Chapter 343 Starving

After passing through the narrow, thorny bushes, the view suddenly opened up.

Lin said, "Here we are, right here."

Teammates: "Hiss—what a waste!"

Under each sturdy fruit tree, there were piles of ripe and fallen fruits. The ones closest to the moist mud were covered with green hairs, and mold filaments were visible crawling upwards, making it look more like a hedgehog with its hair standing on end, with upright hyphae all over its body.

This is definitely not edible.

Fortunately, there are still many on the tree.

Sang Zhengyi: "Everyone, don't worry. Let Hu Zi go up and check it out in case there's anything unusual."

Hu Zi has somewhat regressed to his ancestors, with longer arms and rough and thick palms, which allows him to climb tree trunks more easily and jump and shuttle between branches.

It would be most appropriate to send him there.

Generally speaking, plants have some variation, some harmless and some aggressive.

According to Sang Zhengyi's long-term observation, carnivorous plants in peacetime become better at catching living things after mutation.

Plants covered with thorns have become sharper and longer, and some can suddenly emit a large number of thorns, making it difficult to defend against them and turning them into hedgehogs.

Climbing vines have a faster growth rate and increased strangling power. He often sees a sturdy tree clinging to a thin vine. The roots on the stem gradually penetrate into the tree, continuously absorbing nutrients, and huge leaves grow on the top, and bright yellow flowers with a diameter of one meter bloom.

It won't be long before the tree withers and dies due to lack of sunlight and excessive absorption of nutrients.

What kind of change is this?

Most plant mutations are primarily based on increasing the survival rate of seeds...

Hu Zi picked up a stone and threw it over carefully.

The rocks hit the tree trunk with a thud.

Everyone was on high alert, ready to escape at any moment.

But the tree didn't move.

Hu Zi shook his legs and arms, picked up another branch, and whipped it on the ground as he moved closer.

He was wearing a pair of thick-soled work shoes, and when he stepped into the pile of fruits, he sank deep into them, leaving only the uppers of his shoes exposed. The squeezed fruits oozed juice, wetting the fabric and turning it dark brown.

When he lifted his feet, holes were left behind.

Sang Zhengyi leaned over to take a closer look, but found nothing wrong.

The Hu Zi on the opposite side was worthy of his name. He had already climbed up the tree in the blink of an eye.

Sang Zhengyi was shocked: "Huzi?! Why did you just climb up the tree?!"

With his feet on the tree trunk, Hu Zi picked a fruit and said with a smile, "It's okay, it allows us to pick fruit!"

it?

Who is it referring to?!

This time, not only Sang Zhengyi was shocked, but everyone was stunned.

Sang Zhengyi asked anxiously, "Who is this 'it' you're talking about? It can't be this tree?"

Hu Zi touched the tree trunk, pulled his hair, and his facial features twisted into a knot.

"That's it!"

From their position, Hu Zi really looked like a possessed monkey.

Sang Zhengyi always felt something was wrong. He had never heard of plants mutating and developing thoughts!

Maybe I smelled some confusing smell and had hallucinations!

He pressed on anxiously, his feet creeping closer. "What does it say? How can you understand it?"

Hu Zi became even more confused. He put the fruit in front of his eyes and frowned.

He spoke incoherently, "I am this tree. It didn't speak, but I could sense it. When I approached it, I felt it was so happy and wanted me to pick its fruit. It hated the idea of seeds taking root and sprouting under its feet, stealing its energy. It wanted me to take all the fruit. That's it."

After hearing what he said, everyone looked at each other in shock.

Want them to pick the fruit?

So dreamy...

This time, everyone agreed that there was a bewitching smell around the tree!

But Hu Zi climbed higher and higher very easily, and even stretched out his hand to pick the biggest and reddest fruit on the top!

Looking at the swaying twigs, one is very worried that they will break at any moment and Hu Zi will fall down.

"Xiao, be careful!"

"It's okay! Hurry up and grab the cloth bag below to catch it. I can't hold it in my hands!"

Hu Zi waved the palm-sized fruit happily and shouted to the people below who looked like little people.

Qi Hua took out a mask from his pocket and put it on, then stopped Sang Zhengyi who was moving forward and said, "I'll go."

He is the only one here with a high level of supernatural power and quick and sensitive reactions, so he is the most suitable person to go.

Besides, there really has been no movement from the fruit trees.

Could it be...that, as Hu Zi said, the tree wants them to take the fruit away?

Sang Zhengyi stared at Qi Hua who was getting closer and closer to the big tree. He could tell whether he had dementia or not just by looking at him.

Everyone looked at Qi Hua's figure. As he got closer and closer, he opened his cloth bag, looked up and said, "Hu Zi, throw the fruit!"

Hu Zi chuckled and threw the fruit down very accurately, then quickly climbed to another branch and pulled the fruit.

After waiting for more than ten seconds,

Qi Hua turned around, took off his mask and said, "It's really okay, there's no smell at all."

Hu Zi, who was sitting on the branch, said, "It told us to hurry! The fruits are about to fall off naturally!"

After he finished speaking, a bright red fruit really fell into Qi Hua's cloth bag.

Sang Zheng translated:!

Everyone: !!

What else is there to think about? Picking fruit!

Everyone rushed up, wearing thick rubber gloves, and started climbing the branches. Seeing that the fruit tree really didn't move, they were completely relieved and frantically stuffed the fruit into the cloth bag.

Even the chestnut tree, walnut tree and wild pear tree next door were not spared, and they took as many as they could!

Something that doesn’t cost points, you’ll become addicted to it!

...

The sun was setting in the west, and the shadows on the ground were slowly creeping over the pile of rotten fruit. A chill was creeping in, and the busy people shivered, suddenly feeling that the weather had turned cold.

I raised my stiff neck and saw that it was almost dark.

Sang Zhengyi stopped everyone, "It's getting dark, go back to base!"

"What about these fruits?"

Sang Zhengyi said, "Come with me, a few people, and help me put it back to the villa. I'll only leave a small part in the car and take it back."

Lin pounded her extremely sore waist and wanted to find a place to sit down and rest for a while.

As soon as she turned around, she met Qi Hua's eyes.

The latter seemed to be surprised that she would suddenly turn around, and a look of discomfort flashed across his face, but he immediately put on a kind smile, as if what happened just now was just an illusion.

Lin looked at him expressionlessly, then turned back and continued hammering her legs.

She believed her first impression. The other party still suspected her, but hid it deeper.

But it doesn’t matter, what others think has nothing to do with me.

Her only goal was to save some crystal cores and wait patiently for her daughter to come back.

Lin suddenly thought of what Boss Xia said today: save some food, in case she is very hungry.

The hand she was beating her leg suddenly clenched—

Boss Xia found his daughter.

My daughter might be starving.