Volume 1 Overture to Chaos Chapter 9 The Lava Ghost Tree

Heping Avenue is the transportation hub of J City and one of the most visited areas. The shops on both sides of the street can be said to be at a premium. Located in the center of this street, the Oriental Commercial Building is a 6-storey building, although not high, but it occupies a very large area, and the interior integrates shops, restaurants, playgrounds and shopping centers, making it one of the largest commercial complexes in J City.

Although the time has passed 16 o'clock, most of the stores in the mall are still open, and although the customer traffic has decreased from the peak, there are still thousands of people, and most of them, their original fate, will die tragically in the suddenly formed fault space.

The entire Oriental Commercial Building is the place where the second heterotopic invasion of J City took place.

Bai Ye wore a peaked cap, a pair of big sunglasses on his eyes, and a huge hiking bag behind him, pretending to be shopping and blending in the crowd, he had already walked back and forth in the commercial building several times, keeping the various rooms, passages and special terrain firmly in mind, and the entire commercial building had become a three-dimensional model, stored in his brain.

Looking at the people coming and going in the commercial building, Bai Ye frowned tightly, so many people, half of them have become living corpses...... No way! Somehow had to be found to get them out.

So Bai Ye paced to the door of the house where the fire alarm host was, and it happened that a staff member came out of it, and he was about to close the door and lock it with his backhand, Bai Ye's pupils contracted slightly, and a mental fluctuation was released silently, only to see that the person inserted the key into the keyhole, and immediately pulled it out, and did not rotate the lock at all, and then turned to leave.

It was an illusion from an evil spirit, and the white night had distorted the man's perception, making him think he had locked the door, but in fact he had done nothing.

Bai Ye waved his hand at the man's back, and entered the room in a flash, and after a while, the entire shopping building immediately sounded a shrill fire alarm.

In order to make it realistic, Bai Ye also lit several sets of overalls in the house, and then flew up and kicked the door of the room down, and the billowing smoke suddenly poured out, and the smoke and alarm alarmed the entire shopping mall. The mall is full of "It's on fire!" People scrambled to flee outside the gate, and the scene was chaotic for a while.

The huge chaos was accompanied by the surging crowds, and the commercial building was completely boiling, and then in just a few minutes, the chaos gradually subsided. It has to be said that when human life is threatened, the potential for escape is huge, and it didn't take 10 minutes for the crowd to basically disperse, and most places in the commercial building were already empty.

After the chaos, there was silence in the commercial building, even the white night was nowhere to be found, only the main hall of the commercial building occasionally had people fleeing from the upper floor in a panic, this is the most open space in the whole commercial building, the buildings from the first floor to the sixth floor are surrounded by the hall, therefore, standing on the ground and looking up, you can directly see the blue sky through the tempered glass on the top floor.

A huge clock hung in the middle of the hall, its hands ticking and ticking, and time moved forward without hesitation until 16:32, when everything suddenly came to a standstill.

At that moment, the clouds above the mall formed a rolling and rotating vortex, and a huge crack slowly unfolded, swallowing the entire building in one gulp, and the people outside the mall were horrified and watched the entire Oriental commercial building disappear out of thin air.

The interior of the commercial building fell into darkness in an instant, it was the deepest and purest darkness, without the slightest light.

The darkness lasted only for a short moment, and the people in the mall regained their sight, but at the same time as the light appeared, a terrifying giant tree also suddenly appeared in the center of the hall of the mall.

It is a behemoth with a diameter of about 8 meters and a height of nearly 40 meters, and the highest branch has broken through the roof of the commercial building and extended to the edge of the fault space. The whole tree is dark gray in color, and through the texture of the trunk, you can see dark red fluids flowing through the trunk, like magma. The branches were mostly bare, except for the sparse leaves on the highest branches, which were dark red, and from time to time a flame rose from the reticulated veins, but neither the leaves nor the branches were unscathed in the flames.

The giant tree did not grow straight, but was crooked and twisted, and there was a huge cave on the trunk of the tree, which looked like the mouth of a monster with two cracks above it, like a pair of squinting eyes, and from a distance, the trunk of the giant tree looked like a grimace.

The roots of the giant tree are numerous and intertwined with bare roots, and the roots of the tree are full of tumors about the size of a human being, and there are hundreds of them densely packed together, which is disgusting to look at.

On some of the branches of the strange tree, there were some strange-shaped corpses of creatures, all of which had been shriveled and weathered, and looked very terrifying.

As soon as the giant tree appeared in the hall, countless branches poked out in all directions without wind, as if sensing something through the air.

At this moment, a strange roar erupted from all floors of the building, the sound was both like a human and a beast, and then there was a terrible scream, and the commercial building that had just calmed down was boiling again.

From the corridor at the corner of the main hall, suddenly a man burst out, he was on all fours like a beast, his eyes were bloodshot, and he was full of bloodlust. He opened his mouth wide, as if he was about to tear his jaw in half, and there were a few sharp fangs in his mouth, and he salivated as he sprayed away, which was disgusting and terrifying!

It's a living corpse!

Although Bai Ye sounded the fire alarm and burned a few clothes to make a fire appearance, he didn't really set a fire after all. Although most people withdrew out of caution, there are certainly unbelievers who remain here. When the other world descended, a large number of magical particles filled the air, and some people could not withstand the transformation of magical energy and mutated into living corpses.

The living corpse had lost its mind, so the eerie giant tree in the hall did not attract its attention, and it roamed the hall, snorting its nose like a hound, looking for something to eat.

The giant tree suddenly moved, and three of the nodules at its roots suddenly bloomed like flowers, and three strange lifeforms jumped out of it.

The creatures resembled small humanoid trees, with limbs, torsos, and heads, and their faces had grimaces like those of giant trees, except that the mouth of the giant tree was just a large hole, while their mouth was a real mouth, full of dense sharp teeth.

The three little trees seemed to have been ordered, and as soon as they were born, they chirped and rushed towards the living corpses, and the living corpses did not frighten, in their eyes, except for their own kind, all that could move was delicious food, so they roared and threw themselves at the little trees!

The average height of the small tree is only 1.5 meters, not as tall as a human being, and it does not have the strength of a living corpse.

Who knew that the little tree was extremely fierce, poked its head out, and also opened its mouth to bite on the shoulder of the living corpse, its teeth were abnormally sharp, and when it went down, it bit off a large piece of flesh!

The sharp teeth and sharp mouth are nothing, what is even more bizarre is that the body of the little tree suddenly turned red, turning into a bright color like lava, and the part of the living corpse that came into contact with the small tree was like being burned by a red-hot soldering iron, and a piece of skin and flesh bloomed!

The other two small trees also rushed forward, jumped on the living corpse and bit it fiercely, and the three small trees joined forces to bite the living corpse alive in a short time.

In a corner on the second floor, a pair of eyes were staring intently at this battle, it was Bai Ye, watching the living corpse die, and he secretly said in his heart: Sure enough, it is a lava ghost tree! There are a lot of parasitic tree spirits in this ghost tree, so I'm afraid it's not easy to deal with.

This sentence was said by Bai Ye from his own standpoint, from the standpoint of the ghost tree, its parasitic tree spirit is really not much. In the plane of the ghost tree, this is just a small tree that has just come out of the state of a sapling, and those old trees are often thousands of tree spirits, and their strength is much stronger.

The lava ghost tree is a high-order life, and even this "small tree" in front of Bai Ye is a real second-order life. But just like the evil spirit, when it enters the fault space, its power will be greatly suppressed. However, the ghost tree relies on the dryads to hunt for food, and the parasitic dryads are low-level lifeforms, and their strength is not suppressed much, they hunt by quantity rather than quality, and hundreds of dryads flock up, even if it is a white night, they have to retreat.

In the hall, the three tree spirits dragged the corpse of the living corpse to the ghost tree, and the ghost tree suddenly hung down dozens of branches, rolling up the living corpse, the tips of those branches were very sharp, easily piercing the skin of the living corpse, and began to suck the flesh and blood tissue in the body of the living corpse, and the bark on the branches undulated, transporting the flesh and blood into the trunk.

There seemed to be countless insects squirming under the skin of the living corpse, and it was obvious that the branches of the ghost tree were piercing back and forth so that they could absorb more flesh and blood. It didn't take long for the living corpses to be sucked up, and the shriveled corpses hung on the branches, adding another terrifying sight to the ghost tree.

The ghost tree seemed to be very satisfied with the taste of the living corpse, and it suddenly emitted a high-frequency sound, as if it was roaring, if it weren't for Bai Ye's reflexes far beyond ordinary people, it wouldn't have been able to receive this high-frequency sound wave at all.

The ghost tree is like a king, giving orders to its soldiers, and hundreds of nodules bloom at the root of the tree at the same time, and from it jump out of it a large group of tree spirits, chirping and screaming, their expressions are extremely hideous, their mouths full of sharp fangs, and they look bloodthirsty.

The ghost tree emitted another high-frequency sound wave, and the dryads swarmed out and scattered in all directions, and they would rush to all corners of the building to find food for the ghost tree.

Watching the tree spirits disperse, Bai Ye's heart moved slightly, and his expression towards the ghost tree was full of fire, you know, there are also good things on the ghost tree that make people blush.

However, Bai Ye finally gave up his plan to directly attack the ghost tree, because there were still hundreds of nodules under the ghost tree that had not hatched, and it seemed that the ghost tree had not given up protecting itself.

Bai Ye sighed with a little pity, and quietly disappeared into the darkness.