The creeping jungle.

Biting icy rain.

There was thick black fog all around, and only the occasional lightning tearing through the dark clouds could reveal the shadowy figures of the monsters.

A group of people trekked deep into the Tombstone Forest.

This is a typical primitive jungle, with towering trees intertwined with roots, and countless caves and swamps hidden under the thick humus. Not to mention main battle tanks and crawler personnel carriers, even spider tanks cannot pass through.

The only vehicle that hunters and prospectors can rely on is a four-legged military robot called a "mule."

The mechanical mule's dead weight does not exceed 300 kilograms, but it can carry half a ton of cargo and travel for more than 100 kilometers at a speed of 20 kilometers per hour. It has solar panels to supplement energy and crystals to provide energy.

In an emergency, supernatural beings can also transmit psychic energy directly to its power core.

Humans do not have satellites in other worlds, so the global positioning system naturally does not exist. However, biochemists and mechanical engineers teamed up to implant a large number of monster nerves into the body of the "mule", giving it a certain degree of low-level intelligence and the ability to hear.

It understands the special instructions of humans and follows its master closely.

Lysiya's prospecting team carried a total of fifty mechanical mules, which were used to carry most of the supplies, allowing the members of the prospecting team to travel lightly.

But this does not mean that their journey will be much easier, because Lysiya chose a less traveled road, or in other words, there is no road at all. Everyone, including crystal experts and prospectors, must pick up a machete.

, among the vines, weeds and strange and twisted trees, chopping hard and advancing hard.

Many prospectors have complained about how long they will stay in this hellish place and where they will go.

Every few kilometers forward, Lu Siya would stop and let Dr. Ye, a blood-striped flower expert, collect soil samples to look for traces of blood-striped flower settlements.

She herself would also concentrate and calm down, and clusters of alluring spiritual patterns would emerge from both sides of her temples. After lingering around her eyes, they would converge to the center of her eyebrows, as if she were opening a third eye made purely of spiritual energy to explore the depths of the jungle.

Then, lead in a new direction.

"Dr. Ye found traces of the blood-striped flower settlement where it once grew. I also sensed that not far ahead, spiritual energy spewed out from the ground, as fierce as a volcanic eruption. There must be extremely rich mineral veins there!"

Under Lysiya's guidance, they gradually moved away from areas with frequent human activities and entered an unknown world.

Although this area has been repeatedly cleaned up by the powerful people in the heaven realm, it is inevitable that there are no fish that have slipped through the net among the ferocious beasts of hell, and there are even snakes, insects, rats and ants that cannot be killed no matter how hard they are, dormant in the dark, greedily staring at these moving flesh.

piece.

However, compared to snakes, insects, rats, ants and fish that slip through the net, the most common dangerous creature in Tombstone Forest is of course——

"Snake vine!"

The captain of the sharp blade team "Mita" who was walking at the front of the team suddenly shouted loudly. The scimitar was unsheathed like lightning, sending out a cold and biting cold light above everyone's heads, instantly cutting off seven or eight vines hanging from the branches.

break.

It wasn't until these "vines" spurted out blood-red sap, and the vines that fell to the ground squirmed and curled like poisonous snakes, that everyone realized that these were not ordinary plants, but extremely active carnivorous spiritual plants.

Snake vine, a spiritual plant that feeds on monsters, is a giant tree that can "form a forest" like a banyan tree. A snake vine tree can split into thousands of freely moving vines, and there are also dramatic growths on the vines.

Once the poisonous spikes touch the prey, it can immediately wrap around the prey like a python and tear it into pieces. It is one of the culprits that turns this jungle into a death tomb.

Snake vines will never appear alone. Suddenly, with a numbing rustling sound, countless vines shot out from the darkness and wrapped around the prospectors.

The combat-type transcendent of the Blade Team stood on the outermost edge, and layers of cold light suddenly erupted from his body, forming an airtight wall of swords and cutting off hundreds of snake vines.

However, there are too many snake vines. Including Captain Scimitar, they have to take into account the safety of more than a dozen crystal experts and prospectors. It is inevitable that they will lose sight of one thing and be in a hurry.

At this time, in the humus under everyone's feet, another big insect, thicker than a python, jumped up. Its head split into four parts, turned into a bloody mouth, and rushed towards a prospector!

The Rift Anaconda, a second-level super beast, often swims near the snake vine and helps the snake vine deal with prey that is too big to be directly entangled. It is a typical symbiotic relationship.

Although it is comparable in size to a python, it is not actually a snake monster, but a mutated insect similar to a giant earthworm. Its racial talent is to burrow and hide. It likes to hibernate in the depths of humus in dense forests, even if its combat power is much higher than it.

It is difficult for ferocious beasts from hell or powerful people from heaven to sense its existence.

Once it succeeds in a surprise attack, it will immediately crawl into the hole under the humus under the cover of snake vines, follow the cracks in the ground, and escape without a trace in an instant. It is a cumbersome and difficult hunter.

Seeing that the stunned prospector was about to be bitten by the rip anaconda.

Even if he didn't die, he would probably be bitten off by the rip anaconda, including his skin and bones, thirty or fifty kilograms of flesh and blood.

Scimitar was about to rescue him, but dozens of snake vines shot at his vitals at the same time, slowing him down for half a second.

One was surrounded by arcs of electricity, the other was surrounded by flames, and two chains appeared out of nowhere, wrapping around the anaconda's bloody mouth, strangling it tightly like a reining in a horse.

The runes on the chain shone brightly, and through the vibration of the atomic spherical energy layer, tens of thousands of volts of electric light and thousands of degrees of high temperature were stirred up. Like red-hot iron wire cutting through tofu easily, it penetrated deeply into the Anaconda's body.

No matter how sluggish the Anaconda's nerves were, he still felt the sharp pain in his heart and let out a "hissing" cry.

The chain shook and relaxed slightly, allowing it to breathe for a moment.

But this is just a prelude to a fatal attack.

At the end of the chain, two arc-shaped swords simultaneously emitted a hazy and strange light like a blood moon. They cut through its bloody mouth that bloomed like a crab claw, directly cutting its several-meter-long front half into four parts.

piece.

The prospector was in shock as he watched Meng Chao slowly retract the chain blade.

Scimitar's eyes also glowed with a mixture of surprise and appreciation.

Meng Chao stepped forward, knelt down on one knee, and ignored the Anaconda still struggling desperately. Starlight shone between his fingers, and the lancet and probe suddenly penetrated, and then he said to the scimitar: "The Digestion of the Anaconda

The glands contain a special kind of acid, which is a very precious material. Can you buy me some time so I can harvest it?"

"……good."

Scimitar agreed subconsciously, thought for a moment, and added, "How long do you want, the snake vine is still active, we can't wait for you forever."

"I'm already fine."

As Meng Chao spoke, he took out the digestive gland of the anaconda, which was as thin as a cicada's wing and trembling, and put it into the mithril stabilizing solution.

"..."

The scimitar raised its beard and without looking back, muttering and cutting off seven or eight more snake vines.

"It's useless for you to cut it off like this. The relationship between the snake vine and the snake vine tree is like the aerial roots and the banyan tree. No matter how much you cut off, it will not cause serious damage to the main body and can regenerate at any time."

Meng Chao pointed to the depths of the dense forest with a searchlight, "If I guess correctly, the ninth tree from here is the one that looks very much like a crooked-neck pine tree. The one I am focusing on with the searchlight is the camouflage pole."

Nice snake vine tree.

"It is the core of the entire snake vine. As long as it is destroyed, these snake vines will naturally die instantly."

Scimitar frowned: "How do you know?"

"Smell it and see it."

Meng Chao explained, “After the snake vine entangles its prey, it will be sent to the snake vine tree for digestion and absorption, so there is a lingering smell of blood around the snake vine tree, instead of the fresh and muddy smell of ordinary plants.

"Even if some large monsters are entangled in snake vines, they are not so easy to kill. They will continue to struggle during the dragging process, leaving clues on thorns, trees and rocks.

"First rely on the sense of smell to narrow down the scope of suspicion, and then observe which plant has the most friction marks next to it. That will naturally be the snake vine itself."

Scimitar took a deep look at Meng Chao.

Several senior hunters of the Blade Team rushed towards the spiritual plant pointed by Meng Chao.

Amidst the screams of countless vines, the spiritual plant burst into flames.

While it was burning, it screamed like a beast and spewed out a large amount of blood-like juice. The scene was horrifying.

And after the machete cut it in two, the snake vines dancing wildly around it withered down, withered and rotted at a speed visible to the naked eye.

"It's really not easy for someone to be valued by Miss Lu."

Freed from the entanglement of snake vines, the members of the Blade Team became friendly towards Meng Chao.

"Linchuan's junior brother is certainly extraordinary."

Lu Siya said with a smile.

After trekking all night, they encountered three more attacks from spiritual plants and low-level super beasts.

However, under the joint suppression of three heavenly warriors and the sharp blade team, they all survived without any danger.

As for the hell beasts at levels four to six, they possess a certain level of intelligence and do not dare to attack rashly when faced with this team that looks extremely difficult to offend at first glance.

As dawn approached, they hunted a blood-striped flower parasite and extracted fresh blood-striped flower fungus clusters.

This shows that they are heading in the right direction.

Dr. Ye also used this blood-striped flower parasite to conduct an on-site inhibitor experiment.

Sure enough, the monster injected with the inhibitor did not turn into an undead creature, but died honestly with the blood-striped flower sclerotia in its body.

Under the guidance of Lin Chuan, a senior hunter, they quickly found the lair of the blood-striped flower parasite.

And a primitive settlement of blood-striped flowers that had not yet found a host was discovered nearby.
Chapter completed!