Chapter 22: The Bloodthirsty Forest Guard

Early the next morning, Chen Mian finished eating, adjusted his state, temporarily put Xiao Hei into the beast bag, entered the personal transit space, opened the task column in the character panel, and chose to enter "Bloodthirsty Forest Guardian (Normal Level)".

"The world network is being updated, please wait."

Chen Mian didn't directly enter the mission world this time, looking at the prompt that appeared in front of her, "I didn't expect the world network to be updated, it's quite up to date", she was quite curious.

"The update is complete, this update adds task transfer space and task introduction function."

"Do you want to enter the task transit space and accept the mission introduction information?"

Chen Mian chose "yes", she appeared in a void space, she could not see any boundaries, and a brief description of the mission began to appear in front of her.

"Bloodthirsty Forest Guardian (Ordinary Level): Tamu Village is backed by the Emerald Forest, the villagers have been hunting for a living for generations, an ancient tree in the forest gradually awakens into a tree man in a long sleep, and a murder occurs under the tree at the critical moment of awakening.

Resentful blood invaded the soil, affecting the evolution of the ancient tree, and the ancient tree became a bloodthirsty enlightenment tree, and all creatures that entered its territory were drained of blood and died.

The range of the Bloodthirsty Initiation Tree is right on the way for hunters in Tamu Village to enter the forest, so please help the villagers deal with the threat. ”

Chen Mian carefully read the mission briefing, and this time she was dealing with a half-tree man who failed to awaken the tree and turned into a bloodthirsty enlightenment tree.

Although it has changed, it is still a plant, and its resistance to flames is definitely relatively low. The burning hand was just ready, and Chen Mian was slightly relieved.

"Do you want to start a mission?"

After reading the introduction, a new option appeared in front of him, and Chen Mian chose "yes".

This is a primeval forest, all kinds of strange trees grow in a staggered manner, some rise from the ground into the sky, some are curled and vigorous, and the herbaceous plants in the forest grow vigorously, and the shrubs are scarce.

Chen Mian appeared at the entrance of the forest, and a path was faintly visible under his feet, but it seemed that no one had set foot on it for a while, and a layer of freshly sprouted grass had grown on the soil that had been trampled.

"This should be the Emerald Forest", Chen Mian untied the beast bag, released Xiao Hei, and let it remain in a virtual state, Xiao Hei's skills have no time limit, more like an ability, it can always remain in a virtual state without consumption, but the virtual state is similar to the spirit state, immune to physical damage, and cannot issue physical attacks, such as biting can not take effect.

Let Xiao Hei walk about five meters in front of Chen Mian, and tell it not to pass directly through the trunk of the tree, so as not to alarm the bloodthirsty enlightenment tree, as long as Xiao Hei does not pass directly through the body of the creature in the virtual state, it is difficult to be detected, and the path is just right.

Chen Mian put a mage armor on herself, and a transparent but solid force field appeared around her, the armor was as light as nothing, and it did not affect her movements, and the mage armor could continue to protect her for an hour at this stage.

Carefully walking along the path to the forest, carefully paying attention to the movements around him, gradually, the surrounding vegetation became more and more lush, but the cries of birds and insects disappeared completely, and the forest was silent.

Chen Mian sensed something abnormal, she was likely to have entered the range of activity of the Bloodthirsty Enlightenment Tree, slowing down and observing every tree around her.

A tree root the thickness of a baby's arm quietly meandered underground, slowly approaching Chen Mian.

Chen Mian didn't notice it at all, she didn't pay attention to the ground, she was only observing which tree was abnormal, and it was too late when she felt the movement on the ground under her feet.

The roots of the tree rose to the sky, quickly and firmly wrapped around Chen Mian's calves, dragged Chen Mian down, and dragged her left back.

Chen Mian was not in a hurry, calmly controlled his body, turned his head to look in the direction of dragging her along the roots of the tree, and saw that she had carefully observed it before, it was very ordinary, and it was even worse than some trees.

The lines on the trunk of the tree twisted into a crazy human face, the reddish roots pulled out of the soil, supporting it to stand up like feet, and the slightly thinner blood-red roots at the forks of the main trunk of the roots were wrapped in layers of large and small ovals, like cocoons.

Chen Mian used the teleportation technique to get Xiao Hei out of the camphor tree's attack range, and then quickly threw a greasy spell at the position where the main trunk and roots of the tree were connected, and a large cloud of thick black oil was splashed on the camphor tree.

She had been dragged under the tree, and the dense roots began to wrap around her, trying to penetrate her body, but fortunately the mage armor was still protecting her, but it couldn't last long, and she struggled to throw a greasy spell again.

After seeing that the roots of the camphor tree were basically more or less stained with grease, Chen Mian threw out a burning hand, and before he had time to look at the results of the attack, he immediately agreed to the teleportation request from Tia's bracelet, only to feel an abnormal burning heat, and she disappeared in place.

Chen Mian appeared beside Xiao Hei twenty meters away, and when he looked back, the camphor tree was completely like a wind, and the branches and roots were whipped wildly, trying to extinguish the flames, but unfortunately the effect was not great, under the mixed effect of the greasy technique and the burning hand, even the somewhat damp bark was quickly ignited.

The camphor tree seemed to know that it would be difficult for him to survive the raging fire, and he struggled to shake the roots of the tree and ran towards Chen Mian and them, as if he wanted to burn them to death, Chen Mian and the others quickly retreated.

Most of the roots were shrouded in flames, which were slowly burned through and broken as the camphor tree advanced, and the oval cocoons wrapped in the roots were burned and fell, revealing animal and human corpses that had been drained of blood, and the camphor tree was moving more and more slowly, and finally could not hold it anymore and fell down.

Chen Mian escaped the attack range of the camphor tree, but he didn't expect the fire to be too big, and the surrounding grass and trees were affected and burned.

Chen Mian's mage only had nine mana points left, so he had to use the mage's hand to clear the isolation zone twenty meters away from the burning center.

After the mana was exhausted, a barrier that was not wide was arranged, Chen Mian was not very relieved, so he immediately ran away and sat down to recover the mana, and after half an hour, the mana returned well.

The fire grew bigger and bigger, the water on the ground was gradually evaporated and dried, and the fire gradually approached the barrier, Chen Mian threw the water balls created by the water creation technique towards the barrier, and continued to use the mage's hand to widen the barrier.

It wasn't until he saw that the fire was gradually getting smaller that Chen Mian stopped in his rough clothes and sat on the ground, "I seem to have caused trouble, it is too risky to attack with fire in the forest, and I almost burned the forest." ”

"Xiao Mian, you are injured", Xiao Hei reminded worriedly.

Chen Mian found that she had a slight burn on her body, the pain was scorching, and her skin was roasted and cracked, and the mage's armor couldn't bear the entanglement of the roots after throwing away the burning hand before, but fortunately she left in time, but she was only slightly burned by the fire burning on the roots.

She was really a bit of a risk this time, using the teleportation technique to get Xiao Hei to a safe place in advance, and then teleporting her away when she set the tree on fire, but fortunately Xiao Hei reacted quickly, and she was only slightly injured.

Looking down at Xiao Hei lying next to him, it looked very embarrassed, its body was dirty, and it was stained with a lot of mud, and it also helped clean up the isolation belt, and the smooth hair before was slightly curly.

"Fortunately, you activated the teleportation ability on the collar in time before, my little black is awesome", Chen Mian rubbed Xiao Hei's head dotingly, and at the same time used a treatment for Xiao Hei's minor injuries.

Seeing Xiao Hei squinting comfortably, she patted her body to treat the small injury, with the influx of golden positive energy, Chen Mian's wound gradually healed, and the red skin gradually became white.

After the fire was completely extinguished, Chen Mian chose to settle the task and returned to his personal transit space.