Starting Off Survival With A Small Treehouse

Chapter 1442 - 712: ”Duel” Between Alien Plants (Part 2)

The three of them, led by Xu Xin, bypassed the ”duel” between the alien plants and continued forward.

”As long as we go around it, it’ll be fine.”

Xu Xin looked back: ”Although these things can move, they have a fatal flaw, which is being confined to their area.”

”They are all rooted in the ground, so as long as we stay away from them, they can’t hurt us.”

That’s the biggest difference between them and animals that can truly move freely.

However...

”Isn’t the ground here just a screen?”

Xu Ying gently stomped the ground twice: ”Are these plants actually growing on the screen?”

”Ah, I know this.” Li Wenxi pointed underground, ”Below the screen, there seems to be a... um... large petri dish? Those plants are actually growing underneath. They only protrude out by making holes in the screen.”

Xu Xin and Xu Ying, hearing this, looked at the roots of these ”plants.”

Indeed, beneath their roots, there was a hole slightly larger than their bodies, allowing them to move freely.

In some holes, more than a dozen different plants had emerged.

These plants squeezed together, even fighting each other, but they could do nothing to each other.

A few bunches of plants seemed to be tired of fighting and even...

Directly retreated back into the hole.

Good heavens!

They can actually retreat back in?

This is just like an animal’s nest.

Of course, those towering ”plants” are unlikely to retract because the holes at their roots are much smaller than their above-ground parts.

Xu Xin looked behind him.

Behind him, the two massive plants that had been ”dueling” previously were now ceasing their conflict.

The thick vine unexpectedly shrank back down, retracting all the several tens of meters of branches back underground, leaving nothing exposed.

While the trunk, twisted like a ragged rope and dry as can be, surprisingly bent down like clay, with the whole tree lying on the ground!

Despite appearing extremely withered on the outside, looking brittle and ready to snap, it could actually bend and lie down!

Anyway, Xu Xin merely glanced at it without paying further attention.

Li Wenxi and Xu Ying also saw it, but they were equally indifferent.

Because scenes like this are constantly happening in this giant ship, and having traversed the path, they’re no longer surprised.

Of course, caution is still necessary.

The three of them almost always moved around these gigantic plants.

Because around those massive plants, there always were some dense, tiny plants covering the ground almost entirely.

If they didn’t take a detour, they’d have to step on these small vegetations.

Xu Xin tried throwing a stone in, resulting in the fist-sized stone being instantly swallowed by what appeared to be very soft vegetation right before the trio’s eyes.

It emitted crunching sounds.

Even a few seconds later, a puff of lime was expelled.

”Geez, that dangerous?”

”Why would these alien invaders plant such dangerous things inside the giant ship...”

”Perhaps these alien plants don’t harm them.”

In any case, the three chose to detour.

Meanwhile, they passed nearly ten metal houses.

The doors of those houses were wide open, their interiors completely wrecked, a chaotic mess.

Clearly, each room had experienced a battle not long ago.

”There’s no way to detour up ahead.” Xu Ying whispered.

”Up ahead, the vegetation... is so dense.” Li Wenxi looked ahead and whispered.

The closer they got to the black building, the denser the vegetation became.

Naturally, these large plants weren’t adjacent to each other; most surrounded their shorter counterparts.

They were now only about a hundred meters away from that black building.

In this area, almost entirely covered by these low-lying plants.

This meant that although Xu Xin and the others could see the black building, they couldn’t cross without treading on the swaying vegetation.

”...Yingying, can you clearly see the area around the building now? Ready to teleport?” Xu Xin turned to Xu Ying.

”Hmm... Let me see.” Xu Ying looked ahead, ”Teleporting... can only take us in front of the black building, yet even there... the ground is covered with these plants.”

The black building was almost entirely surrounded by vegetation, even its windows were taken over by various vine-like plants.

Those plants were even crawling around like worms.

The entire black building resembled a living haunted house.

”Yikes... what should we do now?” Li Wenxi peered ahead, ”Is the area in front completely covered? These alien invaders are too sloppy, can’t they clean up a bit?”

”Perhaps, this is their method to prevent unnecessary personnel from approaching?” Xu Ying said.

”There’s also a possibility that...”

Xu Xin looked at the desolate and chaotic ”world” behind them: ”This area originally wasn’t this messy, but this giant ship has drifted in temporal currents for a long time, causing them to grow into this current state.”

”Ah, that could indeed be true.” Li Wenxi said with wide eyes, ”But if that’s the case, now that they’re back, shouldn’t they tidy up a bit?”