"Aren't you Xiao Liangliang? Stop wandering outside. Go home, your grandma is looking for you." A man who came out looking for something to use saw the child standing at the entrance of the village and hurried over to him. It's not good for the child to see the pile of zombies... "Ow! How did this kid bite me... bite? Biting people! Help!!"

On the small road outside the village, a group of people took the shortcut to the hut built by the contractor. The third uncle held the extinguished cigarette in his mouth, but was reluctant to throw it away, leisurely carrying a self-defense sledge. "It's here. They usually keep the seeds here."

"Third uncle, this place won't still have that thing?"

"No, I recognize the people who looked at the houses before. They all became zombies, and were still hanging around the village earlier."

"Then, I will open it?" one person asked. Seeing the third uncle nod, he cut the lock off on the door with an axe.

"Why is it dark?"

"It's cloudy and raining outside, how can it not be dark?"

"Okay, after finding a light, let's transport the seeds back..."

"Something wrapped around my legs?"

"Snake!!"

"Where's the snake...Ah, let me go! What is that?"

In the last days, in addition to seeds growing moldy, there are also some that are likely to germinate and grow. Continuous rainy days made the air full of water vapor. Once a large number of seeds placed in the same place are damaged and stored improperly, they will easily get damp, or...grow into mutant plants.

 

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"Damn! What's that?!" Looking at the fiercely dancing branches in the room in front of him, Guo Bing almost threw the telescope out of his hand.

"Mutated plants." He Zizhong made a face and shook his head regretfully, "I'm afraid we can't deal with that thing."

It's already the second day since they entered the city. At first, they had good luck. On the edges of the city, they found two seed shops on the street. Unfortunately many of the seeds were moldy, and the few intact seeds were found and placed in Chen Ning and Le Tian's space.

In the past two days, they walked to the center of the city. In the venue for the crop exchange meeting, they cleaned up quite a few zombies and harvested nuclei. The efficiency was not bad.

But today, seeing countless "tentacles" protruding from a window of a building at the intersection, everyone's minds were in disorder.

"Mutated, mutated plants?" Guo Bing put down the telescope and parroted his words back.

He Zizhong nodded: "We've encountered it before."

"What's the result?" Chen Ning took Guo Bing's telescope and looked over there.

"Can't deal with it, mainly because we don't know where the weakness of that thing is," He Zizhong explained. "Cutting its branches and vines will not affect the actions of its other branches. It's not like a zombie, where generally speaking, cutting off the heads will do. Their weakness...we suspect that they grow in the soil, but it's difficult to find."

"That's really troublesome." Guo Bing frowned, "Why does this thing look so...perverted?"

Of course the tentacle system is abnormal. This kind of mutant plant doesn’t even have leaves, and it’s impossible to tell what kind of plant it came from. What makes people feel strange is that most mutant plants are very similar to, or are vines or vine-like tree species.

It seems like He Zizhong really have some fate with vine plants.

"Go around, the venue can be reached from another road..." After a few people discussed it, they decided to make a detour. The people in their team mainly attack with thermal weapons, and the effect of firearms on mutant plants is minimal.

Everyone got in the car and prepared to go around the weird building. But as soon as the cars started, there was a cry on the intercom—"Boss, our car can't move!"

"Our car also..."

"We're lifted up. Our car is lifted up!"

Even He Zizhong and Fang Hao obviously felt something behind was pulling on their car!

"It's a mutant plant!" Fang Hao saw a brown vine entangle the wheel of his car from the rearview mirror!

"You hold the steering wheel, I'll cut them off." He Zizhong lowered the window, and a golden light with the assistance of the wind power cut off the vines holding his car, but more vines entangled them!

"No! There is more than one mutant plant!" He Zizhong suddenly woke up when he saw brown "tentacles" drill out of several rooms in a row.

These vines are numerous and widely distributed. Obviously there's more than one! Mutant plants also have their limitations when attacking creatures. For example, it will only attack the prey in a certain direction at a time, and once it is attacked by a powerful opponent, it will concentrate all the branches to deal with the tricky opponent, which will give others a chance to escape.

But now, He Zizhong clearly saw some vines were catching zombies in the other direction on the street, with the remaining vines coming towards them!

"Damn it! Increase your horsepower and don't let them pull us over!"

"Boss, our car's been hoisted! It has been hoisted!"

The power of the plants is unexpectedly strong, and these things lying on the ground can even lift such a heavy car out of thin air!!

"Zizhong..." He Zizhong's car was obviously about to be pulled off the ground, and Fang Hao looked at him nervously.

If it gets really dangerous, they can go directly into the space. It doesn't matter if they lose the car. There are several spares in the space. But...

Seeing the hoisted cars outside the window, if they hadn't suggested the idea themselves, the group would never risk coming to city M at all. Knowing that mutant plants can be found where seeds are, but forgot to plan around these risks carefully in advance ...

"Fang Hao, if it gets too dangerous, immediately enter the space. We can lose the other things."

"Zizhong?!" Seeing his hand on the door, Fang Hao quickly grabbed his arm.

"It's okay, I won't try my best." This matter is his own responsibility in some ways, and... in the last days, if people don't risk their lives, no matter how high their skill level is, they won't be able to deal with real danger. Especially now that second-level zombies have been found, and the mist in the space is more intense after Tuanzi has swallowed second-level nuclei. Maybe it will level up again at some point, so he must be able to deal with special situations even if he can't enter the space. 

"I'll go with you..."

"No." He Zizhong's face sank, "Your main power is healing. If I get hurt..."

"I can't leave you alone. Even if I have healing powers, Zizhong, instead of letting me watch you get hurt, I'd rather fight with you and kill things that might hurt you in advance!" Fang Hao stood up fiercely, his eyes full of determination. He understood why He Zizhong had to go out to face that kind of plant. Although he didn't say anything just now, he could see self-blame in his eyes for proposing to come here.

No matter what He Zizhong will face, he is willing to accompany him.

"Don't take risks..."

Fang Hao shook his head, raised a smile, and suddenly there was something in his empty right hand: "Let's split up and use this."

He Zizhong paused after seeing the thing and thought about it. He nodded and said: "Take Tuanzi to entangle those vines!" After saying this, he bowed his head and kissed the corner of his lips, turned and opened the door and jumped out.

Their Cavalier 15 was also swept up by vines, so when He Zizhong opened the door, the car was already three or four meters above the ground.

His body was engulfed by a blue wind as he fell to ground like a light bird. Slamming his feet on the ground, he rushed to a vine next to him - it was the living vine that curled up another car!

A golden light flourished on the blade. With the help of the wind, He Zizhong jumped up to a height of two meters, and cut the vine with a sharp knife.

The group of people in the car being lifted up, fell back down suddenly. Fortunately, more than one vine was wrapped around their car, otherwise they would be stunned dizzy.

Closing the door He Zizhong left open, Fang Hao hugged Tuanzi and scouted out from the other door.

Glancing at a few houses with countless branches sticking out, Fang Hao patted Tuanzi's head: "Go, grab the nuclei of those plants. Be careful not to be caught by them. In a while, when I tell you to go in the space, you must go in. Otherwise I won’t hold you anymore!"

After turning invisible, Tuanzi happily "threw" itself towards the building with overgrown plants. The plants didn't know that the guy who rushed to them had already arrived, and were still catching zombies or entangling the Samsara squad's caravan.

Fang Hao saw the situation outside clearly, stepped on a thick section of vine, avoiding the small branches lying towards him, and ran along the thick parts to where the plants were entrenched! His movements were so light as if he has wings on his body!

After He Zizhong cut off a few vines that entangled the convoy, the plants finally withdrew their attention from the cars and turned to him.

"Get in the car!" Guo Bing, who was finally out of danger, opened the car window and yelled at him. Those branches and vines were all dancing in He Zizhong's direction, which was too dangerous.

"Retreat!" He Zizhong has already seen Tuanzi and Fang Hao's movements. Now the distant vines were focused on him, and close quarters are focused on Tuanzi. On the contrary, there is no part paying attention to Fang Hao.

Like a cat, Fang Hao agilely jumped forward among the densely intertwined vines. In a short while, he reached the roof. Peering inside, there was one room full of intertwined vines. Its hard to say how many are twisting around!

Several bundles of explosives appeared in his hands out of thin air. Tossing them through the cracked roof holes, he thew out five or six explosives in one breath, and then took out a grenade.

"Tuanzi, go back to space!"