Originally he was traveling alone, but after waiting for them for half an hour to pack up, he became a group of five.
They were driving a van, which was spacious enough for five people to sit in.
Even though the people present were not from Zhe City, they had all visited Zheyuan Mountain and naturally knew the location and scope of Zheyuan Mountain. They prepared a lot of things and even brought two quilts.
Xu Bai glanced at her a few times and didn't say anything, but he always felt in his heart that she was like taking a group of people on an outing.
It took them half a day to drive to Zheyuan Mountain.
It took them a long time just to find the entrance to Zheyuan Mountain.
In the past, there was a large stone tablet at the entrance of Zheyuan Mountain, with a threshold carved with orchids, but now it was all covered by lush green leaves.
Xu Bai used a long knife to push away some branches and saw the covered stone tablet.
The stone tablet is located diagonally opposite the entrance.
Looking at the road that was covered by branches and leaves, everyone was speechless for a moment.
"This...it's only been a short time since the end of the world, and the trees have already mutated."
"Are we still going up?"
Shi Qinghe put on his backpack, holding a dagger in one hand while pushing away the trees.
"careful!"
Just as Shi Qinghe raised his right foot and stepped forward, his left foot was entangled by a branch, pulling him backwards. Shi Qinghe was caught off guard and was dragged for a distance. He thrust the dagger backwards and it happened to pierce the middle of the branch.
The branch felt pain, loosened Shi Qinghe's left foot, and quickly retracted the branch.
Shi Qinghe was sharp-eyed and saw that the branch belonged to a big tree not far away.
This hand is so long!
Shi Qinghe stood up and turned around to look, and saw that the others were also entangled by the huge branches. Among the five of them, only Captain Lin was slightly weaker, so there was no need to worry about the others.
Shi Qinghe went to help Team Lin. Out of the corner of his eye, he saw Xu Bai moving swiftly and with the coolness and handsomeness of a knight. He split the branch into pieces in just a few moves.
Shi Qinghe was wondering whether he should change his weapon to a long sword.
Perhaps the division of them angered these mutated trees, and branches continued to extend and surround them.
It was like a round-robin battle, as soon as they cleared out some, more appeared.
Xu Bai greeted Ji Heng and the two ran in different directions.
Without owing the system too much energy, her body appears light. In addition, with her daily exercise, her physical condition has been improved.
Taking advantage of the force of the branches, Xu Bai jumped and cut off the branch with one stroke.
Looking closer, she noticed a small flower with a white bud on top of the tree.
Xu Bai pulled out a dagger from his feet, stabbed it into the tree trunk with force, and stepped on the half-cut branch that had just been cut off. However, he was not stable in mid-air. The big tree seemed to be twitching in pain and shaking. Xu Bai held the dagger tightly and swung in mid-air.
With the interference of Xu Bai and Ji Heng, the others can also free up their energy.
Seeing Xu Bai in mid-air, my heart couldn't help but tighten.
"Attack the bud on top."
“No…don’t…”
Xu Bai had just climbed to a higher position when she heard a faint sound in her ears, but she couldn't hear it clearly.
With the help of Qin Tian and Shi Qinghe's supernatural powers, the long knife slashed through the flower bud. The screams Xu Bai heard became even louder. Xu Bai hesitated for a few seconds, but still harvested the flower bud.
The big tree without flower buds began to return to its pre-apocalyptic appearance.
The branches that originally covered the entrance were all dry and withered and lay on the ground.
In Xu Bai's palm lay the flower buds she had harvested. It was impossible to tell what kind they were, and the core was even a little blood-red.
"System, do you recognize this thing?"
【system:……】
"I just heard it talking. Is it an intelligent plant?"
[No, not all talking plants and animals are intelligent. Don't insult the word "intelligence." The wisdom gained by eating humans and filth is not the same as the wisdom nurtured by spiritual energy.]
[If this thing stays on you for too long, be careful it might backfire and turn you into a zombie.]
Although it was clearly a mechanical voice, Xu Bai could hear the system's disdain for it.
Xu Bai threw it on the ground and crushed it.
"What's wrong? Is there something wrong with this flower? Otherwise, how come we got rid of it while the others all withered and died?"
Xu Bai did not reply to Shi Qinghe, but instead walked around the tree several times.
Although Xu Bai usually has a blank expression on his face, we have come to understand each other a little after getting to know each other.
Seeing that Xu Bai was a little serious, they followed Xu Bai and searched around with her.
"Ji Heng, you have an axe, chop here." Xu Bai pointed to the location near the tree roots.
Ji Heng felt strange, but he still did as Xu Bai said and chopped down the next one. However, as soon as it touched the ground, he felt something was wrong.
He used the back of the axe to push aside the tree roots, revealing a pile of broken bones...
At this moment, Xu Bai finally understood what the system meant.
Wherever he looked, there were at least twenty or thirty corpses.
Everyone silently took a few steps back. Maybe it was a psychological effect, but they felt like they were stepping on a corpse.
In order to prove that he was just imagining things, Shi Qinghe used his special ability to wash away a small piece of the ground, but after the water dissipated, the skeleton was also exposed. The difference was that a large black area appeared on the skeleton.
"Is this a zombie?"
Smelling a faint stench and the strange bloodstains, everyone thought of the same thing.
"This Zheyuan Mountain is full of dangers. It's so strong and exciting right at the entrance. Should we go in?" Shi Qinghe heard a creaking sound with every step he took, and silently prayed for the dead in his heart.
"I guess someone in Zheyuan Mountain turned into a zombie, and everyone fled here. I remember this tree is several decades old. It must have had spiritual energy, and it caught and ate all those who fled here." Qin Tian speculated while looking towards the door.
"Opportunities and dangers coexist. Let's go in." After Ji Heng finished speaking, he was recognized by others.
Perhaps because there was a mutant tree at the entrance, they didn't encounter anything else as they walked inside.
But the journey was too quiet, too quiet to be normal.
The more this happened, the more carefully they walked.
Xu Bai is the only female among the five people. Even though Xu Bai is quite strong, they all stand around Xu Bai tacitly, not letting Xu Bai walk in front or at the end.
After walking a few more steps, they saw a white ball running through the grass in front of them, but it was so fast that they didn't have time to see clearly what it was.
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