Chapter 732 - Sharing intel (1/2)
Back when they were in the Jing Mountains, the entire expedition group was on tenterhooks due to the disappearance of their teammate’s corpse. Before today, Ren Xiaosu could not understand why the fish meat and bones would vanish. The vanishing corpse could be explained as it could have been dragged away by the Experimentals.
But surely the Experimentals would not be so desperate they had to resort to stealing fish meat and bones.
Right now, the answer to this mystery finally played out in front of Ren Xiaosu. He inexplicably felt his heart beating faster and faster as he looked at the ground. However, he was unable to ascertain what might be beneath it.
Ren Xiaosu immediately manipulated “Old Xu” to start digging up the ground barehanded to look for that strange plant.
Cheng Yu and the others were left dumbfounded by this sight. They felt White Mask was way too daring. Wasn’t he afraid the plant would attack him?
Everyone looked at Old Xu in silence. But even though Old Xu had already dug half a meter into the ground, there were still no signs of anything strange. It seemed that those gray, mossy tentacles had already retreated deep into the ground after feeding on the corpse.
“Does it only devour dead bodies?” Cheng Yu’s assistant wondered. “We have so many injured here, and there’s a lot of blood dripping onto the ground, yet we didn’t see it appear earlier on. It only came out right after that man died.”
“We can’t simply deduce that.” Ren Xiaosu shook his head. “It might also attack us while we’re sleeping.”
The situation was too uncertain. Based on the situation in the Jing Mountains, the deduction by Cheng Yu’s assistant would have been correct. But at that time, the plant was proven to have not devoured any corpses in the presence of people.
Ren Xiaosu suspected the strange plants in the Sacred Mountains were much more powerful than the ones they had encountered in the Jing Mountains.
Of course, this deduction was also very logical. After all, the Sacred Mountains started undergoing changes much earlier than the Jing Mountains. Moreover, more than a year had passed since the expedition to the Jing Mountains.
“Then how are we gonna sleep at night?” This was the first thing Luo Lan was concerned about. “I noticed that many of us only brought along tents without the waterproof ground cloths. We can’t defend against this plant at
all.”
Ren Xiaosu said as he looked up at a tree and pointed at the forked branches, “Then we can only sleep in the trees.”
Luo Lan looked overhead hesitantly and attempted to climb up the tree. But when he tried to lay on a branch, it actually broke under his weight.
With a loud thud, Luo Lan fell from the tree and grimaced in pain. “Any other ideas?”
“If you want to live, you had better find a thicker branch.” Ren Xiaosu sighed and said, “Although we might be overthinking things, it’s better to be safe than sorry.”
Luo Lan thought about it and quietly went off to search for a thicker branch. Ren Xiaosu had only managed to survive for so long in the wilderness because he lived by this saying: Better to be safe than sorry.
In the evening, everyone remained silent as they sat in front of their campfires. Fortunately, Wang Yun had already finished gathering intel from the wounded personnel and treated their injuries.
Although the wounded personnel were still in a pathetic state, at least their wounds were not painful anymore. They also knew they would not die due to an infection.
Some of these people used their information to trade for the black medicine, while the others simply bought the black medicine off Wang Yun for 1.2 million yuan. Wang Yun did not push it too far either since he also wanted more companions to travel with them into the Sacred Mountains.