Starting Off Survival With A Small Treehouse

Several people took out their steel shovels one after another, and started digging against the ground.

Then they immediately discovered the abnormality of this land.

This place is indeed no ordinary land.

Ordinary land, under the advanced tools in their hands, the speed is very fast.

But the land here...

Digging is like the land on the earth, it must be dug with a shovel by a shovel.

The last time this happened, it seemed to be...

When digging down into a prison in the underworld?

The ground here is very hard, making their digging extremely difficult.

"We won't dig out any strange things, will we?" Zeng Tao asked while pushing the shoveled clod to the side, "It's dangerous below the ground, right? Don't those mutated vines all come from the ground?" Did it come out from below?"

The explorers did not spread the news about the underground world. Although survivors all over the world know that there is a list of underground world exploration activities, their understanding of the word "underground world" is still limited to what they have experienced before. The underground labyrinth, dungeon and the like.

Therefore, Zeng Tao's perception of the dangers underground just stayed on the vines that drilled out of those dangerous areas.

"The underground is definitely more than that dangerous, little Taozi." Lou Feier struggled to shovel the shovel into the ground, pressed down hard, but did not dig out the clod, "Why is this thing so hard!"

Jin Yue couldn't dig it with her hands, so she raised her leg and stomped hard to dig out a piece of hard soil.

Xu Xin didn't feel any resistance, after all, he was holding a purple-level steel shovel in his hand, but they all held blue-level steel shovels, so it was naturally more laborious than himself.

"You are too weak!" Zeng Tao glanced at them proudly, "I just dug casually!"

"You two are responsible to check the surrounding situation." Seeing that Lou Fei'er and Jin Yue are of no use here, Xu Xin said, "See if there is any similar situation here."

"I see."

"okay."

The two put away the steel shovel in their hands and began to explore the surroundings.

"Hey!" Ke Ke followed Lou Fei'er and ran over.

"Is that an advanced tool in your hand?" Zeng Tao glanced at the tools of different styles in Xu Xin's hand and said, "You should not be stronger than the two of them, right?"

"...My strength is still greater."

He has to take alchemy potions every day.

Although it is definitely not as good as Zeng Tao and Ma Hongwei, who has a mutated power type, it is still no problem to compare Lou Feier and the others.

Of course, the leg strength is definitely not comparable to Jinyue.

"Then is it an advanced tool in your hand?"

"Yes, what's the matter?"

"Use it for me, your efficiency is low enough, I'll just dig it." Zeng Tao stretched out her little hand to Xu Xin, "You should rest."

... also good.

He handed the purple-level steel shovel to Zeng Tao.

Then he discovered that Zeng Tao was right.

Her digging speed with a purple-grade steel shovel alone was faster than the previous four.

The solid ground was easily dug up like tofu under her hands, and dirt and stone chips were flying.

Soon, the depth of the pit under Zeng Tao's feet reached her waist.

...Do you want to dig so deep?

"It's easy to dig below." Zeng Tao poured a shovelful of soil out of the pit, "The soil below is very soft, and..."

"Xu Xin, there is a situation here, come here!"

At this time, Lou Fei'er's voice came from not far away, forty or fifty meters away.

Is there a situation?

"Keep digging, I'll go over and have a look." Xu Xin said immediately, and then asked, "You just said, and what?"

"Hmm..." Zeng Tao murmured in confusion, then shook his head, "It must be my illusion."

"... Make it clear, don't have any illusions." Xu Xin frowned.

"Oh, it's just... just now I had a feeling that I really wanted to dig down, as if something was attracting me." Zeng Tao raised her head and explained, "However, that feeling is gone now."

...is something attracting?

Xu Xin's pupils shrank slightly.

He didn't feel that way.

The difference between Zeng Tao and herself is that she has mutated. Something that can attract mutant creatures is not a good thing.

"Xu Xin? Come here quickly!" Lou Fei'er was still calling Xu Xin over there.

"Hey!" Coco's voice was even heard, "Hey!"

"...I'll go over there. You're not allowed to dig any more until I come back."

"Oh? Why?" Zeng Tao was a little puzzled.

"Wait until I get back."

Xu Xin ran towards Lou Fei'er. Coco called him over, which meant that there was indeed a big discovery.

As soon as he passed by, he saw Lou Fei'er squatting beside a tree and looking at something.

"Hey!" Seeing Xu Xin coming, Ke Ke immediately ran over, climbed onto his shoulder, and then pointed her little paw under the tree, "Hey!"

"Come on, come on, here seems to be a message from Qin Fu!" Lou Fei'er also stood up immediately.

The message left by Qin Fu?

Xu Xin was startled immediately, and walked up in two steps.

On the ground, on the soil next to the roots of the tree, a few distorted words were left.

The characters look very abstract, as if left by a child who just learned to write.

But it is indeed Chinese characters.

【Come on, don't come near here】

Just these few words.

this……

"... Where do you know that this is the message left by Qin Fu?" Xu Xin was a little speechless, "Is Qin Fu's handwriting so ugly?"

"Look here again!" Lou Fei'er grabbed Xu Xin's arm and walked a few meters to the other side, then pointed to the root of another tree and said, "There are also here."

Xu Xin squatted down and looked at the words written under the tree house.

Same, those few words.

【Come on, don't come near here】

The font is also distorted and strange, as if...

People who have never learned Chinese draw the same characters according to the appearance of each character.

"There are also over here!"

Lou Fei'er dragged Xu Xin to several trees, and there were such handwriting on the bottom.

It can be said that most of the trees in this area are like this.

"Although these characters are a bit ugly, they are all Chinese characters." Lou Fei'er said her thoughts, "Chinese characters must have been written by us survivors, right? Besides, these characters are all written under trees, you Have you forgotten Qin Fu's ability? Isn't his ability related to plants?"

"this……"

Xu Xin thought for a while.

What Lou Feier said makes sense.

What he can be sure of is that Qin Fu never left these handwritings on them before he disappeared.

Because at that time, he had been talking to himself.

He disappeared suddenly during the call, and his location was not shown on the map, which meant that he had no time to do this kind of thing.

But, if it is really like Lou Feier said, he...

Such a thing for trees to do?

Or is it something else?

Is this kind of thing possible?

Xu Xin frowned.

To be honest, he'd prefer that this thing was written by something else to get them out of here.

But now that Coco has discovered the anomaly here, he must at least figure out what's going on over there.

"Huh?" Coco, who was lying on Xu Xin's shoulder and listless from the heat, suddenly raised her head and looked in the direction where Zeng Tao was digging a hole.

And at this time, Zeng Tao's cry also came over.

"Xu Xin, come quickly and take a look, this is... ah!"

"Zeng Tao! Ah!" There was also Jin Yue's voice.

! ?

What's wrong? !

"What happen to you guys?"

"what happened?"

But no one responded.

Xu Xin and Lou Feier looked at each other and ran back immediately.

Soon, the two arrived at the position where they were digging a hole just now.

but……

Zeng Tao, and Jin Yue, who had just made a sound, had completely disappeared at this time.

All that remains is a deeper pit that has been dug.

"What's the matter? Where are the two of them?"

Lou Feier lay on the edge of the pit and looked down.

The pit was not dug very deep, that is, about 1.5 meters deep.

Below, is the somewhat messy soil that was excavated.

"...I told her not to dig!" Xu Xin gritted her teeth.

It stands to reason that he has now signed a contract with Zeng Tao. Under normal circumstances, it is impossible for her to do things against her will, so he just went to Lou Fei'er in peace.

but……

Unexpectedly, Zeng Tao didn't listen to him and waited obediently!

Sure enough, something went wrong!

He knew there was nothing good down there!

On the map, the green spots of Zeng Tao and Jinyue had disappeared.

It was basically the same as the previous Qin Fu.

Suddenly disappeared, disappeared in place.

This time his experience was even stronger, just now he was only tens of meters away, and it was gone in a blink of an eye!

"What's wrong?" At this time, Li Wenxi, who had been silent just now, said, "What happened to you?"

Although she didn't speak, she was still listening to the situation here. Although she couldn't understand what they were saying, she didn't bother her. She only knew that if there was a situation, she would launch a heavy crossbow for support.

"...Zeng Tao and the others are gone."

"Ah? This..."

Xu Xin also squatted down and looked into the depths of the pothole.

In the potholes, there is nothing but pure soil.

Coco also jumped off his shoulders and looked down.

As a result, the claws did not grasp the edge of the pit firmly, and it was about to fall down at one end.

"Hey!" Coco immediately yelled in horror.

Then Xu Xin pulled her up by the tail.

"Don't run around!"

"Hey..." The little guy hid directly behind Xu Xin.

...?

Not quite right.

The pit is only 1.5 meters deep. For Coco, this height...

Not as tall as his shoulders?

It jumped up and down on his shoulder all day long, how could it be afraid of such a small height?

"Coco, can you feel the danger down here?"

"Oh!"

Xu Xin looked down carefully.

The lush jungle at night is too dark. Although he can see at night, he can't clearly perceive the color. It took him a long time to find out...

The soil...is red!

Moreover, it can no longer be regarded as light red, the color is not light!

"This is... polluted soil!"

Lou Fei'er was about to jump in, but was stopped by Xu Xin's hand.

"The problem should be the soil below." Xu Xin narrowed her eyes and looked down.

Really got them digging.

Could it be that this soil can eat people?

"What should I do, I... I'll go down and have a look! Get the two of them back!"

Lou Feier panicked a little.

The two disappeared right under their noses, and they were the two of the few people she had the best relationship with after she came to this world, which made her unable to take it lightly.

"No." Xu Xin shook her head slowly.

Lou Feier suddenly turned her head to look at him: "Do you want to give up the two of them?"

She stared at Xu Xin.

Compared with when she was captured by Xu Xin, she really changed a lot.

"This..." In the voice, Li Wenxi didn't know what to say.

She also wanted to get those two back, but she didn't want Xu Xin and the others to put themselves in danger.

However, she who did not participate in this matter has no right to speak, so she can only keep silent.

"Do you want to listen to what you are talking about?" Xu Xin shook her head, "Will I do this kind of thing? Let's go down, what if something goes wrong?"

"Then... if we don't go down, shall we go back like this? Then you go back, I will go down by myself!"

Lou Feier wanted to jump off immediately.

"No jumping."

"I..." Lou Fei'er stood by the pit, clenched her fists, took a step forward with her legs, and then backed away.

Then he pursed his lips and looked at Xu Xin.

It seems that the binding force of his contract is still there.

What happened to Zeng Tao just now?

What was it that affected it?

But Lou Feier was not affected.

Could it be...

"There is something below, and my map ability tells me that Zeng Taojinyue and Qin Fu are already far away from us, otherwise I wouldn't be unable to perceive it." Xu Xin said.

"...So what are we going to do?" Lou Fei'er looked at him and said.

"It's my turn, right?" Li Wenxi suddenly spoke on the other side of the voice.

"That's right. I will use the explosive crossbow to this dug pit. You can use the control panel to observe the specific location of the explosion. If the explosive crossbow has no effect, you can fire a delayed shot at this position." A large explosive heavy crossbow! Ah, it’s not that kind of big killer weapon, just an ordinary one.”

The control panel of his tree house has already been updated to the purple level, and the observable range has been expanded to a radius of one kilometer. It is a pity that the jungle has been restored now, and the control panel can basically only see the lush canopy connected together, not the jungle. What's in it.

But it would be nice to have him as the lead.

Let Li Wenxi use an ordinary explosive heavy crossbow to blast a big hole in the ground.

He wanted to see what was under here.

"Okay! I get it! I'm ready!"

"Is this method satisfactory?" Xu Xin glanced at Lou Fei'er and said.

"...Well, that... I'm sorry." Lou Fei'er lowered her head, then raised her head, and took out the crossbow from her backpack, "Let me do it!"

Xu Xin nodded and took a few steps back.

Lou Fei'er aimed the crossbow at the hole Zeng Tao had just dug, and immediately pulled the trigger.

"boom!"

In the pothole, flames burst out, and Lou Fei'er quickly retreated a few meters at the moment of the explosion, so as not to be accidentally injured by the explosion.

"Hey..." Ke Ke looked towards the pothole.

"Did you see it?" Xu Xin asked into the voice.

"Well, it can be launched at any time." Li Wenxi's voice came.

"There seems to be...no response inside." Lou Fei'er glanced at the inside of the pit, then turned her head and said.

Xu Xin also walked over to think about it.

Indeed, the explosion did blow up all the black ashes from the explosives below, but the explosive bolts were not powerful enough, and the potholes basically did not cause any damage.

"Then go to the big one. Let's stay away."

Xu Xin and Lou Fei'er were about 20 meters away from there.

"Okay Wenxi, it's ok, let's launch."

"Okay! I launched!"

Li Wenxi chose the projectile method. After all, there are too many tree houses blocking the direct shot, and 800 meters is too far away.

With the mechanical sound of the heavy crossbow "clicking", an explosive heavy crossbow flew straight into the sky, drew a perfect parabola in the air, and shot down towards the dug hole!

The heavy crossbow easily passed through the crown of the tree, hit the target, and inserted obliquely into the pothole!

"boom!!!"

The extremely bright flames and the sound of a huge explosion set off a big wave of air in the jungle!

Rubble scurry through the jungle and the nearest tree falls!

This time, the pothole definitely exploded!

Xu Xin and the two immediately wanted to go over and have a look.

"Oh!!"

As soon as she took her legs, Ke Ke immediately called out, with panic and anxiety in her voice.

Then, it pushed Xu Xin's face in the opposite direction.

That's obvious!

Let them run and stay away!

Xu Xin immediately understood what Ke Ke meant, her pupils shrank, she grabbed Lou Fei'er who was about to run over, and ran in the opposite direction: "Run! There is a situation!"

"Ah? What..." Before Lou Fei'er could finish speaking, suddenly, the ground began to tremble!

Moreover, the tremors are getting bigger and bigger!

The two ran out for hundreds of meters in one breath.

At this time, the ground was shaking so violently that the two of them even had to hold onto a tree on one side to stand still!

Xu Xin looked back: "What happened?"

"Ah! Xu Xin, run, run!" Li Wenxi's voice came from the watch, "The ground... there is a one out of the ground..."

Her words were drowned in a huge sound like an explosion on the ground!

Immediately afterwards, a huge figure covered the bright moon and stars in the sky!

"——"

The sound of shaking the mountains made Xu Xin and Lou Fei'er cover their ears.

"What!" Lou Feier screamed loudly.

"Hey!" Ke Ke buried her little head directly.

In that direction, a giant tens of meters high appeared!

On the giant off-white long body, there are circles of red stripes all over it, and a bloody mouth full of circles of sharp teeth is located at the top of it, facing the direction of the main tree house and opening to the greatest extent !

insect!

Giant bugs!

A giant worm with a terrifying mouth!

Underneath, there is actually a giant worm!

"Ah! Xu Xin, there are... bugs around...!" Lou Fei'er's hand tightly grasped Xu Xin's arm.

Xu Xin could feel that she was getting scared again now!

... Is it level suppression again?

etc……

This voice...?

Around, the sound of insects gradually sounded, and then became louder and louder!

He couldn't even hear what Lou Fei'er was saying with a frightened face, and Keke's yelling!

Countless bugs appeared from nowhere and filled the entire forest in an instant!

What did they lead to!

etc!

Damn it, then Zeng Taojinyue and the others wouldn't be...!