Such a familiar person, in front of her, even shook hands with her a little respectfully, which did make her feel strange.
"Hey, how about I come back? How have you been doing without me these days?" Li Wenxi said with a smile.
"Oh, forget it!" Zhao Xiaochuan slapped his thigh. "We're so strapped for cash we're practically crying! We barely made it through the defense, but these past ten days, development has stalled due to resource shortages..."
Zhao Xiaochuan pointed to the town behind him and said, "If we had sufficient resources, this place wouldn't be like this now."
"The current situation..." Xu Xin was speechless. "For me, this is beyond my imagination. You even raise cattle and sheep."
"Haha!" Wang Lei had already walked over. "When we came in, didn't we bring in a few mutants from the group of mutants outside? These are their descendants, and they are all low-level mutants. Only the skin is contaminated, not the meat. They are completely edible and taste very delicious!"
They have long known that low-level mutant creatures are edible.
Some meat of low-level mutant creatures is still preserved in Xu Xin’s tree house cold storage.
"It seems like you guys are living a pretty good life." Xu Xin said with a smile.
Wang Lei smiled sheepishly: "To be honest, I was just thinking, Brother Xin, it would be better if you came in later, so that we can enjoy it for a few more days. If you come in, I'm afraid we won't be able to be so comfortable. But it's really great that Sister Wen Xi is back!"
It seems that they have been really worried about resources in the past ten days.
According to Li Wenxi's investigation, there are no resources here. Is there any way for them to go out and explore for resources? Even if they really want to develop, they can't do anything without the necessary resources.
"Okay, okay, let's stop chatting here and go in first. Ji Chaoyang just asked me to go to the tree house in the center." Xu Xin asked Zhao Xiaochuan.
"Ah, that's my tree house. Let's go over there. They should all be there already."
When they moved into the World Tree, Xu Xin, Ji Chaoyang, Wang Lei, and Wen Guixin's tree houses were left outside, because only their four tree houses had plant hearts that could automatically protect the World Tree.
Even though the World Tree is mature now, it still needs to be protected.
The tree houses of other explorers have basically been moved in, after all, the ability to build tree houses is still needed.
Half of the other survivors' tree houses were also moved in, and the rest were temporarily left outside as automatic turrets to protect the World Tree.
Passing through wheat fields and pastures, you can see a tree house every few dozen meters along the way. When Xu Xin and his companions passed by, the survivors inside would stick their heads out to say hello and express their gratitude.
"Hello, bosses!"
"Hello, Brother Xin!"
"Thank you, Brother Xin, for guarding the World Tree for us outside!"
"This is a life I could never have imagined before!"
"Protecting the World Tree..." Xu Xin glanced at Wang Lei, "Have you... explained the situation of the World Tree to them?"
"Not yet." Zhao Xiaochuan whispered, "They all don't know that time flows slowly outside. Mainly because you haven't come back yet. We don't know much about this aspect, so we can't make any conclusions."
"I don't understand either. But..."
Xu Xin turned his head and looked behind him.
Behind him, Xu Ying sometimes looked up at the sky, sometimes squatted down to touch the soil, and sometimes came close to Li Wenxi to whisper a few words.
"Ah, I'll tell you about that when we get there." Xu Ying couldn't help but smile. "Oh, this is such a great place!"
At this moment, a little girl ran towards him.
It’s Zeng Tao.
"Xu Xin! You're finally back!" Zeng Tao was about to burst into tears when she ran to Xu Xin's side. "Half a month! Do you know how I've been spending the past half month? Wuuuuuu... I've been forced to study all the time. I'm going crazy!"
"Oh? Not bad. How are the results?"
"It's okay... We don't have high-level resources, so we can only try... Ah, Wen Xi, you're back!"
Zeng Tao ran over to Li Wenxi and exchanged pleasantries for a while, then asked curiously, "Where are Lou Feier and the other three? Didn't they come with you?"
"Well, the three of them are still in Area 1 and haven't returned yet."
Xu Xin had already discovered this when he was outside.
The three men hadn't returned for more than three hours. He didn't know what had happened, which made him a little worried.
However, he still chose to enter this world first, let Xu Ying explain the situation of this world clearly, and distribute the authority to enter and exit the World Tree to other explorers.
Let’s deal with these things first.
Anyway, the flow of time in the World Tree is very fast. Even if he stays in it for several hours, only a few minutes will pass outside, so it won’t take much time.
"Still in Area 1?! How did they go for so... Oh, right, only a few hours passed outside, I almost forgot. That's okay." Zeng Tao was no longer worried.
The few of them soon arrived at the tree house in the center of the area.
The explorers have gathered.
"Wen Xi, welcome back." Qi Xuefei said with a smile.
"Xu Xin, why haven't you come in for so long?" Wen Guixin said very dissatisfiedly, "It's been half a month!"
"Boss, did you fall asleep outside?" Qin Fu leaned against the trunk of the tree house and smiled teasingly.
Xu Xin touched his nose embarrassedly.
He was right.
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading!
Continue read on readnovelmtl.com
