Living on a deserted island, the cold female president regards me as king

There was only a dozen meters between us and this strange tree, but neither Karen nor I dared to get too close for a while.

"Is the detector still working?"

After Karen reminded me, I remembered that we still have detectors.

When we fell into the rift, the detector was broken, the screen was covered with cracks, and it was not known whether it could still be used.

When I turned on the switch, there was a click, and the screen was immediately covered with snowflakes.

After flickering for a while, a pattern gradually appeared.

"It works."

I watched it intently for a long time, and finally discerned the final location of the radiation source from the flickering screen.

Our current position overlaps infinitely with the position of the radiation source.

If my guess is correct, the location where this strange-looking tree grows is probably where the radiation source is located.

More likely, this tree is the source of radiation.

But in the pattern displayed on the screen, in addition to the two red dots in the center, there are a few lines of English abbreviations in the upper right corner, followed by a series of constantly changing data.

I didn't understand what this meant, so I asked Karen, but Karen shook her head.

I couldn't help frowning.

Tell me directly that the data after the English abbreviations are very important to us.

But since you can't understand it, there's nothing you can do about it.

The only thing that is certain now is that the root system running through the rift belongs to the tree in front of me.

As seen earlier, the tree's hunting targets are all giant scorpions.

But no one has any evidence that it does not pose a threat to us.

It's hard to imagine that this kind of giant scorpion that can instantly kill a giant scorpion and eat a tree that is more than three meters tall into an empty shell in a short period of time, if it attacks us, how should we respond.

"Find a way to get something off of it, and then we'll get out."

After hesitating for a long time, I gritted my teeth and made a decision.

For safety reasons, I asked Karen to stay where I was, and then walked towards the tree more than ten meters away by myself.

She only had one drug to suppress the side effects.

In other words, Karen only has one chance to use the ability before we go back to report.

Save if you can.

Holding the knife and keeping a high level of vigilance, I walked towards the motionless tree.

Every step forward is extremely worrying.

Fortunately, the tree didn't respond to my approach until I walked up to it.

I looked at this tall, dark tree.

Its bark is like a piece of pitch-black jade, and a slight touch of the tip of the knife can produce a metallic crisp sound.

It looks like a stone sculpture to me.

But I can still deeply feel the surging vitality inside the bark.

It is a living predator.

When I lifted the dagger, my palms were sweating. After all, no one knows what kind of reaction I will make this thing.

But subject to the orders of the company, I had to take something away from it.

With a sharp stab, he stabbed with all his strength.

Boom!
In an instant, the flames burst into flames, and the sharp forged dagger in my hand was directly broken into two pieces. In contrast to this strangely shaped tree, I only knocked off a layer of fragments the size of a fingernail.

The broken half of the dagger fell to the ground together with the trunk fragments.

But I dare not pick it up.

I have been observing the tree quietly, and after a full minute, I found that it still didn't respond, so I breathed a sigh of relief.

"fine……"

Obviously everything was peaceful and nothing happened, but I felt a sense of gratitude that I survived the catastrophe.

He quickly took a few deep breaths and relaxed a little.

Picking up the trunk fragments, he walked towards Karen.

"It went well unexpectedly."

Karen glanced at the fingernail-sized piece of tree trunk in my hand, and sarcastically said, "I can't believe that we risked our lives for such a small piece of garbage!"

I also have this feeling of living in a dream, because everything we have seen and heard here is incredible from the perspective of ordinary people.

I sighed, wrapped the pieces carefully, and kept them close to my body.

Then, he took out two bags of scorpion meat from his backpack.

More than half of the mission for this trip has been completed. Now, we just need to maintain our strength and bring a living infected person with us on the way back.

When I think that the task is about to be completed, my whole body is full of cleanliness.

It's not that I want to work for the company, the main thing is that I really have had enough of staying in this ghostly place, and I can't wait to leave here immediately.

Without further ado, Karen took a bag of scorpion meat and ate it.

The way he devoured it was like a starving ghost reincarnated.

I glanced at the bag in my hand, smacked my lips, feeling helpless, after eating scorpion meat for so many days, I almost forgot what normal food tastes like.

Where Karen and I are now is about half a kilometer from the chasm we crossed.

But just as I was about to start, I suddenly heard the sound of something breaking from the direction of the rift valley.

The ground under his feet also produced a weak vibration.

Involuntarily, Karen and I stopped the movement of our hands, and looked in the direction of the rift in unison.

Could it be that the ledge over there collapsed again?

But in the next minute, I felt that the vibration of the ground did not stop, but tended to become more intense.

"Be careful."

As soon as I reminded Karen, the shaking of the ground suddenly stopped, as if everything had never happened.

Karen smiled noncommittally, "Are you worrying too much?"

Are you worrying too much?

I was a little hesitant and didn't dare to relax my vigilance, because the movement just now brought me a strong sense of crisis, and I believe my intuition is not wrong.

Sure enough, just as Karen picked up the bag of scorpion meat, the ground vibrated once again.

After less than three seconds, the ground beside Karen suddenly cracked, revealing a hole the size of a washbasin. Immediately afterwards, a black shadow rushed out of the hole, and the target was Karen.

Caught off guard, Karen didn't know what to do about the sudden situation.

At the critical moment, in order to save her life, I could only stand up and kick Karen directly on the shoulder, kicking her four or five meters away from the spot.

It's a pity that the speed of that black shadow was beyond my expectation, and the reaction was even faster.

The moment I kicked Karen out, the black shadow followed.

Pfft!

In an instant, with Karen's heart-piercing scream, the blood flashed!