Chapter 38 (1/2)
The proxiilant e that lead into the mountain's depth
The profound diligence ith all the mutants posed confirmed the existence of that ruuards all seeainst any intrusions that could potentially deprive their gain of the fruit borne
”I will cliet lanced back to see Yellow Ox ”Do you reckon you are able to climb after me?”
Yellow Ox proudly stood on its pair of hind hooves Its torso was upright and stiffened, then, in an iits agile body The calf was confir that it was more than capable
The two slinked around in the dense forest, covering their trails with the shadow cast by the overgrown crown of the trees above Finally, they ca wall vertical to the ground, but it was notto clamber up
Suddenly, Chu Feng halted all his e mutant can climb up this cliff, then there is no way that the Deity Biouarded Perhaps this route will prove to be even erous than all of the others”
Chu Feng raised his head and studied the cliff The cliff was cragged and abrupt Not even a blade of grass grew on its rocky surface
”Son of a btch!” Chu Feng noticed so odd
He could see nu the cliff's surface They were clearly not caused by nature, since there were trails that suggested so to conceal these fractures with great effort
”The cliff has been bo cried out in alarm
He could even see patches of bloodstain sed cliff with plots of mauve marks
This revealed someone's earlier attempt to clamber up the cliff, but clearly, the attempt had ended in a miserable failure and a brutal death
This must have been so that the cliff was the way around the mutants' defense, but failed to realize that it was all an ambush set up for them to be cold-bloodedly bombarded by the deadly rockets fired in unison
Chu Feng and Yellow Ox retreated Being degraded into a gory mixture of flesh and blood was not necessarily the only outcome if they were determined to climb up the cliff The two decided that it was not the tirass and alert the snake
The Mountain of White Snake was quite a sizeable one, so Chu Feng was convinced that there must be a loophole in the defense that could allow him and Yellow Ox to bypass and sneak in The Deity Biomedical Group simply did not have the manpower to cover and block every entrance into this vast e
On his way to find this alternative route, Chu Feng saw tens of hundreds offor ways to enter The Mountain of White Snake had becoer and violence Tension was rapidly reaching a breaking point
The earth had been stained with many patches of dried blood There were also broken horns and frag under the bushes These were once the body parts ofpiles of despicable dirt
Fights had broken out that resulted in severe casualties This was only the beginning, and no-one could predict how fierce and severe the fights would evolve into once the legendary fruit becah as he realized how much of a difficulty it would be for him to snatch the fruit and rise above the rest ahters between the mutants and the armed soldiers
As expected, Chu Feng did find an opening through which he could infiltrate the ene successfully penetrated that iron wall of defense, Chu Feng had to stay eventracks carved out in between the dense woods
A shelf of land extended from an escarp sparsely populated with colossal trees that had been living since the ancient tireatly with the precipitous woody lands around it There were alsotowards the area
Chu Feng and Yellow Ox joined the others and arrived at the region too There were a few rown for at least hundreds, if not thousands, of years Decrepit barks were peeling off fro its inner layers that were equally pristine The trunk was a perfect e thickness that required multiple adults to encircle it over
”Wolves?” Chu Feng was taken aback
He could sense a peculiar se beast With his extraordinary eyesight, he saw, in the distance, a pack of olves, brandishi+ng their cutting fangs and putting up an evident display of their inherent ferocity
Were they guarding here to compete for the fruit?
There was one as were of uncanny sharpness, protruding outwards frorown yap; but all in all, what struck Chu Feng as the most peculiar was the fact that the furs under which its skin was layered were not furs in an ordinary sense, but instead they had calcified and formed a layer of impenetrable stone-like feature
This beast was a Stone Wolf!
Clearly, this was the yield of a !
The Stone Wolf, however, arfed in size when compared to one of its companions There was another ho had the size of a house Its body glealister as if its body wasthe horrific inside of its cavity The fangs, too, had a bronze color and a metallic texture
”Metal Wolf?” Chu Feng was astounded
Both wolves had ht have consumed a mystical fruit of some sorts which then caused them to evolve and improve in power and ability
The two had lead an entire pack of fearso for the fruit to become mature
Chu Feng ht of that legendary tree Earlier, it had been hiding behind a ht
It was a pine tree, and just like the legend said, it was rather short and s by the fresh bark of its trunk, the tree had not lived its life for more than two years However, it had solittering with a lively hint of green
The pine tree was growing luxuriantly The presence of an air of extraordinary vitality was evident around it Standing far in the distance, Chu Feng could still tell that the tree was leading off a fairly good life
A pine cone was cultivating a tree Layers of seeds fored layers within it
The pine cone itself was half green and half golden The green was light and soft, while the golden luster had a pleasant purplish hue, glittering and dazzling
A pine tree of this size should not bear any fruits; however, thewith a verdant hue, and its pines had grown larger than a grown man's fist
Upon anyone's first sighting, they would know that this tree was a kind of its own
The pine was yet to split to reveal its turgid inside, but a delightful and alluring aro the air to warn all those ere lurking nearby to peel their spying eyes and stay mindful for the development of the fruit
All the mutants who had coilant No-one dared to boldly co that any inattentive behaviors ic death Even the wolves were patient, silently lurking in the proxiht
”Are those bodies?”
Chu Feng was bewildered He saw dead bodies piling up between the bushes not far in the distance Many of theed to the ferocious beasts who had been prowling nearby
Their bodies shared a universal trait of displaying a purplish blackness This suggested that their deaths were not caused by brutal combats, but by insidious poison
”Be careful It seems to be the case that anyone who stand within a ten-meter distance away froible poison Look at those bodies Those are the product of this insidious poison”
”The Deity Bio before us; however, the expedition team they sent out had all been killed by this same poison But those bastards did not disclose any of these to the outside, so people still would coly die here”
”Yes, I heard about that too There had been numerous attempts made by some of their rival co before its uessed it, all died a horrible death”