A soft rustling sound approached, and suddenly the "stones" on the beach began to move!
Chang Le looked closely and realized that what were rocks were countless sea cockroaches, each the size of a thumb! They were densely packed, emerging from the cracks in the gravel and rocks in large swarms, and thousands more were crawling up the shallows.
Chang Le noticed the scattered bright red and white spots on the backs of these sea cockroaches and immediately realized that they were poisonous. With so many, being surrounded and entangled would be fatal.
She picked up her schoolbag and quickly retreated towards the coconut grove.
Fortunately, the sea cockroaches did not surround her from all sides, and they were not as fast as Chang Le, so she quickly retreated into the woods.
The sea cockroaches all stopped outside the woods, rustling and moving about, but did not approach.
Chang Le became even more vigilant, which could only mean that there were things in the forest that were more dangerous than these poisonous sea cockroaches.
She moved slowly and cautiously, her feet sinking into the sticky, soft alluvial soil of Haidian.
The surrounding coconut trees are tall and towering, their upper and middle parts intertwined, so dense that almost no sunlight can penetrate. The air around is sticky, salty, and has a rotten smell.
This is not the manicured green space that was once a tourist hotspot; every step here feels like stepping into silt and rotten soil.
Tiny flying insects crawl across the ground all the time, automatically avoiding people, but when a large number of them pass by, they produce an irritating gas.
Chang Le could only try to slow his breathing and release two more vines to protect himself.
According to the map and instructions, what she was looking for was in this coconut grove.
"Whoosh!"
A large, yellowish-brown inflorescence drooped from the branches, unable to bear its weight, and landed right in front of Chang Le.
Chang Le took three steps back.
Those are the flowers of a coconut palm. The axillary inflorescences are over two meters long, with many branches, resembling huge, menacing bone spurs. The spathe is spindle-shaped, thick and woody, with fist-sized nodules hanging from it, and many small branches growing from the branches, the ends of which and the tips of those fleshy nodules are dark blue.
It looks like it's been poisoned.
Chang Le internally complained, then quickly raised his hand.
Sure enough! The bumps on the coconut flower suddenly split open at the top, spraying out a large amount of translucent white coconut juice, which poured down on Chang Le's head.
The vines wove a net in front of them to block the coconut juice, but the outer vines were also instantly corroded.
Chang Le quickly swung the vines to intercept the bursting sap from the lumps, while his other hand condensed three ice shards, which he then shot toward the end of the inflorescence with a "whoosh".
The whole thing was cut off and gently placed on the ground, still entangled in the vines.
"Swish, swish..."
Suddenly, the surrounding foliage began to make strange rustling sounds, moving without any wind.
Chang Le thought to himself: Just as I expected.
This coconut grove is no ordinary grove; nearly half of the coconut trees are mutated species called "Huangguoshu".
They are mutations of coconut trees, with flowers and leaves that look exactly like coconut trees, but they do not produce coconuts. After their flowers bloom, they grow many yellow lumps that resemble coconut fruits, each containing two long, hooked branches that look like tongues, and a large pouch of corrosive sap.
Once this sap enters the skin of a living creature, it produces a neurotoxin that renders the prey defenseless. Then, the two long, hooked claws shoot out, seizing and devouring the prey.
People eat coconut trees, and yellow fruit trees eat people.
Information about Huangguoshu flashed through Chang Le's mind. Without pausing, he deftly cut off a branch of the inflorescence and threw it into his storage device. Then, just as the gust of wind approached from behind, he used an ice shard to block it and quickly dodged away.
Behind and all around, in an instant, several yellowish-brown flower clusters drooped down, splitting open into dozens of bumps. From the center of each cluster were two long tongues like lizard tongues, with the ends resembling the claws of a claw machine.
Of course, a claw machine grabs a handful of air with one swipe, but this thing grabs a large chunk of flesh with one swipe!
Chang Le recalled the divisions on the map and quickly broke through inland.
With his eighth-level cultivation fully activated, the vines swiftly surged forward, covering over a thousand meters before bursting out of the Yellow Fruit Forest.
After the vines indicated that there was no one else within a kilometer, Chang Le narrowed his eyes.
She knew that Li Yunfan and Qin Ling were monitoring her in real time.
Thinking about the traitor mentioned by the cuckoo and the research on fusion, Chang Le already had a plan.
She secretly activated the [Network Connection], and at the same time raised her hand, drawing out bursts of lightning from between her eyebrows, accompanied by crackling and unstable popping sounds, covering and enveloping Chang Le's entire body.
Any Huangguoshu Tongue that dared to approach it was directly electrocuted and charred.
【Ten Thousand Thunder Technique】, Thunder Armor, Immovable as a Mountain.
The individual Huangguoshu trees weren't particularly strong, but their numbers were enormous. After a few tongues realized they couldn't catch their prey, Huangguoshu trees within dozens of meters around them joined the hunting party. Countless long, earthy-yellow arms hung down, and countless long tongues, waiting to hunt, were poised to strike.
If the stalemate continued, Chang Le would not be able to get out. She immediately used Lightning Flash, briefly using the speed of lightning to quickly break through the encirclement.
"call……"
Chang Le, who had rushed out of Huangguoshulin, stumbled into a desolate desert.
The vines retracted and wrapped around her, remaining extremely vigilant.
A whooshing sound came from the side and behind, and Chang Le swung out a bolt of lightning.
"唳——"
A sharp, agonizing scream rang out as the monstrous bird, struck by the attack, rapidly ascended into the air.
"Half-headed Bulbul!" Chang Le recognized the strange bird.
The strange bird in the sky was over a meter long, with a slender body and wings that resembled a torpedo when folded.
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