Calm down...
Ji Yueyao bit her lower lip hard, letting blood seep from between her teeth to suppress all her negative emotions. She absolutely couldn't panic now; she had to think of a way to deal with this situation.
At this moment, they were surrounded by alien plants on all sides, essentially trapped in an absolute cage, and it seemed that the only way to escape their current situation was to wait for dawn...
"Captain, what kind of strange plant is this!" Zhu Mu's body was already badly scratched by branches. He lowered his center of gravity and tried his best to get closer to Ji Yueyao so that the two of them wouldn't be separated by the strange plants attacking from all directions. "I've never heard of strange plants that look like ordinary trees! And these strange plants are huge, but when they attack people, they seem to be a single entity!"
The branches of these exotic plants are sometimes hard and sometimes soft, and each branch is covered with sharp barbs. Even the toughest skin would be torn open if struck by them. Moreover, the tips of these branches are extremely hard; if pierced from the front, they would probably be pierced through with very little effort.
Furthermore, their attacks are extremely unpredictable, as if they are just randomly swinging their arms, yet each strike carries a deadly chill.
"I don't know either. I haven't seen this kind of exotic plant in any books." Ji Yueyao gritted her teeth, took a slight step back, and said coldly. She was caught off guard and injured in the face by a lashing branch. She narrowed her eyes dangerously, something flashing through her mind. As she stared at the dense mass of branches, her dark eyes suddenly brightened. "But I've studied..."
"You've studied...?" Zhu Mu, who had been listening intently to Ji Yueyao's words, couldn't help but ask, "Captain, what are you thinking about?"
Ji Yueyao shook her head, having no chance to respond to Zhu Mu. She swiftly dodged between the attacks of the strange plant branches, and when she found an opening, she quickly turned around and took something out of her backpack. But in that instant, the twisted branches swirling beneath their feet suddenly sprang up, wrapping around Ji Yueyao's ankles and throwing her into the air.
"Damn it..." When Ji Yueyao was lifted up, her backpack was thrown out and landed somewhere in the shadows. As she was being shaken violently, she covered her head, trying her best to avoid injuring it from the repeated impacts.
When the termite saw Ji Yueyao being lifted up, it panicked and rushed forward to grab her. However, it grabbed the branch that held Ji Yueyao and swung her back. Ji Yueyao, who was then thrown up, crashed into the termite and knocked it over.
Zhu Mu suddenly fell to the ground, and then the twisted branches on the ground wrapped around his body, seemingly trying to pull him into the ground.
"Bamboo and wood!" Although Ji Yueyao was also dizzy from the impact, she had to force herself to stay conscious.
It seems there's no time to wait until daytime.
As she was being thrown, she quickly pulled out a lighter from her hand, coldly lit it, and threw it toward the tree roots.
Although she didn't know what kind of exotic plant it was, she knew that all exotic plants had a weakness: they were afraid of fire.
The flames landed on the tree roots and instantly ignited a raging fire.
The sound waves in her mind, which had been relatively calm, suddenly became agitated. Then, all the trees around her seemed to be in sync with each other and started wildly swinging their branches. As she was being swung around, Ji Yueyao quickly got up and used the most force to cut off the branch binding her ankle. Because she was not far from the ground, she didn't have time to adjust her body in mid-air and could only hold her head and fall heavily to the ground.
"Bamboo and wood!" Ji Yueyao disregarded her pain and quickly got up, relying on her slightly better-than-average night vision to search for the bamboo and wood in the darkness.
"I'm here..." Zhu Mu's faint voice came from a crack. Ji Yueyao's eyes widened and she rushed over. Then she saw Zhu Mu stuck in a narrow crevice in the tree, struggling to get up and down.
Without saying a word, Ji Yueyao rushed over and picked up a dagger to begin cutting the tightening tree roots.
The tree roots weren't as hard or soft as they looked, so Ji Yueyao easily cut them open with her dagger. The fire behind them was spreading rapidly around them. Ji Yueyao used all her strength to pull out the bamboo and wood, and then, without even looking for her backpack, she grabbed the bamboo and wood and ran out of the fire circle.
The fire spread faster than she had imagined. She and Zhu Mu were running at an extremely fast pace, but the fire was also spreading rapidly behind her.
The surrounding trees were restless, their branches twitching wildly and erratically. Ji Yueyao's arm was accidentally hit, and she felt her entire arm go numb. The pain was so intense that she could barely move her arm.
Bamboo and wood dodged and weaved among the frenzied branches, having to run forward at an extremely fast speed while dodging. If they were accidentally hit on the head by a branch, they would probably die instantly.
"Captain, are you alright?" Zhu Mu looked up and saw Ji Yueyao's pale face. He turned slightly to the side and asked worriedly.
"I'm fine. Don't think about anything, just focus on running forward." Ji Yueyao's voice sounded very calm, and that calmness was like a tranquilizer for Zhu Mu, and he seemed to have much less restlessness in his heart.
What he didn't know was that Ji Yueyao was only outwardly calm, but inwardly she was in complete turmoil.
Now they only have one backpack left, and the food inside won't last her and Zhumu for more than a few days. In any case, she should stop here.
She raised her hand to cover her pocket. The pale blue eye of the sky still emitted a faint blue light, but at this moment, this blue light only made Ji Yueyao feel a chilling pain in her heart.
I'm sorry, sky... it's all because I'm not capable enough.
The most despairing thing in the world is not poverty, but the despair of being powerless against the world and against oneself.
Lost in thought, Ji Yueyao was suddenly grabbed by the leg by several fist-sized branches that shot up from the ground, and then in the next second, she was violently pulled into the ground.
"team leader!"
Ji Yueyao was startled back to her senses. She turned around and quickly grabbed Zhu Mu's hand. In that instant, she felt the anger of these strange plants, a kind of madness that wouldn't be satisfied until they were dragged down. (To be continued.)
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