Chapter 411 Things Grow Differently With their Environment
Setting aside the matter with Sareth for the time being, after Dante and his group rushed to Red Grave City, they discovered something embarra.s.sing. They seemed… unable to do anything for the time being.
It could not be helped. The Qliphoth was still growing day and night!
Standing on the roof of a tall building nearby, they could see that the roots of the tree were continuously spiraling and slowly extending upward. They grew slower during the day and faster at night, growing between at least a few centimeters to tens of centimeters every minute but never stopping.
They thought that it was already astonis.h.i.+ng that this tree could grow to three hundred meters tall. After all, it was already the height of a skysc.r.a.per. But with the imagination of humans, it was impossible to predict the characteristics of this demon plant.
It had only been two days, but this tree was already more than a kilometer tall! When people looked up at the sky, they could vaguely see an enormous spiral-shaped tree crown at the top, and the rubble from buildings occasionally fell from the sky and smashed onto the ground with loud bangs.
Dante and the others initially wanted to climb up the tree to take a look. But unfortunately, when they arrived, the military had already sealed off the area around the tree. Numerous armed soldiers surrounded the bottom of the tree and prevented anyone from approaching. Clearly, such a ma.s.sive and hair-raisingly disgusting plant had already caused immense panic among humans. The scenes here had already spread all over the world through various media by numerous news reporters, and there were now countless eyes watching. Facing this situation, it was not good for them to show their faces and force their way in, so they could only watch from the periphery to see what the military planned to do.
The response of humanity quickly came. In fact, after a few days of researching ancient literature, some figures in the religious world had already figured out the name of this tree, the Qliphoth, a legendary plant that only grew in the Demon World! After understanding the origin of this thing, the officials of the various countries shuddered all over. Finally, after discussing, they unanimously decided to blow it up!
They deployed numerous tanks, armored vehicles, and cl.u.s.ter rocket launchers in a spot near the Qliphoth. Large-caliber cannon barrels rose one by one and aimed at the roots. In the sky, dozens of fighter jets roared and circled around the Qliphoth, and the missiles mounted below them were ready to fire at any time.
It had to be said that two thousand years ago, after the demon swordsman Sparda betrayed his demon compatriots and chose to seal Demon King Mundus and the Demon World, it had given the humans of this world a long time to catch their breath and allowed them to develop civilization and technology. It was no wonder that many people called Sparda the Savior. If not for him, the humans of this world would have likely been under the rule of demons, becoming slaves no better than pigs and sheep… Now, humans pulled out their technological weapons and planned to use them to deal with the ma.s.sive Qliphoth. This scene of the powerful and well-trained soldiers was being broadcasted throughout the world, greatly boosting the confidence of anyone who saw it.
With the order to open fire from the human commander, the tanks, armored vehicles, and cl.u.s.ter rocket launchers roared angrily. The flames at the muzzles and the deafening bangs formed a shocking scene. The fighter jets in the sky also fired all the missiles they carried in one go. Hundreds of long ‘sticks’ tore through in the air with tails of thick white smoke trailing behind as they flew toward the trunk of the Qliphoth.
The moment the sh.e.l.ls, rockets, and missiles. .h.i.t the trunk, countless blazing flames exploded, causing the trunk of the Qliphoth to be full of the endless smoke of gunpowder!
When this scene reached the screens of millions of human homes, everyone who saw it cheered in unison. In their opinion, under the powerful firepower of humanity, this disturbing gigantic tree would absolutely not be spared.
“Good job! Go! Blow it up!”
“Yes! That’s it! Make it fall!”
“Completely destroy this evil tree!”
After the first bombardment, the human army did not stop there. Instead, it continued to maintain the firepower and bombarded the Qliphoth, concentrating the explosions in a fixed range in order to achieve the best impact.
In just a few minutes, a large amount of smoke and dust covered the part of the Qliphoth that was under attack.
Even Dante could not help but sigh after seeing this scene. “Human weapons are actually also very terrifying…”
“That’s true…” Trish crossed her arms, and her long golden hair fluttered in the wind, making her look extremely charming. “Maybe we won’t need to take action.”
“Isn’t this good?” Lady grinned from the side with sungla.s.ses on. “We can get money without doing anything. Such a good thing won’t happen every time…”
But when Dante heard this, he turned to look at V awkwardly. The moneybag is still here. Is it really good for you to say that in front of him?
However, V did not say anything and continued to look at the Qliphoth solemnly.
After a while, he suddenly lowered his head and looked at the poetry book in his hand. “Don’t worry. In my opinion, there’s no such thing as a free meal in this world…” “What do you mean?” Lady was puzzled. But at this moment, the continuous deafening explosions suddenly ended, and she turned around to find that the human bombardment had stopped.
The millions of people watching in front of various screens and the onlookers at the scene all held their breath at this moment. Their eyes were focused on the smoke-filled area, waiting for the smoke to dissipate.
They would soon know if this bombardment had any effect…
A gust of wind blew past, and the smoke and dust filling the air danced with the wind, forming strange patterns. Although they were unwilling, they still slowly dissipated. The moment the human commander in charge of the operation saw the Qliphoth, he was the first to fall to his knees!
“How… how is this possible?!”
The place hit by countless ammunition did not even have a scratch. Although the disgusting tree bark that looked like innumerable eyes was full of scorch marks, it was only the surface. The expected scene of being blasted into smithereens did not appear. The Qliphoth seemed to be fine, and it was still slowly spiraling upward and growing.
This fact was too shocking. When the people who saw this scene regained their senses, what followed was even greater panic.
They could not understand. What the h.e.l.l was this thing that could remain intact under such a powerful attack?
“How is this possible? Is the bark of this d.a.m.n tree so thick?!” Dante said in disbelief after seeing this from afar.
No one could answer him, including Trish, a demon from the Demon World. Just as Sareth had said, although this demon plant existed in both the Abyss and the Demon World, regardless of where, the growth conditions of the Qliphoth trees were very harsh, and no demon would deliberately cultivate this ‘Apple Tree of h.e.l.l’.
But now, a demon planted this Qliphoth in the human world. As the mastermind, the demon was certainly using magic power to nourish this ma.s.sive tree. At the same time, when the tree sprouted, it had caused the deaths of tens of thousands of people. The souls and flesh of these humans had probably been used to irrigate this tree, which was why the tree grew so… extraordinary.
Perhaps this was the situation of things growing differently with their environment. Therefore, this tremendous growth difference caused the situation to exceed their expectations. The defensive ability and hardness of the Qliphoth made the attacks of the human army useless, and this ma.s.sive tree continued to grow without any regard for anything
Even if you hit me, consider it my loss if I tilt…
Of course, although humans were depressed, they still did not give up. The more strange this tree appeared, the more humans could not let it grow. As such, the human army continued to attack and bombard it. They did not concentrate on a spot to strike but repeatedly probed to find the weak point of the tree.
After more than a week of this stalemate, the Qliphoth had already risen to a height of nearly three kilometers, and the enormous tree crown had even reached into the clouds.
The human attacks became more and more desperate, and the morale of the soldiers almost hit rock bottom. The reason why they continued to attack was that, at this point in time, the Qliphoth just kept growing on its own and did not retaliate against humans.
However, this situation only lasted until May 13th.
The continuously growing Qliphoth suddenly stopped growing!
It no longer continued to spiral upward and completely quieted down, causing the earthquake that had lasted for more than ten days in Red Grave City to stop suddenly.
This sudden change caused people to be surprised and doubtful, so there was another military probing operation. The military sent a large number of fighter jets and helicopters to fly around the giant tree to investigate and find out what was going on. As a result, the fighter pilots flying in the sky saw an astonis.h.i.+ng scene. On the top of the enormous spiral-shaped tree crown, there seemed to be a small fruit growing on a thick branch!
This tree actually bore fruit?!
When the pilots wanted to get closer to continue investigating under the order of the commander, a dense group of black shadows suddenly flew out from the center of the spiral tree crown!
It was… a group of demons flying in the air!
They flapped their demon wings, their faces full of savage and bloodthirsty expressions, and they laughed wildly as they pounced at these human fighter jets! Under the terrified gazes of the pilots, they lay at the front of the fighter jets, opened the c.o.c.kpits, and grabbed the ejection seats the moment the pilots shot up.
The next second, countless demon claws stretched out and began to prey on these human pilots. The pilots screamed as they were torn apart into chunks of flesh…
One by one, fighter jets tumbled down from the sky with trailing smoke behind them. Some crashed into the tree trunk and turned into fireb.a.l.l.s, while others fell to the ground and blew up the buildings.
Tragedy, this was a complete tragedy! The sudden appearance of the demons utterly routed the human army.
But what was strange was that after attacking the human army, these demons flew back to the Qliphoth, as though it was their nest…