At the same time that Li Xing was looking for herbs and food in the geopulmonary area, in the southwest where the Desert Ship was located, countless spherical thorns were gathering in one place, gradually forming a huge oasis comparable in size to the square in the city, to be precise, it should be called "Brown Continent".

These spherical brambles are brown all over and number more than 10,000. The small ones are as big as fists, and the big ones are as tall as a two-story building.

There was not a single leaf on the thorn's body, and the thorns were densely packed with finger-length spikes, many of which were still tied with the corpses of star beasts. The blood and internal organs were sucked dry by the thorns, and the corpses were shriveled like mummies.

The four members of the Desert Boat team are trapped in the thorn bushes, and Shangguan Linyuan and Shangguan Xianyu struggle to hold up a defensive array to protect their teammates.

Strangely, these thorns seemed to be conscious, and they spun rapidly while squeezing the impact defense array. The sharp thorns are as sharp as a sword under the centrifugal force generated by the rotation.

The rune array was unstable by the impact, and the pale golden rune pattern was clearly extinguished. The Shangguan brothers and sisters also worked very hard, especially the Shangguan Xianyu of Shui Yuan Ling, who had to maintain the defensive talisman array and constantly change the energy stone to regulate his body temperature, and behaved extremely flustered.

Shangguan Linyuan is a fire spirit who is less affected by the shackles of the five elements, and his state is much better than Shangguan Xianyu. Therefore, he took on most of the energy output of the rune array, giving his sister a chance to stop and breathe, and the defensive rune array was barely maintained.

As for why things are the way they are, we have to start a few hours ago.

When Bai Ling and the others were just teleported, there was only a small patch of spherical tumbleweeds, half a person high, two or three hundred, scattered quietly on the ground.

Feeling the breath of human beings, this tumbleweed moved inexplicably. It was obviously a mindless plant, but like a star beast, it scrambled to hit the four people.

I don't know what organ tumbleweed uses to feel the human breath, but it can accurately capture the location and direction of movement of several of them, and respond, moving at a frighteningly fast speed.

Shangguan Linyuan couldn't dodge, his calf was scratched by the spikes of the tumbleweed, and blood instantly gushed out. Blood spurted onto the nearest tumbleweed, and it was absorbed in the blink of an eye.

The blood-sucking tumbleweed visibly swelled in a circle, and when it tasted the sweetness, it slammed into Shangguan Linyuan more and more frantically.

On the thorns, there must be some kind of substance that prevents blood clotting, and although Shangguan Linyuan's wound is not big, it has been bleeding nonstop. After a while, the sand on the ground was soaked with blood.

There was a faint smell of blood in the air, and all the tumbleweeds were like crazy, striking them more and more fiercely.

"What the hell, it's annoying!"

Shangguan Linyuan was angry, the Fire Yuan Spirit was running, and a scorching flame gushed out, setting fire to the nearest patch of tumbleweed.

Tumbleweeds contain very little water, almost like dry firewood, and when they are burned by the flames, they immediately make a crackling sound. The fire spread rapidly, and in an instant, all the tumbleweeds around were enveloped in flames.

When everyone, including the audience watching the live broadcast, thought that the tumbleweed was going to be burned to ashes, Bai Ling shouted "Not good!" He pulled three teammates and quickly retreated.

The tumbleweeds, which are more than half a human tall, twist and twitch in the flames, the thorn strips entangle and shrink each other, and the flames gradually extinguish in the twisting of the thorn strips.

The flames did not carbonize the tumbleweeds to death, but instead made them smaller and harder.

Hundreds of fist-sized, spiked tumbleweeds appeared in place, whirling and whirling, shooting towards the Desert Boat at an unprecedented speed.

Bai Ling secretly said "Oops", why didn't she find out earlier, this is not an ordinary tumbleweed, but a seedling of a vampire vine!

Once the spikes of the vampire vine penetrate into the prey, the anesthetic on the spikes will make the prey lose the ability to resist and obediently be sucked dry, becoming the nutrients for the development of the vampire vine seedlings.

Somehow must be found to get rid of them!

Even if the four of them are used to desert warfare, they can't surpass spherical objects in terms of movement speed, after all, the soles of human feet are not suitable for running fast in the desert.

If it weren't for the Earth Yuan Spirit's Chen Qi constantly manipulating the sand to set up roadblocks to block the vampire vines, they would have been buried by the tide-like vampire vines.

In desperation, Bai Ling could only let the Shangguan brothers and sisters set up a defensive array to block the vampire vines outside, so the opening scene appeared.

The Desert Boat team thought that as long as the vampire vines could not break through the defensive array, they would leave in search of other prey.

Who knew that these vampire vines not only did not leave, but through plant pheromones, they called all the vampire vines in the vicinity, and there was a great momentum that they would not give up without sucking them dry.

The four people in the defensive array, watching the large and small vampire vines outside gather more and more, without the slightest sign of scattering, couldn't help but feel a kind of remorse for being cocooned.

By now, they have lost the best opportunity to break through, and there is no second way to go except waiting.

In the live broadcast room.

The host looked at the brown thorn balls of different sizes and asked puzzledly, "Master Zou, isn't tumbleweed the most common low-risk plant in the desert, how did it become so powerful?" ”

Zou Huali: "That's not a tumbleweed, it's the number one killer among desert plants, the vampire vine." ”

The host was shocked: "Vampire vine? Master, this ......"

Zou Huali: "Do you think these things in front of you don't look like vampire vines at all?" ”

The moderator nodded.

"Because they are seedlings of vampire vines. This plant is the strong strain I mentioned, and after tens of millions of years of evolution, the seedling and the adult plant are two forms that have nothing to do with each other. Seedlings are weaker than adults in predation, and in order to survive, they mimic tumbleweeds, tricking star beasts into letting their guard down and waiting for an opportunity to approach blood-sucking. ”

The host suddenly realized: "No wonder Bai Ling didn't warn the team at the first time when they were surrounded by vampire vines!" ”

Zou Huali nodded: "Indeed." But she can't be blamed, the seedlings of the vampire vine are so similar to tumbleweeds that it's hard to tell the two apart from their appearance alone. If it weren't for the change of form that occurred after being burned by the fire, I wouldn't have recognized it. ”

Zou Huali rarely interacted with the host, and the host was flattered, so he struck while the iron was hot and asked new questions.

"Master Zou, can you explain to us why the seedlings of the vampire vine are not afraid of fire? Could it be that it has evolved to the point of violating the laws of the five elements? ”

Zou Huali: "Of course not. The vampire vine itself is not afraid of fire, the key is that the surface of the vampire vine seedlings is attached with a layer of bioglue. In addition to locking the water firmly in the body of the seedlings and preventing evaporation, this glue also has a very special effect, that is, to weaken the power of the elements. ”

The host exclaimed: "Weaken the power of the elements? What do you mean? ”

"It's literal. This kind of bio-glue has similar properties to Huangquan soil, which can greatly weaken the effect of elemental forces. Don't look at the fact that the fire burned fiercely as if the dry wood was burning very fiercely just now, in fact, the vampire vine did not suffer much damage. And that little bit of Fire Elemental Spirit attack instead stimulated the vampire vines, causing them to transform into a speeding form that was more conducive to preying on prey. ”

Lin Zhi'an sighed: "In this way, it is difficult for the four players of the Desert Boat Team to get out. ”

Zou Huali nodded solemnly.

If there was no prey that attracted more vampire vines, those four children would definitely not have been able to get out of such a large group of vampire vines.

Perhaps the Desert Ship team will be the first team to abstain from all competitions in this game.

(End of chapter)