118 Man-eating vines
The stout trees are nearly 100 meters high, and the lush canopy covers the sky and the sun, and occasionally the sunlight leaks down through the cracks, and the huge space is damp and dark.
Vines clinging to the towering trees hung down from above, each as thick as Turan's thigh.
The breath is filled with the smell of fresh, earthy odor not found in the federal's tech-polluted cities.
Tu Ran looked around cautiously.
The pioneers who had come in before her were gone.
They were sent to different places.
This place in front of me is like a tropical rainforest, and it has never appeared in the memory of the original body.
It's a completely unfamiliar place.
On the inliminal holographic mapping map that the Federation has made public, there has never been a tropical rainforest.
She may have been the first human to make it here.
Tu Ran's heart sank, which meant that she couldn't learn from the experience of her predecessors and couldn't use the memories of her original body.
Everything she faces will be completely new and untouched.
Tu Ran turned to look in the direction she was coming from.
It is a very stout giant sequoia.
She spread her arms, probably less than a tenth of the tree.
Lime opened the exit to the trunk of the tree, and she stepped out of it.
Tu Ran tried to reach out and touch the trunk of the tree.
Rough trunk texture, solid touch.
Her hand didn't go through.
The waypoint has been sealed.
She couldn't go back from this place.
If she wanted to get out of here, she could only wait until the next few hours when the portal opened to find the exit.
If it comes, it will be safe.
She needs to complete her mission.
Tu Ran began to try to move forward.
The ground under your feet is soft.
It's very comfortable to step on.
Tu Ran walked forward cautiously while looking around.
Everything here is huge.
She was here, like an ant standing at the feet of a giant.
The ants meander their way under the giant's feet.
Ants are curious about everything, and when they come across something, they stop and look at it before moving on.
Sometimes a small branch stands in the way, and the ants will crawl over the branch, which is not as thick as a toothpick.
Sometimes it simply does not climb, avoiding branches and continues to crawl from other directions.
Other times, ants will try to burrow under the branches.
Tu Ran is the little ant.
She didn't know how many trees stood in her way.
One or two trees may break due to aging and unable to support the dense canopy, but it is not a natural phenomenon to encounter a broken giant tree every time you walk a distance.
Tu Ran walked to the place where the giant tree was broken to check, and found that the fracture was uneven, as if it had been broken by a giant impact.
Giant impact?
Not impossible.
In this tropical forest, there is a high probability of a large xenomorph appearing.
Tu Ran continued to walk forward to observe the scene.
She noticed that the trees were falling in different directions.
Some of the giant sequoias, which have not fallen, also have cracks in their torsos, and some can even see the impact marks of depressions in the trunks.
It's like two giant xenomorphs are fighting here.
Leave after smashing this place into a mess.
As he walked, Tu Ran's feet suddenly emptied.
Before she could react, she fell into a huge hole.
Although the pit is large, it is not deep, and it is not even her waist.
Because it was covered by huge fallen leaves and blended in with the surrounding ground, Tu Ran didn't notice it.
Tu Ran held on to the edge of the pit and jumped up.
Look back at the pothole.
The shape of the pit resembles the marks left by a foot pressed down, especially the hoof prints of a horse.
From the tactile feeling that I just fell into, the ground under the pit is real, and I don't want to be as soft as the top.
Much like the ground being stepped into a piece.
If it were, there wouldn't be just one.
Tu Ran looked elsewhere.
Two black holes that are far apart are visible to the naked eye, and they are obvious at a glance because they are not obscured by the large leaves that have fallen.
There are probably many more of these holes here, but they are all obscured by the leaves like the one she fell from, and they become natural traps.
Tu Ran cautiously walked forward more than twenty steps, carefully observed the ground, and sure enough, she saw that a few leaves had a tendency to sink downward, and she picked up a very thick piece of wood from the ground and threw it in.
The leaves sinked, leaking out of the pit more than a meter high.
Tu Ran's conjecture was confirmed, and there were indeed giant xenomorphs here.
They are so large and heavy that they can only sink when they step on the soft ground that is made up of fallen leaves.
As for whether it was a fight between two aliens, judging from the messy footprints, Tu Ran guessed that eight or nine were not far from ten.
Tu Ran didn't stay here long.
Her mission was to shoot more footage.
Then she had to go to enough places.
She's been in this area for enough time, and the footage has been almost filmed.
Because there is no map, Tu Ran can only walk in one direction by feeling.
In the beginning, the scenery along the way was not only trees, but also trees.
Not even dwarf shrubs exist.
Gradually, Tu Ran noticed that the trees were not as thick and dense as before, and she could see the blue sky in the gaps in the canopy, and dwarf shrubs began to appear on the ground.
After walking for nearly an hour, a colorful array of colors began to appear in view.
The mushroom that changes colors, with the constant change of light and shadow, pink, purple, blue, a gust of wind blows, its spores flutter with the wind, like clouds about to rise into the sky.
"It's probably a poisonous mushroom." Tu Ran said.
There are a lot of these colorful mushrooms along the way, and the deeper you go, the more these mushrooms there are.
In addition to mushrooms, there are also imaginous flowers, which are very tall, some of them taller than Turan.
The petals are also changing color.
The leaves that set off them also turned fluorescent green at some point.
Small flying insects gradually appeared in front of them, like fireflies, but the lights they carried were not all green.
There are all kinds of colors.
They began to circle around Tu Ran, presumably to observe why the uninvited guest was dressed in black.
Tu Ran felt like he had entered a world of elves.
Everything around is fluorescent, and the changing colors are colors.
The fruits of various shapes on the tree are all colorful.
Everything here is like the neon lights of the federal government at night.
Tu Ran was intoxicated and couldn't extricate herself.
Suddenly, she tripped over a branch.
Fall face down on the ground.
Tu Ran felt no pain.
She rolled over and looked at the sky, her eyelids sinking in.
It's more comfortable, it's more comfortable than in the nutrition cabin.
Tu Ran's consciousness is eliminated at the last second.
A picture came to mind.
There was a man who was tightly wrapped around the vines.
The tighter it wraps, the tighter it gets.
The tighter it wraps, the tighter it gets.
The seven orifices began to bleed.
Blood dripped on the vines, and the vines began to tighten even more frantically.
The bones were torn apart inch by inch.
The flesh was squeezed until it was deformed and twisted, becoming minced flesh that flowed down through the cracks of the vines.
The whole scene is like freshly squeezing orange juice with your hands.
"Freshly squeezed orange juice hahaha......"
Thinking of that scene, Tu Ran laughed out loud.
Then.
“!!!”
That orange juice is her!!
Tu Ran came to her senses instantly.
She was a carp, but she was dragged to the ground by several circles of vines wrapped around her waist.
In front of her was the receding ground, and then the ground moved away, and she was hanging from a tree.
The vines noticed that she was awake and began to speed up the winding.
Tu Ran's hands were already tightly entwined, and her breathing began to be difficult.
Tu Ran gritted his teeth, controlled the mechanical arm, and suddenly exerted force, desperately pushing out.
Two vines were broken in an instant.
Tu Ran didn't have time to rejoice.
And more vines came up.
But Tu Ran had already taken this opportunity to pull out an arm.
She drew her dagger and stabbed wildly at the vines around her waist.
The vine eats pain and shrinks rapidly.
Tu Ran's suspended body fell from a height of four meters.
Tu Ran had been prepared for a long time, and after landing, he kept half squatting and did not fall painfully.
Tu Ran's gaze swept around.
Where was the gorgeous and colorful fairy garden she had seen at the beginning, clearly a place of eerie death full of vines and bones.
She had already been poisoned by the time she entered the place and saw the first colorful mushroom.
Everything she saw later was a fantasy.
Looking at the corpses all over the place, there were animals, some similar to humans, and Tu Ran even saw a mechanical exoskeleton leg.
It's not that there are no pioneers here, but those who enter here have never gone out alive!
The cannibal vine still refused to give up, and pounced on Tu Ran with its teeth and claws.
Tu Ran raised his machine gun and opened fire.
The cannibal vines did not have a high defense, and they were shot backwards again and again.
Tu Ran didn't want to stay here long.
Because she saw another colorful mushroom.
At some point, the vines released toxins that confused her.
If she stays here, she'll definitely fall for it.
Tu Ran took out a bomb from behind his waist.
Unplugged the safety bolt, threw it out, and quickly retreated to a safe distance, hiding behind a large tree.
The moment the bomb exploded, Tu Ran seemed to hear the sound of screaming.
She shook her head, trying to keep herself awake.
Illusions, all illusions.
Don't trust anything.
When there was no sound from behind, she stood up from behind the trunk and looked back.
The place was charred, and there were scattered charred vines rolling down the ground.
These vines are only good at confusing them, and in other respects, they are garbage.
Tu Ran was originally going to leave here quickly, but after taking three or two steps, she stopped.
Is this man-eating vine a xenomorph?
If so, will there be Neidan in their bodies?
Tu Ran quickly folded back.
The ground was already scorched, and there were small flames spreading outward.
Tu Ran stepped on the fire first.
She was worried that when the whole forest was lit by these fires, she didn't go out, and it would be miserable.
She began to look around for the roots of these cannibal vines.
In the midst of the bushes and trees, Tu Ran found the vines that had burned to their heads.
Tu Ran didn't ask directly, but first stretched out his right hand into the depths of a dense pile of grass.
Because she wears a holographic ring on her right hand, she will take pictures of everything she does.
Her next move cannot be known to the Federation.
The right hand remained motionless, and the left hand was carefully pressed against the green body of the cannibal vine.
"Do you have a Nedan?" She lowered her voice.
At the same time, the right hand quickly shakes from side to side, rubbing against the grass to make noise.
In this way, the holographic camera bracelet will not be able to record her voice.
If someone happens to be here right now, and sees her not only talking to a plant, but also moving her other hand, she will definitely laugh out of her big teeth at this funny scene, and may think that she is crazy.
As Tu Ran asked, the remaining body of the vine writhed a few times.
It could understand her.
It's running away, trying to go back.
But its roots are there, how to retreat.
Tu Ran had already seen the scene she wanted to see.
The dagger was removed and quickly inserted into the soil where its roots were buried.
This cannibal vine has Neidan.
It was an unexpected surprise.
Tu Ran quickly cut through the soil and dug down its roots.
When it was nearly thirty centimeters long, a shiny bead appeared.
Tu Ran used the tip of the knife to buckle the beads out.
The fat rhizome of the cannibal vine twitched violently, and then lay limply on the ground, silent.
Tu Ran wiped the beads off her clothes and ate them into her mouth.
The beads instantly turned into a clear stream and disappeared.
Tu Ran didn't test this ability right away.
She didn't forget that she also had a camera on her chest.
It filmed everything just now.
Tu Ran didn't specifically avoid it because she had already planned to dispose of this camera.
It was hard enough to hide it from her wrist, and she didn't want to let her chest waste her energy and time.
Taking this opportunity, Tu Ran buckled the camera off his chest and buried it in the soil.
Only then did he take his right hand out of the grass.
She pretended to rub her knees and smacked the dust on them a few times.
Pretend she's just fallen.
When the play was over, she got up and left the place.
Walking on the road, Tu Ran tries to activate this superpower.
From the experience accumulated from the previous two abilities, the superpower she gained by eating the xeno's Neidan was related to the xeno's original ability.