Chapter Twenty-One Tree

  Greed is the original sin.

  Looking at the orange-red cigarette butt, Wu Xiaotian was thinking about how to get more tree sap.

  The rising smoke suddenly inspired Wu Xiaotian, right, fire.

  Wu Xiaotian hastily got out of the car and picked up some broken branches, took out a half-bucket of gasoline from the trunk, poured it on the branches, ignited them with a lighter, and carried the burning branches to the mutated willow trees.

  Some willow trees discovered Wu Xiaotian, quickly stretching out their branches to tie him up, but Wu Xiaotian didn't move his knife. He pushed the burning branch forward, and saw that it immediately retreated back.

  "It's on!"

  Wu Xiaotian quickly arrived under the tree, regardless of the human skull racks, and immediately dug out some dry branches. Gradually, the dry branches and dry leaves piled up into a heap, which was ignited with a lighter. Other mutated trees also wanted to attack Wu Xiaotian, but as soon as they sensed the burning flames, they immediately retreated.

  All the water in the military was poured out, and it came to the main trunk of the tree, where it was cut down with a Tang knife. The tree seemed to be shaken by pain, wanting to open Wu Xiaotian with its branches, but also afraid of the burning fire heap. Attacking is not, retreating is not, just stiffly fixed in place.

  He filled half a canteen with milky white sap from the tree, but it didn't flow outward on the main trunk. Then he hacked at it fiercely with a Tang knife, and the sap spurted out, making Wu Xiaotian laugh with joy. Looking at the full canteen, he was about to leave, satisfied. But the tree trunk was still spraying sap outward.

  Adhering to the principle that waste is shameful, Wu Xiaotian directly used his mouth to receive it.

  The sweet and refreshing feeling swept away Wu Xiaotian's fatigue, and he felt a thread of energy returning to his lower abdomen, making him shout with joy.

  With a satisfied expression, he slowly walked to the side of the Volkswagen with a military canteen filled with tree sap. The fire slowly went out, and the big tree that Wu Xiaotian had "bled" directly attacked him with its willow branches.

  But Wu Xiaotian remained motionless, staring at those willow branches, had he gone mad?

  No, it's not because Wu Xiaotian has calculated that unless it collapses, it can't attack itself.

  "Come and bind me!" Wu Xiaotian looked at the branches that were within arm's reach with a triumphant gaze, his mouth still taunting maliciously.

  No matter which big tree was still thinking of attacking him, he returned to the car and slowly savored the sap until his stomach churned.

  But Wu Xiaotian was well-prepared and directly took the pack of cigarettes and the tissue paper from the Volkswagen, and went to the place where he had a good time last time, and it was convenient.

  After finishing, Wu Xiao Tian weakly returned to the car. He clearly felt his strength increase, but his speed didn't grow, and what increased the most was the toughness of his skin.

  Eating slowly on the bus, replenishing energy, thinking, and from time to time, not sleeping tonight, releasing all the sap of those trees.

  Old rules, still use fire to open the way. Looking at those tree sap flowing into military water bottles, also don't care about those trees.

  When Wu Xiaotian drank the tree juice again, he could only feel its sweetness and flavor, but he no longer felt any energy entering his dantian.

  "Is there a fixed amount?"

  The tree sap was still shaking with half a canteen of military water left.

  "Good fortune is mine to keep, bad fortune is mine to bear."

  Forget it, can't be helped. Put the military canteen in the backpack in the room, then lie on the back seat and slowly enter dreamland.

  In his dream, Wu Xiaotian became a top-notch master, with one wave of his hand killing a large group of zombies, and with just one finger pressing to death H1, and two fingers pinching to death T1.

  The morning sunlight filtered through the lush branches and scattered across Wu Xiaotian's face.

  When Wu Xiaotian opened his eyes, he found that he couldn't get off the bus. Because all he saw was the whole car being knocked over onto the riverbank by those big trees with their branches.

  "You've got to be kidding me!"

  Wu Xiaotian stared at the dense treetops outside in shock, speechless.

  "Damn it, shouldn't sleep too dead!"

  Slowly observing the situation outside, Wu Xiaotian was really helpless at this time. Even the car door couldn't be opened. Forget it for now and think about it later. After all, he can't think of a solution right now. A person's IQ is usually at its lowest when they've just woken up, which is why most stupid things happen after waking up.

  "Fill your belly first."

  After picking up the backpack from the front seat, I rummaged through food. With dry rations in my mouth, I thought about how to get out of trouble.

  At this time, the 54 pistols exposed in the backpack made Wu Xiaotian's eyes shine brightly, and he could use a pistol!

  After wiping the dry ration at the corner of his mouth clean, he used the knife handle to smash the car window glass. The mutant tree felt the movement in the car and more branches tied up the car. Wu Xiaotian was anxious, took aim slightly, and continuously pulled the trigger.

  "Bang..."

  Continuous bullets hit the main trunk of that mutant tree, and the trunk was opened by the bullet head, spewing out milky white "blood", painful that the mutant tree kept shaking. And in the car, Wu Xiaotian suddenly became tragic.

  Either he was knocked on the head or kicked in the foot, Wu Xiaotian was shaken back and forth by that tree inside the car.

  The branches that had tied up the car gradually retreated, and after feeling the weightlessness of the car falling to the ground, Wu Xiaotian quickly rushed into the driver's room, started the car, and Wu Xiaotian was lucky, it ignited with a spark.

  Looking at the mutated trees in the rearview mirror, he cursed: "Come and chase me again, you little thing!"

  The car's speed got faster and faster, and soon it was out of sight.

  Wu Xiaotian in the car summed up this mistake, first, he was too careless, and actually slept so dead, if there wasn't a gun, then he would have been trapped to death in the car, and the car wouldn't be his shelter, but his tomb. From now on, unless absolutely safe, even when sleeping, one eye must remain open.

  Secondly, I was a bit greedy. If I had settled for what I had, I wouldn't have encountered this danger.

  Although there were mistakes, there were also gains.

  For example, the "blood" of mutated plants can help with evolution, although it's not as comprehensive as the zombies' evolution energy, but rather a specific ability to evolve, and it's still very helpful. The evolution energy also has certain limitations and cannot be obtained infinitely like zombie energy. After collecting data, plants will also mutate, and the mutated plants have attack power, but they are afraid of fire, which is helpful.

  Thinking of these, Wu Xiaotian made a sad discovery: everything with life on Earth would mutate, whether it was humans, animals or plants. Then the ordinary survivors among humans would face enormous danger.

  Wu Xiaotian still hasn't realized that animals, plants or zombies aren't humanity's greatest enemy.

  Man's greatest enemy is always himself.