The five people ran in the eerie wilderness under the pale moonlight.
This was different from being chased by wild beasts or wildfires. It seemed that a powerful invisible force that only followed instinct was chasing them.
But in Lin Qingliu's biofield perception, it was a completely different scene.
The entire wilderness seemed to come alive, and all the mycelial life together formed a new, unified life. This life seemed different from the mycelial will he knew, like a baby who had just woken up and lacked a certain ability to think.
Lin Qingliu fell into deep thought, but did not provide any help to Fresnel's team.
It is not a life-and-death situation yet. If he acts rashly, it will only cause Wang Xiao's identity to be questioned. Moreover, Fran, as a source of power, is only at the second level, so it is difficult for Lin Qingliu to project all his strength.
"Captain, those plants...are alive!"
The moment Fresnel ordered the evacuation, Shi Jin activated his ability to observe the surroundings.
Although her vision and other senses did not gain significant enhancement during the awakening and training process, by speeding up the passage of time, the subtle changes in the surrounding mycelium plants were extremely obvious to her.
The branches are swaying, the leaves are spinning, the roots are stretching, everything is constantly changing.
But what is the enemy?
At this moment, not only Shi Jin, but more members have discovered a problem. For a long time, the training everyone has received has been designed with strange beasts as enemies.
Before this, no one had thought that plants that only swayed in the wind could become a powerful enemy of mankind.
It's like asking a skilled butcher to chop down a tree. No matter how sharp his butcher's knife is, it is difficult for him to cause much damage to the thick tree.
The five butchers, no, the five super-powered people suddenly felt a sense of powerlessness in their hearts and could only make plans while evacuating.
The movements of the plants became more and more obvious. They seemed to be able to feel the depressions in the ground, and then grasp the movement trajectories of the super-powered people and perform some basic pursuit and prediction.
In the footprints left behind by several people, the oozing milky white liquid revealed their footsteps, and more milky white mycelium was spreading forward along the footprints.
Although they had no experience in this area, both Fresnel and the others could feel that being entangled by that thing would not end well.
In front of them, the branches were crossing and overlapping each other, trying to form a wooden cage to trap everyone inside.
However, the movements of those plants were still slower than those of humans. The branches that were about to close only left blood marks on the bodies of the super-powered people and did not trap anyone.
"Throw it all away, leaving only the sample and the water!"
Fresnel, who was running in the front, suddenly shouted. While leading the way, he looked back at his teammates from time to time.
They had been running at full speed for nearly ten minutes. Such intense running with no end in sight had caused everyone's physical strength to decline significantly.
Although the physical fitness of super-powered people is generally better than that of ordinary humans, except for Wang Xiao, several of them have shown some signs of decline and their speed has decreased significantly.
The fatigue on the faces of several people replaced the reluctance that should have appeared. The buckles opened one by one, and several small packages quickly fell to the ground and were submerged in the white mycelium that was chasing them.
Seeing that the branches ahead were getting denser and denser, Wang Xiao, who was wearing armor, quickened his pace:
“Let me run in front.”
Fresnel understood what he meant, changed his pace slightly, gave up the front position and increased the intensity of light.
Wang Xiao placed one hand in front of him and dived into the branches that were becoming increasingly dense.
Amid the sounds of breaking and shattering, branches kept falling to the ground, and on their cross-sections were strands of hyphae that were still connected like lotus root threads.
Wang Xiao already had a strong physique after awakening his ability, and with this set of armor, he became even stronger than the average strong man.
Even though the collision was done sideways, the space created was still enough for the players behind to pass through.
The few of them continued to move forward, and the forest's counterattack became more and more fierce.
“Crack!”
While crashing into a thick branch and breaking it, Wang Xiao, who was wearing a half-face mask, felt a deep cut on his right cheek.
The wound extended from the corner of his mouth all the way back, revealing his molars and mandible.
The scraped flesh trembled in the wind, making strange sounds.
But what was even more strange was that Wang Xiao didn't even see what hurt him.
If he hadn't heard the sound of wood breaking, he would have even thought it was a bird-like monster flying low.
A terrible thought that he didn't want to admit flashed through his mind. After thinking for almost an instant, Wang Xiao shouted loudly:
"Be careful, there are invisible things!"
"Why do you sound like you're leaking air?"
Listening to his teammate's inarticulate speech, Fresnel subconsciously looked up, and then he saw half of Wang Xiao's face that was almost completely open, and saw the white teeth and bones.
“…”
The airflow caused by the rapid running made the exposed skin on the face move up and down, and at the same time, Wang Xiao's super self-healing ability was constantly repairing it.
Even for someone like Fresnel who is good at grilling and piercing, such a scene is a bit bizarre.
"What happened? Why are you injured like this?"
"Some trees can turn invisible!"
Wang Xiao finally found a more appropriate statement.
Fresnel was briefly shocked when he heard this, and then directed all the light forward. Under the reflection of the strong light, some unreasonable things did appear in the space ahead.
It was like a transparent glass column that stretched not far away. Although it was as transparent as the air, it was very obvious in the eyes of Fresnel, who had a deep understanding of refraction.
He used the directional instructions he had trained in advance to let Wang Xiao take the initiative to punch and destroy those transparent thick branches.
There will probably be one branch out of hundreds of branches. This probability does not seem high, but for the people running fast, it means that they will encounter it once every two or three seconds.
Moreover, these branches that can be used for hiding are not only thicker, but also very tricky to position.
If you are not prepared in advance and run into someone at this speed, the only two possible outcomes are coma or death.
As Fresnel continued to point out goals for Wang Xiao, he also had some bad premonitions and thoughts, and these thoughts were constantly eroding his sanity -
Soft ground, fast-growing plants, and branches that hide their shapes.
Quicksand, creeping grass, geckos.
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