Chapter 139: Transformation of Living Beings

Snow and wind raged in the vine forest.

Bright beams of light were projected from both sides of the helmet, barely lighting the way for Yu Ke.

Looking around, countless giant vines rose from the ground, entwining the surrounding trees, from the bottom trunks to the high treetops, as if they were giant pythons that had caught their prey and would never let go easily.

Yu Ke's primary target was still the flower bud.

If the giant vine is regarded as a ferocious beast, then the flower bud is undoubtedly its mouthpart.

Whether it is swallowing prey or digesting flesh and blood, it is carried out in it, which means that it must be connected to the core of the vine forest. After all, all nutrients must flow down through its stems.

If you want to find the core of the giant vine, following the vine is undoubtedly the method with the highest success rate.

Leaping among the vines, Yu Ke stopped at some suspicious locations from time to time to obtain information through the characteristics of checking for leaks and filling in the gaps.

Unfortunately, the result was not satisfactory.

‘Macrophagous vines: carnivorous vines that grow rapidly due to special mutations, madly pursuing flesh and blood! ’

After looking at several suspicious locations in succession, whether it was a branch with a tumor or a spirally coiled vine, the information presented in the end was always the same.

“Growing rapidly due to special mutations. Where is the source of the special mutation?”

Yu Ke pondered this information and came to the vine stem with flower buds.

Looking up, his eyes penetrated the wind and snow.

The flower buds and their stems in the non-hunting state did not look special. They just did not rely on the trunk to grow upright. They were not bloodthirsty and agile when hunting prey.

Dormant state?

Taking two steps forward to approach the stem, Yu Ke raised his hand and punched.

The power poured out, and the vines were obviously sunken at the hit part, and even a few black lines burst open, and the blood and flesh slurry in them splashed on the snow, staining a few stains.

‘Even if it is directly attacked, it has no reaction. Its flexibility and defense have obviously decreased. It looks no different from ordinary vines.’

He turned his right hand and took a short knife. He cut the vine along the pit and crack he had just made. He still saw the dark green stems. Some juice overflowed from it and was soon frozen into frost by the low temperature.

This is strange.

After the macrophagous vine entered the hunting state, not only could the flower buds easily break through the reinforced concrete wall, but the vine itself could also easily crush the stone pillars and restrain the beasts in the depths of the Mirror Lake Forest.

In its current state, this is almost impossible to accomplish!

Will the macrophagous vine be alienated after entering the hunting state, or is there another reason?

After a brief thought, Yu Ke climbed up quickly on the vines on the ground. The agility increase of the gold quality combined with the calculation and analysis characteristics allowed him to easily find a suitable foothold in the complex woodland environment.

In just a dozen seconds, he climbed to the top of the tree canopy, stepped on the relatively stable branches, and his sight fell on the flower bud not far ahead.

Yu Ke wanted to confirm one thing.

He bent his bow and drew his arrow, and the arrow shot out and hit the gap between the petals, and an explosion occurred.

The flames shot up into the sky, and the whistling wind and snow carried some vine fragments in the face.

The power of the special explosive arrow made by the Disaster Prevention Bureau is unquestionable. Half of the flower bud was blown to pieces, revealing the hidden thorns and sharp teeth and the hideous mouthparts that swallowed prey.

The second arrow was put on the bowstring, and Yu Ke was prepared for the counterattack of the flower bud, but there was no reaction.

Not only the flower bud in front of him that was blown off half, but also other intact ones around him, Yu Ke did not sense any signs of counterattack.

Putting down the bow and arrow, Yu Ke's speculation was verified.

In the non-hunting state, the macrophagous vine is just a plant. It has no ability to resist external attacks, or it has no ability to think, and can only passively bear it.

Recalling the posture of the macrophagous vine slaughtering the beasts in the rainstorm, Yu Ke determined that the macrophagous vine in that situation was more like a hungry beast, and it would autonomously look for targets

Something must have happened in the transformation from plant to animal. Yu Ke quickly realized that if he wanted to find out the secrets hidden in this forest, he had to dig out the way the macrophagous vine changed its state.

"Hello, Nie Xiaoyu, are you still there?"

Yu Ke asked the operator of the Forest Protection Bureau.

"Yes, is there anything I can help you with?"

"Please check the weather forecast for me. I want to know when it will rain in the area where the macrophagous vine forest is located in the near future."

To find out the state transformation of the macrophagous vine, it is definitely not enough to rely on the current observation. Yu Ke must observe the changes that occurred at the moment when it changed from the non-hunting state to the hunting state at close range.

"Please wait for a moment from 2 to 5 a.m. tomorrow. There will be a heavy rainfall in your area."

"I understand. If there is any change in the time, please inform me at any time."

Yu Ke set the alarm on his watch, turned around and jumped down from the branches.

On the way back to the ground, Yu Ke thought about his discovery and felt that the Macrophagous Vine Forest was more like a tool used by some existence to gather a large amount of flesh and blood than a naturally generated mutant vine.

When it needs to replenish energy, the Macrophagous Vine will be "activated", transforming from a plant into an animal, devouring flesh and blood, and when the operator does not need it, it will immediately transform into a plant, relying on sunlight and water to survive.

Is there a tool that is more worry-free than this?

Thinking about how to observe the hunting activities of the Macrophagous Vine up close tomorrow morning, Yu Ke, who landed from a height of 100 meters, unconsciously looked around and soon found some abnormalities.

This jungle is too clean!

You must know that in every hunt, there are thousands of beasts that die here, and birds and beasts of various sizes are hunted here, their bodies are shredded, torn, and blood and flesh are splashed everywhere.

This is the scene that Yu Ke saw with his own eyes on the cliff, and there have been two hunting activities in the Macrophagous Vine Forest in recent days.

How could so many beast corpses disappear completely in just a few days? Even if the forest has a purification function, it shouldn't disappear so quickly with the snow covering it?

Would the macrophagous vines devour the trees and soil stained with blood?

Yu Ke deliberately slowed down his descent and carefully checked the branches of the trees along the way, but did not find any remains of beast flesh and blood.

Realizing that something was wrong, Yu Ke quickly turned around and left the macrophagous vine forest. He found a wild boar out foraging in the nearby deep forest and shot it with an arrow, then dragged the body back to the vine forest.

He opened the belly to let the bloody smell spread completely, and then used natural energy to eliminate his own breath, retreated to the edge of the vine forest more than 100 meters away, and observed the changes in the wild boar corpse.

He wanted to see what strange existence was hidden in this macrophagous vine forest.