Chapter 139: Transformation of Living Beings
The wind and snow raged in the vine forest.
Bright beams of light were projected from both sides of the helmet, barely illuminating the way for Yu Ke.
Looking around, countless giant vines rise from the ground, entwining the surrounding trees, from the bottom trunk to the high crown, as if a giant python has captured its prey and will never relax easily.
Yu Ke's primary goal is still Hua Guduo.
If the giant vine is regarded as a ferocious beast, then Huaguduo is undoubtedly its mouthparts.
Whether it is swallowing prey or digesting flesh and blood, it is all carried out in it, which means that it must be connected to the core of the vine forest. After all, all nutrients must flow downward through its stems.
If you want to find the core of the giant vine, following the clues is undoubtedly the method with the highest success rate.
Jumping among the vines, Yu Ke stopped at some suspicious locations from time to time, obtaining information by checking for leaks and filling in gaps.
It's a pity that the result was not satisfactory.
‘Macrophagic vines: Carnivorous vines that grow rapidly due to special mutations, crazy pursuit of flesh and blood! ’
After looking at several suspicious locations in succession, whether it was a branch with a tumor-like body or a spirally coiled vine, the final information presented was always the same.
"Growing rapidly due to a special mutation. Where is the source of the special mutation?"
Yu Ke pondered this information and came to a vine stem with flower bones growing on it.
He raised his head and looked up high, looking through the wind and snow.
There is nothing special about the flower bones and their stems in the non-hunting state. They just don't have to rely on tree trunks to grow upright. They are not at all bloodthirsty and agile when hunting prey.
Sleep state?
Taking two steps forward and approaching the stalk, Yu Ke raised his hand and punched it.
The power poured out, and obvious depressions appeared in the hit parts of the vines. Several black lines even exploded, and the blood and flesh slurry splashed on the snow, staining several stains.
"Even if it is directly attacked, there is no reaction. The flexibility and defense have been significantly reduced. It looks no different from ordinary vines."
Turning his right hand over and grabbing a short knife, Yu Ke cut open the vine along the dent and crack he had just made. What he saw was still a dark green stem, with some juice overflowing from it, which was quickly frozen into frost by the low temperature.
This is strange.
After the giant vine enters the hunting state, not only can Huaguduo easily break through walls made of reinforced concrete, but the vine itself can also easily crush stone pillars and restrain the ferocious beasts deep in the Jinghu Forest.
Judging from its current state, this is almost impossible!
Will the macrophage vines mutate after entering the hunting state, or is there another reason?
After a brief thought, Yu Ke stepped on the vines on the ground and quickly climbed up. The agility increase of the golden quality combined with the computational analysis characteristics allowed him to easily find a suitable foothold in the complex woodland environment.
In just ten seconds, he climbed to the top of the tree crown, stepping on the fairly stable branches, and his eyes fell on the flower bones not far ahead.
Yu Ke wanted to confirm something.
He bent his bow and nocked an arrow, and the arrow shot out and hit the gap between the petals, causing an explosion.
Fire shot into the sky, and the howling wind and snow carried some fragments of vines towards the face.
There is no doubt about the power of the explosive arrows specially made by the Disaster Prevention Bureau. Half of the flower bones were blown to pieces, revealing the thorny teeth hidden inside and the ferocious mouthparts for devouring prey.
The second arrow hit the bowstring, and Yu Ke was prepared for Hua Guduo's counterattack, but there was no reaction.
Not only the half-exploded Huaguduo in front of him, but also the other intact similar ones around him, Yu Ke didn't sense the slightest sign of counterattack.
Putting down his bow and arrow, Yu Ke's speculation was verified.
In the non-hunting state, the macrophage vine is just a plant. It has no ability to resist attacks from the outside. In other words, it has no ability to think and can only passively withstand attacks.
Recalling in his mind the image of the giant vine slaying a herd of beasts in the heavy rain, Yu Ke determined that the giant vine in that situation was more like a hungry and ferocious beast that would seek out its target on its own.
Something must have happened during the transformation from plant to animal. Yu Ke quickly realized that if he wanted to figure out the secrets hidden in this woodland, he had to dig out the way of the macrophage vine's state transformation.
"Hey, Nie Xiaoyu, are you still there?"
Calling the operator of the Forestry Protection Bureau, Yu Ke asked.
"Yes, how can I help you?"
"Check the weather forecast for me. I want to know when there will be rainfall in the area where the Giant Phage Vine Forest is located in the near future."
To figure out the status transition of the macrophage vine, observation alone is definitely not enough. Yu Ke must closely observe the changes that occur at the moment when it switches from a non-hunting state to a hunting state.
"Please wait for a moment of heavy rainfall in your area between 2 and 5 o'clock tomorrow morning."
"I understand. If the time changes, please inform me at any time."
Yu Ke set the alarm on his watch, turned around and jumped down from the branches.
On the way back to the ground, Yu Ke thought about what he had just discovered, and felt more and more that the giant vine forest was not so much a naturally occurring mutant vine bush, but more like a tool used by some being to gather massive amounts of flesh and blood.
When energy needs to be replenished, the macrophage vine will be "activated", transforming from a plant into an animal, devouring flesh and blood. When the controller does not need it, it will immediately transform into a plant, which can be maintained by sunlight and water. Survive.
Is there any tool more worry-free than this?
Thinking about how to closely observe the hunting activities of the giant vines in the early morning of tomorrow, Yu Ke, who landed from a height of 100 meters, unconsciously roamed around, and soon discovered something unusual.
This jungle is a little too clean!
You must know that in every hunting, thousands of ferocious beasts die here. Birds and beasts of various sizes are hunted here, their bodies are minced and torn, and their flesh and blood are scattered everywhere.
This is a scene that Yu Ke saw with his own eyes on the cliff, and there have been two hunting activities in the Giant Devine Vine Forest in recent days.
How could so many corpses of ferocious beasts disappear completely in just a few days? Even if the forest had a purification function and was covered with snow, it wouldn't be so fast, right?
Will the giant vines still eat the blood-stained trees and soil together?
Yu Ke deliberately slowed down his descent and carefully checked the branches of trees along the way, but did not find any traces of the beast's flesh and blood.
Realizing that something was wrong, Yu Ke quickly turned around and left the giant vine forest, found a wild boar that was out foraging in the nearby deep forest, shot it with an arrow, and then dragged the body back to the vine forest.
He disembowelled the body and allowed the bloody smell to completely spread out. Then he used natural energy to eliminate his own smell, and then retreated to the edge of the vine forest more than a hundred meters away to observe the changes in the wild boar carcass.
He wanted to see what kind of strange existence was hidden in the giant vine forest.