Starting Off Survival With A Small Treehouse

Chapter 1349 - 681: The Terror Behind the Door! (3)

Jin Yue was the last to walk out of the room, experiencing the same surprise as the three before her.

But she recovered quickly and followed immediately behind the others.

The group continued to walk along the corridor.

Behind them, the door at the end of the corridor remained wide open, not closing at all.

And the two alien invaders behind the door didn’t budge an inch, their hundreds of eyes blinking in the darkness, as if waiting for the people inside to come out, so they could pounce directly.

The group tiptoed quite a distance until they were far enough from the door behind, where the blinking eyes were barely visible, and then they huddled together again.

"I was really scared just now..." Lou Fei’Er said with lingering fear, "I almost cried out of fear..."

She was the one most severely affected by the mental shock.

The three people after her, Xu Xin and the others, all knew there was something terrifying behind the door. Though they didn’t know exactly what before they saw it, at least they had some mental preparation.

But Lou Fei’Er really faced hundreds of eyes without any preparation.

Let alone hundreds of eyes behind a door; even turning around to find a stranger hiding behind a door would be terrifying.

It truly took extraordinary composure for Lou Fei’Er not to scream.

"Why were there alien invaders there..." Li Wenxi muttered in a still frightened state, "Why were they squeezed behind the door..."

"Gatekeepers, probably," Jin Yue replied succinctly.

"So they just stay there all the time? Won’t hiding behind the door scare other alien invaders..."

Xu Xin was looking back at that moment.

The corridor was very straight, and even after walking several hundred meters, he could still see the open door behind.

However, the two alien invaders behind the door were no longer visible.

"Could those two alien invaders be the ’gatekeepers’ of this world tree?" Xu Xin thought.

Gatekeepers, responsible for guiding individual alien invaders in and out of the world tree.

But it seemed like one didn’t need a guide to enter this world tree, just a stomp in the right spot and mutated vines would take you in.

Still, this world tree was surely not something one could enter and exit at will.

So, probably the two alien invaders behind that door were there to filter who could come and go.

In other words... "Gatekeepers."

The gatekeepers being squeezed behind the door was indeed a bit underwhelming.

It truly looked rather awkward.

However, remembering the previous gatekeeper controlled by Wen Guixin, who turned into a skin to corrode the trunk of the world tree...

These two gatekeepers seemed more appropriate, in contrast?

The gatekeepers somehow seemed a bit pitiful...

"It seems the hierarchy within this world tree must be very strict," Xu Xin concluded.

That seemed quite normal.

The leader of the alien invaders, the father of the monsters, was a leader of armies, and strict hierarchies are normal in military structures, so naturally, such management would exist within the world tree too.

However, such a strict military hierarchical system isn’t suitable for treating the masses, which might be why the alien invaders’ internal structure has become so chaotic.

"Let’s keep moving forward, Keke, lead the way." Xu Xin said to the little creature peeking out from Lou Fei’Er’s embrace.

"Yip!" Keke’s ears twitched.

The path they had walked just now was nothing more than a simple corridor.

No doors on the sides, nor surveillance cameras could be seen.

Li Wenxi had also checked; there were no metallic traps here.

Having walked a few hundred meters, they were only halfway through the corridor.

Because of this, Xu Xin and the others paused to discuss the situation.

This corridor seemed to be the last place of tranquility.

Beyond this corridor, it was likely the living area of the alien invaders.

They would likely encounter more alien invaders there.

"Let’s go, with this stealth cloak, our situation isn’t too dangerous." Xu Xin whispered, "But once we leave this corridor, don’t speak easily."

Although the stealth cloak greatly reduced their presence, noise could still increase their detectability.

In this enemy territory, it would be unwise to take risks.

"Yip..." Keke looked towards the other end of the corridor, tilting its little head.