Chapter 24: The Giant Trees of the Prairie
The feeling of time disappearing is very irritating, and even the phrase that life is like a year seems so pale. It was easy to feel the vibration after a burst of tinnitus again, Ye Xu immediately stood up, and the little girl next to him also jumped out of the chair and grabbed his sleeve again.
"It won't be so fast!" Zhu Xinxin and the old god said: "After getting off the plane, there must be a while to leave!" Before the words fell, there was a rapid and brief buzz in the room. The tightly closed door silently opened, and a downward passage appeared in front of him.
"It's so fast this time!" Zhu Xinxin was a little embarrassed, but he still walked in the first place. The passage stretched down for a long time and then turned straight, and the rough concrete walls on either side looked a little rudimentary. It should be a case of hasty construction. There was no sound in the passage except for the footsteps of a few people. After walking for a long time, I noticed that a closed door appeared in front of me, and as soon as I reached the door, it opened automatically, and I saw a hall with a dazzling cold light.
In the center, a huge machine that emitted electric light occupied almost a third of the hall, and countless thick cables were connected to it in a neat and orderly manner, and almost substantial light shot out from the machine, illuminating a distorted space in the middle of the hall with almost no thickness, and what was tense was that the space appeared and disappeared with the flickering of electric light, forming a light curtain.
Seeing such a scene, Ye Xu immediately thought of the scene taken in a few photos in the envelope before, and had a little more association with the mysterious organization that kidnapped him.
The light curtain in front of him flashed intermittently, and after a simple description of the start of the mission, a twenty-four-hour countdown flashed in the upper left corner of the eye, the blood-red color and the non-stop countdown counter, which immediately made people's hearts start to beat faster.
"Let's go!" Zhu Xinxin walked into the distorted space first, Ye Xu hesitated to watch the two disappear into the light, and his steps became sluggish. It was just two steps, and suddenly it was dark in front of him, and there was a pain in his brain, and almost instantly the sea of blood turned up a monstrous blood wave, if it weren't for the Zen chanting in the air and the thicker lightning pillar, I am afraid that he would be swallowed by the sea of blood immediately.
A cold little hand grabbed his big hand, and a faint cool air flowed through his body, calming down his somewhat chaotic thoughts slightly. Following the traction of the little hand, a dazzling white light flashed, and when the eyesight was restored, it was no longer a distorted space, but a gray world. The red countdown in the upper left corner is still flashing, but the time has been reduced by two hours.
In addition to the flickering light curtain all around, there was knee-high grass as far as the eye could see, and although it was difficult to walk, fortunately it did not affect the vision. A little observation can determine that his group is on a vast grassland. There was no sun, moon or other illumination in the gloomy sky, not even a trace of clouds was found, and what was even stranger was that there was a faint mist floating in the air, and the smell was not unpleasant, and occasionally you could smell the rotting of dead grass.
Zhu Xinxin looked at it resentfully, and wanted to open his mouth several times, but swallowed it again.
"They can control it when they enter here?" Ye Xu asked embarrassedly.
"No, but they can close the portal. Ling Huxing said lightly.
"I'm sorry!" Ye Xu was a little embarrassed.
"Let's go, little thing, tell us if there's danger!" Ling Huxing turned and walked towards the gloom.
"Hey!" Zhu Xinxin sighed and followed.
Ye Xu took the little girl by the hand, looked at the strange place in front of him, and could only follow forward. At first, I was curious why Ling Hu Xing could know the direction clearly, and after walking for a while, I vaguely found that just in the direction of everyone, there seemed to be a faint light in the foggy place in the distance, and judging from their current situation, no matter what existed there, they could only target it.
The grass on the ground was extremely difficult to walk. Fortunately, the two who were walking forward stepped out of a path, and Ye Xu was able to walk faster with the little girl on his back. To be precise, the work of opening the road should be completed by Zhu Xinxin alone. Ling Huxing's steps were extremely brisk, and every step was almost stepped on the gap between the wild grass, trying not to make a sound. After more than three hours of hiking, you can finally see the true face of that light.
On top of a hill that was not too steep there was a strange giant tree, which was definitely several times larger than the hill in terms of size. A pale yellow glow emanated from the canopy of the tree, rising precariously into the air.
It was easy for a few people to come to the foot of the mountain, and there was no need to remind Ling Huxing, and the fluctuation of the three-color frequency that kept staggering in front of them suddenly became violent. Obviously, the target is not far from here. When they got closer, they were surprised to find that the entire hill and the giant trees on the top of the mountain were made of countless unknown trees, and the hill was not a real hill, but was composed of many tree roots rising from the ground.
"I'll go up the tree and take a look at the terrain here!" Ling Huxing looked at the foggy distance and frowned.
"Wait!" Ye Xu suddenly stopped him, then looked down at the little girl, and asked in a low voice, "Is there danger here?" The little girl didn't move, but her little hand was a little tight.
"Can't it!" Zhu Xinxin looked left and right, and said with some suspicion: "It is not displayed in the scanner!"
"Didn't this little thing remind us last time, if it weren't for her, the two of us wouldn't be able to come back!" Ling Huxing also observed the surroundings, with a wary face.
When everyone quieted down, they found that there was not even a breeze here, even if the grass was everywhere, it was not moving.
"That's not right, why don't you even have insect chirp?" Zhu Xinxin asked in a low voice.
"Shut up!" Ling Huxing looked at the little girl's anxious look, her eyes immediately turned yellow, and in the sound of "gurgling", her limbs lengthened a lot at the same time, her whole body leaned forward slightly, and her fluffy ears trembled slightly.
"Above!" Ye Xu suddenly shouted, hugged the little girl, and quickly retreated down the mountain. Ling Hu Xing didn't even look at the sound when he heard it, raised his hand and scratched it a few times above his head, and more than a dozen silver claw marks rose into the sky, a hiss, and a burst of blood rain fell in the air. Ye Xu, who was retreating, saw it clearly, from the lush branches and leaves, countless vines hung down silently, the whole body was green, and the tips were red, like steel arrows. After the death of the vine cut by the claw marks, the tip cracked, revealing a large number of fine tines.
Although Ye Xu retreated quickly, the vines on the giant tree were faster, and before he could take a few more steps, a large number of vines wrapped up, quickly spreading over his legs, pulling him and the little girl in the direction of the big tree. In the crisis, Ye Xu only heard a roar, Zhu Xinxin's body not far away suddenly changed, and a wild boar the size of a car rushed over, and the long fangs instantly cut the vines that bound Ye Xu and the two, and with a flick of the huge head, the two of them were picked up and fell on the thick and hairy back. Zhu Xinxin didn't stay any longer, carrying the two of them all the way to rush, and all the vines that were blocking were pulled off everywhere they passed.
Ye Xu grabbed the thick mane and tried his best to protect the little girl under his body. The clear light flashed around him, and a huge fox phantom intervened, and the silver light flickered along the way, and more vines broke and scattered, like a rain of vines. In the panic, everyone did not distinguish the direction, but just tried to get out of the range of the vines as much as possible. Zhu Xinxin, who was in a hurry, suddenly had a weak front leg, and his huge body fell out horizontally, but fortunately, Ye Xu had been vigilant, and when he saw that the situation was not good, he immediately picked up the girl and jumped off the pig's back.
"Are you okay?" Seeing that the little girl was fine, Ye Xu immediately asked nervously.
"He seems to have been poisoned!" Ling Huxing carefully picked up Zhu Xinxin, who had turned into a human form, and said with a frown.
There were no more vines chasing behind him, Ye Xu walked quickly to Zhu Xinxin's side, and found that he was covered with red fangs, and his whole face had turned dark green.
"Save me, save me!" Zhu Xinxin, who was about to fall unconscious, his eyes were scattered, full of deep fear.
"We don't have an antidote!" Ling Huxing flattened Zhu Xinxin, shook his head and said, "Brother, let's go!"
"Wait!" Ye Xu walked closer, Zhu Xinxin's appearance in his eyes was no different from that of the green man, only a trace of anger still lingered faintly between his chest and abdomen. The memory of curing Yuting's grandfather a few days ago is a little blurry, and now I can only desperately recall it, hoping to find the feeling again.