If someone could ever safely dig out the blood red soil underneath those killer trees, they would certainly discover a huge pile of skeletons, some of which belonged to humans, some of which were animals. Without doing this, there was no evidence of any of the prey these plants have consumed.
Grabbing a nearby stick, Lucifer probed the water with the stick in each step as the murky water kept everything from view, both dangerous and benign.
Without thinking too much about it, Lucifer walked into it. He might not trust anything including his strength, but his defense was one thing he knew he could rely on. With the [Gold Flesh], his one level of defense and his body which had been further strengthened by the Milky-Ice water, Lucifer was in no fear of being harmed.
Even a level-3 evolved being couldn't pierce through his defenses, level-1 or 2 creatures wouldn't leave a mark.
Water seeped into his boots and his clothes got sticky from the hot and moist. Several briny algae floated past him with methane bubble gases rising through the depth of the swamp.
Lucifer walked carefully and quietly, but his strides were large, causing waves in the dirty swamp.
It was probably because they had sensed the smell of strong vitality of blood and flesh from Lucifer's body, but the deathly still swamp suddenly seemed to come to life. Consciously, or unconsciously, all those mutated plants started wriggling their bodies, branches, and roots slowly moving towards Lucifer's path.
Lucifer pretended he didn't see the movements of these plants. He wasn't really worried about them but he withdrew two sharp alloy blades from his waist.
No matter how crazy or brutal they were, they didn't directly attack Lucifer feet, as if there were something on this youth that they feared.
Lucifer stopped moving and stood straight. Hiding under the shadow of his hood was a pair of pure eyes with white cross-shape in the center staring out at the plants without blinking. The world turned pitch black and with the help of his brand new vision, the true color of these plants hiding under the disguise of the swamp had finally been revealed.
Vast amount of data began pouring down like a waterfall in front of his eyes. At the same time, every single object in his sight was highlighted with different colored lights.
The plants were highlighted with a green colored light, indicated these plant contained a lot of nutrients that was, unsurprisingly, often found in natural plants. Other colors, like red, yellow, blue, and purple, indicated the areas where their respective energy was gathered. Besides these, the ever changing humidity, temperature, wind speed, thickness of poison particles, distribution of radiative particles and their circulation… all the data which the chip could detect was projected to him.
Lucifer frowned.
This colorful images affected his normal vision. This was too much information.
He immediately closed his eyes and deep within his eyes, the vast amount of active mutagenic cells in his eyes began to reduce as he controlled them back to their state of rest.
After this action, the large white cross that filled up one-third of his pitch black eyes had gotten thinner and all the items in his vision had once again resumed their normal colors. Although he had reduced the effectiveness of his eye ability, he could still 'see'.
Underneath the wrinkling and withered tree skin, was an army of eerie looking roots that were tightly squeezed together. All of them were the heart of the trees. Also, Lucifer could 'see' a green-colored energy illumination on the needle like prickles on the edges of the Killer Tree's branches. This energy should indicate the presence of the paralytic poison that the Killer Tree used to sedate its prey.
As for the Bloodsucking Rattans, which hung from the Killer Tree, they looked completely devious, as they were entirely blood red under his vision. It was pure blood that flowing underneath its twisted, creeping green skin, and, right at the spot where it connected with Killer Tree, within a hollow tree cavity, numerous blood sacks, the size of a human fist, were pumping at a regular tempo, making them looked like human hearts.
Caw~ caw~
Together with few piercing caws, a group of Scavenger Crows flew in and stopped on a tree branch, moving their blood red eyes and staring at Lucifer.
Honestly speaking, being stared at by a group of level-1 Scavenger Crows like this made Lucifer feel incredibly uncomfortable.
Faced with this group of dangerous swamp savage beast, Lucifer didn't dare be the slightest bit careless. Although Scavenger Crows were not considered to be strong savage beasts, their blood red eyes had the ability 'Doom', and there had been some frightful incidents in which hunters had their eyes blinded by these crows.
Seeing that these Scavenger Crows were itching to attack, Lucifer raised his right arm and softly pointed the muzzle of his revolver.
"BANG!"
The sound was like a thunder admist this quiet swamp. Like a wild fire in a forest, the flaming bullet brightened the surrounding fog.
Two Scavager Crows and a single mutated tree were blasted into smithereens!
The powerful ripples generated by the bullet and sound had finally made these savages realize that this human in front of them was not something they could easily consume.
As for those plants who were slowly gathering around Lucifer, it seemed like they were struck with a great terror, and all of them quickly fled away from the sides of the trail in a great panic. Also, that group of Scavenger Crows were letting out loud caws as they flew into the sky with pure terror, briefly wheeling about in the air above and disappearing into the depths of the fog.
Lucifer breathed out a long sigh of relief. With this, the pressure on him had been reduced.
None of these savage creatures had the guts to step onto his path, but that didn't stop them from luring others humans. If Lucifer had been intimidated and scared by the terrifying scene of being surrounded by them, and, in his panic tries to flee, he would terrible death.
The soul, blood, and flesh of an Genetic Soldier. No doubt they were much more delicious than ordinary humans or wild beasts. Once these beast found a weakness in one's actions, the future of that person would not be good.