Chapter 1908 "The Slum"
Of course, they only choose one root among so many tangled roots because the plant-tamer girl didn"t have enough energy to tame so many roots.
The group felt that this proposal was quite a good idea, so while the plant-tamer girl tried to tame the chosen root, the others surrounded the girl in a protective circle.
The surrounding was silent, and there were not many beasts or monsters swimming around, making the scene a bit eerie and strange compared to the bustling "town" before.
Everyone couldn"t help but raise their guard, looking left and right, afraid that there would be sudden danger.
It was just that, the group felt a little bit of confusion in their heart.
Why was this place more deserted than the other areas?
There were still many buildings made of acacia roots here, but even other types of mutant water plants could not be seen casually.
What the group didn"t know was that this deserted place was actually called a slum if compared to real cities on the land.
The slum area was the place for monsters who could not become citizens of Acacia Underwater Town but they successfully pa.s.sed through the mist without suffering from any hallucinations.
Those monsters were called trespa.s.sers and they would be driven to the slum.
There were actually invisible barriers created by awakened water beasts to separate the town from the slum, so the monsters who were driven to the slum could only survive by attacking each other.
Little did they know, the Acacia plant was an omnivore that could eat almost everything to support the growth and the life of its roots, and so...
The slum was also the place where Acacia roots could release themselves freely to prey upon the trespa.s.sers.
In the past, any human beings or foreigners who dived into the lake and found the town to get the roots would also go to a secluded place to steal roots, but after some experiences, they chose a lesser poison and chose to stay in the bustling town.
The slum was actually worse than being spotted by the beasts and monsters in the city because most of the monsters that were driven to the slum were all powerful monsters who couldn"t be killed on the spot.
The town"s citizens had to drive these monsters away because they could not kill the trespa.s.sers.
Not to mention because of the harsh environment in the slum, the monsters who could survive here were all the winners of the inevitable "battle royale".
Not to mention that from time to time, the Acacia roots would move itself to devour some monsters, which made the monsters here have to survive from fellow monsters, the barren environment, and from the plant itself.
There was indeed almost no food here, which means the only food was either the Acacia roots or fellow monsters.
But Acacia roots were tough and not all monsters had the ability to eat the roots.
Not to mention that the majority of the monsters in the slum were carnivores, so eating roots were not in their diet.
Ainsley and the others didn"t know this, but the sonic guy and the mermaid kept sensing some strange sound waves from various hidden places around.
Those pa.s.sing monsters and beasts before were not the people of the slum. They were mostly patrol guards who often entered the slum to escort new trespa.s.sers or came just to have a quick hunt for lunch.
Yes. Many citizens of the town, especially the strong ones, would come in a group to the slum to hunt some monsters that had been weakened after the severe suppression.
The patrol guards and the legal "citizens" of the town would never attack the group because of their similar appearances to the residents of the town, unlike the crazy monsters in the slum.
But even so, the monsters here would still find food at any cost, and because the group was only at the entrance of the slum area and didn"t go deeper, they didn"t see any lurking monsters in the dark, ready to pounce on them.
A pity. While the plant-tamer girl was busy trying to tame the roots so that they could cut the roots for their mission, those monsters in the slum slowly came out of many hidden crooks and nooks.
The sun was about to set, and many desperate monsters didn"t stay deep inside the slum and went to the entrance of the slum to see whether there would be any easier prey to eat today.
To be honest, the monsters in the slum had been suppressed a lot because of the lack of food, but this also made them more ferocious and crazy despite their weaker bodies.
On the contrary, "newcomers" weren"t as crazy as the old citizens of the slum who were trapped and could not leave this area at all, even if they wanted to leave the town to find food.
It could be said that aside from using the slum as a prison for trespa.s.sers who wanted to harm the citizens, the patrol guards and the Acacia roots themselves used the slum as a farm or a breeding place to get easy food.
Especially the Acacia roots that didn"t get to grow in the city. These trees couldn"t enjoy the care of many citizens of the town, which was why the nutrients they needed were all the dozens of monsters living in the slum.
One Acacia tree needed at least a few kilograms of meat per day to support the nutrient for their huge roots.
If the roots didn"t have enough nutrient, it would probably target any living beings nearby!
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