Chapter 126 Man-Eating Tree
Bai Jie made more than a dozen Molotov cocktails and threw them at the dead bushes that surrounded them.
The flames spread rapidly.
The squeaking sounds were endless.
"Damn, what the hell is this? It even makes noises?" Liu Xujiang was possessed by Hercules. While the bushes were burning, he chopped at the roots and pulled them out.
He simply pulled out a bunch of them.
The dead tree that was pulled out of the ground immediately shrank rapidly as if it had been dehydrated.
"I'll pull it out!"
"I'll pull it out!"
The crown of the tree was on fire, but the trunk was not. Liu Xujiang took the lead, and Bai Jie threw the Molotov cocktail and joined the ranks of pulling out the tree.
The two of them have strength mutations, and the others cannot compete with them and can only use knives to chop them.
The dead tree on which the human cocoon was hanging began to twist, and its thick and strange branches stretched out all over the place. The human cocoon hanging on it began to shake violently, like a fruit blown by the wind.
Piles of bones were pushed out of the ground by the surging roots.
Those bones include human and animal ones.
"Could this be a man-eating tree? Is there such a thing on the territory of our country?" Liu Xujiang saw the white human bones at a glance.
"It must be an alien species. We don't have it in our country." Wang Qiancheng had just finished speaking when a thick branch whipped towards him. He swung his knife to block it, but was sent flying several meters away. "Go! Damn!"
"Hitting someone really hurts!"
Bai Jie had already rushed to the tree. He had given up on the machete and simply grabbed the root and pulled it out: "Brother Nan? If you're still alive, make a sound!"
"Squeak! Oh my god! Xiaobaizi, brother is here!" A human-shaped cocoon twisted violently: "I'm almost suffocating!"
"It's Lu Su! Brother Nan, Ye Zhen?" Bai Jie was overjoyed.
The dead tree whose roots Bai Jie was holding stretched out its branches to attack Bai Jie. Bai Jie gritted his teeth and endured it. As the tree was pulled out of the ground, it quickly withered, and a patch of dead trees near the tree withered as well.
"We're here to rescue you!"
Lu Nan's voice was calm: "Your voice is too loud! You woke me up!"
Bai Jie lowered his head to untie a human-shaped cocoon. Hou Chao stopped him and said, "Pull out the tree first! We'll handle the rescue!"
Before them was a large, strange, dead forest, with human-shaped cocoons hanging from almost every tree.
"I'll do it too!" Liu Xujiang looked at Bai Jie, whose body was covered in bloody wounds from being beaten by branches. He gritted his teeth, rushed to another tree, and started pulling up the tree like Bai Jie did.
Trees were felled one by one.
The rest of the people went to untie the human cocoon.
Some human-shaped cocoons contained only bones, and no one knew how long they had been hanging. Some people in the cocoons were still faintly shouting for help.
After Ye Zhen was released, she joined Hou Chao and others in rescuing people without any hesitation.
After a while, many people were rescued. Some of them suffered minor injuries, but it did not hinder the battle.
Some of those who were seriously injured were trying hard to use their special powers to attack the strange tree.
"Strength mutants, come together and pull out the trees, otherwise we can't harm them," Hou Chao said to the rescued people, "There are still many people alive!"
The people who were rescued simply expressed their gratitude. No one backed down, but joined the rescue efforts.
Lu Nan and Lu Su were rescued. Both of them were not injured, but they looked a little embarrassed.
"What the hell, what the hell is this? It almost killed me!"
"Let's set up camp under the tree..."
Guozi couldn't help but say to the person who spoke, "I guess you are the only ones who dare to camp under this man-eating tree."
"More than that! There are several other teams camping under the trees just like us!"
“Bad luck!”
"I slept and nearly died!"
Bai Jie only glanced back at his three embarrassed but alive brothers and grinned: "You are lucky to have met us!"
Lu Nan looked at Bai Jie deeply. He looked at the group of people behind Bai Jie!
But no one looked at him!
There are also many human-shaped cocoons hanging on the trees.
Tian Yao originally thought that strength mutations were useless, but after seeing the divine power displayed by the current strength mutants, she became somewhat envious. However, physical mutations like strength mutations were not considered superpowers, so she couldn't replicate them. "There are still a dozen trees left. Be careful not to get entangled in the branches!"
There is a large bush of dead trees next to each tree. If you want to get close to the strange tree, you need to pass through the bush first. But only when the strange tree dies will the dead trees near it die as well.
After knocking down the dozen or so trees, all the human-shaped cocoons were put down, and most of the people were still alive. Tian Yao guessed that it was because they were captured by Shu 4 for a short time, so they were not eaten by the trees.
In addition to Bai Jie and Liu Xujiang, several other power mutants almost collapsed on the ground from exhaustion: "I've never been so tired!"
"I never thought I'd be able to uproot trees with this strength!"
"I'm so tired, now I just want a bed and sleep like a log!"
Dozens of people were rescued, but some were seriously injured and died shortly after being rescued.
Someone whispered, "How can we survive in this world? Even trees are eating people!"
Some people sighed: "Survival is so hard!"
Ye Zhen lay down between the collapsed Liu Xujiang and Bai Jie: "I thought I was going to die!"
"Silently—not quite silently, I was chatting with Brother Nan and Lao Lu while slowly waiting to die! That feeling is really inexplicable, hehe!"
Bai Jie was exhausted, his body drenched in sweat. "What nonsense are you talking about? You're not dead yet?"
Guozi squatted down beside Bai Jie, opened a bottle of water, and handed it to him: "Do you want me to feed you?"
"No, I'm fine!" Bai Jie picked up the water bottle with his weak arms and drank it in big gulps.
"I want to feed, ah——" Liu Xujiang was almost exhausted, but he still didn't forget to show off.
Guozi put the water next to him: "Can you try it on yourself first? I'll give water to others first!" He gave a bottle of water to each of the other power mutants.
Liu Xujiang picked up the water and drank it himself: "What a joke! I'm a man, there's nothing I can't do!"
A female power mutant said weakly, "I really can't do it anymore. I'm so tired!"
"I'll help you!" Ye Zhen walked over and helped the female mutant up, picked up the water bottle, handed it to the female mutant's mouth, and fed her to drink water slowly in small sips.
"Thank you," the female mutant breathed out.
At this time, the rescued people breathed a sigh of relief and thanked Hou Chao and others. Some of them invited them to go to the base together, and some said they were willing to join Hou Chao's team.
Lu Nan sat aside and watched all this quietly.
Tian Yao and Duan Lei "checked" every person who was rescued, including Ye Zhen, Lu Su, and Lu Nan, and did not let anyone go.
Hou Chao said: "You're welcome! We just did it for the convenience of the moment!"
“You’re lucky!”
Others didn't know what he meant, but three people knew it clearly. Ye Zhen and Lu Su looked at Lu Nan with bitter smiles on their faces.
Lu Nan's eyes fell on Hou Chao, Guozi, Tian Yao and the others: "Yeah! Good luck!"
(End of this chapter)
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