As the zombie tree kept shaking and falling, the number of spores in the air surged, and Xiang Jiuxi covered his mouth and nose tightly, not daring to breathe a breath of air.

The spores are very fine granular dust, so even if you cover your mouth and nose with a coat, you can't avoid inhaling them.

With such a terrifying amount of spores, even if he took a breath through his coat, he would end up with a bison.

This was a dead end that no one could break, but Xiang Jiuxi still had a back hand, and these dense spores in the air opened the prelude to "life" for him.

"Dust, oxygen, just one ......"

He looked at the two pitch-black stones that he had already held in his hands, and struggled to get up from the ground and make a swooping motion.

Xiang Jiuxi held his breath, glanced at the gap between the branches, found a relatively large gap, used all his strength, and rushed over brutally.

The zombie tree could not tolerate these small movements of him, and quickly made a wall with branches in front of him.

Xiang Jiuxi's face was already flushed, and after a violent sprint just now, he felt that his blood was surging, and his heart was about to explode.

Between the lightning and flint, his expression changed suddenly, and then he held the black stone in his hand high and wiped it gently.

"Click!"

The two black stones rubbed together sporadic sparks, and they were flints!

"Boom!"

A spark couldn't have made any waves, but these dense spores gave it the potential to burn the prairies, and the spores near the flint were ignited, and the flames instantly swept the entire tree!

"Hula!"

A heat wave hit, and most of Xiang Jiuxi's hair was scorched.

The zombie trees were overwhelmed by the flames, where did he still have the heart to stop Xiang Jiuxi.

Xiang Jiuxi saw the opportunity, covered his coat over his head, did not let the fire spread to himself, and with a brute force that came out of nowhere, he successfully broke through the barrier formed by the branches.

The world suddenly opened up.

Surrounded by protruding branches, the spores in the air outside were much thinner, he breathed a breath of air with relief, calmed his "thump" heart, and heard a "crackling" sound behind him.

The trunk of the tree had long since decayed, and after the fire, it had broken off at the waist. In the firelight, there were countless branches fluttering and dancing, as if they were making a final struggle.

While Xiang Jiuxi was glad that he had escaped death, he couldn't help but sigh that the evolution path of the zombie tree was wiped out by himself.

However, natural selection, this is the law of nature, and he is going to go his own way.

Just as he was about to leave, a sudden ...... filled the air The taste of barbecue.

"Gah! Ga! Ga! ”

A flock of crows hovered above him, still chirping.

Only then did Xiang Jiuxi realize that it was not only the zombie tree that was set on fire by him, but also a big bison.

He swallowed his saliva and decided to wait until the fire was over before leaving......

The zombie tree has long since lost its grip on the bison, which has fallen from mid-air, lying under the tree with its hooves facing upwards, roasted by the flames and emitting an enticing fragrance.

After some tossing just now, Xiang Jiuxi was already so tired that he collapsed, and was about to lie on the ground, resting while waiting for roast beef.

But just as he was about to lie down, he saw that the big bison actually stood up in the firelight!

Looking at the zombie tree again, it has completely lost its sharpness and claws, and has completely lost its vitality in the flames, and it is no different from ordinary trees.

"It's ...... Zombie fungi completely abandoned the tree and chose to parasitize bison? ”

The movement of the big bison was quite slow, it dragged its stiff body, and staggered out of the flames step by step, and its stiff appearance was really like a walking corpse.

It seems that zombie fungi are not able to manipulate the bison's body as freely as they can control a tree.

Xiang Jiuxi's nervous mood calmed down again, and his eyes were also fixed on the two sturdy hind leg meats.

The zombie fungus seemed to know that he was a dangerous existence, and after stepping out of the flame circle, it gradually walked in the direction away from Xiang Jiuxi.

Xiang Jiuxi was willing to give up the gluttonous delicacy in front of him, and walked forward quickly, preparing to unload the bison's hind leg meat as rations on the road.

The bison's body had been shattered by the flames, and it was barely able to walk upright.

Seeing Xiang Jiuxi gradually approaching, the zombie fungus actually began to speed up the movement of its hooves, and before it took three or five steps, it stumbled and fell to the ground.

However, it did not give up and began to crawl forward on its knees, and every muscle in its body was straining in the same direction.

Xiang Jiuxi covered his mouth and nose, walked to the bison, followed the direction of its force, saw another dry tree not far away, and instantly understood the purpose of the zombie fungus.

Originally, it wanted to use the bison's body as fertilizer to save the dead tree, and then form a new coexistence relationship with the dead tree......

Xiang Jiuxi shook his head and decided to give the zombie fungus a way out. This can be regarded as a personal favor, after all, without the help of the zombie tree, he would have died in the belly of the cow a long time ago.

He tore off the meat strips on the back and belly of the cow with his hands, and picked off a few pieces of internal organs that could replenish trace elements, but these parts had no motor center and would not delay the bison's body.

"Quack, quack, quack!"

But the crows in the sky did not think so, they were attracted by the cooked beef, and they had already landed on the back of the cow in groups of three or two.

In the eyes of these crows, there is not much difference between cooked meat and rotten meat, both are edible, even if it is the meat of a former symbiotic partner, it will not be polite at all.

Unlike Xiang Jiuxi's selective meat extraction, these crows' solid beaks start by crushing cow bones and sucking bone marrow.

As a result, the bison's body will immediately lose its mobility, and the zombie fungus will no longer be able to survive.

Xiang Jiuxi was the most shameful about this kind of forgetfulness, he stared at these hateful crows with resentment, and decided to help the zombie fungus again.

"Go away! Damn it! ”

Xiang Jiuxi picked up the wooden stick and began to help the bison drive away the crows.

"Quack, quack, quack!"

For the fat meat that eats to the mouth, the crow does not want to let go easily, and the drive of the wooden stick does not work at all, they are scattered to all corners of the bison's body, so that Xiang Jiuxi is overwhelmed.

After a while, Xiang Jiuxi lost his physical strength, but the crow had no intention of stopping.

"Okay, you hateful thing, it seems that you don't plan to stop if you don't move seriously?"

After that, Xiang Jiuxi tore off the strip of cloth from the inner lining, wrapped it around the end of the wooden stick, and ran to the big tree to light the wooden stick with the fire, making a simple torch.

The strips of cloth were not soaked in oil, so they didn't burn for long, but they were enough to keep crows away.

"Go! Go away! ”

"Gah! Rattle! ”

This trick worked, and under the attack of open fire, the crow quickly surrendered, and flew away from the bison one after another, flapping its wings and fleeing into the distance.

Xiang Jiuxi threw away the half-burned torch, clapped his hands in the direction where the crow was gone, and turned to the bison who was crawling forward:

"You save my life, I leave you a pair of muscles and bones, this is considered a two-clear! In the future, you and I will have our own future, and we will not offend each other! ”

After talking to himself, he suddenly saw the big bison suddenly stop, twist his neck stiffly, and nod at him.

Xiang Jiuxi was suddenly stunned, and only looked at the back of the bison crawling for a long time and smiled bitterly: "In these years, fungi are more moral than humans." ”