Chapter 142 Chapter 142 Chapter 142 (Supplement 1...

One year later.

In Haruki City, the collapsed subway station entrance is covered with colorful mushrooms. The mushroom spores float in the air, almost filling the entire space. It is hard to imagine that these mushrooms grew overnight.

A sharp blade chopped off the mushrooms one by one. Several men and women, wrapped tightly in masks, looked toward the horizon.

The sky was covered by a thick black fog, making it impossible to see the sun and moon, and impossible to tell the time.

"What day is this?"

"It's the fifth day." The tall woman looked at the mark on the back of her hand. "Within seven days, someone should come to rescue us. Let's just hold on a little longer."

After cleaning up all the mushrooms, the other few people took off their masks and sat against the wall. Each of them was pale and listless, with black lines running down their faces.

“Beep, beep, beep—”

The alarm rang, and the woman immediately said, "It's time to take the medicine."

The rest of the people's movements were not unified, but they all carefully took out a small medicine box from the bag they were carrying.

Inside were round and crystal-clear pills, which were taken out carefully and swallowed with the head raised high.

After the medicine entered the stomach, the black lines on everyone's face gradually faded, almost visibly, until they disappeared.

The originally pale face seemed to be much healthier and had a little redness.

"The purifying medicine is really effective."

A young student-looking man had a look of relief on his face: "It even works in areas where the pollution level exceeds 999."

The tall woman took off her hat and exhaled. "I heard the medicine we're taking is diluted, but one pill of this diluted medicine would keep us going for three days. I don't know what the undiluted purification medicine is like."

When she mentioned this, everyone's faces showed some longing.

The ubiquity of pollution makes the existence of purifiers even more important, especially since there is only one purifier from Xia Country on the entire Blue Star who can produce pollution medicine.

Although other energy users were unable to produce contamination drugs, they were also influenced by the seventh-level purifier and slowly began to purify some ordinary people.

To be honest, it's a bit difficult.

Energy users are too easily influenced, and their overly sensitive perception makes them fragile and easily frightened.

The side effect of the powerful "healing" ability is that these energy users need very precise protection in order to stabilize their minds and live a normal life.

It's like an atavistic awakener will instinctively want to build a nest, a fire awakener will feel tired in winter, and a water awakener doesn't like the desert.

The ability to heal humans, yet its inherent fragility, makes it truly suitable to be deified.

And the seventh-level purifier who researched and produced the purification medicine and saved countless ordinary people from being contaminated will of course be placed on the highest altar.

Even in this situation of being trapped in a strange realm, mentioning him seemed to give people a glimmer of hope.

After all, most of them would have died long ago if it weren't for the other party's purification medicine.

The woman encouraged her companions: "Don't be discouraged, just wait patiently. The Guardians will definitely come to rescue us!"

Another young man with a delicate appearance was lying on the ground in dejection.

He was a little-known singer who was invited to perform nearby. However, before the show even started, the area was suddenly pulled into a strange realm. Then, his companions died one by one, perhaps from the sudden acid rain in the sky, or from the mushrooms growing in the corners of the walls, or from nightmares at night.

People die every day, and every day, their will is worn away a little.

Compared to others who still have hope, this singer knows more inside information because he knows some important people.

For example, even if a guardian team composed of awakened people enters a strange area, they will be contaminated and affected.

Even for an awakened person, entering the strange realm is tantamount to committing suicide.

Therefore, there is a 99% chance that they will not be able to wait for rescue.

"That strange thing is controlling more and more plants. Two of us died yesterday. What if we don't wait until..."

Before he could finish his words, his eyes suddenly blurred and a red vine suddenly sprang out from the ruins not far away, tightened around his neck, and pulled him into the ruins as if it had caught its prey.

"Ah!! Ugh...help..."

All this happened too suddenly. The members of this makeshift team were all ordinary people with no abilities. They only had time to stand up quickly, chase after the young singer and grab his feet.

At the same time, more red vines emerged from the ruins like fairy flowers, carrying a strong smell of pollution, and clearly strangled the remaining people.

The originally quiet atmosphere became a mess. Fortunately, although these people were ordinary people, ever since the weirdness was announced, Xia State has been calling on citizens to exercise and learn martial arts to protect themselves.

Even the youngest student, a teenager, was wielding a kitchen knife and trying his best to protect himself from being entangled by the vines.

For a while, ordinary people who had taken purification drugs and no longer had to worry about pollution invasions were actually fighting back and forth in the strange area with some strange plants that were created by the strangeness.

But they were all ordinary people after all, and their physical strength would decline quickly. After an hour, almost everyone was sweating profusely.

And those red vines continued to harass their prey one by one patiently, waiting for them to lose their remaining strength.

All humans realized this, and the atmosphere of despair gradually began to plague the crowd.

"This won't work. If we continue like this, we'll all be dragged to death."

The woman pursed her lips slightly and tightened her grip on the sharp blade in her hand: "Even if I die, I won't let these weirdos have an easy time!"

Boom——

When people gradually became quiet, a sound like thunder suddenly came from the distance.

Then came the roar of a motorcycle engine approaching rapidly.

Just by listening, you can tell how fast they are going. It seems that it didn't take long before a group of motorcycles appeared in the fog of pollution.

These motorcycles are tall and huge, like beasts. When the headlights are turned on, they look like the eyes of wild beasts, full of power and oppression.

Everyone breathed a sigh of relief.

"The Guardian has arrived!"

The next second, the helmeted Guardian members did not get off the motorcycle, but rode straight on the motorcycle, through the crowd, and rushed towards the red vines.

The young singer, who had been dragged to the entrance of the ruins, was suddenly grabbed by a hand.

With a bang, the other hand cut the vines off.

"How are you?"

The young singer breathed deeply. When he heard the greeting, he subconsciously looked up and saw the young man in front of him wearing a helmet. In less than a second, he was easily lifted up by the other person's hand.

——It’s almost the same as carrying a plastic bag.

Suddenly, the world in front of me started spinning, and I was freed from the vines, and my perspective became one looking down from above.

It took him a second to realize that he was being carried on the other person's shoulders.

The perspective in front of him kept changing. Countless red vines attacked, but were easily cut off and blocked by a long sword.

Then, his sight bounced, and he was carried on the shoulders, and followed the other party to easily jump onto the five-meter-high ruins. He looked dizzyly at the young man who stretched out his hands. It seemed as if something white mist flashed in his hands, and he pulled the main vein of the vine hard, pulling out a root that was five meters wide.

——With a bang.

This makes people wonder if it is a high-level polluted plant that has reached the fifth level, and it is torn into pieces in front of the young singer.

“Done!”

The young man carrying him let out a breath, his tone still relaxed.

The next second, his eyes blurred and he realized that he was being carried and jumped off the five-meter-high platform again.

The other party was incredibly light, more graceful than a butterfly flying down, and even while doing all this, he was carrying a grown man on his shoulders.

The young singer almost doubted whether he was dreaming. He was so afraid of the impending death that he weaved a beautiful dream of being saved for himself.

Until he was gently supported and slowly allowed to stand on the ground.

After witnessing the young man's terrifying strength with my own eyes, this kind of support seemed extremely gentle.

The young singer stood there in a daze, watching the other person take off his helmet.

His breathing hitched.

It turned out to be a very beautiful face, with a pair of slightly round eyes that were dark and bright, looking at him intently, revealing sincerity.

This was a temperament completely different from that of other people he had met before, and could even be described as clear.

Just one look and it caught his full attention.

"Can you stand on your own?"

The young singer's head was buzzing. All the fear, terror and panic he had felt before seemed to have been driven away. All he could see was the serious questioning look of the young man in front of him.

“I, I can…”

He answered subconsciously, and saw the other party smile with relief, then loosen the hand that was supporting him.

"It seems that you are fine, that's good."

The young singer felt the warm touch leave, and a sense of loss rose in his heart. He instinctively wanted to reach out and grab the other person's hand, but the young man had already turned around and returned to his teammates.

He took a piece of broken vine root in his hand, completely ignoring the polluted smell emanating from above, and stuffed it into a bag naturally, just like holding a freshly bought cabbage, and hung it on the motorcycle.

As he moved, a green jelly-like object appeared on his shoulder.

The young singer had seen the popular science and recognized that it was a kind of spirit.

The spirit curiously poked its head out to dig through the bag, but the young man gently touched its head:

"Da Huang, don't touch this. It's not dead yet and will bite you."

The little elf was startled and quickly climbed back onto his shoulder, took out a piece of gold from somewhere and started chewing it.

Another Guardian member took off his helmet, revealing a gentle face:

"Shi Zhen, do you like this?"

"Um!"

The young man smiled and replied, "I want to take it back and try growing it. It tastes great."

When he said it tasted good, a hint of greed appeared on his fair face, and he licked his lips subconsciously, as if he was savoring the delicious taste of the red vines.

He tilted his head to look at another slender and lazy figure, and asked with an unconscious intimacy in his tone:

"Captain, can I take it back?"

Sui An also took off his helmet and patted Luo Shizhen on the shoulder: "Wear it if you like it."

There was a good reason why Luo Shizhen needed to ask Sui An before he could bring the contaminated plants back to his residence.

During this year, he raised a lot of polluting plants. The villa, which had originally become a wasteland garden because no one took care of it, was now filled with various polluting plants.

The teammates were friendlier than Luo Shizhen had imagined. After their first meeting, perhaps because Luo Shizhen's Qi body expressed his love and kindness, all the teammates naturally accepted him as a new member.

They fought together, ate together, and went back to the villa to sleep together, which was exactly what Luo Shizhen had imagined about the team.

However, he got hungry very easily and often woke up hungry, but it was a long way to drive to a strange place to eat.

Until one day, Sui An went out and brought back a small gift.

A polluted plant with bared fangs, sixteen pairs of eyes, thirty-two pairs of mouths, and a pollution value of over 700 points.

The best thing about it is that it can reproduce on its own. In just one week, it can go from one plant to four plants.

After Luo Shizhen accepted the gift with surprise, the garden of the villa was completely developed.

But there is a problem, Luo Shi is really too busy.

In addition to fighting, he also works part-time helping other polluters purify, making purification medicine, and earning money to buy gold for Dahuang.

The most important thing is that he has the long sleep that he should have at his age, and his sleep time a day has reached ten hours.

Luo Shizhen has no time to take care of his own small garden.

He couldn't hire anyone to take care of it because the plants in the small garden might eat the hired staff.

These delicious plants can only be grown in silver cocoons. You should know that many of them are level seven, and there is even an eighth-level plant.

Even if this plant is in a medium-sized guard team, it is unlikely to be suppressed.

But the silver cocoon can.

None of the members of Silver Cocoon are below level seven, so naturally they don't mind raising plants with excessive pollution levels.

The only problem is that Luo Shi really doesn't have time to raise it.

When he was in distress, Sui An naturally took over this task.

Compared to Luo Shizhen, Sui An, who hardly needs sleep, has plenty of time to take care of his small garden.

He watered the mimosa with a bloody mouth, fertilized the ghost flower with countless long hairs, and dewormed a willow tree that produced crispy and sweet fruits but was of level seven and could easily kill any awakened people below level seven that approached it.

At first, Luo Shizhen didn't notice it at all. He thought that these delicious plants that had been domesticated from the wild suddenly had a strong desire to survive.

Until one day he woke up hungry in the middle of the night and wanted to go to the garden to find something to eat, but he found Sui An walking among the dancing branches, slowly watering the plants.

From then on, if Luo Shi really wanted to grow new plants, he would have to ask Sui An.

The boy who grew up in a small town has his own set of logic. It's like although he loves cleanliness, his grandmother's eyesight is not good, so she always fails to clean the house well. Luo Shizhen never says anything about it, but just quietly cleans it again when his grandmother is not around.

Whoever takes care of the garden has control over it.

Luo Shi really thought so.

Even though Sui An had never asked him to take away the new plants he brought home.

He would even bring new plants and food to Luo Shizhen himself.

Just like now, Sui An naturally handed a mushroom that still emitted psychedelic colors to Luo Shizhen, and as expected, he received a look of surprise from the other party.

"I found it over there. This mushroom isn't very powerful, but it's very polluting. It seems to reproduce easily. If you like, you should be able to dig a few more over there."

Luo Shizhen held the mushroom in his hands as if it were a precious big diamond.

“I like it, I like it!”

He could already smell the aroma of mushrooms wafting over there, which would be delicious when used to stew chicken.

Luo Shizhen swallowed hard, remembering that he was still working, and quickly restrained his expression, showing the resolute look of a guardian.

However, he quickly stuffed the mushrooms into another bag, planning to dig up some soil here later so that it can successfully transition to the garden at home.

He was aware that he was hiding his joy, but in fact, the joy in his body was about to overflow.

Ming Zhian watched this scene with a smile, Rong Su's eyes softened, and even Yi Qi turned around and began to search for other mushrooms.

Lin Qi patted Luo Shizhen's shoulder, coughed dryly, and raised his voice:

"Everyone, gather here! Let me introduce ourselves. We are Silver Cocoon, the Guardian Team. We have taken over this rescue mission in the strange realm. Everyone, come this way. Anyone injured, come to the left."

The people, who had just recovered from the panic of being attacked by strange plants and the surprise of being rescued, immediately stood up as he said.

After registering one by one, they were arranged to rest on the spot. After resting, they would follow Silver Cocoon to continue moving forward and rescue other trapped people.

In addition to admiration and respect for the awakened, people also have some fear of them.

After all, most awakened ones have unstable temperaments, and even energy users are known for their bad tempers.

So they sat on the ground, keeping a distance from the Silver Cocoon members.

I dare not go far away for fear of danger.

I don't dare to get close because I'm afraid of danger.

Only the young singer hesitated for a moment, slowly stood up, smoothed his messy hair with his hands, borrowed a wet tissue from his companion to wipe his face, and after making sure that he didn't look so bad, he nervously approached the Silver Cocoon team.

Luo Shi was digging the soil with great effort, and his companions were also digging on the side.

If other guardian teams saw this scene, they would probably be shocked. All the members of Silver Cocoon, who are among the best in the Eternal Day team, were digging the soil so immersedly, as if they were bewildered by the weirdness.

But for Luo Shizhen, he was very happy. Except for Lin Qi and the captain, his teammates were actually not talkative, but they always supported him silently. This made Luo Shizhen gradually regard the villa for the Silver Cocoon members as his real home.

He had just finished digging a bag when he heard the person he had saved earlier whispering a greeting from behind:

"Hello..."

Luo Shizhen had heard his footsteps a long time ago and was not surprised. He just turned his head to look at him and responded with a friendly smile:

"Hello."

The young singer felt less nervous at his friendly attitude, licked her lips, and a genuine smile appeared on her delicate and pretty face.

"My name is Mingwei, I'm a singer, thank you for saving me."

Luo Shizhen: "My name is Luo Shizhen, I'm a guardian. No need to thank me, saving you is my duty and mission."

He smiled widely, with kindness in his eyes, like a ball of marshmallow with open arms.

The young singer felt that this was a good start.

"Um, can I add you as my friend? So, we can go out for dinner or something..."

Sui An manipulated his mental power and easily dug a bag of soil. He slowly stood up, leaned against a tree, and watched the expression on the young singer's face change from nervous excitement, to anticipation and joy, and then to disappointment and melancholy.

You don't even need to listen to know what Luo Shizhen said.

It must be a direct yet polite way of saying that he doesn't have time to add friends, have dinner, or make plans to go out.

To the person approaching, this is rejection.

To Luo Shizhen, he was just telling the truth.

Finally, the young singer left dejectedly.

Lin Qi stood up from the side with a florist's shovel in his hand: "Another one, tsk tsk tsk."

"Our Shi Zhen is becoming more and more charming as he grows up."

Sui An didn't look at him, but continued to look at Luo Shizhen intently:

"You're wrong, he hasn't grown up yet."

Lynch looked at himself and saw that he was already 22 years old and had grown into a 1.87 meter tall young man. Even in combat uniform, one could vaguely see the beautiful muscular curves of his figure. Then he looked at his captain.

"Captain, you should clean your eyes. Stop acting like a control freak and treating Shi Zhen like a child. It's annoying."

Sui An raised an eyebrow.

"Will it?"

Lin Qi wanted to say that he would, but before he could speak, Luo Shizhen came over with his precious soil and happily shared it with Sui An.

"Captain, is this enough soil?"

Sui An rubbed his head: "That's enough."

Luo Shizhen nodded happily, not caring at all about the long palm on his head.

Instead, she seemed to be quite comfortable, letting the other person caress her, her eyes bright and dark, totally unlike the calm, resolute and reliable appearance she had deliberately pretended to be in front of the survivors.

Like a forever cheerful Samoyed, he just wants to be with the person he likes.

Lin Qi: “…”

No, that analogy is wrong.

Shi Zhen is no happy, harmless puppy.

Although he has been at level seven all this year, his strength has been growing.

When it comes to killing, he is much more passionate than the old team members.

Luo Shizhen had a good rest, looked at the gray sky, and then looked at Sui An:

"I'm starting captain."

He had a new trick and wanted to try it out in this strange area.

Sui An nodded, and the mental power of the control supervisor was released, protecting Luo Shizhen in a circle.

At the same time, Lin Qi, Rong Su, Ming Zhian, and Yi Qi all tensed their bodies slightly, stood in their positions tacitly, and together with Sui An, protected Luo Shizhen in the most central area.

Luo Shizhen closed his eyes slightly, and white mist rose up, crashing into the haze in the sky and swallowing it in big mouthfuls.

The white mist sometimes turns into a giant python, sometimes into an ancient tree, eating with relish, and with a clear goal. No matter how delicious the pollution that comes near is, it only focuses on eating one place.

On the left, the survivors who were resting, and some lucky ones in the distance who were unaware that rescue had arrived and were still hiding or fighting, suddenly felt a long-lost light.

Everyone looked up blankly at the gray sky that had been covered by pollution.

There is now a big hole there.

The bright sunlight shining down seemed to be able to drive away all evil spirits.

People were in disbelief, then ecstasy.

"This is... the mysterious realm has been broken?!!"

"Mysterious domain... can actually be broken directly!"