After stepping on the ground, everyone had a real feeling.
The soil here is soft and fertile, with a strong earthy smell.
Fortunately, the protective clothing blocked most of the smell, so it wasn't too unpleasant for the player's keen sense of smell.
Xiang Li walked to the place where the pigeon was shot down.
As expected, the corpse on the ground disappeared, not even a single feather was left.
The fat man spat: "Bah, this damn thing won't even let go of its hair!"
His voice sounded hollow under the thick protective clothing.
Captain Huang looked around, the compass in his hand spinning wildly.
There is a difference in the magnetic field here, so it seems we have to use the old method to find our way.
The man looked up at the sky. The dense canopy of trees blocked the sun tightly. Only sparse and mottled light shone through the leaves, making the environment here appear particularly dark and mysterious.
He carefully observed the growth of moss on the surrounding tree trunks and determined the general direction.
"The researcher lost contact within the mutant banyan tree, so we can only explore nearby."
Captain Huang held a gun and walked at the front to lead the way. The soldiers were in the middle and carefully guarded the surroundings.
Xiangli team takes the back seat.
The surrounding woods were dead silent, and only the sounds of people's breathing, footsteps and the friction of clothing could be heard.
If you want to pass here, you must be careful of the messy branches to avoid scratching your clothes.
Xiang Li observed the surrounding environment.
If they didn't know the details here, almost everyone would think that this was just an ordinary forest in the mountains.
Who could have imagined that there are dangers hidden under the calm.
A soldier's protective clothing sleeve was pulled by a branch that stretched out. He frowned, and when he tried hard, he heard a sharp "tearing" sound, and his clothes were cut open by the jagged branch.
He was wearing a military green short-sleeved shirt, and the sleeves of the outer protective suit were torn, revealing his wheat-colored skin underneath.
"What's going on?" Captain Huang heard the noise and turned to ask.
The soldier frowned: "What's the quality of this clothes? It's broken by just pulling it..."
The next second——
Thick brown tree roots burst out of the ground, like living tentacles, tightly wrapping around the soldier's ankles and pulling him into the ground!
"Ahhhh help!"
The gun fell, and half of the soldier's body sank into the dirt, his fingers digging into the ground.
Everyone quickly stepped forward to hold his hands and fight against the strange tree roots underground.
The tree root that caught the prey encountered an obstacle. After a pause, more tentacles sprang out from the soil beside the soldier. They climbed up the soldier's shoulders like a spiritual snake and pressed him into the soil.
Da da da!
The soldiers led by Captain Huang reacted, raised their guns and shot at the roots of the tree. For a moment, black mud and green sap splashed.
The soldier struggled in fear, digging his fingers into his companion's arm and digging out long marks: "Save me, Captain!"
"Don't fucking move!" Captain Huang yelled at the soldiers.
The harder he struggled, the faster and deeper he fell.
The soldier heard the captain's words, recalled the characteristics of mutant plants explained by the man before, and forced himself to calm down.
It really works!
The falling speed slowed down significantly, and the pressure on the companion holding the soldier's arm suddenly decreased.
Captain Huang: "Stop shooting! Don't move, hurry, hurry! dig him out, be careful not to touch the roots of the tree!"
Xiang Li and others summoned weapons and stepped forward to help dig the soil.
Seeing that the situation was improving, a bullet lost its accuracy in the panic and hit the soldier's shoulder.
"Ah!" The soldier screamed in pain, a black hole suddenly appeared on his shoulder, and blood dripped down to the roots of the tree.
The tree roots that entangled him swelled several times, and the sudden huge force dragged the soldier underground.
"Save...well..."
The strength that exploded at the end of his life actually scratched the teammate who held his arm with five bloody marks. Half of his sleeve was torn off, tightly held in the soldier's hand, and then disappeared into the black soil.
The dull screams were covered under the soil, and calm returned within a few seconds.
The teammate whose arm was injured was extremely flustered: "Captain, I'm injured!"
Captain Huang: "Watch the wound tightly! Quick, get the gauze and wrap it around it!"
At this time, the teammates' eyes widened in horror, and they were caught off guard and dragged into the ground by the roots of the tree under their feet.
Gulu——
There were several squirms under the black soil, and a stream of blood emerged, which was quickly absorbed by the soil.
The earthy smell in the air became stronger and stronger.
"vomit!"
The smell, which I had not noticed before, now smells extremely dull and nauseating.
"No. 2, what on earth are you doing?!" His teammates shouted angrily while holding a soldier's collar with red eyes.
"It's okay to make some minor mistakes in normal times. No one has ever said anything about you! How could you slip up today? You killed two brothers in vain!"
His fist slammed into the stunned boy's face.
"I...I didn't mean to..." The soldier whose bullet missed fell to his knees and stared at his hands.
"sorry!"
He clenched the gun in his hand and pointed it at his temple, bang!
The moment the body fell, it was dragged underground by tree roots rushing out of the soil.
An oppressive silence spread among everyone.
"Be careful not to get cuts in the protective clothing, and keep moving forward."
Captain Huang walked at the front with a sullen face.
Xiang Li and the others looked at each other.
Three people died as soon as they landed. This land is really scary.
Xiali rubbed the fabric of the sleeve of the protective suit, carefully feeling its strength.
How could the protective clothing provided by the base be of inferior quality? Even if you scratch it with an ordinary knife, you can't break the fabric. There is no problem with the quality.
It's not the clothes that's the problem, it's the plants' problem.
The plants here have undergone the baptism of doomsday and have mutated to varying degrees. The most obvious feature is that the branches and leaves have become extremely sharp.
Xiang Li: "Captain Huang, try not to touch these plants."
Captain Huang nodded: "Attention! Clean up excess branches before passing. In short, you must not expose your skin to the air!"
This time, the forward speed was slowed down again.
…
"Ouch, I'm so exhausted." The fat man put his hands on his knees and gasped for air, wanting to sit down and rest for a while.
Suddenly, he thought of the previous scene where the blood soaked the soil, and he forcefully lifted up his fallen buttocks.
Ronye: "Pfft——"
After walking around the woods for a long time, there was not a soul around.
Captain Huang: "Everyone rest where you are for half an hour."
Maybe you can rest, but you can't stand or sit.
The doctor silently took out his big knife and chopped down a large tree that could be hugged by one person to use as a chair.
The fat man quickly moved his butt up to the tree trunk and gave the doctor a thumbs up: "The doctor is so smart!"
The group relaxed temporarily.
Fatty: "You said there is a family in this mountain..."
Click——
The sound of dry branches being trampled was heard from the forest.
Everyone stood up quickly, clenching the weapons in their hands on guard.
"Who's there?!"
A dark, lean, lean old man emerged from the woods.
"I am a villager from Amu Village. Are you here to find someone?"
