Creeping jungle.

Bitter rain of ice.

All around was a thick black fog, and only the occasional lightning bolt tore through the dark clouds, reflecting the shadowy monsters.

The group trudged through the depths of the Tombstone Forest.

This is a typical primeval jungle, with towering trees and countless caves and swamps hidden under a thick layer of humus, not to mention main battle tanks and tracked personnel carriers, not to mention spider chariots.

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

The mechanical mule weighs no more than 300 kilograms, but it can carry half a ton of cargo, travel more than 100 kilometers at a speed of 20 kilometers per hour, and can be powered by solar panels, as well as spars, and in case of emergency, it can also transmit spiritual energy directly to its power core by the transcendent.

Human beings have no satellites in the other world, and the global positioning system naturally does not exist, but biochemists and mechanical engineers have teamed up to implant a large number of monster nerves in the body of the "mule", so that it has a certain degree of low-level intelligence, can understand the special instructions of humans, and closely follow the master's progress.

Lu Siya's prospecting team carried a full fifty mechanical mules to carry most of the supplies, so that the members of the prospecting team could travel lightly.

But that didn't mean their journey was any easier, as Lysya had chosen a path that was inaccessible or no road at all, and everyone, including hedron experts and prospectors, had to pick up the mountain opener and slash between vines, weeds, and strangely twisted trees.

Many prospectors have complained about how long they are going to stay in this ghost place and where they are going.

And every few kilometers forward, Lu Siya would stop and ask Dr. Ye, an expert in the Blood Pattern Flower, to collect soil samples and look for traces of the Blood Pattern Flower Settlement.

She herself would be calm, and clusters of bewitching spirit patterns emerged from the sides of her temples, wrapping around her eyes and converging to the center of her eyebrows, as if opening a third purely psionic eye, exploring the depths of the jungle and then pointing in new directions.

"Dr. Ye found traces of the growth of the Blood Pattern Flower Settlement, and I also sensed that not far ahead, the spiritual energy gushed out from the ground, as fierce as a volcanic eruption, and there must be extremely rich mineral veins there!"

Under Lu Siya's guidance, they gradually moved away from the area where humans frequently moved and entered the unknown world.

Although this area has been repeatedly cleaned up by the powerhouses of the Heavenly Realm, it is inevitable that there are no fish that have slipped through the net among the fierce beasts of hell, and there are even snakes, insects, rats and ants that cannot be killed by any matter how they are killed, lurking in the dark, greedily staring at these moving pieces of meat.

However, compared to snakes, insects, rats, ants and fish that slipped through the net, the most common dangerous creatures in the tombstone forest are, of course, -

"Snake vine!"

The captain of the Blade Clan, "Scimitar", who was at the forefront of the team, suddenly let out a loud shout, and the scimitar came out of its sheath like lightning, swaying a cold and biting cold light above everyone's heads, instantly cutting off seven or eight vines hanging from the branches.

It wasn't until these "vines" spewed red sap like blood, and the vines that fell to the ground wriggled and curled up like poisonous snakes, that everyone realized that this was not an ordinary plant, but a highly active carnivorous spiritual plant.

Snake vine, a spiritual plant that feeds on monsters, a behemoth that can "grow into a forest alone" like a banyan tree, a snake vine tree, can split thousands of free-moving vines, and the vines also grow highly poisonous spikes, once they touch the prey, they can immediately entangle the prey like a python and tear it into pieces, which is one of the culprits who turned this jungle into a death grave.

The snake vine would never appear alone, and suddenly, with a scalp-tinging sound, countless vines shot out of the darkness and wound towards the prospectors.

The Blade Clan's Combat Transcendent stood on the outermost periphery, and layers of cold light suddenly erupted around him, forming an impenetrable sword wall that cut off hundreds of snake vines.

But there are too many snake vines, including the captain's scimitar, and they have to take care of the safety of more than a dozen spar experts and prospectors, so it is inevitable that they will lose sight of one or the other, and they will be in a hurry.

At this time, in the humus under everyone's feet, another big insect that was thicker than a python jumped up, split its head into four petals, turned into a bloody mouth, and pounced on a prospector!

The Rift Forest, a second-level super beast, often swims near the snake vine, helping the snake vine deal with prey that is too large to be directly entangled, which is a typical symbiotic relationship.

Although the size is comparable to that of a python, it is not actually a snake monster, but a mutant insect similar to a giant earthworm, and its racial talent is to burrow and conceal, and it likes to lurk in the depths of humus in the dense forest, even if the combat power is several points higher than it, it is difficult to perceive its existence.

Once it is successfully attacked, it will immediately burrow into the hole under the humus under the cover of the snake vine, follow the crack in the ground, and escape without a trace in an instant, which is both obscene and difficult to hunt.

Seeing that this stunned prospector was about to be bitten by the Rift Forest.

Even if you don't die, I'm afraid you will have to bite off thirty or fifty catties of flesh and blood by the crack forest snake and belt bones.

The scimitar was about to come to the rescue, but dozens of snake vines shot at his vital point at the same time, slowing him down by half a second.

A wisp of electric arcs, a wisp of flames, but two chains came out of nowhere, just entangled the bloody mouth of the rift forest worm, and strangled it tightly like a horse.

The runes on the chain shone brightly, and through the vibration of the spherical energy layer of the atom, tens of thousands of volts of electricity and thousands of degrees of high temperature were stirred, like a red-hot wire easily cutting into tofu, and deeply stabbed into the body of the rift forest snake.

No matter how sluggish the nerve response of the cracked forest beetle was, it felt a sharp pain in the cone and let out a "hiss" wail.

The chains flickered, loosening slightly, giving it a moment of respite.

But this is only a prelude to a deadly attack.

At the end of the chain, two curved war knives bloomed at the same time with a hazy and strange light like a bloody moon, and crossed into the mouth of its blood basin that bloomed like a crab claw chrysanthemum, directly cutting the front half of its several meters long into four pieces.

The prospector was stunned and watched Meng Chao unhurriedly retract the chain blade.

The scimitar's eyes also bloomed with a brilliance of surprise and appreciation.

Meng Chao stepped forward, knelt on one knee, regardless of the fact that the rift forest snake was still struggling desperately, a little star shone between his fingers, the lancet and the probe poked into it violently, and then said to the scimitar: "The digestive glands of the crack forest snake contain a special acid, which is a very precious material, can you help me buy a little time, I want to harvest it." ”

“…… Good. ”

The scimitar subconsciously agreed, thought about it, and added, "How long will you be, the snake vine is still active, we can't wait for you all the time." ”

"I'm all right."

Meng Chao said, taking out the trembling crack worm digestive gland, which was as thin as a cicada's wings, and threw it into the Mithril stabilization solution.

“……”

The scimitar cocked his beard, and without looking back, he muttered and cut off seven or eight more snake vines.

"It's useless for you to chop around like this, the snake vine is like the relationship between the air root and the banyan tree to the snake vine tree, even if you cut it more, it can't cause heavy damage to the body, and it can regenerate at any time."

Meng Chao pointed to the depths of the dense forest with a searchlight, "If I'm not mistaken, count the ninth tree from here, the one that looks like a crooked-necked pine tree, and the one I'm locking with a searchlight is the snake vine tree with excellent camouflage."

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

Machete frowned: "How do you know?" ”

"Smell it, and see it."

Meng Chao explained, "After the snake vine is entangled in the prey, it will be sent to the vicinity of the snake vine tree to digest and absorb, so there is a lingering smell of blood around the snake vine tree, rather than the fragrance and muddy smell of ordinary plants."

"And some large monsters, even if they are entangled in snakes and vines, are not so easy to poison, and they will still struggle in the process of dragging, 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, which is naturally the body of the snake vine."

The scimitar glanced at Meng Chao deeply.

Several veteran hunters of the Blade Clan swooped down on the spiritual plant that Meng Chao was referring to.

Amid the screams of countless vines, the spiritualized plant burst into flames.

While burning, it let out a beast-like scream, spurting a large amount of blood-like juice, and the scene was terrifying.

And after the scimitar slashed it in two, the snake vines that danced wildly around it really wilted, withering and rotting at a speed visible to the naked eye.

"The person who can be valued by Miss Lu is really not simple."

Breaking away from the entanglement of snakes and vines, the members of the Blade Clan, their attitudes towards Meng Chao have become friendly.

"Lin Chuan's junior brother, of course, is extraordinary."

Lu Siya said with a smile.

After a night of trekking, they were attacked by three more spiritual plants and low-level super beasts.

But under the joint suppression of the three Heaven Realm powerhouses and the Blade Clan, all of them survived without danger.

As for the hell beasts of level four to six, they have a certain amount of wisdom, and they do not dare to attack rashly in the face of this team that is extremely difficult to mess with at first glance.

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

This shows that they are moving in the right direction.

Dr. Ye also used this blood-streaked flower parasite to conduct an inhibitor experiment on the spot.

Sure enough, the monster that was injected with the inhibitor did not become an undead creature, but died honestly with the blood pattern flower nucleate in its body.

Under the guidance of Lin Chuan, a veteran hunter, they quickly found the lair of this blood-streaked flower parasite.

And found a primitive settlement of the Blood Pattern Flower in the vicinity where the host has not yet been found.

It grew like red moss in the shade of the bushes, so thick that it dripped, and spread all the way to a large sparkling lake.

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