Starting Off Survival With A Small Treehouse

Chapter 1205 - 632: Gravely Wounded Shell Casings_3

"Heh, I’ve got nothing to do right now, of course I’m going to enjoy myself." Xu Ying said, as if it were only natural.

Then she looked at Xu Xin in surprise. "Bro, what happened to you? Why are you filthy from head to toe, and your clothes are a bit torn... huh? Is that blood on your chest?"

As she spoke, her brows furrowed and she stood up. "What happened?"

"Where’s Wenxi?" He glanced around and asked.

"Sis-in-law took a team down to the underground world to mine." Xu Ying walked over. "Don’t change the subject, what exactly happened?"

Xu Xin handed the shell casing in his hand to Xu Ying. "Take a look at this."

The instant Xu Ying saw the shell, her eyes narrowed. She took a deep breath and said, "Those guys have finally come, huh."

"Those guys... you mean the survivors from a thousand years ago?" Shi Wanyun asked.

"Looks like you’ve already run into them." Xu Ying handed the shell back to Xu Xin. "This thing is a weapon from over there. I handled one myself back in the day. Hurry up and tell me what exactly happened to you."

Shi Wanyun once again recounted what had happened earlier to Xu Ying.

"...So that’s how it is. So it wasn’t an operation on their side, but some survivor coming to look for that man..." Xu Ying’s expression clearly relaxed. "So it’s not as bad as I thought."

"What you thought?" Xu Xin pressed.

"I was thinking the other side might send those survivors from a thousand years ago, maybe even Order Keepers. If that were the case, the inside of the World Tree might still be safe, but outside the World Tree..."

Xu Ying sighed. "Crystal City can’t affect them. And if they sneak into the World Tree the way Wanyun just described, that might be tricky to deal with."

"The only reason I dared bring newbies in is because they can’t hide from my eyes—disguises are useless. So even if there are infiltrators among them, it’s not that big a deal. I just won’t give them any permissions anyway. Mm... don’t bring any more newcomers into the World Tree for now. Even if you have to, let me screen them first." Xu Ying reminded him.

Xu Xin nodded. "Alright, got it."

"Wait, Yingying, you just said Crystal City doesn’t work on survivors from a thousand years ago?" At this moment, Jin Yue suddenly asked.

"Yeah." Xu Ying said as if it were obvious. "They don’t have giant beast bloodlines. What could Crystal City possibly do to them?"

"That’s not right." Lou Fei’Er also sensed something off. She looked at Shi Wanyun and Jin Yue. "I remember that person said we should lure Xu Xin outside Crystal City... he did say that, right?"

Shi Wanyun nodded. "He did."

Xu Xin also thought aloud. "And he really did appear at the edge of Crystal City just now. But when I was badly injured, he didn’t come in to grab me—he left directly instead."

"...Which means Crystal City does work on them?" Xu Ying rested her chin in her hand and speculated. "Mm... that doesn’t sound right. Crystal City doesn’t have that kind of ability. Maybe it’s because the entire Crystal City is covered by the tree canopy of the Treehouse now? Maybe it’s the World Tree he doesn’t dare get close to?"

"The World Tree can do that?" Xu Xin was stunned.

"No idea, I’m just guessing." Xu Ying spread her hands.

"..." Xu Xin’s mouth twitched. He shook his head helplessly. "Forget it. Right, there’s one more thing."

Xu Xin told everyone present about the state of the stone statue group and the Chang Yin Family, then asked Xu Ying, "Any thoughts?"

Xu Ying shook her head. "No. I’ve never run into something like this. When it comes to these petrified creatures, I actually know even less than you do."

Indeed...

Back then she had never interacted with petrified creatures at all, whereas Xu Xin and the others had at least fought them, and had some friendship with the Chang Yin Family.

"Alright then."

Since there wasn’t much else to ask, Xu Xin immediately summoned everyone in the Explorers and called another meeting.

Everyone gathered once more in that treehouse.

Now that they knew everything, the members of the Explorers all sank into deep thought.

"Is it possible that those petrified creatures, including Chang Yin, are being controlled by that man?" Wang Lei put forward a guess.

"That’s probably not it." Shi Wanyun said. "That man was clearly here to find his son. From our conversation with him, you can deduce that he had basically never been here before."

"Yeah, and according to what the man I imprisoned said, his father isn’t combat personnel. The other side shouldn’t be sending a desk worker to lead a team to attack the World Tree." Xu Xin added.

Ji Chaoyang nodded. "So that means we’re facing two wildcards right now. One is that survivor, and the other is the stone statue group. If the stone statue group comes over, we’ll have to head out. If that survivor takes the chance to muddy the waters... things might get a bit tricky."

Everyone started discussing countermeasures.

But with so little information, they couldn’t come up with anything concrete.

The only thing that seemed exploitable right now was that man’s son, who was currently in Xu Xin’s wristband.

"Nngh..." Keke lay on Xu Xin’s shoulder and let out a soft little whimper by his ear.

"Hm?" Xu Xin tilted his head to look at Keke.

"Nng nng, nng nng nng." Keke waved its tiny paws.

"...You’re saying, we don’t need to worry about those stone statues?"

"Nng!" Keke nodded its little head.