Starting Off Survival With A Small Treehouse

"You have the nerve to say it!" Zeng Tao, who came in behind, became angry when he heard this, "Do you know that the big guy you brought back almost destroyed our tree house!"

"That was the most appropriate way I could think of at the time."

Qin Fu looked much weaker than Zeng Tao, and his whole body felt very sluggish.

His ability needs to consume energy, so it is more of a mental weakness. Naturally, he cannot achieve the energy of Zeng Tao now.

He is now like a drunk person. Although the body is not consumed too much, the mind is not enough.

"So, since I'm alive now, the troll should have been driven away. What's going on now, boss?"

Qin Fu looked at Xu Xin and asked.

"Just kidding, with Miss Ben's help, wouldn't that simply kill that troll!" Zeng Tao puffed out her chest, proudly.

"...The troll is dead?!" Although Qin Fu was depressed, his eyes widened suddenly.

"No, not dead." Xu Xin shook his head, "There is a high probability that he is still alive."

"Ah?" Zeng Tao was taken aback, "Didn't you just say..."

"Is such that."

Neither of the two people present knew what they had just experienced, so Xu Xin simply explained it.

"Huh? The entire upper body exploded, so you won't die!" Zeng Tao was stunned, "The head is gone? The head ran away by itself?"

She didn't quite believe it, so she ran to the window and looked out.

"...I didn't expect that Ma Hongwei's heavy crossbow could do this." Qin Fu was also very surprised, "I thought we could only drive that troll away."

"Wow... the area outside was completely flattened!" Zeng Tao exclaimed, lying on the window, looking at the location where the big killer exploded.

"So..." Xu Xin asked Qin Fudao, "What have you experienced and done in the hilly resource area these two days? Why did you get targeted by that blood-striped troll?" ?”

When he fled back, he also briefly said something, but it was too vague.

Xu Xin needed to know the details.

"Ah, my experience." Qin Fu glanced out of the window, and then smiled wryly, "That's really, really amazing. If I tell you, you may think it's unbelievable."

Qin Fu began to talk about his experiences during this period.

At that time, the six explorers including Xu Xin were trapped in the underground world.

In the beginning, he simply ran around because he was too bored to stay in the tree house.

He teleported back after going to all the other treehouse clusters in the Explorer and talking to most of them.

And just as he stepped out from the exit of the teleportation array, he noticed abnormalities around Xu Xin's main tree house.

Because of his abilities, he is very sensitive to changes in the surrounding environment.

The surrounding plants are all his eyes.

At that time, he could clearly detect any signs of animal activity in the jungle less than 200 meters away from him.

But when he concentrated on looking at the past, the existence that caught his attention had disappeared.

It disappeared, but it caught his attention.

If it's just an ordinary animal, even a mutant creature, it's impossible to escape his eyes.

He immediately went to check.

"At that time, on the ground at that location, I found lines that were fading," Qin Fu said.

"Textures? What textures?"

"It's probably... the pattern of a mutant creature." Qin Fu thought about it for a while, "but it seems to be a little different. Moreover, the pattern is obviously incomplete. And when I passed by, it was already very dim, and it probably only passed. It disappeared completely in seven or eight seconds."

"I tried to touch that position at the time, but I didn't find anything unusual. Do you have any idea about this?" Qin Fu looked at Xu Xin and asked.

"Why don't you ask me if I have a clue?" Zeng Tao interjected.

"Oh? You have?"

"No."

"..." Qin Fu's mental state was poor, his head hurt, he rolled his eyes and didn't want to speak.

Xu Xin somewhat understood what Qin Fu had discovered.

He should have discovered... the culprit who caused the mysterious disappearance of survivors in various regions at that time.

It was also the culprit that caused Shi Wanyun to be teleported to the back of the planet for no reason.

Those things come and go, setting traps around the tree house of the survivors, as long as they step on it, they will be teleported to a very distant place like Shi Wanyun.

And that dim pattern should be the pattern of the unfinished teleportation array.

He suddenly remembered that Lou Feier had also noticed an abnormality before, and after rushing over, he found a tree house core left behind.

If this is the reasoning, the enemy is using the energy of the core of the tree house to set the entrance of the teleportation array around the tree house.

Like his coordinates?

"And then?" Xu Xin asked.

Qin Fu continued to explain.

At that time, after he concentrated his mind, he discovered that the source of the anomaly was still in his northwest direction.

After he looked to the northwest, the other party suddenly moved!

Still heading northwest.

In just two seconds, the other party went beyond his exploration range and disappeared.

He immediately chased after him again.

A few hundred meters forward, the source of the anomaly was sensed again.

As a result, the other side began to move away quickly when he sensed it.

In this way, he chased all the way to the northwest.

"Isn't it?" Hearing this, Zeng Tao couldn't help but said, "Aren't you a bit stupid? Everyone can tell that you are being used as a bait to lure you over, right?"

Xu Xin also nodded.

If this is the case along the way, then the intention is indeed too obvious.

"Of course I know." Qin Fu shook his head, "But I still followed."

With the blessing of his own ability, he still has a very clear grasp of the surrounding situation.

With such confidence in his ability, even though he immediately sensed that the other party was attracting him, he still followed.

After all, it is not certain that the other party is malicious to him.

It's mostly just curiosity.

He hasn't walked around here, it's too boring to stay in the tree house, it's better to go out for a walk.

Soon, he was brought to the hilly resource area.

After coming to the hilly resource area, the source of the anomaly disappeared completely.

And he also knew what the other party wanted him to see.

At that time, he was also attracted by what he saw.

"I don't know if you know, but in that area, there is a small area of ​​trees that are still green and haven't withered in the cold winter, as if they were in summer."

What?

The corners of Xu Xin's eyes twitched slightly.

It's like he really doesn't know.

After the cold winter came, he seemed to...

I have never been to the hilly resource area.

Over there...is there a tree that never fades?

"There is such a thing?" Zeng Tao was a little surprised, "Why?"

"I was also very curious at the time." Qin Fu continued.

He knew that the source of the anomaly just now attracted him to this place, probably just to draw his attention to that area.

At that time, he only hesitated for a moment before deciding to explore further.

The other party's intention to lead the way was too obvious, but it made him feel that the other party had no hostility at all.

If you really want to invite Jun into the urn, then such an obvious seduction is really stupid.

Instead, it seems to be guiding, leading the way.

He said, there is something that guides him to discover and explore here.

Of course, he wasn't that stupid. Instead, he climbed up the surrounding hills and looked into the resource area surrounded by hills.

"The green area is actually not small, at least a few hundred meters in radius." Qin Fu said, "And in the middle of the lush jungle, there is an altar surrounded by it."

...Is it really that altar?

If it's that altar, maybe it really doesn't need to be too strange.

It is normal for an altar with that kind of magical power that even fierce beasts dare not approach, to be able to keep the surrounding jungle in the cold winter.

"So, I decided to go deep and explore."

Qin Fu, who has a super-wide-scale warning of danger, is very confident in his ability, and he also has a casual personality, so he directly entered the hilly resource area.

Then he quickly reached the edge of the dense bushes, went deep into it, and walked to the altar.

Then, his ability came into play.

The trees around the altar seem to have survived for a long time and have been strengthened.

In other words, these trees near the altar have also mutated.

Their roots are very deep in the soil, even close to 50 meters deep!

Moreover, these root systems are densely spreading and entangled underground.

Relying on his own ability, Qin Fu easily explored the underground of the altar clearly.

Because of this, he immediately found an entrance to the underground tunnel.

The entrance is under a poplar tree.

Not under the poplar's canopy, but under its trunk.

That's right, if the thick poplar tree is not cut down, ordinary survivors will not be able to discover this secret passage.

But Qin Fu found out with his own ability.

He cut down the poplar tree and dug down about half a meter, and the entrance to the passage appeared.

Opening the entrance, he jumped in without much hesitation.

"You are really brave..." Zeng Tao pouted, "You dare to go in."

"You must have the spirit of exploration." Qin Fu showed a tired smile, "It's all here."

With his current state of mind, his eyelids began to tremble when he talked about it.

Xu Xin handed him a blue orange and told him to keep talking.

Qin Fu picked up the orange and continued to tell his story.

It is said to be a secret passage, but it is actually like a pipeline.

That's right, the passage is circular, with a diameter of only about two meters, as if it were a pipeline buried underground to transport something.

This pipe is very long in front and back, and it seems to extend outward to the outside of the hilly resource area, while inward, it is facing directly below the altar.

Adhering to the principle of proximity, Qin Fu groped towards the directly below the altar.

Then……

"Then I got lost." Qin Fu said with a look of embarrassment.

"Ah? Lost? You got lost in a pipeline?" Zeng Tao was a little disbelieving, "Can't you go back the same way?"

"That's not a pipe at all." Qin Fu shook his head, "It's a maze of pipes."

Is it an underground labyrinth again?

After Qin Fu entered it, he walked forward about tens of meters, and three forks appeared in the pipeline.

He chose the middle one, because that direction was directly under the altar.

But when he walked forward for about twenty or thirty meters, he began to realize that something was wrong.

His abilities started to fail.

Moreover, the pipeline in front began to bend, and within a few steps, a new branch of the pipeline was seen again.

"I knew at that time that I had entered a very complicated underground labyrinth, so I planned to go back to the first branch point and make a long-term plan." Qin Fu said, "But..."

"...You can't find your way back?" Xu Xin guessed.

"... That's right." Qin Fu nodded tiredly, "I obviously only walked through a fork, and I clearly remembered that it was the middle road, but when I went back, I got lost."

His ability completely failed in the pipeline, and what's more uncomfortable, the watch couldn't communicate with the outside world either.

At that time, he was completely trapped in the maze of underground pipes.

Fortunately, there is no danger in the maze, unlike the previous dungeon maze, which was full of mutant creatures and fell through the air.

This is just an ordinary stone pipe that can make people crazy and lost.

"Stone pipes?" Xu Xin asked suddenly.

"Huh? Didn't I just say that?" Qin Fu was taken aback, "It's just a stone pipe, but it's very smooth, comparable to polished marble."

Stone pipes.

The ground of the altar, the sacrificial table, and the surrounding stone pillars are all made of stone.

Could it be the same material?

The pipe and the altar are the same material...

In other words, when he sacrificed, those blood-red patterns should have crawled along the stone to the sacrificial table, right?

"It's too convoluted in there, and those stones can't leave traces at all, and they can't be marked with words." Qin Fu said very helplessly.

"Can't leave a trace?" Zeng Tao asked, grasping the point, "Can't you engrave it?"

"It can be carved." Qin Fu shook his head and said, "The stone is the hardness of blue-grade stone, so I can still carve it, but..."

"The traces carved out will be restored." Xu Xin said.

"That's right." Qin Fu nodded, "I didn't realize this until I had forgiven many times. I always carved letters at the fork in the road, but after walking for a long time, I never encountered the lettering I had seen before. Later, I waited for a while after engraving on the spot, only to find out that the engraved traces will be automatically repaired in about three minutes."

"The stone can be repaired automatically!" Zeng Tao was a little surprised, and then said to himself, "If it is used as a weapon, it can be damaged at will..."

Xu Xin was not surprised.

The ground of the altar will be repaired automatically. This is something he knew when he fought against the blood-striped rabbit.

It seems that the material of the underground pipes is indeed the same as that of the altar on the ground.

"In short, I walked inside for at least ten hours, and in the end, probably by luck, I finally came to a place that is not a pipe: an underground stone room."

Qin Fu looked at Xu Xin: "The dagger I gave you is stuck in the middle of that room."

That bronze dagger was found in this way?

"The introduction of the short knife really shocked me at the time, but I didn't think about it at the time, because when I took out the short knife, the surroundings began to vibrate, and then the stone wall began to shatter."

And at that moment, his sense ability that seemed to be shielded recovered.

In his perception, on the ground, the altar is collapsing!

And now, he is at the lower edge of the altar!

Fortunately, the stone room has another exit. With his perception, he can know that this road is the way back to the ground, so he runs along this passage at the fastest speed!

This run, at least ran nearly a thousand meters.

When he came out, his position was already on the edge of the hilly resource area.

He looked in the direction of the altar, only to realize that the altar was no longer visible.

Completely collapsed.

Hearing this, Xu Xin narrowed her eyes slightly.

The altar... really collapsed?

He remembered that at that time, on a moonless night, he found a passage under the altar table, but that passage was very short and blocked.

Didn't Qin Fu explore there?

"Then what? You've been talking for a long time without getting to the point!" Zeng Tao urged, "Where's the troll? Why hasn't the troll appeared yet?"

"...After I returned to the ground, the troll appeared." Qin Fu's eyes shook for the first time, as if he still had some lingering fears about the scene at that time, "The troll was actually formed from a hill!"

Hearing this, Xu Xin's eyelids twitched.

Qin Fu looked at Xu Xin again, and said with a wry smile, "Boss, I didn't say that the location of your tree house is really too dangerous. There are really monsters around here."