Because he had a map, Xu Xin would not get lost, nor would he circle around in the jungle like most people would. So he did not need to leave any marks and just walked straight in one direction.
After walking for an unknown amount of time, the mysterious voice sounded in his mind again.
[Reminder: Do not leave the tree house more than three kilometers away, otherwise something you don’t want to see will happen.]
It looked like this was the outermost edge of the three-kilometer radius. Xu Xin paused and surveyed his surroundings. He had already left the resource area. From his perspective, the surroundings were mostly ordinary plants emitting a white glow, with only a few scattered green lights.
Xu Xin checked the green lights, but unfortunately, they were all ordinary green-level resources, which were everywhere in his resource area.
"Ying!" The little panda Koko lying on his shoulder suddenly cried out and jumped off Xu Xin's shoulder.
"What's wrong, Coco? What did you find?" Xu Xin asked hurriedly when he saw this.
Coco tugged at Xu Xin's trouser leg, signaling Xu Xin to follow it.
The tree house is at the center of the entire circular area, and Xu Xin is at the easternmost end of the circle. Coco is leading him towards the southwest.
The little guy must have discovered something. Xu Xin was delighted. This little guy was really his lucky star.
That direction was a direction Xu Xin had never been to.
The stream flows from west to east. He walked east along the stream and reached the west side of the entire resource area, where he planted a tree house. He then walked east across the entire resource area to his current location.
The direction Coco took him to was the southern part of the resource zone, a place he had never been to before. Even the map was black. Fortunately, there were no red dots in the darkness, which made Xu Xin feel relieved.
Walking behind Coco, Xu Xin gradually discovered the differences.
The surroundings were very similar to the places Xu Xin had passed by before, both of which were poplar forests. Because it was summer, the ground was covered with grass and shrubs, but Xu Xin vaguely discovered that the grass and shrubs on the ground seemed to be slightly different from what he had seen before.
He always felt that something was wrong, but he couldn't detect it immediately, which made Xu Xin fall into deep thought.
Coco, who was walking in front, looked back from time to time, afraid that Xu Xin would not keep up and get lost. Seeing that he slowed down because of deep thought, she immediately came over and pulled his trouser leg.
"Keke, why are you going in this direction?" Xu Xin felt that he was about to realize it.
"Hmm?" Coco tilted her head.
It seemed like asking was pointless; this little guy was probably just following his intuition. Xu Xin shook his head helplessly and continued to examine the bushes and weeds.
"Huh?" Xu Xin seemed to notice something. He looked at the weeds and bushes in front of him, tilted his head to the left, then to the right, and then suddenly showed an expression of sudden enlightenment. He clapped his hands and said, "I know!"
"Ah!" Coco was startled and jumped up and somersaulted in the air.
Xu Xin finally understood why he felt that the weeds and shrubs here were slightly different from those he had seen before.
The weeds and shrubs that grew naturally anywhere were haphazard and uncontrolled, and this was the case with all the places he had passed before, like untended fields, overgrown with weeds and in a state of disarray.
But the weeds and shrubs here are different. If you look closely, you will find that they are all slightly tilted in one direction. Although the degree is very small, Xu Xin can still tell the difference between disorder and order.
There was no wind in the jungle at this time, so it was not caused by the wind. If it was caused by the wind, these weeds and bushes should have swayed, but in fact they did not.
Xu Xin looked up at the poplar trees around him and was surprised to find that although the trunks and branches of the poplar trees had no sense of direction, each leaf seemed to be slightly facing in one direction, exactly the same direction as the weeds and shrubs on the ground.
There must be something attracting these plants in that direction.
After confirming his inner thoughts, Xu Xin became cheerful. He took out a large red berry from his backpack and said with a smile, "Here, Coco, this is a reward for you! Without you, I wouldn't have discovered this pattern so quickly."
When Coco saw the red berries in Xu Xin's hand, she whimpered, stood on her hind legs, and grabbed Xu Xin's trouser legs again.
After Xu Xin fed the red berry to Coco, its steps became lighter and it jumped around in front, whimpering.
Looking at the little guy in front of him, Xu Xin relaxed a little, smiled and shook his head.
The further he walked, the more Xu Xin could feel the inclination of the weeds and bushes on the ground. At this time, he could already feel that the surrounding weeds and bushes were no longer facing in one direction, but at a point.
He knew they were almost there, but there were no red dots on his map, and no high-level colors in his sight, only large expanses of white and scattered green.
Coco, who was walking in front, also slowed down at this time. It seemed that it was hesitating whether to move forward, as if there would be danger ahead.
"Coco, come back." Xu Xin didn't let Coco lead the way anymore. He didn't know what they would encounter ahead, and he didn't want anything to happen to his treasured red panda.
After hearing this, Coco jumped back onto Xu Xin's shoulder and lay there obediently, with her big tail wrapped around her neck and resting on his other shoulder, her eyes fixed on the front.
The direction of the weeds and shrubs on the ground became more and more obvious, and Xu Xin gradually became a little excited.
It's a treasure chest! Who can resist a treasure chest?
Xu Xin was walking quickly forward when suddenly a sense of crisis arose in his heart, causing the muscles at the corners of his eyes to twitch.
In his consciousness, a red dot on the map was slowly lighting up at his location.
"Not good!" Xu Xin immediately pushed the tree next to him with both hands, forced himself to change direction, and quickly fell to the side.
Just as Xu Xin pounced to the side, the ground under his feet and in front of him suddenly cracked, and countless sharp vines emerged from it and stabbed straight upwards!
Each vine is as thick as an arm, and red threads are faintly flowing on the dark green vines, which looks extremely strange.
"Ohhh!...Ohhh?" Keke fell to the ground because of Xu Xin's actions. Just as she was about to complain, she saw vines suddenly emerging in front of her. She stared at everything in front of her with her bear eyes wide open.
Those strange vines drilled out of the ground and entangled with each other in the air, as if turning into a huge drill, and turned around and rushed towards where Xu Xin was.
"Fuck!" Xu Xin couldn't help but swear. He rolled over again and narrowly avoided the second attack from the vines that emerged from the ground.
With a "bang", the tangled vines that had turned into drill bits plunged deeply into the ground beside him. Countless stones flew and hit Xu Xin's arms and cheeks, causing pain.
Fortunately, after the vine took root in the ground, it seemed to have exhausted all its strength and stopped moving.
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