Following this cry, something in the garden suddenly came to life as if it was awakened. And under the feet of a group of sergeants who were fully armed and walking in front, preparing to light the fire, a cloud of soil suddenly exploded and flew, and whip-like snake-like things suddenly sprang out.
Those roots were hidden in the soil like snakes and suddenly flew out. They suddenly entangled the legs and feet of several sergeants and dragged them to the ground unprepared. However, he was quickly cut off by the swords and axes of other comrades around him and fell to the ground with quick eyesight and hands, and he struggled and squirmed to get loose.
But their exposed calves, which were not covered by trousers, were already a bloody mess; obviously the rough burrs on the roots were not for decoration. Immediately afterwards, more mud exploded, and more large and small thick roots emerged, twisting and curling up.
Just like some kind of stress reaction, the soldiers who were holding torches or lanterns were rushed to the ground one after another. Several fires that had been lit deep in the garden were quickly extinguished.
In the blink of an eye, the team entering the park was surrounded by exclamations, most of the lights were extinguished, and they were about to fall into complete darkness. The next moment, a white light suddenly lit up, illuminating the dark orchard again and penetrating the tangled roots.
But it was a team member beside Jiang Tian who used a piece of Class C equipment equipped with strange objects. It was a stone soaked in a special white glass bottle; during the intense reaction of adding alkaline water, it quickly emitted a large blazing white light, which almost illuminated the ground within a hundred steps after being raised high.
However, the roots that suddenly surged out of the ground seemed to be stimulated by some kind of stimulation. After a while, they briefly dispersed, but then they gathered together again, and in an instant they turned into several entangled bodies as thick as giant pythons. During the session, it was violently shaking like a whip and whipped violently.
Amidst the dull and abnormal beating sound, the ambush of earth, rock, mud and water flew around; however, Jiang Tian easily dodged and, holding a white light bottle like a searchlight in his hand, he leaped onto a thick cherry tree. Turning the ejection mirror, the white light beam was directed towards the opposite side.
That's where all the movement of ground roots comes from, and it's also the steep mountain wall that the cherry orchard backs up. However, under the stimulation of the concentrated white light, the entire mountain wall started to move automatically without wind. Amidst the clattering and shaking sounds, there were all the movements like snakes coiling and squirming.
And with the short gap created by the bright white light, the lay sergeants and team members who were attacked also got rid of the entanglement of underground roots one after another, supporting each other and reorganizing into small battle groups surrounding the wounded; Those roots that keep popping up recede.
However, more and thicker roots, stimulated/attracted by the white light, re-wound around the cherry tree in Jiang Tian; and under the overwhelming weight of this thick cherry tree, the branches and leaves were broken and pressed and bent. In the middle, it continues to wind towards the treetops where Jiang Tian is located.
The next moment, one of the thickest root entanglements suddenly exploded out of thin air; and then, like a whipping sound in the air, as far as Jiang Tian could see; almost all of them popped out of the ground. The roots were all broken and destroyed amidst the sounds of explosions.
In the blink of an eye, the atrium of the orchard, which was ravaged by these underground roots, had fallen all over the ground, and the pungent juice splashed across the ground, as if the roots were struggling and squirming. However, Jiang Tian's full attention was focused on the mountain wall opposite.
Obviously, this mountain wall squirming under the white light is the source of these roots that are hidden underground and secretly hurting people. Therefore, he immediately turned his head and waved to the outside of the garden, and the cane boxes loaded by several packhorses one after another broke away from their restraints and flew to his side and landed on the treetops.
Immediately after Jiang Tian's eyes moved, the locks of these rattan boxes began to fall apart; and then many heavy jars filled with fierce fire oil/refined stone fat water flew out. Then he suddenly waved his hand, and these fierce oil cans shot out like cannonballs, hitting the opposite mountain wall.
Then unexpectedly, most of the fire oil jars disappeared into the thick vines on the mountain wall, and only a few made a crackling sound. But this was enough for Jiang Tian. With a flick of his fingers, dozens of rockets lined up below rushed out.
Most of them were directly behind the mountain wall, and suddenly there were flashes of fire, but they were quickly extinguished by more densely packed, winding and covering vines; however, the next moment, there was a sudden soft bang and a ball of fire. Splashing out from the vines covering the mountain wall.
In an instant, more contaminated oil in the surrounding area was ignited. In the blink of an eye, with a series of crackling sounds, it spread into a rolling rain of fire like a waterfall. However, the fire oil cans that were put into them were ignited one after another, bursting and splashing.
At this time, the mountain wall started to be covered and rolled up with more and denser vines, but it could not stop the large curtain of fire rolling down; instead, it was burned with a creaking sound, juice splashed, and black smoke billowed. In the blink of an eye, it became dry and brittle, and each section burned and fell.
Immediately afterwards, as the vines and branches outside were ignited and burned layer by layer, they fell first; the things originally covered under the dense vines on the mountain wall were gradually exposed like onions being peeled off. The truth; it was a corpse entangled in it.
Most of them are shriveled human skeletons, but there are also a small number of pigs, dogs, cattle and sheep. Under the baking flames and entangled in the vines, the corpses of these victims seem to have been liberated, along with their bodies. Dots of flames fell off one after another.
As the bones peeled off one after another, and the entangled branches were burned off, the large pits covered by the originally thick vines were once again exposed. But I don't know when, this seemingly solid mountain wall has been hollowed out in a large area.
In this sunken space, there are inlaid tree trunks that are as large and small as the blood and meridians of the human body, winding and bifurcated; as well as wooden connections that are like tumors; as the flames burn to this layer, in an instant the entire mountain The remaining vines on the wall struggled and rolled up.
On the ground of the cherry orchard near the mountain wall, the soil suddenly struggled and flew out, and many large and small roots were broken and completed at the end. Immediately afterwards, the sergeant who had finished changing his clothes and came over also fired his muskets with all his strength under Jiang Tian's instructions, shooting endlessly into the mountain wall.
And these torsos and wood tumors, which are like blood veins and are embedded in the pitted stone walls, are not as strong as the external roots and vines; in the blink of an eye, the beaten fragments fly away, and the juice that emits a strange smell is gurgling. And flow; the overall external activity can be seen with the naked eye to be exhausted.
The next moment of sudden change and regeneration, the broken roots that struggled to roll out of the ground began to wither, shrink and become brittle; and this withering and cracking momentum quickly spread to all the external vines. Could it be that this thing is finally going to die? Jiang Tian couldn't help but secretly thought.
However, in his field of vision, a long-lost prompt suddenly popped up: "It was discovered that the abnormal implant is undergoing transformation and will soon fall off its body...". In an instant, Jiang Tian, who was in high command, suddenly moved, and suddenly punched the opposite mountain wall from a distance, making a loud noise when he hit it.
As a large piece of gravel that had been eroded into a cavity cracked and splashed, it suddenly collapsed and fell down; large sections were also torn out, and the wooden trunk and knots embedded in it were ripped out. However, it was struck by Jiang Tian's flawless swipe in the air. It was smashed into pieces, and juice sprayed all over the sky.
In the end, there was a dull and rolling sound, but the upper end of the entire mountain wall could no longer bear the hollowed out and cracked middle part, and it collapsed in the blink of an eye; and amidst the rushing earth and rocks that shook the mountain like a mudslide, In a short time, half of the cherry orchard was quickly submerged.
However, when the sergeants who had hurriedly retreated to the safety of the rear turned back to look for Jiang Tian who had disappeared, they saw him standing unscathed and spotless on the broken part of the mountain wall that had fallen down. ; And in his hand was a strange thing pulled out from the ground.
And this strange thing, if you look closely, looks like a fat rhizome that has been magnified countless times and looks like a cicada chrysalis. There are still a lot of fine roots that are broken and dripping with juice, and they are actually twitching and squirming slightly. Then Jiang Tian ordered the sergeant who was searching the scene:
And this strange thing, if you look closely, looks like a fat rhizome that has been magnified countless times and looks like a cicada chrysalis. There are still a lot of broken and dense roots dripping with juice, which are actually twitching and squirming slightly. Then Jiang Tian said to the awe-stricken sergeants and team members:
"No need to look anymore, this thing is the culprit that caused all this; now I have cut off all the roots and branches, and it will be difficult to do any harm in a short time. Hurry up and get a thick sealing device, and fill it with some more Soil. Take it back and observe and study it."
"Everyone cleans up the scene and tries to find all the bodies of the victims; then organizes the laborers and laborers to dig out the remaining roots and branches and burn them on the spot." Jiang Tian then ordered: "Wait until the rear team comes to gather, and then Pick a few people who still have energy to spare and follow me to the next place."
"Your Majesty, may I ask what kind of monster this is?" At this time, someone cautiously stepped forward and asked, but it was the head of the local military village. Jiang Tian thought for a while and answered him: "This should be a kind of tree demon that lies on the ground with roots and vines to harm people. It does not originally belong to this world."
"Because of some special reason, it appeared here unexpectedly; it is not enough to become a regular occurrence. So you don't need to worry too much. As long as the remaining roots and branches are eradicated, it will not affect the local water, soil and humans and animals, causing more subsequent impacts.”
"However, we still cannot relax our daily vigilance; especially when logging and hunting in the mountains and forests, we must stay in groups and avoid being alone or walking alone; because with the gradual changes in the world today, maybe the people in the forest originally Beasts have also become more dangerous.”
(End of chapter)
