Chapter Sixty-Eight: The First Night
Zhou Chen sat on the stump of the tree, and after a long time, he seemed to see some vines slowly climbing up the trunk from the root of the tree, wriggling. Zhou Chen rubbed his eyes, and after making sure that he didn't have fireworks, he immediately woke up the six people.
This time they quickly got up and placed all their sleeping bags on the stump to prevent them from being punctured by the dirt thorns on the ground. According to their own memories, everyone stood in the place where the earth thorn did not pierce last time, and they all paid attention to their feet and the vines around them.
Yang Wen, who was watching the surveillance underground, also knew that this operation had been exposed, they already had vigilance, and this kind of sneaky action to arrange it first and then launch a surprise attack was no longer feasible at the moment, Yang Wen waved and said, "Call it a day, stop." ”
As the Abilities underground, the vines climbing on the trunk quickly dissipated. The crowd waited for several minutes, but not even the thorns on the ground appeared.
Yang Ling breathed a sigh of relief and said slowly: "It should be to scare and scare us, or if we see through it, they will simply mess up." There may be another raid soon, but it's just a possibility, it's time to sleep. ”
"The next time, if there is a little movement, Zhou Chen will trouble you to wake us up immediately, according to the first way, the four of you will each guard one side, and the others will beware of the thorns on the ground, Yutong, you will find the source through resonance for the first time."
Zhou Chen took Yang Ling's words and said slowly: "This time the vines are on the roots and trunks of the trees, when you resonate, give priority to the underground and behind the trunks, where the possibility is relatively large." ”
Zhang Yutong nodded, and Yang Ling arranged it a little more. Everyone took sleeping bags, laid them down where the thorns did not stab, and continued to sleep, while Zhou Chen continued to stand guard.
About an hour later, Zhou Chen was still on guard. This time, the vines slowly climbed out from behind the trunk, around the bottom of the trunk, and circled around the tree, and came to the tree, and this time Zhou Chen was as careful as Zhou Chen did not find anything wrong.
With Yang Wen's order, several vines quickly rushed over the ground like arrows from the string, bypassed the four fires, and crawled straight towards them.
In the light of the fire, Zhou Chen saw these vines quickly crawling forward, drawing a few wind blades in his hands, and shouted loudly: "There is a situation!" ”
The other six people quickly woke up and hurriedly left their sleeping bags. But the vines had bypassed the fire and came to the sleeping bags of the people, and the vines bent their branches, like snakes, and lifted them up like snakes, and slammed them down against the places where they were sleeping.
Since most people have experienced two night raids, they are now short of sleep, and they reacted quickly when they heard the movement, especially Zhang Yutong, who quickly climbed out of their sleeping bags, and the vines only smashed on top of their sleeping bags.
However, one of the seven people was very obsessed with doing things, including sleeping. After Ma Jiao woke up, he was dazed, and his subconscious told him that it was time to fight, but the confusion of his body only made him climb out of the sleeping bag halfway.
Among the six people who slept, only Ma Jiao was slammed down by the vine and smashed on the legs that did not pull out the sleeping bag in time. The severe pain woke Ma Jiao up completely, but the conditioned reflex made him subconsciously spread his legs.
"Whoosh", another innocent sleeping bag suffered.
After Ma Jiao woke up, he endured the pain in his leg and wanted to find this vine to preserve, but the vine had been burned into ashes by Ye Ning's flames. Ye Ning saw Ma Jiao getting up, and hurriedly said, "Ma Jiao, I'll leave it to you here, and I'll go to Yang Ling and them to help." ”
Ma Jiao used the thunder in his hands as an answer, and responded to Ye Ning by turning the vines that swooped down again into ashes. Seeing this, Ye Ning also opened his legs and ran towards Yang Ling's side.
Ye Ning opened his legs, took a big stride, and ran forward in big strides, stepped forward with his right leg, landed with his right foot, and raised his left leg. Just as this action was underway, the earth-attribute abilities underground exerted their strength.
One by one, the earth thorns quickly rose from the ground, this time the height increased from the original ten centimeters to more than half a knee, these underground earth attribute abilities have been accumulating strength for a long time, and within the range of the military's prescribed capabilities, they carried out this attack.
The first dirt thorn, low and slow, was meant to warn them that there was danger here, after all, there was still a long way to go, and there were more tests to be done, and they could hurt them, but they should not be too heavy, so they were making fun of themselves underground.
And this second time the earth thorn is in the same position as the first one, mainly for restricting and blocking the field of vision, and it can also mess up their rhythm, not to hurt them. And it wouldn't have hurt them in the first place.
It's just that Ye Ning's run happened to run to this unsafe area, and he rose from the ground quickly and violently, stabbing Ye Ning at the knee of his left leg that he was raising at the moment.
Thanks to the fact that this is exactly the posture of running, the vines are attacking from the ground this time, and such a tall earth thorn is just enough to cover it. Otherwise, if the earth thorns were a little higher, Ye Ning would be heavy.
The earth thorn stabbed Ye Ning's knee, the tip pierced into the flesh, and stabbed the kneecap, although it did not penetrate the knee, but its impact, especially when Ye Ning was running, made his body unbalanced and fell forward.
Ye Ning was in a hurry, and when he was about to fall, he tried his best to retain some dignity in front of the person he liked, and stretched out his hands full of flames to support his body to ensure that he was not on the ground.
Ye Ning's right leg knelt on one knee, and his left leg had to be bent because of the pain, so he dragged it to the ground, supporting the ground with both hands, and the flames spread rapidly with his hands forward, with the fire control technique learned from Jiang Commander, Ye Ning could subtly control the intensity of the flames, and quickly moved forward with a little spark, jumping in front of Yang Ling and Zhang Yutong, and quickly ignited a raging fire, forming a wall of fire.
The sudden protrusion of earth thorns on the ground makes these vines move flexibly and quickly like snakes in the grass, and under the cover of night, the vines are even more like fish in water, making it difficult to find their traces.
Yang Ling's ability was restrained, and Zhang Yutong was only C-level, and it was indeed a little difficult for the two of them to deal with, so they could only barely resist it, and a wall of fire suddenly appeared in front of them, and the vines extending from the ground were blocked by this wall of fire.
Yang Ling looked back at the little sparks under the wall of fire, and saw Ye Ning's appearance lying on the ground, casting spells seriously. At that moment, they were really deceived by Ye Ning, and the pressure on the two was relieved and liberated.
"Yutong, resonate!" Yang Ling quickly urged, as long as they found the root cause, they might be able to pass this trial. Zhang Yutong, as before, aroused bursts of green halo to resonate.
But just like the first time, as soon as this resonance began, Yang Wen directly ordered to stop the attack, and the vines and ground thorns instantly dissipated, and the whole scene was calm again, as if nothing had happened.
Ye Ning limped his left leg and stood up. At this moment, everyone's attention was in the darkness in the distance, no one noticed the slight discomfort of his body, and his "wise image" could be regarded as preserved in front of Yang Ling.
After waiting for a minute, there was still no movement, and everyone breathed a sigh of relief again, only Ma Jiao looked at the sleeping bag he had just broken on the ground, and said distressedly: "Then, let's just let the two of us sentry next." ”
"Then I'll leave it to the two of you." Yang Ling yawned and said, "Let's rest, don't sleep too much, I guess I'll come back a few more times tonight." ”
With that, the other five returned to their sleeping bags and rested. Zhou Chen's face was calm, and he sat on the stump again to stand guard, Ma Jiao's face was disappointed and disappointed, immersed in the pain of not being able to sleep, and sat back to back with Zhou Chen, reluctantly standing guard.
The two of them stood guard and sentry, at least they had a companion in the loneliness of this dark night, and their efficiency was slightly improved, if there was no Zhou Chen to accompany them, Ma Jiao would be very drowsy standing guard alone.
About an hour later, the sound of rustling sounded around the environment again, and the two of them sensed movement and quickly woke up the other five.
With the experience of the previous few times, the few of them responded quickly to deal with these vines and soil thorns this time, and they were handy and cooperated tacitly. Quickly act according to the tasks assigned to them before, and give Zhang Yutong enough time to resonate and position.
As before, as soon as Zhang Yutong resonated, the vines and earth thorns quickly dispersed, and there was no trace. Zhou Chen discovered the pattern of this attack, and said in a loud voice: "It seems that every hour or so, they will launch an attack, and as soon as Zhang Yutong starts to resonate, they will immediately withdraw the attack." ”
"It seems that this is really the case, then everyone can sleep at ease and follow this rhythm." Yang Ling responded, and after waiting for a while, everyone continued to go back to their sleeping bags to sleep, leaving Ma Jiao and Zhou Chen to stand guard.
After mastering the rules, the next two raids organized by Yang Wen were safely defused, and each time it only took a few minutes to solve them, and it was already three o'clock in the morning.
In the following time, they did not encounter any more night raids. Zhou Chen and Ma Jiao thought that they had found out that the law had been broken and passed the night test, so they stopped harassing them.
In fact, they only plan to stop harassing them at this point, and the rest of the time should be allowed to rest, after all, this is just ordinary training and testing, there is no need to torture them like that, just stop in moderation.
Ye Ning and the others were also able to sleep peacefully for a few hours. After the last attack, Yang Wen also took most of the people to prepare for tomorrow's test, leaving only a few people and calling Ye Ning and them to get up in a special way.
The long night was long, Ye Ning and Ma Jiao stuck to their posts, dutifully sentry, and spent a very boring night, without movement for several hours, so that Ma Jiao also fell asleep, sitting on the stump and constantly "nodding".
Suddenly, several rows of earth thorns protruded from the ground, causing Zhou Chen and Ma Jiao to wake up again.