Chapter 8: The Tree Cave
On the shattered earth, blood-colored fleshy limbs and blue-black feather feathers covered the devastated earth, and the rising smoke and dust mixed with the blood mist were slowly dissipating, even if the warm sunlight sprinkled from the dome, it could not dispel the cold and evil atmosphere that permeated the ruins at this time.
Suddenly, a silver fist stretched out from the ground, and then the surface exploded again, and Xu Yue stepped on two pieces of metal and flew out of the ground.
The fragments under his feet turned into a silver solution and melted into his body, and the scale combat boots fell on the broken ground smeared with flesh and blood, and he took a deep breath of the air filled with sweet smell, Xu Yue's mood was extremely comfortable, although the landing process was a little bumpy, but he still survived after all.
Looking around at the scene of corpses strewn across the field and rivers of blood, he jumped to the edge of the ruins of this battlefield with the strength of his feet.
At the edge, he found the body of a starling with a relatively intact body, and he tore off the huge legs of the bird, first summoning the flames to scorch the fracture, and then the boiling purple flames began to spread rapidly, and the flames burned fiercely, showing the momentum of soaring to the sky, dyeing the entire battlefield into a demonic purple.
After absorbing enough of the fire, he ignored the exaggerated sea of fire behind him, and left straight away with a half-human-tall bird's legs.
The location of this place in the thick forest, coupled with the strong smell of blood that has already spread, is expected to attract a large number of predators when the fire burns out.
This is not a place to stay long, and the horrible flock of starlings just now shows that the animals on this island are very abnormal.
In the real world, there are starlings and other species, although they also have the habit of forming flocks, but the body size is generally only about 20 centimeters, and the starlings on this island have directly expanded their size by more than ten times, and their lethality is exaggerated by more than 100 times.
He didn't dare to guarantee that other creatures would also have this kind of change, but now that he only had 23% of his health, he should be cautious.
In the thick forest, after running for more than ten minutes and fully away from the previous battlefield, Xu Yue stopped in front of a towering giant tree.
Most of the vegetation on the mysterious island is extremely tall, looking up, it looks like being in the middle of green high-rise buildings, and the one in front of him is roughly estimated to be more than 30 meters high, and the diameter has reached about 8 meters.
Such a giant tree can fully meet the needs of the inhabitants, and he happened to see a natural tree hole in the middle and upper part of the trunk.
Now that the sun had begun to set, he had to find a good shelter before it got dark to survive the night when the apex predators were frequent, and this tree hole was undoubtedly the best choice.
The purple wings on his back spread out and flapped him up from the ground, and soon flew above the thick branch in front of the hollow, and as the wings retracted, he stood firmly in the middle of the branch.
The weight of an adult plus a huge bird's legs, nearly 300 catties of weight was pressed, which suddenly caused a slight tremor of the branches, and soon spread to the entire trunk.
At the same time, several threatening hissing sounds suddenly came out of the tree hole, the sound was high-pitched and thick, like muffled thunder, after hearing this animal roar, Xu Yue was not surprised, as early as when he was close to the tree hole, he saw the traces of sharp claws on the edge of the hole, and naturally judged that this tree hole may already have residents.
He deliberately made a movement when he fell, and it was precisely in order to lure out the unknown creatures in the cave, Fang Tian's halberd quietly appeared in his free right hand, he looked vigilantly at the entrance of the cave not far away, and his right leg stomped on the branch.
The branches began to shake violently, the trembling sensation transmitted to the trunk intensified, and the hissing sound from the hole became louder and higher.
Living in a tree hollow, and thinking of the starlings before him, he already had a preliminary guess about this creature.
After a few breaths, a pair of orange-yellow beast pupils opened in the dark, heavy footsteps sounded, and a creature with an upright state of two meters five or six in height walked out of the cave, the creature was in the shape of a human, with a slender body, wide hind limbs, red brown hair, erect ears, and a thick long tail with fluffy hair behind it.
"Well, it's a squirrel."
Looking up and down at the giant squirrel in front of him, there was no sense of joy in Xu Yue's tone that he had guessed the target, this thing was much taller than him in its upright state, and its limbs were even sharper, making people have no doubt about its lethality.
No matter how soft and cute the creatures used to look, when the size expands to nearly ten times, it will bring a strong sense of oppression to people, in the past, maybe humans looked at it cute, but now it's time for the other party to look at humans drooling.
In particular, squirrels are omnivorous creatures, in the case of hunger, the other party is not taboo meat and vegetarian, in addition to all kinds of nuts that are mainly eaten, all kinds of small animals are strictly speaking, all kinds of squirrels are in the diet of squirrels, including the current Xu Yue.
After walking out of the cave, the squirrel's gaze at Xu Yue has gradually changed from vigilance to greed.
"Shhh
A dangerous hiss came from the squirrel's mouth, a common warning tone, less thick but sharper without the reverberations of the tree hole.
Seeing that the little man not far away was unmoved by his threat, the squirrel hesitated for two seconds, but still pounced towards Xu Yue.
The vicious wind was blowing in front of him, Xu Yue Shi took back the Fang Tian Painting Halberd in his hand, and then picked up the bird's leg on his shoulder and swung it with one blow.
"Bang!"
The leg struck the squirrel in the cheek with precision, and the fur mixed with down feathers flew around, and the squirrel was pulled back into the burrow by the home run, crashing into the tree wall with a muffled thud.
"Tsk, that's pretty handy."
With a soft snort, Xu Yue waved the bird leg in his hand twice, then carried it on his shoulder again, and walked slowly towards the dim tree hole in front of him.
Soon after, a miserable wail rang out from the cave.
When the sky was sinking outside, and the tree hole was lit up with a faint purple light, Xu Yue sat in the center of the cave, with a suspended fireball of fire above his head, and a large squirrel lying on the edge that was firmly bound by tree vines and had a swollen face visible to the naked eye.
At this time, the squirrel had fallen into a coma after being beaten by Xu Yue, but his body would twitch a few times from time to time, and there were still wet tear stains in the corners of his eyes.
In the silence, the time in the tree cave passed slowly, and when the pale silver moonlight sprinkled down at the entrance of the cave, Xu Yue woke up from the state of closing his eyes and knees, and after his closed eyes opened, he felt that the health and mana in his body were full, and he took out the magic mirror body from his waist bag.
With the infusion of mana, the magic mirror suspended in the void continued to grow, and finally expanded to the size of a full-length mirror of about two meters.
The farther apart the magic mirror body and the sub-body, the greater the mana consumed when connecting it, and when Xu Yue's mana value gradually bottomed out, a mysterious vortex appeared on the mirror, and Ah Fu, who was carrying a wide backpack, stepped out of the mirror.
"Sir, it's great that you're safe and sound."
(End of chapter)