Chapter 398 The Terrifying Behemoth
What secrets do they hold? In this apocalypse, how many secrets are there that she doesn't know? In her previous life, she had nothing and wasted her time in confusion. In this life, she holds the rare treasure of the Rubik's Cube Space, which has given Jingshu more confidence. Besides, things that cannot be explained by science are only because our dimension has not reached that level of recognition.
Jingshu believed that even the Rubik's Cube space could be explained by science, and this dead tree must have the same explanation.
This idea was out of control from the beginning. Jingshu closed her eyes and pondered for a while, and finally made up her mind:
"Rest here for eight hours tonight! I want to find the cause and a way to escape the mountain from the roots of these dead trees. This way of walking is not a solution."
She was fearless because of the Rubik's Cube Space, but the three pieces of luggage she brought only had enough food to survive the day. All the meat had been eaten up, and the rest would be eaten up sooner or later. Besides, her teammates would die if they continued like this. She didn't want to walk out of the mountains alone to complete the next mission in the United States. After all, her main purpose was to collect supplies, not to complete any mission.
Jingshu took out the food from her luggage and started to replenish her energy. The next step was a highly concentrated job, so she had to maintain sufficient energy.
Xiao Hei's lips were pale and his eyes were black. He lay on the ground gasping for breath without any strength, cursing non-stop: "Damn it, I haven't pooped yet. Where did all the food I ate go?"
The snake spirit pointed at the Taiban snake and said, "Let my Taiban follow you. It's in good condition and might be able to help you resist any danger."
Jing Shu shook her head: "No, you guys should go and rest. You haven't rested enough these days because you've been traveling so much. Maybe you'll feel better tomorrow."
"It's useless. I can feel the rapid drain of vitality. Look, the cart made of dead wood seems even more decayed, and even our weapons are rusted. I've always had a suspicion that the flow of time here is different from that outside, but it seems absurd."
"No matter what it is, the answer will be revealed soon." Jingshu said in a deep voice.
The fat chicken also realized the tension of the situation. She held the chicken coop in her mouth and lay obediently at Jingshu's feet. She was not satisfied with the queen ant who was lying on her back competing for her favor, so she held the queen ant in her mouth and threw her into the ant colony.
After Jingshu had eaten and drunk her fill, she came to the roots of the dead tree and sat cross-legged on the ground.
She began to release all the elite-level man-eating worms to quickly gnaw on the tree roots. These were the man-eating worms that Jingshu had carefully cultivated and fed with diluted spiritual spring water every day. She had no restrictions on the distance and time of control over them, and they could even serve as Jingshu's eyes.
Jingshu also tied several neatly processed strands of silk to the body of the man-eating worm. Silk is the lightest and is also the longest silk Jingshu has synthesized. She used it so that she could steal things from a long distance when she came to the United States. She didn't expect that it would be used at this critical juncture today.
First of all, physical touch can strengthen the control over the insects. Secondly, and most importantly, if there are any treasures underground, the mechanism of Jingshu's Rubik's Cube space requires that they must be touched through a medium to be received into the space. With silk as a medium, she can receive anything touched by the silk into the space.
There were hundreds of branches under the dead tree. Jingshu did not let go of any of them and ordered all the man-eating worms to devour them. Jingshu seemed to have hundreds of eyes in an instant. Countless pieces of information were transmitted to her mind, and she suddenly felt as if her head was stuffed with too many things and was about to explode.
These man-eating insects, specially cultivated by Jingshu, gnawed very quickly, several times faster than normal ones. In a short while, they were divided into hundreds of branches, leading to hundreds of different places. Perhaps because of the baptism of the spiritual spring, these insects no longer died suddenly.
Jingshu also gradually adapted to the countless pieces of information exploding into her mind. As the insects gnawed at her frantically, a grand map began to form in her mind.
Some of the insects ate until their heads were full and found nothing, some twisted and turned and encountered another dead tree, and some continued to go deeper into the ground.
Several hours passed, and the man-eating worms had not yet eaten their fill. However, a huge picture appeared in Jingshu's mind. It was like a huge monster deep in the ground. This monster had extended thousands of branches, which then grew into a tree after reaching the ground.
The dead trees continue to grow branches, continue to grow into dead trees, and slowly expand their territory.
Is this how the dead tree madly expands its territory and devours other creatures from the middle?
Jingshu was shocked to learn that the countless dead trees outside were merely branches of the monster underground. What kind of incredible plant could produce so many branches from the ground? And after all these days, she had already cut hundreds of branches, yet she still hadn't finished? And these branches were just a tiny fraction of the monster's insignificance?
The only thing that was certain and made Jingshu breathe a sigh of relief was that these branches seemed to be real plants. They would not fight back or resist and had no lethality.
But what shocked Jingshu even more was that there was a place to store liquid in these dead tree sacs. It was like the IV bottle we use for intravenous drips, which stored red liquid. Countless branches acted as IV transport tubes, and the liquid slowly flowed drop by drop, and was finally transported to the body of the strange plant in the center of the ground.
So the question is, where does this red liquid come from? What is its purpose? It's terrifying to think about it: what if this liquid is the life force and energy collected from all living things in the outside world?
Could these dead trees have the ability to collect life force, like signal towers? No! Jingshu had chopped down everything she could these days, extracted the sap, and burned it. Her teammates' condition was clearly getting worse day by day, so the dead trees' only purpose was to store the red sap!
After knowing the conditions of these branches, Jingshu let the man-eating worm go straight underground and gnaw towards the thing in the center. The journey was very smooth and there was no obstacle at all, except... it was too long.
The dozen or so rolls of silk Jingshu brought were almost used up. If that didn't work, she would have to make some silk on site to use as a medium. Her control over the man-eating worms was actually weakened by three points.
The mountains welcomed the dim light again. This should have been a day when the sun rose and illuminated the earth, but in the end times, it only emitted a dim light. Only the red light could be seen behind the clouds. Countless dust particles acted as thick clouds and blocked the sun. The stubborn sun could only refract a little light.
Tank went back and forth several times, Lingling kept looking at Jingshu from afar, and the snake demon Taiban also swam over several times, but no one dared to disturb Jingshu and could only watch from afar.
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