Chapter 314 Twisted Tree

The sawgrass transplanted into the jar seemed to be very frightened. The four leaves growing around it were all folded up, curled up and trembled.

"How interesting!"

Enzo nodded slightly, thought for a while, handed the sawgrass in the jar to Knight Carter beside him, and ordered: "You are responsible for taking care of this sawgrass. Try to be careful and don't let it die."

"Yes, sir!" Knight Carter took the jar and held the sawgrass in his arms.

Then, the pioneering team continued to move forward.

The environment of the twisted jungle is intricate, but with the map as a basis and the guidance of the chip, the pioneering team will not lose their way.

Squeak!

Another sound came from not far away, which was particularly harsh in the silent forest.

Enzo looked ahead and saw two sawgrasses growing in the clearing in the forest ahead. They were waving their sawtooth leaves and fighting, looking like two swordsmen dueling.

Ding-dong!

The two sawgrasses were very close to each other, and their serrated leaves collided, making a metallic sound. They both showed very angry emotions and attacked their kind crazily.

Enzo raised his hand and signaled the rune knights behind him to stop.

"Record it with the crystal ball!"

Looking at the two sawgrasses fighting not far away, Enzo thought for a while, took out a crystal ball from the space ring, injected magic power, and turned on the recording function of the witchcraft props to record the scene in front of him.

The essence of the pioneering mission is to explore the unknown and record it!

About three minutes later, the battle between the two sawgrasses had a result. One of the thinner sawgrasses had two leaves cut off, making a sharp cry and curling up its body in disgrace.

The other sawgrass waved its leaves triumphantly, like a victorious general.

"Does curling up mean surrender?" Enzo stroked his chin.

The defeated sawgrass curled up for a while, then slowly stretched in one direction. Its roots seemed to be able to move the soil in this way.

The victorious sawgrass did not show any reaction to this.

Enzo's eyes flashed, and some inferences arose in his mind.

"Give me the jar." He ordered Knight Carter, and after taking the sawgrass jar, he turned over and got off the horse and walked towards the open space in front.

Squeak! !

Sensing Enzo's approach, the sawgrass on the ground screamed, and all four sawtooth leaves with scars were waved, as if to drive away the invader.

Enzo was unmoved and stopped not far from it.

Then, he transplanted the sawgrass in the jar into the soil on the ground.

Two sawgrasses appeared in the same area. They screamed at the same time, and then moved towards each other with all their strength, waving their sawtooth leaves, and directly entangled with each other.

"It's like this!"

Enzo's eyes flashed, he stroked his chin, and said to himself: "Sawgrass has a sense of territory. Any outsider who enters the territory will be expelled and attacked by them, including their own kind."

Ding Ding Dang Dang!

The battle between the two sawgrasses ended quickly. The sawgrass that originally belonged to this territory had damaged leaves because it had just experienced a battle, so it was naturally no match for the foreign sawgrass.

One of its leaves was cut off, and after curling up to express its surrender, it moved away in a mess.

The other sawgrass waved its leaves as if celebrating victory, but was then uprooted by Enzo again and transplanted into the jar.

"Keep going!" Enzo handed the jar to Carter and then ordered.

Time passed little by little, and the morning passed quickly.

The pioneering team had entered the depths of the twisted jungle. Along the way, Enzo discovered several new species, but they were all plants without exception.

Among them, there is the sawtooth grass that attacks by waving its leaves and has a strong sense of territory!

If an outsider approaches it, it will spray pine needles!

There is even a large area of ​​blade grass that looks ordinary but is as sharp as a knife when stepped on!

Every time he encounters a new species, Enzo will observe their habits and collect several samples as evidence of the pioneering mission and materials for future experiments.

"My lord, what is that?" Knight Carter said beside him.

A huge tree appeared in front of him.

It has a trunk as thick as a giant carriage wheel, and green branches continue to extend outward, forming a huge tree umbrella, with vines hanging from it.

And on a branch as thick as an arm, there is a green fruit as big as a head.

"Go and have a look, everyone be careful!" Enzo looked calm, got off the horse cautiously, and walked towards the direction of the giant tree, and Swain was a little tired at this time, so he turned into a crow and landed on his shoulder.

"It doesn't look like an intelligent creature."

Looking at the giant tree in front of him, Enzo scanned it with a chip and found no intelligent creature characteristics, as if it was just an ordinary new plant tree.

"What is this?" Then, Enzo looked at the head-like fruit on the branch.

After hesitating for a while, Enzo drew out the cross sword and cut off the green fruit with one sword.

Crack!

The head-like green fruit fell to the ground, and a crack appeared immediately. The sticky juice flowed out, emitting a smell similar to secretions.

Walking forward, Enzo cut the fruit with a sword.

"What is this?" Seeing the scene inside the fruit, Enzo's pupils shrank.

After the green head fruit was cut open, it looked like an animal placenta. A creature that looked like a young crocodile was curled up in mucus, and its organs were basically formed.

"Dead?"

Enzo put away the cross sword and grabbed the crocodile creature on the ground. He found that it had no life characteristics. It seemed that the fruit that served as the placenta was broken, causing the undeveloped creature to die.

"Can a tree, as a plant, give birth to an animal?"

Enzo's eyes flashed with a thoughtful gleam. The unknown tree in front of him should be the mother of the crocodile creature, and the crocodile creature was bred through the fruit as a placenta.

"What a wonderful world!" Enzo sighed again.

Then, he took out a container, collected all the dead young crocodile creatures on the ground, together with the fruit as the placenta, and put them into the space ring.

"Chip, name this tree: twisted tree." Enzo ordered in his heart.

The giant tree in front of him was twisted in shape and could breed life. Apart from that, it had no other features, so Enzo simply named it.

And just at this moment.

"Alert! Dangerous creatures are approaching, please be careful!"

Just after naming the twisted tree, a chip alarm sounded in his mind. Enzo's eyes shone, and the jungle behind the twisted tree shook, and a huge figure crawled out.

Pah!

A ball of green mucus hit him, and Enzo's mind moved. The shadow under his feet turned into a shield, blocking the mucus attack, making a corrosive hissing sound.

"Hiss!" In front, the creature lying on the ground made a snake-like sound.

However, its appearance had nothing to do with snakes. Its huge body was a little bloated, and its huge head was covered with dense eyes. Its body was covered with tiny green tentacles, like a layer of hair.

"Hundred-eyed insect bear!" Enzo's eyes condensed and recognized the creature in front of him.

This is a species unique to the [Aqila World]. Enzo had seen a biological sample of a hundred-eyed insect bear in the laboratory of wizard Herbert on the 100th floor of the tower. This creature looks similar to a bear, and its body is covered with tentacles like iron wire worms. Its attack method is to spray corrosive mucus.

"Sir, do you want to kill it?" Knight Carter drew out his cross sword.

"Be careful." Enzo nodded.

Since there is already a biological sample of the hundred-eyed insect bear in Wizard Herbert's laboratory, there is no point in capturing it. Just get rid of this monster directly.

Knight Carter drove the Iron Claw Magic Horse and rushed towards the hundred-eyed insect bear.

The battle did not show any fierceness. In just one round, Knight Carter cut off the head of the hundred-eyed insect bear, and a green liquid like tree sap flowed out of the incision.

Enzo walked forward, drew out the cross sword, and cut the hundred-eyed insect bear in half.

This creature has no internal organs, and under the surface are vine-like blood vessels. The bone material is brittle, like a branch that breaks at a bend.

After looking at the corpse of the Hundred-Eyed Worm Bear for a while, Enzo shook his head.

The world is indeed full of wonders. Almost every new species discovered in the [Akira World] subverted Enzo's cognition. As a protist, it has no reproductive organs and almost relies on trees as its mother body for reproduction.

"I wonder if those children of the forest are also bred by trees?"

Enzo stroked his chin, and suddenly this thought came to his mind. As the ruling class of the [Akira World], the children of the forest are considered the most intelligent race. They not only have language skills, but also have the talent to manipulate plants.

"It's getting late, let's camp here."

Then, Enzo looked up at the sky. It was almost evening, so he ordered the knights to camp and prepare to rest in this open space in the forest.

The rune knights dismounted one after another and began to camp on the spot under Enzo's order.

Above the twisted forest, the sky gradually turned black, and the night fell quietly. In the open space in the forest, tents were set up everywhere. The surrounding rune knights were divided into three teams, each led by a knight leader to take turns to keep watch.

The silent forest was filled with a depressing atmosphere.

"Help. Help." Suddenly, a faint voice came from a distance, like a man's cry, with a hint of despair in fear.

"What's this voice!?"

Knight Carter, who was patrolling around the camp, suddenly stopped in place, his pupils shrank, turned to look in the direction of the voice, and said in surprise, "Is it Edmund?"

"Help. Who will save me."

The intermittent voice came again, and Knight Carter's eyes were stern, and he said in a deep voice, "Emond and I were graduates of the same Iron Knight Academy. This is his voice, there is absolutely no mistake!"

Three months ago, the pioneering team that explored the twisted jungle consisted of a total of 31 people.

In addition to the guardian wizard Gram, there are three rune knights, and Edmond is one of them. He is a rune knight who graduated from the Iron Knight Academy of the Fortress World and has the combat power of a first-level life form.

The appearance of Edmond's voice means that clues to the missing pioneer team have been found.

In the clearing in the forest, in the largest tent, Enzo walked out quickly. He also heard the voice, and with the help of the chip, he had a clearer understanding of the direction from which the voice came.

"Sir, it's Edmond's voice!"

Knight Carter hurried over and said, "He was a member of the pioneering team three months ago. He followed Gram Wizard to the Twisted Forest to carry out an exploration mission, but lost contact with the tower."

"Are you sure it's Knight Edmond?" Enzo frowned and asked.

"It's his voice, there's no mistake!" Knight Carter said firmly, "We were very good friends when we were in the Fortress World, and we graduated from the Iron Knight Academy in the same year. I'm very familiar with his voice."

"In that case, you take ten people and go with me to see."

Enzo pondered for a moment, turned his head and ordered, "Eric, Andy, you two and the rest of the people stay on standby and guard the camp here."

"Yes, sir!" Eric and Andy, the two rune knights, said.

Afterwards, ten rune knights quickly assembled.

Led by Enzo and Knight Carter, the team headed towards the direction where the sound came from. Intermittent calls for help continued to come, and as everyone approached, they gradually became clearer and clearer.

"Alert! Unknown creatures are spotted ahead!"

The alarm of the chip sounded in his mind, and Enzo slowed down. A layer of light blue appeared in his eyes. After the night vision function was turned on, the outline of a monster appeared in front of him through the darkness.

"Looks a bit like a crocodile?" Enzo's eyes fixed.

As the distance gradually narrowed, the scene in front of them also appeared in everyone's eyes.

In the jungle where the trees intertwined, a huge monster was climbing on a thick twisted tree. From the appearance, it looked like a prehistoric giant crocodile, but its limbs were thicker and slender, and its bloody mouth was open.

"Help. Who will save me?"

The crocodile monster's lower jaw and throat trembled, and it made a man's voice. In the ears of Knight Carter, it sounded exactly the same as the voice of his comrade Edmond.

"How could this happen?" Carter looked incredulous.

At this time, the crocodile monster on the twisted tree also seemed particularly excited after discovering everyone, and opened its bloody mouth and quickly sprayed out a hot flame.

Enzo frowned slightly, and the shadow shield appeared automatically.

He blocked the crocodile's fire attack, but he felt a little confused, because from the flame just now, Enzo actually felt a trace of rune breath, as if a fire rune was condensed in the body of this crocodile monster.

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