Global Catastrophe: I Became the World Tree-Chapter 256 - 187: True Body Enters the Forbidden Zone_2

Now he had only two options left. First, he could possess one of the Mutated Animals and enter the portal.

However, doing so, he wasn’t sure whether his Possession ability could be executed through a spatial barrier and if it could transmit information.

And whether it was feasible or not, the Mutated Animal sent through would likely be in mortal danger.

The second method, naturally, was to enter in his true form.

Of course, Ye Feng wasn’t foolish enough to risk his life. His plan was to extend a tree root into the portal to explore; if danger arose, he would simply sacrifice that root.

The issue with this approach was that he wasn’t sure whether his tree root could pass through the portal normally, or if it would be severed by the Force of Space.

If it was the latter, then he would be at a loss.

Ye Feng shook his head, deciding not to ponder any longer. He would just have to try and see.

At this moment, following the Mutated Parrot’s words, the gazes of the gathered officers inevitably shifted toward the massive figure obscured by the thick fog at the forefront of the Animal Legion.

Under everyone’s watchful eye, the Mutated King Cobra slowly moved forward until it reached the edge of the forbidden zone and came to a halt.

Then, the thick fog around it started to swirl, quickly enveloping its entire form.

Everyone watched expectantly, wanting to know what kind of method the Mutated King Cobra would use this time.

Soon, everyone could feel a violent tremor coming from beneath the ground.

This was the commotion intentionally caused by Ye Feng as he moved his roots without restraint.

One of his Main roots had already extended into the forbidden zone.

Although there was no Corrosive Energy in the forbidden zone at the moment, as soon as Ye Feng extended his root inside, he immediately noticed the difference in this space.

It felt as if this area had been forcibly stripped from the main world. The rules here seemed to be different, and as for how they were different, Ye Feng couldn’t quite figure it out at the moment, but he felt a general sense of discomfort.

Of course, at this time, he only sensed it briefly and didn’t make an effort to study it. His root pressed on straight towards the portal below.

Soon, Ye Feng’s root reached the front of the portal.

But when he arrived, he halted.

As his true form entered, his perceptive abilities were incomparable to the possession of any Mutated Animal.

With the strong intuition of a Fifth Order Peak, he could sense that behind this portal, there lurked something that could pose a lethal threat to him.

"Indeed, it’s not as simple as I thought," Ye Feng exhaled slowly in his heart.

Then, without any more hesitation, the root continued to elongate, relentlessly approaching the portal.

As the root came within range of the portal, Ye Feng’s perception was quite bizarre.

As he continued to approach, the portal, which was only 10 meters wide, seemed to expand continuously, or it could be said that the part of the root he was extending was continuously shrinking.

There was also a gravitational force from the space drawing his root further in.

Ye Feng felt it for a moment; the pulling force wasn’t strong to him, only about 10 tons.

With a bit of effort, his root stopped moving forward, and he observed his condition.

Now, the tip of his root had shrunk nearly 100 times to the same proportion.

In other words, this portal with a diameter of only 10 meters was in fact capable of accommodating a massive entity with a diameter of 1000 meters.

According to Ye Feng’s guess, this was probably similar to some kind of spatial folding technique. The portal was originally 1000 meters in diameter but was folded down to 10 meters.

After a moment of observation, Ye Feng’s root continued to stretch forward. This time, in just a moment, the tip of his root seemed to touch a barrier.

Then a powerful spatial pulling force dragged him towards the opposite space.

If the pulling force acting on him was 10 tons just now, it had now skyrocketed to 1000 tons.

With such a terrifying force, Ye Feng’s root was suddenly pulled in a great length before barely managing to stop.

This was only because Ye Feng’s numerous roots had taken hold in the mountain range; otherwise, the thousands of tons of force would have possibly yanked Ye Feng’s main body straight in without warning.

Now, Ye Feng was at an impasse with the pulling force of that space, but he was in extreme discomfort because this colossal strength was concentrated on a single root.

Even though he had reached the peak of the Fifth Order, and the toughness of his roots had been strengthened many times, his roots were still being torn apart.

If Ye Feng had not used Life Healing to repair the root rapidly, chances are that the root would have already been ripped apart by now.

Enduring the pain, Ye Feng assessed his condition to confirm there was no immediate danger of the root breaking off, he then shifted his consciousness to the part of the root that had entered the Different Space.

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Once Ye Feng transferred his consciousness, he saw a land akin to a Gobi desert, bereft of any vegetation and marked everywhere with signs of erosion.

Looking upward, he saw a gloomy gray sky that gave a profoundly oppressive sensation.

This was a dead world.

However, a low humming sound suddenly drew Ye Feng’s attention.

It was a surveillance drone, hovering and circling nearby.

Without a doubt, it was the drone sent in by the military.

It was executing its return command.

But unfortunately, it could not pass through the gateway.

Because Ye Feng had discovered that the gateway was one-way; that is to say, entry was possible, but not exit.

Even if he wanted to retract his root now, he wouldn’t be able to unless his power was great enough to shake the entirety of this space.

Of course, even if he reached that point, the gateway would probably shatter.

His gaze moved downward, to a vast area marked with bombing craters, undoubtedly the result of bombs recently thrown in by the military squad.

As his gaze continued forward, he saw scattered mini cameras.

Originally, these were installed on Mutated Mice or Mutated Sparrows, but now there was no trace of them.

With careful observation, Ye Feng noticed some fur on the ground that hadn’t been completely dissolved by Corrosive Energy.

Without a doubt, the Mutated Mice and Mutated Sparrows that came recently were not so fortunate; they had been directly Devoured by the Corrosive Energy here.

Yes, this entire space was filled with Corrosive Energy, with a surprisingly high concentration that was hundreds of times higher than the outside world.

Even with Ye Feng’s strong defensive power, he could feel his Life Energy continuously eroding away.

By his estimate, every minute, he had to expend 1000 Spiritual Energy Points and Bioenergy, converting it to Life Energy, to counteract the depletion.

Ye Feng strained to see as far as he could into this space, but the foggy gray mist around him only allowed a view of things as far as a kilometer away.

Furthermore, since this area was full of Corrosive Energy, he was unable to release his spiritual power to explore.

"Truly terrifying! It’s an unknown whether the Corrosive Energy that spread to the outside world even constitutes 1% of the total amount here," Ye Feng mused with a sigh.

It can be said that only now did he truly realize how terrifying the forbidden zone was. If all the Corrosive Energy here were released, it’s hard to imagine how large an area would become a forbidden zone.

"But, thankfully, the instruments can operate normally after entering here. I can go back and prepare to send over the Thermostatic Shells," said Ye Feng with a hint of a smile on his lips.

Given the concentration of Spiritual Energy here, detonating a Thermostatic Shell in this place would have an effect comparable to a hundred of them in the outside world.

Although there’s a lot of Corrosive Energy here, he believed that there would come a time when it would all be detonated.

Just as Ye Feng was about to sever the root to return, he suddenly felt the rate at which his Life Energy was being drained surge dramatically.

In the blink of an eye, it increased by 10-fold, 20-fold, and before Ye Feng could react, the rate at which his Life Energy was being drained had increased to 100 times its original rate.

He could almost sense his enormous Life Energy being drawn out and coalescing into substance, being pulled towards a certain place.

His gaze followed the direction, and his eyes suddenly widened.