I became a master of alchemy by picking up trash

Chapter 180 Xi Yuan Sai ([-])
At the same time when Li Xing was looking for herbs and food in the Earth's Lung area, in the southwest where the Desert Ship was located, countless spherical thorns were gathering in one place, gradually forming a huge oasis with an area comparable to the square in the city. To be precise, it should be It is called "Brown Island".

These spherical thorns are brown all over, and the number exceeds ten thousand.The small ones are as big as a fist, and the big ones are as tall as a two-story building.

There was not a single leaf on the thorns. The thorns were densely covered with finger-long spikes, and many of the spikes had the corpses of star beasts stuck on them.The blood and internal organs were sucked out by the thorns as nutrients, and the body shriveled up like a mummy.

Four members of the Desert Boat team were trapped in the thorn bushes. Shangguan Linyuan and Shangguan Xianyu worked hard to hold up a defensive formation to protect their teammates.

The strange thing is that these thorns seemed to be conscious, and while spinning rapidly, they squeezed the defensive formation.The sharp thorns are as sharp as a sword under the centrifugal force generated by the rotation.

The rune array was shaken unstable, and the pale golden runes flickered on and off.The Shangguan brothers and sisters also worked very hard, especially Shangguan Xianyu of Shui Yuanling, who had to maintain the defensive rune array and constantly replace the energy stones to regulate his body temperature, acting extremely flustered.

Shangguan Linyuan is a fire elemental spirit and is less affected by the shackles of the five elements. His condition is much better than that of Shangguan Xianyu.Therefore, he was responsible for most of the energy output of the talisman array, giving his sister a chance to stop and breathe, and the defensive talisman array was barely maintained.

As for why things developed like this, we have to start talking about it a few hours ago.

When Bai Ling and the others were first teleported here, there was only a small patch of spherical tumbleweeds, half a man tall, two or three hundred of them, scattered quietly on the ground.

Sensing the human breath, the tumbleweed moved inexplicably.It was obviously a mindless plant, but like a star beast, it scrambled to bump into the four of them.

I don't know what organ the tumbleweed uses to sense the human breath, but it is able to accurately capture their positions and direction of action, and respond with a frighteningly fast movement speed.

Shangguan Linyuan couldn't dodge in time, his calf was scratched by the tumbleweed's spikes, and blood gushed out instantly.The blood sprayed onto the nearest tumbleweed and was absorbed in the blink of an eye.

The tumbleweed that had sucked blood swelled up visibly to the naked eye, it tasted the sweetness, and slammed into Shangguan Linyuan more and more frantically.

There must be some kind of substance on the thorns that prevents the blood from clotting. Although Shangguan Linyuan's wound was not big, it kept bleeding.After a while, the sand on the ground was soaked with blood.

There was a faint smell of blood in the air, and all the tumbleweeds were like crazy, attacking them more and more fiercely.

"What the hell, it's so annoying!"

Shangguan Linyuan became angry, and the fire elemental spirit circulated, and a scorching flame spurted out, setting the nearest tumbleweed on fire.

The tumbleweed has very little water content and looks almost like dry wood. When it is burned by the flame, it immediately makes a crackling sound.The fire spread rapidly, and in an instant, all the tumbleweeds around were enveloped in flames.

When everyone, including the audience watching the live broadcast, thought the tumbleweed was about to be burned to ashes, Bai Ling yelled "No!" and pulled the three teammates back quickly.

The tumbleweed, which was as tall as half a man, twisted and twitched in the flames. The thorns twisted around each other and tightened. The flames gradually extinguished as the thorns twisted.

The flames did not carbonize the tumbleweeds to death, but instead made them shrink in size and become harder and firmer.

Hundreds of fist-sized tumbleweeds covered in spikes suddenly appeared on the spot, whirled and shot towards the desert boat team at an unprecedented speed.

Bai Ling thought "Oops", why didn't she find out earlier that this is not an ordinary tumbleweed, but a seedling of a blood-sucking vine!

Once the spikes of the vampire vine penetrate into the body of the prey, the anesthetic on the spikes will make the prey lose the ability to resist, obediently be sucked dry of blood, and become nutrients for the development of the vampire vine seedlings.

Gotta find a way to get rid of them!
Reality always likes to hit people in the head. Even if the four of them are used to desert warfare, they can't surpass spherical objects in moving speed. After all, human feet are not suitable for running fast in the desert.

If it weren't for the Chen Qi of Tu Yuanling constantly manipulating the sand to set up roadblocks to block the vampire vines, they would have been buried by the tide of vampire vines long ago.

In desperation, Bai Ling could only let the Shangguan brothers and sisters set up a defensive formation to keep the vampire vines out, so the opening scene happened.

The Desert Boat team thought that as long as the vampire vines couldn't break through the defensive formation, they would leave to look for other prey.

Who knew that these blood-sucking vines not only did not leave, but instead summoned all the nearby blood-sucking vines through plant pheromones, and they had the momentum to swear not to give up if they didn't suck them dry.

The four people in the defensive formation saw that there were more and more blood-sucking vines, large and small, gathering outside, without any sign of dispersing, and they couldn't help feeling remorse.

Up to now, they have lost the best time to break through, and there is no other way to go except to wait.

in the live room.

The host looked at the brown thorn balls of different sizes, and asked puzzledly: "Master Zou, isn't tumbleweed the most common low-risk plant in the desert? How did it become so powerful?"

Zou Huali: "That's not a tumbleweed, but the number one killer among desert plants, blood-sucking vine."

The host was shocked: "Vampire vine? Master, this..."

Zou Huali: "Do you think the things in front of you don't look like vampire vines at all?"

The host nodded.

"Because they are seedlings of blood-sucking vines. This kind of plant is the strong strain I mentioned. After thousands of years of evolution, seedlings and adult plants are completely irrelevant. The predation ability of seedlings is weaker than that of adults. In order to survive, they pretended to be tumbleweeds, tricking star beasts into letting go of their vigilance, and waiting for an opportunity to get close to sucking blood."

The host suddenly realized: "No wonder Bai Ling didn't warn the team immediately when the team was surrounded by blood-sucking vines!"

Zou Huali nodded: "Indeed. But I can't blame her. The seedlings of blood-sucking vines are very similar to tumbleweeds. It is difficult to distinguish the two from the appearance alone. If it wasn't for the shape change after being burned, I would Didn't recognize it either."

It was rare for Zou Huali to interact with the host. The host was overwhelmed and flattered, and asked new questions while the iron was hot.

"Master Zou, can you explain to us why the vampire vine seedlings are not afraid of fire? Is it possible that it has evolved to the point where it violates the law of the five elements?"

Zou Huali: "Of course not. The blood-sucking vine itself is not afraid of fire. The key is that the surface of the blood-sucking vine seedlings is covered with a layer of biological glue. This glue can not only lock the water in the seedlings firmly to prevent evaporation, but also It has an extremely special function, which is to weaken the power of elements."

The host exclaimed: "Weaken the power of the elements? What do you mean?"

"That's the literal meaning. This kind of bio-glue has similar characteristics to Huangquan soil, and can greatly weaken the effect of elemental force. Don't look at the dry wood and fire just now, but the blood-sucking vine did not suffer much damage. And that little bit is insignificant The Huo Yuan Ling's attack stimulated the blood-sucking vines, causing them to transform into a super-speed form that is more conducive to preying on prey."

Lin Zhi'an sighed: "From this point of view, it is very difficult for the four players of the Desert Boat team to escape."

Zou Huali nodded solemnly.

If there were no more attractive prey for vampire vines, the four children would definitely not be able to escape from such a large group of vampire vines.

Perhaps the Desert Boat team will become the first team to abstain from the game.

(End of this chapter)