Chapter 397 The Strange Bleeding Dead Tree
"Hey, danger? Boss, there's not even a shadow of a bug here, how can there be any danger?" Xiao Hei really felt stronger after eating the meat.
"Something is watching us." Jingshu said.
"Aside from a few lonely dead trees, what else is there on this mountain?" Xiao Hei asked puzzledly.
Dead tree! Yes, a dead tree!
Every day, she looked at the trees on the mountain and there seemed to be always a few dead trees. It seemed that the position and direction of the dead trees were always in the same place. She felt that something was wrong!
And these dead trees will bleed red blood.
"Cut them down! We must chop down all these dead trees." Jing Shu hurried up the mountain, her mind trembling. Every time she chopped down a dead tree, it felt like blood was flowing from it. How on earth could these dead trees survive in a place devoid of any living creatures? Conversely, could the lack of even a single insect on this land be related to these dead trees?
And how did the bees Jingshu released disappear? Was it related to these dead trees?
Although dead trees are very powerful, Jingshu and others cut down these dead trees very easily. It seems that there is nothing special about them!
Jingshu carefully collected all the red liquids. Although she didn't understand what they were, she wanted to take them back for research. For the sake of her own safety and her own life, Jingshu placed them separately in a 1 cubic meter Rubik's Cube space. In this absolutely independent and isolated space, Jingshu believed that they would not be able to do anything strange.
Not only did they cut down the trees, they also dug out the roots. Tank dug down shovel after shovel, and after digging two or three meters, the tree roots still hadn't reached the bottom. Tank waved his hands tiredly, "The roots of this kind of tree are too long, there's no way to dig to the bottom."
Jingshu held her chin and crushed the tree roots. There were still a few drops of red liquid inside. This liquid was colorless and odorless. When put on the hand, it flowed to the ground like water and disappeared after a while.
It didn't seem to be a liquid or toxin that could cause fatal injuries, so the people in the team didn't dare to try it on their pets. After trying it on a few sulfuric acid ants, they didn't seem to have any special reaction.
Jingshu quickened her pace, feeling increasingly uneasy. She had finally cut down all the dead trees on this mountain, but when she reached the next mountain, she still found the same place and the same number of dead trees.
At this time, everyone realized that something was wrong, and panic spread. No one knew whether they were trapped in a 'ghost wall'-like environment or in a really big mountain.
Jingshu knew that they were not encountering a mysterious trap, but that this forest was really huge!
The latitude of the United States has a Mediterranean climate. Even though the temperature in Wucheng, China, has dropped to nearly zero degrees, the United States is still not too cold. However, this mountain obviously does not have a Mediterranean climate. It is more like stone than soil, and it is more like a tropical or subtropical region.
There is another important point. Sulfate ants are insects that live in the tropics. All signs indicate that this mountain that is inserted across spans a very long distance.
"Perhaps this isn't a plate that belongs to Earth, otherwise it wouldn't explain so many species invading. Furthermore, the reason why Earth lost sunlight remains to be determined."
"So, this dead tree is most likely not a product of Earth, or it's an invasive species! But why have I never heard of this kind of tree in the past ten years? I haven't even encountered it migrating."
Jingshu seriously considered this series of questions. In order to figure out whether this dead wood was harmful or not, or if she was overthinking it, she deliberately left some man-eating worms to continue eating the roots every time she cut down a tree, and then dug down to the roots. She didn't believe that these roots could still grow for hundreds of meters?
Jingshu couldn't remember how many trees they had cut down or how much red liquid they had collected. The food in their luggage was getting less and less, and even the water they could find was scarce. However, they still hadn't gotten out of the mountains. There was no black water monster in the gap between the two mountains, and no insects in the ground. There was truly not even a living thing.
The mountains seemed to stretch for hundreds of kilometers, and no matter which direction they went, it was useless.
A few days passed, and the man-eating worms ate the tree roots, and most of them died while eating.
From the information passed on, it seems that it was a sudden death. Some people encountered the man-eating insects distributed by Jingshu in other places while eating. It seems that the dead tree underground is actually connected?
Just when Jingshu was thinking about whether to find out what was going on, her teammates couldn't bear it anymore.
They looked like they hadn't slept for ten days or half a month, with dark circles under their eyes even worse than those of national treasures. They all looked pale as if something had sucked out all their blood and energy.
Not to mention people, Ah Huang looked like he had aged several years and would be out of breath after walking for a long time.
"I feel the vitality draining away from my body rapidly, just like water on sand under a blazing fire, evaporating." The snake demon spit out its tongue and looked at its wrinkled hands.
Even Lingling's tender skin turned sallow, and she looked several years older in an instant.
Jingshu and Feiji were not affected at all, but the sulfate ants died one after another, and the queen of the sulfate ants was also fine. Jingshu had a vague idea of the answer, and she excreted the sulfuric acid from the dead sulfate ants during dinner.
Dead ants must not be wasted. Although the teammates were a little skeptical about whether sulfate ants were edible, Jingshu proved it to them with her actions.
Soak them and marinate them with salt. Jingshu added some diluted spiritual spring water and mixed them with minced pork, onion and garlic. Then she added soy sauce, salt and various seasonings and stirred them into ant meat paste. She put the oil in a pan and fried the meatballs until they were golden brown and cooked. Then she took them out and ate them.
The remaining ants cannot be wasted. They are mixed with the fat chicken eggs and added with batter. Then golden ant egg pancakes are baked in a pan. The fragrant smell fills the valley.
"Eat this tonight."
Jingshu tasted a few pieces and they were delicious. Ants have more than 70 kinds of nutrients, so it is definitely nutritious to eat them. This damn place is likely sucking their vitality, and only Lingquan can compete with it.
Xiao Hei said sincerely: "Hey, I found that the boss is the one who can turn stinky shoe soles into delicious food."
Jingshu: Thank you for your compliment.
A large number of sulfate ants died, and Jingshu could no longer think of a solution. This trump card against the undead animals was about to die before it could even make a move, and the physical condition of her teammates had also reached the limit. It seemed that if they stayed in this mountain for one more day, their vitality would be lost faster and faster until they died. The spiritual spring seemed to be able to only alleviate the current situation.
Jingshu and Feiji's vitality was too strong, so they had not felt the loss yet.
Jingshu decided to take a risk. Now she was certain that all this was related to the dead trees. If that was the case, she wanted to see what was at the end where these dead trees led to!
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