This answer was given out of desperate measures in a medical emergency.

Lan Tianbai didn't know what the correct answer was.

But time was almost up, so he could only pick an angle at random to answer the puppet.

"Answer incorrect,"

said the puppet with a hoarse voice.

As soon as the puppet's voice fell, it disassembled on the spot into a mass of terrifying blood-red roots, rapidly enveloping Lan Tianbai.

Lan Tianbai was much stronger than Zhao Zixuan.

As soon as the blood-red roots appeared, he had already reacted and struck back, making a final resistance.

Unfortunately, no matter how fast the reaction, it was all in vain if the strength wasn't enough.

In just the blink of an eye, Lan Tianbai was entwined by the blood-red roots into a chrysalis and pulled up by a vine to hang high at the top of the cage.

Seeing even Lan Tianbai attacked without the power to fight back, everyone present showed a look of despair.

They never imagined that the great battle had just begun, and they would fall in this cramped cage.

"Is the falling of the leaves the pursuit of the wind, or the tree's reluctance to hold on?"

Another puppet fell down, staring blankly at Wu Shiya with hollow eyes.

Wu Shiya was Fu Zhou's girlfriend, and last time she went with Fu Zhou to take Lin Zichen and Shen Qinghan out for training, familiarizing themselves with the environment outside the city.

"The falling of the leaves is the tree's reluctance to hold on; a leaf that can be seduced away by the wind isn't worth holding onto,"

Wu Shiya was a bit flustered, but still maintained a calm demeanor and gave such a premeditated answer.

The joint effect of wind and tree had been answered.

The pursuit of the wind had been answered.

Now only the tree's reluctance to hold on remained unaddressed.

Wu Shiya had some confidence in her answer.

However, idealism is wonderful, reality is harsh.

In the situation where Wu Shiya had some confidence,

the puppet before her stated mercilessly: "Answer incorrect."

How could this be?!

Wu Shiya's eyes widened instantly, unable to accept it.

The puppet didn't care about her acceptance, and at the moment "Answer incorrect" was spoken, it immediately disassembled into a mass of blood-red roots, rapidly enveloping her.

"Shiya!"

Fu Zhou instinctively shouted out upon seeing this, while bursting out the power of his Blood Qi Power, trying to save Wu Shiya.

The result was that both were bound within a chrysalis and pulled to hang at the top of the cage.

"Is the falling of the leaves the pursuit of the wind, or the tree's reluctance to hold on?"

A brand new puppet fell from the sky, like the previous puppets, asking this question to the person closest.

This time, that person was Shen Qinghan.

Under the deadly gaze of the puppet, Shen Qinghan's heart immediately panicked.

She habitually turned to Lin Zichen beside her, casting a plea for help with her eyes.

Lin Zichen's mind worked extremely fast.

The previous three had answered the puppet's question from a literary perspective.

If the perspective was changed to a scientific one, might the riddle be easily solved?

Lin Zichen wasn't sure his reasoning was correct.

But under the current circumstances, there was nothing else to try.

They could only make a dead horse work as a living horse.

"Han Han, think in terms of science, answer with the biology you've learned,"

Lin Zichen earnestly told Shen Qinghan.

Upon hearing this, Shen Qinghan quickly searched her mind for theories related to falling leaves, aiming to give an almost perfect scientific answer to free herself.

"Is the falling of the leaves the pursuit of the wind, or the tree's reluctance to hold on?"

The puppet posed the question a second time.

And by then, Shen Qinghan had already drafted the perfect scientific response in her mind.

As the puppet asked the second time, she immediately replied:

"The falling of the leaves is neither the pursuit of the wind nor the tree's reluctance to hold on, but rather abscission,"

"When the cold winter comes, plants, in order to lessen their...

"...Answer incorrect!"

Shen Qinghan hadn't said much when she was abruptly interrupted by the puppet's harsh voice.

Then the next second, the puppet disassembled on the spot into a multitude of sinister blood-red roots, like disgusting red worms, attacking Shen Qinghan.

Seeing the revolting blood-red roots surging towards her, Shen Qinghan's face turned pale, and a hint of despair flashed in her eyes.

"Whizz—!"

A piercing sound of cutting through the air erupted.

Lin Zichen, beside her, rushed at the blood-red roots attacking Shen Qinghan with the fastest speed he had ever achieved in his life, intending to violently confront these highly resilient entities.

"Boom!"

"Bang!"

"Boom, boom, bang!"

"..."

In the moment when Lin Zichen clashed with the blood-colored roots, a terrifying sound burst forth throughout the cage, causing everyone present's ears to buzz intensely.

The attack was powerful.

The noise was tremendous.

But the strength of the blood-colored roots was beyond imagination; no matter how Lin Zichen attacked, at most, he could only block them, never destroy them. Your next read is at empire

After some attempts, Lin Zichen realized that brute force alone couldn't deal with the blood-colored roots.

With this thought, bolstered by [Advanced Spirit] and [Absolute Focus], he used the Biometric Attributes of [Flame Breath] on the blood-colored roots before him.

The next second, a mass of red flames burst from Lin Zichen's mouth and nose, like a volcanic eruption, slamming into the blood-colored roots in front of him.

As soon as these red flames appeared, they instantly ignited the highly resilient blood-colored roots, causing them to twist agonizingly in the air like venomous snakes that had lost their nerve.

It was effective!

The Biometric Attribute [Flame Breath] truly could restrain the demonic plants!

Overjoyed, Lin Zichen quickly intensified the output of the red flames, aiming to reduce the blood-colored roots and even the entire cage to ashes.

Meanwhile, everyone else present was dumbfounded, completely shocked.

He could actually breathe fire?

Why could he breathe fire?

What on Earth was going on?

A hallucination?!

Everyone was utterly baffled by this.

However, at this moment, they weren't dwelling on this too much.

Because they all very clearly understood one thing.

If Lin Zichen could damage the blood-colored roots, it meant there was hope for them to escape.

Several seconds later.

Lin Zichen had used a tremendous amount of spiritual power, his whole head was so hot it turned red, but finally, he had turned all the blood-colored roots in front of him to ashes.

However, he didn't stop breathing fire. Instead, he sprayed even more.

With the spray of red flames, he focused the attack on one spot in front of him.

He wanted to burn a large hole at that spot, allowing everyone inside the cage a chance to escape.

The red flames indeed had a deadly restraint on plants.

In just a few seconds, the seemingly unbreakable barrier was scorched with a fist-sized hole.

At this rate, in just over ten more seconds, a hole large enough for rapid escape could be burned open.

Just when everyone thought escape was within reach.

Suddenly, an intoxicating fragrance drifted through the cage, lingering at the tip of everyone's nose.

Before the crowd could react to what was happening.

Suddenly, Luo Qianxue, who had been silently standing among the crowd, eyes focused, entered an Elementalization state, transforming into a mass of extreme cold and with lightning speed, lunged towards the spot where Lin Zichen was spraying fire.

"Whoosh——!"

Accompanied by the sound of ice-cold air sweeping past.

In the incredulous gazes of the crowd, the spot Lin Zichen was burning was instantly frozen by the cold air into an ice wall, an unbreakable ice wall.

At this moment, everyone was stunned.

They didn't understand

Lin Zichen was decimating the giant tree.

Using [Flame Breath] to scorch it.

It was effective!

Lin Zichen was about to lead everyone to escape.

Then came a wave of fragrance.

Luo Qianxue was controlled, freezing the Flame Breath.

Flower buds appeared.

It was the Thorn Fairy!

The attempt had failed.

The group suspected the only Alien among them, Luo Qianxue, as the traitor.

They verbally attacked her.

For safety's sake, they wanted to banish her from the team.

However, the real traitor was someone else.

Luo Qianxue felt wronged, after staying in the team for so long, always giving her all, but she was never trusted and instantly broke into tears.

Lin Zichen knew Luo Qianxue wasn't the traitor, so he spoke up for her.

Luo Qianxue was being ostracized.

Lin Zichen casually made a comment.

Luo Qianxue seemed to remember something.

She remembered how she had been ostracized at the beginning and realized she was Bai Xue.

The Earthlings could only give up the base in the Origin Land and all retreat to defend Earth.

Qianxue, come over.

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