Chapter 47

[I have already acquired the premium mutant plant "Little Pink Mushroom"!]

[“Little Pink Mushroom” loyalty has increased dramatically, reaching 100%!]

Through the crack in the eggshell, the little mushroom opened its eyes and saw Qian Hui.

It paused for two seconds, then immediately began to claw at the edge of the eggshell, trying to flip itself out, waving its thin arms happily: "Ooh-ooh..."

Perhaps because its consciousness had been dormant for too long, the little mushroom's body was slightly stiff, and its movements were somewhat clumsy and not very agile.

Afraid it would fall, Qian Hui quickly supported it with her hand, saying, "Slow down, slow down..."

Carrot helped remove the eggshell, and the little pink mushroom took the opportunity to hug Qian Hui's fingertips tightly, rubbed against them, and gave them a kiss.

It is small and cute, standing up to about the height of an adult's finger. Its body is round and chubby, with a full, arched cap edged with small white patterns, and its delicate hands and feet are pink.

After kissing her fingertips, Little Mushroom came to the edge of Qian Hui's palm, tilted her head back as if to be hugged.

Qian Hui brought her hand closer, and the little mushroom kept rubbing against him, then kissed him on the cheek.

"Little Pink, I miss you too," Qian Hui said, holding the little mushroom and tenderly stroking its cap. "How are you feeling? Is there anything else that's bothering you?"

"Hmm..." The little mushroom thought for a moment and shook its head.

However, it remembered that it seemed to have been captured by humans, clearly...

The little mushroom's eyes began to look confused. It didn't remember much about what happened after it was captured by humans. After that, it seemed to have a very long sleep, and when it woke up, it saw Qian Hui.

It shook its umbrella hat, and then, standing in Qian Hui's palm, looked around and realized that it was in an unfamiliar forest, with many, many plants around.

The carnivorous plant had been waiting for a long time. When it saw the little mushroom waving excitedly at it, it went forward and used its leaves to hug it.

The little mushroom rolled around in the leaves of the carnivorous plant several times, then leaned in to kiss its nose before turning its head to go to the cabbage.

Not just fennel and carnivorous plants, but also cabbage, carrots, sunflowers, nuts... they're all there!

The little mushroom was extremely excited, hugging and rubbing its leaves or cheeks against each plant, and then giving them a couple of kisses.

The nut had no leaves or hands, so it lay down in the grass. The little mushroom touched its belly and stretched out its arms to approach it.

Cabbage couldn't help but sob, tears welling up in her eyes again.

It learned the news too late. Although the little mushroom had been successfully revived, it was still in shock, feeling both relieved and heartbroken.

The carrot gently patted it to calm it down.

The little mushroom was still in the grass with the nuts, surrounded by sunflowers and carnivorous plants.

It looked up and saw several more unfamiliar plants.

Potatoes and corn huddled together, while chili peppers and durians waved friendly to the little mushrooms.

There were even more plants in the background: bamboo shoots, apples, tulips...

Seeing so many unfamiliar plants, none of which the little mushroom had ever seen before, it curiously looked around and then walked over.

The nuts helped to flatten the weeds, and the potato, watching the little mushroom approach, nervously put its hands behind its back, wanting to touch it but not daring to.

In contrast, the little mushroom was much bolder. It would sniff the potato up close, then touch it with its cap, and that was how it considered getting to know it.

It sniffed the remaining plants, touched the caps of the mushrooms, and when it came to the cabbage, the little mushroom let out a "whoosh," opened its eyes wide to examine it, and then turned its head to look at the cabbage.

To be precise, they were watching Cabbage Boxing Gloves.

The little cabbage stood shyly and greeted the little mushroom: "Woo..."

Next to the small cabbage is a small succulent. The little mushroom's eyes lit up as soon as it saw it, and it circled around it before taking the succulent's hand.

The two plants are about the same size and color. The small mushroom-shaped plant has an umbrella-shaped cap on its top, while the small succulent plant has succulent petals on its top. They are quite similar.

The little succulent seemed to really like the little mushroom, sniffing it up close and touching the patterns on the edge of its cap.

It wasn't until the little mushroom had recognized all the unfamiliar plants that it finally stood before Nan Tingjin.

The little mushroom didn't approach, but looked up at Nan Tingjin intently for a while before it seemed to remember who he was.

It shook its umbrella cap, snorted, and turned away.

By now, Little Mushroom was a little tired. He yawned, rubbed his eyes, and looked in Qian Hui's direction.

The carnivorous plant picked it up and returned it to Qianhui's side.

"Are you hungry?" Qianhui took the food from the carrot and fed it to the little mushroom.

The biscuits were broken into pieces, the jerky was torn into small pieces, and the small mushroom rice was not a large portion; a little bit was enough to fill you up.

Qianhui used the bottle cap to give it water and also gave it a high-grade panacea.

After filling its belly, the little mushroom became even sleepier.

It sat in Qian Hui's palm, looked at the man-eating flower and other plants, and after some hesitation, finally chose Qian Hui and wanted to sleep here.

Just then, there happened to be a small pocket on the chest of Qianhui's coat. Sunflower stuffed two petals into it, and Little Mushroom crawled in, rolled around, and then popped out to wave to everyone.

The plants waved their hands too, with the little succulent waving the most vigorously. It climbed onto the top of the little cabbage, as if afraid the little mushroom wouldn't see it.

Qian Hui touched the little mushroom's cap: "Go to sleep."

"Hoo!" The little mushroom burrowed back into the pocket, stirred, and then fell silent.

Qianhui gently stroked the pocket through the fabric and slowly breathed a sigh of relief.

The plants around her were the same; the carnivorous plant came right up to her, and the nut jumped into Qian Hui's arms.

Along with the other plants that were seeing the little mushroom for the first time, they all felt the atmosphere, feeling both happy and excited, yet restrained themselves from making any noise so as not to disturb the little mushroom's rest.

“Little Pink is probably just sleepy,” Qian Hui reassured the still somewhat uneasy carnivorous flower, whispering, “It’s fine, it’s in good condition.”

The little mushroom has no injuries, remembers all the plants, and its condition is listed as good in the encyclopedia.

However, its skill bar in the encyclopedia is completely covered in gray. If Qianhui tries to see it, a message will pop up saying "The plant has been dormant for a long time and is recovering."

Most likely because of the little mushroom's previous death... Although its body was well preserved, the resurrection bean only took effect in one day, and it only successfully repaired the body.

Moreover, after Little Mushroom woke up, she seemed to be in good spirits, but she was obviously more prone to getting tired than before.

I wonder if feeding them some pills or zombie cores would help...

Normally, premium heterotrophic plants do not require crystal nuclei, but the situation with small mushrooms may be a special case.

As Qian Hui was pondering, Chili seemed to know what he was thinking and brought over a small backpack.

It opened its backpack, which was full of crystal cores—the fruits of the plant team's labor yesterday.

Because everyone was anxiously waiting for the little mushroom to wake up, or worried about Qian Hui's health, the crystal cores hadn't been distributed yet.

Chili noticed that the little mushroom fell asleep so quickly, so she thought she could try feeding it some crystals.

Chili reached out and gently touched the pocket where Little Mushroom was sleeping, then held up a crystal core for Qian Hui to see, her eyes full of anticipation.

“Okay,” Qianhui picked up Chili, “Thank you, Little Chili.”

The crystal cores in the backpack will be stored away for now, until the little mushroom wakes up.

As noon approached, the plants grew hungry. The crisp peach and morning glory followed behind the soft vine, sharing the food they were carrying.

The new plants continued to follow their assigned groups, with Qianhui habitually checking their status and loyalty in the encyclopedia before heading to the potato and cherry plants.

Potato is feeding the big cherry, and he pinches out a homing missile and casually tosses it behind him.

The cherry tree lay on its back on the grass, and the missile veered from behind, circled back, and fell into its wide-open mouth.

Qian Hui walked over and sat down, picking up the cherry from the ground: "Are you feeling better?"

Big Cherry used the Berserk skill yesterday and hasn't fully recovered yet.

Its basic and advanced skills involve consuming and digesting various bombs, converting them into its own energy; it has no active attack capabilities whatsoever.

Therefore, every time Cherry truly participates in a battle, she needs to activate her berserk skill immediately, releasing all the digested energy at once to trigger an explosion.

Such a skill is very powerful and has a very high potential, but the Berserk skill cannot be used continuously. If there were no potatoes, Cherry would not be able to find so many bombs to eat.

Thanks to the potatoes, the cherry's loyalty has reached 80%, making it the fastest-growing new plant.

Big Cherry let out a "whoosh," opened its mouth, and caught another missile. While eating, it rubbed against Qian Hui's palm to indicate that it was feeling better.

The balance has increased by tens of thousands again, and Qianhui bought it some skill points and a bottle of evolution water.

However, perhaps due to the special nature of her skill, Cherry only ate the skill point pills and smelled the evolution water but did not drink it.

“Okay,” Qianhui put it away and patted the big cherry. “Good girl.”

The bottle of evolution water was ultimately given to Mimosa. Qianhui had originally planned to buy it for her, but Mimosa was thinking about the plants trapped in the base and hadn't accepted it.

Now, Mimosa's loyalty has reached 85%, and she has completely become a member of the team.

After drinking the evolution water, its skills were not newly acquired, but greatly enhanced, and its various olfactory senses became more acute.

The mimosa plant had grown a little larger, its branches wrapped around the empty bottle, and its leaves trembled, pointing into the distance.

It told the sunflower that there should be two unfamiliar exotic plants in that direction, they were intermediate level, and they were covered in the fragrance of flowers.

Carrot, who was listening nearby, turned around and secretly slipped away, intending to catch her and give Qianhui a surprise.

Qian Hui didn't notice Carrot's actions. He kept his head down and bought some skill points and evolution water from the shop.

In the original team, Apple and Succulent were low-level, but one of them had a very special level display and the other had a skill that was very useful for hiding.

Qianhui hoped that all the plants could continue to grow stronger, so she bought them as well.

Among the new plants, besides the cherry, the cactus and pumpkin have the highest loyalty and are also included.

The remaining plants didn't have any evolution water for the time being, but they all received a skill point pill.

After Qianhui finished her work, she opened the encyclopedia again and found that the plant team's overall combat power had soared to 26,000.

With 26,000 troops, we have already met the combat strength requirements for establishing a base.

However... Qianhui felt that the current combat power stats probably didn't include Little Mushroom, probably because its abilities hadn't recovered yet.

Back in the plant courtyard, the little mushroom hardly ever had to participate in battles; all it needed to do was stay in the wooden house and hide.

But when it arrived here, like the other plants in the courtyard, it was of the highest grade, and its abilities must be outstanding.

Qian Hui looked at the illustrations of all the special-grade exotic plants again. Six of them had been lit up, and five were left.

From the faint silhouettes in the illustrations, Qianhui could tell that the remaining five should be red pepper, pea, pomelo, cat's tail grass, and lettuce.

Red Chili is different from the chili next to Qian Hui; it's a plump sweet pepper. Along with peas and lettuce, the three plants used to have a good relationship with Qian Hui.

As for pomelo and cattail grass... In Qianhui's impression, cattail grass is rather aloof and doesn't pay attention to anyone.

Yuzi is a bit of a loner; she likes to find a corner to hide in and often doesn't show up for most of the day.

But Qianhui felt that if she found them, they would definitely be willing to stay by her side and rebuild the plant garden.

Qian Hui turned off the game and looked down at the pocket where the little mushroom was sleeping.

I've actually had a pretty smooth journey so far; the plants have been found one after another, and the little mushrooms have been successfully revived.

Now... he's not satisfied with this. He wants to work hard to build a base for the plants, continue to earn more balance, and find all the top-grade exotic plants.

Qianhui leaned against the tree trunk, lost in thought, when suddenly footsteps approached.

Nan Tingjin came to the tree and reached out to touch Qian Hui's slightly cool cheek.

Qian Hui leaned closer, carefully turning sideways so as not to press down on the little mushroom in her pocket, and hugged Nan Tingjin.

Nan Tingjin stroked his hair: "How are you feeling now?"

Qian Hui knew what he meant and vaguely said, "I'm really fine now."

Yesterday, when Big Cherry blew up twenty or thirty zombies in one go, his energy immediately recovered by more than half.

The connection between the two is amazing; no wonder his physical condition gradually improved after he came here.

The most obvious problem was with the bones and joints. Qian Hui had genuinely believed that Nan Tingjin had massaged her hands to help...

Nan Tingjin seemed still uneasy and whispered, "Tell me first if you do something like this again."

Upon hearing this, Qian Hui felt a little guilty. He remembered that the game had mentioned that one resurrection bean cost 300,000, and the best time to buy it was when his balance reached 600,000.

He was a little anxious, but if given another chance, he would still buy it without hesitation.

“But,” Qianhui whispered, “Xiaofen is my friend, if…”

He stopped abruptly halfway through his sentence, his expression revealing a hint of confusion and hesitation.

Qian Hui wanted to say that the resurrection beans could be used on any creature, and if Nan Tingjin were to encounter any misfortune one day, he would buy them too.

When this thought arose in her mind, it surprisingly felt somewhat familiar to Qian Hui.

It's as if... such a thing really happened, or he had thought about it once before.

Nan Tingjin noticed Qian Hui's absent-mindedness and squeezed his hand: "What's wrong?"

Qian Hui shook her head: "No..."

He banished all his chaotic thoughts. In the game's description, Nan Tingjin's original ending was that he was missing, but now he was still safe and sound by his side.

But from the perspective of Blackridge Mountain base, he certainly appears to have disappeared...

Qian Hui looked up and asked, "Will you... go back to Blackridge Mountain?"

Nan Tingjin was silent for a moment: "I won't go back for now."

Meanwhile, at the Blackridge Mountain base.

At the outer gate, a loud bang was heard, and a figure fell heavily to the ground, unable to get up for a while.

Yuan Ji slowly walked forward, stepped on the chest of the person on the ground, and coldly surveyed the crowd: "Who else wants to rebel?"

The person who fell to the ground was Shan Jun. He was spitting blood and had multiple injuries on his body.

The others around dared not utter a sound, watching helplessly as Shan Jun was beaten to the point of near death by Yuan Ji and carried into the dungeon.

A few days ago, Yuanji discovered that Shan Jun was secretly contacting people at the Sky Base and had gathered a group of superhumans from the base to plot the election of another captain as the new leader.

Dan Jun knew that Yuan Ji had no interest in the leadership position, so he planned to eliminate Yuan Ji directly, but the plan failed.

He was punished, and those who had followed him turned against him, pledging their loyalty to Yuan Ji.

Yuanji really wanted to lock all these people up, but Nan Tingjin had not yet returned, and the current situation was unclear. If a group of people were locked up today, Wen Jue would send someone to come knocking on the door tomorrow.

With Nan Tingjin added to the delegation list, Black Ridge Base's position was already awkward, and it could be besieged and annexed by other bases at any time.

With so many powerful high-level ability users in the base, even if they were distributed to various bases and subjected to special methods to enforce obedience and control, they would still be quite useful.

Moreover, Yuanji had also heard that Wen Jue was secretly involved in some kind of superpower transplantation.

The drugs produced at Sky Base are probably not safe either. Fortunately, Nan Tingjin has always disliked pharmaceuticals and does not allow his subordinates to use them.

Few people secretly buy medicine because they can't bear it anymore. Most of the superhumans in the base are still trying other methods to alleviate their disorientation symptoms and do not rely on the Sky Base's supplies.

After dealing with Shan Jun, Yuan Ji returned to his residence.

Seeing that no one else was around, a trusted subordinate mustered up his courage and asked, "Captain, do you really not have any ideas at all...?"

With Nan Tingjin absent, Yuan Ji is the most likely successor to the leader. He is fully qualified in all aspects and will surely receive more support.

Yuan Ji entered the house and lay down on the sofa.

He closed his eyes: "I have no idea."

What's so good about being the leader... He just likes being second-in-command, where he has real power but doesn't have to take responsibility for anything that happens.

Now, Nan Tingjin has mysteriously disappeared and seems to be never coming back.

Feeling annoyed, Yuan Ji sighed and took out his communicator.

He pulled out Qi Yue's contact number, hoping to subtly inquire about Yun Chuan's and the other bases' current thoughts, and whether they still listened to Jue's words.

However, when the call was made via live chat, there was no response for a long time.

Are you busy?

Yuan Ji sighed again and tossed the communicator aside.

On the other side, Qi Yue heard the vibration of the communicator, but he didn't care at all.

He shouted anxiously, "Retreat quickly!"

A large group of zombies emerged from the intersection ahead, led by three high-level ones.

After returning from the Sky Base, Qi Yue led his team out on other missions, while also searching for the whereabouts of the alien plants and Nan Tingjin.

Late last night, they heard a noise in this direction, like an explosion, and decided to come and check it out.

I didn't expect there to be so many zombies here...

The team had more than twenty people. In order to get closer to this place, they parked their modified car at a more distant intersection, and they originally had a chance of winning.

However, the instruments in the team members detected the presence of even higher energy, suspected to be the Zombie King.

If the Zombie King is really nearby, then there will definitely be even more hordes of zombies.

Qi Yue led his team to retreat immediately, avoiding a direct confrontation with the zombie horde, hoping to return to the modified vehicle and leave quickly before the zombie king appeared.

He stayed behind, ordering his team to hurry up. The wind blade he swung struck the nearest high-level zombie, slowing its movement.

In the distance, there was a round, chubby shadowy figure crouching furtively in the ruins, peeking out.

Big Pea peered around, munching on the crystal core in its hand.

Start fighting! Start fighting now!