During her leisurely lunch break, Lin Ruo sat in the glass room on the second floor of the fortress. The sunlight outside shone through the two layers of glass into the room, and the temperature was just right.

Holding a tablet with a novel she had downloaded earlier, she was enjoying a rare moment of leisure reading when a dark shadow flashed past her. She looked up, and sure enough, there were no other creatures around. Sure enough, she saw Ah Liu carrying her little flowerpot out of the mutated forest.

Lin Ruo raised her eyebrows slightly. A Liu rarely went out to play like this. It felt that going out like this was too tiring for it. Usually, it would have A Fu and the others take its little flowerpot with it. This action could only mean that it was in a hurry.

Her brows furrowed slightly, and her spiritual power rapidly extended outward, covering the entire mountain peak. She immediately noticed something amiss. Halfway up the mountain, a mutated banyan tree was stretching its branches and attaching itself to several mutated plants around it, frantically absorbing their energy. The mutated plants that were having their energy drained were resisting fiercely and simultaneously calling for help towards the fortress.

Two seconds later, A-Liu arrived at the battlefield. The willow branch pierced the body of the mutated banyan tree without mercy. The mutated banyan tree paused in its absorption of the essence, and then the whole tree began to wither rapidly, many times faster than the mutated plants that had just had their energy absorbed. In a short while, the tall trunk had dried up and cracked, and it had become a dead tree.

Lin Ruo used her mental power to break off the branches of the mutated banyan tree that were extending onto other mutated plants, otherwise A Liu could easily have drained them dry as well.

Lin Ruo didn't interfere much with A Liu's other actions. This mutated banyan tree was so rampant that it was a blatant provocation to A Liu, so she would definitely stand on A Liu's side unconditionally.

Moreover, in the half month since Lin Ruo moved here, the mutated plants and animals on this mountain have absorbed a lot of energy, and their levels have basically increased by one level in all aspects. For example, the mutated banyan tree with high aptitude absorbs energy even faster and is already close to level six.

At the same time, because of the violence of this energy, they also began to become somewhat irritable and easily angered, but they have never attacked each other like they have today.

It's not hard to imagine that some mutated plants, with their abundant energy and formidable strength, coupled with the interference of the tyrannical factor, will naturally develop other ambitions. Absorbing the essence of other mutated plants around them is only the first step. Once they become even stronger, it's hard to guarantee that they won't set their sights on A-Liu and the others, and it's not impossible that they might even target her.

It was necessary to nip these things in the bud. This was the first case on her mountain peak, and Ah Liu naturally had to make an example of her.

Ah Liu's willow branches wrapped around the withered, mutated banyan tree trunk, resembling giant, dark green pythons. Her powerful, level-eight aura erupted, and the warning energy within her was terrifyingly strong.

Old Bai stood before the fortress, his aura, combined with A Liu's, continuously intensified, soon enveloping the entire mountain peak. All the mutated plants on the mountain peak shrank back, their branches and leaves trembling violently.

Since Lin Ruo took the entire mountain as his property, A Liu has never absorbed the essence of the mutated plants on this mountain again. It has been too long since she has exerted her power, and these mutated plants have forgotten that when A Liu first came to this mountain, she had wreaked havoc on many mutated plants and was a true mutated plant strangler.

They also began to feel fear. The energy in this apocalypse was powerful and violent. If they absorbed too much of it, it would affect their minds, causing their calm hearts to give rise to some violent and bloody thoughts. Now, after being hit like this, they had no thoughts left, and they all wished they could burrow back into the soil.

The leaves of the mutated plants that had absorbed the essence curled up slightly, and the whole plant turned a little yellow, looking sickly. Suddenly, a level 5 mutated sea beast's corpse appeared in front of them.

Their branches stiffened for a moment, then realizing that Lin Ruo had probably given them this, the branches immediately plunged into the sea monster's corpse and happily began absorbing the energy.

Sensing the change in the emotions of these mutated plants, A-Liu withdrew her imposing aura and returned to the fortress with her small flowerpot.

Lin Ruo withdrew her mental energy and was about to finish reading the rest of the novel when she received a voice message from Xu Chenfeng at the C City base. She scratched her brow. Since the B City and C City bases moved to her vicinity, the three parties had been living in peace. What could Xu Chenfeng want from her?

Unexpectedly, she simply stopped thinking about it. The terminal kept ringing, but she still clicked to answer.

"Hello."

A slightly deep voice came from the other end, tinged with weariness, "Sister Ruo, I'm sorry to bother you."

Lin Ruo wasn't surprised by the weariness in the voice. Her mountain was already experiencing problems caused by mutated plants, and there were probably even more in other places. The C City base was a specialized research facility for pharmaceuticals, so it was normal for them to be overwhelmed with problems.

"It's nothing, is something wrong?" Lin Ruo was always a woman of few words, especially since she didn't know the other party's purpose.

More than a hundred kilometers away, Xu Chenfeng pinched his brow and asked helplessly, "Sister Ruo should have already sensed the recent unusual movements of the mutated plants and animals, right?"

Lin Ruo thought about what had just happened on her mountain peak, which was probably the only one on her peak, so she replied calmly, "It's alright."

Xu Chenfeng choked. Logically speaking, the mutated plants and animals on her mountain were the most powerful, and there should have been more turmoil and more trouble than for them. But the other side's mutated plants and animals were very obedient.

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