Several tiny milky white hyphae poked out from around the charcoal.
Just as it sampled the intruding humans in the dead grass area, it quickly completed the sampling of the char.
The surrounding hyphae quickly joined the analysis task, and soon they came to a conclusion:
This object has no life reactions and does not contain any pheromones of the same type, but its main ingredients have certain absorption value.
Then, one hyphae after another began to spread out from the surroundings, and the ground under the humus began to wriggle extremely slightly.
The milky white mycelium formed a network, covering the dark mass.
The ground sank little by little, and the thing was gradually absorbed. The humus that had been pressed into a shallow pit returned to its original shape.
As everyone went deeper, the ecology of the forest seemed to change again.
Those seemingly isolated trees began to consciously intertwine their roots, and the ground was no longer covered with thick humus, but with roots that had already extended out of the ground.
The team members thought that those were the trees mentioned in the data that could reproduce through their roots, until they discovered that different types of trees could also be entangled together...
It's like all the trees are gradually merging into each other.
It’s not that the researchers don’t know how to deal with this phenomenon. They can only keep good records and remain vigilant.
Lin Qingliu, who was far away in Hope City, was seeing such a scene for the first time and was also a little surprised.
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Outside Hope City, twenty-five kilometers to the west.
Zheng Gaoya, code-named "High Tower", is exploring forward with several of his team members.
As Fresnel said before, there are two newcomers in his team.
Both of them were recruited after Fresnel left that day. Although they are not the best choices, at least they are not very bad.
After a period of devilish training that made them cry and scream, the three old people and the two newcomers got along pretty well.
As a superpower graduate of the same period as Fresnel, Zheng Gaoya's ability can be described as interesting. Codenamed Tower, he can passively gain vision within a circular area around him, and can share this ability with several people around him in a form similar to telepathy.
This is the reason why he was able to hold the position of captain despite his non-outstanding martial arts skills. Although due to his own abilities, he could not fully utilize this ability, but with this ability, his team achieved good results in many battles to attack and defend the city walls.
Even when they lost two team members, he was the first to discover the problem of infected people in the city, otherwise more people would have died that day.
The remaining four team members are "Ganfeng" who has fought with Shi Jin, "Ray" who is the last survivor among the three old team members, and two newcomers "Extraction" and "Tracing the Source".
"Ray" is the main long-range output in the team. From the perspective of ability effect alone, it has certain similarities with Fresnel's ability. And because it uses eyes to emit rays, it can be used normally at night. When free firing, the firepower is astonishingly strong.
His only problem is that he cannot overuse his eyes, otherwise it will cause irreversible vision damage, so this man who seems to have conjunctivitis always carries a lot of eye drops with him.
As for the two newcomers, "Extraction" and "Tracing", they do not have strong combat capabilities, but these two people are also the reason why Zheng Gaoya's team was able to pass the review instead of being shelved due to Fresnel's report.
The ability of "extraction" is to use the body to connect with living objects around it, achieve the transmission of vitality, and speed up the healing of wounds.
Although this ability seems to be very useful, it actually takes a long time to take effect and cannot produce the same effect as Wang Xiao or Li Rui in battle.
As for "tracing the origin", her ability is to reproduce the past experience of a certain thing in her mind.
This ability should have been a magic trick for solving cases, but because she couldn't control the time period she wanted to check very well, she often couldn't reproduce the results, or suddenly saw bugs from several years or even more than ten years ago.
This seemingly useless ability happened to be the key to Zheng Gaoya's team passing the review.
With the addition of these two people, Zheng Gaoya's team was finally assigned the exploration mission in the west.
There are two reasons for this. The first is that according to the information sent back from the first exploration plan twenty years ago, there is a forest-like area to the west of Hope City.
This is the perfect scenario for the extraction capability to come in handy.
More than one team of super-powered people have disappeared in this forest. Moreover, it happened twenty years ago, so the tracer can safely and boldly reproduce the scene.
At this moment, the members of Zheng Gaoya's team were walking in a dense forest.
The presence of the faint mist prevented Zheng Gaoya from fully unleashing his abilities, and he could only synchronize some information within a radius of twenty meters with his teammates.
They kept observing and recording the surrounding situation, and felt that although there was fog here, it was not as thick as described in the last message sent back to Hope City twenty years ago.
The only problem was that the fog and the branches of the trees together blocked out most of the sunlight, making the woods seem a bit dark even at noon.
Around a big tree, everyone found several dried up puddles.
Those puddles seemed to be formed by the intertwined roots of plants, and the overall shape was an inverted cone, a bit like a natural product, and somewhat like hand-woven.
Several people walked around the tree that was too big to hug, and "Extraction" suddenly made a sound:
"What is that?"
Everyone looked towards the teammate following the sound, only to discover that she was looking at a dry hole at her feet.
A grayish-white strip seemed to be stuck between two intertwined roots.
"Extraction" bent down and tried to take the thing out, while the others immediately went on alert.
She reached out her hand and carefully extracted some of the vitality from those roots so that they were no longer tightly entangled.
Then she pulled the strip out with a little force.
It was a metal plate, a metal nameplate belonging to a super-powered person.
Each of the five people present had one on them.
Zheng Gaoya quickly took out his own nameplate and compared the two in front of him. He wiped off the metal plate that had been partially etched and read out the contents:
“New Era 32, researcher in the Biotechnology Research Department, directly under the superpower, Zhang Tong.
"Hiss~"
Zheng Gaoya took a deep breath, and his expression did not look good.
"Captain, do you know this senior?"
At this moment, the rest of the people have been able to confirm that this metal plate is the relic of a predecessor in the previous exploration plan, and perhaps it is the last trace of the other party's existence in this world.
Thinking of this, several people were moved, and their expressions showed a little sadness.
Zheng Gaoya was silent for a few seconds before saying:
"I know him. There was a guy codenamed Blind in Fresnel's team. His father seems to be named Zhang Tong..."
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