Lin Yiran watched with great interest from above and did not intervene. She adhered to the principle of "I will not offend others unless they offend me, and if they do, I will retaliate tenfold." The person below deserved his fate.

"Zhang Wu!" The man lost consciousness amidst the shrill cries of his companion beside him, and was then completely swallowed by the crocodile.

Then, sensing something, the person looked up and met Lin Yiran's gaze as she was about to leave.

"You did it!" The man's eyes turned bloodshot as he glared fiercely at Lin Yiran.

Lin Yiran chuckled lightly: "You should think about how to deal with this alligator first. Want revenge? You're welcome to come find me anytime!" Then she left gracefully.

What a joke! Lin Yiran has never been afraid of trouble. In fact, she's never been without trouble. Take today, for example. She was just watching a water buffalo by the pond and got caught up in some scheme. Her unlucky constitution is truly something else.

However: "Host, don't worry, those people are no match for this alligator, and will most likely become its meal."

Lin Yiran: "I'm not worried. These scumbags will be dealt with by God. If God doesn't take them back, I will. It's good that you came to me. I'll teach them how to call their mothers."

To be honest, that was a bit arrogant, but System 101 knew its host had the right to say that.

If Lin were at the peak of his metal-type superpowers, he could still kill his opponent instantly, even though it was just a mere A-level mental strength.

Lin continued to wander in the forest, searching for edible mutated plants. To be honest, there were quite a few plants here, but they were all too high-level, so he couldn't find any to eat for the time being.

After walking for a long time, she finally found a mutated corn plant. After harvesting it, Lin Yiran continued walking. The food was still too scarce; she planned to return home with a full load.

As luck would have it, they finally found an eggplant tree ahead. The tree was about a meter tall, reaching up to Lin Yiran's waist. Two heavy fruits hung on the tree, one on each side. They were two large, round, purple eggplants, about the size of a child's head. The two could be strung together into several bunches.

Before even getting her hands on it, Lin Yiran was already estimating how many strings of this thing could be made. If this mutated plant could talk, it would probably be so angry that it would yell at Lin Yiran: "You're overestimating yourself!" and then smash her head with a purple eggplant.

"There's more than one eggplant tree ahead, host, be careful."

After the system's reminder, Lin Yiran immediately became more alert and tiptoed to look behind the eggplant tree. Sure enough!

Passing through layers of bushes, a clear view revealed a whole row of eggplant trees growing behind them. They stretched as far as the eye could see, one after another, even the spacing was perfect; they were arranged quite neatly, as if deliberately planted. But this was clearly the result of wild growth. After all, who would randomly plant mutated plants in this forest? Wouldn't they be afraid of getting whipped?

"These eggplant trees are of a pretty high grade," Lin Yiran muttered. Apart from the first eggplant tree, which was grade two, the eggplant trees behind it could reach grade three at most, with varying quality. There were even some grade one eggplant trees.

To pick them, you'll probably have to avoid those level 3 eggplant trees.

Fortunately, each eggplant tree here has two round eggplants of varying sizes. Lin Yiran estimated that all of them together should be enough for two weeks.

So apart from those two level-three mutated eggplant trees, she wanted everything else!

Without the slightest hesitation, Lin rushed forward with the knife in hand.

Sensing someone approaching, the mutated eggplant tree seemed to suddenly come alive, transforming from its previous stillness into a berserk mode. It twisted its body wildly, waving its leaves with such exaggerated movements that Lin Yiran thought it would probably twist its back if it had one.

After all, the blades were sliding close to the ground. It lashed out fiercely at Lin Yiran.

Eggplant trees have no vines, only large leaves, so their special trick is to use those leaves, which are about one meter long and half a meter wide, to kill a person!

It swung its leaves at Lin Yiran with incredible speed, as if the whole plant was breakdancing, swaying left and right, giving Lin Yiran no chance to get close enough to strike.

After repeating the process twice, Lin realized he couldn't get close enough, so he simply gave up.

Let's use superpowers instead; this stuff is too crazy.

So he used his supernatural power to wield a large sword and slash at the plant's roots. All plants share the same weakness: they cannot live without soil. So, as long as the roots of this mutated eggplant were severed, it would die.

The stem of the mutated eggplant is only about the thickness of a wrist, which is nothing compared to the stem of the mutated green bean from last time. The green bean's stem was about the thickness of an adult's waist, and it was the kind of waist that a person couldn't hug!

However, there are still differences. The difference is that the roots of this mutated eggplant are similar to those of tree vines; they are very hard and covered with bark. The roots are very hard, about the thickness of a wrist, so they will take a little effort to cut.

Who is Lin Yiran? She quickly absorbed another crystal core, and when her dantian was filled with supernatural power again, Lin Yiran moved her hand, and the big sword seemed to be given power, and suddenly leaped forward. Then, the mutated eggplant tree seemed to have been turned off, and suddenly tilted to the side, and then lay still on the ground.

There was no sign of life left.

Just moments ago it was jumping around like it was dancing in a rave, but now it's completely still. Lin Yiran went over and kicked it to make sure it wouldn't move before taking the knife and putting the two eggplants hanging on it into her pocket.

I even tossed it in my hand; it must have weighed about five pounds.

After cleaning up the battlefield—which basically meant picking up the large machete from the ground—Lin Yiran parted the bushes and looked at the rows of eggplant trees. There were three rows in total, with about five trees in each row.

There are three level-three eggplant trees, eight level-two eggplant trees, and only four level-one eggplant trees scattered around.

Where should we pick them first?

Lin Yiran fell into deep thought.

We definitely can't go there, because we've already witnessed what happens when these mutated eggplant trees are provoked.

If she goes in again, her clothes will probably be ruined; they'll be torn to shreds by the leaves of those eggplant trees.

We'll still have to use our special abilities.

However, Lin still didn't really want to use her superpower. Every crystal core she used was one less available, and even the richest family had no surplus food. The thought of it made her anxious!

"101, how many crystal cores do I have left?"

System 101: "After paying off its debts, the system had three popularity points left. Now, two have been used up, leaving one."

It's that familiar bachelor again, Lin Yiran is about to be driven crazy.