Zhao Xun searched for treasure chests while looking for somewhere suitable to stay.
His current body was enormous, with a trunk so thick that a person could not wrap their arms around it. If he uprooted other trees to make room for himself, disposing of them would be a problem.
If he uprooted small trees, there would be too many of them. If he uprooted large ones, they would take up too much space.
They would stand out wherever he dumped them.
Even burning them would not get rid of them quickly. Wouldn't the remaining branches and ashes be as good as telling the hunters that a player had turned into a tree here?
The smoke might even attract hunters who had never intended to come this way. That would just be asking for trouble.
Zhao Xun extended a branch toward a treasure chest sitting on the wall of a bear enclosure. Rather than taking it down, he opened it with his branch. At his current height of four meters, he could easily see what was inside.
Air.
Not a thing.
He continued forward.
He had considered putting himself inside a bear cage.
This was an ecological park, so its so-called "cages" were actually quite spacious, with environments designed to suit the species living inside as much as possible.
The brown bear cages, for instance, had pools for them to play in, stumps to climb, and a few trees.
The cages were tall and had sturdy roofs, so there was no concern about the bears climbing onto the stumps and escaping.
A thick ginkgo tree inside a bear cage would therefore look perfectly normal.
But when he saw the bears rubbing their bottoms against the stumps and snapping branches with their massive, heavy paws just to pass the time... he