Chapter 139 Team Field Battle (11) Devil Vine
"rustle……"
At some point, vines began to crawl out from all directions on the dark ground, slowly moving towards where F Team 8 and G Teams 123 were.
“Zheng…”
When the branch approached the tent of F Team 8, it was suddenly blocked by an invisible barrier. The branch did not give up and slowly touched it, but was still blocked and could not move forward.
However, the branches did not give up and extended and covered the protective shield layer by layer.
The three teams on the other side were not as lucky as Mu Qingxin's team. They were not protected by the protective shield, and the people on duty had fallen into a deep sleep.
"rustle……"
The rustling sound became clearer and clearer, it was the sound of branches spreading and rubbing against the ground.
More and more branches surrounded the three teams, and their first target was the three people on night duty who were already fast asleep.
I saw one of them standing closer to the outside, and the branch was slowly climbing up along his legs.
At this time, in the monitoring room of the camp, people have been sent to guard the monitoring room since Burton and others came there yesterday. Marshal Jiyou ordered that the students' movements be observed 24 hours a day. Once there is any danger, it must be taken seriously immediately to prevent any accidents.
Therefore, Burton discussed with Ling Xuan that the Nether Team and Philibert would each be responsible for a part of the monitoring and keep an eye on the children's condition. After hearing this, Ling Xuan of course agreed. How could they refuse if someone took on half of the task? What's more, Burton had put a lot of thought into leaving a good impression on the Nether Team, so how could he dampen their enthusiasm?
But at night, the few people sent by Burton fell asleep because they were so sleepy. The part of the surveillance they were responsible for happened to include F Team 8 and G Teams 123. No one saw what happened there...
“Rustle…rustle…”
Mu Qingxin was in deep meditation, completely emptying her mind and body. Her consciousness had already reached the top of the forest and was laboriously exploring its surroundings. Although she had cleared her mind, her five senses were still perceiving her surroundings. She simply felt that the forest was a little noisy tonight, with all the rustling sounds. Could it be that it was windy tonight? Thinking of this possibility, Mu Qingxin stopped thinking about it and continued to train her consciousness and expand her mental power.
The branches suddenly wrapped around a person's waist and slowly retracted. At this time, the three night watchmen of G 123rd Team were entangled by the branches except for their heads, and were gently lifted up and moved.
“Rustle…rustle…”
Mu Qingxin frowned. Why did the rustling sound feel so heavy this time? Mu Qingxin looked down with her spiritual sense. It was strange. The trees below were clearly not shaking, so why was there a rustling sound?
Suddenly, Mu Qingxin felt something was wrong and immediately withdrew her spiritual sense. As soon as she withdrew, she saw the situation around her and her scalp went numb. At this time, their protective shield was covered with branches, and it was pitch black. It was shrinking continuously, trying to shatter the protective shield.
Mu Qingxin opened her eyes immediately. She didn't know how long the protective shield could last, so she had to wake everyone up quickly.
"Sister Cora, Lingling, Lanlan, wake up, wake up..." Mu Qingxin pushed the people around her and shouted loudly.
Korra reflexively opened her eyes and looked at Mu Qingxin in confusion.
"Hmm? Xinxin, what's wrong?"
"Is it dawn yet? Ha~"
Dongfang Ling and Shui Huanlan asked in a daze.
Mu Qingxin stood up and lifted the separating curtain. Considering safety issues and the size of the protective cover, they converted the tent into a large tent, which was directly separated by a curtain. Everyone slept in this tent. Anyway, they had already slept on a large bunk bed for so many days, so it didn't matter.
"Thomas, Baili Yan, Wans, Myron, Locke, Darren, wake up!" Mu Qingxin shouted one by one, "Everyone, get up quickly, something's happening, hurry up..."
When everyone heard Mu Qingxin say something was wrong, they immediately woke up, tidied themselves up and stood up.
"What's wrong? What's happening?" Baili Yan asked.
Mu Qingxin opened the door of the tent and said, "Look."
Wang Si and his companions looked outside, "Huh? Is our fire out? Then I'll add some more firewood..." The fire was burning outside the protective shield. Everyone saw that it was pitch black outside and thought the fire was out.
"No, the fire is not out!" Korra said calmly, staring closely outside.
Upon hearing this, Thomas and Myron also looked outside, walked out of the tent, and turned on the light energy tube.
"Ah! What is that?" Shui Huanlan exclaimed, covering her mouth.
"Hiss~"
After seeing the scene outside clearly, the others all gasped. They saw that the protective shield was densely wrapped with branches, and those branches were constantly shrinking.
"What...what is this?" Shui Huanlan grabbed Dongfang Ling's clothes tightly and asked in horror. Locke and Darren also looked terrified. Although Baili Yan was also afraid, he still looked calm. However, this was just him trying to restrain himself. In fact, he was also very scared in his heart.
Korra looked at the branches above and said in a deep voice, "This is the devil vine. It specializes in sucking blood for its growth nutrients. Once it enters its range, no matter how powerful the beast is, it will be entangled and sucked dry..."
Everyone's faces turned pale when they heard this. Thomas said calmly, "But our map doesn't indicate there are devil vines here."
The maps distributed to each team marked the locations of some powerful and dangerous exotic animals and plants, reminding students of the dangers there, but why was there no devil vine shown here?
"Perhaps there is another possibility. The devil's vine is often active at night, so it didn't find it."
"Then...what should we do now?" Locke swallowed and asked.
Baili Yan immediately searched online, "The Devil Ivy's weakness is fire, but some powerful Devil Ivy are not afraid of fire."
"What's the big deal?" asked Wans.
Baili Yan frowned and quickly flipped through the information above.
Korra looked at Baili Yan and said, "No need to check. Those powerful devil vines are not afraid of anything. We can only pray tonight that this is a devil vine that is afraid of fire."
"..." Locke and the others' faces turned even paler.
"Then I'll try!" Myron walked to the protective shield, lit a fire, and moved the fire to the protective shield. Everyone's eyes were fixed on it.
"It's over!" These were the only two words in everyone's mind. They saw that the fire had moved to the protective shield, but the devil vine on it still did not react. It was obvious that this devil vine... was not afraid of fire!
"I wonder how long the protective shield can last..." Mu Qingxin said worriedly as she looked at the protective shield above her head.
"How about...we press the distress button?" Darren said hesitantly.
"No!" Wang Si firmly objected. "This is only the second day of the field competition. Being eliminated on the second day is too embarrassing!"
(End of this chapter)
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