Chapter 178： cave, fire attack

Chapter 178 Cave, Fire Attack

"Be careful…"

Wang Tao took Jiang Shixue into the cave together.

After careful consideration, Wang Tao decided to come down and take a look. After all, opportunities come to those who are prepared!

He hesitated before because he didn't know what was in the cave. But now after seeing the power mushroom, he knew the risk was worth taking.

After all, power mushrooms are the core material of power potion (small). With this thing, he can make his own power potion!

The power potions in Wang Tao's hand were all exploded from zombies. They were not in large quantities and he was reluctant to use them...

Xu Xiaojun didn't follow. He couldn't see at night, so he was at a disadvantage in a place like this. Wang Tao asked him to guard the off-road vehicle outside. If there was any irresistible danger, he could drive them away in time.

Wang Tao and Jiang Shixue's eyes glowed with red and green light, and they cautiously came to the side of the power mushroom.

The shape and size of the power mushroom are similar to those of ordinary mushrooms, but upon closer inspection, you will find that there are some small red dots on the white mushroom.

“Can this thing be eaten...”

Wang Tao usually likes to eat mushrooms, but he only eats seriously bought mushrooms, never wild ones.

The little red dot on this power mushroom looks unusual, and the introduction also says that after eating a mushroom, although your power can be temporarily improved, you will fall into hallucinations for a certain period of time.

It doesn’t matter how it tastes. If it’s really delicious, then it doesn’t matter if you fall into a little hallucination or something? It’s not fatal anyway…

Shaking his head, Wang Tao quickly got rid of his foodie thoughts. Even if you want to eat it, you have to let others try it.

And there are very few of these mushrooms now, and they are not enough to make potions. Eating them as food is too luxurious...

Wang Tao and Jiang Shixue picked all the mushrooms.

There are 14 mushrooms in total, and each mushroom can make 5 strength potions, so that’s 70 strength potions! In the future, you may be able to trade these power potions with others, or even sell them directly!

And this mushroom can be put into the space backpack, which is very convenient.

After collecting all these power mushrooms, we have reached the corner of the cave.

Wang Tao stretched his head and took a look. There was no danger behind the corner, and there were still a lot of mushrooms growing. And there is a mushroom with blue spots.

【Defense Mushroom*1】

【Defense Mushroom: Production material, edible. After eating, the defense can be temporarily improved, but you will fall into an illusion for a certain period of time]

The introductions of defense mushrooms and power mushrooms are similar, except that one increases strength and the other increases defense.

Defense mushrooms can make defense potion (small), which corresponds to strength potion (small)!

"continue…"

Going down like this, we passed three corners. A total of 55 mushrooms and 58 defensive mushrooms were harvested!

At this time, the road ahead finally changed.

Deep in the cave, there is a huge space. There are no power mushrooms here, but there are many tree roots twisting and intertwining.

Wang Tao looked at those tree roots and suddenly looked wary.

Because these tree roots have health bars!

【73426/100000】

“One hundred thousand health, but not full health... Could it be that it was burned by fire?”

Wang Tao is a little curious.

These tree roots show no other attributes except the health bar... This reminded Wang Tao of the 100,000-blood flesh and blood in the Night Demon's lair. He felt that the two were somewhat similar.

Seeing these health bars, Wang Tao wanted to hit him with two axes, but he didn't know what was going on at the moment, so he held back.

The space here is very large, with tree roots everywhere, and inside the tree roots, there are some human bones... which must be zombies. Wang Tao was a little confused about the relationship between these tree roots and zombies.

“Brother, here.”

Jiang Shixue suddenly tugged on Wang Tao's clothes and pointed to a place.

Wang Tao looked at the sound and was stunned.

More than a dozen zombies were tightly entangled by tree roots. The roots were stuck in the mouths of these zombies, and they seemed to be still surging... They looked very sentimental.

“What the **** is this?”

Wang Tao couldn’t understand it, but he was greatly shocked.

Most of these zombies are first-level zombies, but there are also two second-level zombies. They are all with residual health, but they are not dead and are still struggling desperately.

Wang Tao originally thought that these tree roots were going to kill or eat the zombies, but after observing secretly for a while, he discovered that these tree roots seemed to inject something into the zombies' mouths, and the zombies' blood volume was slowly increasing!

"What's happening here…"

Wang Tao frowned.

Jiang Shixue’s eyes lit up.

“Brother, I smell a very fragrant smell...”

“Hmm? Is it zombie culture fluid?”

Wang Tao looked at Jiang Shixue.

“No, it tastes different…”

Jiang Shixue shook her head.

Wang Tao looked at the tree roots and zombies again.

The two of them have searched this underground space, and there is no other way except this space and the hole that winds upward.

Obviously, the focus of this underground space lies on these tree roots.

“How about trying to attack?”

After thinking for a moment, Wang Tao threw a flying knife over.

ˆ【-5】

【73421/100000】

…”

What the hell?

Wang Tao is a little dumbfounded. Although the surgical knife is very fragile and will basically be scrapped after one use, no matter how fragile it is, it won't only do 5 points of damage, right?

Wang Tao threw another shock wave.

ˆ【-15】

【73406/100000】

Wang Tao can be sure this time. It’s not that his flying knife does low damage, but that the defense of this tree root is too high!

This is completely different from the flesh and blood in the night devil's lair before. Although the flesh and blood also has 100,000 blood, its defense is very low, and Wang Tao can eliminate it in a few hits.

But the defense of this tree root is too high. His strongest attack can only deal more than a dozen damage. If he wants to destroy this tree root, even if the opponent does not fight back, he will have to fight for several hours...

Wang Tao shot another arrow with his recurve bow, which also caused more than ten points of damage.

Street Root did not react at all after receiving various attacks from Wang Tao, as if he ignored Wang Tao.

Then Wang Tao changed his target and shot the arrow at the zombies who were **** by tree roots.

咻—

ˆ【-4000】

【0/4000】

This first-level zombie's health bar was cleared. It tilted its head, its body stopped struggling, and some milky white liquid flowed out of its mouth.

brush-

The tree root inserted into its mouth was immediately pulled out, and you could see that there was still a lot of white liquid on the root.

This time Jiang Shixue didn't need to say anything, Wang Tao also smelled a faint fragrance.

The source of the fragrance is the white liquid on the roots of the tree!

The tree roots waved in the air, as if they were a little angry and dissatisfied. Then the tree roots that were tied to the zombies slowly loosened and let go of the zombies.

咚—

Zombie corpses fell to the ground.

The tree root that emitted white liquid retracted among the countless tree roots.

"It's interesting...the roots should be plants. Why do they help zombies improve their strength?"

Wang Tao didn't understand, but since the roots of the tree didn't have any big reaction, he was relieved.

So Wang Tao pulled up the recurve bow again and started shooting at the zombies.

After a while, these dozen zombies were all easily dispatched by Wang Tao. They were all tied to tree roots and couldn't move at all. They were just living targets.

Wang Tao also added 1,300 blood, and the upper limit of blood volume reached 26,150!

After all the dozen or so zombies died, the tree roots seemed to be a little violent, slapping the air wildly, and then returned to calm after a while.

“It seems to be angry…”

Jiang Shixue suddenly whispered.

Wang Tao nodded, then said with a headache:

"It seems that the last big boss should be this tree root, but the defense of this thing is too strong...it can't be beaten at all. And I still don't know what it is..."

If these tree roots can't attack, then Wang Tao can kill it. But now it seems that this tree root is obviously capable of attacking, so it is impossible for him to slowly consume it...

"Try again!"

Wang Tao sneaked near the roots of the trees and hit them several times. A few drops of blood fell from the tree roots, but nothing happened.

Wang Tao intensified his attack and knocked out more than a dozen drops of blood from the tree root. At this time, the tree roots finally moved!

Several tree roots were waving in the air, performing seamless attacks.

Wang Tao wanted to test the damage of this tree root, so after dodging several tree roots, he deliberately resisted the attack of the last tree root.

boom-

ˆ【-372】

【25778/26150】

Wang Tao was instantly knocked away!

——

Jiang Shixue quickly ran over to catch Wang Tao and prevent Wang Tao from hitting the wall.

“Oh! The damage is so high!”

Wang Tao was knocked out of nearly 400 health points even after opening the barrier!

Although this amount of blood seems to be nothing compared to Wang Tao's more than 20,000 blood. But this was only attacked by one tree root. If thousands of tree roots attacked at the same time, Wang Tao might not be beaten to a pulp in an instant...

However, it is not without good news.

Through Wang Tao's tests, it was found that these tree roots do not seem to have much intelligence, and may not have any senses to observe the surrounding situation. Even if Wang Tao is walking in front of the tree roots, it cannot detect Wang Tao. Unless Wang Tao actively attacks it, that is just a rebellious attack, not that it sees where Wang Tao is...

If these tree roots are blind, then maybe they can be ground to death!

Just when Wang Tao was considering whether to call Xu Xiaojun down and the three of them grind the roots to death together, Jiang Shixue suddenly said:

“Brother, why don’t we burn it with fire?”

…”

Wang Tao was stunned for a moment and then slapped his forehead.

"Xiaoxue is right! I almost forgot about the fire attack!" Logically speaking, plants should be more afraid of fire, so fire attack is definitely not a big problem.

Moreover, the terrain is special, with only one entrance and exit passage. If it really gets burned, it won't be able to run even if it has legs.

Of course, the most important point is that these tree roots are not full of blood. There are only more than 70,000 blood now. Where did the more than 20,000 blood go? If nothing else happened, it might have been burned by the fire outside!

So, fire attack is absolutely feasible!

“Let’s go up!”

Wang Tao quickly took Jiang Shixue's little hand and ran out.

“Brother Wang, are you okay?”

Xu Xiaojun ran over quickly when he saw Wang Tao and Wang Tao coming out.

“It’s okay, there are a lot of attacking tree roots below. The defense is too high and it can’t be hit at all. I’m going to burn it with fire!”

Wang Tao gave a brief explanation.

There was still some gasoline left, but Wang Tao was afraid that it would not be enough, so he pumped some more oil out of the car.

After preparing a full pot of gasoline, Wang Tao entered the cave again.

“Although we don’t seem to have any grudges, who told you to have a red health bar...”

Wang Tao muttered silently, and then poured all the gasoline on the roots of the tree.

These tree roots are coiling together like snakes and slowly squirming. It obviously has not yet discovered the seriousness of the problem.

After Wang Tao poured out the large pot of gasoline, he took out an arrow with a piece of cloth wrapped around the arrowhead stained with gasoline.

Snapped.

The flame from the lighter instantly ignited the arrow.

At this time, before Wang Tao could shoot the arrow, he saw the tree roots starting to squirm crazily.

“Hmm? Feel the temperature of the flame? It’s too late!”

Wang Tao bent his bow and drew an arrow.

咻—

The flaming arrow fell on the root of the tree.

——

In an instant, a fire broke out from the roots of the tree.

The roots of the tree were swinging wildly, as if trying to extinguish the flames, but all the gasoline stuck to it. It can't be extinguished so easily.

ˆ【-100】

ˆ【-100】

ˆ【-100】

【…】

Watching the tree root’s blood volume begin to decrease by one hundred, Wang Tao grinned, but did not dare to continue looking. He quickly pulled Jiang Shixue and ran out of the cave.

The three of them were waiting outside the cave.

After a while, Wang Tao felt a little warm under his feet, as if he was standing on a kang.

 Flames and thick smoke continued to float out of the cave, and Wang Tao quickly covered his mouth and nose.

“It seems to be working well! Thanks to Xiaoxue!”

Wang Tao praised Jiang Shixue next to him.

He might also be able to think of the fire attack, but he really didn't react at the time. After all, there had just been a fire and it was dark under the lamp, so he subconsciously ignored it.

Jiang Shixue was very happy to be praised. She held Wang Tao's hand tightly, but her eyes looked towards the entrance of the cave from time to time. That faint fragrance is always there, even if the flames can't cover it up, it's even more fragrant...

The fire in the cave ended faster than Wang Tao imagined. He thought it would be like yesterday's fire, which burned for a day and a night. But it actually burned all morning, and the flames went out in the afternoon.

However, although the flame is extinguished, the high temperature inside is still there. For safety reasons, Wang Tao did not go in. Instead, he waited until night.

The temperature was relatively cool tonight. Wang Tao and the other three came to the cave entrance to take a look. There is still some temperature inside, but it is not too high and is within an acceptable range.

Then Wang Tao asked Xu Xiaojun to continue guarding outside, and he and Jiang Shixue walked in together.

The inside of the cave is full of ashes. Occasionally, you can see some black tree roots, but they break into pieces when touched.

“It’s all burned to charcoal!”

Wang Tao was a little stunned.

This fire attack is really useful, especially against these plant monsters.

The two of them moved forward among the warm ashes, and soon they arrived at the center of the underground space.

This place was blocked by tree roots before, and Wang Tao couldn't see clearly what was going on.

Now that he came here, Wang Tao let out a light sigh.

“Huh? He’s not dead yet?”

In the midst of the ashes, there are still some tree roots that are tightly intertwined, and the top is scorched black, but it is not dead because there are blood strips.

【3283/100000】

“There are still three thousand blood! The vitality is so tenacious...”

Wang Tao had some emotion in his mouth, but he was not polite.

A shock wave from an ax was struck.

ˆ【-385】

“Hmm? The damage has become higher? Is it because it was burned?”

While thinking in his mind, Wang Tao summoned Jiang Shixue to attack together.

To Wang Tao's surprise, these tree roots did not fight back. They were still tightly entangled and slowly squirming.

boom!

ˆ【-501】

【0/100000】

Wang Tao’s last axe-kill cleared its health bar.

The roots of the tree slowly stopped moving, and then a package exploded.

“Isn’t this considered an over-level kill...”

Looking at this lonely package, Wang Tao felt a little sick.

 If he doesn't burn the tree roots with a hundred thousand blood, he may not be able to kill them for several hours if they stand and let him kill them. Moreover, the attack power of tree roots is very strong. If Wang Tao is entangled, so many tree roots attack at the same time, and they will probably beat Wang Tao to a pulp in an instant!

But such a strong tree root is not considered an over-level kill.

Wang Tao looked at his health bar again.

“Oh, not only does it not count as a leapfrog kill, but it also does not increase the upper limit of blood volume…”

Wang Tao thought of the attributes of the tree roots. Apart from the health bar, they had no other attributes. Just like the flesh and blood in the Night Demon's lair, but the flesh and blood does not add blood, and only explodes one package...

Wang Tao did not take a closer look at the package, but looked at the tree roots.

These tree roots are tightly entangled together, forming an upside-down bowl shape, as if there is something inside.

This "bowl" is as big as a small room. Is there a third-level zombie inside?

Wang Tao asked Jiang Shixue to be ready for battle at any time, and then he carefully pushed the roots away.

“It smells so good!”

Jiang Shixue suddenly exclaimed, and Wang Tao also widened his eyes.

I saw a small pool inside, and the small pool was full of white liquid like milk. This white liquid was so fragrant that Wang Tao secreted saliva involuntarily.

【Tree Essence*9364】

This thing has a name!

Without saying a word, Wang Tao put all the white liquid into his space backpack.

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This attractive fragrance disappeared in an instant. Wang Tao didn't have time to read the specific information because the essence was put away. There were two more things that caught my eye inside.

The first thing is a white object that looks like an egg.

【Magic Seed*1】

Wang Tao put it away without saying a word.

The second thing is a monster with an ugly human face, but the rest of its body is made of branches!

【HP: 1000/30000】

【Mana amount: 30000/30000】

【Level: Level 3·Lord】

【Impurities in the body: 60%】

【Status: 99% weak】

This monster closed its eyes and seemed not to notice Wang Tao's arrival.

“Only 1,000 blood and still 99% weak?”

Wang Tao didn't say anything and just struck down with the axe.

Poof!

ˆ【-1000】

【0/30000】

The human-faced tree monster's health bar is cleared instantly.

A lot of stuff exploded out!

Wang Tao immediately put away the package of loot, and then dug open the head of the human-faced tree monster. There was a red crystal core inside.

After putting away the crystal core and making sure that there was no named item on the monster, he waved to Jiang Shixue.

“Let’s go up!”

(End of this chapter)