Starting Off Survival With A Small Treehouse

Chapter 1484: Chapter 725: No, You Succeeded_2

“Just now, when the World Tree completely shattered, I didn’t see anything fall from it. Did you guys see anything?”

Xu Xin looked at the three World Trees and said.

The wind started to blow.

The crowns of the three World Trees began to sway with the wind.

“No.” They all shook their heads.

“It seems everything turned to powder.” Lou Fei’Er, walking five meters ahead, turned back and said, “Besides the powder, there were only the leaves that hadn’t fallen completely. I didn’t see anything else.”

The scene just now was spectacular.

The entire World Tree was “split” in half, and during its fall to either side, it turned to powder.

During this, everyone was staring wide-eyed at it, so if there was anything else that fell, it would surely have been noticed.

But there wasn’t.

“It seems the things inside the World Tree might have turned to powder with it,” Xu Xin concluded.

“Wow… if there were people inside, then wouldn’t they just…” Zeng Tao shrank his neck and said.

“If it really is like that, then maybe this is why they destroyed the World Tree,” Xu Ying said, looking at the swaying crowns of the three World Trees in the wind, “To root out all threats?”

That explanation could really be possible.

“In any case, we’ll know once we get there. Let’s pick up the pace,” Xu Xin said.

Meanwhile, he turned back to look behind them.

The sandstorm, vast enough to obscure the sky, had started.

Behind them was an endless wall of sandstorm that stretched beyond sight.

Blocking their way back.

It felt like… they had entered a level that couldn’t be exited until completed, so their retreat was blocked.

“Wow, damn, let’s hurry, the sandstorm is coming!”

Zhao Xiaochuan glanced back with Xu Xin, immediately warning everyone in a panic!

“Don’t worry, the sandstorm shouldn’t reach here,” Xu Xin said.

They were now getting close to the World Tree.

The World Tree had the effect of stabilizing the sand, the closer they got, the more the ground resembled soil.

The ground beneath their feet was mostly white-grade soil now.

So they didn’t need to worry about that.

What they needed to worry about now was…

“Hey, do any of you feel like the radiation is getting stronger?”

Lou Fei’Er, walking in front, turned back, frowning, rubbing her temples.

“I’m already starting to feel uncomfortable…”

“Yes, the radiation is clearly stronger now.”

Even before the World Tree sprouted fully, Xu Xin had already felt a throbbing pain in his head.

“Everyone, take out a pot of radiation grass,” Xu Xin said as he took out a pot, “If it’s inconvenient, just pull the grass out. It has radiation protection effects for two hours even if uprooted.”

Beside him, Xu Ying had already pulled the grass out and squeezed it into a ball, stuffing it into her pocket: “You need to change it every hour.”

“Didn’t we research the grass’ effects? It can absorb radiation strongly for about an hour. After that, the effect decreases and it becomes ineffective after almost two hours.”

Zeng Tao tossed the pot in his hand: “Hmm… an hour is long enough. Let’s pull it out. Holding a pot all the time is such a hassle.”

“Also, in case we encounter special situations, we might not have a free hand,” Li Wenxi followed Xu Ying’s example, squeezing the radiation grass into a ball and putting it into her pocket.

They continued forward.

Lou Fei’Er’s pace and Li Wenxi’s guidance became much quicker.

Most of the factories in the industrial area had been completely destroyed, leaving only ruins.

However, near the World Tree, there was a section of intact factories.

But these factories had tightly closed doors.

Xu Xin and the others were not interested in going in to check.

After all, the place was full of “landmines,” and they wanted to leave the area as quickly as possible.

Soon, they passed through this factory area.

“Fei’Er, thirty degrees to the right and head straight for 200 meters, then we’re out of the landmine area!”

“Yay, finally out!”

“Let’s hurry!”

Everyone quickened their pace and swiftly left the minefield area.

At that moment, they were only about a kilometer away from the edge of the World Tree’s new crown.

The old dead World Trees were originally much larger than the current ones; Xu Xin and his team were only four or five hundred meters from the original crowns.

But now, this new World Tree was smaller.

“Seeing it up close, the new World Tree really is much smaller,” Zeng Tao remarked.

“Actually, our tree is also much smaller,” Lou Fei’Er observed as she examined the three trees.

“Huh? Really?” Zeng Tao was puzzled, “Didn’t feel like it.”

“Of course, the previous one could cover all of Crystal City. Now, this newborn one has left part of the Crystal City exposed,” Lou Fei’Er said.

“The internal space of our tree is so large, size doesn’t matter since we can’t tell from inside,” Zhao Xiaochuan said.

“By the way, according to outside time, our tree, after maturing, continued growing for only four or five more days, right?” Li Wenxi said, “It grew quite a bit in four or five days.”

“Our World Tree seems to grow according to internal time.”