Seeing Leng Yuexiu's reaction, cold sweat trickled down Su Jiancheng's forehead, but a smile of relief finally appeared on her face.

He gently patted Leng Yuexiu's back to help him calm down.

Bai Mengyan and Cheng Kaixi, who were standing to the side, were stunned. Su Jiancheng's actions were astonishing; they had never known that such a move was possible.

When a person has zero conscious control over their body, they passively achieve adaptive conditioned reflexes through impact and compression.

Most importantly, it turned out well.

Given the immense difficulty the two of them had in prying open Leng Yuexiu's jawbone, Su Jiancheng, in a way they couldn't comprehend, not only woke Leng Yuexiu up but also made him vomit what was hidden in his stomach—it was simply miraculous.

Although their reserve members have now awakened different superpowers, they may surpass or match the official members of the chief battle group in terms of level and power strength.

However, they lack a great deal of common sense, such as battlefield combat capability, ability to adapt to changing circumstances, strong fighting skills, and professional equipment operation.

Without any hesitation, Su Jiancheng shouted to her teammates, "Form ranks and get ready!"

The group abandoned their efforts to destroy and search the tree roots. When they returned, they saw Leng Yuexiu hunched over, supporting himself on the ground, and dry heaving.

The veteran team members showed joy on their faces, and although the new team members did not know what had happened, they were very relieved to see that their backbone, the captain, had been rescued unharmed.

They surrounded Leng Yuexiu and the others, standing orderly on the outer perimeter as a guard, spraying copper solution spray around the perimeter to create a small safety barrier.

With the presence of copper solution inhibitors, they did not need to use their special abilities to suppress the rapidly multiplying moss and dodder plants beneath their feet.

Su Jiancheng looked up at Cheng Lu: "Bring some water for the boss."

Cheng Lu handled her logistical support work with ease, without any hesitation or delay, as if she had prepared in advance, taking out a water bag and handing it over.

Su Jiancheng helped Leng Yuexiu drink a few mouthfuls of water, and Leng Yuexiu rinsed his mouth and spat out the water.

It was completely diluted blood, with visible streaks of blood mixed in.

After a while, Leng Yuexiu raised his head and pulled Su Jiancheng's hand that was supporting him.

The tree crystal and the ring that had fallen into Su Jiancheng's hand were still there, lying quietly in his hand.

Leng Yuexiu carefully examined the two tree crystals, one large and one small, as well as the ring with small diamonds tied to it by a black, thread-like rope.

The crystal tree showed no damage or bumps. Even though he held the ring tightly in his mouth, the surface of the ring remained unmarked and still shone brightly.

Leng Yuexiu breathed a sigh of relief when he saw that nothing was damaged. He then cautiously looked up at the tree canopy above to make his sense of it.

After all, when he lost consciousness, he was imprisoned underground in darkness. The first thing he needed to do upon waking up was to understand his surroundings before making any judgments.

This is the instinctive reaction of a desperate fugitive teetering on the edge of life and death.

When he saw his surroundings and his teammates who were on alert, his anxious heart calmed down and his sense of crisis returned to normal.

He glanced at Su Jiancheng's face with some surprise, then looked at Bai Mengyan and the others, his voice hoarse and dry, like sand being rubbed together.

"You subdued them?"

Leng Yuexiu tried his best to speak, but some syllables were still only breathy.

As he spoke with increasing force, his throat felt like it was being cut by a knife, causing him to unconsciously furrow his brow.

Bai Mengyan saw his lips clearly and repeated, "Uniform?"

She shook her head. "It's only a temporary expulsion." She looked up warily at the tree canopy and the other side, her tone serious. "Once we get what we need, I think we should leave as soon as possible."

"Drive away?"

Leng Yuexiu was puzzled, his gaze precisely locking onto the metal spray bottles he had never seen before among the crowd.

Su Jiancheng also explained in a timely manner, "After identification, the thing wrapped around the mutated banyan tree is a symbiotic strangler fig. Under the vegetation under our feet are a large number of dodders. They rely on the mutated banyan tree to absorb nutrients from the zombies and have all mutated."

Using Xiaocheng's expertise, we electrolyzed to create a high-concentration copper solution to inhibit and repel these two types of vines.

"Their fear and harm towards this thing is probably just an instinct in their DNA sequence, but the direction of the mutation is uncertain. So the strangler fig is very likely to come back to cause us trouble. Boss, if you can still move, let's leave now."

Leng Yuexiu looked at the emerald green, heart-shaped tree crystal in his hand, and a slightly smaller, rhomboid-shaped first-order vine crystal. After a moment's thought, he nodded to Su Jiancheng.

Others couldn't predict the value of the two crystals, but they were eager to leave this green world that blotted out the sun and imprisoned people.

Leng Yuexiu's throat was damaged, so he couldn't give commands and could only utter some simple words. Su Jiancheng was in charge of all subsequent actions.

In fact, once the crystal representing the origin of the mutated banyan tree and the mutated strangler fig is obtained, although they will not wither and die immediately, they will not exhibit a strong hunting ability.

Their ability to control the situation will also decrease accordingly, so they won't be so easily alarmed or paranoid.

However, when it comes to a large area of ​​territory controlled by the other party, the necessary respect should still be shown.

Leng Yuexiu swallowed the tree crystal and forced himself into a state of suspended animation to avoid passively absorbing its energy. Apart from the damage to his throat, there was no major damage or loss to other parts of his body or his abilities, so he had no problem traveling.

The areas connected by the banyan trees cannot be assisted by electronic devices. Leng Yuexiu and Su Jiancheng have a certain ability to distinguish directions, so they can walk out without the wristbands. It's just a matter of how much they deviate from the correct path.

However, with someone like Bai Mengyan in the team, it's very easy to find the shortest route.

Everyone sprayed a sufficient amount of copper solution inhibitor below their calves, and Leng Yuexiu then had them pour the diluted inhibitor directly into the eye of the storm he had set up beforehand.

Two bottles were poured in at once, and under Leng Yuexiu's wind-based superpower, the light blue liquid was quickly churned up by the wind wheel and eventually turned into water vapor, which was then trapped inside the wind wheel.

As a faint blue tinge flashed in his eyes, a ring of wind containing inhibitory water molecules circled around everyone, hovering at waist level and circulating repeatedly.

With this mobile "barrier," wherever they walked, the dodder under their feet dared not cause any trouble, and even separated to the sides to make way for them.

The strangler figs that entwine the treetops are not as vigorous as before. Occasionally, some of their lower-hanging tentacles will try to "hunt," but they are either cut off or blindly run into the inhibitory winds and retreat naturally.

The journey was smooth, and in just over ten minutes, the group successfully emerged from the banyan forest composed of dozens of banyan trees.

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