During the period of time when Ah Jun and the others were recuperating, the blood vine tree actually moved dozens of meters into the jungle in full view, and the moving plants were the first time everyone had seen them, but the tree elves did not let it go, they chased after it, and they took a lot of specimens from the blood vine tree and sent them back to the base camp.

According to the original idea of the tree elves, they were going to dig up the blood vines by the roots and burn them. However, Jun felt that before the test results came out, he should let it go for the time being, in case it was originally a protist in the ecological ring of the Eden world.

After the specimen of the blood vine tree and the white bones that converged next to it were sent back to the base camp, Irina examined them separately, and found that the victim who had turned into white bones had not been victimized for more than two weeks, and after tracing his DNA lineage, it was found that this victim was neither Lin Cong or Lin Cong's twin brother, nor did he belong to the victims of the previous two expeditions, but a native of the southern forest town, a carpenter, who went to the forest two weeks ago to find suitable carpentry materials and disappeared, because of his withdrawn personality, He has no relatives or friends, so he disappeared and no one looked for him, and some people even thought that he had moved elsewhere.

However, there is one thing that is very strange, because according to the investigation, the people in the town have never had any victims of the blood vine tree, and no one even knows that there is such a creature as the blood vine tree in the forest.

And the test results for the blood vine tree are even more surprising - the blood vine tree has a mutated gene, and the sequence of this mutated gene comes from the earth, which means that the blood vine tree is actually an artificial product based on earth technology.

As soon as the results came out, Irina immediately summoned the members of the expedition's committee to announce it. Everyone was horrified.

At this time, the city-state alliance also approved the declassification of the ancient archives through the meeting, and transmitted the relevant information to the expedition base camp in time: more than two hundred years ago, the Earth migration spacecraft disintegrated when it landed in the world of Eden, and as far as it is known, it was broken into seventeen pieces, three of which were splashed far away, one was Fandao, and the other two pieces have not been found so far.

Now, according to the known evidence, whether it is a clone or a blood vine tree, it may come from these two landing modules, which are the lost part of the earth technology of the current city-state alliance.

This is good news, more than 200 years after the immigrants landed in the world of Eden, humanity has found its lost compatriots; But this is also bad news, as these compatriots may consider the humans who have inhabited the world of Eden for more than two hundred years to be enemies.

The expedition also sorted out the information it had received so far and fed it back to the city-state alliance, and after a heated discussion among the representatives, it was decided that: first, the expedition would continue to make contact with the lost compatriots; Second, the city-state alliance selects personnel to form a mission, and if the expedition and the Lost City-State contact go well, they will join the expedition team for further contact.

When the suggestion of the city-state alliance was sent to the camp of the expedition trekking detachment, Ah Jun's body had recovered, but although Kekexi and the others were not in danger of life, they still did not fully recover, so Ah Jun ordered the Naga people to be sent back to the base camp to continue recuperation, and the expedition team dismantled the medical tent and continued to set off.

Before leaving, Jun and the Dryad caught up with the fleeing Blood Vine Tree, dug it up by the roots, doused it with burning liquid, and burned it.

The Blood Vine Tree struggled desperately, trying to defend itself, but because the tree elves were wearing thicker protective clothing and had figured out the Blood Vine Tree's attack routine, they did not suffer any damage, but the process of the Blood Vine Tree's struggle was too cruel, so much so that Ah Jun specially reminded that the camera content of the whole process should be kept strictly confidential, and only relevant high-level personnel and scientists were allowed to watch it.

Since all the Naga were sent back to the base camp for treatment, the task of wielding machetes to clear the way in the forest was handed over to the warriors of the Iron City-State, although they were ordinary humans, under the system of the Iron City-State, they had undergone very strict military training since childhood, and their physical fitness was very good.

After the warriors of the steel city-state took over the task of opening the way, they quickly became friends with the rabbit people, which made the overseer of the steel city-state, Major Ti, worried-Cheng Gang, a first-class agent who was led astray by the rabbit people, lost the honor of the warrior, and he vowed not to let this happen again, so for many times, he had to leave the relatively comfortable airship and descend to the ground to open the way with the warriors, which was very hard.

For the next few days, nothing strange happened, and on the eleventh day of entering the forest, the expedition had penetrated nearly two hundred kilometers into the jungle, and when they camped that night, the sentinels of the expedition found a strange nocturnal bird in the trees.

This bird is very strangely long, huge in size, with a wingspan of more than a meter, but it flies lightly, almost silently when gliding, and has thick claws, similar to eagles on earth, but its beak is the slender pointed beak of a crane.

The strange birds seem to be interested in the members of the expedition, and since they have been eyeing the expedition members, they have come to the expedition camp on time every night, although there has been no attack, but the team members, especially the rabbits, who are extremely sensitive to danger, always feel that the eyes of the strange birds look at them as if they are staring at their prey.

Ah Jun sent the photo of the strange bird back to the base camp, and after checking with the local townspeople, it was determined that the strange bird was the man-eating bird described by the local townspeople. Ah Jun immediately ordered the increase of double guards, and the sentinels should cover each other's blind spots on their backs, and carry strong lighting and night vision equipment.

Cheng Gang suggested that the man-eating birds that were observing the camp should be violently expelled during the night camp as a precaution, but Ah Jun found that although the man-eating birds often act alone, they also gather in groups and behave a bit like crows.

The crow is an extremely intelligent bird that can clearly understand the meaning of family affection and friendship, and there have been cases of crows being retaliated against for shooting crows. So Ah Jun didn't want to provoke unnecessary violent confrontation. But Cheng Gang's suggestion is not unreasonable, so Ah Jun comes up with a compromise that seems like a prank, using a slingshot.

Even with the tightest six-strand leather rope slingshot, it is difficult to inflict fatal damage on such a large bird, but the expulsion effect is very good.

The slingshots were soon brought in by airships from Big Capital, and there were ten of them in all. As a result, these slingshots actually inspired the childlike innocence of the expedition members, who giggled and scrambled, and used their slingshots to fly the feathers of the piranha birds and fled into the depths of the forest.

Ah Jun and the other team members had enough of it, so they reprimanded them lightly, and then handed out the slingshots to the sentries and told them: "You can expel them, but don't play tricks on them." ”

But the objects of the tease soon became the expedition members, these man-eating birds were really smart, although they were hit by a few projectiles at first, but later they seemed to realize the threat of the slingshot, as long as the sentry raised the slingshot, they flew to another branch, but not far, as long as it exceeded the effective range of the slingshot.

As soon as the sentinels relax a little, they will quietly fly closer to observe, and even use coordination, you coax the east one, the west side has a man-eating bird flying, you drive the west one, and the north side of the tree branch does not know when there is one standing, and the angry sentinels really want to knock down a few with their guns.

But Ah Jun still strictly ordered: no lethal weapons should be used unless his life is threatened.

There is also a layer of worry behind this ban - since the man-eating birds are aware of the threat of slingshots, they must also be aware of the threat of firearms, so firearms should not be used lightly, once used, they must try their best to destroy all the man-eating birds in the vicinity with the force of thunder, so as not to exchange knowledge about firearms with each other.

The city-state alliance and the expedition base camp hope to get a live man-eating bird, or at least a specimen, which is a problem, after all, the man-eating bird is too alert, so Irina began to solicit methods from all those who have hunting experience, although they have collected many trap production methods, but none of them meet Jun's requirements to "be unguardable".

But as it happens, Kelina, who is the least concerned about this kind of thing, has found the most suitable method.

Corina is the most powerful and powerful mutant known in the world of Eden. As the saying goes: when you have a hammer in your hand, then you look at everything like a nail. Strategy is a helpless choice for the weak, the strong only need to crush, do not need to use their brains, simple and rough but very effective.

Due to her strong attack power, Corina was left in the base camp as a reservist, and she usually didn't have anything to do, so she could only wander around the town every day boredly to see if she could find something interesting.

Early in the morning, she took advantage of the morning fog to go into the forest, but unexpectedly found that some townspeople were using a forbidden net to catch birds in the forest, the filaments of this kind of barrage were as thin as spider webs, and even birds with excellent eyesight were difficult to detect in flight.

Seeing that the capture effect of the net was very good, Corina tried the strength of the filament again, and found that the material was very tough, and the bird was often strangled when struggling, so Corina whispered, like an ignorant little girl, and asked the bird catcher: "Can the big eagle catch it?" ”

When the bird catcher saw that Colina was a cute and sexy little girl, he immediately became gushing, saying that he had never caught an eagle, but once he caught a tree monkey, although he bit off the rope that tied him, but the net wrapped around his body could not break free, and he could not escape, and was beaten to death by me with a few sticks.

Kelina felt that there was a door, so she immediately changed her face, and played a serious official tone, which scared the birdcatcher into a cold sweat, Kelina took the opportunity to confiscate all the interception nets of the birdieman, and showed it to Irina with a smile.

Irina was worried about this matter, and when she saw this net, she was overjoyed, and immediately sent a transport airship to the camp of the foot detachment.

After Ah Jun received the interception net, he was also inspired, he drew a few sketches overnight and sent them back to the base camp, Irina saw the sketches and smiled: "This Ah Jun can really draw inferences." Immediately after that, I contacted the prop engineer to refine the design and step up the production.

Jun had already carefully observed the behavior patterns of the piranha, and on the day he received the barricade, he installed it near the branches of several trees where the piranha might have landed, but before the installation could be carried out, the piranha launched an attack, and Meiya was injured as a result.