Chapter 100: Blood Vine Ocean
The trees in the dense forest were very tall and dense. When one tree fell, it would affect a large area. So before long, Li Yu and the others were surrounded by fallen tall trees.
It took Li Yu a long time to find her voice again. "Are they all down?"
It's unbelievable, when did the mutant plants become so fragile?
Huang Jian was also a little stunned. After a while, he turned his head to look at the tree behind him which was still intact. He blew into his fists and then punched the tree trunk.
His fist instantly pierced through the entire tree, and the moment he retracted his fist, the tree fell down.
The same scene as before, trees falling one after another.
Huang Jian looked at his hand, then at the tree he had just pierced. He was a little puzzled: "These trees seem hollow?"
Qiong Jing squatted beside the broken, fallen tree, examining it. He nodded and said, "Yes, these trees may look healthy on the outside, but they're actually completely hollow inside, with only a thin layer of bark barely supporting the whole tree."
The fact that these trees are still standing in the dense forest is just an illusion. They appear to be still standing, but they are actually already dead. So they will fall down with just a slight push.
A subtle sound of breaking through the air was heard.
Li Yu subconsciously turned her head to avoid it and grabbed the flying object with her hand.
It's blood vine.
The blood vine emerged from the roots of the tree that were still rooted in the soil and suddenly attacked. If her hearing had not been several times stronger than before, she probably would not have been able to detect it.
"Qiongzhu, get away from the tree quickly!" Li Yu cut off the blood vine in her hand with a knife and flew towards Qiongjing.
In an instant, dense blood vines emerged from the roots of every tree and rushed towards the few people.
These blood vines are obviously thinner and weaker, but seeing so many densely packed blood vines rushing towards you is still shocking and frightening. There is also a creepy feeling, as if you have become very small in an instant, as if you will be submerged by so many blood vines in the next moment.
Not to mention, there are blood vines emerging from the soil.
They seemed to be trapped in a sea of blood vines.
"Retreat! Quickly!" Qiong Jing's face looked grim, and he immediately led his men to retreat.
They were surrounded by blood vines, and blood vines kept emerging from the ground beneath their feet.
Zhong Yiji waved the knife in his hand and continued to harvest the blood vines that emerged from the surrounding area. These blood vines were harvested one after another, as if they were endless.
It was almost impossible for them to retreat.
Puff——
Zhong Yiji felt a pain in his foot and lifted his foot suddenly. He saw a blood vine emerging from the ground, piercing through the sole of his shoe and into his foot, sucking blood in big gulps.
He could clearly see the blood vine's body bulging as it sucked blood.
Zhong Yiji chopped off the blood vine that was stuck in his feet with a knife, but he could clearly feel that he was much weaker when the blood vine sucked his blood.
On the other side, Li Yu was also pierced by the blood vine in her skin. She reacted quickly and cut off the blood vine.
"Qiongzhu, what should we do now? There are too many blood vines. If we continue like this, we will probably die before we even leave the dense forest."
Qiongjing was also pierced by the blood vine several times in the skin.
The attack power of these tiny blood vines is indeed not strong, but there are many of them, and if they accidentally pierce into their bodies, they will suck blood crazily.
No matter how powerful Li Yu and the others were, they could not defeat four people with two fists, not to mention the dense blood vines around them.
Qiong Jing took a deep breath and said, "Use offense as defense and forcefully evacuate!"
Li Yu nodded. "Okay, I'll lead the way. Huang Jian, Zhong Yiji, you two will guard Qiong Zhu on the left and right."
Huang Jian and Zhong Yiji nodded: "Yes!"
Several people quickly changed their positions, regardless of whether the blood vines in front of them had been cleared or how much had been cleared.
Li Yu chopped down with her sword and started rushing forward.
Zhong Yiji and Huang Jian protected Qiong Jing and followed closely behind, clearing the blood vines on both sides.
Before, they thought there were many blood vines outside, but after entering the dense forest, they found that there were even more blood vines here.
Several blood vines attacked Qiong Jing's back. Qiong Jing keenly noticed the blood vines behind him and cut them off with his backhand. Another blood vine next to him passed Huang Jian's protection and attacked Qiong Jing's neck.
Huang Jian subconsciously swung his knife to cut off the blood vine, but he didn't expect that the blood vine suddenly pierced into his neck.
Huang Jian quickly raised his hand to grab the blood vine that had pierced his neck, and with a roar, he pulled it out with force.
Blood splattered in all directions, and the surrounding blood vines became even more crazy and agitated after being soaked in blood.
They seemed to be completely reckless and madly determined to devour them.
Before long, Li Yu and the other three were badly injured, their clothes were soaked with blood, and they didn't even have time to spray themselves with medicine.
Fortunately, they had not yet gone deep into the dense forest and finally left the range of the dense forest.
Once we left the dense forest, although there were still many blood vines outside, we could clearly feel that there were much fewer of them.
The four of them had no choice but to drag their heavy bodies and run forward quickly.
The blood flowed along with them, spilled onto the ground, and was quickly absorbed by the blood vines that emerged from the ground.
Finally, they saw the car that they had abandoned before, and the car was still intact and not damaged by the blood vines.
Several people cleared the blood vines around them and quickly got into the car.
Sitting in the car, the four of them were gasping for breath.
Although Li Yu and the others were weak, they looked fine. Qiong Jing's face was pale, and even his lips were bloodless. He had lost so much blood that his pupils were a little dilated.
Li Yu sat in the driver's seat and did not drive immediately. She treated her wounds first.
Later, Huang Jian and Zhong Yiji first treated Qiong Jing's wounds, then injected him with a recovery agent, and then began to clean their own wounds.
Li Yu saw that there were more and more blood vines outside and said hurriedly, "Ready, I'm driving."
As she spoke, she started the car, quickly turned in a circle and ran towards the base.
She floored the accelerator, accelerating the car to maximum speed. Blood vines quickly surged forward, forming a barrier line in front of her. If she drove past, the barrier line would overturn the car.
Li Yu: "Zhong Yiji, shoot."
Zhong Yiji opened the car window, swung his knife to cut off the blood vines that were trying to get in from outside the window, and aimed his gun at the interception rope formed by the blood vines in front.
Huang Jian also came over and continued to help clear the blood vines that were rushing towards the car windows, allowing Zhong Yiji to aim at the intercepting rope more quickly.
Zhong Yiji kept aiming but didn't shoot.
It was not until the car was about to approach the interception rope that he pulled the trigger and shot the interception rope.
The interception rope was broken at once, and before they could gather again, Li Yu had already driven over and drove away.
The farther away from the dense forest, the fewer blood vines there are, but their attack power becomes stronger.
Fortunately, there were no blood vines that seemed to be able to drown the entire dense forest. As their number decreased, Li Yu and the others could deal with them even if their attack power became stronger.
Not long after, several people returned to where Tang Ming and his team were stationed.
At this time, the battlefield was in a mess and the blood vines were gone.
Several special teams worked together to clean up the battlefield.
Tang Ming saw Li Yu and their car coming back from a distance and took a few quick steps.
Not long after, the vehicle slowed down and stopped.
Qiong Jing finally recovered after a short rest. He opened the car door and got out. He looked around and asked Tang Ming, "Captain Tang, have you dealt with the blood vines?"
Tang Ming shook his head: "No, they escaped on their own."
After saying this, he saw the miserable state of Qiong Jing and the others, their bodies still covered in blood, and asked, "What's going on in the dense forest? Are you all okay?"
Qiong Jing looked at Tang Ming: "Our previous guess has a probability of 99.9 percent."
As he spoke, he whispered to Tang Ming what happened after they entered the dense forest.
Those empty mutant trees should have been devoured by the blood vines. They had not yet gone deep into the dense forest and were not sure about the situation inside, but the mutant trees were all empty, and the mutant plants inside should have been devoured by the blood vines. The fate of those mutant animals should be similar.
Those blood vines devoured so many mutant trees, yet they were still very thin. It was obvious that after they devoured the mutant trees, the nutrients were supplied to the main body.
This also indirectly proves that these blood vines are indeed branches of a single blood vine.
Just how terrifying had the blood vine grown to possess so many branches in the dense forest? It was horrifying to think about it.
"Captain Tang, this matter cannot be publicized yet. You need to continue to stay here. Although the blood vines have retreated, they will definitely come back." Qiong Jing warned seriously.
Tang Ming nodded: "Don't worry, I know."
Qiong Jing: "Then I will go back and report to the base commander first."
The two sides said goodbye, Tang Ming watched the car leave, and then looked towards the dense forest with a heavy gaze.
When Qiong Jing and the others returned to the base, Zhou Jing quickly came over to greet them. "Assistant Qiong, Captain Li, you're back? How's the situation?"
Qiong Jing didn't return to the research institute and asked directly, "Where is the base commander? We have something important to report to the base commander."
Zhou Jing was stunned for a moment, then nodded: "Okay, the base commander is still in the office now, please follow me."
She looked at their miserable appearance covered in blood, and seeing that they had no intention of washing up, she knew the situation was urgent, so she took them and walked quickly towards the central building.
Soon, the elevator reached the top floor.
Zhou Jing came to the office door and knocked.
In the office.
Although the situation is still critical, An Qing is in a good mood and feels much less stressed because she has untied her emotional knot and Li Xiufang has made her a lot of food that she liked in her previous life.
Unfortunately, the system still has too many restrictions on 001.
Although 001 can take some things out of the supermarket, it can only be some ingredients and seasonings, and the amount he can take out every day is limited, for example, one pound of beef, one pound of pork, half a chicken, duck, or fish...
An Qing was a little confused as to why this happened. 001 explained that it was probably based on its appetite.
In other words, the food 001 can take out is its food for the day.
An Qing sighed. The system didn't give her any chance to exploit any loopholes.
There was no other way, An Qing could only refresh the daily welfare shelf to see if she could refresh some more useful things.
She refreshed the menu four times, and the products displayed in these four times were - thin-skinned chili peppers, dry noodles, body-tempering spirit liquid, and ability cards.
She didn't buy thin-skinned peppers or dry noodles, she only bought the body-tempering spirit liquid and the ability card.
In the end, there were more than 2,000 happiness points left. An Qing gritted her teeth and decided to refresh it again.
Before she could do anything, there was a knock on the door.
An Weiguo and Li Xiufang were sitting next to An Qing and watching. Although they couldn't see An Qing's operations, they knew what An Qing was doing through 001, so they concentrated and held their breath, not daring to disturb her.
An Qing rubbed her brows and said, "Come in."
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