Volume 4 Dungeon Dungeon Chapter 153 The Doom Tree (Part 2)
At dawn, two SUVs drove out of the secluded area. Li Wei sat in the first car, looking at a sketch.
Last night, he had Morlock mark the areas where monsters might exist, based on the surrounding atmosphere. Ideally, he should have carried the map with him, but he was worried about others seeing it, so he had to use sketches instead.
Today is the third day of the Seven-Day Prophecy. According to the prophecy, "the Doom Tree will grow and sprout along with the rebirth of this world," and some kind of tree will appear. However, Li Wei has not seen it yet.
The car reached the first marked area in just a few minutes, and soon Li Wei saw an overturned bus. Judging from the tire tracks on the ground, the vehicle had braked suddenly. A lot of luggage had been thrown out of the vehicle, mixed with blood, which was quite a shocking sight.
The bus windows were stained with blood, as if someone had deliberately splashed it from the inside. Li Wei sensed a ripple from inside the bus.
Zheng Yutong, Nina, and the others also jumped off the bus and formed a surrounding formation as they approached the overturned bus.
Li Wei opened the car door and peered inside. What greeted his eyes was a scene of carnage. The car was like a slaughterhouse, with severed limbs scattered everywhere. A thin, corpse -Corpse-Gathering Demon was holding up the severed arm of an adult male and gesturing at it.
Then, Li Wei saw that it seemed to have chosen a spot and inserted the severed arm into its stomach. Then, a terrifying scene unfolded: the severed arm slowly fused with the flesh on its stomach. Soon, the arm moved, and the Corpse-Gathering Demon was clearly very satisfied with its masterpiece, letting out a loud hiss.
"Disgusting!" Li Wei spat, lowered his head, and crawled into the carriage.
The Corpse-Gathering Demon had clearly noticed the stranger. It raised its head, stared at Li Wei with its blood-red eyes, and looked puzzled.
Without saying a word, Li Wei took out the Copper Pot and immediately made a hand seal, taking the dazed, emaciated Corpse-Gathering Demon into it.
"Since that guy Morlock mentioned being lonely, why don't you go in and keep him company?"
As if he had done something insignificant, Li Wei climbed out of the car again.
Li Wei's idea was to collect some Corpse-Gathering Demon and tame them. It would be ideal if he could recruit these monsters to his own use. Just imagine, with a large patrol team of Corpse-Gathering Demon guarding the villa area, the defense of the entire villa area would probably be raised several levels.
Li Wei understood that in this era of reshuffling power and order, it wasn't just monsters that could harm people, but also humanity itself, so he had to be on guard.
After getting in the car, they continued towards their next location. For the entire day, Li Wei and his team traversed the area within several kilometers, killing over a dozen reckless Corpse-Gathering Demon Blades. Li Wei secretly stored two of them in his Copper Pot, one "Blind Man," and killed three others.
In addition, they encountered some monsters they had never seen before, such as a large dog covered in flames, which was probably a demon that crawled out of some crack.
Li Wei was immediately captivated by this dog at first sight. How glorious it would be to have such a fierce fire dog guarding his gate in the future!
Unfortunately, the big dog didn't think that way.
"Flame Hellhound" level creature, low-level demon.
This Hellhound, which was over a meter tall and stretched to over two meters, growled as soon as it saw Li Wei and the others' vehicle, and then pounced on them with a hostile expression.
Li Wei was stunned!
Isn't this guy the lackey of that Lord of Destruction? Why are the Corpse-Gathering Demon and the Blind Man so "respectful" to me, but this guy is so unfriendly? It looks like he's going to bite me.
Although somewhat helpless, Li Wei adopted a policy of suppression towards this unfriendly monster.
The Hellhound was still in the air when it was Remote Cloud Piercing Palm.
As if it had hit a wall, the Hellhound rolled twice on the ground, howling in pain, but its eyes revealed a strong killing intent.
"I understand, this is an ungrateful dog!" Li Wei sighed, took out the Black Spiral Sword, and went forward to finish off the fierce dog.
The flames on the Hellhound didn't die until it did. Li Wei glanced at the corpse and suddenly saw a flash of light pass through the split-open head of the dog.
He walked over and used his sword to completely split the skull open, and a shiny stone fell out.
"Wow, it's so beautiful!" Nina's eyes were sharp; she immediately spotted the walnut-sized stone. If it weren't for the fact that it was still covered in the brains of Hellhound, she might have already snatched it.
Zheng Yutong's eyes also lit up, but she considered the problem much more thoroughly. "This monster is different from the Corpse-Gathering Demon and the Blind Man we encountered before. When those two monsters didn't have this kind of stone in their bodies, this light red, irregular crystal revealed its astonishing appearance."
Absolutely gorgeous!
Even Li Wei was captivated by the stone's smooth surface and crystal-clear appearance. Others might not see anything special, but don't forget, Li Wei possessed the Eye of Perception.
"Tier-1 Magic Crystals are stones with magical powers; of course, they can also be used as currency sometimes!"
In the end, the stone was snatched away by Nina, the little rascal, and Li Wei got a kiss, all because of this incident. Yu Tong didn't say a word to him.
The wilderness where the Hellhound had just been slain had returned to calm, leaving only the Hellhound's corpse against the backdrop of the setting sun. Suddenly, the Hellhound's corpse stirred.
Is it a return of the soul or a resurrection?
No one knew what had happened, but soon the answer was revealed. The Hellhound's corpse was pushed aside by something that emerged from the mud.
It was a green sapling. In less than a minute, it had grown more than ten centimeters. Suddenly, a large flower bud sprouted from the sapling, like a man-eating flower, and swallowed the corpse of the Hellhound on the ground.
Then came the sapling's frenzied growth. The ground cracked, and its diameter grew from tens of centimeters to meters, then 2 meters, and finally meters. In just one night, a towering tree, reaching a height of 100 meters, sprang up from the ground.
What happened here is just a microcosm. People don't know that on this one night, this kind of tree grew in more than 100 regions of the world, with at least one tree every kilometer.
So, early the next morning, Li Wei saw the huge figure in the distance through his window.
"Good heavens, what is that?!"
The residents of the villa area were clearly awestruck by the sight; even in science fiction movies, it's rare to see such a spectacular scene.
"The Doom Tree".
Li Wei murmured, just as the language had predicted, that something called the Doom Tree would appear during the last three days, but he hadn't expected it to be so enormous.
On this day, Li Wei still led his men out to clear the surrounding area, but there were now huge tree shadows along the way.
The walls surrounding the villa area have also undergone significant changes.
There were probably several hundred people in the entire villa area. Only a small portion of them were the families of the reincarnators; the rest were soldiers and special police officers brought by Xue Yan, as well as some nearby residents.
Through their hard work, the wall was thickened considerably, and many metal beams were welded on. The wall, which was originally only three meters high, is now nearly one meter high. Of course, it will take at least another month to complete the entire project. Chen Dali is in charge of this project.
The group of men he brought were all former construction workers. Renovating a wall was nothing new to them, especially since this involved their lives. They had almost obsessive requirements for the quality of the wall, using only the best materials. Li Wei only glanced at it before leaving, but he was already completely at ease.
With only two days left before the mandatory mission begins, Li Wei needed to hurry and create a safe area around him.
In addition, Li Wei did one more thing.
He used all the Yellow Paper he had collected after killing many reincarnators to improve Blood Wolf and Liu Piaopiao. Moreover, he spared no effort to raise their internal energy cultivation by several levels, so that their combat power actually reached the Bi level.
It's just one step away from the level of excellence.
Li Wei did this so that these two people would stay behind to protect the villa area after he entered the forced mission space. Slaves could participate in missions with their masters, or they could be forced to stay in the real world. However, the price was that if their masters died during the mission, they would also die. Conversely, after completing the mission, they would only receive one-tenth of the points as a reward.
Moreover, Li Wei also branded the Corpse-Gathering Demon and several blind men he had collected in the Copper Pot with his own mark, thus making them a force for protecting the villa area, and a rather powerful one at that.
In this way, unless a reincarnator of level 1 or higher comes to kill, no one else can even touch a hair on this place.
As for the aforementioned reincarnators, there are only a hundred or so in Shadow Street, scattered all over the world like a few sesame seeds in the ocean, making it unlikely that they would end up in this area.
After preparing everything, Li Wei continued to hunt down the monsters nearby.
In two days, Li Wei killed the Hellhound's leader and the long-horned demon's mouth.
These horned demons are very similar to the demons in the An Hei world, but they are larger, stronger, and correspondingly more ferocious.
Inside the skulls of these monsters, Li Wei also found those glittering magic crystals. This time, apart from giving Zheng Yutong a blue crystal as a gift, he kept the rest for himself.
Li Wei always felt that these crystals would be of great use in the future.
In the past two days, the villa area has undergone tremendous changes, and everyone's mentality has also changed, gradually adapting to this new world. However, the biggest change is not these, but the Doom Tree outside.
Over three days, these trees grew to a height exceeding 1,000 meters, their trunks resembling mountain peaks, covering an extremely vast area. The treetops were covered with spreading branches, but they were too high above the ground to be clearly seen. However, the sky near the trees never brightened again after the treetops began to form.
What's written on the treetop? It's the shared sentiment of all humankind surviving around the world.
Meanwhile, Li Wei and the others were preparing for the imminent start of the mandatory mission. (The rest of the text appears to be gibberish and unrelated.)