No one had time to deal with the person from before, because everyone was too busy taking care of themselves.
The vines quickly began to wrestle with the group, and several people were accidentally entangled in them and ended up on the leaves.
But at this moment, no one had time to save them. The people who were entangled were desperately shooting at the leaves. The leaves only felt a slight pain, as if stimulated, and closed up even faster. The vines were also writhing even more frantically.
"ah."
Hearing a scream, everyone turned around and saw that it was one of Captain Wang's captured team members who had been pierced by the sharp thorns of the leaves. The thorns also had a corrosive effect, and a large area of the man's arm had already been corroded.
"Oh no, the spikes are corrosive, everyone please don't touch them."
Upon seeing this, Captain Wang immediately shouted to everyone, but it was too late to save the person, who was completely enveloped in leaves. At first, the person was still moving, but gradually became motionless.
Jiang Li also saw the person, and then thought of the person who had been dragged away by the vines at the beginning. Wasn't he also pricked by the thorns? Why was there no sound?
Looking back, all that remained beneath where the person had been was a half-rotten corpse.
Using a gun was completely ineffective; it would only provoke her further. Jiang Li switched to a Tang sword, which proved to be more effective than a gun.
However, this only allows for the creation of a small opening; it still doesn't solve the problem of the vines, so we need to find other solutions.
As time went on, everyone began to feel physically exhausted. Jiang Li noticed that each time it wrapped someone in the leaves, the vines became even more powerful.
Moreover, the vines have a self-repairing function, but each repair seems to consume the power of the "heart", so it can only recover its power by constantly "eating people".
Jiang Li guessed that this "heart" must be the weakness, but every time he tried to go to the "heart", he was interrupted by the vines and could not move forward for a while.
On the other hand, Chen Sisi only came because of Gao Zhangwu, and she had no martial arts skills. At this time, she could only follow behind him and dragged Gao Zhangwu down several times.
Gao Zhangwu was already struggling on his own, and on top of that, he had to protect Chen Sisi. He had been injured many times. Every time he tried to dodge, Chen Sisi would grab his clothes, causing him to be hit even though he could have dodged. Fortunately, he was not in any life-threatening danger.
But this couldn't go on forever. Chen Sisi wouldn't let go, which made Gao Zhangwu so angry that he wanted to abandon her.
During one of the evasive maneuvers, Chen Sisi was still dragged away. Gao Zhangwu reacted quickly, slashing at the vine and creating a large gash in it.
The vine, in pain, loosened its grip on Chen Sisi, but quickly returned, trying to grab her again. Just as it was about to catch her, Chen Sisi suddenly pushed Gao Zhangwu, who was standing to her left front, in front of the vine to ensure that she wouldn't be caught, giving herself time to escape. Then she quickly ran down the mountain.
The rattan cane caught Gao Zhangwu in an instant. Gao Zhangwu looked at Chen Sisi, who turned and ran away without looking back, in disbelief. He never expected her to be this kind of person. He must have been blind to have fallen for someone like her.
I deeply regret it, but it's too late.
Gao Zhangwu tried to resist, but the vines didn't give him a chance. They pulled him up and swayed him in mid-air, preventing him from exerting any force, and then quickly stuffed him into the leaves.
Gao Zhangwu's ability to protect Chen Sisi and hold out for so long is already quite remarkable.
Unfortunately, the person he was protecting was not grateful to him at all, and instead caused him to lose his life. Thus, Gao Zhangwu was wrapped in leaves and soon became motionless.
As for Chen Sisi, without Gao Zhangwu's protection, she was soon caught in the vines around her ankle. She cried out in fear, but the person who could have saved her had already been pushed towards the vines by her own hands, and there was no chance for him to come to her rescue.
In fact, if Chen Sisi hadn't pushed Gao Zhangwu, Gao Zhangwu might have been able to protect her indefinitely, given his abilities. But Chen Sisi was too selfish, which led to her harming herself and others, and ultimately losing her life.
While dodging the vines, Jiang Li observed the "heart" not far away, wondering how to get there. Suddenly, she realized that she didn't necessarily have to go there.
Since it's a plant, it must be afraid of fire. We can use fire to deal with it, but this is a forest, and we're afraid that if we lose fire, the whole mountain will catch fire, and we won't be able to escape. We need to think of a way to prevent the fire from spreading.
Jiang Li thought of a way to go and talk to Gu Jin, but the vine found an opening and tried to wrap Jiang Li up.
Gu Jin, who was standing nearby, had been watching Jiang Li closely. With quick reflexes, she pulled Jiang Li back, preventing her from being swept away. However, her clothes were torn, but fortunately, she was wearing many layers and was not seriously injured.
"How are you? Are you alright?"
Gu Jin nervously asked Jiang Li, "If I hadn't acted quickly, Jiang Li might have been swept away."
"It's okay, don't worry. Luckily you pulled me out of there. I was thinking about something and didn't notice, but I've already figured out how to deal with it."
Jiang Li slowly approached Gu Jin and told her his thoughts. Gu Jin nodded in the end, and then the two of them told Fu Xiaxia and the others about the plan.
Several people covered Jiang Li as he moved around near the vines. Captain Wang and his men were busy fighting with the vines and didn't notice Jiang Li and his group's movements.
Jiang Li moved around the vines, collecting the trees near them into his spatial storage.
Of course, not all the trees, but a vacuum zone was created around the vines to ensure that the fire would not spread later. The tree pit was then secretly covered with the snow from the previous space and the surrounding snow, so that no one could see the trace.
That way the fire won't be able to reach the area, and even if it did, it would be covered in snow and wouldn't be able to burn.
Gu Jin followed closely behind Jiang Li to protect her, afraid that she might accidentally get hit by the rattan cane.
After a while, everyone had a large branch that Jiang Li had cut from the tree, and the branches were all on fire.
As expected, the vines recoiled violently when they came into contact with the fire, and dared not approach Jiang Li and the others.
Seeing that it really worked, Jiang Li quickly handed the extra branches to Captain Wang and the others, and then told them what to do next.
He then started rolling snowballs to put out the fire if the nearby trees caught fire.
The group moved around the vines seemingly haphazardly, but in reality, they were secretly setting fire to the trees encased in the vines.
In winter, trees are reduced to bare branches, without the protection of leaves, making them extremely prone to catching fire.
Soon the trees around the vines were on fire, and "Heart" waved the vines to dodge the flames.
The vine seemed to know that Jiang Li and his group were behind it, and tried to catch them again, but it was already surrounded by fire. Every time it reached out, it would touch the fire and it would hurriedly retract.
"Quickly, throw burning branches onto the vines, try to make it a ring of fire, don't leave any gaps, that way the vines won't dare to come out."
Jiang Li spoke to Captain Wang and the others while throwing burning branches at the vines.
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