Chapter 132: Mutated Tree King?
Wu Xiaotian lay on the top of the orange school bus, lazily sunbathing, while Liu Ting held a small flower umbrella beside him to defend against the increasingly strong ultraviolet rays. The dump truck in front of the school bus emitted a loud rumbling sound, constantly attracting the zombies by the roadside. However, before these zombies could rush to the side of the dump truck, Duan Yue, standing on top of the dump truck, swung his black sword energy and split the rushing zombies into two pieces.
There is only Zhao Xinyu driving the dump truck, Duan Yue on top of the car, Duan Mu in the bucket, and Li Xinjiao who is pregnant and taking care of Duan Mu. The others are either sitting on top of this school bus or sitting on top of the three luxury cars following behind the school bus.
At this time, Wu Xiaotian's ear directly heard Yang Ling's words. Yang Ling used his ability - Herald, to convey other people's questions. He only heard Yang Ling say: "Little Heavenly Master, Zhao Little Master asks you, there are two roads ahead, one along the riverbank and one along the highway, what is your opinion?"
"Riverside!" Wu Xiaotian said directly without thinking, because the riverside not only has fewer roadblocks, but also has something good. Good things should be shared with everyone, and Wu Xiaotian also wants to see everyone rushing to the toilet with their hands covering their stomachs. Thinking of this, Wu Xiaotian's face involuntarily revealed a sly smile, which made Liu Ting, who had been paying attention to him, puzzled. She couldn't figure out why Wu Xiaotian was smiling slyly.
Zhao Xinyu, who was driving the dump truck, also listened to Wu Xiaotian's suggestion after hearing Yang Ling's message and turned the dump truck towards the riverbank.
Wu Xiaotian also stood up at this time, observing the trees on both sides of the riverbank. Possibly due to the continuous rain in recent days, these riverside trees were more thriving than before, with thicker trunks and branches that almost hung over the water's surface. However, these riverside trees had not evolved into mutant trees, they just grew extremely well.
It seems that the variant tree is still a distance away, and Wu Xiao Tian has already drawn his sword. Although the variant trees can't move, they are quite troublesome, especially since their branches are very powerful and have elasticity, capable of flipping over a small car. Moreover, they are extremely sharp, and Wu Xiao Tian had once seen a zombie being pierced through by a branch.
The convoy was speeding along the riverbank, automatically ignoring ordinary trees and carefully paying attention to those that were somewhat unusual. If they found anything abnormal, Wu Xiaotian would take the lead in attacking their branches, preventing them from reaching the vehicles.
As expected, after the dump truck drove past a ordinary tree on the riverbank that was struck by lightning and charred, these riverbank trees compared to the previous ordinary riverbank trees had thicker trunks and more luxuriant branches. Most importantly, upon discovering the dump truck, their branches uniformly attacked it!
Duan Yue on the top of the dump truck also discovered the anomaly of the riverside trees, and remembered Wu Xiaotian telling him about the mutated trees before. He knew they were encountering them now. But just as the branches approached the dump truck, a black sword aura cut them off, spilling a puddle of milky white sap everywhere. The Wu Xiaotian behind shook his head in dismay, because that sap was good stuff - not only extremely sweet, but also able to enhance the bodies and abilities of Evolvers.
But since it's already spilled, would Wu Xiaotian still go and stop Duan Yue's attack? Now Wu Xiaotian just wants to find a relatively sturdy variant tree, break it, and get a lot of sap. He casually chopped off the branches that were attacking the school bus, turned his head to look at the few cars following behind, and shook his head helplessly. Maybe the drivers were scared by these variant trees, and the vehicles almost lost control. But Wu Xiaotian didn't blame them, after all, they had never seen these variant trees before, and it was inevitable that they would be afraid.
"Old Yang, inform all drivers to drive to the side and get out of the attack range of these variant trees." Wu Xiaotian directly called out to Yang Ling who was inside the school bus: "Tell them that as long as they get out of the branch's attack range, they'll be fine!"
"No problem!" Yang Ling heard Wu Xiaotian's words and directly used his "messenger" ability to tell them what Wu Xiaotian had just said.
After receiving Wu Xiaotian's command, even the drivers in the back slowly calmed down and followed the command to drive to the side of the road. The mutated trees on both sides were now unable to attack, their branches completely unable to reach the vehicles, and unable to harm any of the cars. Even the longer branches were cut off by Duan Yue and Wu Xiaotian.
A convoy driving along the riverbank formed a unique landscape with the branches of that mutant tree. At this time, the mutant tree that made Wu Xiaotian satisfied appeared, and it was exceptionally thick, with roots bursting out of the ground, even the asphalt pavement on the riverbank was cracked by the roots. Within 20 meters of the riverbank, there was only one mutant tree, and the surrounding trees were all pushed down by it. Its trunk was so thick that six adults couldn't encircle it, and its lush branches made it look like a thousand-year-old ancient tree, rather than a newly transplanted one.
Before the dump truck even approached, this mutant tree stretched out its branches to attack the dump truck, as if it wanted to entwine the dump truck and slowly savor the nutrients inside. The branches of this mutant tree were also abnormally thick, with the thinnest ones being as thick as a man's arm, and the thickest ones being as thick as the trunk of an ordinary tree. Its length was even more astonishing, stretching out its branches to attack from over 20 meters away.
Unlike Duan Yue's full-force release of sword energy, Wu Xiao Tian burst out laughing: "Haha, it's this one! Its sap is definitely sufficient in quantity and quality!"
"All vehicles retreat twenty meters, all vehicles retreat twenty meters!" Yang Ling conveyed Wu Xiaotian's command, letting all the vehicles of all teams retreat in unison.
When all the vehicles retreated to a place where the variant tree couldn't attack, Yang Ling continued to convey Wu Xiaotian's command. He only heard him say: "Duan Xiaozi, Zhao Xiaozi, come over here by the school bus. Tian Xiaozi is looking for you. Da Chuan, Leng Zi, Xu Min, and Xia Ming, each of you bring the survivors with you and follow Liu Ting to find water buckets and all kinds of containers that can hold things!"
All survivors got moving, only three key protected objects had no tasks, they were seriously ill Duan Mu, pregnant Li Xinjiao and the little Yanyan held by Wu Xiaotian, others even including lame Summer had tasks.
"Xiao Tian, what's going on?" Zhao Xinyu asked Wu Xiaotian with a puzzled face: "Why do you want them to find containers that can hold water?"
Wu Xiaotian tightly hugged the restless Xueyan in his arms, not letting her follow Liu Ting to find utensils. After hearing Zhao Xinyu's question, he raised his head and smiled: "Because soon we can have a collective strengthening!"