnel to infect and raise them. That way, when their level was higher, he might be able to research something.

But when he thought about the cost of his growth alone, he immediately gave up the idea.

"After you've been upgraded to this level, don't you have anything to save your life?" Qin Jin didn't want to go through the situation of dragging someone to escape last night again.

Lu Weiyi looked at him meaningfully and said, "Telling others can also be a way to save your life."

"..." Qin Jin choked. He had forgotten the last time he was blocked like this.

"One for each of you, you choose first. I'll help you if you have any trouble." Qin Jin's fire ability can suppress both of them, so he said this with confidence.

"O~K" Lu Weiyi said, and he accelerated towards the huge mutant banyan tree in the distance.

Relying on his sense of zombies, Qin Jin searched for the so-called zombie king in a completely opposite direction.

In fact, there was no need for the zombies to remind the Zombie King. As soon as the two of them arrived at the coverage area of ​​the mutant giant tree, they had already attracted the attention of the mutant banyan tree, and the Zombie King also knew about their arrival at the first time.

When Qin Jin and Lu Weiyi headed in different directions, the zombies in the entire city had been waiting there for a long time.

Almost as soon as the two appeared, attacks were launched from all directions. The originally quiet city suddenly became noisy, and even fires were lit in some places. It did not look like a place where zombies lived at all.

Their target was no longer these low-level zombies. Lu Weiyi did not waste time on the zombies rushing towards him. After lighting the flare prepared in advance, he immediately covered his whole body with a mental barrier and rushed towards the roots of the mutant banyan tree.

On the other side, Qin Jin took the lead in confronting many zombies before he even faced the zombie king. This time he did not choose to avoid the battle, but directly controlled the zombie closest to him to attack the other zombies. The conflict between the two sides immediately cleared a deserted area in front of him, at the end of which was the zombie king waiting for him.

The similar aura between them prevented neither of them from taking action first. Qin Jin finally had time to look at the zombie in front of him. This zombie did not look very old, and even had a youthful look. His long black hair fluttered in the wind, making him look more youthful than his age.

The invisible explorations of the zombies collided in the air. Everyone hoped to be the first to find out the other's background. However, no one succeeded. In the end, it was the young zombie king who spoke first, "This is not your territory."

He probably doesn't speak often, so his voice is hoarse and extremely difficult to understand.

In comparison, Qin Jin seemed more calm. He also saw the flare sent by Lu Weiyi, which proved that he had diverted the attention of the mutant banyan tree and others could take action. "I was just passing by."

Having said that, Qin Jin did not think of wasting any more time and directly released the giant energy wolf. When the giant wolf rushed towards the zombie king, the strange insect-like thing appeared again, and the kelp-like thing on its body meandered and coiled towards the giant energy wolf like the snake on Medusa's head.

At the same time, the two zombies roared, revealing the most primitive animal nature hidden under the human skin. One of them was surrounded by black flames several meters high, and the other controlled all the living plants around it and attacked each other at the same time.

The moment Lu Weiyi approached the trunk of the mutant giant tree, he began to lock onto its crystal core. The weaknesses of the mutant creatures were all located at the crystal core, so as long as he could get the crystal core, he would be completely destroyed.

Before, Lu Weiyi didn’t quite understand what Qin Jin meant by “not completely evolved”. But when he saw the energy distribution around the mutant banyan tree, he immediately understood his implied meaning.

Animals and plants with higher levels will consciously hide and protect the location of their crystal cores. He has seen mutant plants hide their crystal cores on an inconspicuous root, or at the end of the most unlikely leaf. Before the upgrade, Lu Weiyi might need instruments or a wood-type mutant to personally feel it to know the exact location.

But now the energy distribution of the entire mutant banyan tree is right in front of us, and the energy coverage area of ​​dozens of meters along the middle of the main root is completely exposed.

This should be where its original crystal core was located, but after the upgrade, the crystal core still needs to be integrated into the body. However, the crystal core energy did not spread completely to the limbs and bones, resulting in only part of the body being completely energized, while most of it is still in its original plant state.

If that's the case...

Lu Weiyi fired a shot at the mutated banyan tree, and the branches of the mutated banyan tree immediately whipped at him continuously. There was also a miniature energy body. The silly little banyan tree danced its branches that were less than arm length like a cute and fierce little plant, trying to slap Lu Weiyi.

I don’t know if it’s because of the contract with zombies, but the energy body of the mutant banyan tree is dark and has a hint of gold hidden in it.

Lu Weiyi had never seen a mutated plant of this level, and was not sure what the plant's energy body looked like. But whether it was a mutated plant that had a contract with zombies, or a zombie that had a contract with a plant, this was the first time he had heard of or seen one, which made him drive more cautiously.

Before the branches and leaves of the energy body banyan tree touched him, he immediately mobilized the energy and attacked it. The collision of energies caused the mutant banyan tree to emit wisps of black gas. Apart from the color, it looked no different from the phoenix when it was attacked.

I think this should be a common feature of energy bodies. The reason why it is different in color from the phoenix should be the difference between zombies and mutants.

The phoenix in the consciousness area was clamoring to come out and show its strength. Lu Weiyi had to deal with the branches and roots of the mutant banyan tree that were surrounding him, and he also had to use his attention to resist the attack of the energy body banyan tree.

In impatience, he had to let it go and said, "You'd better catch it."

The phoenix cackled twice and flapped its wings to rush towards the energy banyan tree. Even if there were branches probing its area, they would be well resolved. Seeing that he could handle it with ease, Lu Weiyi focused his attention on the mutated banyan tree.

The energy blade continued to resist the stems, leaves and branches that attacked him. The damage caused to the giant tree by energy that was purer than superpowers was visible to the naked eye. Any stems and leaves that were touched would be broken, and soon the area around where he was standing was filled with broken branches.

If the mutated plant itself does not have special abilities, the only means of attack it can use are whipping and binding. Even the huge mutated banyan tree cannot escape these two points, but its level determines that it is more harmful.

After realizing that the branches it attacked had been chopped off, the entire huge mutant banyan tree began to shake violently, followed by an even thicker trunk moving from all sides towards Lu Weiyi's direction. The trunk, several meters thick, restricted its movement, and from a distance it looked like the wriggling body of a giant snake, crowded and closed as it pressed towards Lu Weiyi, as if to trap Lu Weiyi inside.

Even if the attack power of the energy blade is effective, it is impossible to cut off branches that are several meters thick in an instant. After Lu Weiyi discovered it, he did not change his position immediately, but continued to quickly clear the trunks around the big tree at his own pace. Until the surroundings were about to be sealed, he threw the small green branch out, and at the same time, he immediately dodged and threw two bombs towards the already closed space.

After two bangs, the whole banyan tree shook violently. The branches that were supported by the various buildings waved aimlessly, causing countless surrounding buildings to collapse. The various zombies and human corpses on the ground were instantly buried in the ruins.

The ground began to shake violently, as if some huge monster was about to emerge. Lu Weiyi relied on the small green branch to flexibly shuttle between the branches. As the movement became louder and louder, the branches that had previously attempted to trap him unfolded again, revealing the inside that was not damaged at all.

It seems that ordinary human bombs have no effect on it. Just when Lu Weiyi was thinking about whether Li Rui and the others had arrived, he saw a red and black fire dragon spraying towards the mutant banyan tree.

Looking in the direction the fire dragon was coming from, it was Liu Rui and several high-level fire-type psychics from the base.

The branches and leaves touched by the red-black flames were immediately ignited. Seeing this, other people also began to look in different directions to see if their own abilities would have any effect.

After the phoenix smashed the energy body of the small banyan tree several times, the whole phoenix became extremely proud and flew around the mutated banyan tree, as if asking it to summon the small banyan tree again as soon as possible.

The mutant banyan tree was enraged, and stretched out some of its branches to lash at the phoenix, but the physical attack could not touch the energy body and had no effect on the phoenix. Instead, it made it cackle even more arrogantly.

The team sent by Lu Xiao has all arrived, and everyone has a clear division of labor in different directions.

In comparison, Lu Weiyi and Qin Jin, who only needed to restrain the mutated banyan tree and the zombie king, were the two people who were the most relaxed. They only faced the opponents in front of them, and Lu Weiyi also had helpers.

Fortunately, the purpose of other people was not to fight the enemy, so they did not seem to be stretched. Lu Weiyi's mental power swept over everyone and found that no one needed help, so he ran towards Liu Rui.

"It's...useful." Liu Rui summarized the results of this test to him.

"Try somewhere else," Lu Weiyi pointed at a part of the mutant banyan tree that had already integrated the crystal core into its body, "the main root is about ten meters above the ground."

Without saying a word, Liu Rui immediately turned the fire dragon in his hand and swung it with all his strength in the direction he said. The red flame mixed with the thick black flame was extremely obvious among the flames of different colors, and looked even more dangerous.

As the flames approached, the entire banyan tree immediately reacted. The branches that were originally spreading out to attack all living things were quickly pulled back. Even the branches that were several meters thick rotated much faster. Lu Weiyi was worried that two of the tree's already fixed branches would be broken due to the too-fast movement.

When the people around saw the reaction of the mutant banyan tree, they knew that should be its weakness, and someone immediately asked, "Base commander, should we all attack?"

Lu Weiyi shook his head, "It should... be useless."

As soon as he finished speaking, Liu Rui's flames had already attacked the branches that were resisting in front. The branches began to burn, and countless small fireballs split out of the flames and were controlled by Liu Rui to penetrate into the gaps into the main trunk protected behind.

As far as everyone could see, they couldn't see inside, but Lu Weiyi's mental power had already probed in. Seeing the main trunk that remained unchanged after being attacked by the fire ball, Lu Weiyi thought to himself, it is as expected.

Liu Rui has tried his best to increase the temperature and intensity of the flame, but it still has no effect. He shook his head at Lu Weiyi and said, "It's useless."

"As expected." After all, that area was where the upgrade was successful, and the gap between the two levels was not just talk.