Soon Leo found a complete animal skin in a piece of rotten soil covered with rotten wood. Although it had been covered with rotten soil for a long time, this animal skin still did not show many signs of decay.

Overall it seems to be quite well preserved.

Leo put the piece of animal skin directly on his body. The pungent stench was unbearable for him, but he still endured the stench and did not use his spiritual power to dispel it. Instead, he allowed it to gather in his body.

around to enhance the concentration of the smell.

When the concentration of the stench reached a certain level, Leo walked towards the forest full of ancient war trees ahead.

Like other ordinary woods, the bases of tall trees are also covered with various shrubs and vines, which do not look dangerous.

But in fact, these shrubs and vines are all companion species of the ancient war trees, and they are not plants, but a special species between plants and animals.

When Leo walks past these plant-like creatures, these plants, like police dogs, will extract some smell from Leo and analyze it. Once the smell is wrong, they will alert the ancient war tree, and

These plants will also instantly leave their harmless state, eject acid outwards, or produce venom. What's more, they will directly pull out all the surrounding gases, creating a short vacuum in a short period of time, allowing the attacker to suffocate.

state.

However, under Leo's deliberate restraint, the fishy smell around his body was very strong, which caused the surrounding plants to misjudge. Not only did they not attack him, but they also deliberately killed some animals that the owner of the animal skin liked to eat.

The fruit moved to the road in the direction he was going, making it easier to eat.

The fruits that can grow in the small garden are definitely not ordinary fruits, not to mention the fruits that are specially cultivated as companions of the ancient war tree and provide nutrients to the ancient war tree, so they are naturally even more special.

Leo could easily feel the strong energy fluctuations from these fruits. Obviously these were similar to the energy food specially provided by the Earth Federation for psykers, so he was not polite when faced with these high-energy fruits that came to his door.

, pick these fruits one by one and store them in the storage space.

While picking the fruits, Leo also observed the reactions of the companion creatures around him, and from the fact that the companion creatures did not make any abnormal behavior, he judged that these companion creatures only had some physiological instinctive actions and did not have any intelligence.

This also made him relax a little, and he began to selectively collect some high-energy substances and psychic creatures found by the spiritual network.

Compared with other parts of the small garden, it is obvious that this forest of ancient war trees is better preserved. Coupled with the complete internal ecological cycle system, the number of marks in the information provided by the fire prevention girl is many times higher.

Many extinct species can also be found here, most of which can be used by Leo as medicine for wizard potions, of course, provided that he can analyze the medicinal properties of these substances.

Although this forest is now completely open to Leo, allowing him to take whatever he wants, he has not gone too far. Every psychic creature and high-energy substance he picks is carefully selected, and will not

It would affect any ecological balance around him. It was precisely because of his cautious actions that his picking actions did not arouse the ecological response mechanism of forest species, allowing him to safely penetrate deep into the forest.

But the fact that the forest itself did not attack Leo does not mean that the interior of the forest is safe. In fact, there is not only one kind of companion beast attached to the ancient war tree forest, but there are also some ferocious companion beasts that will specifically feed on the original owner of the animal skin.

, and Leo's action of using psychic energy to lock the scent of animal skins around his body was as eye-catching as the lights in the dark night in the eyes of those predators.

When Leo had gone deep into the forest and was about to reach the forest within the forest as his target, he stopped and turned the twins into cross sword mode. He looked around vigilantly and concentrated.

The mind perceives all movements around it through the five senses of the body.

Just now, Leo's mental network sensed a dozen malicious creatures appearing around him, but the next moment these creatures all disappeared. It is obvious that these creatures have ways to circumvent scanning psychic powers such as the mental network. In the mental

After the net lost its function, he had to rely on his body's senses and the surrounding environment data scanned by his mental net to find the location of these predators.

Soon Leo discovered that the almost invisible predators in the mental network had moved less than five meters away from his body, and a rough calculation revealed that there were as many as a dozen of these predators.

It should be of the same ethnic group.

Leo did not wait for these predators to launch an attack and passively counterattack. After confirming the location of these predators, he immediately used his psychic energy, leaving a psychic mark on these predators almost at the same time, and then

Holding the cross sword, he used shadow witchcraft to get into the shadow under his feet, and moved directly behind the predator farthest away from him, which was located on the trunk of an ancient war tree.

The back of the eater's neck was painted, and the predator's ugly head was cut off.

In the forest, there are shadows everywhere. It can be said to be Leo's natural battlefield. Coupled with the sharp twins, these predators didn't realize something was wrong until they were dead in single digits. Just facing the shadows from

Hunters who emerged from the middle and killed them with one strike, and then immediately slipped into the shadows. These predators showed no ability to resist. When the last predator was beheaded, they did not even see the hunter's figure clearly.

Although Leo easily dealt with these predators, he did not show a relaxed expression on his face, because the action he just made was so hard that he lost a lot of the smell on the animal skin. If

If he fights like this a few more times, the scent of the animal hide will weaken enough to provide him with the camouflage he needs.

After discovering the problem, Leo was no longer as relaxed as before, as if he were strolling around in his own back garden. He didn't even harvest some useful materials from the corpses on the ground. Instead, he set off immediately, speeding up and hurried towards the forest.

And along the way, we will also deliberately avoid places that may cause fights.

Just like this, more than ten minutes passed before Leo finally arrived at the very abrupt low jungle he found. The so-called low jungle is only relative to the ancient war trees around it. For ordinary humans, it is low.

This adjective needs a lot of quotation marks, after all, a tall tree of more than 200 meters cannot be called short.

Although the trees here are still growing vigorously for Leo, compared with other ancient war trees around, the trees here are obviously less lively, and even the leaves on the trees look a little gray.

In the information provided by the Fire Control Girl, there is a way to find the heart of the tree, but that method takes a lot of time, and the success rate is less than half, so Leo decided to do it according to his own method.

If you want to use it, leave for now and go outside the Ancient War Tree Forest to find a few more animal skins for camouflage, and then come back and search slowly.

Leo's method of finding the heart of the tree is very simple, which is to use the spiritual network to find the slowest and worst-growing tree among these trees. After all, all the nutrients are provided to the heart of the tree, so of course the tree cannot grow vigorously.

A large number of trees were screened out by Leo's mental network, and soon he locked on three trees, and the positions of these three trees were all together. Obviously this was not a coincidence.

These three trees are not the shortest among the many trees around, but these three trees are definitely in the worst growth condition among these trees. Two of the trees have all lost their leaves, leaving only bare trunks.

, and the condition of the remaining tree was not much better. The leaves all turned gray-white, just like the ashes floating in the air outside, lifeless.

Not only the trees, but also the accompanying organisms around the trees are lifeless, making it easy for people to feel that the situation here is completely different from other places around it.

After Leo entered this withered area, he immediately felt a strange suction force around him. This suction force was so magical that it was not affected by any force and acted directly on him, extracting the vitality from his body and making him feel a trace of it.

I was tired, and at the same time, I suddenly had the idea of ​​lying down and resting in my mind.

However, Leo knew very well that if he really followed this idea, he would eventually become the same as the corpses covered by vines and shrubs on the ground around him, becoming a nutrient for this forest.

Leo suppressed the strong urge to rest and quickly walked to the three eye-catching trees. At this moment, he was unable to use his mental network to perceive the internal conditions of the three trees. Like other ancient war trees around him, his

The mental network will collapse involuntarily when it gets close to here. Although he can also forcibly stop this collapse and infiltrate the mental network, he knows better that the consequences of doing so will inevitably trigger a counterattack from the entire ancient war forest.

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After losing the spiritual net as a powerful scanning tool, Leo could only confirm the location of the tree heart in these three trees through naked eye observation.

According to the records, the heart of the tree is shaped like a gem. It only grows inside the trunk and its location is not fixed. It is very difficult to find the heart of the tree from the outside. Only by cutting down the tree and splitting it completely can the tree be found.

However, after the tree is cut down, it will develop a resistance mechanism, which consumes a large amount of energy in the heart of the tree to provide its own needs. In other words, if the tree is not felled down quickly and split in time, then the tree will

Under the influence of this feedback effect, the heart will be completely absorbed by the tree and disappear within the tree.

Although the information categorically states that there is no way to tell the location of the heart of the tree through its appearance, this conclusion does not apply to Leo, because when Leo activated his spiritual vision skills and blessed the power of the mark of the Eye of Truth,

When he looked into his eyes, the internal conditions of the three trees were clearly visible to him, and the position of the heart of the trees was also completely displayed in his eyes.

However, even after finding the cores of the three trees, Leo did not immediately take out the cores. Instead, he walked back and forth around the three trees with a troubled look on his face.

Through the eyes blessed with the True Eye and Spirit Vision skills, Leo not only saw through the outer shell of the trees and found the location of the tree's heart, but also saw through the above-ground parts of the three trees and saw the roots of the trees. He discovered

These three trees do not exist in isolation, or in other words, the entire forest does not exist independently. Their roots are connected to each other. Once one of the trees is touched, it will inevitably disturb other trees, and eventually the entire ancient war tree will be disturbed.

The forest was stirred.

"This is really a troublesome thing!" Leo now knew why the Fire Control Girl gave him this task. I'm afraid it wouldn't be possible for ordinary people to complete this task.

Leo frowned, walked to one of the trees, put his hand on the trunk, and then injected a weak spiritual energy into the trunk, stimulating some reactions from the trunk itself, while paying careful attention to the trunk's actions.

The length of reaction.

About two or three minutes after he injected the psychic energy, a vine accompanying the ancient war tree suddenly rose up and whipped towards Leo silently. At the same time, the vines under Leo's feet also quickly wrapped around his feet, causing

He can't avoid it.

However, Leo had no intention of evading at all. The moment the attack appeared, he had already used the Demon Hunter's Quen Seal, building a protective barrier around his body, easily blocking the vine attack, and at the same time also

He used shadow magic to break away from the shackles of the vines, gathered his breath, and stood not far away like a stone.

The companion vines that had lost their target swept around the air a few times like tentacles, and then twisted on the ground a few times. After finding no prey, they retracted back to the original bushes and entangled themselves on the ground, as if they had never moved.

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After the surroundings returned to calm, Leo also released the shackles of his aura and stood in front of the three big trees again. However, at this time, his brows were no longer wrinkled and there was a slight smile on his face.

Through the test just now, Leo found that the reaction mechanism of the trees was more sluggish than he expected. He didn't need to worry about what kind of trouble it would cause if the ancient war tree was disturbed. He only needed to react before the ancient war tree forest was disturbed.

As long as he leaves this forest, it is none of his business what adverse effects the forest will have in the future.

Thinking of this, Leo quickly found the fastest route out of the forest or even the small garden based on the place he had just walked and the three-dimensional map provided by Mia. At the same time, he also simulated taking out the heart of the tree several times in his mind.

Plan and found the fastest way to remove the heart of the tree.

As he determined the method, the twins also turned into boxing mode according to his intention, and followed him to stand at the best position in the plan. After taking a deep breath, they rushed to the nearest tree at an extremely fast speed.
Chapter completed!