Chapter 214 Red Apple Paradise

After the Coyotes raid, the convoy rested and waited for more than an hour until reinforcements arrived. The reinforcements were two cars and a Reaper mecha.

Commander Marcus had asked John before this, and the latter's order was to continue moving forward and resolutely carry out the task of occupying the Red Apple Farm.

Marcus sighed secretly: "It's more comfortable to manage the bullet bar at the base. Today, it's really dirty, tiring and dangerous to run on the field. If my command hadn't been high enough, I would have suffered a big loss, and maybe even my life would be ruined." Thinking of this, he couldn't help but look at Lin Zaishan more.

After this battle, many people in the team were directly rescued by Lin Zaishan, grateful to him and even regarded him as a hero.

"The boys set out and you must arrive at Red Apple Farm before 16:00 this afternoon!" Marcus gave the order.

The convoy wiped out hundreds of low-level zombies on the road and finally arrived at the destination on time. A lush apple forest with an area of ​​at least 500 acres appeared in front of me, and the edge was only more than 300 meters away from the convoy; however, a cross-cut river fork blocked the way. Due to the obstruction of tall grass and trees, you cannot see the bridge in the distance at a glance.

"Come here!" Marcus called, "I order you to follow the river to explore the nearest bridge. This intercom will give you the other people the place to be alert!"

"Okay." Lin Zaishan, who is a second-class slave and a plumber, is now used by Marcus as a reconnaissance vanguard, who does not even give a telescope or rifle.

Lin Zaishan held a crossbow, hung his swords on his waist, wore a pipe tool vest, and carried a backpack. He looked cumbersome, long-winded and overwhelmed, but he walked vigorously along the river to the north.

He walked about 200 meters and found a small bridge behind the trees. After careful inspection, he confirmed that the bridge was intact, solid and there was no danger under the bridge. He was about to call the large army with a walkie-talkie, but suddenly he found an apple tree not far from the opposite side of the river seemed to have moved. This movement was not shaken after the strong wind, but moved about 3 meters in a strange gait like a person walking.

"Huh? Did I read it wrong?" Lin Zaishan stared at the apple forest carefully, but found no abnormalities. He crossed the bridge and put his hand on a different tree by the river to "inquire" carefully, and a large amount of strange information poured into the sea of ​​consciousness.

"I'll go! This is terrible!" Lin Zaishan rubbed his forehead and turned on the walkie-talkie. "Marcus, I have discovered the bridge across the river, just 200 meters north of you."

"Great, we'll cross the river now."

"Wait, this apple forest is weird." Lin Zaishan hurriedly dissuaded: "I'm afraid they have all become tree-shaped monsters and can eat people."

"Chinese Monkey, please stop using ghost stories from your hometown to scare our brave American people." Marcus scolded contemptuously, "Even if there are monsters and monsters in the world, they cannot withstand the destruction of our American steel weapons!" He ordered loudly: "Everyone, go to the apple woods immediately!"

Lin Zaishan dissuaded again: "Marcus, even if you don't believe in the existence of tree-shaped monsters, at least you have to worry about the threat of mutant bees. According to my visual observation, this small piece alone has 4 giant honeycombs, at least thousands of mutant bees."

"I will observe by the bridge before deciding whether to cross the river."

The large army soon arrived at the small bridge. Marcus jumped out of the car and used a telescope to investigate. Without seeing any abnormalities, he ordered his two men in mechas: "You go to the Apple Forest to investigate and see if there are any other weirdness."

The two mecha personnel immediately rushed to Apple Lin, not caring about Lin Zaishan's dissuasion behind him. Lin Zaishan sighed and had to follow closely. Seeing this, Marcus did not stop him.

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Two mecha personnel entered the apple forest and disappeared in the blink of an eye. Lin Zaishan approached carefully and suddenly heard a scream in the apple forest. He rushed forward and saw the two mecha personnel getting greedily with a big and round red apple. One of them was holding a bug more than two inches long in his left hand and laughed: "Ha, fortunately I was sharp-eyed, otherwise even this bug would have eaten."

His companion teased: "I heard that these insects are delicious and juicy, you really should try them."

Lin Zaishan breathed a sigh of relief, took out a thick raincoat and covered his head to avoid being discovered and attacked by the mutant bees. He whispered to the two mecha personnel: "Brother, this place is very dangerous, let's leave quickly."

"The timid Chinese monkey, you have nothing to do here, how far is it to go away!"

Another mecha staff reported in the communicator: "We have checked that there are no other abnormalities in the apple forest except for the mutant bees, and mecha staff can get close to it."

Marcus, in the distance, immediately ordered the troops to cross the bridge, and then ordered the maintenance department staff to go to the house by the river to find and repair machinery. The rest of the guards who were wearing mechas went to the apple forest to pick fruits. The four-person joint control of the Death Mecha patrolled the river and cleared the monsters after crossing the bridge. Caroline and the wounded stayed in the car and left the bridge for the time being.

Seeing that nearly half of the people who were on the trip had entered the Apple Forest, Lin Zaishan couldn't help but worry and came to Marcus to argue.

"1051, you came just right. I saw a mouse hole on the other side of the bridge. You and the black cat will go over and search for this mouse hole now!"

"Marcus, you are taking risks with the lives of the whole team."

"What do you know! As long as the workers who are not wearing mechas are not easily approached by mutant bees, there will be no problem. If you don't execute the order, I will ask someone to kill you!"

Seeing Marcus' stubborn appearance, Lin Zaishan had no choice but to explore the mouse cave with the black cat, and wondered: "Why are these tree-shaped monsters and mutant bees not attacking? Are they really harmless, or are I wrongly judged? Also, why don't apple trees attack mutant bees? Is there a friendly relationship between them?"

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Lin Zaishan and the Black Cat walked dozens of meters in the mouse hole. They felt that the hole was clean and they did not see a single mouse.

"There is a forked cave here, which seems to be walking down the river and leading to the apple forest."

"1051, how did you know that this cave crosses the river?"

"Did you notice the water dripping on the top of the hole?"

"I'll go! If the river water pours in, wouldn't we be drowned alive?" The black cat was scared.

Lin Zaishan has the ability to breathe under the water, without any worries. Moreover, he found out that the cave was very strong and there was no risk of collapse, so he immediately comforted the black cat. The two entered the bifurcated cave and advanced from the ground to the apple forest.

"1051, do you smell anything?" The black cat's headlight shone back and forth uneasy.

"The rotten smell of the mouse is mixed with the smell of apples." Lin Zaishan signaled the black cat to stop, and then touched the hole with his hands. "Black cat, put on the raincoat he had prepared when he came. From now on, don't make loud noises, don't exhale violently or perform violent physical movements."

The two of them moved forward frame by frame as if they were in slow motion. After walking for more than ten minutes, they only walked less than 100 meters. The smell of rotten and fishy smell became even stronger. Suddenly, a hall suddenly became clear in front of them. The light shone over and saw the corpses of mutant rats. Many apple trees were interspersed among the piles of corpses. These roots were tightly connected to the corpses of several fat mutant rats that had not yet completely rotted, and were slightly circulating like plastic tubes pumping water, as if sucking the flesh and blood of the mutant rats.

"Uh God!" The black cat screamed. Lin Zaishan immediately covered his mouth and nose.

"Hulala" a strange sound. In the afterglow of the headlight, dozens of tree roots emerged from the soil around the cave. The tips sniffed in the cave like snake heads. One of them was particularly thick and even stretched between Lin Zaishan's legs and aimed upwards at the black cat's face.

Lin Zaishan tightly controlled the black cat to prevent him from breathing or moving. Finally, more than ten seconds later, the roots of the tree quietly retracted back into the soil.

Lin Zaishan slowly let go of the black cat, then pulled him backwards for dozens of meters in slow motion, then turned around and ran wildly.

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"Surprise", Lin Zaishan and Black Cat jumped out of the mouse hole one after another, and the latter sat on the ground and gasped, "1051, I didn't expect that these apple trees were indeed monsters. I swear, I will never visit the apple forest again."

"Black Cat, hurry up and use your influence to persuade everyone to leave the Apple Forest!"

"I won't go to that ghost place if I beat you to death!"

At this time, Marcus walked over while eating the apple, "Two idiots, how are you exploring the mouse cave?"

"The mice in the cave are all dead, they are attracted and killed by the apple trees." Lin Zaishan replied loudly, and the black cat nodded desperately to echo.

Marcus pointed his rifle at the "peanut seedlings" of the black cat, "Do you know the consequences of lying to me?"

"I saw it with my own eyes, absolutely perfect!"

Marcus was about to scold the two when he suddenly heard a report from his subordinate in the communicator: "Boss, Mueller is gone, and he has called many times but no response."

“How long does it take?”

“In less than 3 minutes.”

"Maybe Muller has gone to the stool, so be calm."

The communicator rang again, and another subordinate reported: "Boss, have you seen Hawthorne? We are going to explore deep into the apple forest."

"Hawthorne is gone?" Marcus was surprised.

The black cat said, "Maybe Hawthorne will also go to enjoy the feces."

Marcus shouted at the communicator, "Everyone, report to me immediately!"

The communicator sounded in the crowd, and soon the result was that there were 4 people missing.

"It's really a ghost! I ordered: Everyone should evacuate the apple forest quickly!" As soon as Marcus's order was put, the originally silent apple forest suddenly moved abnormally like a mouse blowing a nest, and it could be seen at a speed visible to the naked eye.

A large number of fruit trees moved against the ground, and the coverage area of ​​the apple forest instantly expanded. A tall fruit tree easily knocked over two mecha personnel who were stunned and continued to "run wildly" towards the small bridge; another fruit tree suddenly stretched out its rope-like root, entangled one mecha personnel, then turned over the soil and pulled it into the ground.

Everyone threw away their armor and fled to the small bridge in a hurry. Hundreds of fruit trees were chasing behind them, and more fruit trees were moving around in the distance. The fruits that were originally shaking on the fruit trees were now thrown at the crowd like shells, knocking over the people running away from time to time. At first, the bee swarm that was "honest" also began to get angry and flew over to attack everyone.

"Fuck! Everyone retreated!" Marcus left Lin Zaishan and Black Cat and ran across the bridge, rushing towards the car over there.

"Black cat, you go first, I'll save people!" Lin Zaishan ran towards the pursuit of apple trees and bee swarms.

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Lin Zaishan jumped high and alertly avoided the throwing attacks of dozens of apples in the air. Before he landed, he waved his swords and cut off the branches and leaves of the two fruit trees. After landing, he cut off dozens of roots in succession, and rescued a mecha personnel who were about to be pulled into the ground - it turned out to be Murphy.

"Thank God!" Murphy's mecha could still work and ran wildly.

Lin Zaishan caught a big apple that smashed into his face, instantly absorbing the life energy in it, and then tried to use the ability to gather gas and transform fire, but found that it did not work. He tried while avoiding the attack of the apple tree, but all ended in failure. "It seems that my current strength is not enough to launch the gather gas and transform fire."

In desperation, Lin Zaishan ran left and right like a monkey, jumping up and down. With his extraordinary skills, he saved three more people from the apple forest.

More than a dozen apple trees surrounded the forest in the middle, stretched out the intricate roots together, wrapped them in a cluster, then dragged them deep into the fruit forest and hung them high.

"I'll go! You are plants, why do you play Dult's cage punishment?"

The fruit trees ignored his protest at all, and the tips of hundreds of roots sting at his skin at the same time.

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"I'm going to be squeezed out!" Lin Zaishan recited the Star Soul Meditation Mantra, entered a layered Meditation State, and then urgently called Monk Kongse.

"You seem to be in poor condition now. Have you been hollowed out by a woman? I'll teach you two tricks when I take the time." Kongse said in a mocking tone.

"Master, what do you think? What is your vision? What is going to empty me is not a woman, but an apple tree!"

"Ha! Smart Plant Xii type, you are so lucky!"

"Let's put aside your problem of not following the rules and regulations and creating verbal karma indiscriminately, don't you see that I'm in danger now?"

"It's definitely a dead end to someone else, but fortunately I'm here. I can provide you with a few practice opportunities to fight xii type simulation. After you master the trick and return to the real state, you can hollow out the apple tree and squeeze it dry."

"Really? Then why don't you start soon?"

Kongseong was muttering words, and the light on his body radiated, bringing Lin Zaishan into the Void Arena.

A pleasant but cold voice said: "The simulated duel is about to begin, please be prepared."

Kongse reminded: "The key to defeating the xii type lies in the control of the sea of ​​consciousness light spots. As long as you instill life energy into the light spots continuously, and do not leak easily, you will be invincible. Good luck!"

At the beginning of the game, a super large apple tree that simulated the opponent threw apple shells at Lin Zaishan fiercely.
To be continued...