The two of them were very fast. Thanks to the parasitic ability of gray worms, the parasites had quietly controlled several cuckoos and sparrows, scattering them nearly a kilometer around to form a circular surveillance area.
Ordinary birds are just ants without any threat in front of mutated creatures. Some large mutated creatures find them disgusting even if they are stuffed between their teeth. Only small mutated creatures will make efforts to capture them when they are short of food.
For Gray Worm, it is a piece of cake to replenish ordinary birds in this huge pine mountain, so they can know in advance when they encounter mutant creatures and respond quickly.
This method was also used when lurking near the Songshan Mountains before, waiting for the right opportunity to capture the Orang King's youngest son back to the Zhengzhou base.
Zhang Xu is slower than Joseph and the two, entirely because of the mutated creatures. There are too many here. Originally, each mutated creature had a sense of territory. Because of the ape king, they relied on each other and closely formed a new The biological chain, all mutated organisms are members of it.
Zhang Xu held his left arm that was still bleeding, and he could see that there were gray-green spots on the deep bone wounds. These things that looked like bacterial plaque were actually the spore rhizomes of a plant.
Just now, Zhang Xu encountered an unfamiliar fern. It was as tall as a tree and seemed ordinary in ancient times.
It was indeed difficult to find in this lush pine mountain, and it attacked Zhang Xu fiercely. It would be a different matter if there was a quantum device.
The number of mutated plants is far smaller than that of mutated creatures, but as long as they can be encountered, they are extremely powerful. This mutated fern used its leaves to scratch Zhang Xu and at the same time scattered large tracts of reproductive spores.
If it were other evolvers, they might have been eaten up by these parasitic spores. They would take root and grow under the human epidermis, quickly absorbing the flesh and blood of the creature as nutrients, and eventually turn the entire living creature into a skeleton.
Fortunately, Zhang Xu discovered it in time and cut off the wound on his left arm, leaving traces of large spore roots. He thought there was a lurking beast nearby, but accidentally bumped into the plant and was attacked. Discover the secrets here.
With his back against a towering tree, he immediately took out a few Crystals of Hope, and Zhang Xu recovered most of his energy immediately.
I sighed secretly. If there was a scanning function like a quantum device, 90% of the mutated creatures here could be avoided in time.
Each Evolver has different abilities and strengths. Reconnaissance and long-range attacks are Zhang Xu’s shortcomings, which are most obvious when he goes out alone. That’s why more and more people choose to work in teams when going out. .
Not far away, black smoke was billowing from bottom to top. Zhang Xu soon noticed that there was a fire at the foot of the mountain. The fire spread rapidly and burned faster and faster. However, he did not believe in natural fires. It was most likely caused by Joseph and his group. of.
The reason why they did this was simple, it was just to force Zhang Xu out of the mountain.
Of course, Zhang Xu can also choose to return the same way, but once the fire is over and the mutated creatures return to the mountain again, there will not be many hidden plants to hide in.
Of course Zhang Xu had to go down the mountain. Joseph spent time and effort setting fire to the woods to help Zhang Xu drive away those mutated creatures and reduce unnecessary threats. Why not?
According to this consumption of the Hope Crystal, Zhang Xu knew that he would not be able to get out of this pine mountain. He had recalled before that it seemed that after being hit by Joseph's fireball, the need for the Hope Crystal became greater, and he became weak from time to time. .
He turned his head and glanced at the woods not far away, his eyes cold. Of course Zhang Xu wanted to go down the mountain, but not now!
Mutated plants have extremely tenacious vitality, making them more powerful than mutant creatures of the same level. They often turn a large area into its hunting area and a forbidden area where creatures can stop.
But even if the genes are unlocked, they are still in the category of plants. Mutated creatures can run away when encountering fire, but mutated creatures have no limbs and can only take root in the ground and cannot move. This is their weakness.
Zhang Xu wanted to use the fire created by Joseph to deal with the mutated fern. If the two people at Yamashita found out, they would probably be furious but unable to do anything.
The probability of organisms being infected by the virus is 5.73%. There are three types of infection. The first is corpse transformation, and the second is genetic unlocking and mutation. The rest is that nothing happens, but the virus is indeed in their bodies, or The original ordinary creature.
The same is true for humans. Even if they are exposed to the virus, they will still be in these three situations, but the chance of human corpse transformation is 91.6%! The remaining 8.3% are still ordinary people, and the last 0.1% become evolvers. Of course, this is only natural evolvers, and does not include evolvers of genetic medicines.
It is conceivable that human beings have just entered the end of the world and begin to feel helpless when facing tens of thousands of zombies. This one-in-a-thousand chance is so slim, and now so many evolvers rely entirely on the genes transformed by the Crystal of Hope. Medicine, how many people can naturally become evolvers?
Zhang Xu speculated that if mutated organisms can reproduce to produce more mutated organisms, then if human evolvers give birth to the next generation, will they also be evolvers?
He doesn't know, but this possibility is very high, but due to the tension of the end of the world, few evolvers will plan to have children.
Even Zhang Xu, who has such a powerful gene unlock, knows that he cannot have a child with Yao Yuanyuan casually. Whether it is the care for the child, education, etc., he must at least settle down before making any plans.
Speaking of plants, because the cells are different, plants have cell walls and are less likely to be mutated, and they do not need to be combined in pairs like animals.
They can do this by sowing their own seeds. The seeds of mutant plants cannot take root at will like animals. They need to use living animals as a medium for growth. This is also the reason why mutant plants cannot be encountered on a large scale.
Fear is contagious among animals. When there are invincible mutant plants in an area, other creatures will start to stay away. Although there is no living food, plants are plants after all, and they can also use sunlight for photosynthesis. .
After thinking for a moment, he immediately set off for the location of the mutated plant. He didn't need to fight, he just needed to wait for the blazing flames to burn the plant to death.
Things went as Zhang Xu imagined. It had no choice but to accept the baptism of fire on the spot. However, this mutated plant was very smart and actually tried to use branches to extinguish the fire on the tree. The effect was minimal, and at the same time it used bark secretion to extinguish the fire. A green sticky resin that resists fire and really increases your sight.
Zhang Xu watched for a while. This mutated plant was like an isolated island in the torrent of flames. All other trees were wiped out by the violent heat of the flames. Only it persisted and divided a large area of flames.
With it blocking the flames, Zhang Xu was mostly relaxed, and he was a little scornful. This was considered the price of the silent attack on him before.
Zhang Xu made a place behind the mutated plant, blocked all combustibles, and used refurbished soil as the second line of defense. He lay comfortably in the small pit he dug and waited for the surrounding flames to no longer burn. until.
As long as the gene is unlocked, even if it is rich in high concentrations of carbon dioxide, it will not feel suffocated. This is the advantage of the evolver.
This transformed plant was actually able to survive for more than 20 minutes under the high temperature. It kept trembling and shaking due to the pain of the flames. Finally, it fell to the ground with a click and broke into two pieces.
The fire also began to sweep up the mountain until there was nothing left to burn. Zhang Xu patted the soil that had lost moisture on his body and smiled. The emerald green tree body turned into carbon black, but the inside was still dry white.
The trees were very big, and Zhang Xu didn't know if the mutant plants had the Crystal of Hope. Also, seeing the dead mutant plants for the first time, he didn't know where they were stored, so he had to search slowly.
Joseph on the other side was a little angry. The birds controlled by Gray Worm had already dispersed and surrounded the mountain less than 600 meters away. He waited at the foot of the mountain for such a long time and did not see any shadow of Zhang Xu. He couldn't help but feel a little agitated. disappointment.
At present, there are only two possibilities for Zhang Xu's movements. Either he returned to the underground cave along the same route, but all the evolvers in the base were there, which is obviously impossible, or Zhang Xu left the mountain early and disappeared.
If Zhang Xu appeared among the streams, he would definitely be detected by Gray Worm's flock of birds, but unfortunately nothing was found.
"Look for it!" Zhang Xu's face was filled with joy, and a light purple crystal shone with a different kind of light in his hand.
Zhang Xu couldn't stop sighing. No wonder this plant was so difficult to deal with. It turned out that its genetic unlock had exceeded level ten.
Immediately taking this relatively precious crystal of hope, Zhang Xu's genetic level also improved, from 16.71 to 16.98. It seemed that it was just a small improvement, but in fact, Zhang Xu's physical fitness had also improved. He could explode as much as Strength and speed can also be improved to the next level.
Zhang Xu can now theoretically explode nearly 60 tons of power, but currently it seems that it can only reach more than 30 tons, and this is the result of the python transformation.
"Still can't work hard! What's going on!" Zhang Xu stood there, his eyes a little confused. Logically speaking, Zhang Xu had taken so many Crystals of Hope, and the toxins in his body should have been eliminated long ago, but now it is very difficult. Apparently not.
Just when Zhang Xu was wondering, a giant fireball more than 3 meters wide suddenly burst out. It was filled with rolling heat waves, showed an arc shape, and faced Zhang Xu's back!
The dead leaves that had been scorched by the fire were rustled by the heat wave. Zhang Xu reacted immediately and rolled sideways to avoid the fireball.
"Zhang Xu! You will definitely die today!" Joseph still did not give up. He asked Gray Worm to assist in the search. In the end, the sparse tree crown here exposed Zhang Xu's whereabouts, and the two immediately set off, preparing to pursue and intercept him.
Zhang Xu glanced sideways and looked at Joseph not far away, his eyes cold.
Looking around, several strange birds were hovering above their heads. They tilted their heads and looked at Zhang Xu. If you look closely, you can see that there seems to be something moving in their eyeballs.
It is a kind of parasite. Zhang Xu had noticed from Liu Yuan before that there was an evolver in the base who would use the control ability. It was obvious that this person was nearby!
He knew that he couldn't get rid of Joseph. An evolver with this kind of parasitic ability had an extremely good pursuit ability. Zhang Xu didn't know it before, but running away now was really a meaningless choice.
So he chose to fight!
But at this moment, Zhang Xu suddenly felt a sharp pain all over his body. Three torrents of toxins invaded his body, and three poisons attacked his heart!
