Chapter 875: Towering Trees
Without the mutant giant wolf and the little monkey's natural mounts, they could not waste their special powers on the journey, and their speed of travel was obviously much slower. It took them a whole day to reach the corner of the next city.
That night they rested in the wilderness. This should have been a planting field. They could still vaguely see neatly cultivated fields, one ridge after another. It was a pity that the various crops planted in the fields had grown wildly and had lost their original appearance. Many of the varieties were difficult to recognize without careful inspection.
Lu Weiyi didn't dare to go to the space to rest this time, but decided to keep watch with Qin Jin, "I'll be on top and you'll be on the bottom, OK?"
Qin Jin didn't know what he was thinking of, and looked at him subtly, "You guard the first half of the night, and I'll guard the second half."
Lu Weiyi didn't hear any difference, but he didn't bother with the zombies' thoughts. He made an OK gesture to Qin Jin and looked around to ask for the place with the best view.
Qin Jin turned to Cheng Qi and his group and said, "You guys go out, there's no need to stay here."
"Don't they rest at night?" Lu Weiyi decided to stay up for half the night because he saw that they were exhausted after a long day.
Just like humans, the zombies' excessive blood loss seemed to have an impact on them. Several zombies made very little sound throughout the day. Apart from Lu Weiyi and Qin Jin occasionally talking along the way, the rest of them basically kept silent.
Apart from replenishing the crystal cores, they knew too little about this type of intelligent zombie and could not help for the time being. They could only let them rest first. They were quite surprised to hear Qin Jin let the group go out.
"No need, they go...eat something." Qin Jin saw that Lu Weiyi was about to speak, so he said first, "I don't think you want to know what zombies eat."
"..."Lu Weiyi.
Thinking that the space had come out in an instant, Lu Weiyi immediately shut up, "Is it safe at night?"
"Without humans there is no danger to zombies."
"Last night..." Lu Weiyi was at ease.
Qin Jin raised his eyebrows and reminded him, "Be careful."
"Okay, Wang," Cheng Qi agreed on behalf of everyone.
Qin Jin's eyes swept over several zombies and finally stopped at Xu Xiao, "Take good care of her, I don't want to lose a healing crystal core."
"Yes, King," Cheng Qi said respectfully. Seeing Qin Jin turned his back and stopped giving instructions, he glanced at the several zombies that were prepared and quickly disappeared from his sight.
Seeing them walking through the mutant squirrel's nest that had attacked him not long ago as if nothing had happened, Lu Weiyi felt a little envious, "If you hadn't followed me along the way, you might not have been attacked at all."
Qin Jin gave him a look that said "it's good that you know yourself well", which successfully earned a roll of the eyes from Lu Weiyi, "Aren't you going with us?"
"I'm not hurt, and..." Qin Jin never eats strange things. His consciousness has been reserved since the moment he turned into a zombie, and his reason rejects his instinctive desires.
He didn't continue speaking, but met Lu Weiyi's envious gaze and teased, "Otherwise I'll help you, and they will ignore your existence in the future."
The corner of Lu Weiyi's mouth twitched, "Forget it."
"Actually, being a zombie is not bad. At your level, you will definitely have consciousness when you become a zombie." Qin Jin seemed to think this idea was quite good and said excitedly, "Then you can build a base exclusively for zombies."
"Aren't you afraid that I will attack you immediately after I transform? After all, there is no room for two tigers in your zombie world." Otherwise, Qin Jin would not have taken a detour and rushed here just because he knew there was a zombie kingdom here. It is inevitable that he had the idea of taking the opportunity to kill the other party.
"I can give in to you and respect you as king," Qin Jin said immediately.
The speed of his speech made Lu Weiyi feel that there might be some traps he didn't know about. He immediately shook his head vigilantly and said, "Don't even think about it. My son is an ordinary person."
Qin Jin regretfully withdrew his eagerness to try, shook his head and sighed. He didn't understand the benefits of zombies.
Lu Weiyi curled his lips and didn't respond to him, "You should take a rest."
"Okay, call me if anything happens." After Qin Jin finished his polite remarks, he found an open space and lay down on the ground, put his hands behind his head and closed his eyes.
With the accident of the previous night, even though he knew that the possibility of him and Qin Jin being injured was small, he still used a mental barrier to protect the surroundings shortly after Qin Jin rested.
The nights in the wild are not peaceful. With this barrier, it is like an extra layer of protection. Nothing can attack directly anymore. Some animals that are ready to move are scared away by Lu Weiyi in advance. It is not boring to be busy.
It was quiet until midnight, when Lu Weiyi sensed that something had touched the mental barrier, and was consciously moving along the mental barrier, as if looking for a gap.
Sensing the slight touch coming from underground, Lu Weiyi's heart trembled and he called out Qin Jin directly in his mind.
[Don't move] Qin Jin hadn't even opened his eyes yet, but when he heard his reminder, he immediately kept still.
[It seems like the thing from last night is here again. Should we track it? 】This is why Lu Weiyi did not act rashly.
The other party disappeared without a trace before. Facing those low-level mutant plants in the morning, I always felt like I had suffered a loss. I didn't expect that the other party would come to my door.
【Chase】.
[You hold on and deal with it, I will track down the source].
【good】.
Qin Jin was quick and decisive. Lu Weiyi slightly loosened his mental barrier and immediately felt something beneath him probing into his body, but it was not sharp enough to pierce his skin directly.
It was like being touched by countless people. By the time Qin Jin realized something was wrong, the skin that had touched the ground seemed to have lost all feeling.
Zombies' perception of the body is not as sensitive as humans', so this sudden change made him startled. He involuntarily turned over and sat up, looking down.
While using the mental barrier to hook these small tentacles, Lu Weiyi inserted the small green branches into the ground to trace their source. He immediately felt that countless small tentacles paused for a moment and retracted instantly.
"This way".
Without bothering to ask Qin Jin what happened, Lu Weiyi stood up and quickly ran in the direction where the tentacles were retracted. Qin Jin followed closely behind him, and in a moment the two of them merged into the vast night.
The little green branch moved quickly underground, while Lu Weiyi and Qin Jin were chasing them closely on the ground. The city area that they had just left a day ago was completely left behind by them two hours later, and there was even a hint of them entering the next city.
"Are you sure it's so far?" The speed was too fast and the wind was whistling in his ears. Qin Jin needed to speak very loudly to make sure Lu Weiyi could hear him.
"Sure—" Lu Weiyi replied.
Qin Jin took the time to look at the direction displayed on the magnetic field corrector, and glanced towards the place they were about to go, "It's exactly where we are going tomorrow."
Lu Weiyi turned his head to look at him, and a guess arose in the minds of both of them at the same time. After all, high-level mutated animals and plants have a certain IQ, and it is the instinct of living things to seek benefits and avoid harm. No one would believe that they were staring at them so fearlessly and persistently without any purpose.
"Go now?" Lu Weiyi asked.
Qin Jin hesitated for only a second and said, "Let's go."
"What about them?"
"Then I summoned them." If they followed at this time, they would probably be a drag.
After making the decision, the two of them sped up again. If Qi Lin saw this scene again, he would definitely feel sad that he, a speed-type ability user, had worked so hard to upgrade, but was not as fast as other high-level people.
More than half an hour later, Lu Weiyi retracted the small green branch. It was already two o'clock in the morning, and in the darkness at the end of their vision, a towering tree blocked the stars circling in the sky, giving people a feeling of being blocked out by the sky.
"Are you still going?" Lu Weiyi stopped and looked at Qin Jin. In his past and present lives, he had survived in the apocalypse for more than ten years. He claimed that he had seen a lot of strange things, but he had never seen a mutated giant tree of this scale.
If humans become extremely small in front of the mutated animals, they are probably like ants in front of this big tree.
“Can you feel its level?”
"It seems... eh..." Lu Weiyi frowned in confusion, and directly stretched out the small green branch back to the ground to pull out a few root-like tentacles that were about to move towards them again.
He held up the tiny, squirming roots in his hand and showed them to Qin Jin, "It looks like SSS grade, but..."
However, the crystal core energy of the SSS-level creatures he had seen would be integrated into all parts. If a break occurred, energy would definitely escape. However, the ones in his hands had none of that and were no different from low-level mutant plants.
This was also one of the main reasons why Lu Weiyi agreed with Gu Qingji when he suspected that the other party was only SS level.
But seeing such a huge monster at this time, he even doubted whether the other party was SSS level.
"It seems that there was a banyan tree growing here before the end of the world. It is located in a tourist attraction and is advertised to be a hundred years old. At that time, it took three people to hug the trunk..." Qin Jin was not sure if it was the tree in front of him.
Lu Weiyi sighed, not knowing what to say for a moment, "Isn't this... the territory of zombies?"
"yes".
"Will mutant plants... ignore zombies?"
When Lu Weiyi asked this question, his mental power had already explored into the distance.
The place where the giant tree grows is right in the suburbs of the city. The thick trunk would be difficult for thirty people to surround, let alone three. The trunk that extends out from the tree is drooping directly due to the weight, and underneath are the buildings where humans once lived.
Buildings ranging from a dozen to dozens of floors are arranged in a circle, supporting a circle of branches around the giant tree. The orderly appearance seems to have been specially arranged.
In the rooms and gaps between buildings surrounded by tangled leaves and roots, Lu Weiyi "saw" countless zombies and even humans.
"The mutated plants attack indiscriminately and only absorb crystal cores without considering species." Otherwise, they would not have been targeted by this tree.
After Qin Jin finished explaining, he saw Lu Weiyi's face was extremely ugly. This was the first time he saw him with such a complicated expression. "What's wrong?"
"I saw... zombies and humans... very... a lot of them." Lu Weiyi swallowed dryly and described specifically, "I suspect that all the zombies and humans in this city and even the surrounding areas are here."
After hearing this, Qin Jin instantly released his spiritual body, the mutated giant wolf, and ran towards the direction of the giant tree. The mutated giant wolf burning with black flames soon blended into the night, and Lu Weiyi's spiritual power followed closely behind.
As the giant spiritual wolf approached, the flames burned all living things around it, melting any area it touched, and also making the scenes hidden under the leaves appear in the sight of the two.
In the gaps of the buildings, each branch and leaf is connected to a creature, and the stems and leaves of the plants are connected to their brains. Some are humans, some are zombies, and some are animals. The dried corpses can no longer identify their levels. They are either sitting or lying, and some even stretch their hands towards the distance as if calling for help. Their hideous expressions before death can be seen clearly. Even if Lu Weiyi is not in it, he still has a creepy feeling.
"So... this place was taken over by it?" Due to the damage caused by the giant wolf spirit, the roots surrounding them that were ready to move were completely retracted. Without the immediate danger, the two men did not have a moment to relax.
If calculated in this way, then the giant tree in front of him could not possibly be at its current level. Lu Weiyi immediately realized that something was wrong and said, "Let's go first."
"It's too late." Qin Jin finished speaking and leaned back quickly. Lu Weiyi felt a strong wind coming and saw a thick plant stem coming towards the two of them in his peripheral vision.
Lu Weiyi dodged by jumping upwards with the help of his special power. At the same time, there were stems coming towards them from behind again. The surroundings were densely packed like a giant net, which was about to completely cover the two of them.
Lu Weiyi's skills were not as good as Qin Jin's to begin with, and he was quickly hit by the intensive attack. Fortunately, he immediately mobilized his mental barrier to protect himself. However, the stem, which was only as thick as his arm, actually shattered his mental barrier with one pull.
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