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Chapter 242 Burning Vines

Just as Lu Yuan's system was working overtime to fix the bug, the vines that were binding Pei Sihao and Lu Yuan began to loosen. Just when Pei Sihao thought he could finally breathe a sigh of relief, the surrounding vines tightened again, pulling him and Lu Yuan tight once more.

"Ugh!" Pei Sihao groaned as his face slammed into Lu Yuan's mecha. Fortunately, the mecha's protective exterior wasn't too hard, otherwise, Pei Sihao would probably have been covered in blood from the impact.

"Where...where is this?" When Lu Yuan's voice came, Pei Sihao was already on the verge of suffocating. He couldn't make a sound, and he couldn't even ask the system to remove the mecha's protective state.

"Hmm...hmm...hmm..." Holding his last breath, Pei Sihao struggled and made a sound.

"Hmm?" Although Lu Yuan didn't know what was going on, the mecha's protective mode prevented him from moving, so he had to deactivate the mecha's protective mode first.

"Phew!" Pei Sihao breathed a sigh of relief. Just as he felt his body relax a little, he immediately felt the vines behind him tighten again.

"Brother Hao?" Lu Yuan was also surprised to see Pei Sihao. In his previous mecha protective state, he couldn't see Pei Sihao who was pressed down on his mecha. Now that he had shrunk back to his normal state, he was the one who was tightly bound in Pei Sihao's arms by the vines.

"You're finally awake." Pei Sihao was still slowly regulating his breathing. Having just experienced almost suffocating, he really didn't want to struggle anymore.

"Brother Hao, what's our situation now?" Lu Yuan struggled for a moment and found that the vines binding him and Pei Sihao tightened as soon as he moved slightly.

“You were unconscious when we fell from the helicopter, so you didn’t fall with us. I came down to rescue you, and now we’re stuck here. We don’t know how the other four are doing, but they should be over there at the point of light.” Pei Sihao moved his head, and Lu Yuan followed his gaze and could see a white point of light in the distance.

"The vines seem to have loosened a bit." Just as Lu Yuan felt the vines loosen, he moved his hands and feet slightly, and the vines immediately tightened.

"Sigh, it seems we can't move at all." Pei Sihao sighed helplessly. Now, if they move even slightly, the vines will tighten, so they can only relax and let themselves rot.

"Is the communication system fixed?" Lu Yuan asked again after the oppressive feeling on his body disappeared.

"All right……"

"Xiao Hao, can you hear me?"

Along with the system notification, Gu Nanfeng's voice rang out, but this time his voice was no longer as anxious. Ever since they discovered the communication system bug, Gu Nanfeng had asked this question every few minutes, his initial anxiety gradually subsiding; he had lost count of how many times he had asked.

"Brother Feng!" Pei Sihao became excited upon hearing Gu Nanfeng's voice. At the same time, the vines binding him and Lu Yuan suddenly tightened due to this stimulation.

"Calm down, calm down!" Lin Yun and Ji Lang's voices followed, indicating that their situation was the same as this one.

"Brother Hao, do you feel your pants legs are wet?" Lu Yuan's words not only calmed Pei Sihao down, but also silenced the voice on the other end of the communicator.

"What kind of slime is this?" Lin Yun's voice rang out again. It sounded that things were slightly better on their side, at least they could see what was under their feet. On Lu Yuan and Pei Sihao's side, they were tightly bound together, and apart from what was in front of them, it was difficult for them to even turn their heads.

Actually, the others were all wearing protective suits and couldn't feel the suddenly appearing slime. However, Lu Yuan's mecha was different. Apart from the skeleton, the other parts were made of a material that looked like a layer of skin on Lu Yuan's body. Moreover, Lu Yuan habitually wore a normal set of clothes over his mecha, so he could clearly feel the appearance of the slime.

"It seems to be corrosive." Gu Nanfeng looked at the soles of his feet. They were all wearing the same thick-soled military boots as those at the base, and it was obvious that the soles were already starting to corrode.

"So this is how these vines kill people." Ji Lang's shoes were most severely corroded, after all, he was now the weight of two people.

“We can’t see from here.” Pei Sihao explained their situation, and Gu Nanfeng realized that their situations were completely different, with their area of ​​activity being much larger.

"Don't worry, we'll find a way to get to you right away." Gu Nanfeng looked around while reassuring Pei Sihao and Lu Yuan. Their situation wasn't good either; the four of them were trapped in a small space surrounded by dense vines, making it impossible to break through.

"Don't be too anxious." Although Pei Sihao couldn't see Gu Nanfeng, he could tell from Gu Nanfeng's voice that Gu Nanfeng was suppressing his emotions.

To prevent the suddenly appearing slime from continuing to corrode their shoe soles, Ji Lang tentatively released his supernatural power, sealing the slime on the ground with ice and snow. Soon, the frozen slime seemed to lose its activity and its stickiness, and Ji Lang pulled hard, easily lifting his shoe off the slime.

"Pei Sihao, you can use water to dilute the slime, or freeze it," Ji Lang said as he helped Lin Yun and Gu Nanfeng remove the slime from their feet.

In fact, Lu Yuan and his group were in a much more dangerous situation than Pei Sihao had described. They were completely wrapped in vines, so the slime wasn't just under their feet; it was everywhere they looked. If they were to freeze the slime with water, they would probably be frozen solid as well.

"Let's burn it?" To avoid worrying the others, Lu Yuan and Pei Sihao spoke with their communicators off. After discovering the slime gushing out from all directions, Lu Yuan could only think of fire. And of all of them, only he could fire cannons from his mech.

They had considered the worst-case scenario: perhaps Lu Yuan's fire wouldn't be able to burn the large area of ​​vines, but instead would provoke them and immediately strangle them all; or perhaps the vines would ignite at the slightest touch, and they wouldn't have time to escape before being burned to death.

"Brother Feng, Lu Yuan and I are planning to set these vines on fire. If they catch fire, remember to run!" Pei Sihao agreed to Lu Yuan's suggestion. Since they were going to die anyway, they might as well put up a fight.

"Don't do anything rash." Gu Nanfeng was a little anxious. He didn't know what would happen if he set a fire in this place full of vines, but it certainly wouldn't be as Lu Yuan and the others expected.

"It's too late!" Just as Gu Nanfeng was about to rush towards the vines in the direction of Lu Yuan's mecha's red dot, the red dot grew larger and larger, and they could even clearly feel the heat rushing towards them.

The vines, which had been almost still, began to throb again. Ji Lang quickly discovered a crack that could allow them to pass through. Without even thinking about whether the crack could get them out, he tugged at the rope between them and was about to run with the others.

"It's on fire! We're running in your direction!" Gu Nanfeng didn't want to run with Ji Lang, since they were going in different directions. He was about to unbuckle the clasp on his waist when he heard Lu Yuan's voice coming from the communicator. There were sounds of running and rapid breathing on the other end.