The vines clung tightly to Zhou Niannian's body, and Dai Xiaomei beside her was no exception.
Both were bound by the plant's vines and then pulled up several meters high.
At this moment, Gun Gun also reacted immediately, but he couldn't grab the vine because it moved with extreme speed.
Seeing this, Yao immediately advanced, reaching the trunk and jumping several meters high in three steps. With a handsome spin, he swung his long sword, slashing at it.
With a single strike, Zhou Niannian and Dai Xiaomei fell from the air. Gun Gun also rushed over and lay on the ground, acting as a human shield for the two girls.
"Run! These plants are not ordinary."
After Jiang Fan said this, Zhou Niannian and Dai Xiaomei finally reacted. They immediately jumped off Gun Gun, pulled him up, and began to flee frantically.
"Why are these trees so strange? I shouldn't have mentioned Jurassic Park."
Zhou Niannian said as she ran, while the vines continuously whipped down.
Thinking there was only one vine, they didn't expect many more to appear in a short time, some of them incredibly thick.
Jiang Fan, with no other choice, took out his axe to fight.
But these vines were not easily dealt with. Their strange movements left Jiang Fan puzzled, and he could only counter-attack just as a vine was about to strike him.
"Damn it, don't let these plants entangle you, quickly get to a more open area."
Seeing how terrifying these plants were, Jiang Fan immediately led everyone to a grassy area. Looking at the jungle before them, the others couldn't help but pant for breath.
"What the hell? What's going on with these plants? Why did they suddenly grow so large and become aggressive towards people?"
Dai Xiaomei looked at Yao beside her with a bewildered and helpless expression, while Yao slowly shook his head.
"I don't know either. Perhaps some mutation occurred, just like you said, something from Jurassic Park."
Jiang Fan slowly shook his head and then looked at Yao beside him.
"No, they're different from those things in Jurassic Park. When I cut open that tree trunk just now, I noticed their growth rings weren't very numerous."
"I suspect someone or some monster deliberately altered them to become like this."
Hearing this, Yao looked terrified.
"Deliberately? Could it be that someone is conducting experiments here?"
After saying this, Jiang Fan slowly nodded.
"Exactly, that's what I'm thinking now. If not, what other possibility is there?"
Jiang Fan's words left Yao speechless, as what Jiang Fan suggested was indeed the most plausible outcome.
Just when everyone thought they would be temporarily safe after getting away from the trees, they found their legs were unable to move.
"What's happening?"
Since they were on the grass, it was normal for their legs to feel itchy. But when they looked down, they realized their legs weren't itchy because of the wind blowing through the grass.
Instead, the blades of grass on the ground had sprung up and tightly entangled their legs.
"Damn it, we're caught by these grasses, break free quickly."
Jiang Fan repeatedly slashed with his axe, but the small grasses seemed to have a life of their own. As soon as they entangled Jiang Fan's legs, he chopped off a few, and others immediately surged forward.
The saying "wildfires cannot burn them out, they grow again with the spring breeze" was vividly demonstrated here. As soon as the grass was cut, it immediately regrew.
It seemed as long as the soil had enough nutrients, they could grow indefinitely.
"Damn it, this won't do. I wonder what terrifying things will come to attack us after they entangle us here."
After saying this, Jiang Fan looked at his backpack.
"There's no other way, I have to use this."
Previously, at the pyramid, Jiang Fan had collected some vines. Since they had passed through a volcano, the vines were all dried out.
However, Jiang Fan hadn't discarded them because their hardness remained. He had thought they could still be used as vines, but now they seemed to have another purpose.
Jiang Fan wrapped a vine around these small grasses and then blew on a fire starter.
Flames erupted from the long tube in his hand, and Jiang Fan didn't hesitate to ignite the vine.
As expected, when the flames burned, the small grasses under their feet immediately retracted.
Like a snail's eye being touched, they rapidly withdrew.
Not only the small grasses under Jiang Fan's feet but also those on others' legs retracted, as if these grasses weren't a single entity but individual lives.
He had only harmed a part of its body, and the rest of its body immediately dodged.
"Indeed, they cannot escape the laws of nature. No matter how powerful they are, they cannot withstand fire."
After being dried, the vines burned very efficiently, comparable to charcoal.
After burning, Jiang Fan did not extinguish the vine's fire but broke off a portion and placed the rest to continue scorching the ground, ensuring that the group would not be interfered with by these strange grasses when they left.
"What do we do now? This place we've entered is completely filled with plants and trees."
"If we continue forward, I fear we'll be eaten by these plants."
Jiang Fan slowly shook his head, then wrapped a cloth bag around his fire axe and dripped kerosene onto it.
"It's alright, don't we have our weapons? They are plants and trees, so they will naturally fear fire."
"As long as our weapons are powerful enough, they won't dare to attack us easily."
Yao strongly agreed with this statement.
After all, it was better to fight these plants here than to freeze to death in the snow mountains. The difficulty was much lower.
Seeing their unanimous agreement, Dai Xiaomei and Zhou Niannian chose to comply, and Gun Gun even expressed his approval.
With the decision made, the group set off again.