Chapter 2712: Poverty and Wealth Are Relative

The other party used a teleportation prop, so they arrived quickly, and in the blink of an eye, they were only a few kilometers away from them. Within this range, Rank-A Players with higher evolution rates could already determine the position of the other party.

However, it was unexpected that the one who came was not a person, but half a person.

Xu Huo moved nearby and saw a blood-soaked person entangled by mutant plants, his legs completely gone, and he was about to lose consciousness.

Raising his hand to cut down the surrounding active mutant plants, he rescued the person and took him to a safe area, but the person died before he could say a word.

Pu Yu and others came over and frowned when they saw this because the player’s wound was unmistakably from the mouth of a beast.

In this region, there are plants with sharp thorns, which have bite strength comparable to animals, but the wounds they inflict are still different from animal bites.

On his way here, Pu Yu had not encountered any large beasts, and frankly, the environment in this region was not suitable for large mutant animals to survive, but now it seems clearly otherwise.

"Mutant animals that can survive here might be more cunning than those in other regions." Yan Ping reminded everyone to be cautious.

The person was already dead, leaving no other clues on his body except for the wounds. After covering him with leaves, Xu Huo and his team continued their journey.

The place Pu Yu mentioned was still far away, so to avoid the potentially existing mutant animals, they decided to use teleportation props, but they quickly encountered a bigger problem: the failure of props and instruments.

Originally, teleportation props or instruments could directly send them near the destination, but the more far-reaching the teleportation, the more errors occurred. The channel formed by props and instruments seemed to change due to the overly concentrated energy within the region, and although the specific process was unclear, the result was that despite multiple long-distance teleportations, they didn’t get closer to the destination.

"Are the positioning instruments unaffected?" Xu Huo asked Pu Yu, looking at the landscape, which seemed no different from before.

"My positioning instrument is specially made and rarely makes mistakes," Pu Yu said, "The other props and instruments aren’t custom-made, but they are of good quality..."

She didn’t continue the rest of her words. The so-called teleportation props and instruments create a special space channel in the space, achieving the effect of crossing millions of miles in an instant, not simply making people disappear and reappear. The greater the crossing range, the greater the corresponding space fluctuations. They feared triggering an even larger wave of plants and hadn’t planned to use it initially, but now, seeing a larger wave starting to rise, all they did was in vain, and they were even farther from the original destination.

"Can you feel where the issue is?" Pu Yu asked.

Once a space channel is opened, it naturally involves spatial power fluctuations. The channel wasn’t destroyed or intercepted midway, and even with power fluctuations, it’s hard for them to discern when they were affected by the region’s energy.

"We’re getting farther away." Yan Jiayu said, "We might not reach that place in the next two or three days."

Pu Yu’s expression dimmed, "We truly didn’t anticipate this situation before coming, but now it’s too late to find special teleportation props."

"Let’s avoid the current wave first." Yan Ping and a few others were tense, looking at the coming wave of lush green like a tsunami.

"Be careful." Xu Huo said to Yan Jiayu.

Soon, the first wave crashed in. Xu Huo deployed a cutting net composed of hundreds of spatial ray blades several kilometers away, layer by layer blocking the descending vines.

Initially, this tactic was effective, but as more and more plants advanced, and given they had a certain level of intelligence, countless filled the gap between the cutting net and interior spatial barrier. Once the space gap was filled, space cutting lines were no longer threatening, and those mutant plants quickly surrounded the large spatial barrier, pressing them down underground with enormous weight.

A new space cutting line formed outside, and after a round of slaughter, Xu Huo and others reemerged, but the outside wave was relentless, reaching a height of several kilometers in some places. It was incomprehensible what would happen to people if they were caught in the forest under such a scale.

"Let’s move up there." Xu Huo suggested, seeing that the surrounding wave seemed to target them specifically. He quickly teleported several times, directly to high altitude, completely distancing from the ground, and landed on a foothold formed by the spatial barrier.

"That’s a solution, but it’s uncertain how long this plant wave will last." Pu Yu said with concern.

Using props and instruments alone would be challenging to stay afloat for a few days, relying on Evolver abilities was even less feasible.

"Didn’t you come from a Rank-A Wormhole Point?" Yan Jiayu asked, "Can’t even afford a flying vehicle?"

Pu Yu was slightly silent, "My available assets are limited, can’t afford an advanced hovering flying vehicle."

"Why not buy a cheaper one?" Xu Huo, who still had a few low-altitude flying vehicles, questioned. Pu Yu remained silent, indicating there might be variations in the price of hovering flying vehicles.

Pu Yu completely fell silent, and her silence led Yan Ping and others to become increasingly suspicious. The short-haired woman couldn’t help but ask, "You can’t even afford the final payment, right?"

"Rest assured, even if I die here, someone will settle the final payment for you." Pu Yu’s expression turned slightly cold.

"The ground is rising." Yan Jiayu observed below, "It seems like the entire forest is rising, can they even chase us to the sky!"

The wave earlier was only a kilometer high, while they were several kilometers away from the ground, they shouldn’t even be sensed by the mutant plants.

Everyone looked down for a while, and sure enough, the mutant plants layered over each other after coming, forming new underground forest structures, resulting in the ground rising bit by bit, seemingly approaching them.

Over time, their position was evidently much higher than the nearby forest.

"Maybe they’re more sensitive to airborne prey." Xu Huo said, "Let’s try another place."

He expanded the spatial barrier range. After moving, the mutant plants didn’t follow, but again, the mutant plants beneath started stacking ladders.

"It looks like as long as we stay airborne, these mutant plants will never cease." Pu Yu said, "Let’s change place and come down for now."

Xu Huo agreed; they couldn’t stay airborne forever, or they would never reach the destination, and their instruments must be conserved for emergencies and unexpected situations.

This time they used Mental Portal to run dozens of times, finally exiting the active area of mutant plants. However, just as they landed, the few with a larger perceptive range changed their expressions!