"System, help me identify this thing. Pen, Fun, Pavilion www.biquge.info" Zhang Chao said as he looked at the zombie monsters on the branches of the forest like spirit monkeys, these zombies are really agile, completely different from the description in the novel movie.

But looking at their tattered clothes, you can still tell that most of them are herdsmen or residents of small towns near here, and their bodies should be quite fragile, so they are...... These green-haired fungi parasitize and intensify them?

Zhang Chao shook his head, now that he already had an example, he didn't need to spare any more in the face of the dense zombies that were no less than hundreds.

I saw that as soon as he raised his hand, the rapidly flowing air flow suddenly turned into a sharp sword qi, with a piercing scream, and the sound of gold and iron intersecting immediately sounded, these seemingly rotten and shriveled zombies, the strength of their bodies was not inferior to gold and iron.

The next moment, I saw that the movements of those zombies stopped for a moment at the same time, and their empty eyes completely lost their luster.

Their heads flew up directly after them, and the blood spurted out two feet high, and their bodies fell straight to the ground, and they immediately collapsed without even struggling.

"Although they are parasitized, it is the humans themselves, not the green hairs, who hold them together, so without their heads, they still have to die. Zhang Chao said.

"They should be alive, and you see that their blood has not yet clotted. Hiko pointed to a corpse.

Zhang Chao frowned: "So...... Did I kill them?"

Hiko shook his head and sighed: "Becoming like this, killing them would be a relief, if it were me, I would rather die immediately than become this kind of walking dead." ”

Zhang Chao nodded, didn't dwell on these, but observed the zombies one after another, and after being sure that they were all of the same species, he burned them to the ground, leaving only the original one.

Because although the original zombie had a broken spine, it was not dead, and still had the breath of life, and although this breath of life was rapidly declining, it was definitely more suitable for study than those dead corpses.

At this moment, the system's prompt suddenly sounded: "Identification completed - spore parasite, controlled by the spores split by the giant wood emperor mistletoe and parasitic host, completely lost his mind and obeyed the instinct contained in the spores. ”

"Parasitic spores, single-celled organisms with strong vitality produced by the division of the giant tree emperor mistletoe. ”

"The giant tree emperor mistletoe (larvae), a parasitic plant, the adult body is extremely large, the canopy can cover the range of its own space, the most powerful emperor mistletoe can even use the entire planet as a parasite, seize its nutrients until the planet is destroyed, and the emperor mistletoe breaks away and becomes an astral creature. ”

Giant Wood Emperor Mistletoe?

What is it?

Zhang Chao was slightly stunned, and immediately raised his head and looked at the giant branches that seemed to be hanging from the sky, and felt a cold air suddenly rise from the bottom of his heart, could this be the so-called giant wood emperor mistletoe?

Able to feed on a planet...... It's terrifying, the trees are rooted in the ground, although they also absorb the nutrients of the planet, but they will eventually give back to the earth, and that one is far from parasitic.

So this is called a parasitic plant...... Thinking of this, he lowered his head and found that there was not a single fallen leaf on the whole earth, and there was not a trace of green on the surface, only a dull earth yellow like twilight.

He didn't dare to approach the branches and leaves of this giant tree anymore, and muttered to himself, "It turns out that this bullshit zombie was made by this tree!"

Seeing Zhang Chao's caution, Yan also became vigilant: "What the hell is going on?"

Zhang Chao came back to his senses, took a long breath, and then explained to Yan: "These green hairs are the spores split by this tree, which are parasitic in the human body, and this tree is an extremely terrifying plant, its name is ......."

Zhang Chao was talking about the terrifying terrifying plant with Yan, and at the same time, Kazuhiko quickly moved towards the place where the zombies came, but this time, both of them became extremely cautious, and they were no longer as leisurely as before.

The terrifying thing about the giant wood emperor mistletoe is already obvious, since the two of them have bumped into each other, they will definitely not give up hope of destroying this plant, otherwise they will let this plant grow, and before the void invades, I am afraid that the entire rune land will be destroyed first.

Moving forward, the two gradually approached the trunk of the giant tree, but when they arrived here, the pupils of the two suddenly shrank, only to see that on the countless branches, each long branch was hung with a zombie full of green hair, and in this area, there were no less than tens of thousands of branches, and there were tens of thousands of corpses on it, which made people feel their scalps numb at a glance, and their hearts were shocked.

And the zombies were even alive, turning their heads stiffly and staring at them with blank eyes.

"Oh my God!" Zhang Chao has seen countless tragic situations in the world, but it is the first time in his life that such a terrifying and strange scene as this is seen.

"Who hung them up?" Hiko, who suddenly gasped, and hung so many people on a giant tree hundreds of meters, or even thousands of meters high, this was not a small project.

Zhang Chao shook his head: "I want to ...... No one seems to have hung them up. ”

"How is that possible, could it be that they ....... it themselves" Thinking of this, Hiko's expression also became frightened, "No, I would rather than this tree, I would have liked that the tree itself had lifted them." ”

"I'm reminded of a phenomenon I've heard about on Earth called zombie ants. Zhang Chao was noncommittal and said with a wry smile.

Zombie ants are a phenomenon caused by the parasitism of the fungus Cordyceps lateralis, which infects ants and uses their bodies to help the fungus find a suitable environment to grow.

When the ants are infected with the fungus and go through a short incubation period, they will leave the nest, find a leaf in the nearby wooded ground, bite its veins tightly, and die, creating the perfect environment for the fungus to grow.

But every behavior has a motive, the fungus infects the ants, and the manipulation of the behavior is to reproduce better, so what is the reason why this green giant wood spores infect these humans?

This also makes sense, after all, these corpses are hanging from the branches of the tree now, which should be to provide nutrients for the tree, but why does it only infect humans but not animals, or why don't those infected animals show up?

You must know that here, Zhang Chao has never seen a human being, on the contrary, there are a lot of animals, all of them are alive and jumping.

The mysteries are one after another, which can't help but make Zhang Chao, who doesn't dare to release all his strength to investigate all this for the time being, anxious.

However, at this moment, the announcement of the main quest two rang out: "The main quest two begins: rely on the remains of the giant wood emperor mistletoe to build a crystal hub and create magical mechanical warriors." (The Crystal Hub does not need to be redeemed by the chosen one, and is provided free of charge to the system, but the control of the Crystal Hub is also owned by the system)"

Zhang Chao's brows furrowed: "Why?"

The system hesitated slightly, and then the voice became indifferent: "Verify the permission of the chosen one...... The lack of authority for the chosen ones can be seen in part - preparation for war. ”

"Who are you fighting against?" Zhang Chao asked.

"The chosen one does not have enough access to know. ”