Real men don't engage in fake gays [Interstellar]

"Looking for someone? Who are you looking for?"

Seeing that Lu Mingze was about to leave, Gai Wen whispered from behind: "Ruen... Hey! Isn't it your first time to Fansa Star?"

Lu Mingze came back not too far away, took out two spherical black balls from the armed bag on his body, and stuffed them into Ryan's arms.

"It's my first time here, but did you hear that Xi Weier said that the wreckage of Marquis Alston's warship was found here? My relatives are probably on board, and I'm going to have a look." Lu Mingze could only make up like this It's nonsense, he can't tell Gavin that he is going to find Auston, if he doesn't make it clear, he is worried that he won't be able to settle down and help him find Mary.

Gavin frowned and let him put a few meatballs into his armed bag, then stopped Lu Mingze from continuing: "Can you go by yourself? Don't give me these things anymore, when you need them by yourself There are a lot of them, there are dangers everywhere on Fansa, you should keep them for self-defense."

Before Lu Mingze and Gavin got off the aircraft, they were called to garrison. Each of them was assigned a sniper rifle and a few black balls. He had seen these two weapons in the hot weapon theory class. The sniper rifle is a basic sniper rifle, and the dark ball is an improved small nuclear mine. From the equipped weapons and equipment, it can be seen how much the higher authorities attach importance to this conquest.

Although the basic sniper rifle has the word "basic", its killing power is not basic at all. Although its caliber is not as large as it has been seen on the earth, its killing range is longer than the largest caliber rifle Lu Mingze has ever seen. Long distance, small caliber and easy to carry.As for those nuclear mines, let alone those large nuclear mines that need to be used with aircraft, they cannot be used for short-distance throwing, because their killing area is too large, and they are easy to accidentally injure their own people.

Lu Mingze looked up at the sky, the scorching sun shone brightly above his head, making it hard to open his eyes.The climate of Star Fansa is somewhat similar to the tropical rainforest on Earth, with lush trees, humid and hot, and the plants here grow taller than the average plants on the main star.He wiped the sweat from his forehead vigorously, and while hanging up the armed bag neatly, he asked, "Do you know where the strangulation tree grows? I want to go and have a look nearby."

What Lu Mingze is more worried about now is whether there will be strangulation trees growing on the entire planet of Fansa Star. This matter is inherently difficult, because he has never seen what these trees look like, and he does not know whether these trees grow in a concentrated manner. In one place, or where Oston's starship landed from, if it really grows scattered, he can't find it even if he runs away.

"No, I've never heard of it."

Lu Mingze frowned: "Haven't you been here before? Why haven't you heard of it?"

"I don't know, I think it's fake. This kind of tree is so powerful that even Marquis Nicholas can catch it. It won't be so difficult back then. What's more, the Duke brought several fleets back then. I heard that some fleet encountered this kind of tree."

Gavin pondered for a moment, and then put forward another conjecture: "Or...we were defeated before encountering the strangle tree, so we have no chance to enjoy this kind of treatment at all?"

Lu Mingze's expression was a little ugly, he nodded and said, "Then I'm leaving, I must take Mary back safely, or else..."

Gavin waved his hand hastily: "I know, I know, but how do you find someone?"

"I have my own way."

Lu Mingze moved away from the two warships. He wasn't sure what Xivir's purpose was, but from his tone, it didn't seem like he wanted to save Auston back.Of course, he didn't want to rely on a carpet search to find Oston, but there is still a positioning method, although he doesn't know if it is accurate.

Before he had gone far, Lu Mingze was already sweating profusely, but he didn't dare to take off his uniform. There might be unknown poisonous insects in the woods, so not only could he not take off his clothes, but he had to tie his cuffs and trouser legs tightly .Lu Mingze took out the watch. This watch does not have a positioning function, but because it is a limited edition, it also adds many fashionable functions. In order to provide young people with the opportunity to get to know each other, there is a function called "search around ".

People using the same watch are targeted by tiny radars inside the watch.

Before, Lu Mingze felt that this function was very naive and useless, but he never thought that one day he could rely on this thing to save Auston's life.

Not long after, a red dot lit up on the watch dial, not too far away, and the scale showed that it was within five kilometers from his one o'clock direction. Lu Mingze tightened his weapon bag tightly and ran in that direction.He also began to try to connect with Orston, but after several attempts, there was no answer.

Lu Mingze muttered more and more in his heart, and at the same time had a bad guess - this guy, he won't really die.

No, no, probably not, Oston is so awesome, he can't die so aggrieved.

Lu Mingze comforted himself silently, but still couldn't help speeding up his running.

After running for a long time, Lu Mingze came to a piece of lush vegetation. The radar on the watch showed that Oston's position indicated that he had coincided with himself.Lu Mingze looked up, and couldn't help frowning—that is to say, he is in this bush?Maybe this watch can't show a little more precise distance difference.

He was a little hesitant. The trees in front of him looked very ordinary. Could it be the legendary strangling tree?

But Lu Mingze didn't care about thinking too much about Oston's small light spot that kept flashing on the watch screen, and carefully pushed aside a clump of grass and entered the forest.To his surprise, none of the trees responded, let alone any "strangling" behavior. Lu Mingze touched a nearby tree, but that tree didn't respond either.

Lu Mingze walked in, and the surrounding trees still didn't respond. He began to wonder, maybe what Xi Weier said was not true, and it wasn't Oston who was captured by the strangle tree, he just wanted to use Oston's identity to reveal A high-sounding reason for attacking Star Fansa, Oston himself may just be missing.

Not long after he had this idea, Lu Mingze suddenly felt his feet go soft, and the soil under his feet suddenly sank.

Lu Mingze reflexively grabbed the trunk of a tree next to him, but that tree also sank suddenly. Lu Mingze grabbed it up, but only got sticky juice.

At this time, he finally discovered that the soil under his feet did not sink, but was pushed out from under the ground by a kind of plant. Lu Mingze suddenly felt the sound of wind under his feet. His green-brown tentacles rushed up from his side with a strong stench.

Lu Mingze immediately let go of his hand, and his body fell into the abyss together with the tree next to him.

Lu Mingze almost rolled down. After rolling for a long time, he finally fell on a soft mass and finally stopped. Lu Mingze was dizzy and didn't recover for a long time. After a while, his back was wet.After he reacted, he jumped up in fright to check whether he was injured—it is dangerous to be injured in such a strange place.

Fortunately, it was not injured, but there were some traces of water staining on the back. The soft thing just now was also the fibrous tissue left by the rotten trunk of the vegetation. Because of too long time, a large pile of fibers had accumulated. What wetted his back was also the stagnant water from decaying trees.

The light in this place is not dim. Lu Mingze looked at the top of his head and saw that there was a huge hole in the top, and the soil was not closed, because the sunlight of this generation was strong, even though he fell very deep, there was still a lot of light coming in from the bottom.

Now Lu Mingze finally had time to check what it was that "stabbed" him down.

It was a tentacle exuding a fishy smell, and now it was curled up not far from Lu Mingze, slowly wriggling and retrieving it, wrapping itself, as if it wanted to curl up into a ball.It doesn't look like the tentacles of some kind of animal, because its roots are deeply rooted in the ground, growing out of the deeper soil, and there are even many tree-root-like stems around it.That tentacle was not the only one in this place, and there were many similar tentacles growing densely around it, but the other tentacles shrank obediently, with dry surfaces, and coiled on the ground like lifeless dead vines.

Lu Mingze slowly approached the fresh tentacle. He wanted to see it more clearly, but after walking a few steps, he suddenly kicked a foreign object under his feet and made a "boom".Lu Mingze immediately turned on the watch, and the blue fluorescent light illuminated the ground. Only then did he realize that what he had just kicked turned out to be a bone.

Lu Mingze frowned and bent down to get closer to the bone, and saw a complete skeleton with thick and long horns on it—it should be the skull of some kind of animal.

Lu Mingze looked at it and couldn't help being amazed. Judging from the situation at the scene, the owner of this skeleton should have been caught by a tentacle and turned into its fertilizer.The fishy smell of the tentacles is so strong, and the surroundings are in such a living state. It can be imagined that this thing should live a saprophytic life, grabbing small animals as its own fertilizer.

If he hadn't been able to hide quickly just now, he would have become the fertilizer of this tentacle.

What the hell is the pitcher plant on Fansa star mutating so huge?It is no longer a creature that would exist in a simple tropical rainforest, it will not be irradiated by something.

This should be the so-called strangling tree, but it should not be called "tree", but "vine".The entire underground cavity is the old lair of this vine, and the tentacles that just sprang out of the ground to grab him are just a small branch of the vine.Lu Mingze felt helpless towards the strangling tree—when he fell just now, there must have been a small tentacle "activated" for some reason, but also because his "prey" was not big enough, other tentacles They all continued to sleep peacefully.

It’s no wonder that life is very difficult for saprophytic organisms, and the only way to get energy is to catch them by luck, and it is even more difficult for plants to be predators.However, energy must be involved in predation to make the whole vine move. There is only one way to consume as little hard-won "energy" as possible - to "activate" part of the tentacles to catch food.

Nature is far simpler than human society. This kind of "saving" law can be seen everywhere in nature. After tens of thousands of years of evolution, they have formed specific laws of survival, and all the laws are to enable the species to reproduce. .

After mastering this law, there is no need to be too afraid of it, and a small prey like him will not trigger a large-scale strangling vine riot.

Lu Mingze looked down at the cursor on the watch, which indicated that Oston's position had not moved. It seemed that it was not because the accuracy of the watch was not enough, but that the distance between the two of them was indeed overlapping—one on the ground, One is underground.

That Alston should be around here.

Auston came here in a spaceship. Compared with him alone, the spaceship has greater "energy" and needs thicker tentacles to capture. If his previous guess is correct, then he only needs to follow the As the tentacle development progresses, Oston will definitely be found.

The center of the strangled vine took root deeper, and the ground here was arched into a big hole by one of its plants, and the vines spread everywhere.The more Lu Mingze went to the place where the growth was thicker, the more frightened he felt, because the vines here were no longer in a withered and shriveled dormant state, but presented a terrifying moist feeling, and the tentacles became thicker and thicker.

If he had fallen in this place at that time, he would probably have died.

After walking for a long distance, Lu Mingze finally found the main body of this plant. It is an irregular conical soft vine with a thick bottom and a thin top. It grows too swollen, so it looks a bit like a tree.Lu Mingze hurriedly lowered his head to look at his watch, the two light spots finally overlapped completely and turned green.

--found it!

Lu Mingze didn't care about other things, and hurried forward, calling Auston's name while circling the vines.But this tree vine is too big, and there are things like aerial roots hanging from it in the middle, densely entangled, and it is impossible to see if there is anything in the middle, so Lu Mingze had no choice but to go forward and fiddle with those wet and terrifying vines. body.

"Oss! Are you here? Just squeak if you know."

The mucus fell on Lu Mingze's body and wet his clothes again. He also stepped on these slippery things under his feet, and he couldn't stand still. He fell forward suddenly and scratched a vine in front of him.Lu Mingze suddenly felt a pain in his fingers, and then, a puff of blue smoke rose from a small piece of skin on his fingertips.

--Depend on!This thing is actually digestive juice!

When Lu Mingze fell down, he grabbed a hand of slime, but that kind of slime was completely different from the slime seeping from the inside of the vine, which was corrosive.

Lu Mingze suddenly had a big brain hole. Could it be that he came too late and Auston had already been digested?

Lu Mingze tried his best to climb out from a pile of vines, but the sticky liquid made it almost impossible for him to walk. He got up several times and then fell back. The last time Lu Mingze got angry and pointed his arms directly at the layers of vines Insert it all the way to the end, and then press the soil underneath to stand up.

But when he stretched out his hand and touched a hard object, Lu Mingze froze for a moment, grabbed the object, and then pulled out his arm forcefully.

It was the watch he gave Alston!

The watch is here, but what about the people?

...No, no way.

Lu Mingze sat on a pile of soft and slippery vines and didn't know how to react for a while. It was not until his body slowly slid down that Lu Mingze reacted. He stood up abruptly, grabbed the gun on his back, and used the barrel of the gun Dig hard at the vines on the ground—no, no, no, how could Oston be digested by a plant, he was not caught by this thing, Oston is so awesome...

——Aze, you overestimate me too much.

……

"Shut up! Fuck you! If you burp in a place like this, I'll laugh you to death!"

Lu Mingze did not pick up Auston, but a half-digested corpse. The corpse was very fresh, and he was wearing a dark blue uniform, which was a little lower than Auston's uniform.But the face of the other party has been rotten, and it is impossible to see who it is.

——Even if it could be seen, Lu Mingze didn't know him, and he hadn't seen many of Auston's men.

Lu Mingze suddenly got a little irritable. He cursed bad luck, and suddenly put the rifle into his arms, loaded it with a few clicks, then turned around and shot at the huge vine body behind him, and the main body was hit right. Wearing, splashing out some mucus, black and red, like mixed with blood.

Lu Mingze's fingers never left the trigger at all, the bullet casings flew out of the magazine "chug chug", and the gunpowder almost burned his fingers - this kind of long-range sniper rifle is very easy to attack in close combat. The user inflicts damage.The surrounding small vines also sensed the heat from the sniper rifle, and quickly approached Lu Mingze.

But they couldn't get close to Lu Mingze at all, and they were burned through before they got close.

After Lu Mingze finished firing a magazine, the huge vine body was riddled with holes, crooked as if it was about to fall down. Lu Mingze wiped the mixed sweat and mucus on his face vigorously, and took out a A nuclear mine, and then shouted loudly: "Oss! Make a noise! ​​Get out of me! If you don't make a fucking noise, I'll blow this place up!"

The watch is here, how could Oston not be here, just kidding... He still wants to take off the watch and throw it away at the critical moment of life and death?He must be here.But whether to use nuclear mines here, Lu Mingze is still not sure. After all, this is underground. If the explosion causes a collapse, he will be crushed inside, and Oston will not be rescued, and he will put himself in it , It's not worth it.

While weighing, Lu Mingze stared thoughtfully at the tentacles that were busy stroking the bullet casings. He looked around and saw that there was a rattan body that went straight to the ground but was slightly thinner than the main body. Narusawa hesitated for a moment, pulled out a nuclear mine and threw it over there forcefully, then immediately covered his ears, hugged his head and curled up in the corner of the wall.

The power of the nuclear mine was greater than he expected. The huge explosion sound was accompanied by a strong vibration, and it exploded on the rattan body. Lu Mingze was also blown away for a certain distance by the scattered airflow.

The explosion generated a lot of heat, and countless vines came to life. They were like moths jumping into a flame, and they quickly approached the place where the nuclear mine exploded, and then they were burned to ashes by the flames.The main vine also moved, and fell obliquely towards the direction of the explosion, crawling forward like a dying patient.Lu Mingze lay on the ground watching this disgusting scene, then stretched his hand down to touch the weapon bag.

"I like this kind of thing... let you eat enough."

But this time, before he pulled out the nuclear mine, a soft voice suddenly came from the center of the vine: "Aze."

Lu Mingze reacted quickly, rolled on the spot to the place where the sound came out, then thrust his arm down forcefully, and yanked away a pile of broken vines, and saw a entangled hollow below, with Oston in the middle, upright She smiled helplessly at him with her head down: "Huh...you finally heard me."

All the expressions on Lu Mingze's face disappeared in an instant. He raised his hand and wiped the sweat off his face casually. He lay down next to the hollow and smiled and asked, "You made a nest in it? Do you want to settle down? Or are you carrying a hole on your back?" What heavy game do I play?"

"Stop talking nonsense and pull me up."