Starting Off Survival With A Small Treehouse

The blood thorn vines in front of them were extremely thick, much thicker than the blood thorn vines they had seen before and dealt with in the defense battle!

The previous bloodthorn vines were about five or six centimeters in diameter. In fact, compared to the bloodthorn vines with a diameter of two or three centimeters, they were already very thick.

But the vine covered with blood thorns in front of him is at least ten centimeters in diameter! If it wasn't bent, Xu Xin would even think it was the trunk of a small tree!

The Silver King bared his fangs at the vine, and his deep roar became louder. The red eyes stared at the vine, as if he might explode and attack at any time.

"Xu Xin, what's wrong with Silver King!" Li Wenxi immediately shouted anxiously to Xu Xin.

"Silver King, don't be impulsive!" Xu Xin turned his head and saw the appearance of the Silver King. He felt that it was a bit like the crazy appearance of an intermediate-level mutant beast after being injured. He was shocked and hurried over to stroke its head twice.

"Hey!" Coco also jumped on its head and gave it a paw on the head, as if warning it not to be impulsive.

Only then did Silver King slowly retract his fangs.

"Oh?" It didn't seem to understand why it was suddenly excited.

Seeing Yin Wang calm down, Xu Xin breathed a sigh of relief.

"This is..." Li Wenxi asked worriedly.

"The mood of the mid-level mutant beast is not stable. This vine seems to have stimulated its desire to fight, right?" Ji Zhaoyang also came over and asked.

"...It should be right." Xu Xin turned back to observe the vines again.

"How could it be so thick?" Xu Xin muttered to himself, "After the tree house was upgraded, the strength of the underground creatures has also increased? Moreover, it can actually make the Silver King become impulsive. Why?"

Ji Zhaoyang stepped forward and observed the blood-thorn vine with a solemn expression, "When I went out yesterday, I never encountered such a thick vine."

Li Wenxi also stepped forward cautiously, hiding behind Xu Xin, looked at this vine, and exclaimed: "This is much thicker than the previous bloodthorn vine, but fortunately, it still cannot attack within the protection zone."

Although the vine is thick and looks scary, it still didn't attack Xu Xin who was standing in the protected area, but turned around a few times in place, seeing that it couldn't attack the target it wanted to attack, it began to swing slightly in place, and retract below the ground.

Now that it has come out, naturally it cannot be allowed to go back.

Xu Xin immediately swung the halberd and swept towards the roots of the bloodthorn vines.

The halberd was very long, a full three meters long, and this bloodthorn vine was at the very edge of the protected area. So he can attack the vines, but the vines cannot attack him.

"Crack."

Xu Xin used a lot of strength, combined with his increased strength, the halberd easily cut off the root of the blood-stained vine like cutting tofu.

A warm current that was much stronger than the poplar trees he had cut before surged along the handle of the halberd he was holding, making his body, which had become a little tired from riding a wolf for a long time, instantly recover to its peak.

The slightly swaying vine froze, and the originally bright red blood thorns became dim, and then fell towards them.

All three of them had experienced battles, and they didn't panic at all. They all dodged slightly and avoided the fallen vines.

With a "bang", the thick and heavy vines hit the ground, raising dead leaves that fell on the ground.

"Hey!" Ke Ke ran to the edge of the vine, ran around looking at the vine which was much thicker than before, and scratched it vigorously with her little paw.

Ke Ke's claws are actually very sharp, and it's no problem to make a deep scar on the human skin, but they didn't even cut through the skin of the vine, only leaving a white mark on it.

The defensive power of this vine is much higher than before. Fortunately, Xu Xin's weapon is more than a little stronger than before, so there is still no pressure to deal with it.

[Kill the bloodthorn vine, get points: 50 points. 】

The previous bloodthorn vines only had 15 points. This one actually has 50 points.

"You cut it off in one go!" Li Wenxi said in surprise.

"The mutated vine is actually very easy to deal with. As long as you aim at the root and destroy its root before it retracts, you can basically kill it successfully." Xu Xin explained to Li Wenxi.

"So that's how it is." Li Wenxi looked at the dead vine on the ground, which was still trembling and twisting slightly.

In the defense battle, she only killed the big ants that climbed into the tree house, but never killed the mutated vine, so she didn't know its weakness.

"How is it? How many points is this vine?" Ji Chaoyang squatted down, carefully observed the vine, and asked without raising his head.

"50 points, fortunately, it has not reached the level of an intermediate mutant creature."

Intermediate-level mutant creatures are worth 100 points, and this vine is still far from the intermediate level.

However, he still can't take it lightly, because the vines are not all alone like the mid-level mutant beasts he encountered before. There are a lot of them. If he rides the Silver King out for a lap, it will be no problem to attract dozens or hundreds of them. .

In the future, if the previous defensive battle happens again, the vines will definitely appear in groups.

If they were mid-level mutant creatures, then they would be in big trouble.

"That's good. Well, apart from getting bigger, the vines haven't changed much. It's true that they haven't been promoted to mid-level mutant creatures. Moreover, this should be a good way to earn points. There are blue-level fertilizers in the point mall, and now there are Many people have never seen fertile soil." Ji Chaoyang rubbed his chin, stood up, and thought.

Xu Xin took out a boning knife and a wooden barrel, and he wanted to collect the juice from this thick blood-thorn vine.

"I'll help you!" Li Wenxi helped him lift the vine. Although there are many thorns on the blood thorn vine, the distance between them is not small, so there is no problem if you handle it carefully.

Xu Xin scratched the vine with a knife, and milky white viscous liquid flowed out from the scratch, which made Xu Xin heave a sigh of relief.

He was afraid that the vines attacked by the purple-grade steel halberd would be too uncomfortable because they would absorb a lot of life force, making them unable to collect materials like trees.

Fortunately, although the halberd cannot be used to cut down trees, it does not affect the materials obtained after killing monsters.

The amount of juice in this blood thorn vine is basically equivalent to four or five blood thorn vines before.

"This sap is one of the raw materials for me to make steel fire and universal alchemy materials. You can help me collect it when you have time." Xu Xin threw the bloodthorn vine that had drained out of the sap and had become lighter on the ground. humane.

Ji Chaoyang said: "It happens that I still have a lot in the tree house. I can only make explosives in my hands, and I have enough explosives. I will trade them to you when I return to the tree house."

"Oh? I didn't...and I feel like I can't beat it..." Li Wenxi lowered her head, a little embarrassed.

She basically doesn't know anything about fighting. It's okay for her to kill ordinary beasts with her excellent physical fitness, or dodge the attacks of mutant creatures. She has no confidence in facing mutant creatures head-on and killing them.

"You don't have to fight in close combat. You can use an explosive crossbow to blow up its roots." Xu Xin pulled the trigger on Li Wenxi.

"Explosive crossbow? Yes! But this vine is so thick, can it be broken?" Li Wenxi looked at the vines on the ground and asked.

"Then try again."

As he said that, Xu Xin stepped out of the protected area again, and then quickly retracted.

The crack on the ground expanded again in an instant. This time, three sharp and thick blood-stained vines came out and stabbed Xu Xin quickly!

"Hey!" Ke Ke jumped behind Xu Xin's legs in fright, grinning and raising her paws at the three vines.

Under Xu Xin's gaze, the three vines actually broke through the protected area and attacked them!

He was taken aback, and quickly pulled Li Wenxi to hide to the side.

However, the vine didn't go deep, just entered a section, and the blood streaks all over his body became brighter red in an instant, then quickly retracted, and stopped outside the boundary of the protection area, with three sharp vine tips straight Hooking at Xu Xin and the three of them, they kept spinning.

"Did you...see it just now?" Xu Xin frowned, "Did they enter the protected area just now?"

The blood-striped vine is five or six centimeters thick. The original slender blood-stained vine is almost as thick as the blood-scarred vine in the defense battle. The vine is surrounded by densely packed bright red bloodstains. Polished rapier.

"Although it's only a little bit, it's really entered..." Ji Zhaoyang also had a solemn expression, "This is not a good phenomenon."

"I saw it too!" Li Wenxi opened her eyes wide and looked at the vines that were no longer daring to enter. "The moment they entered, the blood patterns on their bodies seemed... more vivid? Is it glowing? It's like... Just like the group of vines in the defense battle!"

...enhanced by something?

"You said just now that you haven't encountered such a thick vine yesterday?" Xu Xin asked, thinking of what Ji Zhaoyang said just now.

"Yes, I walked around my reserve yesterday and explored all directions. There are only four relatively positive directions, east, west, north and south, and the reserve is connected. The rest of the directions are dangerous areas. "Ji Chaoyang explained in a deep voice, "I also tried like you. The vines that emerge from the ground are the same as before. This is the first time I have seen such a thick vine."

Then the vines this time...

"Two possibilities." Xu Xin stretched out his hand and made a gesture. "The first possibility is that this place is special. There is something underground that can strengthen the vines, so the underground creatures are stronger."

"The second possibility," Ji Zhaoyang continued, "is that after the jungle entered autumn this morning, all the underground vines became stronger."

"You'll know if you try a few more places." Li Wenxi had already pulled out her steel crossbow and loaded it with an explosive bolt.

Ji Chaoyang told the other explorers this information on the spot, and asked them to also pay attention to whether the underground creatures outside the protected area had become stronger.

"I don't think there's anything special here. It may be that these mutated vines like low temperature. When autumn and winter come, stronger guys will emerge. They can persist in the reserve for a period of time without dying. Our jungle Didn’t the ones we encountered in the exploration activities die after attacking us in the reserve? Can I shoot them?”

Holding a crossbow, Li Wenxi was already a little eager to bomb the three blood-patterned vines.

Xu Xin thought of the huge piranha at the entrance of the golden treasure chest.

That piranha persisted in the protected area for a long time before it died. Now that I think about it, it seems to be stronger than mid-level mutant creatures. It can also control people's minds and make people hallucinate.

If it wasn't because the man-eating flower became dry and brittle and died at the last moment, Xu Xin might have confessed there at that time.

From this point of view, maybe it's just stronger underground creatures that can last longer in the reserve.

Seeing that Li Wenxi's crossbow was aimed at the root of the blood-striped vine, Xu Xin immediately stopped her.

"Stay farther away, the scope of the explosion is very large." Xu Xin pulled the two away ten meters away.

At this time, the three blood-patterned vines had lost their target and were about to retreat underground.

"Hurry up!"

"Oh good!" Li Wenxi immediately aimed at the root of the vine and pulled the trigger.

"Whoosh—"

The rate of fire of the blue-grade steel crossbow was very fast. Before the three vines that had lost their target could react, the explosive crossbow had already hit their roots.

"boom!"

The thick smoke from the explosion gradually dissipated. The three of them looked at the original vines, and there were two blood-stained vines left on the ground. Only one vine completely retracted to the ground at the moment it saw it. the following.

It seems that they are not very strong, at least they can be solved with the weapons in their hands.