Lin Ruo spread her mental energy in advance, covering the entire grain depot. Without hesitation, she stepped on the brakes, and the cars behind her stopped one by one.

Just as Ye Lin was about to ask what was going on, Lin Ruo's voice came through the walkie-talkie, "We'll go in in half an hour."

Ye Lin frowned. There were already two more convoys inside. If they went in half an hour later, how much grain would they be able to seize?

"Is it because of the mutated beast inside? But they've already gone in to move the food. With an ability user there, they should be able to take it down, right?" Jiang Yue picked up the walkie-talkie and asked Lin Ruo. They had come all this way just for the food inside.

Lin Ruo took a deep look at the gate of the grain depot. "The things inside are very powerful."

With just one sentence, the entire convoy fell silent. If a mutated beast could make Lin Ruo back down and say it was very powerful, then the other side's ability users probably couldn't handle it.

After a moment, Ye Lin picked up the walkie-talkie and asked seriously, "Even you are no match for what's in here?"

"No, that's not it," Lin Ruo wasn't afraid of the thing. The only reason they weren't going in was to harm others. The grain in the underground granary was too little for the three parties to share, so it was better to just sit back and reap the benefits. "Don't you think it's more advantageous for us not to go in?"

Ye Lin was taken aback. What did those words mean?

Jiang Yue, standing beside him, grinned with delight. "All these people died here because of that thing inside. When we go in again, all the food inside will be ours."

After listening to Jiang Yue's words, Ye Lin finally understood the key point: it wasn't because he was stupid, but because he simply didn't have that kind of thinking pattern in his mind.

Jiang Yue glanced at Ye Lin, thinking that he felt guilty for causing so many deaths, and tentatively advised, "The world is different now, Captain. We have to be responsible for the survivors in the base. The others are no longer our concern. They died because they brought it on themselves. We just didn't save them."

Ye Lin lowered his head and gave a bitter smile. Even Jiang Yue understood things better than him. "I know, I have no objection. I just didn't understand it just now. You're right, we should only be responsible for the survivors at the base."

Lin Ruo's mental energy had not been withdrawn. The granary was already filled with wails. Huge green branches hung all these people in mid-air, and tiny thorns on them were constantly sucking their flesh and blood.

The metal-type ability user was not spared either. A branch wrapped around his waist and kept sucking his flesh and blood. In addition to this ability user, Lin Ruo also found two other ability users hanging on branches. One had a blue crystal core in his brain and should be wind-type, and the other had a blue crystal core like her and was a water-type ability user.

Lin Ruo suddenly activated his mental power and discovered that there was still a person hidden in the underground granary who had not been captured. The bright white crystal core in this person's brain was actually a space ability user!

It seems this spatial ability user was brought from another base; it's good that she's hiding in this underground granary.

There are more than a dozen grain warehouses in this underground granary, containing at least tens of thousands of tons of grain. How much of it can they transport back with just their trucks? Having this superhuman makes things much easier; at least she doesn't have to make another trip.

I wonder how big this Level 2 spatial ability user's space is, and whether it can hold tens of thousands of tons of grain.

The branches outside have grown quite a bit after absorbing the flesh and blood of so many people. Lin Ruo smiled slightly and said, "Eat up, eat more, and store up more energy for A Liu."

Half an hour passed quickly. Many of the people hanging on the branches were now just skin and bones, beyond dead. The branches laid the bones on the ground and then climbed together, gradually intertwining to form a huge mutated locust tree.

Lin Ruo's eyes sparkled as she looked at it. This locust tree actually had the ability to split into two parts, making it even stronger than A Liu. No wonder all the bases in her previous life had heard of its great name.

Lin Ruo pondered how much essence this tree could produce, and whether A Liu would grow taller after consuming it...

At this moment, Lin Ruo started the truck and picked up the walkie-talkie to say inside, "Let's go, we can go in now."

The people in the B City base convoy also saw the giant green locust tree that stretched dozens of meters beyond the wall, and they all understood the meaning behind Lin Ruo's words. These words meant that everyone inside was dead, killed by that giant locust tree!

From the moment they saw the locust tree, their legs went weak. Could they really defeat such a giant plant?!

But they still followed Lin Ruo's lead and drove into the grain depot.

As soon as you enter the grain depot gate, and just past the trucks parked on the roadside, you can see the entire locust tree and the piles of skin and bones on the ground.

Jiang Yue felt a chill run down his spine. If they had encountered this thing when they came here last time, they would probably be just like these people now, with only a thin layer of skin left!

There wasn't a drop of blood at the scene, but it was still chilling. Those people had just died in such a way!

The locust tree had already sensed that there were people outside, and immediately split off two branches to crawl towards the vigorous Afu and Ashou. It moved with incredible speed, as if flying close to the ground, and arrived in the blink of an eye.

Afu and Ashou jumped off the car and were about to rush towards the locust tree when a figure was faster than them—it was Lin Ruo.

Before getting out of the car, Lin Ruo shouted into the walkie-talkie, "You guys go to the underground granary and move the grain, leave this to me!"

Upon hearing her words, Ye Lin instructed the convoy behind to continue driving forward, as the entrance to the underground granary was located behind the granary.

"Afu and Ashou, you two go with the convoy and protect the grain."

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