The passage between the high walls of the trees was smooth and undisturbed except for the cry of a baby.

As the distance deepened, Yi Chen also became proficient, and he only needed one hand to straighten out in front of him to make the trunk in front of him move away on its own.

And in the process, Yi Chen gradually discovered the differences between these high-walled trees.

The sap that flows from the trunks of trees does smell of blood, which must be directly related to the nutrients absorbed by their roots...... It is this special nutrient that allows them to form such an unreasonable 100-meter-high wall.

As for Kim, it's like he's here to travel, and he's following behind him very leisurely, and even has some time to chat.

"I didn't expect your man's control of plants to be so good...... Are you planning to open a clinic in the future? ”

"I don't have any plans to do that just yet."

"It's best not to have this plan in the future, the [clinic] thing is originally used by the organization to bind talents.

Minimize contact with Zion as much as I do, and when the value of Zion is squeezed clean, will I leave here, and then we will be together? ”

"Focus on the task at hand, Kim."

"Boring man."

After walking between the tree walls for more than 300 meters, he finally peeled off the innermost trunk.

The two of them were not greeted by a paradise, nor did they have any sense of comfort...... Not only did there be no sunlight, but they came to a darker, lightless inner area.

At the top of the nearly 100-meter-high wall, the growth of tree branches is also beyond the norm, dense, intertwined and superimposed.

Countless branches and leaves combine to form a [cover], enveloping everything inside the high wall.

At the same time, it is also mixed with a fog component brought by ashing, filling the gaps between the leaves, preventing the slightest sunlight from penetrating, forming an absolutely dark enclosed area.

Ordinary people walk in such a forest for two or three minutes, and a sense of claustrophobia will sweep over their bodies like a reptile.

Yi Chen looked down and observed the ashing aura flowing between his leather shoes, the concentration was comparable to that of the Twilight Clinic, and it had reached the advanced stage...... It's just that the coverage here is larger and the area of influence is deeper.

There may be abnormal conditions similar to those of female infusion doctors and bandage nurses.

Under the influence of ashing,

The trees that grow in the inner area are no longer upright, but grow indiscriminately at various strange and distorted angles.

The branches resemble human arms, and the dull and dark leaves are like skin on the surface of the branches, and even embedded in them, which looks quite strange.

Some trees appear extra 'fat' under the spawning of ashing, and the middle of the trunk becomes swollen.

Streams of thick, green liquid flow out and eventually sink into the soil to re-turn into nutrients.

furthermore

The skin of the tree and the ground around it are large and dense with fungi.

Some of these fungi are large and have openings at the top that allow them to breathe like a human...... Each wriggling exhales sporophytes that deepen the ashing effect, promoting mutation in the forest.

The gray spores scattered through the forest can further obscure the view, and even the light of the kerosene lamps will be limited, and the visible range is limited to about ten meters.

Due to the existence of small grapes, Yi Chen's visual range can be doubled.

The little grape suddenly came to the voice: "It's very rich~ This place is not much worse than the twilight clinic, William, you have to be careful." Later, if you're unlucky, you'll be really going to die if you meet another open-source patient."

"Don't crow's mouth, I'll take care of it."

Yi Chen walked to a diseased tree that was bleeding pus, and tried to put his palm on the bark to feel the specific situation inside.

"Huh? Tumors? ”

Under the bark of the tree is a flesh-red malignant tumor, and it is this tumor structure that causes the trunk to be swollen and pus-draining.

Moreover, the surface of the tumor is also connected to the fluid transport structure of the vascular bundles, which leads to the base of the tree.

"There seems to be something attached to the lower roots."

Behold

Jin also followed, directly on his fingers stained with thick juice, put it on the tip of his tongue and tasted it.

"It smells of flesh and blood! Is it really related to the roots? Let's take a look at what's going on. ”

Without any consultation with Yi Chen,

Kim wrapped her arms around the trunk, red threads stretched across her arms...... With explosive force, the tree was pulled out of the ground.

Yi Chen didn't stop it, but looked at the root seriously.

The image that caught his eye made his brow tighten and his heart felt uncomfortable.

The roots of the uprooted trees, the plump, lubricated roots writhing on their own, more like the tentacles of an octopus than the roots.

The roots of a living body are quite active, and they even want to reverse and pierce into Jin's arms, but unfortunately the length is not enough......

"What the hell are these tendrils sucking?"

Yi Chen moved the kerosene lamp to the hole in the ground, and looked at the bottom.

A drop of cold sweat overflowed on the surface of his forehead,

In the field of vision, a kind of 'larvae' that cannot be classified as today's biology is buried underneath,

It has limbs similar to those of humans, but each has different lengths, hooves, pads, and other structures.

It has black hair, rudimentary horns, and a nose similar to that of a pig.

The whole is coiled together like a mosquito coil, curled up at the bottom,

The holes that cover the surface of the body continue to close and open as the larvae breathe, as if they want to have roots inserted into its body.

At this moment,

The eyes of the larvae suddenly opened,

The eyes are in a 'straight line', staring at the snooper at the upper end,

The crooked mouth opened and closed and made a strange cry, as if it was painful from the loss of roots.

"This guy is not a nutrient, but maintains a "symbiotic relationship" with the trees, providing each other with the nutrients they need.

Kim, put the tree back, don't startle the snake for the time being, our exploration has just begun. ”

However.

Kim's fingers rubbed lightly,

A simple red lotus woven by blood thread is pinched on the fingertips,

With the release of the fingers, the red lotus floated down and landed on the surface of the strange hatchling's body.

Rooted on the surface of the body,

red-line invasion,

throughout the body,

Syllable!

The larvae exploded like a bomb, and the flesh evaporated.

It didn't take long for

The uprooted trees also began to wither and shriveled up from their roots, and the entire tree decayed and died in less than five minutes.

"This kind of poor fellow, [death] is the best gift~ Don't you think my approach is very gentlemanly, William?"

……

At the same time.

Deep in the forest, somewhere hidden and completely ashed.

An old man dressed in religious attire and wearing a bishop's crown inlaid with gold and green vegetations wakes up in his seat.

As he slowly lifted his wrinkled, skinny palm,

A mysterious man dressed in black robes gathered in the darkness and knelt in front of him.

"Your Excellency, what do you command?"

"There are visitors ......"

"Do you want to keep bringing us in supplements? These humans are really generous. ”

"This time it's a little different...... Let the inferior villagers greet them first, test their abilities, and start the test if necessary.

Our plans are still ongoing, so be careful, Theodore. ”

"Yes."

The man known as Theodore quickly receded into the shadows and vanished.

The bishop who woke up from the dream seemed to be unwell from sitting for a long time, and wanted to adjust his sitting posture.

"The First Evolution"

After he struggled to move his body,

Reaching out and lifting his own robe, revealing his fat and wrinkled belly,

The weird thing is,

There was an equally wrinkled umbilical cord extending from the bishop's navel, and the other end connected to his chair.

It seems to fix him here,

It is as if with the help of the transmission function of the umbilical cord, the bishop is constantly absorbing the nutrients under the seat.

Through the gap at the lower end of the seat, you can faintly smell the smell of corpses.