Mechanical Flesh

In the center of the island stands a deformed black twisted tree with four people hugging each other. It is no more than five meters high. The twisted trunk is like a patient who has fallen into madness, twisted, deformed, and chaotic!

The branches have no leaves, only bare trunks, piercing the void like a twisted sword.

On the edge of the black twisted wood, there is a large open space, no black thorns spreading, no dark green vines entangled, as if its surroundings are forbidden areas that cannot be approached.

Jia Tao waved the scarlet energy blade, chopping down the black thorns blocking the way, and the direction he was heading was the strange black twisted tree.

The five of them moved forward for a certain distance, but they were not attacked by insects or beasts along the way. There were rustling sounds coming from all directions. Nie Xiu, who was walking behind, suddenly looked back, and his face suddenly became ugly.

"Stop!" Nie Xiu shouted.

The startled Snake Ghost and Sun Ye stopped at the same time. They followed Nie Xiu's gaze, and their expressions also became extremely ugly.

Sun Ye cautiously took out the revolver at his waist, while the snake ghost stuck out its forked tongue with its eyes closed, as if sensing something in the air.

Qi Yuan stopped in his tracks, and after looking back, he realized that the passage Jia Tao had just opened had been quietly closed at some point, and he couldn't see the way he came from.

The severed black thorns took root like living creatures, and then connected with the surrounding black thorns at a speed visible to the naked eye, completing the blockade of the passage.

This process lasted no more than five minutes. Qi Yuan saw with his own eyes a section of black thorns pierced into the soil, then spread towards the surrounding thorns, and then entangled together like milk and water.

"what to do?"

The sudden change made Sun Ye no longer hide it, and his eyes became fierce.

"Ghost snake!" Nie Xiu shouted in a low voice.

Ghost Snake slowly opened his eyes, shook slightly, his eyes were a little dignified.

"There is no aura of other insects and beasts around. It may be that these thorns interfere with my perception."

After finishing speaking, Ghost Snake drew out a dagger, and slashed at the black thorn next to it.

brush!

The black thorns suddenly sank downwards, and half of the severed thorns fell off, but the other thorns bounced up fiercely. The dark red spikes slashed across the snake ghost's arm, leaving a fine white trace .

Ghost Snake's pupils shrunk slightly, walked to the section of road that had just been closed, waved his hand and slashed down again.

It's also one knife and two paragraphs, but this time the black thorn sinks significantly smaller.

"The original black thorns are very hard, and the blocking force is equivalent to two layers of black-toothed mouse fur. The newly grown black thorns are weaker in defense, but their hardness is comparable to the fur of a black-toothed mouse." Ghost Snake said of himself judgment.

Nie Xiu frowned and pondered for a moment, then said in a low voice:

"The worm detector shows that there is only one worm in the entire central island, and it is hidden in the twisted wood in the center, and the things we want are also inside. Although these black thorns are weird, they will not actively attack. The existence of Jia Tao, even if they will take root in the ground, can't trap us, since we have already come here, I suggest to continue to go deeper, get the things before leaving!"

"The blind man's asking price is too low. The VCP-II biological medicine cost us a total of 100,000 yuan! A death harvest and a motorcycle, even if we add the task reward of clearing the swamp, we can't get back the money!"

"If we can get the thing inside, not only will we be able to get back the cost, but we may also get a few Tier 2 medicines in the shelter!"

Tier 2 potion!

The breaths of Sun Ye and Snake Ghost suddenly became rapid. Although the steel chariot gathering point also has laboratories that can produce potions, most of them are first-tier potions, and the output of second-tier potions is very low, and the steel chariot laboratory The quality of the ability potion crafted is too low.

The second-level potion of the steel chariot has only a 50% chance of awakening the ability, a 30% chance of ineffectiveness, and a 20% chance of triggering gene collapse.

Even if the second-order ability is successfully awakened, it will strongly damage the stability of the gene. The next time the ability potion is used, the probability of causing gene collapse will rise sharply.

It is far inferior to the ability potions produced by the biological and mechanical experiments in the Black Steel Shelter.

The success rate of awakening is more than 90%, and it will not destroy the stability of genes, and it can accurately awaken the designated extraordinary ability!

The huge difference in quality between the two is intuitively reflected in the price, which is nearly ten times the price difference.

However, the amount of ability potions smuggled from the shelter is very limited. Most wilderness hunters have no channels, and even if they have money, they cannot buy suitable potions.

Although the three climbed up to the blind man's line, the other party's asking price was also very high. With the strength of the three, even if they frequently performed the missions of the Hunter's Guild, it was difficult for them to bear the high price of purchasing second-level ability potions.

Therefore, the three of them have been hunters for nearly ten years, and they managed to reach the threshold of a C-level hunter after a narrow escape. Only Nie Xiu has mastered two second-level abilities, and both of them have only mastered one second-level ability.

The second-level ability potion is like the temptation of the devil. Even Sun Ye, who was about to retreat, let go of the idea of ​​retreating, and nodded in agreement with Nie Xiu's suggestion.

The snake ghost nodded, and his cold vertical pupils swept across Jia Tao and Qi Yuan who were also whispering in front of them.

"Continue to let them open the way, and then do it when we go back. We must not let them leave alive, otherwise the news will leak out, and with our strength, we will not be able to keep that thing."

"Don't worry, before I kill them, I will let them play a good role and help us clean up these damn thorns."

"Keep going, the thorns behind are about to catch up." Nie Xiu said.

"Snake ghost, beware of Jia Tao, I suspect that he approached us on purpose and has other purposes!"

The corner of the snake ghost's mouth split open, revealing a cruel smile.

"Don't worry, the two of them won't be able to make waves. Jia Tao's semi-mechanical arm is only an energy weapon, but his speed is too slow to exert the power of this mechanical arm."

"As for that Qi Yuan, he's just a smart kid. Without Death Harvest, he can't even break through my snake scale defense. Even if they join forces, I can easily kill them!"

Nie Xiu nodded slightly. The second-level ability of the snake ghost is speed enhancement, and the defense enhancement is only the first-level ability. The characteristics and abilities of some snakes, a layer of fine scales grow on the body surface, the defense power will not be much weaker than the first-level defense enhancement, and the snake scales are matched with the first-level defense enhancement, which is almost comparable to the second-level defense.

A first-order transcendent can basically break through his defense. Although Jia Tao can, but his speed is too slow, he will not be the opponent of the ghost snake.

"Be careful, if they make any changes, kill them directly without any hesitation." Nie Xiu finally whispered a few words

Ghost Snake nodded, and hurriedly shortened the distance to Qi Yuan. With his speed, within three meters, Qi Yuan didn't even have a chance to draw out his gun.

The ghost snake's approach interrupted Qi Yuan and Jia Tao's whispering, Qi Yuan still maintained a gentle smile, but Jia Tao's eyes were full of confusion and doubt.

"keep going!"

Under the urging of Ghost Snake, Jia Tao continued to swing the energy weapon and opened the way in the direction of Twisting Wood, while Qi Yuan followed behind him slowly, not in danger at all, but as if he was out for an outing.

Although the black thorns were hard, they didn't have much resistance in the face of Jia Tao's energy-condensed weapon, and soon a group of five reached the edge of the central twisted wood.

The moment he passed through the thorn forest, a cold chill spread from the soles of his feet, as if what he was stepping on was not the ground, but a piece of thousand-year-old ice.

Nie Xiu and the others also noticed the strangeness on the ground. The ghost snake stabbed the ground with a dagger, but it only pierced an inch with all its strength.

"The ground has been completely frozen!" Ghost Snake said in a deep voice.

When Nie Xiu heard this, he was not surprised at all, and his eyes became more and more burning.

"I'm not wrong, it's here! The things are inside!" Nie Xiu couldn't help but muttered to himself.

Qi Yuan glanced at the three of them, and found that they didn't seem to care what he heard what he shouldn't have heard, only Ghost Snake still stared at himself and Jia Tao with cold eyes, as if he might attack at any time.

Nie Xiu stretched out his fingers and tapped on the trunk of the twisted wood, making hollow sounds, and intermittent echoes could be faintly heard.

The trunk of this twisted tree with several people hugging it turned out to be hollow!

"Cut an accessible gap here!" Nie Xiu suddenly said to Jia Tao in a commanding tone.

Jia Tao lowered his head, pursed his lips, his body trembled slightly, as if he was going to move, but when he raised his head, he saw Qi Yuan's glance, and suddenly the whispered words between the two just appeared in his mind.

The muzzle of Sun Ye's gun had already quietly moved over, and Ghost Snake was also holding a dagger, standing behind Jia Tao. As long as he made a slight movement, the next thing would be a joint fatal blow from the three of them.

Jia Tao hesitated for a while, but finally gave up on his original plan, swung his robotic arm and started cutting the black twisted wood in front of him.

Compared with the black thorns, the black twisted wood embraced by several people is harder, even Jia Tao's energy weapons are difficult to cut at will.

After trying several times in a row, the result was only a few deep scorched marks on the hard trunk of the twisted wood.

"The hardness of twisted wood is stronger than the third-order defense, and my energy weapon can't cut it." Jia Tao said with a gloomy face.

Ghost Snake swung his dagger and slashed hard on the twisted wood, leaving only a shallow scratch.

"The tree trunks are also frozen."

Qi Yuan raised his head and glanced at the top of the twisted wood. When cutting and beating the twisted wood just now, the echoes came from above.

"The trunk is hollow, and there is a gap in it. It should be possible to enter from above." Qi Yuan said suddenly.

Nie Xiu looked at Qi Yuan in surprise, and suddenly let out a smile.

"Aren't you afraid?"

"Why should I be afraid?" Qi Yuan pretended to be ignorant and asked back.

"You are all second-level ability users, even if there are insects and beasts inside, you are not our opponents!"

"Hey——" Nie Xiu chuckled, "Since you said that you can go in from above, then I won't make it difficult for you. You climb in first, as long as you help us take things out of it, I will give you 5,000 yuan when you go back. piece."

"What's inside?" Qi Yuan asked.

"You'll know when you go in."

Nie Xiu didn't answer directly, and Qi Yuan didn't ask further questions, but just glanced at the tall twisted tree, and said:

"The trunk of the twisted tree is hard and smooth. I can't climb it. I guess I have to take a ladder."

Nie Xiu judged the height of the twisted wood.

"Don't bother."

"Jia Tao, you throw him up!"

Jia Tao and Qi Yuan looked at each other, and slowly stretched out their thick mechanical arms.

Qi Yuan shrugged and stood in his mechanical palm.

"Stand firm!"

Jia Tao gave a low snort, and then threw it upwards vigorously.

A huge force came from the bottom of his feet, and Qi Yuan almost stuck to the twisted tree trunk, flying upwards several meters.

Jia Tao's strength was just right, and Qi Yuan stopped rising as soon as he reached the top of the twisting tree.

Qi Yuan grabbed the trunk at the top of the twisted wood with both hands, rolled over and stood up.

A dark tree hole came into view, and I couldn't see what was inside. I only felt a sharp chill gushing out of the tree hole, as if it could freeze a person's body.

Qi Yuan glanced back, only seeing the half-smile expression on Nie Xiu's face, and the black muzzle of Sun Ye's hand.

"I'll go in and take a look first." Qi Yuan smiled nonchalantly, then jumped straight into the dark tree hole.

In the tree hole, there may be insects and beasts, but Qi Yuan is not very worried. Even if there is danger in places where Nie Xiu and the others dare to touch, the degree of danger is not too high.

The most important thing is that he saw the beam of light at the check-in point. In the dark tree hole, the light of the check-in point was clearly visible like the stars in the dark night.

Wild check-in points!

Sign in successfully!

"Is this kid really stupid or fake?"

Looking at Qi Yuan who jumped down without saying a word, Sun Ye couldn't figure out his thoughts for a while.

"The ice python inside is of the second rank. If he jumps in like this, he won't be afraid of falling directly into the ice python's mouth!"

Ice python!

Jia Tao's body trembled slightly, finally knowing the real purpose of Nie Xiu and others.

Most worms rely on their powerful bodies to prey, but the ice python is different. It is a rare worm whose body can be semi-elemental.

The elementalization of the body was originally an ability only possessed by worms and beasts above the fourth-level elite rank, but the ice python can rely on some special frost energy to complete the semi-elementalization of the body at the second level.

For special insect beasts like ice pythons, the Futu Chamber of Commerce and the Black Gold Chamber of Commerce, which are resident in the steel chariot gathering point, have offered high prices, even including high-quality second-level ability potions that are difficult for wilderness hunters to come into contact with!

More importantly, where ice pythons haunt, there must be exotic ores that contain powerful frost power.

Someone once used this ore to exchange from the black steel shelter to a real mechanical weapon.

This is where the ice python really makes people crazy.

Just when Jia Tao was hesitating and was about to press a button hidden in the mechanical arm, a dull gunshot suddenly came from the ground.

"Qi Yuan is not dead yet, is it fighting the ice python?"

Jia Tao stopped his movements in surprise, and couldn't believe his ears. A first-level ability user had the ability to resist an ice python at the peak of the second level!

After the gunshot rang out once, Jia Tao never waited until the second gunshot rang out, and his heart gradually slipped to the bottom of the valley.

"I would actually trust a Tier 1 Wilderness Hunter, I'm really crazy!"

Jia Tao's face suddenly became resolute, as long as the button is pressed, the plasma bomb hidden in the mechanical arm will destroy everything around.

I am not afraid of death, as long as I can drag Nie Xiu to hell together, I am willing even to die!

Just when Jia Tao was about to start the plasma bomb desperately and die with Nie Xiu, another dull gunshot came from the ground.

Qi Yuan is not dead yet?

This time, it wasn't just Jia Tao, even Nie Xiu had a hint of surprise in his eyes!

A first-level ability user fell into the cave of the ice python, not only was he not instantly killed, but he found a chance to shoot, and he persisted for so long!

But the target of this shot should not be the ice python, but himself!

The snake ghost sneered.

"I'm going to die, why bother to ask for trouble, the longer I persist in front of the ice python, it's just more pain, the feeling of watching my blood being frozen is more terrifying than death! "

No one noticed that Jia Tao's face became weird, only he knew that Qi Yuan was not dead, and this shot was a secret signal for communication between them.