"True. After absorbing all the insect remains, Tessa Mocha stood up, turned to Leo, and said, "The mother tree seed comes from reality and feeds on the unreal. ”

Looking at Tessa Mocha, Leo frowned, and Sylvia on the side also showed a solemn look on her face, they didn't react like this because of Tessa Mocha's words, but because of Tessa Mocha's state at the moment.

Although Tessa Mocha's entire appearance and body shape have not changed, her temperament and energy fluctuations on her body have completely changed from one person to another, and both of them can feel an invisible pressure at this moment.

"I feel the illusion in you!" Tessa Mocha said to Leo suddenly.

"And what do you want?" Leo asked rhetorically, "Do you want to absorb the illusion from me too?"

Tessa Mocha shook her head and said, "When you are devoured by the unreal, I will, but now is not the time. ”

After saying this, the unique temperament and invisible power in her body also receded like a tide, and she returned to normal, but she did not show any surprise at what had just happened, and obviously she knew very well what she had just done.

"What are you doing?" Sylvia said with a solemn look at Tessa Mocha, "You know you ...... just now"

"I know. Before Sylvia could finish speaking, Tessa Mocha nodded and said, "Of course I know what I'm doing, and that's exactly what I want, if you want to assimilate the mother tree seed, you need to pay some price." ”

"Do you still choose to go that way?" Hearing Tessa Mocha's words, Sylvia quickly thought of something that the other party had mentioned, and her face was a little gloomy, and she said, "Eventually, you will most likely become its nourishment." ”

"That way, at least I can be the next mother tree. Tessa Mocha looked at Sylvia calmly and said, "I just chose to go the way I was supposed to go." ”

"You who believe in the way of nature are insane. Sylvia snorted coldly, turned around and said no more.

The three of them continued to follow the route indicated on the map and walked into another ice cave passage, the entrance of this ice cave passage was a little narrow, and only one person could barely pass through, but after entering a certain distance, the passage expanded like a trumpet, turning into a large passage with a diameter of more than ten meters.

According to the data measured last night, although this passage will be much wider than the entrance when it goes deep, it is only six or seven meters in diameter, so it will not reach more than ten meters wide.

At first, they were caused by changes in the interior of the ice cave, but soon the large number of insect claw marks left on the ice walls around the ice cave made them realize that the ice cave passage was not naturally formed, and that it was probably related to the insects that it widened so much overnight.

Although it is not clear why the bugs widened the ice cave passage, it is conceivable that they will never do anything meaningless, and it can be assumed that the bugs must be indispensable at the end of the passage.

The three of them didn't think much about it, and continued to move forward quickly, walking for about an hour, Leo, who was leading the way in front, slowed down slightly, and looked towards the ice wall next to him, and his vision seemed to penetrate the ice wall and see the situation on the other side of the ice wall.

"What's wrong?" Sylvia asked in a deep voice.

"There's bugs over there, they've spotted us. Leo sensed through the psychic web that some bugs were trying to cut through the ice at the edge of the ice bridge and bring in seawater, but apparently they underestimated the strength of the ice walls, the ice on the inner wall of the passage may be easy for them to chisel, but the closer you get to the outer layer, the stronger the ice becomes, and it is difficult for the claws of the bugs to cut a small hole in those ice.

Because Leo's footsteps created a very small vibration on the ice, and this vibration will not disappear, but will be transmitted because of the connection of the ice cave passage.

The extremely keen insects also seemed to transmit subtle vibrations from the ice, sensing Leo and them, and confirmed Leo's location with great accuracy, after chiseling the ice wall twice, they found that they could not penetrate the ice wall, and after reaching the ice cave passage where Leo and them were, they quickly moved towards the direction of Leo's travel.

It looks like they're going to the next ice cave node to find the entrance to the frozen passage where Leo is, and they're likely to gather a lot of bugs to rush over.

Leo then explained the situation, and then turned to look at Tessa Mocha with Sylvia.

"Next, I'll lead the way!" Tessa Mocha said calmly, then walked around Leo and on.

Leo had no objection to this, and followed Tessa Mocha with Sylvia and continued on his way.

After walking for nearly half of the time, the three of them almost simultaneously felt the ice under their feet suddenly shake slightly, and heard a large number of subtle rustling sounds from the front, feeling that a large number of insects should be rushing towards this side.

Tessa Mocha, who was walking in front, motioned for Leo and Sylvia to stop, and then she walked some distance on her own, standing still.

Then the energy fluctuations in her body also changed suddenly, becoming extremely powerful, and it seemed that she should have been transformed into another consciousness formed by the World Tree seed.

When the energy fluctuation on Tessa Mocha's body reached about the same as Sylvia's, the other party's body suddenly instantly turned into the shape of countless vines, and then these vines flew out in all directions, and the sharp tips pierced into the surrounding ice, forming a large net of vines, and at the same time, a large number of flowers bloomed in the middle of the net, and these flowers emitted bursts of smelling fishy smell.

"It smells terrible!" Sylvia said without hesitation.

And just as her mocking words fell, some vines appeared in the vine net, and they formed a general curse gesture and raised at her.

Sylvia continued to sneer, "I hope that when you change back to your original state, there will be no stench left on your body, otherwise you will try to stay away from us as much as possible." ”

The vine then changed another gesture, again a curse gesture.

"It's coming!" At this time, Leo's outward expansion of the spiritual network had already sensed those strange insects, and it was more appropriate to call them insect tides at this moment, and the entire cave was densely crawling with insects, which made him can't help but recall a small battle against the cosmic zerg that he had participated in.

The situation is very similar to that time, the only difference is that at that time he was just a cannon fodder cyborg warrior who could be sacrificed at any time, and now he is a strong man who is almost inferior to the level of a high-level psyker.

Just when Leo had memories of the past, the insect tide had advanced to the diffusion range of the smell of fishy flowers, and those insects that smelled the fishy smell all rushed towards this side like crazy, and at the same time they would inexplicably attack the same kind of people next to them, and before they could knock down the vine net, the ice cave passage had already poured insect corpses.

The insect that rushed to the front slammed into the vine giant net at once, and the impact force was so great that the giant net was knocked inward and sunken down, although it looked like the vines were very fragile and would break at any time, but in fact, it was extremely tough and the impact force could not cause any damage at all.

And the moment the insect touched the rattan sign, countless tiny capillaries pierced out of the vine, pierced into the insect's body, extracted any nutrients that made up the insect's body, and the insect also dried up and melted at a very fast speed.

The bugs in the back didn't see the miserable situation of their companions at all, and they rushed down the giant net like moths to the fire, and were caught and devoured by the giant net one by one, and the bugs in the back continued to rush up to fill the gap.

Tessa Mo's giant web of card vines has an extremely fast digestion speed for these insects, a half-human tall insect only needs a few seconds at most to be devoured, not even a little residue left, although the number of insect swarms is huge, but it can't withstand such devouring, plus the insects will become extremely violent because of the fishy smell, cannibalism, and finally in less than ten minutes, this thousands of insect swarms have been wiped out, even if there are still alive, they are all stumps and broken arms without any combat effectiveness.

At this moment, Tessa Mocha's transformed vine net loosened the tentacles of the vines that were clasped on the surrounding ice walls, curled into a ball, and slowly rolled forward, and Leo and Sylvia followed.

Along the way, all the insect corpses that were touched by the vine ball were quickly digested, and soon the insect corpses in the ice cave passage were swept away, leaving only some ice-forming insect blood and body fluids.

After all the bugs were cleaned up, the vine ball continued to retract, shrinking to the size of a person, and then gradually changed back to the appearance of Tessa Mocha, and the warm clothes she was wearing were destroyed just now, and now the clothes she was wearing were made of vines, which looked a little thin, but what was more conspicuous was not her thin plant clothes, but her figure at the moment.

Although Tessa Mocha's face has not changed in any way, her figure has increased horizontally several times, and it looks like a sphere.

"Haha! that's funny!" Sylvia laughed out loud and laughed unceremoniously, "Are you doing anything here?" or is this supposed to be your figure, and what you saw before was just a disguise!"

"Hmph!" Tessa Mocha, who also found that her body was abnormal, knew that her current situation was indeed the same as what Sylvia said, so she couldn't find a suitable sentence to refute it for a while, so she could only snort coldly, and then said to Leo: "I'll be able to recover in a while." ”

"It's okay, we're not in a hurry. Leo nodded, and found a random place to sit next to him, and Sylvia did not let go of the other party's thoughts at all, and continued to sneer around Tessa Mocha, and Tessa Mocha retorted a few words at first, and then simply closed her eyes in the back, looking out of sight.

As Tessa Mocha said, it didn't take long for her bloated and fat body to begin to shrink, and after a few minutes, she returned to her normal state.

"Can you move on?" asked Leo as he stood up and turned to Tessa Mocha.

Seeing Tessa Mocha return to her original form, Sylvia sighed with regret as if she had lost a good toy.

"That's it!" Tessa Mocha glared at Sylvia, then nodded at Leo.

"Wait a minute, will you deal with the bugs?" asked Leo again.

Tessa Mocha thought for a while, nodded, and said, "Leave it to me!"

The group continued to move forward, and on the way they encountered three or four more batches of insects, the number of which was obviously much less than the first batch, and the total number was only two or three hundred, but their size was much larger, and their forms were more hideous, and more difficult to deal with, and it could be seen that they had a different status in the insect colony.

After walking for about three hours, they passed through four or five ice cave nodes, each of which had a small hive, but there were no queens in these hives, only some larger, more aggressive bugs.

"Let's rest for a while!" Leo suggested after seeing Tessa Mocha devour a large bug.

"Yes. Sylvia nodded approvingly.

"We can still ......" Tessa Mocha frowned, as if she didn't like the suggestion, and was about to say something.

"No, you can't. Sylvia looked at Tessa Mocha with some seriousness, then took out a mirror and handed it over, saying, "Look at the way you look now!"

Tessa Mocha was stunned, and quickly took the mirror to take a look, only to see that her face in the mirror was extremely pale, and her skin had become transparent, and she could clearly see the blood vessels under the skin, and these blood vessels were lying on her face like some kind of parasitic plant, making her look very scary.

"Okay! Let's rest for a while. Although Tessa Mocha felt that her body was better than ever, she could also tell from her appearance that she was in trouble, so she nodded and followed Leo's advice, found a random place to sit down, and began to check her body.

However, she was puzzled that no matter how much she examined, she couldn't find any problems with her body, but the swollen blood vessels and pale skin on her face showed no sign of fading at all, and this situation that she had never encountered before couldn't help but worry a little.

When she couldn't figure out what the problem was, she also tried to suddenly create the consciousness of the mother tree seed, to see if this consciousness had a way to solve her own problems, but the strange thing was that no matter how she swapped, the mother tree seed never responded, if she couldn't really feel the existence of the mother tree seed, maybe she would really think that the mother tree seed had disappeared.

"Although the World Tree is real and can restrain the unreal, the unreal is not unreal if it is developed to the extreme. Leo spoke suddenly, and then asked Tessa Mocha, "I think you need help now, what do you think?"