After a drizzle in the early morning, the road became muddy. Green camphor trees stood on both sides. Nearby was a jade-like half-acre square pond. The mist floated like gauze, and the water drops after the rain were like crystals. The seeds are scattered on the lotus leaves.
The little lotus has just revealed its sharp corners, and a dragonfly has already stood on it.
Unfortunately, now is no longer the time to enjoy the scenery. Even if there are real dragonflies, let alone mutant dragonflies. Killings continue in the dangerous woods.
As the saying goes, the early bird catches the worm. All kinds of predators are ready. Flying insects cannot escape the eyes of frogs. Frogs cannot escape the venom of snakes. Even the weeds on the roadside know it. Work hard to grow in order to gain more nutrients. No one will have mercy in this apocalyptic world. Zhang Xu sees all these scenes of natural selection and competition among all things.
After several days of long journey, Zhang Xu and the others have entered Zhengzhou, but they have only reached the outer ring, and are still some distance away from Baser Farm. Now they have entered the woods, which is the only way to enter the railway. If you take a detour, it may take several weeks to reach your destination.
The lush woods, the rustling branches and leaves are blowing in the wind, the quiet deep forest is lifeless, the trees have become taller and taller without artificial construction and restrictions, and you are working hard. Before the end of the world, you can come here to breathe the air of nature and relax your mood. This place, but unfortunately it is full of dangers now, and a mutated creature may emerge from the grass.
The vigilant Zhang Xu unfolded his bone sword, and Xue He was ready to attack. Qi Yiruo had a serious expression on his face, with big bright eyes on his tense face, and glanced left and right from time to time.
Zhang Xu believed that there must be mutated creatures in this forest, otherwise it would not be so quiet, all because it was controlled by the master here.
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"What's wrong?" There was a sudden stop, because the two were close to each other back to back. Qi Yiruo turned around and said softly, but in his eyes, a creature nearly 4 meters tall appeared lying on the ground, sleeping soundly.
Zhang Xu didn't speak. His frozen body showed a pair of dark eyes, calm and calm.
"Retreat 50 meters~quickly~" After saying this, Zhang Xu said nothing more.
Qi Yiruo immediately stepped back quickly, making a warning gesture, staring at the mutated creature in the distance.
"The gene unlocking level is 9.93Lv and is entered in the illustrated book."
"Huh~" A puff of white air came out from the huge nostrils. Feeling the noise around him, a pair of blood-red eyes suddenly opened. He raised his head instantly, and after opening his eyes, he saw a man wearing a black shirt standing on the ground. In front of you.
This is a mutated buffalo that looks like a hill. Its body is dark, and its skin is pieced together like a fully-armed armor. There are gray barbs on its back, and its head is covered with stacked cuticles, like a black iron tower. The whip-like tail was covered with bone spurs, and two huge red bull's eyes suddenly opened and glared at Zhang Xu angrily. It was the man in front of him who disturbed his rest. He was unforgivable!
Four legs like pillars straightened up, iron hooves stamped on the ground, and immediately rushed towards Zhang Xu. The speed was so fast, the sound roared, like a black train rolling up a whirlwind, Zhang Xu stood in front of the mutated buffalo hill-like figure. Seems very small.
"Let's see if we can have barbecue today!" Zhang Xu sneered. His eyes were like flames. He was never afraid of fighting. The corners of his mouth raised. Four bloody tentacles suddenly broke open his back and stretched out to the nearby tree trunk at an extremely fast speed. In an instant, He grabbed Zhang Xu and avoided the fatal impact of the mutated buffalo.
Shaking his head, this kind of mindless creature is the best to deal with. It is a herbivore and does not have any skills to hunt. It can only rely on brute force to crush the opponent. Unfortunately, it encountered the higher-level Zhang Xu. , to put it bluntly, it is here to give the crystal of hope and get eaten!
At the same time as he jumped up, Zhang Xu's arm transformed into a huge bone sword. The dark black blade instantly dropped down and slashed at the mutant buffalo's back. The mutant buffalo mooed when Zhang Xu dodged.
A strange thing happened. Black liquid seeped out from the gaps under the mutated buffalo's armor skin, turning into black tentacles. It wrapped around Zhang Xu's bone sword for a moment, and before he could be surprised, his ankle was locked again.
"Ahem, you were careless!" Zhang Xu, who was unprepared, fell for this move. His back seemed to be harmless. He didn't expect that there would be such tentacles to protect the mutated buffalo. It seems that the mutated creatures that can survive are not good. After all, they have also experienced fighting!
After this liquid tentacle entangled Zhang Xu, it shook him violently and threw him in front of its pair of sharp iron horns. It rushed forward with its hind legs, preparing to knock Zhang Xu in the air into two pieces.
It's a pity that after breaking away from the mysterious tentacles of the mutated buffalo, Zhang Xu won't be so passive!
Xue He activated and wrapped the mutated buffalo's sharp horns, using the force to throw himself further away. Zhang Xu knew that the mutated buffalo's skin was difficult to deal with, so he exposed the hidden bone tail and kept it in his body, just like a sting. The human poisonous scorpion, a powerful venom strives towards its eyes.
The mutated buffalo had no time to react before it hit the target. When the strong toxin came into contact with its eyes, white smoke instantly emitted, and the strong corrosiveness dyed its eye sockets green. This is the power of the bone tail!
The blood straightened, Zhang Xu was almost perpendicular to the tree trunk, and the mutated buffalo on the ground roared in pain, but to no avail. After the white mist dissipated, there was flowing green blood. It seemed to have endless brute force, rushing around, powerful The destructive force cut off 1-meter-thick trees. How could the mutated buffalo, which was trapped in darkness, not be angry because it was in pain but could not find its mortal enemy?
It's a pity that even if it destroys wantonly, it won't help. Zhang Xu and Qi Yiruo have been hiding far away, watching this creature venting its anger into the air. It roared repeatedly, and it was panting from exhaustion, and its huge nose spurted out clouds of white. The fog can only scare away a few ordinary wild birds around.
"Yi Ruo, keep backing up!" As soon as he finished speaking, Zhang Xu activated a new skill. He wanted to test Xue He's parasitism!
Sprinkling out a little bit of Zi Xue He, they were like leeches and bee pupae before the end of the world. After a while, they sneaked in through the gaps in the mutated buffalo's armor. However, as if they were lost in the sea, Zhang Xu did not receive the Zi Xue He hair. The radio waves that came seemed to disappear.
"What's going on?" There was a hint of solemnity on Zhang Xu's face. The child's body branched out, but the mother's blood was unresponsive.
Suddenly the mutated buffalo became relatively quiet, and suddenly ran straight in the direction of Zhang Xu. Before he could figure out what happened, Zhang Xu had to hide sideways. Unexpectedly, the mutated buffalo seemed to be able to sense it, and suddenly there was a difference of urgency. After braking and turning violently, a sharp bone tail was approaching, as if even the air could be blown away.
Snap!
The moment he was hit, he felt like the world was spinning. The powerful force threw the whole person away more than ten meters. After being hit on Zhang Xu's abdomen, a long red blood sword was brought out in an instant, tearing open the skin, revealing strong muscle fibers. Xue He hurriedly repaired it and broke several trees as big as a bowl before stopping.
However, the mutated buffalo did not stop. Instead, it stepped on a body weighing several tons and flew towards Zhang Xu with unprecedented anger. The surrounding weeds and trees were also squeezed out of a hollow area by it!
"Pfft~cough!" Zhang Xu wiped the blood from the corner of his mouth. This mutated buffalo was indeed blinded by its own venom, but why could it still lock onto him?
But now is not the time to think about this. The anger of the nearly level 10 mutated creature is not so easy to calm down. Although the bleeding has been stopped, the torn flesh has not been completely repaired, and the granulation is growing at a speed visible to the naked eye. He pressed his abdomen, which still felt pain, and rolled to the left.
The whole buffalo was like a runaway train. All the plants that blocked its pace were ruthlessly broken, and in the end it could only become nutrients for the forest. While avoiding it, Zhang Xu observed something different at close range. The eyes were no longer the bright red they were before, but as gray as dead fish eyes. You could vaguely see something squirming in the eye sockets, which made you feel sick.
"It was actually the black tentacle that did the trick!" Zhang Xu was surprised for a moment and then held his breath and concentrated. This tentacle is the key to allowing the mutated buffalo to see the target clearly. From now on, it seems that it is not like a parasite. Parasites will only keep asking for more. The host comes to absorb nutrients and will not provide any 'rental housing' fees.
This is a symbiotic relationship. In fact, there are many examples of this in nature. In order to survive, different races can help each other and learn from each other's strengths!
For example, the clownfish we are all familiar with has a very good symbiotic relationship with the sea anemone. The sea anemone has a poisonous hook and can catch prey very well, but unfortunately it cannot move, but the clownfish can use it The brightly colored body attracts larger predators to attack them, but they are captured by the toxins of the sea anemone every time. The clownfish is protected by the sea anemone. This is the so-called symbiotic relationship!
This means that there are no absolute enemies, but there are absolute interests!
There are also ants and aphids. Aphids are a pest that likes to eat plants, but they are often afraid of the beneficial insect Coccinella septempunctata, which is the nemesis of aphids. So aphids also thought of a way. After they eat plants, they can produce a kind of sugar, while ants They have become the so-called bodyguards of aphids. As long as the ants are given this sugar, they will be happy to protect the aphids. This is also a cooperative and symbiotic relationship.
Moreover, the mutated buffalo in front of him may have a cooperative and symbiotic relationship with the black tentacles under its armor. When one is in danger, the other will come to help, but what kind of creature it is and what abilities it has, Zhang Xu has no way of knowing.
However, it can be in the mutated buffalo's eye socket, so it can freely enter its body. In this way, the daughter of Xue He can be solved in this way, and the back of the buffalo can also be freely defended. This function is similar to Zhang Xu's Xue He. There is also a fight.
"It seems to be more restrained for me..." With a sigh, Zhang Xu said that he was right. Melee combat is controlled by this kind of tentacles, and its power is not as strong as that of a mutated buffalo. The only long-range ones are the toxins of the bone tail and his own pistol. Originally, this This kind of creature can wrap it with its own blood and absorb it, but unfortunately the blood will not leave its body, and I can't understand the meaning of the picture that keeps flashing in my mind.
