Starting Off Survival With A Small Treehouse

Chapter 1457 - 717: Eliminate All Hidden Threats!

Xu Xin was silent for half a minute, then sighed.

”Don’t forget, we still have two places with crimson crystals that haven’t been destroyed. How can we leave so early?”

The passage inside the world tree constructed from crimson crystals, and the foot of the mountain inside the giant ship made of crimson crystals.

These two pieces of crimson crystals, although not condensed crimson crystals, are very large, several times bigger than that piece of condensed crimson crystal.

If they can be destroyed, they should be.

”...Hmm.” Xu Ying rubbed her eyes and nodded.

”Then this giant ship, shouldn’t we take care of it now?”

Xu Xin looked at the mechanical sea.

The mechanical sea was operating in a very twisted and chaotic manner.

”Blow it up. The main cannon of this giant ship has already been used, and its other weapons won’t be as powerful. To prevent the alien invaders from using it further, let’s blow it up first.” Xu Ying said.

”Alright. Let’s head back first.”

...

Back in the control room, Li Wenxi immediately lunged forward.

”What’s going on? Why did you send us back just now, what did you talk about?” she demanded, ”Don’t tell me you want to go back to that underground space!”

”No, of course not.” Xu Xin shook his head, ”But, we still have something else to do.”

Xu Xin told them about the situation with the two non-condensed crimson crystals.

”We still need to deal with those crimson crystals,” he said.

”Shall we set out now? Do we need to cut them?” Zhao Xiaochuan pulled out the cutter and said.

”No, we don’t need to.” Xu Ying explained, ”Those are uncondensed crimson crystals, a regular nuclear bomb is enough to destroy them.”

”Ah, that’s too easy.” Qin Fu half-sat on the console, ”We can just go now, drop the nukes, detonate, escape in one go, and then we can go back to the world tree for a good sleep.”

”What sleep? Don’t forget, there’s still a crisis over at the world tree.” Lou Fei’Er reminded.

”Crisis? The aliens’ lair has been destroyed like this, hasn’t the crisis over there ended?”

Xu Xin’s eyes moved.

By calculating the time, it’s actually past the time Ji Chaoyang’s prophecy said the world tree would fall.

Has the world tree fallen?

Maybe not.

His prophecy could possibly be changed.

But only possibly.

So, now there are two possibilities with the world tree’s situation over there.

One is that the world tree has fallen, and Ji Chaoyang led everyone to escape to the world tree on the sea surface.

The second is that they successfully defended it.

Whichever result, Xu Xin can accept.

As long as no one dies.

After all, even if the world tree is destroyed, it will recover immediately.

As for the world tree being destroyed and no one escaping...

Xu Xin felt that Ji Chaoyang wouldn’t make such a mistake.

He just chose to trust him.

”Then we’re actually just left with this last step now.”

Zeng Tao jogged to the screen’s edge, looking at the world tree’s roots pierced by the giant ship’s main cannon.

”Look quickly. The roots are exposed, they’ve really been shot through!”

The base of the world tree had no soil left at all.

Although the roots were entwined, they looked brand new just like before.

Clearly, they had regrown.

That is to say, the fragments of crimson crystals inside must have been attacked.

As for the result of the attack...

It remains unclear for now.

But as Xu Xin previously said to Xu Ying, even if there are remnants of the crimson crystals, the alien invaders can’t stir up much trouble.

”I think we don’t need so many people to act.” Xu Ying suddenly said, ”It would be enough for my brother and me to go alone.”

Xu Xin glanced at her, saying nothing.

”Ah? How can you two go alone?” Wen Guixin immediately disagreed, ”We shouldn’t split up, last time when you left, we waited for a long time.”

”Yeah, besides, if we split up, it’s not as safe as staying together.” Wang Lei also said, ”You can’t just leave us here, right?”

Given how chaotic it is here, splitting up is definitely not a good choice.

”You guys... you can just be in my brother’s wristband,” Xu Ying said, looking at them, ”The operation needs to be secretive, such a large group is hard to move, and I can’t easily teleport people.”

After a minute of discussion, everyone eventually agreed to let Xu Xin and Xu Ying complete this task alone.

This task indeed didn’t need so many people to complete.

Moreover, only these two had been to those two places, the others weren’t familiar with them.

”Alright, then we’ll take a break,” Wen Guixin gently twisted her neck, glanced at the roots of the world tree that had been pierced outside, and relaxed.

Having completed the main task for coming here, they indeed all wanted some rest.

”Brother Xin, good luck! We really need a break; after cutting for so long, our eyes are going blind.” Zhao Xiaochuan rubbed his eyes and said.

Having been exposed to the intense crimson glow all along, even protected by a barrier, was becoming a bit unbearable.

Although Lou Fei’Er and Jin Yue wanted to stay outside, they just exchanged a look with Xu Ying and said nothing in the end.

”Then we’re leaving the next task to you!” Zeng Tao, carefree as always, was put into the wristband.

The only one left was Li Wenxi.

”You two, please don’t do anything dangerous.” Li Wenxi held their hands and said, ”Our mission this time has been completed excellently!”