Chapter 2712: Rich and Poor Are Relative
The other party used a teleportation item, so they arrived very quickly. In the blink of an eye, they were only a few thousand meters away, and within this range, an A-rank player with a higher evolution rate could already determine the other's position.
But unexpectedly, it wasn't a whole person who came, but half a person.
Xu Huo moved closer and saw a bloody person being entangled by mutated plants. He had lost both legs and was nearly unconscious.
Raising his hand to slice away the mutated plants that were stirring nearby, he rescued the person and brought him to a safe area. But before the man could even speak, he breathed his last.
Pu Yu and the others followed over and frowned at the sight. One look at the wounds made it clear they came from a beast's mouth.
This district wasn't without plants covered in sharp thorns, and their bite force was no weaker than that of animals. However, the wounds they caused were still different from animal bites.
Pu Yu and her group hadn't encountered any large fierce beasts along the way. To be honest, the environment of this district didn't seem suitable for large mutated animals to survive. But now, it was clearly not the case.
"Mutated animals that can survive here are probably more cunning than those in other districts," Yan Ping warned everyone to be careful.
The man was already dead, and aside from the wounds, there were no other clues. After picking some leaves to cover him, Xu Huo and the group continued on their way.
The place Pu Yu had mentioned was still far away. To avoid any possible mutated animals, they decided to use teleportation items. But soon, they encountered an even bigger problem: the items and instruments were failing.
Normally, teleportation items or instruments could send them directly near their destination. However, the greater the distance of the teleportation, the more prone it was to errors. The channels formed by items and instruments seemed to be altered by the overly concentrated energy within the district. The exact process was unclear, but the result was that after multiple long-distance teleportations, they still hadn't gotten close to their destination.
"Is the positioning instrument unaffected?" Xu Huo looked at the scenery, which was exactly the same as before, and turned to ask Pu Yu.
"My positioning instrument is specially made and won't easily make mistakes," Pu Yu said. "Although the other items and instruments aren't custom-made, their quality is still good..."
She didn't finish her sentence. The so-called teleportation items and instruments that could instantly cross thousands of miles didn't make people disappear and reappear out of thin air. Instead, they created a special spatial channel in space. The larger the span, the greater the spatial fluctuations caused. Afraid of triggering an even larger plant wave, they hadn't planned to use them earlier. Now, it seemed a bigger wave was about to rise. Not only had they wasted their efforts, but they had also moved further away from their original destination.
"Can you sense where the problem is?" Pu Yu asked.
Once a spatial channel opened, it was accompanied by fluctuations in spatial power. Since the channel wasn't destroyed or intercepted midway, even with the power fluctuations, it was hard to tell exactly when the district's energy had affected it.
"We're getting further and further away," Yan Jiayu said. "At this rate, we probably won't make it in two or three days."
Pu Yu's expression darkened. "I really didn't anticipate this situation before coming. But now, it's too late to find a specially made teleportation item."
"Let's avoid the current wave first," Yan Ping and the others said, their bodies tensing as they watched the emerald-green, tsunami-like wave surging toward them.
"Be careful," Xu Huo said to Yan Jiayu.
Soon, the first wave crashed down. Xu Huo deployed a cutting net made of hundreds of Space Ray Blades several thousand meters away, layer by layer blocking the descending vines.
At first, this tactic worked. But as more and more plants surged forward, and since they had some thinking ability, countless numbers piled up between the cutting net and the inner space barrier. Once the gaps were filled, the space tangents were no longer a threat. The mutated plants quickly wrapped around the massive space barrier, using their immense weight to press them down toward the ground.
New space tangents formed outside. After a round of shredding, Xu Huo and the others saw daylight again. But the waves outside continued without end, some reaching heights of a thousand meters. It was unimaginable what kind of shredding a person in the forest would suffer under such a scale.
"Let's go up high," Xu Huo said, noticing that the surrounding waves seemed to be specifically targeting them. He used several consecutive teleportations to reach high altitude, completely separating from the ground and landing on a foothold formed by the space barrier.
"That's one way to do it, but I wonder how long this plant wave will last," Pu Yu said with concern.
Relying solely on items and instruments to stay in the air for several days was difficult, and relying on an Evolver's abilities was even more impossible.
"Aren't you from an A-rank wormhole point?" Yan Jiayu asked. "Can't you even afford a flying vehicle?"
Pu Yu was silent for a moment. "I don't have many disposable assets. I really can't afford a high-end hovering vehicle."
"Why not buy a cheap one?" Xu Huo still had some low-altitude flying vehicles, and their prices weren't too high. He assumed that the hovering vehicles Pu Yu mentioned also had varying prices.
Pu Yu fell completely silent. Her silence made Yan Ping and the others grow suspicious. The short-haired woman couldn't help but ask, "You're not even going to be able to pay the final installment, are you?"
"Don't worry. Even if I die here, someone will pay you the final installment," Pu Yu said coldly.
"The ground is rising," Yan Jiayu said, looking down. "It seems like the entire forest is rising. Can they even chase us into the air?"
The wave that had surged earlier was only a thousand meters high, but they were several thousand meters above the ground. At that distance, the mutated plants shouldn't even be able to sense them!
Everyone looked down and saw that it was true. The mutated plants surged over and piled layer upon layer, forming a new underground forest-like structure. The end result was that the ground was slowly rising, seemingly moving closer to them.
Over time, their position was clearly much higher than the surrounding forest.
"Maybe they're more sensitive to prey in the air," Xu Huo said. "Let's try another spot."
He expanded the range of the space barrier. After the group moved, the mutated plants didn't chase them, but the same thing happened again: the plants below started stacking a ladder.
"It seems that as long as we stay in the air, these mutated plants will never stop," Pu Yu said. "Let's find another place to land."
Xu Huo agreed. They couldn't stay in the air forever, or they would never reach their destination. They also needed to conserve their instruments, or they wouldn't have enough tools to deal with emergencies.
This time, they used the spiritual gate to teleport dozens of times in a row, finally leaving the active area of the mutated plants. But the moment they landed, several people in the group with larger perception ranges all changed expressions!