Chapter 53

Before deciding to return to Black Ridge Mountain, Qianhui first asked for the opinions of the new plants.

Chili peppers, potatoes, and bamboo shoots have been with me for a long time, but the dozen or so new plants rescued from the base haven't been with me for very long, and their loyalty is lower.

The incident happened suddenly in the morning, and preparations were rushed. Fortunately, thanks to Qianhui and Carrot's instructions, the new plants were taken special care of and only suffered minor injuries.

This decision to go to Blackridge Mountain means I'll inevitably have to get involved in the battle again.

Qian Hui thought that if any of the new plants were not adapting well, they could choose to leave the group; he wouldn't force them.

Fortunately, they were in the woods at that moment, so they could stay behind after breaking away from the group.

Once we've built our own base, we'll come back and take the plants away.

However, it turned out that Qianhui was worrying unnecessarily.

He brought back a total of thirteen plants from the base, and they all wanted to continue following him.

The big cherry will definitely not leave, and the pumpkin, watermelon, and mimosa are close friends, so they will stay too.

Several offensive plants, such as four-leaf clover and dragon fruit, are inherently aggressive and unafraid of danger.

The remaining plants hesitated slightly, but they liked Thousand Fennel and the Plant Squad, and didn't want to be separated from Thousand Fennel.

Moreover, they were captured and imprisoned by the Sky Base, and they loathe those people to the extreme. Now that they have a chance to take revenge, they certainly don't want to miss it.

The cactus, clutching its helmet, vigorously waved its branch, as if to say it was going to beat them to a pulp: "Waaah!"

Since getting the helmet, it has become visibly more lively and performs well in battle. It was praised by Carrot, which made it especially excited.

The other plants raised their hands in response, with the pothos and tulips nestled in Qian Hui's arms, rubbing against his clothes.

There's actually another reason why I was willing to go to Blackridge Mountain...

Fennel can provide them with shelter and will not force any plant to do anything it does not want to do.

Several top-tier alien plants are his friends. The fighting power of the man-eating flower, carrot, and cabbage goes without saying, and the nut and sunflower also have special and outstanding abilities. Now, there is also a pea.

Add chili peppers, potatoes, corn, bamboo shoots, durian...

The plant team's combat power is undeniable, and with sunflowers and an almost unlimited supply of pills, there's not much to worry about.

There's also the seemingly most delicate little mushroom, which is cute and lively, and all the plants love to play with it.

In the end, not a single plant left the team, and they all headed to Blackridge Mountain together.

The plants gradually came to Qianhui's side. Upon learning of his decision, Carrot and Carnivorous Flower discussed dividing the group into several smaller teams.

It counts the thorns on a few carrots, suggesting there could be light attack teams, heavy attack teams, reserve attack teams, and then support and logistics teams...

As for Nan Tingjin, he is Qian Hui's personal bodyguard and boyfriend!

Due to its skill level, Durian was reassigned to the heavy attack team, led by the carnivorous plant, and no longer followed Carrot.

It had some complaints about this, but was afraid that if it said it, the man-eating flower would hear and be unhappy, so it went up to the carrot and hummed and whimpered.

The carrot sighed and patted its head, "Woof!"

That's the assignment during battle; normally you can follow your own orders!

After thinking about it carefully, Durian became happy again.

The little mushroom sat on the stem of the man-eating flower and touched the durian's arm to comfort it.

Halfway through the distribution, Carrot suddenly realized that the cabbage and peas were missing.

Qian Hui looked up and around, and saw two familiar figures sitting by the lake.

He handed the rest of the work to Carrot and got up to go over.

As she got closer, Qianhui heard the cabbage make a soft "woofing" sound and raise her hand to wipe her eyes.

Big Pea was trembling all over, tearing at the weeds on the ground, almost tearing a small patch of grass around him bare.

"Little Curly, Bean?"

Upon hearing footsteps, both plants froze, quickly regained their balance, and turned to look behind them.

Qian Hui stood not far away, sighed softly, and stepped forward to hug them all in her arms.

“It’s all over now,” he reassured them. “Everyone is fine.”

The cabbage must have told the peas about the little mushroom. Although the peas were mischievous and liked to provoke other plants, they were very kind to the little mushroom.

The little mushroom has now been successfully revived, but anyone would be saddened and angry at the thought that it had died once before.

Big Pea buried itself in Thousand Fen's arms, whimpering incessantly, its voice growing softer and softer until it gradually turned into a gnashing of teeth.

It raised its head, its eyes fierce and violent, as if it wanted to tear those people to pieces immediately.

Qianhui stroked the top of Wandou's head: "Okay, I know... I'm not sad anymore."

Cabbage nestled in Qian Hui's arms, and the two plants, having calmed themselves down, followed him back to the group.

After the teams were assigned, Carrot also assigned them team leaders so that the plants could follow their leaders and get to know each other whenever they had free time.

Carrot is very good at these things, so Qianhui is at ease. She sits under the tree and opens the game interface.

This time, we successfully killed a zombie king, and the horde of zombies in the area near the low building was basically eliminated. Combined with the reward for finding the pea, my balance is now 210,000...

Not only did they meet the requirements for establishing a base, they were also quite wealthy.

Qian Hui browsed the shop and bought two new weapons.

One is called a sprayer, and the other is called a missile head. Just by looking at their names, you can't imagine what they're used for.

After putting the purchased weapons into her game inventory, Qianhui opened it again to check. Surprisingly, the sprayer was only compatible with corn, while the missile head could be used on smaller "bullets" such as dragon fruit and cactus.

The three machine guns I bought last time are still lying in my backpack. Now they finally have a suitable match: peas.

With her current ample balance, Qian Hui thought for a moment and then bought three more electromagnetic induction guns and three missile heads.

The previous electromagnetic induction gun was given to Carrot, which is good at group attacks and works very well when equipped. The three new ones can be given to Chili Pepper, Durian, and Corn.

There are four missile warheads in total, for cactus, dragon fruit, pomegranate, and star fruit.

Qianhui called the plants over and distributed the new weapons.

Corn is the most special one, as it has both a sprayer and an electromagnetic gun. It curiously touched the two small pendants and then carried them with it.

Although the durian is a heavy attack unit, it can also use ranged attacks, and perhaps with an electromagnetic gun, it will have an even more unique effect in close combat.

The plants happily received their weapons and went to study them carefully.

There were still two or three weapons with unknown uses left in the store, but Qianhui had spent more than 30,000 at once, and she still needed to reserve 100,000 for building a base, so she decided to give up for the time being.

Potato went to the side and saw that many plants had new toys, and even the corn had two, but he didn't have any.

It was not happy, and it tugged at Qianhui's sleeve with a pitiful expression, indicating that it wanted it too.

Qian Hui picked up Tu Dou and coaxed, "You can't use those, but in the future... I'll buy you a flying machine, okay?"

There are many other items in the base's weapons inventory that are not limited to any particular plant species, so anyone who buys them can use them.

Upon hearing that it could fly, Potato's eyes lit up, and he quickly nodded.

Qianhui bought it a big bag of candy and told it not to eat too much at once.

Potato let out a "woof," hugged the candy, and happily walked away.

With these newly purchased weapons and the addition of Pea, the team's overall combat strength increased to 32,000.

Qianhui flipped through the plant encyclopedia, confirming that all the plants were in good condition, and those that had used energy-accumulating attacks were recovering rapidly, which put her mind at ease.

He continued to calculate his balance, thinking about buying more evolution water for a few more plants later.

It was getting dark. Some of the plants were researching new weapons, while the rest went to the lake to enjoy the breeze or played around nearby.

The little mushrooms played hide-and-seek with the little cabbages, while the carnivorous plant and peas kept watch from a distance, glancing at them every now and then.

The weeds were so tall they completely covered the smaller plants, and the apples emitted puffs of smoke to further obscure them.

When Apple drank the evolution water last time, its skills were only enhanced, like the mimosa plant's, with its exhaled smoke becoming denser and lasting longer.

However, its level display is very special, suddenly jumping to level twelve.

Qianhui had fed it a few crystal cores before, but perhaps because level twelve was still a bit low, it was not noticeable that it was different from before.

Qian Hui doesn't insist on this. Apple isn't participating in the battle right now; she just helps Xiao Baocai with her work and hopes to become stronger than before.

The weeds were covered in gray smoke. The little mushrooms ran around inside for a long time, and when they got tired, they came out and lay down to rest on the grass bed woven from cabbages.

Next to the grass bed was a mini cabbage bowl containing some dried fruit and other snacks.

The little mushroom lay down for a while, then sat up, ready to nibble on some jerky and go back to play, when it suddenly caught a glimpse of a yellow shadow flash by.

It peeked out and saw a somewhat familiar mango hiding behind a tree not far away, peeking out half its head as well.

The little mushroom remembered it; it seemed like the carrot had brought it back that day…

Mango stared at the bowl of cabbage, then looked at the little mushroom.

It showed no panic or tension at being discovered; instead, it fiercely pounded the tree trunk twice, as if to show off its power and intimidate the enemy.

Then, Mango's figure flickered and disappeared from the spot.

"Hmm?" The little mushroom widened its eyes, stood on tiptoe to look carefully, and saw that the mango was already two or three meters away from the tree trunk, so it quickly ran away.

The little mushroom jumped off the grass bed, came to the tree trunk, and looked in the direction where the mango had disappeared.

Then, it took two pieces of dried meat from the cabbage bowl and placed them behind the tree trunk.

After doing all this, the little mushroom returned to the grass and continued playing hide-and-seek.

As darkness fell, Little Mushroom went to the tree and found that the dried meat was gone.

It sniffed around and detected a faint mango scent among the grass blades. Excitedly, it ran off to find Qianhui.

Qianhui was preparing dinner when she heard from Little Mushroom that it had fed a mango. Curious, she looked toward the tree trunk and whispered, "Is it still there?"

The little mushroom hugged his hair and shook its head, indicating that it didn't know.

The trip to Black Ridge Mountain base is scheduled for tomorrow morning. Qianhui took a bath by the lake last night.

While Chili dried his hair, Nan Tingjin had been waiting under the tree for a long time.

Nan Tingjin used his supernatural abilities to manipulate the nearby trees and built a small hut similar to the one he had built last time, with a small bed made of leaves and thick towels by Pea.

But Little Mushroom also wanted to sleep with Qian Hui tonight, clinging tightly to his fingertips and wanting to take him to the cabbage shell area.

Qian Hui was a little hesitant, thinking that maybe she should wait until the plants were asleep and then go to the cabin in the middle of the night...

Just then, Big Pea came over and took Little Mushroom away.

It didn't think too much about it; making a bed for Qianhui was just a habit, and besides, the cabbage shell space was a bit small compared to the wooden house.

If you want to sleep with Qianhui, you can just go to the cabin, but Pea also wants to sleep with Little Mushroom, but doesn't want to sleep with Nantingjin...

It scratched its head and looked to both sides.

After thinking for a while, the little mushroom in her hand obediently chose the pea she had recently reunited with, and waved goodbye to Qian Hui.

"Get some rest," Qianhui said, worried that they might not want to sleep while playing inside the cabbage shells. "Doudou too, don't play for too long."

Big Pea nodded and led the carnivorous plant away.

Qian Hui then came to Nan Tingjin's side and entered the cabin with him.

An entrance was left on one side of the cabin. After the two people went inside, three trees moved closer and blocked the entrance.

Recalling Nan Tingjin's actions the last time he did this, Qian Hui looked at him, somewhat nervous.

Two or three cabbage lamps were lit along the edge of the wooden house, and the surroundings were dimly lit. Nan Tingjin lowered his eyes and said, "Just in case."

He hugged Qian Hui, kissed her, and led her to the small bed that had been made up in the center.

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The next day, Qianhui and the plants got up early.

After a night's rest, the plants were in better condition, the nut's wounds disappeared, and it had fully recovered.

Little Cabbage continued to feed it breakfast, and Big Pea took the opportunity to bite off half of the jerky, only to be chased and beaten by Nut.

The two plants rolled around in the grass. The big pea was bumped several times by the nut and quickly escaped to the tree.

Nut was still eyeing the tree menacingly. It rubbed its reddened back and jumped over to hide near Qianhui.

The little mushroom was still thinking about yesterday's mango, walking around a few trees, trying to find it.

Unfortunately, after waiting for quite a while, there was still no sign of Mango.

It was somewhat disappointed and returned to Qianhui's side.

The plants had almost finished their breakfast. Crispy Peach and Soft Vine packed their backpacks together, while Carnivorous Flower shook its head, preparing to lead everyone away.

Suddenly, the mimosa plant raised its leaves and stretched them into the distance.

A moment later, it quickly told Qianhui and the plants that a human group had appeared at the edge of the forest.

The scent was unfamiliar; it wasn't Qi Yue and his team from yesterday.

Qian Hui became wary: "Did he expose our location...?"

The mimosa plant examined the area carefully for a while and confirmed that there were not many humans, about seven or eight people, all of whom were superhumans.

If they came for Qianhui and the Plant Squad, this number of people would be suicide.

Qian Hui felt a little relieved, but hesitated whether to leave on her own or go and see what those people were doing.

This forest is a high-risk area, with many exotic plants growing there. Ordinary teams should choose more remote, low- to medium-risk areas instead.

The mimosa plant lands on the ground, its size increases, and its leaves tremble gently.

As it continued to observe, it transmitted everything it perceived to everyone through the sunflower's light.

Humans are using supernatural abilities, and they sense the presence of unfamiliar plants in the forest... about two or three of them.

They are panicked... and are fleeing.

Qian Hui immediately realized that this team had happened to come here, most likely to capture the alien plant.

Carrot couldn't sit still any longer and activated the electromagnetic induction gun on his neck.

It pulled out a radish thorn, waved its hand, and exclaimed, "Whoa!"

Yesterday, I equipped several plants with the new weapons I bought... Perfect time to test their effectiveness!

In the distance, a winter melon is running through the woods, trying to shake off the humans behind it.

However, its leg had just been injured, so it was not moving quickly enough. In its panic, it stepped on a branch and accidentally fell to the ground.

Hearing the approaching footsteps of humans behind him, Donggua's eyes widened in terror, and he quickly struggled to his feet.