Chapter 406: A Giant Tree with a Canopy in the Sky
"Wait a minute, if you feel anything unusual, let me know immediately."
Ye Qing watched around and said to Gu Ruoyan.
She just hummed softly and didn't speak.
The two skimmed through patches of dense vegetation covered by lush vegetation, almost impermeable jungle, it is estimated that there are no large-sized mutant creatures, the primeval jungle here is even more desolate, the big trees and vines are crowded together and almost where they have no foothold, there are mutated plants and insects everywhere, and ordinary people will be in danger of life if they don't live for more than three seconds.
With the help of the shadow technique, they traveled all the way, and soon walked forward for a distance of more than ten kilometers, but they found nothing, and found a lot of various mutated lifeforms, and found a tree monster in a jungle that could turn tree roots into spikes and drill out of the ground, but this tree monster was obviously not the owner of that will.
Ye Qing thought about it, landed on a large canopy, took out the map he got from the Yufeng Shelter again, looked at it carefully for a while, compared his current position, and suddenly said in surprise:
"How did we get here?"
Gu Ruoyan was attracted and stretched out his head to look at the map, and asked:
"What's wrong?"
He pointed to a point down the Yellow River on the map and said:
"Look here, we're here before we know it."
The place he refers to is south of the Yellow River, at the junction of Shaanxi and Ningxia before the end of the world, that is, in the middle of the Yellow River's 'several' shape.
The problem is that they were going south, through Gansu, directly to the route of the two lakes, but somehow they turned a corner to the east and came to the territory close to Shaanxi.
Deviating from the road is nothing, just adjust the direction, but on their map, in this area, there is a shelter marked.
It is said that it was a shelter built by the Ningxia Autonomous Region at the junction of the two places before the end of the world, which can be used for military purposes and can also provide refuge for people in times of danger.
The shelter itself was not the reason for his surprise, he was surprised that in the mark of the Yufeng Shelter, this shelter called Yuhai, which was at the junction of the two places, had long lost contact, and it had not been restored until now.
It's not that the Jade Peak Refuge has formed a team to explore, but it has never succeeded in finding the Jade Sea Refuge, and every time the team sent out has lost contact, so that no one pays attention to it in the back.
The inexplicable will, the shelter that lost contact, the combination of the two, Ye Qing keenly felt that the two must be related, and he suspected that the will of the last knowledge was likely to stay in the Jade Sea Shelter, after all, the place where the will controlled them was the Jade Sea Shelter.
He could think of it, and of course Gu Ruoyan could think of it, and he was quite interested in this, so when he asked:
"Do you want to go there?"
She readily agreed:
"Yes!"
According to the map marked, they were still dozens of kilometers away from the Jade Sea Shelter, which was a straight line, and it would not take them half an hour at their speed. But in fact, it must have been more than half an hour to walk, knowing that there was a terrifying existence in front of them, how could they rush forward.
When they were only about ten kilometers away from the place marked on the map, the two stopped, and in front of them looked up, a giant tree appeared in front of them.
The tree was unknown how tall it was, the highest part had penetrated into the radiant clouds and the canopy could not be seen, the trunk was incredibly thick, it looked like it was estimated to be several kilometers thick, and to be honest, if it weren't for the fog, they would have seen it a long time ago.
The location of this giant tree is in the Jade Sea Shelter marked on the map, but now this Jade Sea Shelter obviously does not exist, only this unknown giant tree remains, well, the giant peak, this tree is too big, the average mountain peak is not so big, it looks like a wall rising from the ground from a distance.
"Such a big tree, how much can this canopy cover!"
Ye Qing sighed and looked up at the thick radiant clouds in the sky.
Just as he was about to step forward a little more, there was a rustling sound from the woods below, and the two of them looked back and saw a giant python more than ten meters long and covered in black through the cracks in the vines and flying in the direction of the giant tree.
Ye Qing immediately proposed:
"Follow it and see what will happen?"
Gu Ruoyan nodded in agreement, and the two immediately followed quietly behind the giant python.
The python was visibly affected by the unknown will, just like the rest of his teammates before, and swam towards the giant tree without feeling.
As he got closer and closer to the giant tree, Gu Ruoyan suddenly stretched out his jade finger and pointed in the direction of the giant tree, his tone changed a little for the first time, and he looked at it, and his whole body was shocked.
They were now only a few miles away from the giant tree, and they could already see the trunk of the giant tree, and on the huge trunk, on the smooth bark, there were dense faces floating on it, both human and mutated, and their faces had strange expressions, as if they were smiling at them from a distance, and it was creepy to watch.
Soon the python had swam near the giant tree, and there was no monster rushing out as they imagined, and there were no tentacles in the ground to devour the python, so it swam safely to the edge of the giant tree, and it swam up along the smooth bark very strangely.
Then he swam to a certain section, and suddenly the bark cracked a hole, and on both sides of the mouth were sharp teeth, and the python burrowed into the crack, and was chewed and swallowed by the crack.
It wasn't until the whole python was swallowed into it that the bark was put back together, and a slightly raised python head appeared on the surface, exactly the same as the python that had just been devoured.
Ye Qing saw that her scalp was numb, and she subconsciously took a step back, glanced at Gu Ruoyan, and saw that her eyes were also shocked and frightened.
If you follow what you have just seen, then it means that the dense faces on the trunk of this giant tree with a diameter of several kilometers are all creatures devoured by this giant tree, and there are tens of thousands of faces on the giant tree with a diameter of several kilometers and a height that passes through the clouds, all of which are controlled by the giant tree to send them to death.
That is, if it weren't for the two of them, the outcome of several of his teams would be estimated to be the same.
The two of them watched for almost an hour from a few kilometers away, and one after another saw many mutated creatures coming from a distance, climbing to the edge of the giant tree like a pilgrimage, looking for a place to get into.
Well, it should be said that he went in to die, and he got into someone's mouth.
In the end, seeing that both of them were a little cold, Ye Qing said to Gu Ruoyan:
"Let's go, this guy can't be killed."
Gu Ruoyan nodded, glanced back at the giant tree, and left with him.
As soon as he turned around, suddenly there was a loud bang from behind, and the two of them showed surprised expressions on their faces at the same time, and they turned around together, just to see a missile dragging a long tail flame towards the giant tree, and it exploded with a bang, and a large flame blew up a small gap in the giant tree, and a large part of the surface of the bark was shattered, revealing the wood like flesh and blood inside.
"Fighters?"
Ye Qing's eyes were sharp, and at a glance, he saw several fighters flying in the air farther away from the giant tree, and several missiles flew out in a row and exploded on the giant tree.
It's just that this giant tree is very hard, and the flesh trunk is not as brittle as the wooden trunk, and the missile can only blow up a small gap.
When attacked, the giant tree seemed to have no reaction, but the planes suddenly stopped releasing missiles, but flew into the distance, and after a while, several beams flew out from the distance, and several fighters were destroyed in the air.
Obviously, the pilot of the fighter was already controlled by the giant tree, but the attacking side of the giant tree probably knew it, so they decisively shot down the fighter.
After this wave of fighters crashed, the other side did not continue to send fighters over, and there were no missiles, and Lin calmed down all of a sudden, but Ye Qing didn't think so, this was just the calm before the big war, and the forces on the other side who didn't know which shelter would not just test it once, and there would definitely be a follow-up.
Sure enough, after almost ten minutes, dozens of missiles with long tails of flames flew from the sky and bombarded the giant tree trunk, and for a while the rumbling sound was non-stop, and almost half of the tree trunk was shrouded in flames.
The power of the missile was indeed not something that flesh and blood could resist, or the strength of the trunk of the giant tree was not enough to ignore the missile, and the side that was hit was blown to pieces, and a large piece of bark was torn off, revealing charred flesh and wood.
In fact, Ye Qing couldn't figure out whether the bark of this tree was wood or flesh, or something between flesh and wood, or maybe this mutant giant tree devoured too much flesh and blood and turned itself into woody flesh.
He guessed that if it was allowed to be devoured like this, the giant tree would evolve into a real flesh and blood body in the future.
The missiles bombarded wave after wave, and the trunk of the giant tree was blown to pieces, and soon about one-fifth of it was lost, and if it continued to bombard like this, it was estimated that it would not be long before it was forcibly blown off.
This giant tree is so powerful, of course it will not wait for death, and soon has a means of countermeasures.
Its countermeasures were beyond Ye Qing's expectations, and countless branches suddenly hung down in the radiating clouds of the sky, this branch did not look like a branch at all because of flesh and blood, but hung down like tentacles, if it wasn't for the appearance of a little branch, Ye Qing might not be able to recognize it.
This tentacle, no, it should be that the branches of the giant tree are very long, hanging until they almost reach the ground before stopping, there is one every ten meters, spread over a radius of dozens of kilometers, looking like a snake forest from a distance, it will move, it looks like countless snakes hanging down, it looks extraordinarily infiltrating.
As soon as the tentacle hung down, another wave of missiles attacked, but this time the missile was intercepted by the tentacles halfway and exploded in the air in a volley, nearly ten kilometers away from the trunk of the giant tree, and it was impossible to hurt its main body.
However, this did not stump the modern army, and soon the opposite side changed its strategy, not using missiles, but using artillery bombardment, and one howitzer after another screamed through the dense tentacles and bombarded the trunk of the tree, and the explosion was a pit.
Compared with larger missiles, artillery shells are not only faster, but also smaller, making them difficult to intercept.