Several people mounted their mounts again and headed towards Xu Xin's protected area.

Silver King habitually slowed down and walked side by side with the white horse.

The few people were getting farther and farther away from their previous positions, and the blood lines on Silver King's body gradually faded as the distance increased, and finally returned to normal.

Xu Xin calculated the distance, and it was now more than ten kilometers away. It seems that the scope of influence of this unknown increase is only about ten kilometers in radius.

They could now clearly see Xu Xin's treehouse in the distance.

"That tree house is yours, right?" Li Wenxi looked very interested, pointing to the rich green in front of her, "I'm finally going to visit your tree house. It's great. I haven't seen the fourth floor yet."

Where’s the treehouse!”

"No, let's not go to the tree house first. We are going to a special place over there. Maybe it has something to do with the abilities we have acquired." Xu Xin shook his head.

"Huh? Aren't you just passing by? Just go in and take a look..." Li Wenxi leaned into Xu Xin's arms.

"No, it's late autumn now. It can be seen from the dawn time this morning that the daylight hours are very short now. I'm afraid it will get dark in a few hours. We need to finish the business first." Xu

Xin refused.

There is also Lou Fei'er in his tree house. If we really want to meet him, given Lou Fei'er's character, it might take a long time.

"Um...okay." Li Wenxi pursed her lips and compromised.

"What is so special about the special area you are talking about? Like just now, mutated creatures will become stronger?" Qi Xuefei asked Xu Xin.

She has basically adapted to the bumps of horseback riding now and no longer feels any discomfort.

"It's hard to describe. You can tell it when you go to the place and take a look."

Thinking of the salt mine cave that looked like a huge mouth, Xu Xin still felt a little weak.

To be honest, if he were alone, he would not dare to go in and explore. At most, he would just take a look outside.

After experiencing the defense battle and the busyness of these two days, this was the first time he returned there after the red mist incident.

I don’t know if the “big mouth” is still a dangerous area and whether salt mining can continue.

He asked on the regional channel that no one else had discovered the salt mine except him, so currently, that mine is the only place in District 188 where salt can be mined.

There is not much salt left in his hands now. If it can no longer be mined and their population continues to increase, they will really start to lack salt.

"After you have been to Xu Xin's side, you have to go to my side again. There is also a very strange place in my place." Ji Chaoyang pointed to Xu Xin's tree house, "Xu Xin's tree house is further west.

, it’s my tree house, not far away.”

Silver King and White Horse continued to shuttle through the desolate and bare jungle, and soon, they entered Xu Xin's protected area.

"Did you see the hills?" Xu Xin pointed to the circle of hills in the northwest, "That's right there."

"These hills are actually connected together! Is this a circle?" Li Wenxi was a little surprised, because the hills on her side were scattered randomly. "Just looking at these hills, you can feel how special it is! The circle is like a circle."

In a circle, it looks like a formation..."

"Wrapped in the hills is a resource area. The mysterious altar is in the resource area surrounded by the hills." Xu Xin explained.

"What does resource area mean..." Li Wenxi raised her head and asked.

"Hmm..." Xu Xin then thought that Li Wenxi and the others did not have the ability to identify and could not tell where the resources were more abundant, so he explained, "It is an area with a lot of resources above the green level. The place where you plant the tree house is a resource.

district."

"Where is my place?" Qi Xuefei turned to look at him and asked, "Is my place a resource area?"

Xu Xin nodded and said: "The tree houses for the four of us are all planted in the resource area."

Li Wenxi relied on mineral resources to find a location, while Qi Xuefei looked for a place rich in medicinal herbs. The place where they planted the tree house was naturally a resource area.

"Where is the altar..." Ji Chaoyang's expression changed slightly as he looked at Qiu Ling, "The special area over there is not far from the altar."

Xu Xin was not surprised.

The altar is surrounded by things linked to the so-called "gods", so it is naturally a bit special.

"Altar? What altar?" Li Wenxi asked confused.

"I don't know what altar there is." Qi Xuefei also couldn't understand what Xu Xin and Ji Chaoyang were talking about.

"Huh? There are no altars around your tree house? After the expansion of the protected area, have you carefully searched the protected area?"

There have been so many things going on in the past two days that Xu Xin almost forgot about the altar. He and Ji Chaoyang's altar was discovered more than three kilometers away after they obtained the gold treasure box and expanded the protected area to six kilometers.

Apart from them, he had never heard of anyone else seeing the altar.

But now, everyone's protected area has been expanded to six kilometers. According to the previous rules, other survivors should have discovered the altar one after another.

"Hmm... I haven't searched carefully." Li Wenxi shook her head and looked at Qi Xuefei, "Where are you, Sister Xuefei?"

"Don't look at me. Today is my first trip out after the expansion of the protected area." Qi Xuefei waved her hand, a little helpless. It was her first trip out and she encountered something like that. It was really a bad start.

"They should not have an altar." Ji Chaoyang spoke at this time, "I have paid attention to this matter before, and also observed the conversations of other survivors on the map channel. I also tested it anonymously, and there was no trace of any survivors.

Been to the altar."

"In other words... maybe there is an altar in the protected area where only the two of us are in District 188?" Xu Xin said to herself.

"It should be like this. Maybe it's just that the two of us are just right next to the two altars, or maybe it's because...the altars only appeared in our protected area after we obtained the gold treasure chest and expanded the scope of the protected area.

Inside." Ji Chaoyang analyzed and gave two possibilities.

"...So what are you talking about!" Li Wenxi and Qi Xuefei listened in confusion, as if they were listening to a conversation between two Riddlers.

Xu Xin explained the situation of the altar to them.

"Ah! No wonder your points in hunting activities are so high! It turns out that you have killed mutant beasts back then! Five hundred points for one, my God!" Li Wenxi exclaimed, "What a profit!"

"It's not profitable. With our ability at that time, it was very difficult to kill an intermediate mutant beast." Xu Xin said to Li Wenxi angrily. He pointed to his left shoulder, "At that time, my shoulder was directly

I was pierced by that rabbit hole. If it weren't for the iron armor set made of iron blocks and Sister Xue Fei's blue-level hemostatic grass, I'm afraid I would have ended up there."

"Sacrifice...and then the stone statue shattered and resurrected, turning into a mutated creature?" Qi Xuefei was also shocked by what happened at the altar, "What you experienced is really magical."

"You have blue-level armor, so it's pretty good." Ji Chaoyang couldn't help but smile bitterly when he thought of the scene where the wild cat attacked him like crazy just after being summoned.

"I didn't even have blue-level leather armor at the time, and the white horses at that time were smaller and much slower than they are now. I finally managed to kill the blood-striped cat. Both of us were covered in

It's a deep wound, and without Qi Xuefei's hemostatic grass, neither he nor I would be able to survive." As he spoke, he touched the white horse's head.

The white horse also barked in response to Ji Chaoyang.

"Oh... I mean," Qi Xuefei showed a look of surprise, "When I was talking about hunting activities, why did you ask me for so many styptic grasses? It turned out to be because of this. I was still surprised at the time, even I didn't

Why are you injured? Why is there something going on with you? At that time, I thought you were just a smart person but not very capable physically."

"It's okay if you say that," Ji Chaoyang said with a smile, "Compared to Xu Xin, my combat power is indeed weaker, let alone Wen Guixin. I can't do any of the things she does.

arrive."

"Sister Guixin is special. Her abilities must be of the combat type, and we can't compare to them. However, you were so dangerous that time..." Li Wenxi's voice was slightly worried, and she touched Xu Xin's left hand with her hand.

Shoulder, "There are no sequelae, right?"

"Of course not. The effect of styptic grass is quite good."

Compared with the more advanced hemostatic pills that Qi Xuefei can make now, which can quickly restore injuries all over the body after being eaten, the hemostatic grass does have great flaws. It needs to be ground and applied, and it can only repair a certain part of the wound.

But for the original penetrating injury, it was completely sufficient.

"Listen to what you said, isn't this altar a special existence? Your two top bosses in the region are both next to the altar."

Xu Xin is actually more inclined to the possibility that the two nearby altars have always existed.

After all, when the Changyin family came out of the underground, they were looking for this altar. They had learned from mysterious voices decades ago that there was an altar on the ground.

So the altar should not have appeared recently.

Or...sometimes and sometimes not?

At this time, the group of people had arrived less than one kilometer away from the circle of hills. And because the surrounding trees were all bare and the sight was much better than before, they could already see the entirety of the hills relatively clearly.

"Huh?" Ji Chaoyang first made a sound of surprise and looked at the hill near the salt mine cave not far away.

Xu Xin glanced at him out of the corner of her eye and found that his expression was a little solemn.

It seems that he has discovered something abnormal.

This guy's observation ability is really strong. It took him a long time to discover it. Of course, at that time, there was dense jungle blocking the sight, and the sight was not good. If you don't find a good angle, you can't see the whole picture from a distance.

Soon, they were within 500 meters.

"There are a lot of metal mines here, almost the same as my place!" Li Wenxi looked at the hilly road ahead.

"Metal mines? Where are they?" Xu Xin thought of something and asked her immediately.

"Hmm...it's a bit strange. The metal mines are not in the mountains, but underground in the mountains. There are no metal mines in this hilly mountain. Why is this?" Li Wenxi was a little confused.

There is no ore in the mountain, but there is... at the bottom of the mountain...

Xu Xin felt a little nervous again.

He thought that during the rainy season, all these hills had disappeared without a trace. After the rainy season, they came back without any change, not even the crooked-neck trees on the hills.

But now, those crooked-neck trees have all withered and become bare as the weather turns colder.
To be continued...