Chapter 1724: Chapter 1725: Discovery in the Forest

Watching the noisy dense forest, Feng Yuan said with a peculiar smile,

“Is this the BOSS’s transformation stage?”

“Hopefully not, otherwise, fighting it would be very troublesome.”

Zhang Cheng was less optimistic than Feng Yuan. Based on the descriptions from Qi Chen and those who entered the dense forest, it was certain that the vine monster should possess Legendary Level strength. However, due to some special conditions, the vine only had the killing power of a Legendary Level but lacked its traits; otherwise, it would have been extremely difficult for them to evade its attacks.

If it was really like a game and was in a transformation stage, they would have to face a vine monster with even greater power, or rather, it might possess complete Legendary Level strength, and that would be very troubling for them.

“Whether it’s a transformation stage or not, the forest is still very dangerous. We might as well act together.”

After glancing at everyone, Liu Ziwen suggested. With the current commotion, claiming that the inside is safe would be impossible. Although previously, the scouting team formed by Qi Chen moved quickly and swiftly avoided most of the dangerous areas due to Qi Chen’s perception.

But the current situation was different; the changes happening now suggest that the interiors are full of high-risk areas. The cost of speed is the lack of defense or attack abilities. Unfortunately, scouts typically follow the military path, and few students from Maomu Academy choose this route.

This has led to their team being primarily composed of Beast Tamers excelling in attack abilities. Although due to their inherent talents, they possess considerable speed, they lack the stealth and defense means compared to specialized scouts, and mostly train towards a strong attack type.

Such a tendency makes it impossible to avoid the vine monster’s attacks as they did before.

“This is all we can do now, and spreading out at this time, are you sure it won’t give it a chance to defeat us one by one?”

Transforming back into a Little Husky hanging on the Amu Tree Crown, Feng Yuan casually said, that thing now is probably in a berserk state. Although they were not attacked while resting in this scorched ground previously, that was before angering it. Given the current situation, it’s really hard to say what might happen.

After all, that thing could approach the nearby animal area before, let alone this scorched area within this region.

As expected, just as everyone was preparing to move, the ground beneath them started shaking, and the next moment, numerous vines broke through the soil like furious giant snakes, attacking everyone.

Prepared in advance, everyone immediately formed a defense line, firmly blocking the vines outside the barrier. However, compared to before, resisting this thing now consumes more energy. Fortunately, Zhang Cheng and the others had anticipated this and increased manpower in the defense line, preventing them from being overwhelmed by the enemy.

“Go!”

Seeing that this place was no longer safe, Zhang Cheng and the others shouted for everyone to fend off the attack while entering the dense forest. At that moment, huge vines within the forest swayed continuously, and large trees were occasionally snapped by the vines. Xiao Ji flew into the sky trying to attract the vine monster’s attention by using an ultimate move, but unlike before, perhaps due to the large number of people, the vine directly ignored Xiao Ji.

In response, Xiao Ji could only helplessly use Flame of Death to continuously burn the attacking vines, but in this dense forest, the vines seemed endless and couldn’t be completely eradicated.

“The nearest Moonlight Dense Tree is just ahead, it seems your guess might be correct.”

Tan Xueluo pointed not far ahead, saying in surprise while looking at the forest shrouded in silver-white light. Moonlight Dense Trees are a kind of tree that can hide areas to a limited extent, not capable of any attacks or defenses. This implies that the current phenomenon is caused by something else.

Such a setup preventing the vine monster from entering undoubtedly has something to do with it; no one would believe otherwise. After all, even the animal area was freely traversed by it, indicating that the builders never intended to restrict it within a specific area.

Yet Dou Yanlan couldn’t comprehend if people were truly that confident in it? Was there some other reliance, or did the designer simply not consider much?

Despite confusion, it didn’t affect her actions. As everyone rushed into the area covered in silver-white light, the enormous vine could only swing madly outside, not daring to approach the seemingly defenseless silver-white shrouded location.

“Is this…terminal equipment?”

Wu Dingwu saw the area at the center of the silver light. On the clearing, concealed by the Moonlight Dense Tree, was placed a white metallic rectangular prism. Below the white metallic prism was a circle of metal ground etched with strange circuits. Although soil erosion obscured the junction of the circular ground, people could still guess the approximate shape of this entity.

Around the metallic prism floated deep blue holographic interface displays. Although the distance made it hard to see the content, everyone could guess it was likely related to the vine monster.

“Research on abnormal proliferation changes and special activation of Spiritual Matter Particles appearing within plants?”

Dou Yanlan approached and surprisingly read the information displayed on the interface. The more she looked, the more familiar it seemed; this thing, where had she seen it before?

“Why does this thing have many traits resembling Resurrectors? Is this directly copied from the Resurrectors’ data?”

Veronia said in surprise, glancing at the light screen. With the uniqueness of Resurrectors, similar existences were rare, but factually, there were indeed several hidden in history similar to Resurrectors’ undead creatures. However, Veronia didn’t know much about them.

Just like what Quine used, which once helped create the infamous undead army during the end of the Great Li Dynasty. However, that thing was too dangerous, considered secrets removed from time and history. Even Agunas and the others hadn’t expected such fearsome entities from the end of the Great Li Dynasty could still exist today.

According to their requirements, this thing should have been thoroughly destroyed or even attacked from a temporal aspect, yet the current reality was that it still persisted into modernity…

Collecting her thoughts, Veronia’s surprise disappeared in a moment. Although this thing looked quite similar to those dangerous entities after careful consideration, similar things were not uncommon in games and stories. This probably… had nothing to do with those dangerous entities, right?

Thinking anxiously, Veronia said nothing. If someone really messed around, she wasn’t incapable of taking action, just… it’s preferable not to encounter such events.

Dou Yanlan didn’t think as deeply, whether it was polluters or other bizarre things; she knew little about them. Even Resurrectors, she didn’t feel particularly affected by them, clearly knowing that such setups were virtually overused.

“A very common experimental accidental product, just according to the description, the vine uses a special entity Spirit Body as its core, controlling all encountered plants. However, despite being a Spirit Body, it fears mental attacks; that truly seems strange.”

Shaking her head, Dou Yanlan suspected it was a forced flaw in design. However, the Little Husky lying on the Amu Tree Crown wagged its tail and said,

“What’s strange about that? Call it a Spirit Body if you want to sound fancy, but it’s just a ghost when you don’t. When dealing with Ghost Series Spirit Beasts, who doesn’t use energy or mental category attacks? Physical strikes are inherently useless against them. As for fearing mental attacks…

I remember in the Dynasty Era, there was a telekinesis series ultimate move forcibly dispersing Soul Bodies, but it could only target ordinary Soul Bodies, not those highly condensed to even reality conversion Ghost Series Spirit Beasts.”

“That seems to be the case, by the way, is there anything written about how to deal with that entity up there?”

Thinking momentarily, Wu Dingwu felt Feng Yuan might be right. As to why he asked Dou Yanlan instead of looking himself? That big pile of text files, he really didn’t want to slowly research it. It’s just a game background story, skipping it would suffice.

“There’s nothing written above, but it mentions the purpose of Moonlight Dense Tree hiding the terminal, that these terminals are the core of Spirit Quality Generators.”

Shaking her head, Dou Yanlan said while looking at the gap in the middle of the rectangular prism. There, it happened to have an opening for placing a bottle containing toxic potion; could it be that’s where it’s used?