Chapter 874

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Main Character:

Shen Yao

The incident happened suddenly, and they rushed over in a hurry, directly disrupting the plan they had originally made.

But saving people was more important; no one knew exactly what had happened to the south, and if it was truly fatal, arriving a little later could easily cause big problems.

Sitting on the truck, holding onto the door handle beside him with his body propped up, Wei Ran hurriedly lowered his head to flip through the communication device that had already stopped making noise, wishing he could read something out of its contents.

Unfortunately, the message on the communication device was very short, just two sentences repeated over and over: Team in danger, requesting aid!

Wei Ran:...

"Tsk, did some situation arise that made them unable to type and send messages?" Otherwise, how could there be not a single hint?

Cheng Nan, due to the principle of proximity, did not return to her own truck but sat together with Wei Ran and Shen Chengyi to rest.

She raised her hand and lightly patted Wei Ran, "About the same, I feel there should be an unexpected situation."

Wang Fei and Gao Xuefeng may act carefree, but the two of them are really not useless."

Or rather, team leaders arranged by the Official to handle dangers around here all have a few tricks up their sleeves; even if they cannot complete the mission, they can still protect their team members and evacuate safely.

Wang Fei and Gao Xuefeng's abilities complement each other, one focusing on attack and the other on support, plus the other ability users and gunfire in their team; unless they were besieged, Cheng Nan really couldn't imagine them getting into trouble.

Wei Ran propped his chin, "We have no information; once we arrive, we can only slowly figure it out."

By the way, the map, the map."

Speaking, Wei Ran hurriedly took out the map from his arms and spread it flat, with the location of the ginkgo tree to the south simply marked on it; this was Wang Fei and Gao Xuefeng's mission for today, and around the ginkgo tree, there were several dangerous areas, inside which there were more or less some aggressive mutant creatures, and even wooden puppets existed.

Cheng Nan came over and looked together with Wei Ran; neither of them felt they could change the battle situation, but subconsciously did everything they could do first, leaving the rest to the situation at the time.

"Chengyi, what do you think?" Wei Ran decided to ask Shen Chengyi's opinion.

Shen Chengyi shook his head, "It might not be those mutant creatures known above; they were caught off guard."

This was actually the greatest possibility; if it were the marked troubles around here, Wang Fei and Gao Xuefeng wouldn't be so panicked as to have no chance to say more information; it must be that the trouble that appeared left them with no choice, so they sought help from surrounding teams at the fastest speed.

Cheng Nan's expression was serious; although nothing could be seen inside the protective suit, "If that's the case, then it's troublesome;" an unknown problem was hard to tackle, and even if they arrived, they would have to carefully figure it out.

Wei Ran put away the spread map, then waved his hand to indicate it was no big deal; with so many people in the two small teams, their luck couldn't be so bad as to not meet a single person involved, right?

Cheng Nan and Shen Chengyi:...

Speaking of which, setting up a flag is not good; didn't he also say some inexplicable words last time?

The two looked at Wei Ran beside them in unison; although the protective suit covered their faces and only a pair of eyes could be seen, the nervousness in their eyes was completely obvious.

Wei Ran helplessly said "hello hello hello" a few times; she just wanted to ease the atmosphere, not really wanting to do that; besides, not only their team received the distress call, but also the team located to the southwest.

Cheng Nan:... Isn't that an even bigger problem? If we can't handle it, we'll all be lost.

Saying it with his mouth, worrying in his heart, holding such an uneasy mood, everyone arrived at the mission spot of Wang Fei and Gao Xuefeng's team.

Wearing protective suits and holding sniper rifles in their arms, everyone stood in positions of three per group, then slowly pushed forward inside.

To be honest, Wei Ran had already thought before coming that big problems were likely to appear here, such as the mission location being a mess, and possibly even human fragments flying around.

As a result, here was quiet and peaceful with nothing at all; not even the accumulated snow on the ground had obvious traces of being pressed by a truck; if it weren't for their truck appearing, this would be an uninhabited area where no one had appeared.

Fine, even stranger!

Cheng Nan used the sniper rifle in his arms to observe the surroundings; as a result, good heavens, the surroundings were all white, with only a patch of green appearing ahead; it was exactly that mutant ginkgo tree that Wang Fei and Gao Xuefeng needed to join forces to remove.

Huh?

"Be careful, there might be an ambush around," Shen Chengyi raised his vigilance to the maximum the moment he got out of the car; he always felt the buildings around were very strange.

Just as if done on purpose!

Tsk

Shen Chengyi had already manifested his lightning ability to cover his body, and even the long blade in his hand was held horizontally in front of him in a defensive posture.

You must know that when dealing with the Murderous Willow yesterday, Shen Chengyi had not activated this mode; it showed how special the current situation was.

Wei Ran spoke to remind the others around and asked them to report numbers in a low voice to confirm personnel changes in their team, so that there would be no situation of sudden casualties.

"Chengyi, what did you discover?" Wei Ran ran over to Shen Chengyi in small steps, a pair of eyes vigilantly looking at everything around; to be honest, she really didn't discover anything; everywhere was accumulated snow and covered buildings, and looking for too long would make one's eyes dizzy.

Wanting to raise her hand to rub her eyes, she found she was still wearing a protective suit; Wei Ran could only helplessly put her hand down.

Sigh

Speaking of which, where exactly are Wang Fei and Gao Xuefeng? What kind of ghost tricks are these two playing again?

It was also that Wang Fei and Gao Xuefeng couldn't hear Wei Ran's inner muttering; otherwise, they would definitely feel extremely wronged; it really wasn't their fault, it was just that the enemy was too cunning; by the time they reacted, it was already irreparable, and they could only do their best to send out a few words asking for help.

Shen Chengyi did not answer Wei Ran's question, because he also didn't know where the trouble was? But he still believed his own intuition; there was a problem here, and a very big problem.

Everyone stood in place waiting for a while; the people in the team also started mechanical counting, one two three four five, back and forth, until Shen Chengyi suddenly rushed out, and bypassing Wei Ran beside him, fiercely threw the condensed lightning ability in his hand forward.

Wei Ran:...?

Not understanding why he suddenly went crazy, but Wei Ran knew she needed to shut up at this time, because if there was a problem Shen Chengyi would say; they were currently teammates, no need to worry about being sold out.

Rumble

The violent lightning ability split the buildings buried in the snow in front into pieces, and along with the accumulated snow, it was like a goddess scattering flowers, everywhere.

Cheng Nan ran over with a thud thud thud, the sniper rifle in his arms already raised, just set up around Shen Chengyi for vigilance.

Shen Chengyi continued to stare at the exploded building, occasionally throwing out a lightning ability to supplement, just like a child playing with a toy.

Until snowflakes that seemed stuck suddenly appeared before the eyes and vanished in a flash.

Shen Chengyi's eyes narrowed, caught it!

Cheng Nan and Wei Ran naturally also discovered the problem, because this kind of sticking was like a TV freezing; under normal circumstances how could it be like this; unless, everything before their eyes was fake!

"Everyone prepare, attack around!"

Wei Ran shouted, then took the lead and threw a grenade toward the front.

Bang!

The violent explosion sounded as if it would blow everyone's eardrums out; the originally calm scene rippled, and the mechanical noises were like one death-summoning talisman after another.

The ability users unleashed their powers in unison, coordinating with the gunfire that appeared; the lagging frames grew more and more numerous, until finally, as if unable to hold on, the mirror shattered, revealing the true situation inside.

Where was there any peaceful years? It was merely disguised comparatively well.

"Wang Fei and them are over there!"

Cheng Nan raised her hand and pointed forward; a group of people lay sprawled haphazardly, and they already had no consciousness or reaction, as if they had fainted dead away.

Wei Ran saw this and wanted to go over, but Shen Chengyi grabbed her arm. "Don't go yet."

Hm?

Wei Ran continued staring at the crowd ahead, and suddenly discovered it was terrifyingly quiet there.

Hiss

No matter what, it shouldn't be like this; after breaking the surrounding disguise, they heard wind sounds and footsteps, and there were flowing scents around, but what about the front? Could it still be fake?

Cheng Nan fired the sniper rifle in her hand a step ahead; Wei Ran wanted to shout but could only be a step slow, and they discovered in horror that after the bullet flew out, it was as if it had struck an invisible flat plane.

"The mutant creatures here are so insidious!"

Wei Ran jumped in frustration; she nearly rushed over to deliver food to the other side. Sure enough, Wang Fei and Gao Xuefeng's falls weren't unjust — those two's brains were even worse than hers!

Shen Chengyi didn't speak; she simply raised her hand and brought the knife down, throwing the long blade imbued with lightning ability straight out, cleaving into that layer of plane.

Not only that, the other ability users, seeing this, all released their own abilities; regardless of whether they were useful, they just threw them over in a neat row.

The plane shattered in response; not only did Wang Fei's group disappear without a trace, but Gao Xuefeng's group newly appeared below again.

Wei Ran:...

Does this mutant creature take her for a fool, pulling a little trick, then another little trick? The 'wolf is coming' game — they won't fall for it.

Continue blasting abilities upward, like an unfolding polychrome scroll; Gao Xuefeng's group vanished even faster.

After they tentatively shattered all the surrounding planes, the originally devastated scene appeared before their eyes.

Unable to find Wang Fei, Gao Xuefeng, and the others, and communication devices also unable to connect, Wei Ran and Cheng Nan exchanged a glance, then decisively split into two routes to search separately.

Given the opponent's current disguise capability, if they couldn't seize time to find Wang Fei, Gao Xuefeng, and the others, it was uncertain whether they could even survive.

"The mutant creatures here have disguise ability?" Shen Chengyi stared at that mutant ginkgo tree ahead.

Wei Ran shook her head. "No, that ginkgo tree's fruit is merely poisonous."

Shen Chengyi's gaze didn't shift; she only replied "Is that so?" and continued walking forward.

Pulling back the thrown long knife and sheathing it, Shen Chengyi told Wei Ran she was going to the front.

"Okay, but be careful yourself; no one knows the current strength of that mutant ginkgo tree's toxicity. If this period's evolution has increased the toxicity, without carrying enough antidote potions, they might well meet with mishap."

Shen Chengyi smiled and nodded. "I know, just feel something's off."

Even though this layer of disguise was seen through and broken by them, the logic inside still puzzled Shen Chengyi, and with Wang Fei, Gao Xuefeng, and the others missing, both emotionally and rationally, that mutant ginkgo tree had to be tested.

Parting from Wei Ran, Shen Chengyi acted alone; the long knife in her hand was drawn from its sheath again, and she gathered the ability from inside her body, concentrating it around the blade, ready to cleave down at any moment.

Soon, Shen Chengyi arrived near this mutant ginkgo tree.

Compared to the killer willow just dealt with yesterday, this ginkgo tree before her was not tall and mighty; golden-yellow leaves hung on the ginkgo tree, mixed with countless ginkgo fruits, golden-yellow on the outside emitting a fragrant scent — who could imagine this ordinary-looking fruit could have such great toxicity, able to poison dozens or hundreds of people.

Rustle

Before Shen Chengyi could approach, the ginkgo tree's leaves began to rustle, as if greeting Shen Chengyi.

Raising her vigilance to the highest, Shen Chengyi leisurely gestured with the long knife in her hand, then raised her hand and brought the knife down, directly cleaving into the mutant ginkgo tree's trunk.

The expected knife mark did not appear, because the long knife did not cleave onto the mutant ginkgo tree's body.

Ahead, it was as if an additional thick film had been added; the long knife sank into it like entering a muddy swamp, unable to be thrust in or pulled out.

Shen Chengyi decisively used the knife hilt as a platform for conducting ability, extracting the lightning ability from her body and continuously sending it into the long knife; purple lightning ability carried crackling sounds, instantly blasting open this layer of film.

As the film blasted open, this mutant ginkgo tree before her shook even more frequently; Shen Chengyi feared the other party might suddenly spring up and injure her, so she rapidly retreated backward.

It was also because Shen Chengyi moved too fast that she dodged the green vines poking up from under her feet.

Purple-red small flowers bloomed on the vines, the flowers only fingernail-sized, but the flowers emitted an irresistible strange fragrance.

At the first breath inhaled, Shen Chengyi held her breath; even with the protective suit's protection, it still caused Shen Chengyi a moment of dizziness.

Simultaneously, the vines wound around the mutant ginkgo tree's surface, as if draping this mutant ginkgo tree in a beautiful flower-clad dress.

Shen Chengyi was sharp-eyed; she saw the vine's tail end, where it connected to the ground, had dark traces — this looked very much like the appearance after being soaked in blood.

Wang Fei, Gao Xuefeng, and the others are underground?!

Shen Chengyi picked up the long knife fallen on the ground and ran back, making hand signals to those around her as she ran.

Because of wearing protective suits, some words couldn't be spoken at specific times, so they had a set of communication methods for this situation, the purpose being to avoid crises as much as possible.

Wei Ran hurriedly ran over; after all, she had never seen Shen Chengyi like this — could the problem here be very serious? Then they could only apologize to Wang Fei, Gao Xuefeng, and the others, and evacuate early to preserve themselves.

It's not that teammates aren't important, but they need to consider the other living people.

"People, underground!"

Shen Chengyi pointed at the ground, signaling everyone to hurry and get tools, and conveniently put on the protective gear in hand, quickly dig open the mutant ginkgo tree's roots.