Chapter Twenty-Six: The True Face of the Immortal Tree
The speed at which the life of the immortal tree faded and decayed far beyond Song Jifu's imagination, and every crisp sound represented a broken branch.
In the midst of the broken branches one by one, among the dense branches above and the clusters of multicolored mushrooms falling down, black shadows burst out like lightning.
These black shadows, no more than a meter long, resembling an ape, with a pair of white ears that attract the wind, a bloody mouth, and a mouth full of sharp fangs, shuttle and jump among these branches, moving like the wind, and in an instant with a flick of their fingers, they have swooped down on everyone.
A series of screams rang out, followed by the spitting fire of submachine guns and the piercing sound of gunfire, and the canopy of the trees was completely thrown into chaos.
Even if they are as calm as Zhou Kesheng or Li Zhibao, they are all flustered at the moment.
No one would have imagined that in this underground world, there was not only one terrifying man-eating beast, just now Sun Tao successfully hunted one, but a group rushed out of the canopy above.
Each one is a man-eating beast far more powerful than humans, and can easily bite off the bones on their necks and bodies with a single bite, and the professionally made protective clothing looks like papier-mâché in front of their fangs.
In the blink of an eye, three screams rang out in a row, and at least three team members were pounced.
Zhang Shuang, who wanted to climb up, saw that the situation was not good, turned around and wanted to go down, but it was too late, and he had severe pain in his back, so he was hit by a fox.
This bite hit his left waist, and this bite dug up at least two or three catties of flesh, so painful that Zhang Shuang let out a miserable scream, stepped on the air, and fell down.
He let out a cry of help, clutching his hands and finally catching a branch.
As soon as he grabbed the branch, his eyes turned black, and he was hit in the face by another fox, and most of his face was immediately bitten off by the fox, and he screamed and screamed in pain.
The branch he grabbed began to decay, unable to withstand his strength, with a crisp sound, the broken branch followed Zhang Shuang, falling down, and was instantly swallowed by the darkness, in this abyss, only his desperate and terrible roar remained, and it was endless in the echo for a long time.
"Hurry, hurry down-" Zhou Kesheng shouted vigorously, and now a terrifying man-eating beast as fast as lightning rushed out of the canopy above, and the immortal tree was constantly decaying and breaking, where did everyone dare to hesitate, and climbed down frantically and desperately, at this moment in this extreme danger, no one could care about how to climb up this thousand-meter cliff abyss even if it was safe.
The sound of branches breaking became more and more intense, one after another thick branches decayed and broke, this unimaginably huge undead tree, as if completely dry and rotten, as the surface of the multicolored mushrooms peeled off, the undead tree finally revealed its true appearance.
Xiao Ling was desperately fleeing, grabbed the undead branch that the mushroom peeled off, and found that there was a lump of darkness in his hand, this undead tree actually resembled coal, it seemed that in these hundreds of millions of years, the core of the entire undead tree had already turned into coal.
Xiao Ling gasped, the branch he was stepping on was broken, and he fell down involuntarily, falling down seven or eight meters in an instant, breaking several charred branches in a row, which barely stopped.
The black shadow flickered above, the beams of the searchlight flashed everywhere, no one knew how many strange beasts were living in the canopy above, Xiao Ling heard screams from time to time, his heart was miserable, he understood that every scream represented the death of someone.
The collapse of the immortal tree became more and more violent, and everyone was like a group of little ants on this ancient tree, unable to help themselves, constantly falling down, breaking the rotten branches one by one.
Although these branches could no longer withstand their impact and kept breaking, they also cushioned their downward impact in this break, and the protection of the protective clothing on their bodies made most of them only hurt.
It wasn't the decaying and crumbling immortal tree that really posed a serious threat to their lives, but the man-eating beast that was chasing them all the way down from above.
In a short period of time, at least four people died under the claws of this man-eating beast.
Sun Tao roared angrily, he and those fully armed team members are well-trained and skilled, it can be said that the members who can participate in this scientific expedition are the elites of the specially selected elites.
The undead trees under their feet were violently crumbling and rotting, and there were hordes of cannibals chasing them above, and even more companions around them were attacked and killed.
Although this man-eating beast was as fast as lightning, it could not completely avoid the dense accumulation of submachine gun fire, and soon there were two terrible and sharp screams, and the two canons were beaten into a hornet's nest, and fell, smashing several rotten branches below, and falling all the way down.
Sun Tao and the rest of the team calmed down from the initial chaos and quickly showed their means, a few submachine gun fire suppressed the attacking man-eaters from above, Sun Tao took out a special grenade hanging behind his waist with his backhand, opened the safe, and threw it upward.
This specially crafted grenade is delicate and small, easy to carry, and is not the size of an adult's fist, but once thrown, the explosion is huge, and the effective killing range is extremely wide.
As this grenade was thrown, there was a loud bang immediately, and the fire flashed above, and the branches in that area were affected along with the three man-eating beasts, and suddenly the flesh and blood flew sideways, the branches broke and shattered, and the three cannibals fell down together, and the cannibal in the center of the explosion was directly blown apart, and the corpses were scattered, and the scene was extremely bloody.
Immediately after Sun Tao, three more grenades were thrown, and several large explosions were made in succession, and a huge hole was blown out of the canopy above, revealing a vacuum.
Seven or eight man-eating beasts were killed on the spot, and the corpses were scattered in pieces, and the remaining man-eating beasts were frightened, became suspicious, and began to shrink back, not daring to step forward.
"Withdraw." Sun Tao let out a low snort, and the members of their team seized this opportunity and quickly went down.
At this moment, Zhou Kesheng, Li Zhibao, Xiao Ling and others had already climbed down and opened a distance of dozens of meters from them.
The collapse of the giant prehistoric tree became more and more violent, and the crunch sound was mixed with a loud boom, and a large number of branches broke and shattered, and fell down.
The people of the scientific expedition team kept falling and rolling, falling down this way, and they didn't know how many branches were broken, and everyone felt that they couldn't see anything, only to hear the whirring wind howling in their ears.
Sun Tao and the others were able to stabilize their bodies at first, but soon they became like Xiao Ling and the others, falling down from the thousands of branches, crushing the webs formed by the dense branches like spider webs.