Chapter 25: Super Life
In this abyss, the branches and foliage of the immortal trees were almost completely shrouded and filled, and everyone shuttled through them, and had to cut off some branches that were too luxuriant with knives in order to descend.
Sun Tao led three team members to cut down some branches from time to time in front, and it was difficult to open a passage to the bottom in this unimaginably huge canopy.
As he continued to go down, the miserable white hand was gradually thrown up by everyone, Xiao Ling saw that the miserable white hand was motionless, still quietly clinging to the canopy above, and as he kept moving away, he felt a little relieved.
"Huh? This colorful hail is so beautiful. Everyone was concentrating on climbing down, and Pang Yan in the team suddenly noticed that there was a colorful hail-like thing falling above, which was extremely rare, and out of the photographer's instinct, she hurriedly picked up the camera to capture this scene.
"This is hail, this is the immortal mushroom falling." Zhang Shuang beside Pang Yan was a little funny.
Xiao Ling looked up and realized that at some point, some of the undead mushrooms that grew on the body of the undead tree began to fall off and fall down.
These undead mushrooms are brightly colored and colorful, and when they fall one after another, they look very beautiful in the beam of the searchlight.
"Look, these mushrooms are dropping." Yu Tingting couldn't help but scream.
Zhou Kesheng, Li Zhibao and others all stopped, and everyone looked around, only to realize that they didn't know when, these colorful mushrooms that were originally attached to this immortal tree were peeling off one after another, and they only appeared sporadically at first, and soon the speed of this peeling was getting faster, more and more colorful mushrooms were falling down, and a colorful mushroom was like a hailstone, as if suddenly, in the abyss space of this cliff, there was an unprecedented super-large multicolored hailstone.
These undead mushrooms are grown from the body of the undead tree, according to Song Jifu's point of view, these plants belong to the same life form, and they should not fall off naturally, but now more and more undead mushrooms are suddenly falling, which is obviously a bit abnormal.
"Not good." Song Jifu's round face, which had always seemed to be smiling, completely lost his smile for the first time, and his face turned pale and said: "This situation is wrong, so many immortal mushrooms are peeling off, this is a symbol of death, the life of the immortal tree is rapidly declining, this is impossible, this legendary immortal tree, I am afraid that it existed in the depths of the earth at the beginning of its birth, and I don't know how many thousands of years it has lived, how can it suddenly start to die?" β
Song Jifu was shocked and inexplicable, Li Zhibao suddenly said: "Is it because of the robbery of the water?" β
Song Jifu lost his voice and said: "Yes, it is very likely that it is a robbery of water, maybe it is a robbery of water that melts the rock layer and swallows it down, and it just touches the root system of this undead tree, and now the robbery water is devouring and corroding the life of this immortal tree, I am afraid that this immortal tree will soon wither and die, and we will be in trouble." β
Hu Shengzhe wiped the sweat from his forehead and said puzzledly: "Even if the immortal tree withers and dies, it won't affect us, we just need to climb up and down with the help of it." β
Song Jifu's face turned pale, and he shouted with a frightened look in his eyes: "It's not that simple, this immortal tree doesn't know how many thousands of years it has existed, although it has life, but the tree itself is only afraid that it has decayed, once it dies, this tree will quickly collapse, because it is too huge, so huge that the tree itself can't bear it." β
Listening to Song Jifu's words, everyone's faces changed and they understood the meaning of his words.
This immortal tree is like a human being who has lived too long and is overdeveloped, although he is still alive and has consciousness, but perhaps the body has long since aged and is already beyond its limit.
Its death became the straw that broke the camel's back.
The undead tree is dying rapidly, which means that the giant tree that fills the entire abyssal space could completely collapse at any time, and everyone is climbing in this canopy, and if it collapses, everyone will die without a place to bury.
Seeing more and more undead mushrooms become wilted and necrotic, falling down, everyone began to panic.
"Quick, quick, speed up." Zhou Kesheng screamed in a deep voice.
Once the undead tree collapses, everyone will fall with the tree, and they will all fall into meat sauce.
"No, how are we going to get up when we go down? Now let's hurry up and maybe make it out alive. Zhang Shuang suddenly shouted.
Everyone who was about to climb down was shocked, Zhang Shuang was right, the depth of this abyss may be more than a thousand meters, even if everyone can go down to the bottom of the abyss before the undead tree completely collapses, but the undead tree has collapsed, how can everyone climb up?
Zhou Kesheng shouted: "Let's go down first, I will always think of other ways to come up......"
Before the words fell, suddenly there was a crisp sound of "cluck" in the distance, and a team member who stepped on the canopy shook his body and almost fell, but it was a branch under his feet that suddenly rotted and broke, making him step on the air.
The team member was frightened, and hurriedly reached out and grabbed another branch to stabilize his body.
"Quick, go, this tree is starting to crumbleβ" Song Jifu shouted.
Almost at the same moment, a black shadow burst out of the canopy, and swooped down on the team member who had just grabbed the branch to stabilize his body.
The team member was holding the thigh-thick branch with both hands, and he couldn't free up his hands to resist, and he only had time to let out a scream before he was hit in the face by this black shadow.
The terrifying and terrifying man-eating beast recorded in the ancient books of the pre-Qin Dynasty reappeared.
Sun Tao let out a roar, and this time he reacted quickly, slammed the submachine gun in his hand, and fired wildly.
He knew that this team member was swooped down, but he was afraid that a face would be gone in an instant, and there would be no chance of survival, so he strafed this round, along with this team member, was shrouded in firepower, and vowed to kill this monster.
In the darkness there was a shrill sound of gunfire, bullets hitting the thick branches and sawdust flying, and the man-eating beast did not escape this time, and fell down with a crunching sound along with a few broken branches.
A sharp cry was heard in everyone's ears, which was the sharp scream from the bullet, which was very sad in everyone's ears, and there was a faint creepy feeling.
Sun Tao roared, although the danger was imminent, but he successfully killed this fox, let out a bad breath, he only felt extremely happy in his heart, but his heart was full of regret, these team members were his brothers and siblings, and every death made his heart like a knife.
It's just that his roar suddenly stopped, and the expression on his face was strange, as if he had suddenly seen a ghost.
In all directions, there was a crunch of clattering branches breaking.