Chapter XXVII: The Hunter's Squad

In the future, the more distinctive mutated creatures that appear in the book will be turned into cards, after they appear, of course.

"Mutant Creature Illustrated Book" Mutant Creature Card 001

Blood Tree (Octopus tree)

Half-plant, half-animal mutant lifeform, the prototype is ominous, the whole body is red, and it is named the blood tree. The main trunk is 10-30 meters high, the diameter of the main trunk is 2-5 meters, the crown is small, the branches and leaves are sparse, the leaves are oval, and there are stomata on the back to release nerve paralysis gas.

The breeding mode is mainly parasitic, and the infected tree species are released in the near-death state, and the animals may be parasitized after eating the infected tree species by mistake, but the survival rate of the tree species is low after the growth cycle is long.

In the hostless state, it is milder and will release nerve paralysis gas with attracting effect to lure mutant animals to approach and capture as hosts.

It is extremely aggressive when hosted, attacking any living creature that comes close to it and absorbing nutrients to feed the host and giving birth to parasitic tree species.

Before the tree species matures, the blood tree will continue to provide nutrients to strengthen the host, enhance the strength of the host, and transform the spirit of the host, and finally cultivate the hostel into a blood tree parasitic beast.

When the tree matures, the parasitic tree is planted into the host's body, and then the host body is released. After that, the blood tree entered a new round of breeding.

After being released, the host will continue to hunt and store food under the influence of parasitic tree species. The parasitic tree species will germinate within a month, and the blood tree seedlings that begin to grow will devour the host's body to get their initial growth, and then absorb the food collected by the host, and in one fell swoop, they will reach a height of 10 meters and begin to hunt.

The Blood Tree lures and paralyzes prey through neurotoxins, and can also release sounds with mental shocks, and through the precise positioning of Yuan Force by the leaves, it captures and kills prey with the powerful root system hidden underground. The roots of the tree are extremely tough, the strength and speed are high, and the stabbing prey has the ability to suck blood. Frontal attacks reach the category of high-level mutant creatures, and are dangerous species

The dividing line of the Blood Tree

T City is a big city, with an urban area of more than 6,000 square kilometers. However, it only takes a dozen hours to walk across the city. Even if the road in the listing area is complicated, it is impossible to go all the way straight, and those two days are enough. And Li Gang has been walking for two days, but he still hasn't seen the edge of the city, and he still starts walking from the middle part.

The main reason for this is that the mutant beasts encountered from time to time on the road, especially the occasional mutant beast group or large living dead people, once they are targeted, they will be endlessly chased. Li Gang can kill one, kill two, and kill ten, but hundreds or thousands of mutated creatures pounce and have no moves, so they can only run. As a result, it was a very difficult walk, which was not a long distance.

Thundered

A large group of rats ran underneath Li Gang, who was hiding in a half-collapsed high-rise building, looking from behind the broken windows at the mutant rat swarm that was chasing him three streets below.

This rat pack is made up of thousands of rats, these rats are as small as the original wolfdogs, the largest ones are bigger than elephants, but only one is that big and it should be the king of rats. Regardless of their size, they are covered with a thick layer of gray-black armor, which is extremely durable, and the Yuan Force Bullet in the ordinary state can bombard them and fly around, but few of them are killed, and even those who are killed are only small ones.

Li Gang saw that there were only a dozen of them, and when he saw them attacking him, he wanted to destroy them directly, but before he finished killing, more and more came in, and they became larger and larger, and finally became this scale. Then don't run, what are you waiting for?

Even if the individual strength of these rats is not very good, this large group, with a rat sea tactic, will suffer sooner or later.

Getting rid of the pursuit of the rats, Li Gang rejudged the lower direction and went on the road again with a backpack that had a lot of 'slimming'. Although I have found food in the past two days, it is still not enough before Li Gang's super large amount of food. Of course, he didn't eat in vain, at least his body was much better, and his complexion was a little ruddy.

In addition, there is one thing that makes Li Gang very uncomfortable in the past two days, he always feels that something is staring at him, but he doesn't find anything suspicious. There were even two times when he suddenly turned around and turned on the Yuan Force Burst to run back to search, but still didn't find anything. He was nervous and didn't sleep well.

Li Gang was walking, thinking about when he would be able to get out of the damn ruins of the city, when he suddenly heard a sound of fighting mixed with shouting.

"That's right, it's a human voice!" Although the shout was not clear, the sound of the human voice was definitely different from the meaningless roar of the mutant beast.

After carefully identifying the source of the sound, Li Gang untied the backpack on his back and grabbed it in his hand, and rushed towards the source of the sound.

Since there are people, it means that you can finally get out of here.

Not long after, Li Gang followed the sound to a tall wood. Where's the forest in this city? Judging by the broken pavement decorations and seats on the ground, this was once a park.

Hiding behind a tree, Li Gang saw several people fighting with an orangutan that was more than five meters tall. This orangutan turned out to be a 'flower orangutan' all along, and its hair was black and partly golden, and it felt like a miscellaneous hair. Many of the nearby trees have been broken, and a fierce battle is going on in the vacant lot.

There were 5 people on the field, one woman and four men. A tall, human-like man with a sledgehammer swam around the gorilla, which was huge but agile, and from time to time the giant hammer smashed into the gorilla, causing it to scream, but it couldn't catch the guy who was scurrying around.

The others looked more laid-back, watching the giant man and the orangutan fight as if they were watching a play.

"Captain really, is it so troublesome to deal with this kind of goods? You can't just kill it. ”

"You know, this orangutan is worth a lot of money, and if you break it, the price will be greatly reduced."

"It's a pity that only half of its fur has turned golden, and if it turns all golden, it will be haired."

"Cut, if it's all golden, even if we don't have all of it, we may not be able to beat it, you should be a 'golden haired gibbon' is a cabbage, and you can cut it if you want? It would be nice to be able to lure this half-gold one out. ”

boom

roar

The tall orangutan was hit in the chest by the big man's hammer and fell to the ground screaming, the big man suddenly threw away the hammer and stepped forward to hug the orangutan ankle, dragged the orangutan and then pulled it back and then turned it all up, slammed it to the ground with a loud bang, and the reverse again

Touch. Bumper bumper

The strong man seemed to be holding a large rag doll and throwing it wildly, and the violent impact smashed the ground into one big hole after another, and I don't know how many times he fell, the gorilla finally stopped struggling and whimpered for his life.

Letting go of the gorilla, the strong man was not at ease and gave the orangutan a punch to the bleeding head, directly smashing the orangutan in the face.

Seeing the death of the orangutan, Li Gang secretly said: "This death is too miserable!" Silence for you. ”

The strong man who touched the bloodstains on his hands on the tree suddenly looked at the big tree where Li Gang was, and said loudly: "Brother behind the tree, I don't know what you are doing secretly, you don't happen to pass by so coincidentally." ”

Li Gang didn't plan to hide, but since everyone shouted, he simply walked out with a big backpack and sneered: "Hehe, of course I'm not passing by, I heard the sound and came here." ”

The person who came out of the big han was just a young man who looked ordinary, and he didn't feel the breath of a high-level evolutionary, so he was a little relieved, but he dared to haunt here alone, and he should not be underestimated, so he asked with a slight smile: "Under Gao Lei, I don't know what advice this little brother has?" ”

Although Gao Lei, as a high-level evolutionary, belongs to a group of people standing at the top, he never oppresses people with this, and his father taught him since he was a child that he needs to be humble, leave three points in everything, and would rather make ten friends than make an enemy. And he did just that, and after becoming a power-type high-level evolutionary, he was still very kind to people, of course, and this was only when he wasn't provoked.

"Li Gang, don't have this expression, I really don't have a dime to do with that!"

Seeing that Gao Lei had just reported his name, he frowned, and Li Gang reluctantly explained that this situation was not the first time he had encountered it, and he blamed the bastard who hit people everywhere.

"I'm actually lost, so I want to trouble you when you leave here and take me out."

Hearing Li Gang's request, not only Gao Lei, but even several team members behind him frowned, this matter did not seem to be as easy as Li Gang thought.

"What? What's the difficulty? Don't worry, I don't need you to break the bank if I have my own food, and I also have some strength, so it's no problem to protect myself, so I don't have to worry about becoming a burden to you, if it's really dangerous, you can ignore me. As he spoke, Li Gang patted the big backpack in his hand.

Gao Lei smiled awkwardly and said: "Brother Li, you misunderstood, we are not stingy, but we have also met a lone evolutionary who wants to walk with us before." ”

"And then?"

"Killed by me!" Gao Lei still had a smile on his face when he said this.

Li Gang Khan said in his heart: "Didn't I run into a murder gang, am I so unlucky?"

"Don't get me wrong." At this time, the female team member standing behind Gao Lei spoke: "Our captain is like this, he always speaks incompletely, and it is easy to cause misunderstandings." ”

Criticized by his own teammates, Gao Lei scratched his head with an embarrassed smile but did not refute, this is a tacit acquiescence!

Li Gang looked at the woman, and at a glance, he found that it was a rare beauty, about 175 cm tall, and a leather coat outlined the delicate figure to the fullest, even if there was no leakage, it was still fascinating, so that Li Gang, who had not even seen anyone for many days, couldn't help but look at it twice.

Feeling the other party's burning gaze, although she was used to being looked at by men with this kind of gaze, Jiang Yan still felt uncomfortable, and unconsciously crossed her arms in front of her to block the turbulence in her chest.

"Ahem" Jiang Yan coughed dryly twice to attract the attention of Li Gang, who was looking like a pig brother, and said: "That person was under the banner of his peers, and he wanted to kill people and seize wealth while we were unprepared, but unfortunately he overestimated himself, and his sneak attack did not kill the captain but was killed by the captain." So you're making the same request now that we have to be wary. ”

"It's normal for you to be suspicious that this kind of thing has happened." Li Gang retracted his gaze on the beauty, although he admired the figure of the beauty just now, but he was not really like a pervert who had never seen a woman in his life. And he also noticed that the black leather coat on this beautiful woman's body was not ordinary leather, and the seemingly smooth leather coat was covered with thin scales, which looked the same size, but did not look like natural animal skin. Looking closely at the clothes of the other people in this team, it can be seen from the collar, cuffs and other exposed places that they are wearing tights of the same material as Jiang Yan under their ordinary coats, and they really can't notice it if they don't look closely.

"Well, I'll just follow, keep my distance from you, and we won't interfere with each other, so you don't have to worry about what tricks I'm going to do. All I have to do is follow until I leave the city. ”

After listening to Li Gang's proposal, Gao Lei and several people went to the side to discuss, and soon there was a result.

Gao Lei stepped forward and said to Li Gang: "After we discussed, we decided that you should go with us, but you must always accept the monitoring of my teammates, anyway, our hunting is almost over, just go back and deal with it, and take you out by the way." ”

In this way, Li Gang joined Gao Lei's team, and after they skinned and cut the gorilla, the group quickly left the scene, and the smell of blood easily attracted other mutant animals.

The so-called surveillance is to prevent Li Gang from getting out of their sight, and they also inquired about Li Gang's evolution type and level. As for Gao Lei, Li Gang also got some information from Gao Lei, the captain.

This is a squad of hunters who hunt mutated creatures and sell them for profit by obtaining materials such as fur, teeth, or horns from their bodies, and can also accept hunting missions issued by hunter organizations to search for specific materials in exchange for points.

Gao Lei's hunting team is composed of five people: Gao Lei, Jiang Yan, Ma Ning, Ren Youwei, and Han Xiaodong. Gao Lei is the captain, a flesh-and-blood strength-type high-level evolutionary, and the other team members are all middle-level evolutionaries, but what type was not told to Li Gang, it can be regarded as a preventive measure, but it is understandable. And Li Gang just wanted to leave here, so he didn't care about the information of this hunting team member. Compared with those, he was more concerned about the blood type, constellation, measurements, hobbies and boyfriend of this beautiful woman named Jiang Yan, and he thought that if he could bring a girlfriend home, Xiaowei would be surprised. Of course, he just thought about it, and the beautiful woman didn't seem to be interested in him, so he didn't bother to take care of him.

"Captain Gao, I can understand that you want animal skins, these mutant animal skins can be used as armor and leather armor and the like, but what are you doing with teeth and eyes, collecting or watching?" Li Gang and Gao Lei chatted while walking, walking next to Gao Lei, who was two meters three, Li Gang was like an undeveloped little child, which made him very stressed.

"Brother Li, it seems that you don't know yet, now scientists have invented a technology that can extract a hardened substance from the bones, teeth and armor of mutant beasts, and after fusing it with metal, it can greatly improve the hardness of metal, and weapons made of this new alloy are not easy to damage even if they are used against mutant beasts. The Mutant Beast's teeth have the highest content of this substance, less in the bones, and the armor piece is a ready-made armor material, which is much more valuable than the hardening substance at the extraction point, so the Mutant Beast's teeth are also a relatively sought-after thing. Of course, the process of extracting hardened matter is still confidential, but there is a great demand for teeth, and a little hardened matter will consume a large number of teeth to extract. Just like my warhammer, it's just a low-hardening weapon, and that bit of hardening can only be refined by consuming more than ten times the size of this warhammer's teeth.

The hammer is the cheapest of the large weapons, because the hammer is attacked by smashing, and the hardness requirements are not very high, and the hardening material in it is added less, so it is cheap. If it is a sword, a weapon whose blade is easily damaged, it is natural to add more hardening material to enhance the hardness of the blade, so it is extremely expensive. Otherwise, I'd like to use a sharp weapon like a broadsword and axe, which would be much easier to deal with mutants. Gao Lei paused, and then continued: "You have heard of the evolution fluid, that thing is extracted from the body fluids of mutated creatures, and the eyeballs of mutated organisms also contain a lot of evolutionary substances, so those organizations that have mastered the technology of evolution fluids will also buy eyeballs at a high price, but whether it is teeth or eyeballs, there are corresponding monitoring methods, and the value is calculated according to the estimated amount of the corresponding substances in them, so it is not feasible to indiscriminately fill the number." In addition, the special organs of some mutated creatures, such as horns and claws, also have special uses, so we will collect these and sell them for money when we go back! ”