230 - Analysis of Causes
"What's going on?" Even if he slowed down the speed of his fall, the ground was too soft and he could still feel it. This article was written by...... Starting
"I don't know, this ground is actually soft, and Brother Xu, look, the trees in front of you can still grow on such a soft ground, isn't it strange?"
It is difficult for people to stand upright on such soft ground, not to mention whether the soil under their feet is or not, this tree always grows taller than people, but it does not look inclined at all.
"Let's take a look." Xu Heran proposed.
The two men walked slowly along the ground until they reached the nearest tree.
Xu Ran stretched out his hand and stroked slowly on the rough bark, this tree does not know how many years it has grown, obviously the bark has not cracked, it looks like a new tree, but this thick trunk is somewhat revealing its age.
"This Tree"
"Is there anything strange about this tree?" Seeing Xu Xu's appearance of wanting to speak and stopping, Su Su frowned and walked up and stretched out his hand to check slowly against the bark.
"The tree looks hollow." Su Su said in surprise.
Xu Heran nodded suddenly, "That's right, the inside of this tree seems to be hollow." ”
This is even more strange, how did a hollow tree grow to such a large size?
"Brother Xu, you stay back, I'll split it and take a look."
Knowing that Xu Heran's sword was broken by the copper bell during the battle with Zeno, Su Su took the lead in pulling out the Luoshuang sword and said to him.
Xu bowed his head and took two steps back.
Su Su suddenly raised the Luoshuang Sword and slashed towards the tree.
There was a loud bang, and the tree seemed to have its head cut off, and the entire crown flew away. Only one stake remains.
"Sure enough, it's empty!" Su Su was shocked.
The stake that was left behind was nothing more than a thin layer of trees wrapped around the bark, and the bottom of the taproot, which was like a barrel, contained a layer of black water, and it seemed to have a kind of tentacles growing around it, white with a little fluff.
"What is this?" Could it be the sap of the tree? But what is that white fluff?
"Don't touch it." Seeing Su Su stretching out his hand to check what was going on, Xu Heran suddenly interrupted her.
"What's wrong?" Su Su looked at him puzzled.
"There's something weird about this water." He said. "The ground is soft in this col. The tree is hollow again, but there is such a large amount of black water inside, it will never be that simple. ”
I'm afraid this black water will also have something to do with something they haven't thought of yet.
Su Su heard this. Retract your hand cautiously.
However, if you want to find out, you can't just sit still.
Su Su drew his sword and cut down several trees in a row. It's the same thing.
Unusually, however, except for the first tree. The white fluff inside the rest of the trees seemed to be alive, like tentacles swinging from side to side.
"It's disgusting." Su Su glanced at the wriggling white fluff and couldn't help frowning.
Just imagine, in the pitch-black black water, there are patches of white fluffy touches stirring inside. Su Su felt unappetizing when he thought about it.
"Xiaohuai! Xiaohuai! ”
On the top of the mountain, Shi Wei suddenly shouted Xiaohuai's name.
Su Su and Xu suddenly heard this, and quickly looked over there. I saw Xiaohuai writhing in pain, as if he had fallen into an evil spirit. He kept pounding his chest, and his other hand was tightly pinching the clothes on his body, looking miserable.
"Xiaohuai!" Su Su was suddenly startled, and quickly flew up to his side.
"Xiaohuai, what's wrong?" Suddenly reaching out and grabbing the hand that he intended to beat his body tightly in the palm of his hand, Su Su turned his head and asked.
"I don't know, all of a sudden he's like that." Without warning, she was taken aback.
was pinched by Su Su's wrist, Xiaohuai's body was a little weak, and his teeth were creaking.
"Get him out of here!" As if sensing something, Xu said suddenly, and then quickly took Xiaohuai by the back of the neck and led him out of the mountain.
Sure enough, as soon as he left this col like a furnace, Xiaohuai immediately regained his consciousness and looked at everyone with a surprised face.
"Did something happen?"
Su Su pursed her lips, not knowing how to answer.
Xu said lightly: "I guess it must be because of this mountain." ”
This mountain, as everyone sees, is like a natural furnace, if you cast a spell inside, it will be easy to enter and difficult to get out, if the person who is trapped into the col cannot find the exit correctly, he will definitely be trapped in it all the time, and the person who set up this trap only needs to cast a little spell to strangle all those people inside.
Most of the fox fairies in it died for this reason.
"The trees that Su Su just cut down are also very abnormal, not to mention, ordinary trees are absolutely impossible to survive if they are hollow inside, but those in the col can, not only live, but also live very well." With such a thick tree, the book cover is so fresh, it seems that it should have absorbed good nutrients recently.
"And there are a lot of white fluffy tentacles growing inside those trees, which should be the organs that draw nutrients, and the black water below, I think, should be the source of nutrients." Xu said with a solemn face.
Shi Wei didn't understand it a little, after all, she was on the top of the mountain at the time and didn't go down to check, so she didn't know what the fluffy black water that Xu Heran said was all about.
"Brother Xu means that the corpses of those foxes are the nourishment of the tree?" How so? Although she had heard and seen some strange flowers and plants that used human or animal carcasses as nutrients, she had never seen anything like this.
After all, although there are many fox corpses under the col, they are all intact, how can it be said that they have been absorbed by the tree?
"I don't know the situation, but my guess is that the ground under the col is very soft to make it easier to absorb nutrients from the ground, and the nutrients that those trees need are not corpses."
"Not a corpse?"
"Yes." Xu nodded heabruptly, "It's the breath on the corpse!" ”
This is also the reason why so many fox immortals died here, but they couldn't smell any breath around!
"Then why is Xiaohuai so painful?" Even if, as Xu Heran said, those trees sucked the breath of the corpse through the soft ground, then why did Xiaohuai become like that? He didn't die, he didn't stick to the ground, but the two of them stood on the ground, nothing happened!
"Maybe it's because these trees have absorbed a lot of fox fairy breath before, and suddenly felt the breath on Xiaohuai's body, thinking that the breath on those corpses was not absorbed, and they wanted to absorb his breath through another method."
After all, the whole col is like a whole