Chapter 657 Return to Red Maple Base
"The temperature is getting higher and higher..."

On the way to the Red Maple Base, Wang Tao frowned as he felt his body temperature getting higher and higher.

Given the current situation, it is not surprising that the temperature continues to rise. But it shouldn't rise by one degree in just over thirty minutes, right? At this rate, it will rise to 100 degrees in a few days. But in reality, the temperature is still over degrees... This actual temperature and the theoretical temperature rise are obviously inconsistent.

"Is it because of the rising sun?"

Looking at the glaring sun in the sky, Wang Tao was not very sure.

Because the current high temperature actually comes from underground. The deeper you go underground, the hotter it gets. It doesn’t seem to have anything to do with the sun…

While thinking in his heart, Wang Tao did not lose his focus and kept staring at the situation below, expecting to encounter a zombie with the strength of the primary law of fire attribute.

There were quite a few zombies on the road, including disaster zombies. Wang Tao also killed a few of them, but until he arrived outside the Red Maple Base, he didn't see any zombies with the power of fire laws, let alone zombies with the power of other laws.

"It's so hot!" Wang Tao wiped the sweat from his forehead. The temperature near the Red Maple Base must be over 60 degrees, right?
Wang Tao discovered along the way that the high temperature was not due to the rising sun, but the temperature became higher the closer he flew to the Red Maple Base!
It was fine when he was flying in the sky, but when he landed to kill the zombies, he could feel that the surface temperature was hotter than the air, and it even burned his feet. He didn't know how the people at the Red Maple Base persisted...

chirp——

The golden eagle flew over the Red Maple Base and let out a cry.

It was obvious that the people in the base were a little panicked, but after seeing the golden eagle, they all breathed a sigh of relief.

When the golden eagle flew unimpeded outside the city hall, a group of people were already waiting.

Everyone opened their mouths wide as they looked at the huge beast in front of them. The last time Wang Tao came, the golden eagle didn't seem to be that big, right? Has it become stronger again?
The space inside the Red Maple Base was very limited, and there was no place for the golden eagle to land. After Wang Tao jumped off the golden eagle's back, he let the golden eagle play by itself.

"Welcome, Mr. Wang!"

Mayor Xiang Bo, Fiery Gang leader Tu Li, military commander Han Youlin and others immediately gathered around excitedly.

Although they didn't know exactly how strong Wang Tao was, Wang Tao dared to come alone, which showed that Wang Tao was confident in his ability to solve the problem. They had been troubled by the mutant plant for a long time, and they should be able to solve it this time!

"Hello, we meet again!"

Wang Tao smiled and shook hands with several people, then looked around and said in a surprised tone:
"Before I came here, I thought it would be very hot here, but I didn't expect it to be only 30 or 40 degrees..."

Thirty or forty degrees is considered high temperature, but compared with the weather outside which is often fifty or sixty degrees, it is already cool.

Hearing Wang Tao's words, several people smiled.

"It can only be said that we are not destined to die! Some time ago, we discovered a special mutant plant that can lower the temperature..."

Han Youlin pointed to a lantern tree.

Wang Tao looked in the direction Han Youlin pointed and was a little surprised.

I saw a mutated plant that looked like both a snake and a grass entwined on this lantern tree. It was motionless, as if it was asleep, and a trace of coldness emanated from it.

[Health Volume: 300000/300000]

[Blue amount: 100000/100000]

[Level: Level 3 Elite]

[Status: Frost and Cold]

[Frost Chill: The speed of the movement is reduced, and the temperature within a certain range is reduced]

This mutant plant has a [status], which is of ice attribute. However, this state is completely incomparable to the frozen aura, but for the survivors of the Red Maple Base, this [Frost Chill], which is not dangerous, is just right!
"When we were out before, we accidentally entered a forest and found that the temperature there was very low, which was very strange. After searching, we found that the low temperature was emitted by this mutant plant, and then we brought these mutant plants to the base. They are not aggressive, and as long as they are provided with food, they can continue to emit this cold air, but since there are not many of them, they cannot fill the entire base, so we can only lower the temperature a little... But no matter what, this mutant plant, which we named 'Cold Grass', saved our lives! Otherwise, I don't know how many people would have died of the heat in this high temperature of more than 60 degrees..."

Han Youlin explained it to Wang Tao in detail.

"I see... Then you are really lucky!"

Wang Tao nodded.

It must be said that they were really lucky to have picked up this kind of thing when it was hot. In this kind of weather, for people like them, "Cold Grass" was undoubtedly a magical artifact!
But Wang Tao's words made Han Youlin sigh.

"Alas, our luck seems to have run out since we picked up the Frost Grass. Since then, we have often encountered various troubles. Many of our outbound teams have died, and recently we have even provoked a terrifying existence..."

"What kind of trouble did you encounter specifically?"

Wang Tao asked curiously.

They didn't go into detail before, just saying that they encountered a very strong mutant plant and they couldn't deal with it. That mutant plant had threatened the safety of their base, so they asked for help from the Changhe base...

"Mr. Wang, let's go in and talk..."

Han Youlin and his group brought Wang Tao to the City Hall, and then explained to Wang Tao in detail:

"We encountered the mutant plant ten days ago. At that time, an elite team went out to explore and suddenly lost contact. After I got the news, I sent three teams to search, but these three teams also lost contact..."

"These people are the real elites of our Red Maple Base. Losing four teams in a row is a huge loss for the base. So I plan to lead people to search for them myself. At least I want to find them alive or dead..."

"After we arrived at the location where we lost contact with several teams, we began a carpet search. As a result, we didn't see any team members, but instead found a very scary monster in a cave!"

"No matter how strong a person is, once they are near that monster, they will feel weak all over, as if their vitality is fading away, and their fighting power will be greatly reduced. They will even die if they stay a little longer!"

"And this was when the monster didn't notice us. When it spotted us and ran towards us, the feeling of losing our vitality became even stronger, and we even felt a little unable to walk!"

"But the monster wasn't very fast. We finally escaped at the cost of several lives."

"As for those people who died... the monster didn't do anything to them at all. It just let their vitality drain away and they died!"

"Of course, if that were all, we wouldn't have asked you for help. At most, we could just not go there. That place is still far from our base anyway."

"But seven days ago, someone saw the monster again, but it was not in the original location - it left the cave and is now staying closer to our base..."

"At that time, we were still a little bit lucky, thinking that it should not come to us, maybe it was just a coincidence. But five days ago, someone spotted it again, and it was even closer to our base!" "Even if its target is not our base, it will definitely pass by our base according to this route!"

"So we tried to lure it away. We were faster than it, so theoretically it was possible to lure it away. But unfortunately, its ability to drain a person's vitality was too strong, so we couldn't get close to it. Although we had the crystal energy gun we bought from you, it didn't seem to have any effect on it, and it didn't care much. After trying various methods, we finally had no choice but to give up..."

"Three days ago, it came much closer to our base. At this speed, it will pass by our base tomorrow or the day after tomorrow. If it rushes into our base, ordinary survivors will probably die instantly..."

"We really have no other choice but to ask for help from your Changhe Base..."

Wang Tao did not interrupt Han Youlin's speech. He waited until Han Youlin finished speaking and looked at him expectantly before Wang Tao spoke:
"From what you've said, that monster is obviously a sixth-order catastrophic creature. It's normal that you can't deal with it..."

Han Youlin and his men were the strongest in the Red Maple Base, but they were only at the fifth level of awakening. With their tacit cooperation, they could still fight against the sixth level lord, but not the sixth level disaster.

The blood loss of Disaster Awakening is unreasonable. It is impossible to kill disaster-level creatures above your level without long-range attack capabilities, or powerful healing capabilities, or the ability to recover or suck blood.

Only those with the same level of strength are barely qualified to fight against catastrophic-level creatures, and it is difficult to win.

In addition to Wang Tao, Ding Yuqin and the others had to make adequate preparations and then fight in a group when hunting the sixth-order disaster-level creatures for the sake of safety.

Therefore, it was normal that Han Youlin and his people were not even at level six, and they did not have any particularly strong long-range attack capabilities or powerful healing awakeners, so they could not contend with that catastrophic creature.

It was fortunate that the catastrophic creature was slow, otherwise, with the strength of Han Youlin and the others, there would be probably not many who could come back alive.

"Ah? Disaster level?"

Han Youlin and the others were a little confused after hearing Wang Tao's words. It was the first time they heard this term.

"Uh, you don't know?" Wang Tao was speechless. Didn't he mention catastrophic level when they communicated before?

Wang Tao suddenly felt that the Red Maple Base was indeed lucky. Disaster-level creatures had appeared a long time ago, and he had no idea how many they had killed. This was the first time he had seen these people...

However, just a sixth-order catastrophic creature was enough to put their base with a population of hundreds of thousands into a survival crisis, while Wang Tao and his men were able to kill them indiscriminately... It can only be said that the gap in strength between the two bases was still too big.

Shaking his head, Wang Tao gave them an explanation of what disaster level is.

After hearing this, several people suddenly felt that they were very lucky to have been able to escape from such a terrifying creature.

"Disaster level...it really deserves the name 'disaster'!"

Han Youlin sighed. Then he looked at Wang Tao nervously. Could Wang Tao defeat such a powerful catastrophic creature?
What if Wang Tao can’t handle it, then wouldn’t their base be really finished?
As if he could see the uneasiness of the people, Wang Tao said:

"Don't worry, it's just a sixth-order disaster-level creature. It's not a big problem. But then again, it's been such a long time since the end of the world, and there are no other disaster-level creatures here. You are really lucky..."

“We also feel that we are lucky…”

Seeing Wang Tao's confident look, Han Youlin and others immediately breathed a sigh of relief.

Wang Tao then said:

"I'll go find it, wherever it is."

Han Youlin immediately took out the map he had prepared long ago. There were several markings on it. These markings were the location of the catastrophic mutant plant they had discovered.

"Disaster-level creatures are still too dangerous for you, and I don't have any healing abilities...so I can go by myself. You guys wait for my news at the base."

Wang Tao put away the map and stood up.

"...Yes, we are waiting for good news from Mr. Wang at the base!"

Han Youlin and his friends actually wanted to go with them, after all, it was a catastrophic creature, and they wanted to know how Wang Tao hunted it. But Wang Tao could withstand the catastrophic awakening, but they couldn't, and if they went, they would become a burden, so they didn't dare to say anything more in the end.

Wang Tao did not stay in the Red Maple Base for too long. After determining the location of the catastrophic creature, he summoned the golden eagle and flew directly to the nearest marked location on the map.

After a moment, Wang Tao saw a forest of red trees.

Follow the markings on the map and continue walking along the mangroves, and you should be able to encounter that catastrophic creature.

Wang Tao asked the golden eagle to fly slower, and at a certain moment, Wang Tao suddenly found that his health was slowly decreasing. He immediately lowered his head, glanced around, and locked onto the target.

"Found it, go ahead."

chirp——

At Wang Tao's signal, the golden eagle carrying Wang Tao swooped directly towards the other party.

[Health Volume: 1000000/1000000]

[Blue amount: 0/0]

[Level: Level 6 Disaster]

[Impurities in the body: 52%]

【Disaster Awakening: Life Passing】

[Life Loss: The surrounding lives continue to lose blood]

This is a mutant plant that looks like a dead tree, with branches all over its body, and its eyes and mouth cannot be seen clearly. Its disaster awakening is [Life Loss], which is also relatively common among disaster-level creatures.

But Wang Tao frowned, because this catastrophic mutant plant actually contained the power of elementary laws. After Wang Tao's perception, this power of elementary laws was still part of the system, which he could use.

But the problem is that Wang Tao is not very eager to acquire other elementary law strengths now, and his fire attribute law strength is not yet settled.

"Forget it, now that I'm here... I'm still 20% away from having the primary power of the law. It won't be a big problem even if I kill it."

(End of this chapter)

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