After more than ten minutes of cold wind blowing on the tree and the person, Banxia finally had a flash of inspiration: "Store the snow in my space, it will be perfect for cooling down during the next extreme heat."
The Sky-Swallowing Tree: "This little bit of snow isn't enough. Take out the stainless steel bucket and stock up on some ice!"
"Go back to your space and get a bottled water," Banxia said, putting the snow into her space. "I'll collect the snow outside."
She was really worried about not keeping watch over him herself.
Each person worked with one tree, and they worked together until all the snow on the entire hillside was cleared away, but not a single tree was to be seen.
Banxia paced around in agitation, looking at the frozen mud under her feet and feeling an urge to dig three feet into the ground.
The Sky-Swallowing Tree looked at her cautiously: "Could that tree have come from somewhere else?"
Banxia had actually considered this possibility, but she was reluctant to admit it: "Maybe it went out to forage for food. Let's wait and see tonight!"
To prevent the mutated tree from noticing anything amiss, she put all the snow she had stored in her space back in its original place, and then pulled the Devouring Tree back into her space.
The mutated tree that perished alongside them was a century-old arrow poison tree. Its sap contained potent toxins and it had repeatedly descended the mountain to harass the base's survivors. The base, overwhelmed by its harassment, dispatched ten task forces, but all failed to defeat it, suffering heavy losses and complete annihilation.
Furthermore, because the poison tree possesses poison-based supernatural abilities, everyone was completely wiped out, leaving not even a complete corpse behind.
Banxia had fought against the poison tree many times in her previous life and was extremely familiar with each other's abilities. If she hadn't taken advantage of the other party's momentary lapse in attention and self-destructed during their last encounter, she probably wouldn't have been able to get her revenge.
"Hey," the Devouring Tree handed the lunchbox to Banxia, "have dinner."
Banxia waved her hand in refusal: "I don't want to..."
"I'm going to complain to Nanxing!"
"I'll eat it!"
After finishing their meal, the man and the tree continued their silent vigil, but until the middle of the night, apart from two pheasants foraging for food, they didn't see a single leaf.
The Devouring Tree stole a glance at Banxia, whose gaze was growing increasingly cold, and wondered anxiously if it would have to continue its stakeout tomorrow.
Banxia took a deep breath: "I'm going out for a walk."
No sooner had he finished speaking than the snow outside suddenly collapsed without warning, the enormous sound echoing through the sky.
Banxia was stunned for a long time. An avalanche? It hadn't snowed all day, how could there be a sudden avalanche?
The avalanche lasted for about five minutes before stopping. For some reason, she threw a large rock outside.
"Ouch, who hit me?!"
A powerful sound suddenly came from the snow, and the snow, which had just quieted down, trembled violently, showing signs of collapsing again.
Banxia glanced at her hands, feeling a little guilty, and flashed out of the space: "Need any help?"
The sound of falling snow was almost inaudible: "Yes, thank you."
Banxia collected the snow above the sound into her space, and a mutated tree lying on its back with only half a stump remaining appeared in front of her.
The mutated tree stump struggled to stand upright: "Thank you, thank you!"
Upon realizing that their savior was not one of their own kind, but a human, they couldn't help but scream, "Human?!"
"boom--"
The precarious snow collapsed instantly, burying the mutated tree stump back into the snow.
Banxia, who hid in the space at the critical moment: ...
The Devouring Tree, which had been keeping a close eye on the movements outside, couldn't help but shake its branches: "How stupid!"
"Human," the mutated tree stump pleaded softly, "Help me~"
The sight of a 180-pound strong man struggling to speak in the voice of an eight-year-old girl sent chills down Banxia's spine. She silently reappeared in the snow and whispered a warning: "Shut up from now on, or I'll leave you to fend for yourself!"
The mutated tree stump couldn't help feeling wronged. It didn't mean to. Anyone who has lived in the mountains for hundreds of years would feel scared and surprised if they suddenly encountered humans, okay?
Banxia collected all the nearby snow into her spatial storage, then pulled up the mutated tree stump and asked in a low voice, "Have you lived in these mountains since you were a child?"
The mutated tree stump swayed from side to side, but remained silent.
Banxia: "...Now you can speak."
"Ugh, I was suffocating! I can finally talk!" The mutated tree stump exhaled sharply. "Human, I've lived in this mountain for three hundred years."
"Do you know what the arrow poison tree is?"
"Hey human, you're here to find the poison tree?" the mutated tree stump exclaimed excitedly. "I know it all too well! It's the one that broke my trunk!"
Banxia suppressed her excitement: "Where is it now?"
The mutated tree stump looked a little embarrassed: "I just fought with it on the mountaintop. It's probably buried in the snow now, just like me."
A flash of green light appeared on its body, and a new trunk and leaves grew back. "Human, do you want to mine the core of the poison tree? I can help you!"
Banxia raised an eyebrow: "You're the same kind of people, why are you helping me?"
The mutated tree stump—oh no, the mutated pine tree—said indignantly, "I never intentionally devoured other trees with their own crystal cores!"
This sentence was a bit of a mouthful, but Banxia still understood its meaning. No wonder the poison tree leveled up so quickly in its previous life; it turned out it frequently devoured the crystal cores of its own kind.
The problem now is, with such a large mountain, where is she going to find arrow poison trees?
The mutated pine tree shook its branches: "That's easy, watch this!"
Banxia had a bad feeling and was about to stop it when she heard the mutated pine tree shout: "Arrow Poison Tree!!!"
"boom--"
The snow collapsed again.
Banxia once again slipped into the space at the critical moment, and the mutated pine tree was once again buried by the heavy snow.
Banxia and the Devouring Tree couldn't help but exchange bewildered glances: ...
How could there be such a stupid tree in the world, repeating the same thing twice in less than ten minutes!
"Humans, save me!"
The Devouring Tree grabbed Banxia's arm angrily: "Don't go. You're too stupid. You're hopeless. Just wait to die."
"Um!"
Banxia decided to listen to Tiantian's advice and let the stupid pine tree learn its lesson, otherwise there might be a third avalanche.
The mutated pine tree, receiving no response, assumed that Banxia had also been buried in the snow and couldn't help but feel guilty: "Human, are you buried too? Don't be afraid, I'm here to save you!"
After it finished speaking, it stretched out its branches and tried to brush the snow off its body, muttering to itself, "There's no sound at all. Could the humans have been crushed by the snow? Sigh, human bodies are so fragile, unlike us trees. As long as the roots are still there, we can survive..."
"idiot!!!"
A sound of gritting teeth interrupted the mutated pine tree's mutterings.
"I'm not stupid!" the mutated pine tree retorted instinctively, then realized, "Antiaris toxicaria? You're not dead?"
A flash of green light appeared on the poison tree, and several streaks of dark green mist rushed towards the mutated pine tree: "Pah, even if you die, I won't die!"
The mutated pine tree frantically dodged, but its leaves and branches were still corroded by the poison. Knowing it was probably going to die this time, it simply screamed at the top of its lungs: "Aaaaaah!!!"
Banxia and the Devouring Tree, who were about to leave the space: ...
What a vicious tree!
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