A series of roots extends forward on the ground.
Each root is about the size of an adult index finger.
Seen from a distance, there are thousands of roots, gathering together, making people feel frightened.
Everyone retreated hurriedly, and the fat man was so frightened that he turned around and ran away.
It was just such a root that almost killed him!
Thousands of roots spread around the woman who fell to the ground, wrapping around her body. The roots squirmed and slowly pulled back.
Zhao Yue fell from mid-air at this time.
The woman's body was almost completely covered by roots, and several roots penetrated into her body.
The roots squirmed, as if sucking, and her body was visibly dry and flattened.
Looking in the direction of the source of the roots, several roots intersect and finally converge at one place.
It was a tree on the street. It might be because it sucked blood. The leaves on its branches gradually turned red.
Zhao Yue was shocked. Looking at this situation, the plant had obviously mutated.
But how could this plant mutate? !
He originally thought that only living things would be mutated due to infection, but the current situation is clearly not the case, plants will also mutate!
Uh-huh!
A root suddenly shot out from among the thousands of roots, shooting towards Zhao Yue at extremely fast speed.
Zhao Yue, who was still in shock, immediately returned to his senses and watched the roots approaching quickly.
Zhao Yue quickly dodged a few steps to the left to avoid the stab.
The people behind him had already stood far away, looking at the roots with fear in their eyes.
The same attack method, but it was the fat man who was attacked.
Encountering a plant mutation for the first time, Zhao Yue did not understand the situation and chose to temporarily retreat to the crowd to observe.
"What situation did you encounter just now?"
Zhao Yue turned to look at everyone and asked.
Everyone nervously glanced at the roots in the distance and saw no response. After breathing a sigh of relief, they immediately told Zhao Yue what had just happened.
The matter was not complicated. When everyone was waiting for Zhao Yue, Fatty was attacked by roots for no reason. In order to save his life, Fatty pushed Guo Xinting out. Zhao Yue also knew what happened next.
Everyone was very dissatisfied with Fatty's behavior, and even very angry.
"What's wrong with me! Everyone wants to live! If it were any of you at that time! You would have done the same thing as me!"
The fat man defended himself loudly. He couldn't stand the way these people looked at him, as if they were looking at rats in the sewer. It was disgusting!
As soon as these words were spoken, everyone's emotions suddenly exploded like a powder keg being detonated.
"You damn bastard! I strongly recommend expelling him! I don't feel at ease being with such a person! What if he pushes one of us next time? Is it possible that everyone should do this? His scapegoat?"
Facing everyone's rebuke, the fat man's breathing suddenly became rapid and he looked at Zhao Yue with wide eyes.
He is the only one who can make the decision here. If he is really kicked out of this team and faces the dangers of City B, he will die without a burial place.
The fat man looked begging.
"It won't happen again."
Zhao Yue spoke calmly. He could understand the fat man's behavior. After all, who is willing to follow Zhao Yue all the way but not to survive?
If the situation had been changed to other people at that time, Zhao Yue was 80% sure that these people would have behaved the same way as the fat man.
Seeing Zhao Yue speak, everyone suddenly became quiet. Now Zhao Yue's words are everything.
Ignoring everyone, Zhao Yue turned around and looked at the mutated tree.
At the same time, the eyes move to both sides.
Behind that mutated tree, there are many similar trees like this.
Zhao Yue didn't know whether other trees had also mutated.
If it mutates, Zhao Yue now has two choices.
One option is to change direction and take another route.
But there are two risks.
The first risk is that changing the path will inevitably increase the length of departure.
The second risk is that other roads may not be free of infected plants and trees.
Of course, there is a second option, which is to kill him.
It's just that Zhao Yue doesn't know exactly what changes will happen to these trees after they are infected.
"Try it."
Zhao Yue had the idea of trying it.
Because the body can heal quickly, he does things much more boldly.
Turning around, Zhao Yue ordered everyone to stay where they were. This place was far away from the infected tree, and they should not be implicated.
Then, Zhao Yue held the laser rifle in both hands and walked slowly towards the infected tree.
If you are in doubt, why not take a shot first?
As if noticing that Zhao Yue was approaching, dozens of roots of the infected tree suddenly swung violently, and a figure was thrown out towards Zhao Yue.
The speed of the figure's projectile is not fast, just like a seven-year-old child throwing a ball.
Zhao Yue could easily dodge with just a slight dodge.
Click!
The figure fell to the ground with a crisp sound.
This figure is none other than Guo Xinting, who was sucked by the infected tree. At this time, she was no different from a mummy.
The blood in the entire body was completely sucked away, leaving only a wrinkled and thin layer of skin and flesh, tightly adhering to the bones, which looked truly terrifying.
Zhao Yue did not pay too much attention to Guo Xinting's situation, and his figure quickly became transparent and in a hidden state.
This infection tree does have a sensing range, and the range is not particularly large.
This can be inferred by walking to a certain range before the infected tree reacts.
Just don't know if it can sense stealth.
As soon as the concealment was activated, dozens of violently swinging roots suddenly calmed down.
Such a result couldn't help but make Zhao Yue squint his eyes. If he couldn't detect himself in the hidden state, it would be much easier to handle.
The pace suddenly quickened, and Zhao Yue stood about ten meters away from the infected tree.
Further forward, the ground was covered with dense roots of infected trees.
Although the stealth ability can hide the body shape, voice, and smell, it is extremely difficult to detect.
But after all, it is just hidden, and the human body still exists.
If Zhao Yue steps on the roots, there is a high chance that the infected tree will detect the abnormality and discover Zhao Yue's existence.
A distance of ten meters, plus the laser rifle display aiming assist, should be no problem.
Zhao Yue pondered for a while and then made a decision.
After all, at this distance, most people who come into contact with a pistol for the first time can hit the target if the target does not move.
What's more, this infected tree is not too small.
Zhao Yue picked up the laser rifle, aimed it for two or three seconds, and then pulled the trigger.
call out!
A red energy beam was shot from the muzzle. The fiery energy and the speed close to the speed of light quickly penetrated the trunk of the infected tree.
Zhi!
A flame slowly ignited at the edge of the hit. Due to the high temperature of the energy beam and the fact that the infected tree itself was flammable, the two parties reacted quickly as soon as they combined.
With this shot, all the roots of the infected tree began to boil violently like boiling water.
Thousands of roots dance.
Obviously this blow caused quite a lot of damage to it.
Zhao Yue immediately stepped back a few meters to prevent being accidentally injured.
The flames were quickly extinguished by the infected roots, but the wounds left by the laser energy beam remained.
Zhao Yue thought thoughtfully. The laser rifle could indeed cause damage to the infected tree. At the same time, he found that the infected tree was not strong.
First and most obvious, it is afraid of fire.
The second is that its attack method seems to be only the roots, and there are no other attack methods.
The third point is that it cannot move, which is undoubtedly a fatal shortcoming.
After making these three discoveries, Zhao Yue released his hiding state and returned to everyone.
He has already thought of ways to deal with infected trees.
Zhao Yue told everyone what he had discovered.
The man in glasses quickly made an analysis: "In this way, the easiest way to deal with the infected tree is to use fire. We can make Molotov cocktails to attack the infected tree."
"It's too troublesome. Our top priority is to leave City B as soon as possible. Making Molotov cocktails is a waste of time." Zhao Yue shook his head.
In fact, there is another way to leave City B quickly, that is, take Li Xuan's helicopter to leave City B.
Zhao Yue received a message from Li Xuan before. The content of the message was not much. It just told Zhao Yue that all of them had safely left City B by helicopter.
When he saw the news, Zhao Yue felt much more relaxed. City B was getting more and more dangerous. The sooner they left, the safer they would be.
Although there is a way to leave City B quickly, Zhao Yue does not want to do this.
First, when Li Xuan and the others left, they took a picture of the sky and gave it to Zhao Yue.
The photo content shows that some birds in the sky have already developed infection mutations.
When these photos were taken, the helicopter was less than 500 meters away from the infected birds.
Fortunately, Fatty Feng was nearby and did some fortune-telling for Li Xuan and others, and they managed to escape the disaster.
Otherwise, the consequences are unimaginable.
They were able to leave safely by helicopter, which involved a lot of luck.
If Li Xuan were allowed to fly a helicopter to pick up these people, there was no telling whether they would have such good luck.
This is one of the main reasons why Zhao Yue is unwilling to adopt this method.
Therefore, when Zhao Yue could only leave City B on foot, the last thing he wanted to do was waste time on infected monsters.
If you stay in City B for one more minute, some strange infected monster might appear again.
When everyone heard that the bespectacled man's plan was rejected, they naturally understood that Zhao Yue had other better solutions, and all looked at Zhao Yue.
Zhao Yue's idea is actually very simple, but this idea must rely on Zhao Yue's superpowers to be executed.
There is nothing wrong with the bespectacled man's thinking, but he thinks more from the perspective of an ordinary person and subconsciously ignores Zhao Yue's special abilities.
If Zhao Yue does not have this special ability, making incendiary bombs is definitely a safe method, even if it is time-consuming.
"You guys collect barrels of oil from nearby convenience stores. I'll go directly up there and water all the infected trees, and then set them on fire."
Zhao Yue ordered everyone.
"Remember, if you see a tree, stay away."
Zhao Yue has already explored the life breath in the three kilometers around, and there are no monsters that can threaten everyone.
However, Zhao Yue also discovered the shortcomings of this kind of life perception. Plants are not within the range of perception.
They split up and went to the convenience store to look for barrels of oil. This made everyone obviously hesitant because they were afraid of being in danger.
But after Zhao Yue repeatedly emphasized safety, everyone reluctantly walked towards the surrounding streets.
After about half an hour, everyone gradually returned and brought back many barrels of oil.
Zhao Yue glanced at the number of people and suddenly found that one person was missing.
The fat man is gone.
Observing their expressions, I found that several of them looked obviously nervous.
What a great group of teammates.
Zhao Yue sighed and did not deliberately ask about Fatty's whereabouts. His life or death was not important.
Several tentacles quickly stretched out from behind, picked up the oil drum on the ground, and hung it in mid-air.
The bespectacled man walked up to Zhao Yue at the right time and handed Zhao Yue a box of lighters.
Originally, Zhao Yue planned to use a laser rifle to ignite, but after seeing this box of lighters, Zhao Yue changed his mind. It would be a waste of ammunition to use a laser weapon to ignite.
After putting away the lighter, Zhao Yue activated his hiding ability.
Everyone stood in the distance, staring in the direction of the infected tree.
I saw rows of seemingly normal green trees on both sides of the street in the distance, with a large number of roots suddenly sprouting and waving.
As faint firelights lit up, the infected trees on both sides of the street burst into flames.
Pungent smoke rose, and everyone saw thousands of roots of the infected tree waving in the flames, trying to extinguish the flames.
But every time the flames weakened, a bucket of oil was immediately poured down to make the flames burn even brighter!
The flames burned for nearly twenty minutes, and the roots that were originally waving were burned into black coals and fell to the ground motionless.
Seeing that things have been handled pretty much.
Zhao Yue appeared in front of everyone.
"The situation of infected trees on this street has basically been resolved."
"But I just took a look at a few nearby streets and found that most of the green trees nearby have been infected."
"But moving forward, there aren't many infected trees, and I suspect over time, those trees will become infected."
"Everyone needs to speed up, otherwise the further time goes by, the harder it will be to move forward."
Zhao Yue's words made everyone feel an inexplicable sense of urgency.
It's as if there is an unknown force that is constantly devouring City B and trying to pull City B into the abyss.
They are now racing against death!
The flames on the infected tree gradually extinguished, and green crystals the size of walnuts rolled down from the charred bark and fell to the ground, glowing with a faint green light.
Zhao Yue raised his eyebrows, and the tentacles behind his back quickly spread out, putting these green crystals into his backpack.
Although I don’t know what these things are, I want to take them away first and study them later.
Anyway, I don’t have to worry about getting infected.
Everyone is running forward.
The clouds in the sky are getting heavier. Looking at this situation, it is likely to rain soon.
"I brought an umbrella, so don't worry."
The bespectacled man running behind said loudly.
Zhao Yue couldn't help but look at the man with glasses. He was carrying a backpack after coming out of the convenience store, and he didn't know what he had brought with him.
This guy is very thoughtful in everything he does!
I don’t know his name yet, I’ll ask later.
There are now 10 people in Zhao Yue's group, including Zhao Yue and Luo Sheng's five-year-old child.
With so many people, his backpack wouldn't be full of umbrellas.
Zhao Yue cursed in his heart.
After a burst of thunder, the rain gradually fell.
The man with glasses took off his backpack, took out nine umbrellas, and distributed them to everyone.
Zhao Yue even deliberately glanced at his backpack.
It seems like I really only brought nine umbrellas...
A large number of raindrops fell from the sky and hit the ground, making a crisp sound and connecting together.
The tentacles behind his back stretched over his head, holding an umbrella for Zhao Yue.
Life perception is activated, and the life breath of the surrounding three kilometers is reflected in Zhao Yue's mind. This is Zhao Yue's perception scan every two hours.
Three hundred meters away, a gray and powerful breath of life was quickly discovered by Zhao Yue.
not good!
"Roar!"
A ball of water suddenly struck.
