Doomsday Sacrifice

Chapter 135 The Magical Fortune Tree
Except for Li Xun and Yu Qingming, there were no living creatures standing in the cylindrical room on the top floor of the TV tower.

The six tentacles of the only mysterious plant that can still move have died down, no longer hovering around, but winding and converging upwards, tightly attached to the thick rhizome, far away from the gleaming hunting knife, and the color has become harmonious. The rhizomes are almost the same, and you can hardly see it unless you look carefully.

The dark brown rhizome is about one and a half meters thick, and the surface is covered with dark or shallow lines.

When they got closer, Li Xun realized that the rhizome seemed to be moving. Looking closely, he could see that it was slowly expanding and contracting. Although the changes were slight, they were very regular, as if breathing.

He stared at the rhizome in thought.

"Did that zombie launch a special attack just now? My vision suddenly became blurred, I couldn't see clearly, and I felt dizzy and nauseous, and I almost vomited." Yu Qingming broke the silence, and it took him a while to recover, panting asked.

"Well, it's a sonic attack. Judging from the symptoms you described, it should be an ultrasound." Li Xun continued to observe without turning his head.

"Zhang Chengkun will be powerful after becoming a zombie? Has he also evolved? He can actually attack with sound waves." Yu Qingming asked with lingering fear.

"That's right, just now he used at least three different abilities, plus his hearing enhancement. After the mutation, he became a fourth-order zombie. If Zhang Yong hadn't been killed by you, he would probably become a fifth-order zombie."

"Fifth level? How did it evolve?" Yu Qingming gasped, with a hint of puzzlement, envy and disappointment in his tone. Originally, he was complacent about becoming a second-level evolutionary, and his confidence greatly increased, but this time A basin of cold water was poured on his head.

Li Xun seemed to know what he was thinking, and said lightly: "Don't be disappointed, you are now at the second level, and you are currently considered a high level among the evolutionaries, and most of the evolutionaries are still at the first level."

"Really?" Yu Qingming cheered up after hearing this, and then became disappointed again: "It's a pity that I have a defensive ability, so I can't kill the extreme beast."

Li Xun glanced back at him, and said disapprovingly, "Who says you can't attack with defensive ability?"

"How to attack with defensive ability? I..."

Yu Qingming was a little puzzled at first, but suddenly paused in the middle of the sentence, as if he had thought of something, the more he thought about it, the brighter his eyes became, and finally his expression brightened.

When his ability is activated, the crystal-shaped protective clothing cannot be pierced even by a knife. Since it can defend, it can also attack.

"You are right, the defensive ability can also attack, I was thinking about it, so I can kill extreme beasts in the future."

He is still so persistent about whether he can kill the extreme beast.

"Of course, there are hundreds of winged beasts downstairs, you can try."

Yu Qingming looked quite moved.

Li Xun couldn't help being speechless, and changed the subject: "By the way, is it okay for your defense ability to fall from a height to the ground?"

"No problem... right?" Yu Qingming originally answered affirmatively, but suddenly felt that something was wrong with Li Xun's question, falling from a height to the ground?It is nearly 200 meters above the ground.

He suddenly lost his confidence.

"Huh? This tone is far from the one you yelled about killing the beast. If you don't want to try it, you have to find another way... Do you know which floor the elevator stops at?"

"I know." Yu Qingming hurriedly replied: "I saw it when I escaped from the restaurant. At that time, the two elevators stopped on the third floor and the other on the twelfth floor."

"Which one is parked on the third floor?"

"The one on the left."

"The floor is still suitable, but we need to confirm it again."

"I'll go and confirm." Yu Qingming said without hesitation.

Li Xun looked at him in surprise: "Your tone...why aren't you afraid anymore?"

Yu Qingming's eyes were firm: "It's too bad to fall to death, but killing the beast is different."

"Okay, but don't go desperate for the time being, wait until I study this fortune tree. During this period, the winged beasts below may jump over the wall in a hurry. Keep an eye on it, but you must calm down and don't be impulsive."

"Okay." Yu Qingming nodded, guarding the stairs like a door god, staring coldly at the winged beast on the iron ladder, his eyes were extremely sharp, and he didn't care about its fierce eyes.

Facing the rich tree, Li Xun concentrated his attention and launched the genetic evolution method.

After each evolution is completed, the effect of the genetic evolution method will also be slightly improved, the perception of energy will be further improved, the transmission of energy will be more sensitive, and the speed and efficiency of absorbing energy will be higher.

But now he is not trying to absorb energy, but to sense the energy changes here with the help of greatly improved perception.

Nothing abnormal can be seen with the naked eye, just observe from the energy level.

The genetic evolution method was fully activated, and in his eyes, everything around him gradually faded, and finally disappeared one by one, leaving only colorful energies around.

In the entire cylindrical space, the most energy is extreme energy. I don't know if it is because the concentration is too high, but the color of extreme energy here is extremely light white, almost transparent.

There are more than a dozen arm-thin tubes evenly distributed in the thick rhizome in front of him. At first glance, it looks like veins in a leaf, but Li Xun thinks it is more like blood vessels in the human body.

These blood vessels are bounded by the position of the tentacles and are divided into upper and lower parts, all of which are collected in a ball the size of a washbasin.

The sphere resembles a heart, with red energy injected into the thick blood vessels at the upper part, and blue energy flowing out from the blood vessels at the lower part.

The inside of the ball is densely covered with a honeycomb-like pipe network, criss-crossing, and there are many nodes the size of ping-pong balls on it. After passing through the nodes, the red energy turns into blue energy and is transmitted downward.

The blood vessels on the upper part of the sphere extend all the way to the outside of the tower. It is obvious that the red energy comes from a few wide blades at the top, and [-]% of it is solar energy.

Thick blood vessels flowing with blue energy extend from the lower part of the ball to the bottom of the rhizome, and hundreds of finger-thick capillaries spread out from above, and the capillaries extend down along the main structure of the TV tower to the bottom of the tower.

There is also a part of the main structure that surrounds the entire cylindrical room. The pole energy in the room mainly comes from this part of the capillaries, and the pole energy inside and outside the TV tower is released from the lower capillaries.

There is also a smaller ball in the center of the ball, like a heart in a heart, about the size of a volleyball, with purple-orange energy slowly rotating inside, like a mysterious and charming nebula.

And the ten tentacles are very special, they pass through the middle of the big ball and connect to the small ball in the center, but the inside is filled with light blue fluorescent energy.

After finding out the energy distribution and changes in the entire space, Li Xun was extremely surprised.

What is displayed in front of us is obviously a complete energy conversion system, its function is quite powerful, and it actually converts solar energy into extreme energy.

This mysterious fortune tree can not only perform energy conversion similar to photosynthesis like a plant, but also control creatures close to it through ten tentacles.

In this way, it is more like a combination of plants and animals.

Li Xun thought for a while, and continued to use the genetic evolution method. At the same time, he stabbed the hunting knife straight into the rhizome, which felt similar to piercing the trunk.

In the perception, more than a dozen capillaries were cut off one after another, but it did not affect the energy transmission of other blood vessels. It was just that the moment the root was stabbed, the root moved violently, and the surrounding energy surged again.

Several tentacles also squirmed again, twisting and twisting, as if they wanted to attack him, but they seemed to be afraid of the hunting knife in his hand, so they hesitated to move.

After the hunting knife was pulled out, those broken capillaries were slowly reconnected, and the recovery ability was astonishing.

Li Xun thought for a while, and asked the system to sacrifice the root in front of him, and the response he got was the same as when he sacrificed the big mushroom, it could not be sacrificed, nor could it be scanned.

After roughly figuring out the situation of the fortune tree and its function, Li Xun couldn't help but fell into deep thought.

He was wondering what to do with it.

In terms of function, it can continuously convert solar energy into extreme energy, which seems to be beneficial to both polar beasts and humans. After all, humans can also evolve by absorbing extreme energy, but it is obviously more beneficial to polar beasts. Humans can survive without extreme energy. , but the extreme beast is not.

It can be seen from the appearance of the aurora when the polar beast descends that the extreme energy is very important to them, and more importantly, when the extreme energy accumulates to a certain amount, the wormhole can be opened again, allowing more polar beasts to descend.

And the origin of the rich tree is the biggest problem, Li Xun thinks his guess should be right.

Not only can it produce extreme energy, it can also command extreme beasts, and it can also control zombies and humans through its tentacles. It is obviously a very special existence in the extreme beast camp, and its status is not low, so extreme beasts protect it so much tight.

Only this point, we should find a way to eradicate it.

The Fortune Tree is different from the big mushroom at Tongli University. Although the surrounding area of ​​the big mushroom can turn people into zombies, which is also a huge danger, it has no tentacles and cannot control zombies.

It is more like a machine that simply produces extreme energy without its own will.

Such machines are obviously not what the beasts hope for, so although they will compete with humans for big mushrooms, they don't particularly care. Once they find out that they are not Li Xun's opponents, they simply withdraw.

Relatively speaking, the Fortune Tree should be a conscious and thoughtful robot implanted with a smart chip, and its IQ is extremely high. Under its control, zombies are almost no different from humans.

It would be great if the Fortune Tree could be turned into a machine like a big mushroom, maybe such an evolutionary point could be preserved.

The key is obviously the little ball.

Thinking of this, Li Xun no longer hesitated, and decided to try first before talking.

He suddenly raised his head and looked up, the remaining six tentacles were about to retract to the root again, but they had nowhere to hide.

Li Xun jumped up, swiped the hunting knife in his hand, cut off the six tentacles one by one, then inserted the saber horizontally into a height of two meters, and hung the knife handle with one hand.

The hunting knife in the other hand suddenly plunged into the rhizome, piercing the small ball inside the big ball.

The moment Li Xun stabbed the small ball, Li Xun felt a violent tremor from the rhizome, and then remained still, and the regular breathing disappeared.

In his perception, the purple-orange energy in the small ball suddenly stopped spinning, and instantly solidified, and the parts of the ten tentacles in the rhizome also shrank and withered sharply, and finally fell off from the small ball.

But the energy transformation in the big sphere has not stopped, red energy still flows in from the top along the thick blood vessels, and blue energy flows out from the bottom.

Not only that, the capillaries distributed in the main structure of the TV tower under the rhizome released extreme energy again, and the aurora reappeared in the tower.

Li Xunxi smiled. Sure enough, as he guessed, the small ball is the core of the fortune tree. Destroying it is equivalent to removing the smart chip of the fortune tree. The remaining part still plays the role of the plant part and continues. Convert extreme energy.

That's all right now, as long as the extreme beasts are driven away, this place should be able to be used as an evolution point.

Li Xun didn't stop, but made a big hole in the root, and dug out the small ball.

Although in order to dig it out, a hole was inevitably made in the big ball, but it didn't affect the energy conversion.

Moreover, the holes on the big ball are slowly recovering, and the roots are also slowly recovering. Li Xun can feel that more energy has been allocated to the damaged parts, and the recovery speed is not slow. It will not take long to recover. as ever.

Li Xun immediately felt a chill as soon as the little ball was in his hands.

After taking it out, it was found to be crystal clear, like a huge gemstone, which contained surging energy. Although it was stabbed and a hole was opened, the energy that had condensed into a solid did not leak out at all.

"Ow..."

"Ow..."

Hundreds of winged beasts downstairs let out roars that shook the sky, the anger and resentment in the roars made Yu Qingming's eyelids twitch.

The winged beasts rushed up from downstairs one after another, smashing the floor of the lower floor to pieces, and in the flying dust, a group of black and evil spirits were vaguely revealed.

Another winged beast squeezed onto the iron ladder, and the iron staircase couldn't bear the weight of the two winged beasts, and it creaked under the pressure.

A winged beast in front rushed upstairs, Yu Qingming jumped out of the corner of his eye, and immediately activated his ability. The diamond-like protective clothing made him feel a little more at ease.

He was ready to face the storm-like impact. Although his hands were full of sweat, it was not because of fear, but because of nervousness. Although he did not lack the courage to face polar beasts, he hardly had the ability to fight them. experience.

But he stood firmly at the top of the stairs, his feet seemed to have taken root, and he never thought of retreating.

The winged beast on the stairs stretched its teeth and claws, rushed to the stairs several times, and even stretched out its front paws to slap Yu Qingming, but he was unmoved, just carefully avoided the attack, and did not panic.

Even later, when he saw the Winged Beast, he was just tossing around below, but he still didn't dare to go upstairs. He simply put away his defensive ability to save time.

Facing the stairs, Yu Qingming stood in a safe place out of reach of the winged beasts, staring at the bottom, and shouted loudly without looking back: "The winged beasts below are all crazy, have you finished your work? Hurry up."

Li Xun also discovered the madness of the winged beasts. Apparently they knew that something had happened to the money tree that made the extreme energy, but they still didn't dare to go upstairs. They also turned into extreme beast zombies.

Li Xun's purpose of this trip has been achieved, so he should find a way to escape.

　Sorry, the old notebook finally left me at 23:20 late last night, and I just got back my only legacy.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)