Chapter 20: The Symbiote (2)

Fan Peixi looked at the creature above his head, he didn't know what kind of species it was, but when he saw the eyes of that thing, he felt that he was seeing the eyes of humans and not beasts.

The skin of the thing was exactly the same as the trunk of a tree, and if the thing had closed its eyes and remained motionless, no one would have noticed that it was still on the tree.

Fan Peixi's body froze there, he looked at Bin Zi blankly, Bin Zi made a gesture to Fan Peixi to tell him not to act rashly, and Bin Zi himself slowly reloaded the submachine gun and raised the muzzle.

Fan Peixi nodded stiffly.

Binzi lifted the gun and took aim, making sure that his muzzle was aimed at the skull of the thing, before suddenly firing a shot.

With a "bang", a bullet hit the thing's head with unmistakable accuracy, and suddenly a burst of black juice splashed on Fan Peixi's head. Fan Peixi heard the gunshots and immediately ran away, running in the direction of Binzi, at this time, Zhang Hefang and the one-eyed old man also came over, leaving Qin Ye to take care of the dying old python on the side.

"What's going on?" Zhang Hefang asked.

Fan Peixi shouted: "There is something on that tree, it is alive." ”

Everyone turned their heads to look in the direction where Fan Peixi was standing just now, only to see that the thing was still entrenched on the trunk of the tree, although a huge hole had been punched out of the head, and the black juice kept flowing, but the thing didn't seem to feel pain at all, shook its head, and the whole body climbed down from the root of the tree, roaring desperately at Zhang Hefang and the others.

It looked like a tree man, covered in book covers, but it was definitely a human being. But he was obviously much stronger than humans, even though his skull had been broken, he still rushed towards Zhang Hefang and the others like crazy.

Bin Zi and Zhang Hefang didn't dare to slack off, and hurriedly shot at that thing with submachine guns. However, the thing received a bullet that only seemed to slow down the speed at which the thing was coming towards them. The thing didn't seem to feel any pain at all, and it didn't die at all, and it pounced on them like a complete madman.

However, just when the thing was still a meter away from Zhang Hefang and the others, he suddenly stopped, but it was not so much that he stopped voluntarily, but that he was strangled by something.

That thing seemed to be unwilling, and there was fishy black juice flowing from top to bottom, but it still glared angrily at Zhang Hefang and the others, as if it had to break them into pieces.

At this time, the one-eyed old man noticed the problem and said, "Wait, don't be afraid, that thing's range of movement seems to be limited, you look behind him." ”

Fan Peixi and the others looked up and found that a wrist-thick vine had grown on the back of the neck, and this vine was covered with dense green tendons like blood vessels, which were finally connected to the trunk of the Wenyu tree behind him.

"It's—it's like a symbiote." Zhang Hefang said.

"Symbiote?" Binzi said: "Boss, do you mean that this thing and the old tree are only interdependent? ”

Zhang Hefang nodded and said: "Although this Wenyu tree can grow many beautiful gems, and these gems can also absorb people's souls, but, in the end, it is only a tree, when it is attacked, it has no way to protect itself, so it can only enjoy the same life as other living creatures, trees provide life force for these lives, and these things are responsible for protecting the trunk." ”

Long Bujin also said: "The Wenyu Tree is also known as the Tree of Desire, the gems on this tree make people crazy, if people are obsessed, they will eventually be absorbed by the gems on the tree, and the rest of the body will be used by the trunk. ”

When Fan Peixi heard this, she couldn't help but sigh with emotion: "Then you mean that this thing was really a person originally, but it ended up like this because of his greed?" ”

Long Bujin nodded.

Fan Peixi looked at the monster in front of him, it was hard to imagine that he was originally a person, and besides, this thing may have existed for a long time, does this also count as a way of immortality?

Fan Peixi remembered the experience along the way, it seems that there will be mysterious trees in every place, and reptiles such as snakes will appear in every place. This is no coincidence, since in ancient times, people have long recognized that plants are also a form of life, and that trees, in particular, live much longer than humans, while reptiles such as snakes can retain their youth by constantly molting. These are what the ancients yearn for, so there will be Pangen Cave, Snake Gu, and Qilin Gu in Yunnan, strange human-faced trees and human snake monsters will appear in Shennongjia, and mysterious bronze trees and sharks will appear in ancient Shu. None of this is a coincidence.

Bin Zi said: "However, this ghost thing can't be killed at all." ”

The one-eyed old man said, "No, they can be killed. In my opinion, the reason why he was able to receive serious injuries and still not die was because the umbilical cord-like thing behind that thing was constantly breathing life into him, and we should be able to end his life by cutting off the vine. ”

The crowd nodded, it wasn't too difficult for them. First of all, Fan Peixi and Zhang Hefang and others tried their best to cover with firepower, and they began to detour to the other side to attack the tree trunk, and the strange tree man would attack them, and at this time, Bin Zi pulled out the long knife, and immediately rushed behind the tree man, and slashed with the long knife, and the vine broke off in response.

The whole process was very simple, the thing had no vines to provide him with life force, and the black juice in his body kept gushing outward, and after a while, he lay on the ground and died of convulsions.

However, before Fan Peixi and the others could get happy, dozens of tree people who were exactly the same as just now climbed down on the old Wenyu tree.

Seeing this, Bin Zi and Fan Peixi couldn't help but swallow a mouthful of saliva, loaded the submachine gun, and prepared to start a big battle.

In fact, as long as you master the weaknesses of these tree people, it is not a difficult thing to eliminate them, but the main problem is that there are too many of them, and each of them has a different range of activities, some guys can only move around the trunk, however, some can even attack Fan Peixi and others dozens of meters away from the trunk.

Fan Peixi and the others held a submachine gun in their right hand and a long knife in their left hand, desperately slashing and killing, even Qin Ye came over to help, but the situation still did not improve.

Seeing this situation, Zhang Hefang had a plan, he asked everyone to quickly move left and right to change the position, after trying a few times, they found that these tree people are still a kind of low-level creatures whose artistic conception has lost human wisdom, there is no clear cooperation between them, driven by Zhang Hefang and others, the umbilical cord-like vines behind them are entangled together after a while, Zhang Hefang and others took this opportunity to chop vigorously, and as a result, many tree people.

But even so, he still couldn't resist the tree people who kept climbing down from the Wenyu tree. Everyone couldn't help but wonder how many people were captured by this Wen Yushu.

Seeing this situation, Long Bujin knew that it was not a way for Lu Dao to go on like this, she looked at the thick Wen Yushu, although she knew that Lu Dao was one of the Kunlun Divine Trees, but the situation in front of her still could not make her feel pity. She planned to use the power of the Spirit Demon Jade to directly absorb all the life essence in the Wenyu Tree, so that she could wipe out all these tree people.

After discussing the plan, Fan Peixi and others used submachine gun fire cover for Long Bujin, although there was no obvious effect, but at least it could delay the ability of those tree people to move.

Long Bujin acted quickly, and although his steps were not fast, he dodged left and right, and did not receive an attack from the tree man. She quickly came to the trunk of the tree that Binzi and Fan Peixi had cut down just now, and found that the damaged trunk there was healing itself at an astonishing rate.

Long Bujin knew that she couldn't wait any longer, she took out the Spirit Demon Jade, and at once stuffed all the Spirit Spirit Demon Jade into the wound of the Wen Yu Tree, reciting a spell, and suddenly, all the tree people were stunned for a moment, and stopped attacking Zhang Hefang and the others.

Then, those tree people all looked at Long Bujin's position, and after a second, they all rushed towards Long Bujin like a tide, even if Fan Peixi and the others tried to shoot them with submachine guns, they didn't pay attention to it at all.

In the blink of an eye, Long Bujin's entire person was covered by the body of the tree man.