Chapter 231 Iron Tree Vines

On this day, Lan Yulian brought a lot of crystal nuclei to Wang Tao.

"Wang Tao, see if there is anything you can use."

Wang Tao glanced at her and said:

"Give it all to me? You still owe me so much debt, and this crystal core is not enough to pay it back!"

"I just let you choose, I don't give them all to you..."

Lan Yulian said quickly.

"Cheapskate."

"... Anyway, I mortgaged myself to you, do you want it?" Lan Yulian rolled her eyes at Wang Tao first, and then said pitifully, "I only have these few crystal cores left. I can't give them all to you, otherwise the base will There will be no way to develop…”

Wang Tao was just joking. She knew that Lan Yulian had now become the master of the base and had to consider the more than 10,000 people in the base.

"Then keep the crystal core. I'll pick a few and leave the rest to you."

"Love you!"

Lan Yulian immediately hugged Wang Tao happily and kissed him hard on the face. Then she brought her little face closer, and Wang Tao had no choice but to kiss her.

Lu Yingfeng next to them rolled her eyes at the two of them.

She choked on their dog food, and even felt envious of them. It is indeed enviable to have a suitable and strong partner in the apocalypse.

Lan Yulian still had a lot of things to do, so she left after giving the crystal core.

Wang Tao took all these crystal nuclei into the space, and when he took them out again, the number was reduced by more than half, but they all turned into high-quality crystal nuclei above purple!

Since Lan Yulian is already his woman, Wang Tao definitely doesn't mind helping her a little.

And among these crystal nuclei, Wang Tao did find a few that he could use.

Wang Tao looked at his own power.

His current four abilities are:

[Level 2·Copper Wall and Iron Wall (+10)]

[Level 2: Extraordinary Fury (+10)]

[Level 2: Comprehension (+10)]

[Level 2: Harmony of Yin and Yang (+1)]

The first three abilities are already +10, and only this newly fused yin-yang harmony is only +1... This is obviously not possible.

So Wang Tao is going to try to combine this yin and yang harmony with other powers to see if it can be combined.

He now has more than 300,000 special energy, and only 5,000 is needed to extract and synthesize a second-level superpower, which is enough for him to experiment.

After some experiments, Wang Tao was a little surprised.

This reconciliation of yin and yang is a passive ability. He thought it could be combined with other passive abilities. However, after testing, he found that the probability of combining it with other passive abilities was not high. On the contrary, the probability of combining it with spiritual abilities was very high!

This shows that this reconciliation of yin and yang is a spiritual power.

But accidents are accidents, which is actually a good thing, because Wang Tao does have many spiritual powers that he wants to integrate.

Wang Tao searched and found a few suitable crystal nuclei.

They are [mental interference], [mental fluctuation] and [mental barrier].

[Mental interference: Can slightly affect the spirit of creatures]

[Mental Fluctuation: Can make creatures mentally unstable]

[Spiritual Barrier: Open a barrier that can block mental attacks]

Wang Tao had a mental interference crystal core before, which was exploded by the toad zombie when he was at the Shuize base. Now I have obtained two more from them, which can be used to synthesize an epic crystal core.

Simply put, this ability causes creatures to make wrong judgments. For creatures with simpler minds, the impact is quite large. For more intelligent creatures, the effect will be smaller or even have no effect at all.

Wang Tao deliberately tried it. So far, this ability cannot affect people at all, only zombies.

For example, let the zombies mistake him for the lord, and then follow him, protect him, fight for him, etc.

But the problem is that this ability has to be close to him to take effect, and as long as the zombies are close to him, they will smell his human breath, and then the zombies will be aroused, causing the interference to be completely ineffective...

But if it is combined with the concealment potion, it will be different. The concealment potion can change the smell of the body so that zombies cannot smell that they are human. This way the zombies won't try to eat him.

Of course, even if you use the concealment potion, you can't get too close to the zombies, otherwise it will still be ineffective, but at least you don't have to control it like before.

When Wang Tao used the concealment potion, he could have a dozen second-level zombies surrounding him. It looked quite impressive, but it was not very practical.

The second mental wave crystal core is also quite interesting. It also has a greater impact on creatures with simpler minds. But this affects the other person's mood. It has no effect on humans, but on zombies, it can make zombies suddenly become violent or passive... This power may be used as a strange move.

The third crystal core mental barrier is powerful.

This ability can create an invisible barrier. This barrier can cover a person, as if it is attached to the person, and can move with the person.

This barrier can last for about ten minutes and can withstand some mental attacks during these ten minutes.

For example, if Wang Tao puts a mental barrier on a zombie, and then Wang Tao uses mental interference on it, the mental interference will be ineffective.

However, this mental barrier has its own health bar. With 10,000 blood, any mental attack will reduce the health bar. Once the health bar is cleared, the mental barrier will disappear. As for physical attacks, they cannot be blocked, but they do not consume the health bar.

Anyway, overall, Wang Tao's favorite among these abilities is this mental barrier. A life-saving power at critical moments!

In fact, the first two abilities were not that good, but the spiritual crystal cores were too rare. Wang Tao wanted to upgrade to the third level quickly, so he naturally couldn't wait any longer.

So, after Wang Tao's operation, Wang Tao got a new ability.

[Second-level ability·Yin Yang Harmony]

The name has not changed, it is still called Yin Yang Harmony, but the specific information has been increased a lot.

[Yin Yang Harmony: It can slightly affect the spirit of creatures, make the spirit of creatures unstable, open a barrier that can block mental attacks, and when having sex with the opposite sex, both parties' mana will be quickly replenished, and the user will permanently increase a certain amount of mana. The permanent increase in mana has a cooldown time, and the cooldown time is random. (Side effects: None)]

Seeing this ability, Wang Tao laughed, and then he fused the almighty crystal core he had prepared in advance.

After a while, Wang Tao's new ability was +10!

[Second-level·Yin Yang Harmony (+10)]

Now all four of his abilities are +10, and he can be promoted to the third level! He had already prepared the crystal core for the third-level promotion.

However, Wang Tao was not in a hurry to be promoted. Because after he was promoted, killing ordinary third-level ordinary zombies and third-level elite zombies would not be considered as overkilling.

The loot package is a small matter, the main thing is special energy.

The third-level superpower, whether it is fusion or extraction, consumes 30,000 special energy each time. Wang Tao spent more than 100,000 abilities to synthesize the crystal core this time, and now there are only more than 100,000 left, which will be gone in a few times.

So Wang Tao planned to kill more third-level zombies first, accumulate some special energy, and then promote to the third level. Anyway, he is now a third-level combat power, and it is not difficult to kill most third-level zombies.

Wang Tao checked the things on his body and in the space backpack again to see if there was anything missing.

"Oh, I almost forgot this thing!"

Wang Tao had an extra seed in his hand.

[Iron Tree Vine Seed: Planted in the soil, a violent iron tree and iron vine will grow. Plant it in the body, and an obedient iron tree vine will grow out]

"Should I plant it in the body..."

Wang Tao hesitated a little.

It would be useless to plant it in the ground. Even if he killed the vine, he would at most get a peeled crystal core, or maybe even nothing.

But if he planted it in the body, Wang Tao was afraid that he would grow into a monster. After all, this is different from the previous magical seed. The magical seed clearly said that it would grow hidden abilities...

"Damn, plant it!"

In the end, Wang Tao was still determined and put the seed directly in his mouth.

This seed instantly melted in Wang Tao's body like a crystal core.

Then a status appeared below Wang Tao's health bar:

[Countdown for the germination of the iron tree vine seed: 2 days, 23 hours, 59 minutes and 59 seconds]

The previous magical seed took ten days, while this iron tree vine seed only took three days, which was much faster.

"Only three days, wait."

Shaking his head, Wang Tao didn't think about it for the time being. He took Jiang Shixue out to hunt zombies together.

The zombies at the sports center have already started to run to other places, which makes Zijing City suddenly much more dangerous. After all, there are quite a few third-level zombies.

Fortunately, many forces have moved their families to the Zijing base. As long as they don't go out, they are basically safe.

This is also a hassle-free for Wang Tao, who doesn't have to go to the sports center on purpose.

Three days later.

Wang Tao's special energy has reached more than 300,000 again, which can be used for more than ten times even if it is fused or extracted from the third-level crystal core.

And the iron tree vine seeds in Wang Tao's body finally sprouted.

The situation he was worried about did not happen, and he did not become a monster.

At the end of the countdown, Wang Tao felt like there was something in his mouth, and then he spit out a black vine that looked like a small snake. It's called a vine, but it doesn't have many leaves, and it feels similar to the roots of a tree.

In fact, the two are indeed quite similar. Not only can it be turned into a bracelet and worn on Wang Tao's hand like the roots of a tree, it is also a third-level weapon!

[Level 3 weapon: Iron Tree Vine]

[HP: 10000/10000 (upper limit: 100000)]

[Status: Awakened]

[Amplification: Split (1), Independent Attack]

[Compatibility: 100%]

However, the difference between Iron Tree Vine and Entangling Root is that Entangling Root adds various amplifications after being worn on the body, while Iron Tree Vine splits and attacks independently.

[Split (1): Currently 1 vine, up to 10 vines]

[Independent Attack: Can attack independently under the master's command]

"This vine can also split? Up to 10 vines? Interesting..."

Wang Tao could vaguely sense a very vague and simple consciousness, which was the consciousness of the Iron Tree Vine.

Since it grew out of Wang Tao's body, it had 100% compatibility and Wang Tao could control it directly.

As soon as he thought about it, he saw the vine suddenly grow ten meters, directly entangled a brick not far away, and then the vine instantly retracted, bringing the brick to Wang Tao's hand.

"This is quite interesting!"

Wang Tao tried it several times, and he found that the biggest function of this vine should be to help him trap prey!

He did experiments on zombies, and the second-level zombies entangled by the iron tree vines could not escape at all, and were even pulled directly in front of Wang Tao, and then killed by Wang Tao with a knife.

As for using vines to attack, it is somewhat inappropriate. Because its current attack is far inferior to Wang Tao, it is better to be a control player.

But there are two problems.

One is that it's only ten meters, which is a bit too short.

The second is that it currently only has 10,000 HP, and its defense is not too high... overall it is still too fragile.

You need to increase its HP.

The more blood it has, the longer it should become. After all, the iron tree vines I had seen before were very long.

Wang Tao thought it was the same as the entangled tree roots. If he wanted to increase his blood volume, he would either feed his own blood volume or feed the crystal core.

As a result, Wang Tao tried it, but it didn't work. Then a prompt popped up, meaning that the iron tree vines must be divided first before they can be cultivated. For example, if it splits into two branches, then Wang Tao can increase its health to 20,000. Three branches will equal 30,000 health, and so on.

This is a bit painful, but it has its benefits. That means the two vines each have 20,000 blood!

In other words, if Wang Tao can grow this iron tree vine to 10 and keep nourishing its blood, then Wang Tao will get 10 iron tree vines with 100,000 blood each! A total of 1 million blood!

Wang Tao is somewhat looking forward to the final product.

As for how it can split, it is said to be related to time. Anyway, as long as Wang Tao keeps it, don't raise it to death, it will split sooner or later...

This is considered late-stage equipment, so it can only be used like this for the time being. But for Wang Tao, it is enough to let this vine occasionally act as a control ability.

But when it came to weapons, Wang Tao thought of his entangled tree roots. He had always said he wanted to cultivate them before, but he never had time.

Now I just want to cultivate it to see if it can reach 100,000 blood.

As a result of this test, Wang Tao called him a cheater - if he wanted to cultivate it to 100,000 health, he would need too many crystal nuclei!

If the entangled tree root has residual blood and you increase its current blood volume, then a first-level crystal core can add 100 blood, a second-level crystal core can add 1,000 blood, and a third-level crystal core can add 10,000 blood.

If you want to increase the blood limit of the entangled tree roots, a first-order crystal core can only increase the blood limit by 10, a second-order crystal core can only increase the blood limit by 100, and a third-order crystal core can only increase the blood limit by 1,000!

Entangling Tree Roots now has 20,000 health, which is still 80,000 short of 100,000.

If you want to increase the 80,000 blood, you need 80 third-order crystal cores, or 800 second-order crystal cores, or 8,000 first-order crystal cores!

Although Wang Tao has some wealth now, he can't withstand such consumption!

There is no other way, Wang Tao can only choose to use his own blood to increase.

If you use your blood to nourish the entangled tree roots, you will fall into a weak state, and you will definitely not be able to use it under normal circumstances. But now it's safe for the time being. With Lan Yulian and the others protecting them, there won't be much of a problem.

So Wang Tao found Lan Yulian and asked her to cooperate with him.

Wang Tao nourished the roots of the tree with his own blood, and Lan Yulian added blood to Wang Tao. Although increasing blood consumes mana, Wang Tao and Lan Yulian can restore mana at the same time... Good guy, it's a perpetual motion machine!

Lan Yulian was not very clear about the specific situation of the entangled tree roots, but when Wang Tao told her the plan, she immediately agreed.

So, the two started taking action.

Then, two things happened that were slightly beyond Wang Tao's expectations.

The first thing is that it consumes so much blood to increase the upper limit of the blood volume of the entangled tree roots - Wang Tao consumes 10,000 blood to increase the upper limit of 100 blood volume for the entangled tree roots!

The second thing is that he is really weak - he is so weak that Wang Tao cannot take the initiative to help Lan Yulian replenish his mana. We can only let Lan Yulian take the initiative.

While Lan Yulian was helping Wang Tao add blood, she was also replenishing blue herself...Wang Tao felt a little distressed when she saw it.

But fortunately, Lan Yulian herself enjoyed it and she didn't feel tired.

So, Wang Tao and Lan Yulian stayed in the room and didn't go out for a whole day.

Lu Yingfeng almost thought something had happened to Lan Yulian. After she came to see her, she immediately ran away with a red face.

"In broad daylight, you are so shameless!"

Finally, when Lan Yulian was exhausted and collapsed, the blood volume wrapped around the tree roots reached 100,000!

Without the blood sucking around the tree roots, although Wang Tao is still in a weak state, and this weakness will last for another day, he is not as abnormal as before when he was 99% weak, and he can already move.

Wang Tao hugged Lan Yulian.

"Okay, that's enough."

"Phew—I'm so exhausted, sister!"

After hearing Wang Tao's words, Lan Yulian instantly relaxed and lay on Wang Tao's chest like a dead fish. It takes a lot of energy and energy out of her, and most people probably can't handle it. But it's not without its benefits. At least after using so many treatments, she became more comfortable with this power.

"Thanks for your hard work."

Wang Tao kissed her forehead gently.

"Hmph, stinky man... I'll take a rest for a while..."

Lan Yulian snorted, then lay on Wang Tao and fell asleep.

The next day.

Lan Yulian woke up from Wang Tao's arms.

Seeing Wang Tao still holding her and letting herself lie comfortably in his arms, Lan Yulian felt a little sweet in her heart.

"Wang Tao, I seem to like you more and more..."

She muttered.

Wang Tao opened his eyes, kissed her forehead and said:

"Are you awake? Are you still sleeping?"

"Don't sleep anymore, get up!"

Lan Yulian is a self-disciplined person. She had a crazy day yesterday and had to work today. She just took over this base and started the reform, so she will be busy during this period.

"Okay."

Although both of them are in strong physical condition, nothing serious happened. But they are still a little weak. Wang Tao is because of the weak state, and Lan Yulian is because of too much physical and mental consumption.

"You are finally willing to get out of bed..."

During breakfast, Lu Yingfeng couldn't help but complain. She was afraid that Lan Yulian didn't know how to control herself at such a young age, and it would be troublesome if there was any problem with her body.

"Ahem."

Lan Yulian blushed.

Although she was doing serious business with Wang Tao, it was not easy to explain.

"I'm done eating, I'm going to work!"

Lan Yulian immediately pulled Lu Yingfeng and left as if escaping.