Seven days later.

Blue sky, white clouds, ancient mountains, primitive ethnic groups, and all kinds of mysterious legends.

Along the way, in addition to the Twilight Elves and Harpys, Lei Luo also meets many alien races that are not common in human territory, and gradually adapts to the breath and melodies of the Hengduan Mountains.

But.

As Relo and the old monster get closer and closer to their destination, the atmosphere around them seems to gradually change.

With a serious face, Lei Luo came to an ancient tree.

Lei Luo stared at the cancerous scab layer of pale blue and pale on the ancient tree.

As he got closer to the mutated area, Lei Luo's grass and tree spirit physique could no longer hear the sound of grass and trees, and these polluted plants seemed to be suffering greatly and harbored a deep malice towards themselves.

The scab layer on the ancient tree is constantly changing in color, like water waves, which is very weird.

Relo scraped off some of the powder with a scalpel.

"Master, there are more and more mutations in the surrounding forests, but they are not deformed mutations, but they tend to mutations in another ecological environment. ”

In Corleone's hand, he held a red sour fruit.

This is this sour fruit, which actually grew a small mouth and swallowed a small lizard, revealing only its hind limbs and tail, and it was still outside.

"It's getting more and more like the environment of the Nightfall, it's just a polluted peripheral radiation area. ”

Lei Luo took a deep breath.

"The Blood Evil God, how can he have such power, how can such a vast forest be mutated on such a large scale?"

The old monster threw the sour fruit in his hand to the ground.

The microbial activity in the soil also seems to have become extremely alarming, and the speed is visible to the naked eye, and the fruit is like a melted ice cube, gradually disappearing.

"Don't use human eyes to look at the ecological system outside the Land of the Star Curtain, the Land of the Star is just a suitable greenhouse developed by human beings, this world is far from as simple as you think, scholars know very little about this world, even the understanding of the Land of Night is limited to the surface of the biological specimens, their internal ecological laws are self-contained, and they are completely different from human beings. ”

"Got it. ”

These days, the old monster's teaching to Lei Luo has made Lei Luo gain a lot, especially for the cognition and anatomy of the nature of living things, as well as the cognition of the ecological food chain.

"Ever since I received the specimen and letter from that old witch doctor of trolls, I've been almost certain that this is a blood-derived invasion, and since we humans can go on crusades again and again, it is only natural that those creatures and wizards collude to invade humans in turn. ”

Lei Luo took a deep breath.

Every crusade is a propaganda of the Church, an attack by the power of all mankind in the Land of the Stars of the Great Empire of Light.

In order to gain the support of believers, the church has been preaching the evil and terrible of the Land of Night in various ways, portraying it as a representative of the devil.

But with the expeditions one after another, the scholars of the Star Curtain gradually understood some of the essence.

They resemble the extinct Kor'an'an elves.

Born after the cataclysm on this planet, after tenaciously adapting to the environment of this world, it has multiplied, and just like humans rule many alien races in the land of stars, there are countless groups of various creatures in the land of night ruled by blood demons.

But unlike the way humans treat many alien races.

The way the blood demons treat the aliens, just like the ancient elves treat the ancient races, and humans treat livestock, it is complete captivity and deprivation, which is the naked + naked oppression and plunder of the food chain ecosystem.

Although scholars know little about this world due to the isolation of the Nightfall from the vast sea, as well as the rule of the Church, scholars speculate that the creatures of this world are likely to follow the cruel rules of the most primitive food chain.

The weak eat the strong, natural selection, survival of the fittest.

There is no so-called civilization and moral constraints, only the cruelty and wildness of the most instinctive creatures.

The other person is the region!

Lei Luo followed the old monster and continued to walk forward.

Along the way, the surrounding ecosystem is changing dramatically, and the creatures are gradually becoming primitive, brutal, and bloody.

In the sky, a hint of red mist gradually began to float.

It's like the first layer of the pyramid of the Sun and Moon Demon Eye, full of ominous depression, and it is difficult to breathe.

By this time, the form of the creatures has been completely different from that of the Hengduan Mountains.

Sounds of battle were heard from the front.

It was an old pine tree common in the Hengduan Mountains, but at this moment, the leaves of this pine tree had turned blood-red, and what was even more terrifying was that its branches were covered with animal heads, and even the heads of several human mercenaries!

"Tree of Dread!?"

Lei Luo exclaimed.

Legend has it that more than 3,000 years ago, an ancient dead tree in the depths of the Thorn Forest mutated.

In one night, it slaughtered a small tribe it sheltered and incorporated its head into its body.

The tree of dreads has the ability to move, preying on all the sapient creatures it sees, using their heads as its own organs, and evolving into incredibly powerful powers, becoming the most widespread nightmare in the Thorn Forest.

But.

The fear tree in front of me is only about thirty meters high, which is far less terrifying than the legend.

"My mom loves me the most, and you're going to be a part of my mom too!"

On the branches of the Tree of Fear, the words and expressions of the human head still seemed to be as natural as they were before his death, and the tone was a little strange, but his consciousness had changed.

A team of mercenaries is battling the tree of dread.

"What the hell is this monster!"

The archers were terrified and kept shooting arrows.

"Your Excellency the Magician, what should we do?"

The leader of the mercenary squad, a rough man, slashed at the incoming branches with his heavy sword and threw a torch with his other hand.

But seeing that the surface of this fear tree secreted a layer of red liquid, as if it was blood, or blood, no one had the heart to observe these details in the chaos, and the key thing was that it was not afraid of flames at all.

It's not so much a tree as a monster that looks like a tree!

This is a standard mercenary squad with two epee warriors, an archer, a scout assassin, and a mage.

The magician was a twenty-eight-nineteen-year-old girl, who was still calm and sane, but her face was equally pale.

With a wave of his wand, a firebird flew out.

If there is no dark red mist around, it seems to have a certain inhibitory effect on the fire energy, and after the firebird lands on the giant tree, only a little spark remains.

"Don't get caught up in it, those humans whose heads are devoured by it, who can read the mind of food and become a part of it, and who are most likely mutated treants contaminated by something. ”

"This monster, I don't want my head to grow on it, I'd rather die!"

"Ah......h

The female archer was caught by a branch and hung in midair.

She screamed and struggled, grabbing the bark of her ankles, and red veins like hairs stretched out and pierced into her body.

"Kill me, kill me!Woowoo, I don't want to be this monster!!"

The female archer screamed in despair.

At this time!

The people's bodies stiffened inexplicably.

It's like falling into a bottomless ice cave.

In my eyes, the world is only the most monotonous black and white.

Time seemed to slow down, and in mid-air, the speed of the dripping blood became slower and slower, splitting into two, two into four, four into eight, smaller and smaller, until it was completely swallowed up by the ghostly light that filled the silence and darkness.

Time seems to stand still, and frozen souls lose the ability to think.

A rickety figure slowly walked towards the strange tree.

The dirt under the feet of the rickety old man, the dark red tentacles like smoke, disappeared with a "poof".

He slowly raised his palm,

A hand covered with dark glow reached out to the trunk of a strange tree covered in a stinking dark red viscous liquid.

Knock, knock, knock......

When the emaciated old hand was withdrawn, a heart was clawed.

No.

It's a hive, to be exact, but it beats like a heart.

"Truly, truly, truly. ”

The eerie laughter, the thin old hand pinched violently, the heart exploded with a "bang", and countless red insects the size of rice grains were densely sprinkled.

These insects, which seem to be a little unaccustomed to the outside air, squirm a little on the ground, then stiffen and turn to stone!

Affected by this.

The dark red, viscous, fishy, fouling liquid on the surface of the Dreadtree flowed like melted ice cream.

The vivid human face on the branch also turned into a distorted old man at a speed visible to the naked eye, faintly emitting a hoarse voice like a swallow, and the appearance of more breath and less air in.

Boom.

Female archer, hanging in mid-air, landed on the ground.

"Hiss......"

Everyone looked at the old monster in disbelief, gasping, and there was some confusion in their eyes.

Lei Luo came to the female archer, and in her panicked and frightened look, the palm of the black smoke of the Moon Shadow Wraith was placed on her ankle.

"You're infected. ”

Lei Luo's voice was calm.

The rest of the mercenary group looked over one after another, only the mercenary captain was constantly thanking the old monster Corleone.

Female archers are young.

It looks younger than Lei Luo, only eighteen or nineteen years old, it is very uncomfortable to be grabbed by Lei Luo's ankle like this, but fear overcomes shyness, a blush appears in the trembling pale cheeks, and the blue eyes under the short wavy flax hair look at Lei Luo expectantly.

The sorceress said anxiously, "Is the parasitic infection malignant?"

Lei Luo thought for a moment, the insignificant power of the sun in his hand was used as the most precise scalpel, and the pale golden claws were only the size of nail clippers, which were almost negligible compared to those demon mounds, and first cut off the blood vessels that stretched into the female archer's body.

"Master, what are these parasites, and how do they deal with them?"

Relo shouted.

Corleone Dead Fish glanced at the female archer.

"Just give her a bottle of natural life energy potion, natural energy is deadly and highly toxic to these blood derivatives, but pay attention to excretion, after coming into contact with natural energy, they will undergo some energy changes and harden. ”

"I have gold, please help me!"

The girl hurriedly took out a gold coin and a dozen silver coins, looked at Lei Luo pleadingly, and grabbed Lei Luo's palm.

"Ahem. ”

Lei Luo's hand flashed, and Xiaobai and Lili appeared.

"Where is this?"

Xiaobai was uncomfortable with the strange environment around him

Lei Luo smiled and took out a copper coin and a reagent.

"Tell Lili to pee a little in this little bottle, and this copper coin will be yours. ”

"Huh? You're right!"

Hearing the copper coin, Xiaobai jumped up excitedly.

After a while, Lei Luo accepted the gold and silver coins of the female archer, and Xiao Bai, who was holding the copper coin, excitedly returned to the space bracelet with Lili, and kept chattering about nine pieces of butterscotch.

The people who witnessed such a scene couldn't help but open their mouths wide.

The female archer was a little ugly, and she wanted to drink the urine of that little thing?

However, after seeing the Tree of Dread, she no longer dared to hesitate and swallowed the potion in one gulp.