170.Chapter 170: The Devil's Vine
Once all the members of the team were in agreement, the sled convoy corrected its direction again, packed up all the things they had used during their temporary break, climbed into their respective sleds, and drove in the direction of the target again.
The snow in front of me still looks gentle to the point that there is not much undulation, but the snow is higher in some places and lower in some places, driving all the way to the goal, after turning a higher snow hill, Zhang Su's voice suddenly came from the intercom: "There seems to be movement ahead." ”
"Movement? What kind of movement? ”
"I'm not sure, but I'm afraid it's alive."
Alive?!
Since leaving the base, Zhang Su has used the wind ability to spread in the direction they are heading and the feedback that the wind brings to him to investigate the way forward, but to be honest, this trick is of little use in the frozen world now.
There are indeed zombies in the wilderness, but those zombies are basically hiding under the ice and snow, and they often wait for them to pass by and the vibration is transmitted to the ice and snow before they slowly get up from the snow. And Zhang Su's wind can only probe in the wilderness and in the air, and there is almost nothing to do about what is under the ice and snow, unless the ice and snow are all melted now...... Otherwise, his ability can only be useful if he finds something active on top of the snow layer.
Fortunately, for the sake of safety, Luo Xun knew that the exploration of Zhang Su's ability was not suitable for the current situation, but he still insisted that he inquire about the surrounding situation anytime and anywhere, so that he could find the situation in time.
"Yes, about seven or eight hundred meters later, behind that snow slope." Luo Xun had already slowed down and was parallel to the car they were in, and he couldn't help frowning when he saw the direction he was pointing in - that was the direction they were targeting...... Judging from the time and distance traveled, it was almost their destination!
What could it be? "What about the size, the quantity? Can you find out? Luo Xun asked with some concern.
Zhang Su closed his eyes again, and a gust of wind appeared around him, and then blew straight ahead from him. It took about five or six minutes for him to open his eyes: "It's not small...... It's not like a zombie, it's just one, but it seems to be being attacked by something, and I don't know what it is. ”
After pondering for a while, Luo Xun and the others set off again, and the target was a small snow hill not far away.
Luo Xun and the others weren't ready to rush over to participate in the inexplicable battle, but it shouldn't be a problem to hide behind the obstacle and sneak around to observe the situation.
After the car cautiously drove to the snow hill, Luo Xun and the others checked it first, and after confirming that the snow hill was a bungalow building, they simply parked the car and secretly climbed onto the roof.
As soon as they climbed onto the roof, they saw the "battlefield" mentioned by Zhang Su from a distance, an unknown animal mutated animal seemed to be fighting with something, the size of the animal was not small, but its back was facing everyone, and it couldn't stand up at all, and it was fluttering on the ground, so everyone didn't recognize it for a while. The snow on the snow was messed up by the animal's struggle, revealing what was underneath, but it was too far away for anyone to see what it was.
Luo Xun raised the binoculars and took a closer look, and said in surprise: "Mutant plants!" Attack-type mutant plant devil vine!! ”
"What's that?"
"Mutant plants?"
"Plants? Can plants survive on such a cold day? ”
Everyone's focus was clearly not on the same point, but in any case, they had temporarily discovered the problem ahead, and the problem they might soon face - this was the test field, and now a field that was clearly their target location had mutated plants...... Is the rest of the farmland still safe?!
Luo Xun quickly took out the hand-drawn map they brought out, and it was clearly marked - the target building they were going to was the real yàn building sandwiched in the middle by a total of eight fields in front and back!! The mutated plants and farmland are not close to each other, and if they want to get close, God knows if those plants have grown where they shouldn't!?
"It's hard?" Yan Fei couldn't help but ask in a low voice when he saw Luo Xun's brows tightly knit and his expression was solemn.
Luo Xun nodded slightly: "...... As long as this plant entangles the target, it will die and will not let go...... And it's not afraid of fire. "It's one of the toughest mutant plants in the last days, and what's even more terrifying is that they're relatively easy to appear.
Devil's vines look like the weird tentacles of some works, but they are much more dangerous than plants that simply have a special function. This plant is brownish-black with large and small spikes and suckers! This sucker is specifically designed to suck blood! And these things are all over the vines, and they are intertwined with those horrible spikes, and almost as long as any prey is caught by them, there is no way to live!
What's even more terrifying is that this kind of thing has rough skin and thick flesh, and the body is full of moisture, and it is not afraid of fire at all! Even if they encounter a fire and can burn through their limbs, there is too much water in it, so it will not ignite a fire in a place full of devil vines, and this thing also has the most basic survival instinct, and once it is burned by fire, it will use its branches to extinguish it.
Of course, it's easy to do it if there are only a few plants, but this kind of thing is often grown in patches, who wants to accidentally get into it...... Then don't even think about coming back alive.
"Brother Luo, what did this thing come about?" He Qiankun saw that Luo Xun seemed to know this plant, and asked curiously.
Luo Xun's face became even more ugly, and he pointed to the animal in front of him that had obviously lost its way out of life and completely collapsed to the ground: "That's farmland over there." ”
"Huh?!"
Zhang Su laughed: "Isn't this the end?" What does it grow in the farmland? Crops! "So these devil vines are all mutants of grain!!
The reason why Luo Xun was able to recognize this kind of thing at once was precisely because this thing was mutated from grain crops such as rice and wheat. In the previous life, there was no guarantee that this kind of thing would pop up in the farmland of the base, causing a nearby field to not be able to grow crops. Fortunately, they tend not to grow very densely, so they don't have much impact on the base, and they are often cleared before these vines grow - the devil vines that are not fully grown do not grow suckers, so their lethality is limited. Luo Xun had seen it a few times with his own eyes.
But the fields outside are different, in some places, crops have not had time to be planted before the end of the world, or the plants have died after the mutation because no one has taken care of them for a long time, but once you encounter this kind of patches and large areas of farmland......
"That'...... Can we still go in? "They're here for the real yàn base! Now the real yàn building is blocked by these plants......
Luo Xun calculated the approximate extent of the farmland and was about to say something, when he saw that the prey killed by the vines had been quickly separated, dismembered, and torn away by the vines at this time, and those vines were quickly dismembered as if they were professional dissecters, and finally there was not even a skeleton left, and it completely disappeared from everyone's sight. The whole process didn't even take half an hour.
After that, the place that had been tossed by the mutant animal quickly "wriggled", and the surrounding snow rushed towards the vacant place like waves, covering the qiē below. After that, the place became as if it was indistinguishable from its surroundings.
After watching this scene in amazement, everyone gasped in unison, and then looked at each other.
“…… Are you going? ”
"God, you can't take a shortcut and pass over what looks flat, God knows what's down there!"
Luo Xun also nodded slightly, every time they went out, they would basically take the place where it should be the main road, this was because he knew that there would be more terrifying traps in the wilderness. But he couldn't always tell if they were off the beaten track. But now......
"Let's go to the factory, but before we do that, we need to roughly estimate the area of those mutated plants, so that we don't accidentally step on a mine when we pass by here." Luo Xun took a deep breath, turned his head and said solemnly to everyone.
"How do you measure it? Isn't it marked on the map? Everyone looked at Luo Xun curiously.
Luo Xun pointed around: "There are not only experimental fields here, there are fields here, and there are many farmlands nearby." "The so-called test field should also be built in a place where crops can grow, right? The land in such places must be suitable for the growth of crops, so it is often built on the farmland of some villages, and only a separate piece is carved out for the professors and experts of the school to use with their students.
Therefore, in fact, the experimental field contains only about eight pieces of farmland, and the vast majority of the fields are not a whole acre. But the rest of the land is more standard farmland, and most of the fields are on both sides of the road. What Luo Xun and the others have to do now is to calculate how many farmlands there are with mutated plants. After all, the snow hasn't melted yet, and they look at it at a glance, and if they don't pay attention and accidentally step on the thunder when they leave...... Who will make it out alive?
It is said that it is to be measured, but in fact, there is nothing to brainstorm when it is actually operated - it is all about the body.
Luo Xun had a detailed map of a nearby area in his hand - this was the map they had drawn after they had retrieved the map stored in their computer before they came out. While it may be a bit inaccurate, it's enough for now.
They use ranged weapons, such as crossbows, small stones, and ranged abilities of the Adepts, to throw stones, shoot crossbows, and abilities at the field from a distance away. Although these devil vines can become very dangerous and difficult once they fall into it, once they know the range of their movements, as long as they bypass them, they are not at all a threat to passers-by. After all, these things can only grow in place and swing their branches in place, and as long as they are out of their range, they can only swing their branches at you, but they can't do anything about you.
But these things are very belligerent, and they will attack their targets with the slightest noise. Therefore, simply throwing stones at them can determine their range, which is much safer than mutant plants that will lurk for a long time and wait for the target to completely enter the range of their attack before launching a violent attack. However, those kinds of plants often have problems such as being fragile and afraid of fire, easy to cut and so on. In general, although there are fewer and fewer ways for humans to survive after the end of the world, if you are careful to survive, you can always find a way to survive.