Chapter 290: See the Ghost Vine Again!
The survivor base of Shili Town is on the west side of the Gwangju Demon Domain, and the area of the Great Enlightenment Sect's activities is in the area of Yezhen on the east side of the Gwangju Demon Domain, so Sun Heng is ready to follow the route he used to return from Gaocheng and cross the Gwangju Demon Domain again.
Now that the Demon Domain is full of dense jungle terrain, Sun Heng will certainly not drive stupidly anymore, so he put on his bag and a fine iron spear that was dismantled into three sections, and carried a machete in his hand, and walked towards the town of Puta Market.
The reason why he brought an extra machete was not because Sun Heng wanted to change his weapon, but because it was easier to open the way in the jungle.
After a few months, the scope of the Gwangju Demon Domain has significantly expanded, and the side of Pta Ji alone has extended more than a mile to the west.
And from the border of the Gwangju Demon Domain to the west, the location of Shili Town is actually a recess of the Gwangju Demon Domain, so that with the expansion of the Gwangju Demon Domain, I am afraid that the base will be shrouded in the Gwangju Demon Domain within this year.
Sun Heng didn't bother with this matter, because he knew that by that time, even the human survivors outside would gradually adapt to the gradually increasing aura, and they could only be stimulated by entering the temporary demon realm where the aura was extremely strong, and as for the concentration of aura in the permanent demon realm, it would no longer be able to stimulate those bloodlines inherited by the human race.
There are pros and cons for human survivors.
The advantage is that there is no longer any need to worry about demonization because of entering the demon realm, and the disadvantage is that there is a lack of a way to stimulate the bloodline. However, in the long run, this change is still good for humanity. After all, if there are too many demons in human beings, and the population is drastically reduced too much, it will be difficult to develop in the future.
After entering the jungle of the Demon Domain, Sun Heng relied on his high agility to shuttle between the branches of the jungle, and only when necessary, would he chop the surrounding branches or vines. In this way, his speed is about the same as that of people riding bicycles before the end of the world.
Hiss!
A mutated green poisonous snake was originally hidden among the branches and leaves, perfectly integrated with the environment, but was disturbed by Sun Heng who was passing by. Then this mutant poisonous snake attacked Sun Heng without knowing whether it was alive or dead, but it was split in half by Sun Heng with a knife.
During the whole process, Sun Heng didn't even look at the poisonous snake, and the speed of the journey did not slow down in the slightest.
It seems that cleaning up the poisonous snakes and poisonous insects and even some mutant birds that attack in the jungle has become a natural action like ordinary people walking and swinging their arms.
In just an hour, Sun Heng entered the city of Pta Town.
A few months ago, when Sun Heng passed by with Fang Ping and the others, this town became a dead city because it was occupied by a female demon king who led many monsters. Later, after Sun Heng and the others forcibly broke out, when they came back to check after a few days, they found that the female demon king and her demons had already left.
After that, because the Mao people invaded Sun Heng, he didn't bother to pay attention here, and I don't know if the female demon king has returned here. Therefore, entering the town of Pta this time also means to check the traces of the demons.
If the demons really returned to Pta Town, it would be very bad news for Ten Mile Town.
However, when Sun Heng entered the town of Pta Market, this worry was put down. Because not only has the town of Pta also become a jungle, but there are also many snakes, insects, rats and ants living in it, and there are even some first- and second-level monsters - if the demons occupy this place, there will be absolutely no such "life".
Because he set off late in the morning, it was close to noon at this time, so Sun Heng did not continue to hurry. He hunted a mutant sparrow the size of an old hen in the jungle bushes of the town of Pta Market, and then he found something to make a fire and make a "lunch".
After eating the mutant sparrow, Sun Heng did not rest, but continued to hurry.
Today, not only small towns like Pta Ji are covered in jungles, but even the roads are almost gone. In order not to go in the wrong direction, Sun Heng could only go down to the ground from time to time, remove the heavy shrubs and weeds, and check if there was a roadbed below.
Sometimes you can't see the roadbed at all, only cement blocks and black stones torn by plant roots.
With Sun Heng's current strength, unless he is surrounded by many monsters with three or four levels of strength, or encounters that kind of demonic beasts and evolutionary beasts that are against the sky, and then it is not a strange existence like the demon race, there will be no danger at all.
But sometimes, the more you don't want to encounter something, the more you encounter something.
In the afternoon of the next day, Sun Heng came to Shangshiqiao Town along the faint roadbed of the Shanghai-Shaanxi Expressway, but had to stop.
Shangshiqiao Town did not have a wall like Pta Ji and Ye Town, it may be that when the Permanent Demon Domain first enveloped here, the people who originally lived here ran to death. At least a few months ago, when Sun Heng and the others passed through here from east to west, they didn't see any living people in the town.
Now this town is naturally covered by the jungle, originally Sun Heng planned to pass it over directly, but when he jumped onto a tall Tsubaki tree in the town, he was suddenly attacked by a vine!
The machete in Sun Heng's hand was also infused with pure gold, which was quite sharp, so he casually cut off the vine that was the thickness of the child's arm.
However, seeing that the vine was still slightly twisted like a living creature after it was cut off, and at the same time three more vines were attacking him, Sun Heng's face changed. Because he already recognized what this vine was.
Oni Vine!
At the beginning of the apocalypse, Sun Heng encountered a ghost vine in the temporary demon domain of Xiancheng, but he never thought that in a few months, he would encounter a ghost vine in Shangshiqiao Town, Linxian County!
When did this weird thing become so easy to see?
With Sun Heng's current state of mind, he couldn't help but complain in his heart at this time.
Cutting off the three vines that attacked in a row, and at the same time quickly retreating more than a hundred meters away, seeing the vines waving in front of him shrink back, Sun Heng couldn't help but feel numb on his scalp.
Although the vines waving in the sky just now are not all of this ghost vine, it can also be used to get a glimpse of the strength of this ghost vine - it can grow so big, it is estimated that this ghost vine has been here for at least two months, and it is even possible that this ghost vine appeared here after they passed through the east in the first place.
At this time, Sun Heng didn't see the living dead controlled by the ghost vine calling for help and seducing him, thinking that it was because there were too few survivors in this demon domain, and this ghost vine had not hunted humans recently.
As for other jungle creatures, there are naturally a lot of them, but the ghost vine has an "intelligence", that is, it can judge whether the controlled prey and the prey to be caught are the same kind based on the blood and smell of the prey, and the ghost vine will generally only seduce the same kind of body of the prey.
It's not that the oni vine is really intelligent, but that the hunting experience has changed its biological habits in the course of evolution.
Therefore, the ghost vine in front of him did not use the habitual trap to seduce Sun Heng, but directly attacked Sun Heng. And in the situation just now, if Sun Heng hadn't moved fast enough and the machete in his hand was sharp enough, I am afraid that there would be death and no life!
At this time, seeing that the longest vine could not catch Sun Heng, and soon the jungle where the ghost vine was located returned to calm.
If you don't pay attention, you probably won't feel that this jungle is any different from other places, but Sun Heng found that it was eerily quiet, and it was not as full of "life" as other places.
Obviously, in the heredity of the oni vine, there is probably no habit of using the puppet creatures under control to feign "vitality" to disguise their existence.
Now, as long as Sun Heng bypasses this place far away, he can continue to go east unharmed.
However, if this ghost vine is allowed to continue to grow here, it will become a big problem sooner or later. Not to mention the base of Shili Town, which is farther away, it is said that the remnants of the caracal hairy warriors who are active in this Gwangju Demon Domain may also die under the rhizomes of this ghost vine, becoming nourishment for its growth.
Thinking that this ghost vine might have killed the Maoren warriors, Sun Heng immediately turned into a green mountain hideous appearance. Then he went to observe the ghost vine again, and sure enough, the jungle was in the same commotion, and then crawled out from under the branches a scrawny hairy warrior, in the hairy language pale and mechanical shouting "help", over and over again, so weird that it was creepy.
When Sun Heng returned to his original appearance, the hairy man who had become a corpse shouted for a short while, and then suddenly fell down and disappeared into the dense branches and leaves pulled by the vines.
Sun Heng estimated that this ghost vine would not take the initiative to decompose the corpse of the hairy man, but would wait for it to rot. Before the corpse is completely decomposed, as long as other hairy people reach the area where the smell of the ghost vine is recognized, it will pull out the hairy corpse and use it as a puppet to set a hunting trap.
Thinking of this, Sun Heng felt that it was best to get rid of this ghost vine as soon as possible, otherwise in the future, I am afraid that the entire Gwangju Demon Domain and its vicinity would become a dead place!
However, the only thing that can restrain the oni vine is fire, and it is not easy to burn the oni vine in this dense jungle.
There is another point, that is, the body of this ghost vine should be hidden underground, so even if he makes a fire to burn this ghost vine, it will not be easy to destroy its root body together. If you let its roots run away from the dirt, it will definitely cause harm elsewhere in the future.
However, it is not easy for this ghost vine to grow so big, and if it is not in danger of death, it will not easily transfer the root body. If he was well prepared, he might not be able to destroy this ghost vine.
Thinking of this, Sun Heng began to check and test the attack radius of this ghost vine.
After he circled around the ghost vine and cut off hundreds of vines that attacked him, he finally estimated the attack radius of the ghost vine - more than 200 meters.
In other words, this ghost vine occupies a circular territory with a diameter of nearly one mile! It's big enough!
Thinking of this, Sun Heng immediately hid some salutes on his body, and then turned into a green mountain hideous appearance, and rushed to the nearest passage camp from here.
In fact, on the way here, Sun Heng encountered a team of sentinels from the remaining divisions, but he did not alarm the team. But now that he wants to deal with this ghost vine, he has to need the help of the hairy people of the remaining caracal tribe.
After rushing to the nearest passage camp, the Maoren warriors stationed inside were very happy to see Sun Heng. But when I heard that there was a ghost vine nearby, my face changed one by one.
"Commander, are you sure you're encountering a ghost vine?!" The leader of the Maoren squadron in charge of this passage camp came back to his senses and asked again.
The ghost vine is also a very rare evil in the spirit world, and any intelligent race will find a way to get rid of it when it encounters it. Because of its rarity, many people may not see it once in their lives, and the same is true of the Mao people in this camp, so this squadron leader asks this.
Sun Heng asked rhetorically: "What can control the dead corpse to seduce the prey is not the ghost vine?" ”
When the squadron leader heard Sun Heng say this, he finally stopped doubting it, but his face was still ugly, and said, "I once heard an old man in the tribe say that when he was young, a ghost vine was found in the tribe. At that time, the longest vine of the ghost vine was only more than 100 meters, and it was also the dispatch of many fourth-level and even fifth-level warriors of the tribe, combined with hundreds of second- and third-level warriors, to destroy it. The commander said that the ghost vine found was more than two hundred meters long, and I am afraid that it would be difficult to destroy it with our current strength, not to mention that we still have to leave people to guard the passage of the two realms. ”
"Do you know how the tribe used to get rid of that ghost vine at that time?" Sun Heng asked.
The squadron leader said: "First let the fourth- and fifth-level warriors cut off its vines and narrow its attack range, and then let the warriors dig a deep trench around it to cut off its root system." Then dig from the trench to the center of its root system to find its root body. Only by finding its root body and burning it can it be regarded as truly extinguished. ”
Sun Heng nodded—this method was similar to what he had thought before.
At this time, the squadron leader said: "The old man told me that although the root system of the ghost vine is not toxin, it is more tenacious, and it is haunted in the land, and many people died when the soldiers dug into the center of its root system. Then I asked why we didn't burn it. The old man told me that if it was burned with fire, the oni vine would feel in danger, and then take the initiative to disconnect the root body from the main vine and sneak away, so that it would be difficult to find it again. ”
After listening to the squadron leader, Sun Heng couldn't help frowning.
In this way, his original method of killing this ghost vine was somewhat taken for granted.
So, what exactly should be done with this ghost vine?
Soon, Sun Heng thought of another feasible way, and immediately asked the squadron leader to gather the available manpower in the camp. And he rushed to the passage camp in the far middle of Nanyuan's town, which was not very far from Shangshiqiao Town, and had the most men.
By the time Sun Heng felt that the middle passage camp had seen Nan Yuan, it was already night. So Sun Heng didn't take action, but waited until the next day, selected 50 people and rushed to the camp closest to the ghost vine, where another 30 people were added, and then went to the place where the ghost vine grows.
"Here's what I thought: since we can't eradicate this ghost vine now, let's cut a vegetated barrier around it, trap it, restrict its growth, and then destroy it when we have the opportunity to do so." Outside the range of the ghost vine's attack, Sun Heng said his plan.
Nan Yuan frowned when he heard this, "The plants in this demon domain are very easy to grow, and it may not be easy to get the isolation zone that the commander said. Besides, even if the barrier is created, how can you guarantee that those beasts and monsters will not enter? You can't send a team of soldiers to guard here, can you? ”