Chapter 285 Goodbye
Gu Ming only watched the screen for more than ten minutes, and he knew what the Katyusha troops were doing. He didn't expect the roots of the giant tree to spread all around. As long as he thought of the abnormal ability of this giant tree, Gu Ming was worried that the roots of the other party would cross the border and reach the country of Xia. However, he was relieved after carefully observing the growth rate of the roots below. He estimated that the growth rate of the roots was only about 40 meters a day, and the growth rate of the trunk was not that fast. However, he thought of the height he saw when he came last time and compared it with the current height. On average, it can grow 20 meters a day. In other words, the growth rate of this giant tree is accelerating. It's a bit abnormal, Gu Ming thought secretly.
If this giant tree still grows at the same accelerated rate as it is now, then in a dozen years, the entire earth may be surrounded by this giant tree. By then, the earth will completely become a tree. Will humans still have room to survive?
Gu Ming observed for another half an hour, and asked Pangu to release several drones to scout the environment around the giant tree. He found that the mutant beasts within a few kilometers of the giant tree were extinct. He guessed that it was not the giant tree trunk, but the Katyusha troops led by Shelipova cleared the mutant beasts around the camp for the safety of their own camp. Although the ability of this giant tree is very abnormal, Gu Ming found last time that as long as you don't provoke it, it will not attack actively. This kind of Buddhist character seems to be easy to get along with. However, at the growth rate of this giant tree, the living space of other creatures on the earth will soon be occupied by it.
I don't know if its growth rate is related to meteorites. Gu Ming used to guess that its growth rate and ability are related to meteorites, but he is just guessing.
Shelipova squatted on a branch of a big tree, holding a special sniper rifle in her hand. She led a team to hunt mutant beasts as usual. Not only could they reduce the threat of mutant beasts to the camp, but they could also increase food. Mutant beast meat was very important to them. Exercising every day consumed a lot of energy. To improve physical fitness, they had to replenish energy, and mutant meat was the best food. Every day, everyone had to eat more than 20 kilograms of mutant meat. If every soldier ate freely, everyone could eat 50 kilograms of mutant meat every day. So no matter how many mutant beasts Shelipova had, it would not be too much.
Because of the continuous hunting of the Katyusha troops, all the mutant beasts around their camp have been eliminated by them. Shelipova can only lead her men to hunt in farther places. Fortunately, the most abundant thing in the Siberian forest is all kinds of mutant beasts. Even if they kill so many mutant beasts every day, it seems that the mutant beasts replenished from other places have not decreased much. Of course, I don’t know if their killing breath scared the mutant beasts. The mutant beasts from afar rarely approach their camp. This is also one of the important reasons why they have to hunt in farther places.
Shelipova aimed at a mutant deer 500 meters away from the sniper rifle scope. This mutant deer is more than two meters tall and five meters long. The antlers are also several times larger than before the doomsday. If the meat of any mutant beast in the forest is the most delicious and most popular with Katyusha female soldiers, then the first one must be the mutant deer. The mutant deer is full of treasures. Shelipova and her men are reluctant to throw away even the internal organs, and will ask the chef to find a way to make a few dishes to eat.
Although it was 500 meters away and there were some trees blocking the way, Shelipova's sniping ability was definitely the best in the Katyusha troops. She pulled the trigger when she saw the mutant deer coming out of a big tree.
"Puff--"
The sniper rifle with a suppressor was very quiet. The bullet from the barrel hit the mutant deer's head with one shot. The mutant deer soon died and fell to the ground. Shelipova just waved her hand at the tree. A black shadow appeared from nowhere and quickly ran to the fallen mutant deer. The black shadow below was the fastest female soldier in Katyusha's army. She was the best person to pick up corpses. After a few seconds, she saw a black shadow carrying a huge object running back. She nodded to her superior on the tree and put the mutant deer's body into a big box. This box was where Shelipova went out to hunt and put the bodies of prey. There was a cart under the box. Once it was full, Shelipova would take the female soldiers to pull the cart back. If a cart was full, it would usually be more than 3,000 kilograms, which would be enough food for a day.
Shelipova's female soldiers were scattered around her. Some of them were fighting mutants with cold weapons such as machetes. They were good at fighting with cold weapons. For the mutants now, except for heavy weapons, only a few weapons can cause some damage to these mutants. Sniper rifles must be specially made to kill mutants, not to mention other light weapons such as rifles and pistols. Even these specially made light weapons can only cause damage to a few weaker mutants. However, cold weapons made from meteorites can cause great damage to zombies and mutants. Not only are the cold weapons made from meteorites extremely sharp, but the zombie virus extracted from the brain core is added to the weapons by special means, which can cause bleeding damage to zombies and mutants that can only appear in games. It feels a bit mysterious. Not only does the Bear Country do this, but other countries with official bases will also do this. Otherwise, the degree of human body evolution is not as good as those monsters, and the outside is such an ultra-low temperature and harsh climate environment. If humans do not have the advantage of weapons, then the end of humanity is not far away.
An hour later, the carcasses of the prey had filled the cart box. Shelipova used the intercom to inform everyone to return to the camp. Just after she came down from the tree and stood firm, she felt something in the air above her head. She immediately looked up at the sky. Through the protective helmet, she saw a flying machine that looked like something in a science fiction movie. She had seen such a flying machine before. This was the flying machine of Gu Ming, the leader of Xia Country's Yuanxin Base. Yuanxin Base was also the only trading partner of Mao Bear Country and could be said to be the most important source of materials for Mao Bear Country.
During this period, due to the abnormality of the giant tree, the Mao Xiong country contacted Gu Ming through the item quantum transmitter, but the Yuanxin base has not paid attention to them, which made the Mao Xiong country a little frustrated. Shelipova knew what the leaders above were thinking. They wanted to ask Gu Ming's Yuanxin base if there was any way to curb the accelerated growth of the giant tree's roots. After all, the giant tree is not only a threat to Mao Xiong country, but all countries on the earth cannot avoid the threat of the giant tree. The underground wired communication between Mao Xiong country and other major countries has been broken due to the problem of ultra-low temperature, and there is no way to find out where the problem is. In other words, the official countries on the earth have lost contact with other countries and have completely become isolated islands. This is why Mao Xiong country wants to contact Yuanxin base. In addition to asking Gu Ming if there is a way to solve the root problem of the giant tree, they also want to contact the official of Xia country through Yuanxin base. Emperor Putin believes that if the power of the world is gathered, the crisis of the giant tree should still be solved.
The female soldiers under Shelipova were still very alert. When Gu Ming's aircraft was lowered to more than 200 meters, they were discovered. All of them dropped the ropes pulling the cart and approached their superiors, but were stopped by Shelipova. She indicated that the newcomers were not enemies. The female soldiers quickly stopped, but they did not pull the cart again, but waited for the aircraft to land.
Gu Ming did not let the aircraft land directly on the ground. After all, there were many trees below and no open space for the aircraft to dock. When the aircraft was lowered to more than 100 meters, he jumped directly from the open hatch of the aircraft, slid down with the help of a tree more than 100 meters high, and reached the ground. He saw Shelipova standing on the open space wearing a helmet. Through the glass of the helmet, Gu Ming could see the cold and complicated expression on her face.
In fact, Shelipova felt conflicted about Gu Ming, the benefactor who saved the Bear Country. After all, the Bear Country lacked supplies, and the supplies traded from the Yuanxin Base just made up for the shortage of supplies in the Bear Country. However, the supplies from the Yuanxin Base were not free. The Bear Country paid for brain cores, animal cores and meteorites, and the price was set by the Yuanxin Base. It can be said that the Bear Country had no choice at all. Someone from above proposed to directly kidnap Gu Ming, the leader of the Yuanxin Base, but it was rejected by Emperor Putin. After all, if the kidnapping of Gu Ming failed, then the Bear Country would have no future.
Someone from the upper echelons of the Bear Country hinted that when Shelipova had the opportunity to see Gu Ming again next time, she could pay a certain price to make Gu Ming lean towards the Bear Country. Shelipova knew what the upper echelon meant. She was not a child. This was asking her to sell her beauty. For a soldier, this was the greatest insult. However, she felt very sad as long as she thought about the life of the people in the base now. When did the Bear Country fall to this point? Was it destined when the Soviet Union collapsed? Shelipova didn't know. She only knew that the Bear Country was still in the midst of internal and external troubles.
"Hi, Commander Shelipova, it's nice to see you again." Gu Ming didn't know that the other party thought of many things in the moment he saw him, and his mood was even more complicated.
"Hello, Chief Gu, I wonder if you have anything to do here?" Shelipova stabilized her mind and said with a faint smile.
"Well, there is something, but this is not a place to talk, can we go to your camp?" Gu Ming spread his hands and said with a smile.
"Well, please follow me." The roar of the mutant beast could be heard from a distance. Shelipova made a gesture of invitation to Gu Ming, indicating that he should follow her and others.
Soon a group of people left there and headed towards the Katyusha army camp.