The convoy drove off in a grand procession. Before leaving, Ye Lin said to Lin Ruo, "Be careful."

Lin Ruo nodded, her smile behind the mask becoming much lighter. Now that these people were gone, she wasn't afraid of being seen collecting the essence of the locust tree.

She rushed toward the locust tree, her gloved hand reaching out to grab two outstretched branches. Thorns immediately sprouted from these branches, and a blue light flashed in Lin Ruo's eyes. Her hand was instantly covered in ice, and the thorns could not pierce her icy layer at all.

Upon seeing this, the locust tree immediately directed its other branches to attack Lin Ruo, and the branch in Lin Ruo's hand also instantly lashed out at her.

Lin Ruo mobilized the water-based supernatural power within his body to the maximum extent, and the rich green essence from the two branches quickly condensed in his hands! The two slender branches withered instantly and were thrown to the ground by Lin Ruo.

The locust tree sensed that two of its branches had been destroyed and realized something was wrong. It stretched out countless sharp branches to poke at Lin Ruo, but an ice shield appeared on Lin Ruo's body, and these branches could not penetrate the ice shield at all.

The ice shield that had been protecting Lin Ruo expanded again, this time enveloping the entire giant locust tree and Lin Ruo.

This locust tree, like Ah Liu, is also a level 2 mutated plant. Given how the locust tree split apart just now, even if only a small section remains, it can come back to life. We can't let it escape.

Seeing that it couldn't escape, the locust tree went berserk, its countless branches rapidly extending and dancing wildly toward Lin Ruo, their numerous tiny thorns shimmering with a blue light.

Lin Ruo raised an eyebrow. There was poison involved? No wonder those people were brought under control so quickly.

Instead of directly confronting the locust tree, she changed the ice in her hands, forming an ice shovel shape, and plunged it into the ground, heading straight for the main root of the locust tree, grabbing handfuls of the main root in her hands.

Seeing its main root attacked, the locust tree frantically attacked with its remaining branches, but it couldn't break through the ice shield surrounding Lin Ruo at all.

These branches never come into contact with Lin Ruo, so the poison on the thorns is naturally ineffective.

At this time, the green essence in Lin Ruo's hand was already the size of a basin. Many branches on the locust tree had begun to wither and fall to the ground, and the bark and leaves on the main trunk had also begun to dry up and fall off in large quantities.

If it keeps sucking like this, it won't last much longer!

"When you were sucking human flesh and blood, you didn't think you'd get drained yourself, did you?" Lin Ruo, hiding under the ice shield, smiled and kept provoking the impotently enraged locust tree.

This locust tree is incredibly intelligent; it's furious, but it can't beat the person in a fight, and it can't run away either. And this person is still making it angry!

Finally, it had only one last trick up its sleeve: it split itself into dozens of branches and mixed them among the withered and fallen branches. As long as one of them wasn't found, it could still come back to life!

Lin Ruo raised a smirk beneath her mask. This locust tree wanted to preserve a spark for her, but how could she let it have its way?

She stored the absorbed green essence into her space and used a giant water sphere to envelop all the remaining parts of the locust tree. The gently flowing water scattered the withered branches.

All the dry branches floated on the water sphere, while the green branches stood out among the scattered dead branches, being filtered out one by one by the water flow.

Then, one after another, solid ice crystals quickly appeared in the water, attaching themselves to these green branches and continuing to absorb their essence.

These branches struggled incessantly in the water, but to no avail. The water was Lin Ruo's domain, and no matter how hard they struggled, they could not get rid of the ubiquitous thorns.

In no time, the essence on these branches was completely absorbed, and then the water flow continued to filter and select new branches to be dried...

A huge green essence ball appeared in Lin Ruo's hand again. This essence ball was constantly growing larger, and the green color in the water ball was decreasing.

Only after all the withered branches scattered in the water had turned completely green did Lin Ruo scan them again with her mental energy, and only after confirming that nothing had been missed did she remove the water flow.

The withered branches fell to the ground and were crushed to pieces by Lin Ruo's foot.

Lin Ruo extended her mental energy and finally found a level 2 crystal core deep underground, but the energy inside was almost gone, as she had drained it all.

She stored the crystal core in her spatial storage. Thinking of the spatial ability user hidden in the underground granary, she turned around, quickly returned to her car, and drove straight towards the underground granary.

"I am a superhuman from the J City base. Our base manager sent us here to collect food."

This space-type ability user was a very timid woman. She looked at Afu and Ashou with fear, and while talking, she kept stealing glances at Ye Lin and the others' expressions, afraid that they might kill her if they were displeased.

Jiang Yue asked her curiously, "What is your special ability?"

"Space-based!"