Chapter 214: Red Apple Paradise

After the raid by the Coyotes, the convoy rested in place and waited for more than an hour until reinforcements arrived. Reinforcements came with two cars and a Reaper mech.

Commander Marcus had consulted with John beforehand, and the latter's order was to move on and resolutely carry out the task of capturing the Red Apple Farm.

Marcus sighed secretly: "It's more comfortable to manage the bullet bar at the base, it's really dirty, tiring and dangerous to go out on a mission in the field today, if it weren't for my command to be high enough, I'm afraid I would suffer a big loss, maybe even a small life would be buried." Thinking of this, he couldn't help but look at Lin Zaishan twice.

After this battle, many people in the team were directly rescued by Lin Zaishan, and they were grateful to him, and even regarded him as a hero.

"The children are leaving, and we must be at the Red Apple Farm by 16 o'clock this afternoon!" Marcus gave the order.

The convoy eliminated hundreds of low-level zombies along the way, and finally reached its destination on time. A lush apple forest with an area of at least 500 acres appeared in front of you, and the edge was only more than 300 meters away from the convoy; However, a cross-cut fork blocked the way. Due to the tall grass and trees, it is not possible to see the bridge in the distance at a glance.

"1051 here!" Marcus called, "I order you to scout the nearest bridge along the fork of the river. This walkie-talkie is for you. Others stand on guard! ”

"Okay." Lin Zaishan, who is a second-class slave and a plumber, is now used as a scout by Marcus, who doesn't even give him a telescope or a rifle.

Lin Zaishan carried a crossbow-bow, a double knife hanging from his waist, wore pipeline tools on his shoulders, and carried a backpack, looking cumbersome, verbose, and overwhelmed, but he walked vigorously along the fork of the river to the north.

After traveling about 200 meters, he found a small bridge behind the trees, and after careful inspection, it was confirmed that the small bridge was structurally complete, the bridge was strong, and there was no danger under the bridge. He was about to use the walkie-talkie to call the army over, when he suddenly noticed that an apple tree not far from the river seemed to move. This movement is not swayed by a strong wind, but moves about 3 meters with a strange gait like a human walking.

"Huh? Am I reading it wrong? Lin Zaishan stared at the apple grove carefully, but did not find anything unusual. He crossed the bridge and put his hand on one of the other trees by the river to "inquire" in detail, and a large amount of strange information poured into the sea of consciousness.

"I'll go! It's horrible! Lin Zaishan rubbed his forehead and turned on the walkie-talkie, "Marcus, I have found the bridge across the river, which is 200 meters north of you. ”

"Great, we'll cross the river now."

"Wait, there's something weird about this apple forest." Lin Zaishan hurriedly dissuaded: "I'm afraid that they have all become tree-shaped monsters and will eat people." ”

"Huaxia Monkey, you don't use the ghost stories of your hometown to scare our brave people of the United States." Marcus reprimanded contemptuously, "Even if there are demons and monsters in the world, they can't withstand the destruction of our country's steel weapons!" He commanded loudly: "Everyone, immediately advance to the apple grove!" ”

Lin Zaishan dissuaded again: "Marcus, even if you don't believe in the existence of tree-shaped monsters, then at least you have to worry about the threat of mutant bees." As far as I can see, there are four giant honeycombs and at least a thousand mutant bees in this small patch alone. ”

"I'll watch from the bridge before I decide whether to cross the river," Marcus said. ”

The large force soon came to the small bridge. Marcus jumped out of the car and looked around with a telescope, but when he didn't see anything unusual, he instructed his two mecha-clad men: "You go to the apple grove to reconnoiter and see if there are any other oddities." ”

The two mecha personnel immediately rushed to the apple forest, unconcerned about Lin Zaishan's dissuasion behind them. Lin Zaishan sighed and had to follow closely. Seeing this, Marcus did not stop him.

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The two mechs entered the apple grove and disappeared in the blink of an eye. Lin Zaishan approached cautiously, and suddenly heard an exclamation from the apple forest, he hurriedly rushed forward, and saw two mecha personnel each holding a big and round red apple and eating it greedily, one of them was holding a two-inch-long insect in his left hand, and said with a smile: "Ha, fortunately I have sharp eyes, otherwise even this worm would have eaten my stomach." ”

His companion quipped, "I've heard that these bugs are delicious and juicy, you really should try them." ”

Lin Zaishan breathed a sigh of relief, took out a thick raincoat and put it on his head to avoid being discovered and attacked by mutant bees, and whispered to the two mecha personnel: "Brother, it's dangerous here, let's leave quickly." ”

"Cowardly Huaxia monkey, there's nothing to do with you here, how far away is it!"

Another mech member reported in the communicator: "We have checked, there is no other anomaly in the apple forest except for mutant bees, and mech personnel can get close." ”

Marcus, who was in the distance, immediately ordered the troops to cross the bridge, and then instructed the maintenance department personnel to go to the house by the river to find and repair the machinery, and the rest of the mecha-wearing guards went to the apple grove to pick fruits, and the four-person Reaper mecha patrolled along the river after crossing the bridge and cleaned up the monsters, while Caroline and the wounded stayed in the car and did not cross the bridge for the time being.

Lin Zaishan saw that nearly half of the people on this trip had already entered the apple forest, and he couldn't help but be even more worried, and came to find Marcus Theory.

"1051, you came just in time, I saw a rat hole on the other side of the bridge, you and the black cat will go and search for this rat hole now!"

"Marcus, you're risking the lives of the whole team."

"You know what! As long as the workers who don't wear mechs are not easily approached by mutant bees, they will be fine. If you don't carry out the order, I'll have someone kill you!" ”

Lin Zaishan saw Marcus's stubborn appearance, and he had no choice but to explore the mouse hole with the black cat, and wondered in his heart: "Why don't these tree-shaped monsters and mutant bees attack?" Do they really have to be harmless, or am I misjudged? Also, why don't apple trees attack mutant bees, is there an affinity between them? ”

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Lin Zaishan and the black cat walked dozens of meters in the mouse hole, and felt that the hole was very clean, and they did not see a single mouse.

"There's a bifurcating cave here, and it looks like it's going down the river to the apple grove."

"1051, how did you know that this cave was crossing the river?"

"Didn't you notice that the roof of the cave was dripping?"

"I'll go! If the river were to pour in, would we not be drowned alive? "The black cat was scared.

Lin Zaishan has the ability to sense plants and qi, and can breathe underwater, so he is not worried at all, not to mention that he found out that the cave is very strong, and there is no danger of collapse at all, so he immediately comforted the black cat. The two entered the bifurcated cave and headed from the ground towards the apple grove.

"1051, do you smell anything?" The headlamp of the black cat shines back and forth restlessly.

"The rancid stench of rats, mixed with the smell of apples." Lin Zaishan motioned for the black cat to stop, and then touched the cave with his hand. "Black cat, put on the raincoat you were prepared when you came, and from now on, don't make loud noises, and don't exhale violently and don't make strenuous body movements."

The two of them moved forward frame by frame as if they were in slow motion. It took more than ten minutes and walked less than 100 meters, and the rancid and fishy smell became even stronger. Suddenly, a large hall suddenly opened up ahead, and the lights shone through, and all you saw were the bones of mutant rats. Interspersed among the piles of bones were the roots of many apple trees, which were like the intestines of animals, tightly attached to the corpses of several fat mutant rats that had not yet fully decayed, and pulsed slightly like a pumping plastic pipe, as if sucking the flesh of the mutant rats.

"Forehead God!" The black cat screamed. Lin Zaishan covered his mouth and nose for the first time.

There was a strange sound of "hulala", and in the afterglow of the headlamp, dozens of tree roots emerged from the dirt around the cave, the tips sniffed in the cave like a snake's head, and one of them was particularly thick and even stretched between Lin Zaishan's legs, and pointed upwards at the black cat's face.

Lin Zaishan rigidly controlled the black cat to prevent him from breathing and moving. Finally, after a dozen seconds, the roots silently retracted into the dirt.

Lin Zaishan slowly let go of the black cat, then pulled him back dozens of meters in slow motion, then turned around and ran wildly.

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"Wow", Lin Zaishan and the black cat jumped out of the mouse hole one after another, and the latter sat on the ground and panted violently, "1051, I didn't expect these apple trees to be monsters. I swear I'll never visit the apple grove again. ”

"Black cat, use your influence to persuade everyone to leave the apple forest!"

"Kill me and I won't go to that hell place!"

At this time, Marcus walked over while nibbling on an apple, "Two idiots, how are the rat holes going?" ”

"The rats in the cave are all dead, attracted and killed by the apple trees." Lin Zaishan replied loudly, and the black cat nodded desperately in agreement.

Marcus pointed his rifle at the black cat's "peanut seedlings", "Do you know the consequences of lying to me?" ”

"It's what I saw with my own eyes, and it's absolutely true!"

Marcus was about to reprimand the two when he suddenly heard a report from a subordinate on the communicator: "Boss, Mueller is missing, and there is no response to many calls." ”

"How long is it?"

"Less than 3 minutes."

"Maybe Mueller went to poop, don't be impatient."

The communicator rang again, and another subordinate reported, "Boss, have you seen Hawthorne?" We're ready to explore the depths of the apple grove. ”

"Hawthorne is gone, too?" Marcus was shocked.

The black cat said, "Maybe Hawthorne is going to enjoy the poop too." ”

Marcus shouted into the communicator, "Everyone, count me now!" ”

There was a loud noise in the communicator, and soon the results came out, and there were 4 people missing.

"What the hell! I order: everyone get out of the apple grove quickly! As soon as Marcus gave the order, the apple forest, which had been silent, suddenly moved at a speed visible to the naked eye like a rat had exploded its nest.

A large number of fruit trees moved against the ground, and the coverage area of the apple grove swelled instantly. A tall fruit tree easily knocked over the two stunned mechs, and continued to "run" towards the small bridge; Another fruit tree suddenly sticks out of its rope-like roots, wrapping around one of the mechs before turning over the dirt and pulling it into the ground.

Everyone threw away their armor and fled to the small bridge in a hurry. Hundreds of fruit trees were in hot pursuit, and more were outflanking in the distance. The fruit that had been crumbling on the fruit tree was now thrown at the crowd like cannonballs, knocking over the fleeing people from time to time. At first, the "honest and honest" bee colony also began to go crazy at this time, flying over and attacking everyone.

“Fuck！ Everyone, get out! Marcus ran across the bridge with Lin Zaisan and the black cat and rushed to the car on the other side.

"Black cat, you go first, I'll save people!" Lin Zaishan ran towards the pursuing apple trees and bee swarms.

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Lin jumped high in the air, shrewdly dodging the throwing attacks of dozens of apples in the air, and before he could land, he swung his two knives and cut off the branches and leaves of two fruit trees, and after landing, he cut off dozens of roots one after another, rescuing a mecha who was about to be pulled into the ground - it turned out to be Murphy.

"Thank goodness!" Murphy's mecha was still working, and he ran wild.

Lin Zaishan caught a big apple that smashed into the door in front of him, instantly absorbed the life energy in it, and then tried to use the ability to gather qi and turn fire, but found that it didn't work. He dodged the Apple Tree's attacks while attempting, but failed. "It seems that my current strength is not enough to start a gathering gas and turning into fire."

In desperation, Lin Zaishan ran left and right like a monkey, jumping up and down. With his extraordinary skills, he saved 3 more people from the apple forest.

A dozen apple trees surrounded Lin in the middle of the mountain, and together they stretched out their intricate roots, enveloping him in a clump, and then dragging them deep into the grove and hanging them high.

"I'll go! You are plants, how can you also play Durt's cage punishment? ”

The fruit trees ignored his protests, and the tips of hundreds of roots stabbed his skin at the same time.

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"I'm going to be squeezed dry!" Lin Zaishan recited the Star Soul Meditation Mantra, entered the state of cascading meditation, and then urgently called the empty color monk.

"You don't seem to be in good shape right now, are you hollowed out by women? I'll teach you two tricks when I find time. Sora said in a mocking tone.

"Master, what vision do you have? It's not a woman who wants to hollow out me, it's an apple tree! ”

"Hah! Smart Plant XII, you're in luck! ”

"Let's put aside your failure to abide by the rules and precepts and mess with the ostomy industry, don't you see that I am in danger now?"

"This situation is definitely a death for another person, but thankfully I am here. I can give you a couple of practice sessions with the XII Sim Battle, where you can get the hang of it and then return to reality to hollow out and drain the apple tree in turn. ”

"Really? Isn't that why not hurry up and get started? ”

The empty color thought the words, and the light on his body radiated, bringing Lin Zaishan into the Void Arena.

A pleasant but cold voice said, "The mock duel is about to begin, please get ready." ”

"The key to defeating Type XII is the manipulation of the sea of consciousness and the point of light, as long as you continuously induce and store life energy into the point of light, and don't leak it easily, you will be invincible." Good luck! ”

At the beginning of the game, a super large apple tree, which was a simulated opponent, viciously threw apple cannonballs at Lin Zaishan.

He uses his agility to dodge or catch and devour.

The apple tree senses that the throwing attack is ineffective, and begins to wrap around its roots.

Lin Zaishan waved his double knives, and the light of the knife wrapped himself in impenetrable wind, cutting off large sections of tree roots.

"Bang", the apple tree suddenly flew over, knocked Lin Zaisan to the ground with its trunk, and before he could get up, it was wrapped around its roots, and then hung up, sucking his life force.

Lin Zaishan fought according to the method that Kong Se said, but he didn't last long before he collapsed, and his life energy leaked out one after another.

At the end of the game, Lin Zaishan was panting desperately.

"Your current state is really too weak, not to mention the Heavenly Trialists, even the lowest-level Earth Trials can pinch you to death like an ant. I'll tell you the truth, of all the shepherds I know, you're by far the most vegetable. If you continue like this, you will not reach the end at all, and all the people and forces bound to you will not escape the end of destruction. ”

"I don't understand what you mean, can you explain it in detail?"

"Knowledge beyond your present state cannot be revealed to you, otherwise you will suffer the so-called 'Damnation' and bring disaster to other human beings and living beings. I can only briefly remind you of this: The end-time test is both destruction and opportunity. It provides every ordinary survivor with the opportunity to move upwards, and only by constantly moving upwards can we win survival. Your competitors have been improving by leaps and bounds all this time, but you're getting worse and worse, and I'm disappointed. I even wonder if I've chosen the wrong partner. ”

Lin Zaishan sighed: "If I have anything to live with, please forgive me." I have a cheap life, and I don't have to worry about my survival. As long as you do your best, as for the result, you can just follow the fate, and you don't have to force it. ”

"If it's just your life and death, of course it's not a concern; But you have a stake in the future and fate of many survivors of the end times, and you have to work hard. ”

"Although I like to save people, it doesn't necessarily mean that others can't do without my help. I believe that even without me, there would have been even better and greater heroes among the survivors. This is our human characteristic, and even more so in our country. ”

"You set aside excuses and retreats for yourself in advance, so you didn't do your best at all." Kongse accused: "You have to be single-minded, brave and diligent, and never look back!" We must show a determination and courage that we will continue to do even though millions of people have done the same! ”

"Master, if a rookie like me is so important and needs to die, then why don't such a powerful character of yours jump out and ask for his life and open peace for the world?"

"This ......, as I said earlier, that my indiscriminate interference will bring you misfortune. Actually, I'm not idle, you have time to read the book "Heavenly Trialists" by the Loyal and Brave Knight to know what I'm busy with? ”

"I'll go! Even you recommend this street book? ”

"This street writing never has a brain, so some high power uses his pen to convey some special messages between the lines. You have the "Secret Book of Survival in the Last Days" at hand, take the time to read it; In the future, I should have the opportunity to meet "Heavenly Trialists", "Star Knights", etc., so that I can cherish them. ”

(Loyal Knight's Note: So far, the Knight has only written "The Positive Energy of the Last Days" - that is, this book.) As for "Survival Cheats of the Apocalypse", "Heavenly Trialists", and "Star River Knights", they are all planned by the knights to be written in the future, and they have not yet come out. This is just for the sake of the plot, and the reader should not take it seriously. ）

"Okay, I'll fight!" Lin Zaishan gritted his teeth and put on a fierce look.

"That's right! That's what you want. Let's get ready for the second round of simulations. ”

The game started again, Lin Zaishan fought unreservedly, and finally was hoisted by the apple tree and fell into a stalemate of absorbing life energy.

"Leave no way out, no way out!" Lin Zaishan silently recited these four words, concentrating all his consciousness on the points of light in his sea of consciousness and drilled over.

It was as if he was inside the sun, full of dazzling light and scorching energy, and his whole mind seemed to have turned into a part of the light. His conscious life was instantly launched, and then suddenly withdrawn; Sometimes it's monotonous like a straight line, sometimes it's as complex as a star; The universe condensed into a mustard seed without moving thoughts, and with a single thought, it seemed to span thousands of eons and spread all over the corners of Zhoutian.

"Who am I? Where am I? "The omnipresent and ubiquitous consciousness is curiously reflected and reflected.

I don't know how long it took, Lin Zaishan's consciousness came out of the point of light and returned to the Void Arena.

Sora smiled, "Congratulations, you've defeated Type XII and mastered the first form of the Crossing Technique. You're getting closer and closer to the fifth-level Star Soul realm now. ”

"Thank you for your advice. I'm going to go back to reality and save my life. ”

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The apple grove used its roots to entangle and hang the forest high in the mountains, and then used the tips of hundreds of roots to suck his life energy. In the seconds after these tips slid Lin Zaishan's skin, his star soul returned to its state of reality.

This time, his feelings and experiences of himself and his external environment have changed dramatically, and the most obvious point is that he is able to concentrate all of his consciousness - including qi energy - into a very small thing in an extremely short period of time, complete a series of complex operations, and instantly transfer to another thing. This is a brand-new ability, which is closely related to his original qi sense, visual slow release, cascading observation, electromagnetic induction and other abilities, but it has achieved a higher realm of refinement and synthesis.

In less than a tenth of a second, Lin Zaishan concentrated all his strength to absorb the life energy of a tree root, which immediately withered and fell; Then another one is sucked up. With each suck of one, his life energy increases by one point, and the speed at which he absorbs the roots of the tree increases.

In just a few seconds, the apple trees that wrapped around him could not bear it anymore and withdrew one after another, quickly fleeing.

"Hey, don't go, I haven't had a good time yet!" Lin Zaishan who fell from the tree shouted reluctantly.

These apple trees, who had suffered a loss, were willing to ignore him, and they all avoided him.

Lin Zaishan found two guards who had not yet died, hurriedly ran over, lifted them up, and hurried to the bridgehead.

At this time, the Reaper mecha patrolling in the distance noticed the anomaly and rushed closer, shooting a dense rain of bullets at the fruit grove and spewing raging flames.

The rushing apples first retreated like a crowd, and then threw the fruit at the Reaper mecha at the same time. Those large, round, and red fruits exploded immediately after hitting the Reaper mecha, although the power was not great, but the residual juice after the explosion obscured the mecha personnel's vision, and the explosion of hundreds of apples produced a huge joint force, knocking the Reaper mecha to the ground on its back. Before the latter could stand up, a large number of fruit trees rushed over, entangled the Reaper mecha with their roots, and dragged them into the ground.

"Help!" The personnel in the mecha screamed in heartbreak.

The survivors on the bridgehead all watched this scene in horror, and none of them dared to step forward—except for Lin Zaishan.

He ran to the Grim Reaper's mecha in three or two steps, grabbed the branch of a fruit tree and began to greedily suck life energy. The rest of the fruit trees split their branches and roots to attack him, and he took turns sucking them up for a short time, and they fled in panic, leaving behind a huge hive.

Lin Zaishan was about to chase after him, when he suddenly noticed an unusual noise on the other side of the river, and it turned out to be a group of corpses approaching. Fearing that the survivors would fail, he picked up the hive and hurried back to the bridge to assist in the defense.

This group of corpses from afar was chasing a seventh-level mutant rabbit, and the rabbits ran to the river and jumped to the other bank, this group of corpses were all fifth-level plus, and they all jumped high, easily crossed the river, and continued to chase. The seventh-level mutant rabbit led the zombies into the fruit grove, and then there was a violent movement, accompanied by a palpitating roar characteristic of high-level zombies. After more than ten seconds, everything was calm again.

Everyone stared at the fruit groves in the distance, and looked at each other.

Lin Zaishan secretly sighed: "Fortunately, I didn't blindly and confidently chase into the depths of the fruit grove, otherwise, I would probably end up like this group of zombies." My newfound ability is powerful, but it's not enough to deal with thousands of elite apple trees with a single hit. What's more, the improvement of ability cannot only rely on absorbing the vitality of foreign objects, so it is very likely to suffer backlash, and it must be fought steadily. ”

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Frightened, Marcus turned on the communicator and informed John of the situation. John was furious and rebuked Marcus for lying, "Fool, you wait, I'll go over and pick your skin now!" ”

Ten minutes later, John arrived in a Browning helicopter. He wanted to scout the apple grove in the air, but who knew that the fruit trees suddenly threw apples at the helicopter.

“Fuck！” John was shocked and angry, and then he believed the words of Marcus and the others. The crew hurriedly flew the plane to dodge and landed slowly in a secluded place across the river.

"Marcus, you made me lose a lot on this mission, I must clean you up when I go back!" As soon as John got off the helicopter, he jumped on Marcus's back and slapped him hard, "Where's my Reaper mech?" ”

The Reaper mecha, which had just been overturned by the apple tree, had fled back to the other side of the river, and was hiding behind a wall, when he heard John's call and hurriedly stood up to report for duty.

"It's good that you didn't break my Reaper mech. Otherwise, I'll feed you your own balls right now! Everyone, pack your things and get on the helicopter and follow me back to the castle! ”

On the helicopter, Browning suggested to John: "Friend John, you don't have to worry about these tree-shaped monsters, I'll call the Black Diamond headquarters, and they will send someone to drop the condensation-gas-oil-bomb, and you can wait for the apple pie." ”

Lin Zaishan, who was sitting in the corner of the cabin, heard this, and couldn't help but recall a fragment in the "Secret Book of Survival in the Last Days" written by the loyal and brave knight: tens of thousands of sturdy apple trees threw frighteningly large explosive red apples into the air at the same time, shooting down 2 helicopters instantly, and then, in the skyrocketing fireworks caused by the helicopter falling to the ground, these apple trees fluttered together in the wind, as if they were playing a cheerful and weird "Red Apple Paradise".