Originally, I thought the tree of life would sprout very quickly, but in fact, there was no obvious change in the seed until five minutes after the elf leader and Pole Sephone left. During this period, a large number of green vines were continuously squeezed out from the seeds of the tree of life. These vines were desperately piercing underground like tentacles of octopus, but there was not too much of what could be seen on the ground except the seeds themselves.

Five minutes later, this growth that was actually very rapid but very stable finally ended. I suddenly felt a powerful energy fluctuation coming from under the ground, and a slight vibration on the ground also appeared, and this vibration was gradually increasing.

Feeling the unstable situation under the ground, I quickly jumped on Ye Ying's back and let him leave the ground. It turned out that my choice was very correct, because less than five seconds after we took off, a big hole suddenly exploded upwards at the ground where we were just now, and then I saw a thick rattan as thick as a locomotive drilling out of the ground, and then continued to stretch into the sky like a monster's tentacle.

"Back, back!" With my reminder, Ye Ying began to retreat quickly, because the vine below had already caught up with our height, and after Ye Ying avoided that position, the vine still did not stop. It obviously did not expect to emerge from under us to attack us. After we avoided, the vine did not change at all, and directly crossed the position we were just now and continued to grow upwards, quickly exceeding our height.

After this vine drilled out of the ground, there seemed to be a riot under the ground. There were large holes that were rapidly cracking everywhere on the ground. Then, similar tentacles drilled out of the ground and extended to the sky. In the center of these tentacles, a huge vine that was obviously different from other tentacles suddenly drilled out of the ground like a volcano eruption. The surrounding soil was carried hundreds of meters high by the vine before it began to fall. The scene was like the end of the world.

Although the terrifying main vines came out a little late, their growth rate and volume far exceeded the surrounding vines. In just over a dozen seconds, this guy surpassed the surrounding vines and reached a terrifying height of more than 200 meters. It was also growing upward at the previous growth rate. The slightly thinner vines around them, like locomotives, began to attach to the center main vines and began to wrap around the main vines and grow upwards with them.

As the main vines continue to grow, more and thinner vines began to appear near the place where the vines below drilled out of the ground. These vines were like huge green earth dragons, and quickly spread to the surrounding area. All plants growing in nearby areas were swept into the ground or brought into the air by these vines, but without exception, they were all shattered. If it weren't for the five minutes when the Tree of Life started to speak only radiating energy waves outward and without any other movement, the dead animals here would probably be very impressive. However, because the animals were scared away by the energy waves in the past five minutes, now they were only those unmovable plants.

Although the vines of the Tree of Life move very quickly, because the distance is very close, I have seen many things that others cannot see. After crushing all the plants around, those vines do not simply abandon them, but are quickly fusing them. No matter what kind of plants are, as long as they come into contact with the vines of the Tree of Life, they will merge into one piece like two pieces of squeezed dough. This terrifying fusion ability is even effective for animals. Although the previous energy fluctuations scared away a lot of things, insects and other low-level creatures do not seem to have a significant reaction to this fluctuation. In addition, some creatures are naturally slow to move and do not have time to leave this area for five minutes, so some creatures are still covered by vines.

The final outcome of those covered creatures is the same as those plants. After they are not squeezed, they are absorbed and fused by the vines after they die. I even saw a jungle python that was alive and fused. Its head was connected to the foot of the head and stretched out and was still swinging desperately to escape, but its tail was completely connected to the vines and could not tell each other. This terrible fusion ability is even more scary than the corrosion effect of strong acids. Fortunately, most creatures have left this place, otherwise the scene will definitely be even more shocking.

In fact, I was not the only one who was scared. In the side of Aisinger, in front of the space-based observation system in Babelta, the leaders of the guild all estimated to see the ground overlooking scene taken by Babelta before the observation period. In the picture, a large area of ​​tropical rainforest, like a vast ocean, suddenly rose up in the sky, and then it seemed like a nuclear bomb was blasted. A yellowish shock wave followed the creeping green waves and quickly advanced on the ground. In the blink of an eye, a light green area obviously different from the surrounding colors were created in the tropical rainforest. Moreover, this area is still expanding, and the surrounding plants will be eaten as long as they are covered by it, and there is no resistance at all.

Because I have gradually become familiar with the growth method of the Tree of Life, I am no longer as cautious as before. I have begun to direct Ye Ying to approach some of the still growing vines appropriately. These piers often drill out of the ground at an angle of 45 degrees, then climb to a height of nearly 50 meters along the parabola, then plunge back to the ground to form a raised soil layer and continue to push forward for a distance under the ground, and then drill out of the ground again and repeat the previous actions. If you can now cut the ground to let us see the cross-sectional view, you will find that the growth method of these pines is like a forward-extending curve, which is very regular. Almost never drills out of the ground and travels underground, it is like a measurement with an instrument.

"Okay, Yeying, get closer, let's see what's going on below." After figuring out the rules, I began to let Yeying descend.

Ye Ying began to lower the height obediently, and then flew backwards, gradually approaching a vine that had just drilled out of the ground, and finally penetrated under the vine. Although our movements were quite dangerous, the vine did not attack us, but still jumped over our heads accurately according to our own rules, and then suddenly plunged into the ground behind us to continue the next cycle.

While the vines continue to spread outward, at the center of the Tree of Life, the huge main vine has grown more than 500 meters high, and the growth momentum has not stopped at all, and it is still rising wildly. In fact, in addition to the height being rising, the diameter of the main vine and the surrounding auxiliary vine is also expanding. At this time, even the diameter of the auxiliary vine attached to the main vine has exceeded fifteen meters, and the main vine has grown to more than fifteen meters in diameter.

The elf leader who used the crystal communicator to watch the growth progress of the Tree of Life frowned and looked at the crazy growing vines on the screen and asked, "How fast is this vine spreading now?"

The player who was operating the communicator looked at the scale and said, "It's about 60 to 70 kilometers per hour."

After hearing this answer, the elf leader quickly asked Hongyue beside him: "Vice President Hongyue, can you contact other people, right?"

Hongyue nodded and asked, "Who do you want to contact?"

“Can you contact Polesephone?”

"Okay." Hongyue signaled the communication staff to start, and the voice of Favouro Sephone appeared in the communication.

"What's wrong? Contact me at this time."

The elf patriarch asked with some concern: "Master Polesephone, has the seeds of the Tree of Life you have warmed up before inputting a large amount of life essence?"

Polesephone asked in confusion: "How can you nourish the essence of life without inputting it?"

The elf leader knew what the problem was, but he still confirmed: "Do you know that the energy utilization rate of the Tree of Life is different from that of ordinary plants?"

Polesephone asked in confusion: "Is there any difference?"

The elf leader said helplessly: "The utilization rate of life energy of ordinary plants is only about 20%, and the maximum is only 38%. However, the utilization rate of the tree of life is between 97% and 99.9%, which means that the absorption of the same energy by the tree of life can produce more than three times the effect of ordinary plants. Do you still calculate the growth energy demand based on the absorption rate of normal plants?"

Polesephone also reacted now and didn't care about answering, and hurriedly shouted: "Hurry, hurry up, let the surrounding elves soldiers evacuate quickly. The growth range of the Tree of Life will be much larger than expected, and their current location will be entangled!"

The elf leader dared not delay and quickly began to order the elf troops to evacuate. When Hongyue saw this situation, she quickly ordered the guild's personnel to help the elf evacuate quickly. After all, they are helping us with things. If there is a lot of losses, we will definitely have to make some compensation regardless of whether it is reasonable. Besides, even if they don't make compensation, we can't watch the soldiers of the elf dying here in vain, right?

Because our guild's communication equipment helps to pass commands, the elves reacted quickly and began to evacuate the site on a large scale almost in a few minutes. Moreover, because our guild players have phoenix dragons to help load things, the elves only need to run away lightly. Those things that are not easy to bring were thrown into the phoenix dragon space. Moreover, the people in our guild have long spears to use for transportation. When everyone comes back, they can bring two elves with them. The speed of the spear can also transport a lot of people.

Thanks to our help and timely discovery, the elves quickly retreated and were not covered by the vines of the Tree of Life. However, we ran quite fast, but some people were not very fast.

"Report."

"What's the matter?" In a very huge city in South America, a player pushed the door and entered an office. Two players sitting inside were looking at a map and discussing something. When he heard this person come in, he asked without looking back.

The player who had just entered here immediately reported: "The Nail just used a magic scroll to send a message saying that the elves surrounding them suddenly left, and he looked very panicked, as if he was running for his life."

The two people who were discussing something suddenly turned around when they heard the report. They stopped looking at the map and asked seriously: "Do you say they are running for their lives?"

The player immediately said: "That's what the information says."

Another person who had not spoken before said, "It is understandable that the elves have set up a nail that we have surrounded, and it is understandable that we have temporarily evacuated, but why do they feel like they are running for their lives?"

The man who spoke before said, "The elves don't need to show us the show. With their strength, even if we destroy our village casually, it's just a small task. There is no need to do anything to do in front of us."

"Doesn't that mean they are really running for life? What can make the elves run away in panic?"

"No matter what it is, we will definitely not be able to stop it anyway. Notify the nails and ask them to evacuate quickly."

"yes."

Although the communication scrolls improved based on teleportation scrolls also have a certain cost, generally speaking, general guild communications are still available, so the player in the village that deliberately made trouble with us soon received a notice to evacuate with the elves. However, although they received such a notice, the result was completely different from the elves.

The elves have our help. There is nothing in their hands, just run by themselves. Moreover, our transportation ability also helps the elves transport some people with relatively low movement power, so the rest of the elves can be said to be high-mobile troops. Besides, the elves are originally the favorites of the forest, and the elves move very quickly in the woods. However, in comparison, these players are different. They don’t know what happened, but they roughly know that there is danger. People are such creatures. If they cannot truly feel the threat, most people will not have a strong sense of urgency.

The elves who were running wildly at almost all their might and a group of quite random humans were naturally impossible to escape at the same speed. What's more, the players only reported that the elves had voluntarily evacuated. Their superiors issued an order and delayed a little time. This time, when the players started to prepare for the run, it was actually too late. Almost the fastest-moving guy among the group of people had just left the village gate, and a loud rumbling sound came from behind.

"What sound?" Several players who were still sorting out their things and preparing to load and leave the car looked out of the village in confusion, but unfortunately, they could not see anything because of the forest blocking. They could only hear the sound getting closer and closer, and the ground began to vibrate slightly.

"Look, what is that?" As the distance gradually approached, a player finally noticed a piece of flying broken wood and soil behind the forest not far away. Then he saw a large group of thick vines like giant snakes appear and disappear above the tree canopy, rushing towards the village.

"Oh my god!" As the previous players shouted, more and more people noticed the movement there, and then people began to throw away the things around them and turned around and ran away, but it was too late.

The forward speed of 60 kilometers per hour is nothing for Hyundai Motor, but the problem is that this is a tropical rainforest, not a highway, and there are no cars here, so it would be nice to have a monster mount. Moreover, there are not many monsters that can run wildly in the woods at a speed of 60 kilometers per hour. It’s not that the speed is not enough, but that it can’t run. Just think about the road conditions in the dense forest. Uneven ground height, unstable ground strength, bushes, dense towering trees, all of these are obstacles to progress. Warcraft that can run more than 100 kilometers per hour on the prairie can be seen everywhere, but in the dense forest, any moving object with a speed of more than 40 kilometers per hour must have a perfect dynamic capture system and an at least well-trained obstacle avoidance system to ensure that it will not bump into anything or fall into a horse.

In contrast, players who need to avoid obstacles in front and carefully choose the road surface under their feet, the Tree of Life behind pushed over without any trouble. A player, whether he was born brave or had a problem with his brain, stood in front of the village and faced the Tree of Life that was rushing towards him, and broke out a sword energy. Of course, the result was very sad. Before the sword energy could approach the Tree of Life, the vines were blocked by the skin and broken wood that were lifted up by the tree of Life, and then the guy was buried by the pouring wood and soil.

After passing this player without any obstacle, the Tree of Life is still moving forward. According to normal circumstances, the Tree of Life should not have grown to this position. We have changed the growth location of the Tree of Life before, and the new location is actually very far from this village. According to the construction site we re-planned, the village should have been stuck outside the edge of our city. Moreover, the expected area of ​​this city is much larger than the area covered by the Tree of Life. The Tree of Life is just the central area of ​​the city, not that the entire city is a Tree of Life. But now, the Tree of Life has not only spread to areas that should not have been covered by the edge of the city, but is also growing outward.

As the Tree of Life further advances, the small village finally entered the coverage of the Tree of Life. The wood-woven fence was blown away by the air waves brought by the vines like paper models. Not far from the outside of the village, a vine burst out of the ground, drew a distance in the air and fell again, and then plunged into the edge of the village and smashed half of the village into the ground. The remaining villages were completely covered by soil splashing from the vines into the ground. Even if the people inside did not die, they would definitely not be able to come out in a short period of time.

The people in the village were buried alive, and the people who ran out of the village were not much better. A small group of players lowered their heads and ran desperately, but the rumbling sound behind them was getting closer and closer. Suddenly, with a loud bang, a prehistoric beast-like vine broke out from more than ten meters away from their left. After rushing forward for a distance, it suddenly plunged into the ground again. Just when their faces were pale and their legs were weak, they suddenly found it was getting dark. The panicked people looked up and almost knelt on the ground. It was not that dark, but a vine was passing through their heads and pressing down towards the ground in front of them.

Because the vines had already crossed the top of their heads, the running people had to move to both sides in order to avoid these vines. However, their speed was not as fast as the vines, and now they were going to move diagonally, so naturally they were no match for them. They were soon chased by the vines behind.

First, because they didn't know the situation, the reactions of these people after they found that they were caught up were different. First, some people thought of attacking with weapons. The result was of course like swinging a sword to hit the water. The attack and chopping on the vines did have some effect. But the problem is that the wounds are similar to the natural folds on the human skin relative to the size of the tree of life, and they are not even considered injured. Such a little damage has no effect on the vines at all. On the contrary, those people immediately began to dissolve after being splashed with juice. Within two or three seconds, they were gone, but they were not dead yet and were still twisting and struggling there. Such a terrifying state really scared many people, but more people began to realize that the attack was useless, so they began to choose to jump on the vines to escape, but this choice was quickly proved useless.

The first person who ran to the vines thought that just be careful not to be squeezed to death by the vines growing in staggered ways, but when he touched the vines, he was in trouble. They thought that only the juice of vines could corrode the human body, but now they knew that the surface of these vines could not be touched. Everyone was immediately stuck to it as soon as they touched the vines, and then the armor on their bodies began to melt together, as if nothing could resist the erosion of those vines.

These people who tried to escape were quickly absorbed into the vines in front of everyone's eyes, and more people were trapped in isolation areas one by one. Since the vines of these tree of life are growing forward by jumping forward, there are actually many gaps below them. However, the good luck of these people ends here. Although the vines of the tree of life are growing forward by jumping forward, inside, the vines are gradually going downward

Many side-line branches grew, and these branches gradually filled the gap between the ground and the vines. The survivors hiding there began to merge with the vines without any surprise. Even if they were touched by the vines, it was not very meaningful to resist. Not only did the vines act quickly, but the more important thing was that they were too large to cut them all. In the end, none of the players were spared and all turned into fertilizer for the growth of the Tree of Life.

Polesephone was floating with me at this time over the main area of ​​the Tree of Life. The outer root network of the Tree of Life is still expanding around. At this time, its area has far exceeded our previous expectations. Not only did it occupy all the areas we originally planned to be occupied, but it even exceeded the city's scope. Now the entire Tree of Life is basically a circular area with a radius of more than 30 kilometers, and this area is still increasing. The only thing that makes us feel a little relieved is that the growth rate of the Tree of Life is declining, at least it is not as exaggerated as it was at the beginning. Of course, even if the growth rate of more than ten kilometers per hour is not as exaggerated as before, it is definitely a terrifying growth rate for plants.

"Persephone, do you have a way to control this tree of life?" I floated beside Persephone and asked her if she had a way to deal with it. Now that the tree of life has grown so big, it can be said that she has to bear the main responsibility, because she has calculated the amount of life essence incorrectly, which has caused the tree of life to lose control and is still growing after growing so big.

Polesephone wanted to answer my question, but in the end she sighed helplessly and shook her head, "Although I also hope to have a way to control it, the fact is that the Tree of Life is uncontrollable before it officially grows. Perhaps the only thing we can do now is to support her, right?"

"You mean we can only wait until this tree of life grows naturally after it has grown?"

Polesephone nodded helplessly and said, "Otherwise, if you attack her, you can actually reduce her size."

The method Polesephone mentioned is actually the energy consumption method. Plants need energy to grow, and the Tree of Life is no exception. The growth before was too exaggerated because Polesephone watered the Tree of Life too much life essence, so the Tree of Life shows an overnutrition state, so it grows so exaggerated. However, on the other hand, if we attack the Tree of Life, the Tree of Life will inevitably be injured. Once the Tree of Life is injured, she has to spend energy to repair the damage, so that the energy stored in it will decrease. As long as we cause a lot of damage to the Tree of Life, in order to recover, the Tree of Life can only consume a lot of its energy, so that the internal storage energy of the Tree of Life will be quickly exhausted, and at that time the Tree of Life will stop growing and enter the adult stage.

"I want to attack a few times, but in this way we will be hated!" I said helplessly: "The Tree of Life is not an ordinary city. It has life and intelligence. If we attack her now, we will definitely be remembered for a lifetime. If this is not our city, it will be destroyed and rebuilt. But this is our own city. How do you let me attack?"

"Then I can only wait!" said Polesephone.

I was also quite helpless when I heard Polesephone's words. The growth of the Tree of Life has completely exceeded our expectations. On the ground below, the circular area with a radius of more than 30 kilometers has been completely covered by the Tree of Life. Any animals and plants in this range have been absorbed by the Tree of Life as nutrients. There should be no underground minerals. If there is one, it will be completely absorbed by the Tree of Life. This is the powerful ability of the Tree of Life.

In fact, the tree of Life is not just exaggerating its coverage area, but many of its data are quite exaggerated. Although the coverage radius of the root network has reached more than 30 kilometers, the tree of Life does not appear short and thick at this time, because its central main vine has grown into a terrifying giant tree with a diameter of more than three kilometers and a height of 12,000 meters. The vine, which originally looked very soft, is now gradually deepening in color, and its skin has also transformed from the previous smooth and tenderness to the normal number of rough bark.

In addition to this exaggerated trunk, the huge canopy on the top of the Tree of Life is actually quite scary. This terrifying canopy grows from a height of about three thousand meters above the central trunk. It stretches out dense horizontal branches, and the coverage radius of these stretched branches has reached about twenty kilometers.

Can you imagine how big a tree canopy with a radius of twenty kilometers? It really covers the sky. Not to mention the sky. If it rains here, as long as the remaining amount does not reach more than moderate rain, I guess I can't even see a drop of water below, because the water is absorbed by the leaves on the trunk and cannot flow down at all.

After reading the growth situation here, I quickly linked the communicator on the guild. Sure enough, Rose and the others watched the growth of our Tree of Life in front of the crystal communicator.

"Can you see the full coverage of the Tree of Life?" I asked in the crystal communication.

Hongyue quickly replied: "You can see satellite pictures of this area in Babelta. The coverage of the Tree of Life and the boundary between the surrounding forests is very clear."

"That's good. You guys hurry up and find the map now. Oh, by the way, no need, let the military god help you see if the expansion of the tree of life covers the sphere of influence of other NPC forces."

Now the growth of the Tree of Life has gradually begun to slow down. It should be that the energy is about to be exhausted and will soon stop growing and enter the maturity stage. But what I am not worried about is this. Although the tree of Life is not the bigger the better, it is bigger, and it is no big deal. What I am really worried about is the forces around me.

Originally we wanted to build a city, so we did some public relations treatment for the surrounding NPC forces. In the end, those forces moved out of the country under our compensation policy, or simply moved to other places. Some of them directly joined our city and planned to return to our city to settle down after our city was established.

Originally, this result was done well. Except for the village that was just swallowed by the Tree of Life, we basically did not encounter any resistance. However, the situation is different now. The growth range of the Tree of Life is obviously beyond the range she should be. It's like you are a building opener who bought a 100,000 square meter land to build a commercial property. As a result, you not only took away the indigenous people within 100,000 square meters, but also flattened the houses of residents outside this range. What's more, you haven't greeted others before, and maybe... No, someone must have died in this expansion. This is simply unimaginable.

Before, everyone was in South America to make money, so everyone showed considerable restraint against the local NPC forces. After all, this place is a paradise of guerrilla warfare. If you really offend any local force, you must have the ability to clean up the other party. As long as you can't do this, it will be miserable in the future. The other party's harassment will definitely make your business completely ruined.

Although our guild can be said to be the world's number one guild, we are still operating according to this unspoken rule, that is, we try not to offend local forces. But now it is troublesome. Not only have we offended others, but we may have offended many families at once. What's more, it's not just a simple infringement of interests, but a lot of people have really killed them. This is simply a bloody hatred. Can you say that this matter can be done with it? These NPC forces in the game are not people in reality.

But I don’t have the habit of asking others for money when they die. These guys pay attention to the older rules - killing people to pay for their lives. So, I can almost expect our future situation now, which is definitely a state of constant fighting with guerrillas. Of course, the situation may get worse. If these forces that attempt to retaliate against us are used by other people with ulterior motives, then guerrilla resistance may turn into terrorist attacks. Then I will give us a suicide bomb attack. I will sweat all over my head when I think about it!

I didn't say that no one thought of this problem yet. As soon as I asked the military god to look at the map to see the distribution of forces around me, many people in the guild who responded quickly realized the problem.

"Oh no, I forgot this!" Hongyue exclaimed.

Kris Dena also shouted, "What should I do? We were in peace with the local forces here before. Now that we have created so many enemies, how can we still be in trouble in the future? This is not a place suitable for a protracted war!"

They were discussing each other in a verbal manner, and their voices became louder and louder. However, just when everyone seemed extremely anxious, a word from a person calmed down.

The person who spoke is not someone else, but the patriarch of the Elf City. This patriarch may not be much smarter than us in terms of intelligence, but it is different from everyone here. She has a characteristic that we do not have, that is, she does not belong to the Frost Rose Alliance.

The so-called authorities are confused and bystanders are clear. We are all from the Frost Rose Alliance, so we can’t see this matter clearly at all, but as third-party elves, there is no problem. So, when we were all in a misunderstanding, the elf leader suddenly said: “Didn’t this tree of life be planted in our name? Why do they cause trouble for you?”

"Eh?" Everyone on our side seemed to have been poured with a basin of cold water, and suddenly all turned off. After a long time, he heard Kris Dena suddenly say, "Yes! This is not a city built in our name. The tree of life was planted in the name of the elves. Even if someone wants to take revenge, then it's still looking for the elves, right?"

"Yes, why did you forget this?" Hongyue also patted her chest and said, "It's really a false alarm!"

After seeing that our emotions were all relieved, the elf leader suddenly continued, "However, although this matter is temporarily in our name, we are also doing business for your Frost Rose Alliance. Now that such a thing has happened, you won't really let us bear the entire consequences, right?"

Our Frost Rose Alliance has never lacked smart people. We were just a misunderstanding of thinking before. Now that we have figured it out, we will immediately return to our normal intelligence level. What the elves patriarch said here should be paid attention to. Although our city is temporarily built in the name of the elves, it is already a face to help. Although they have also received benefits, this is to help us work, and of course we have to bear what happens. It is like the worker who gets the boss’s salary when working, if the worker is injured at work, the boss still needs to pay for it? This is actually the same thing. Let others help us with things and ignore them if there is any problem. This is not the style of our Frost Rose Alliance.
To be continued...