Volume 1 Prelude to Chaos Chapter 3 The Lava 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 one of the largest commercial complexes in J City, although it is not high, but it occupies a very large area, integrating shops, restaurants, playgrounds and shopping centers.
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 first heterotopic plane infiltration incident occurred in J City.
In the front row of the parking lot in front of the main entrance of the shopping mall, a black Hummer H2 SUV was parked, Bai Ye sat behind the steering wheel, with his hands on his jaw, and a pair of big sunglasses on his eyes, so it was impossible to tell whether he was faking sleep or contemplation. And in the co-pilot next to him, sat a man in avant-garde clothes, with his eyes closed, and seemed to sleep soundly. In fact, he is the owner of this Humvee, and he is currently in a coma, because Bai Ye has taken a fancy to his car.
At 16:20, Bai Ye, who was in deep thought, suddenly let out a sigh: "There are still ten minutes, time should be enough, alas, the heart is still too soft!" He glanced at the unconscious brother next to him again, and said, "I'm sorry brother, although I borrowed your car without permission, but you didn't go in because of it, you can save your life, even if it's even." ”
After saying that, he opened the car door, threw the man down, and then slammed the engine, and the Hummer let out a dull roar, and slammed into the door of the commercial building fiercely, and the momentum was unstoppable!
With a bang, the tempered glass was shattered, and the front face of the Hummer was also smashed, and the loud noise of that moment shook half of the mall, and then there were screams one after another near the gate.
However, smashing the gate was only the first step of the white night, and he took out a megaphone and shouted into the car: "I am a warrior of Allah!" Now that the holy war has begun, everyone should get out of the mall immediately, otherwise, Lao Tzu will collapse you! After speaking, he took out a shotgun and fired a shot at the hanging bracket of a gorgeous chandelier on the ceiling, although the simulated [gun] bought for tens of thousands of dollars is much worse than the real steam hammer A2 combat shotgun, but in the gas [gun], the power is already the top, more dangerous than some real pistols, only one shot will break the support of the chandelier, the huge chandelier smashed to the ground with a bang, and the splashed glass shards pierced the nearby customers who could not dodge covered in blood, The chaos was even greater than when a car slammed into the door.
After that, instead of relenting, Bai Ye drove a car rampaging through the mall, and even took out two homemade burning [burning] bottles and threw them into two stores, both of which were dealing in flammable goods, and with the sound of explosions, the two stores were immediately set on fire, which finally alarmed the entire shopping mall, and the mall was full of shouts and screams, everyone thought that they had encountered a legendary terrorist attack, and people rushed to flee outside the gate, and the scene was extremely 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, it didn't take 10 minutes, the crowd has basically dispersed, although occasionally people escape from the upper floor in a panic, but most places in the commercial building are already empty.
After the chaos, there was silence in the commercial building, even the white night was nowhere to be found, only the unrecognizable off-road vehicle was left, quietly parked in the main hall, which is the most open space in the entire commercial building, and the buildings from the first floor to the seventh floor are surrounded by the hall, so 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.
The whole shopping mall fell into darkness in an instant, it was the deepest and purest darkness, without the slightest light, and at the same moment, the people outside the mall were terrified, because the entire Oriental commercial building disappeared in front of people out of thin air.
The darkness only lasted for a short moment, and the Oriental Shopping Building, which had been lost in the fault space, returned to the light again, but at the same time as the light appeared, a terrifying giant tree also suddenly appeared in the center of the hall of the shopping 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 rather skewed and twisted, with many large caves naturally forming in the trunk, making the whole tree look as if it had died.
As soon as the giant tree appeared in the hall, a group of strange creatures sprung up from the hollow of the tree, their average height was about 1.5 meters, slightly shorter than that of humans, they looked like crocodiles walking upright, with a flattened head and a large narrow mouth, their forelimbs were very short and degenerate, and the hind limbs of the anti-joints were very thick, and they had a thick tail wrapped in cuticles, which seemed to be very good at running and jumping. Their skin is the same dark gray as that of a strange tree, and their mouths are densely packed with sharp teeth, and they are known to be monsters that are made to kill.
This is the Splittooth, from the Fire Demon Plane, it is the most numerous and lowest-level alien creatures in the plane, their strength and speed are average, their sense of sight, hearing and smell is not as developed as that of humans, and their intelligence is far from that of humans, but the reason why Splittooth Monsters can survive in the Fire Demon Plane full of powerful monsters is that in addition to their outstanding reproductive ability, they also have an innate instinct, that is, they can sense the panic of other creatures through the wavelength in the air. Generally speaking, those who panic when confronted by Cracktooth are weaker beings than them, and can be used as prey.
And that twisted giant tree is the life cornerstone of the fire demon plane, the lava tree of life. The environment of the Fire Demon Plane is similar to some elemental planes, and it is very unsuitable for the survival of flesh life. However, the lava tree of life, a strange plant, is able to absorb the fire elemental magic energy in lava and convert it into the energy needed for flesh life. The Lava Tree of Life is a mutation of the Tree of Life, which is actually a very high intelligent creature, and within the reach of the Tree of Life, it can shelter the survival and growth of flesh life, so in the Fire Demon Plane, each Tree of Life protects an alien community. And these aliens are the guardians of the lava tree of life. The one that appeared in the fault space had actually just left the sapling state, so there was only one community of Splittooth monsters that depended on it, and it was a very weak community, with less than 200 of them.
At this time, the Oriental Commercial Building was unusually quiet on the surface, but in fact there were still more than 100 people stranded. In the face of emergencies, some people chose to hide in place instead of evacuating in time at the risk of being trampled by the crowd. There was one such person in the shops around the hall, and when he saw the sudden appearance of the giant tree and the swarming tooth monster, he was almost frightened to stop thinking, and the great panic inevitably spread.
In fact, due to the appearance of the Lava Life Tree in the main hall of the mall, almost all the people stranded here saw this strange scene, so the Splittooth felt an unprecedented panic, and they were extremely excited, they had never encountered so many prey in the barren Fire Demon Plane.
The Splittooth let out a strange "quack" cry and scattered in all directions, chasing the locked prey, the hapless ghost hiding under the shelves in the hall bore the brunt, and it took only a dozen seconds for a dozen Splittooth to break down the shelves that blocked him into parts, and in his terrifying screams, one of the Splittooth bit off his neck and dragged him out, and then the Splittooth who surrounded him began to feast. In just a few minutes, only the bones were gnawed, and the Cracktooth monsters who had finished their meal also scattered in a swarm to catch other targets.
For a while, the hall of the shopping mall became empty again, and the rest of the place was filled with piercing screams and hysterical screams from time to time.
At this time, there were only two Splittooth monsters left in the hall, and they gathered around the bones of the dead man, greedily licking the broken flesh on the bones and the blood on the ground. However, they were interrupted by a sudden "click", and the two Splittooth Monsters turned to see a man with a strange long stick, quietly watching them.
In the previous life, there was a great female leader who led humanity to conquer and conquer the fire demon plane, and White Night participated in the entire battle as a soldier, so he killed countless Tooth Crackers, and was very familiar with the characteristics of this creature. From the very beginning, he didn't leave the hall, but hid under the buggy, and since he had no fear of the Splittooth, the Splittooth couldn't spot him.
The Splittooth didn't feel panic from the white night, and didn't attack at the first time, but they weren't afraid, although the Splittooth had a low IQ, it was not a beast after all, but an intelligent life, and they could recognize that the person in front of them was the same species as the prey that had just been eaten. As a result, the two Splittooth Monsters opened their huge mouths to the extreme, emitting a "hiss" intimidating sound, which made it look as if the upper half of their bodies were split into two pieces, and the image was very terrifying, which is also the origin of the name of the Splittooth Monster.
Bai Ye smiled coldly, and shot at the open mouth of one of the cracked tooth monsters!