Starting Off Survival With A Small Treehouse

Chapter 505: Chapter 349: Astonishing Rewards - Revived Statue

[Congratulations to Jungle Area 188 for being the first to activate the Snow Mountain Transmission Array!]

[Array Activator: Xu Xin, belonging to Area 188.]

[As a reward for being the first to activate the Snow Mountain Array, before the end of winter, the survivors in Area 188 can step out of the safe zone and the environmental temperature will be increased by 10°C, and it will no longer snow!]

[Congratulations to the survivors of Area 188 for becoming the first batch of survivors who can step out of the safe zone!]

[The first ten Snow Mountain Transmission Arrays to be activated will have varying degrees of rewards.]

[When the thirtieth Snow Mountain Transmission Array is activated, the snow mountain climbing activity will end completely, and the winter season will also end completely!]

[Do not drag winter too long, or something very terrifying may happen!]

[Survivors, for your own lives, strive to climb the snow mountain and unlock the array!]

A mysterious voice sounded at the ears of all survivors in this world, conveying this information to everyone.

Xu Xin still stood in the purple-black light.

His eyes slowly widened.

He completely did not expect that activating the Snow Mountain Array would bring such powerful rewards!

The amount of information in this message is truly massive!

The survivors in their area can already move without the restriction of the safe zone! They can step out of the safe zone! This means that there won’t be mutated vines emerging from the ground outside the safe zone?

At the same time, even at the coldest moments in the jungle, which were over minus twenty degrees, the temperature has raised by 10°C. In Area 188, the temperature can now maintain above minus fifteen degrees!

With this temperature, as long as one has 100 points, one can buy a snow dress in the point store and be completely unaffected by the outside temperature, freely coming out from the treehouse!

Moreover, after thirty arrays are activated, the snow mountain activity ends and severe winter ends accordingly, meaning all regions can activate only thirty Snow Mountain Arrays!

Remember, in each area, one array alone isn’t enough; there must be two arrays to achieve teleportation.

This indicates that at most, only fifteen areas can actually use the Snow Mountain Transmission Array!

It’s certainly less than fifteen areas in reality!

Before he could carefully ponder the information within, a map suddenly laid itself before him within the purple-black beam!

In the upper left corner of the area, there’s a bright purple-black dot, while the other locations are densely and neatly distributed with dark purple-black dots.

Xu Xin immediately understood.

This bright purple-black dot is the teleportation array he currently activated, whereas the dark purple-black dots are those unactivated Snow Mountain Arrays.

The number of dots is numerous.

By estimating based on the number and the actual distance between mountains, this map appearing in his mind should be the entire map of Area 188.

He tried to extend his hand, pointing his finger at those unlit purple-black dots.

[This teleportation array is unactivated and cannot be connected]

Is that so.

It seems that once the next teleportation array is activated, the purple-black dot representing that teleportation array will light up, and by that time, connection can be realized between the two arrays!

At that moment, his watch suddenly vibrated, and upon raising his hand, he saw it was Ji Chaoyang calling.

”Come out quickly! The statues are moving! Hurry, while they haven’t made any big moves yet, seize the chance to quickly run out!”

With one sentence, Xu Xin’s pupils shrank sharply.

The statues came to life?!

Then the place he’s in now... isn’t it super close to the winged dragon?!

Inside, he couldn’t see the situation outside at all!

Xu Xin gritted his teeth and suddenly thrust himself out of the purple-black beam.

The sight that greeted him sent chills down his spine.

All the statues crouched on the ground were slowly lifting their heads, looking towards Xu Xin.

Numerous stone eyes were unexpectedly flickering with blood-red light!

Before him was a sea of red points! In the map in his mind, the giant pit that originally had no red points now was densely packed with red points!

The thing that made his heart stop was that the eyes of the enormous winged dragon statue in front of him also lit up!

Its huge head was already raised, and with the eyes shining blood red like a brass bell, it stared right at Xu Xin just stepping out of the purple-black beam!

The gazes directly locked onto each other.

... This is unbelievably terrifying!

”Quick! While they haven’t stood up yet, run out fast!” Ji Chaoyang’s voice was low and fast.

Xu Xin promptly dismissed his initial thought of directly thrusting his lance into the winged dragon, wasting no time as he fiercely kicked his foot off the ground, his body instantly soaring as he leapt towards the pit’s edge!

These were most likely high-level mutated creature statues, totally beyond his ability to handle!

He exerted maximum effort, leaping vigorously forward!

Even without a running start, this leap directly propelled him over forty meters forward, swiftly distancing himself from the winged dragon behind.

Seizing the moment, Xu Xin turned his head and saw the winged dragon’s head slightly shift, seemingly preparing to turn around to attack!

Run quickly!

Now beside him were the statues of intermediate-level mutated creatures.

He added a couple more strides and took off again, leaping fifty meters forward to land near the edge of the pit.

Before him were the statues of ordinary beasts.

And Ji Chaoyang stood at the pit edge at this moment, with less than ten meters between them.

This location should be much safer.

Before he could take the next step, Ji Chaoyang suddenly shouted, ”Watch out!”

A strong sense of crisis surged within Xu Xin’s heart, and he immediately drew his halberd, hurling it forcefully towards the source of the threat behind him without looking!

”Crack!”

He felt the sensation of hitting something.

The blade of the purple-grade steel halberd was incredibly sharp, slicing off the head of the attacking black bear stone statue behind him!

A faint stream of vitality flowed into his body through the halberd’s shaft.

This vitality was so weak!

Beside him, a stone wildcat with blood-red eyes came at him with claws outstretched!

Xu Xin swung the halberd again, with a ”crunch” sound, slicing the wildcat statue in two!

More ordinary wild beast statues were closing in on them!

”Crunch!” A regular crossbow arrow pierced the right eye of a stone wolf about to attack him, followed by two more precise shots hitting the eyes of two more stone creatures!

”Quick, get up here, all the statues of ordinary beasts on the outermost circle have come alive!” Ji Chaoyang retracted the two crossbows and pulled out another one, immediately pulling the trigger.

He didn’t dare use explosive arrows for fear of alarming the statues inside.

Xu Xin made one final fierce swipe of his halberd around him.

After severing three stone creatures, he launched himself violently upwards, jumping to a height of thirty meters!

Looking back down, sure enough, all the mutant creatures on the outer ring had come to life, gathering at his previous location!

And while the inner mutant creature statues weren’t moving, they eerily turned towards him in unison.

The entire pit filled with statues, all staring with blood-red glowing eyes in the direction of Xu Xin and Ji Chaoyang!

Incredibly creepy!

”Thud.” Xu Xin landed lightly outside the pit.

As he touched the ground, all the frenzied ordinary beast statues rushing towards him slowly came to a halt.

Then, under their confused gazes, these ordinary beast statues silently turned around and walked back to their original positions.

The statues hit by Ji Chaoyang’s arrows didn’t seem too affected, leaving the arrows in their eyes, and slowly followed the others back to their positions.

The ones severed by Xu Xin, however, couldn’t return to their places.

Their shattered remains emitted a faint cracking sound as countless fissures spread until they were completely fragmented, turning into dust piles on the ground.

The other statues that had turned to look at them also withdrew their gaze and turned back.

Finally, under their watchful eyes, all the statues returned to their places and slowly crouched down again.

Even the two winged dragon statues bowed their massive heads.

The scene returned to normal.

Except for the few piles of statue dust on the ground and the statues with arrows in their eyes, everything seemed unchanged.

”...What is going on here?” Xu Xin murmured.

”Just after you activated the Transmission Array and that mysterious voice finished speaking, they immediately started moving.” Ji Chaoyang said gravely, ”Thankfully, only the outer ordinary statues attacked, otherwise you might not have made it out.”

”But once I exited, they stopped moving.” Xu Xin reflected, ”Were they just preventing me from using the Transmission Array?”

”Possibly. If that’s the case...” Ji Chaoyang glanced at the two central winged dragon statues, ”If that’s true, we need to destroy all these statues, just like you severed those ones. We must control this Transmission Array.”

Destroy all the statues?

But earlier, the inner mutant creature statues did move, yet didn’t attack him, only the outer ring did. Even the statues farther away tried to cross the pit to attack him.

In contrast, the nearby inner mutant statues were motionless.

Could it be that these statues need to be dealt with ring by ring? After dealing with the outer ring, the inner one will activate?

Or is someone controlling these statues, only allowing the outer ring to attack?

Thinking about the nature of these statues, the items found in the treasure chest monster’s belly, and Xiaohong’s statue, Xu Xin’s heart stirred slightly.

He recalled the means Long Yin used to control the stone wall.

Long Yin, is it you?

Are you controlling these statues?

Is that why you didn’t let the winged dragon and mutant stones attack him, allowing him to leave the center?

Of course, this was merely his speculation.

Both of them stared at the statues filling the pit, feeling slightly troubled.

However, the moonlit pit now felt incredibly peaceful, devoid of danger.

At that moment, the watch vibrated slightly—it was a message from Li Wenxi.

”You were amazing just now! Your name was announced worldwide again! Wang Lei successfully climbed, and the three there want to learn about how you activated the array here. Are you available now? When can you come back...”

She didn’t know the situation here and worried about disrupting Xu Xin with a voice or video call, so she sent a short message instead.

Ji Chaoyang also learned that Wang Lei had completed the climb and needed their assistance. He turned to Xu Xin and said, ”This area seems stable for now, let’s head back, help activate the array over there, compare the differences between our situations, and plan accordingly.”

The statues only appeared on their side, and activating the array might be simpler over there.

”Okay.” Xu Xin glanced at the unearthed iron door, squinting slightly, then nodded, ”Let’s return to my treehouse first, Wenxi and the others have been worried for a long time.”

The two slid towards the treehouse.

As he stepped on the skateboard, he rotated the bracelet.

He wondered how Lou Fei’Er was doing now, and whether Xiaohong had woken up.