Starting Off Survival With A Small Treehouse

After blocking the mine, Xu Xin didn't dare to stay on the edge of the hill any longer. She immediately turned over and rode on the Silver King, commanding it to rush into the resource area surrounded by hills, and started to search for the blue-level mines as quickly as possible. H.

It is basically the same as the resource area on the tree house side.

There are not many trees or shrubs that can bear fruit here, and the blue-level resources are only a few poplars and a rosewood, but he even found blue-level herbs, which are of no use to him, and can be used to make blue-level pills for Qi Xuefei.

In terms of food, there was only an ordinary green-grade apricot tree and a small piece of green-grade mushrooms. Based on the principle of not wasting, Xu Xin collected them and put them in his backpack.

After exploring the entire resource area, Xu Xin rode Silver King to the beast statue altar.

Last time, the Silver King was very afraid of this altar, and even trembled when he stepped into it, but this time, he didn't feel any fear at all, and stepped into the beast altar with ease.

Perhaps it was because after it became a mutant beast, it was no longer one of the altar offerings.

"Crack."

The moment Silver King stepped into the altar, that strange voice sounded from under the altar again, and then Mimi also stepped into the range of the altar, but there was no sound.

Xu Xin had expected it in advance, but he was not frightened. He looked at the four stone pillars on the four corners of the altar.

"Is this really the case?" He thought thoughtfully.

Among the original four stone pillars, Xu Xin had already solved two of them by offering sacrifices. They should have been empty, but now, new statues appeared on the stone pillars.

In place of the original Rabbit Statue was a Rat Statue.

Compared with its smaller body than other statues, its front teeth are very scary, like two sharp guillotines, as if they can cut off the heads of other creatures with one bite.

In place of the wildcat statue is a fox statue.

The statue is about the size of a wild cat, but with an exaggerated tail. The fluffy tail is raised high, even twice as long as the body, and the volume is much larger than the whole body. But Xu Xin couldn't tell what powerful ability this tail had at a glance.

However, the wild boar statue and the wild wolf statue have not changed, even the progress of the blood-red pattern on them has not changed.

When I left last time, the pattern on the stone pillar of the wild boar statue has basically spread to the statue, and the progress of the pattern is still at that position. It seems that as long as four or five fangs are sacrificed, the mid-level mutant wild boar with terrifying fangs in the statue should be able to be summoned.

But unfortunately, all the beasts in the jungle have disappeared now, and if you want to sacrifice to the altar, you can only wait until the return of the beasts.

Xu Xin suddenly thought of one thing.

After the ground of this altar was scratched by the rabbit ears of the blood-striped rabbit last time, the two scratches were quickly repaired, allowing the ground to recover automatically, which is very similar to the situation in the salt mine just now!

...Gah, this altar is not a living thing, is it?

The thought that he might be standing on top of a big one now gave him a chill.

No no no no, probably not.

Every time one stepped on the altar, there would be a "click" sound from the ground of the altar. This sound was obviously like a mechanical mechanism, not like a sound made by a living creature.

It's just that he doesn't know what kind of mechanism he triggers every time he steps on this altar.

"Hey!" Ke Ke kept looking around on Xu Xin's shoulder, and suddenly saw something, and yelled, pointing her little paw to the sacrificial table in the center of the altar, indicating that there was something over there.

Xu Xin looked over there, and sure enough, there was a very small object on the sacrificial table.

"That is……"

Riding Silver King to the front, Xu Xin saw the small objects on the sacrificial table clearly, and her expression changed immediately.

"... Why is this thing here?!"

Xu Xin looked at the ring on the sacrificial table with a surprised expression.

He couldn't be more familiar with this ring, after all, he had worn it for a while.

Isn't this the ring he returned to Changyin? That ring made by Chang Yin himself and given to Xue Lan!

Why is this ring here?

The Changyin family...been here?

Xu Xin looked at the ring. The original ring was a blue-level material that emitted blue light. However, the ring on the altar table turned into an ordinary ring at this time. Under Xu Xin's discerning ability, the ring radiated white light.

The blue-level ring has become a white-level ring?

Xu Xin picked up the ring from the sacrificial table.

[Damaged Mutated Beast Ring (White): A ring that once possessed impressive abilities has been completely damaged after being sacrificed and turned into a very ordinary ring. 】

The ring was consecrated to the altar.

Changyin said that the ring contains materials from high-level mutant beasts, and perhaps because of this, it can be sacrificed to the altar.

But why did the Changyin family come here to offer sacrifices?

Could it be...

Xu Xin suddenly realized what would happen here after offering sacrifices to the sacrificial table.

Isn't it just to turn the beast stone statue into a real beast!

Could it be that the Changyin family wanted to make sacrifices here, and then turn back into human beings?

Likely, very likely.

They said that going to the ground to do a big event was something that the mysterious voice had promised. He also said that when we meet next time, I will give him an unexpected surprise.

Besides, Xuelan couldn't wait to leave, and she didn't even want to go to his small tree house in a hurry.

From the looks of it now, they probably just want to come to this altar quickly, offer sacrifices to the altar, and then turn back into human beings.

This is probably the promise given to them by the mysterious voice, promising that after they return to the ground, they can be transformed back into humans again.

But... have they succeeded?

Xu Xin looked around the altar, except for this ring, there was nothing related to Changyin Xuelan's family.

He thought about the process of the beast statue turning into a beast.

The blood-red pattern covered the whole body, and then, the statue cracked, glowing red, and finally the statue shattered, and an intermediate-level mutated blood-striped beast appeared from the broken stone statue, as if a layer of stone had been cast off. quality leather.

If this is also the process of Changyin's family becoming human...

Xu Xin took a deep breath.

The first step from a statue to a creature is to spread blood-red patterns all over the statue.

If so, they may have become mutant humans. Just like the first batch of survivors in the dungeon who grew blood-stained fur all over their bodies, they became mutated monsters.

Of course, this is just Xu Xin's guess, but this guess is not impossible, even the possibility is not small.

"Is this really going to happen..." Xu Xin is now very worried about the Changyin family, who are life and death friends with him. He helped them get to the surface. Similarly, without the help of this family, he might not be able to return to the surface.

He really didn't want anything to happen to Changyin's family. Not only did they have the ability to make contracts that he didn't have, but they were also partners he recognized in his heart.

Worried, he thought of what the maid said to Xuelan.

"Ma'am, don't worry about that matter. It's useless to go now. We can wait until it gets dark."

This sentence is what she said when she persuaded Xuelan to sit in Xu Xin's tree house.

It's useless to go during the day, only useful at night.

...Could it be that there is a difference between the altar at night and the altar during the day?

Thinking about it carefully, he had never seen the altar at night, and it was only in the evening at the latest. There was still a sunset glow in the sky, and there was still some time before it got dark. He didn't want the dark to still be outside, so he hurried back to the tree house.

"...Come and take a look tonight." Xu Xin planned to come here tonight with full armor.

If Changyin's family is really in trouble, he can do his part.

Xu Xin checked the altar knife in the altar again, and unexpectedly found that the altar knife was no longer in the altar, and the small stone drawer was empty at this time.

"...was taken away by Changyin and the others?" Xu Xin muttered to himself, "Could it be that they are still operating in this resource area?"

Last time Xu Xin took the altar knife back to the tree house, which led to the appearance of the bloodstained troll. Since there is nothing happening around now, does that mean that the person holding the altar knife has not gone far?

But Xu Xin had already explored almost all the places around him just now, and didn't find anything else active.

There are no red dots on the map. Of course, the Changyin family, like Keke and the giant crocodile, did not display targets on the map. He had confirmed this after he came out of the dungeon.

No, there's one more place that hasn't been checked.

The lake in this resource area, the bottom of the lake.

"Let's go, Silver King, Mimi, let's go to the lake and have a look." Xu Xin turned onto the wolf, and Silver King immediately galloped up.

When I came to the lake, the lake at this time was completely different from the last time Xu Xin came.

Last time, there were many beasts drinking water by the lake, and there were some red spots in the shallow water of the lake, that is, crocodiles. At this time, both the lake and the lake are very calm, and there are no red dots on the map.

Xu Xin could vaguely see a few fish swimming in the lake, they should be the only fish left in this lake.

Xu Xin touched Ke Ke's little head lying on the back of Silver Queen's neck, and said: "You wait on the shore, I'll go down and have a look."

"Wow!" "Wow!"

He is currently wearing a purple-level anaconda scale armor, which allows him to move freely underwater. Although he has not eaten the blue-level swim bladder that he just obtained, which can enhance his ability to resist water pressure, it is not a big problem to take a small dive.

He doesn't intend to eat up blue-level resources right here. His dining table, stove, and grill can maximize the effect of resources. It's too wasteful to eat here.

The lake here shouldn't be that deep, right? Go down and have a look first.

Xu Xin didn't eat any aquatic plants either, so she took a deep breath and jumped into the water.

When he opened his eyes in the water, he could have a panoramic view of the lake.

A very ordinary lake, from the edge of the lake to the center of the lake, the depth gradually increases, and the depth at the center of the lake is about six or seven meters. Compared with the lake next to the tree house, this place is much more normal.

He was wandering under the water, and found that there were no resources in the lake.

Um?

Before swimming to the center of the lake, Xu Xin found a few strings of footprints on the mud at the bottom of the lake.

Footprints of three adults and a child. The footprints were all heavy, sinking directly into the soil.

This is the footprint of the Changyin family!

They have walked underwater!

Xu Xin went upstream quickly, ate the aquatic plants, dived down again, and swam in the direction of the footprints.

The footprints didn't point straight in one direction, but turned around at the bottom of the lake, as if they were looking for something.

In the end, the footprints of several people stopped near the center of the lake.

In front of the footprints, there is a deep hole the size of a well. Looking inside, it's pitch black, and you can't see the bottom at all.

again?

They jumped?

...is this going back to the ground again? !

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Friends suddenly have a small matter today, let me prepare and save the manuscript, and it will be updated tomorrow! In fact, you can do it at night, but forget it. I will save more manuscripts after I go back today. Otherwise, there will be some minor problems when I finish writing and post it without rigorousness. There was a small problem last time (-ω-`)