It was already evening when Ana Shen and others stepped into the green town again.
Warm yellow sunlight casts over from the foot of the mountain to the west, shrouding the entire mountain city in a warm halo.
A big black foot stepped into the land of the garbage dump, like the sole of the foot with staggered tree roots, and easily crushed a can.
"Quack~"
The sound of twisted metal instantly spread far and wide, making it particularly harsh in this silent garbage dump.
The tree man who stepped on the can froze and turned his head in embarrassment to look at the smallest one among them.
The little tree man glanced at him, and the leaves on his body rustled.
The tree man who stepped on the can lowered his head in shame.
The leaves on the body also rustled a few times.
Immediately afterwards, the little tree man turned to look at the other tree man beside him, waved his tree-trunk-shaped arm, and pointed at the tree man's broad feet.
The tree man nodded, and saw the black substance on his body squirming, and the originally wide soles of his feet gradually became smaller.
This was not over yet. His tiny feet could not support his huge body, so his legs grew multiple branches to help him support his body.
The tree man took two steps. He was a little uncomfortable at first, but soon, the tiny limbs that had grown out for support began to move like arms.
"Swish!"
"Swish!"
The tree people shook the leaves on the branches, as if communicating and discussing, making a series of fine leaves rubbing sounds.
Another tree man also modified the soles of his feet in the same way.
After Shen Yan himself transformed into a tree person, he developed a unique way of communication among the three tree people.
One is physical connection, which can directly communicate one's thoughts to each other.
It's a bit like connecting a network cable to the brains of two people, allowing the interconnected people to form a local area network.
This method of communication is even more efficient than normal conversation. The only drawback is that staying connected will affect your actions.
Another way of communicating, as now, was by shaking leaves to convey information.
Perhaps it was because the mutation came from the same treant. Although the message conveyed by shaking the leaves was not clear, Shen Yan and the three of them could still understand what the other wanted to express.
The emergence of these two methods of information transmission also confirmed Ana Shen's previous guess.
Plant people have indeed developed their own unique way of communicating and identifying others.
After the two tree men all mastered the method of controlling limb branches, Ana Shen led them through the garbage dump and walked cautiously towards the alley on the edge.
This is an old part of the town. The buildings are not very high. Many places have collapsed and are covered with dark green vines.
Last time, Ana Shen and Bai Ye encountered a vegetative state in the alley ahead.
According to the observation of the reconnaissance robot, after passing through this inverted alley and turning right, there was a vegetative person staying near a water pipe.
Shen Yan and the other two tree men no longer had any human characteristics, and the carbon dioxide produced during breathing was also decomposed by the derived layer of tree man gel.
As long as we don't encounter a large number of vegetative people, we won't be discovered in a short time.
The three people walked quietly in the alley, Ana Shen gently shook the leaves: "Swish!" (Leaving the alley, not far from the right side is the waterway pipe mouth. Although vegetative people do not need to eat, they consume a lot of water on a daily basis. .So even if there are not too many vegetative people near water pipes, people should keep coming.)
(We will go over there later. Don’t hesitate. After tying up someone, run back directly. If you are pursued, I will stay behind.)
The two tree men nodded: "Shuashua!" (Understood.)
The greatest advantage of a well-trained soldier is that when actually performing a mission, even if he has different opinions on certain orders given by the command, he will obey the orders and prohibitions.
I will never argue with you at a critical moment.
After giving instructions on the next sequence of actions, Shen Yan led the two of them close to the corner and quietly came to the end of the alley.
Previously, reconnaissance robots have discovered that vegetative people have lost some of their functions as humans because of their symbiosis with plants, and their visual and language functions have been severely degraded. However, because of their symbiosis with plants, they have acquired certain abilities that humans do not have. .
For example, the ability to identify carbon dioxide concentration, such as the ability to penetrate deep into the ground with roots and sense earth vibrations. Several robot rats were lost because they were detected by vegetative people while drilling rat holes.
Of these two brand-new abilities, the former enhances the sense of smell, and the latter is equivalent to having the ability to monitor vibrations. So much so that Ana Shen and others could openly be exposed to the sight of the vegetative state, but they did not dare to run too fiercely.
At least you can't run away until the kidnapping is successful.
Ana Shen poked his head out from behind the alley and looked towards the location marked by the robot.
Under the water tower more than 300 meters away, four vegetative people were standing in front of a row of metal pipes, extending their roots into the pipes.
And further away, there are still two or three vegetative people walking this way.
The vegetative man moved slowly. Ana Shen visually checked that it would take at least three minutes for the group of people to reach the underground of the water tower.
It would take the three of them nearly a minute and a half to walk to the water tower without attracting attention.
Ana Shen turned around: "Whoa!" (There are four targets three hundred meters ahead. We must rush over within a minute and a half, tie up the one closest to us in the north, and take it away. If we encounter For the other three obstacles, you must get rid of them within thirty seconds.)
The other two people: "Shuashua!" (Understood!)
Ana Shen: “Shuashua!” (Action!)
After saying that, Ana Shen walked out of the alley first.
Sure enough, the vegetative man who was walking towards the water tower in the distance still didn't see their presence even though he was walking in the opposite direction to Ana Shen and the others.
Ana Shen said that the three vegetative people were moving forward slowly.
The jelly-like body and the fact that the legs are divided into countless small branches further enhance the shock-absorbing effect, making every step of their huge bodies fall silently.
However, after walking for more than ten seconds, Ana Shen discovered a situation that made him laugh or cry. He was left behind.
The other two tree men were much taller than him, so that the distance they took with each step was nearly twice as long as his own. If his pace remained unchanged, he could only move further and further away.
Fortunately, the distance of three hundred meters is not too far. At 1 minute and 27 seconds, two tall tree men have arrived behind the four vegetable men!
Seeing this situation, Ana Shen yelled directly in the colloid layer: "Do it!"
Upon hearing the order, one of the two tree men stretched out his branch-like hands and picked up the nearest vegetable man from behind.
The gummy tree trunk softened instantly and turned into a black rubber rope-like existence, completely binding the vegetative man to his body.
At the same time, before the other three vegetative men could react, another tree man threw out his thick arm and knocked the other three tree men away from the metal water pipe.
It all happened in the blink of an eye.
By the time these vegetative men reacted, the tree man who was the first to strike had already trapped one of the vegetative men in his body and started running crazily.
The vegetable man reacted and struggled wildly on the tree man, and a large amount of dark green mist began to rise from him!
The vibrations of the tree men's running spread all around in an instant. The three vegetable men who were thrown away, and the two who came after them, began to release dark green mist amidst a burst of neighing sounds.
In an instant, green smoke was everywhere under the silent water supply tower.
