Lin Ruo got up and dressed. The plant essence produced by this mutated plant was a great tonic for A Liu, so she couldn't let it get away!

After she changed her clothes, the birch trees outside the door were still stubbornly scraping against the protective shield, even though they hadn't left a single scratch on it.

Lin Ruo was speechless. This birch tree must have just completed its mutation. Its intelligence was really worrying. When A Liu first completed its mutation, it was much smarter than this.

Lin Ruo stepped out of Wei Su and casually put it into her spatial storage to avoid damaging anything inside during the fight.

She then stored the protective shield that had been covering her back into her spatial storage. The birch tree sensed the scent of flesh and blood, and several branches instantly attacked Lin Ruo.

Lin Ruo slightly turned her body, quickly dodging the attacks of several branches. She quickly grabbed a branch in her hand, and her water-based superpowers were running wildly. The blue light on her hand holding the branch surged rapidly, and the color of the birch tree's leaves quickly dimmed.

Sensing the dangerous aura emanating from Lin Ruo, the birch tree flung down its needle-like leaves, which shot towards Lin Ruo like hidden weapons.

Countless tiny pine needles pierced through, and a blue light flashed in Lin Ruo's eyes. Instantly, a thick ice shield, taller than a person, appeared in front of him.

The tiny pine needles hit the shield and fell to the ground with a crackling sound.

Seeing that this move was ineffective, and feeling its essence rapidly draining away, the birch tree quickly broke off the branch that Lin Ruo had grabbed and continued to attack with other branches. While blocking the troublesome branches, Lin Ruo placed her palm down on the ground, and ice instantly spread out.

In an instant, a thick root emerged from the ground; this was the main root that the birch tree was about to use to attack Lin Ruo.

Lin Ruo chuckled. She had to take back her words about its low intelligence. This guy even knew how to use feints and sneak attacks with its main root.

She quickly dodged the branches that kept attacking her, and lunged forward again, this time grabbing the main root of the birch tree. Her water-based powers surged wildly once more.

The birch tree had already lost a lot of its essence, and now that its main root has been grasped, the loss of essence is even faster. The leaves of the birch tree in front of me are turning yellow and falling off at a speed visible to the naked eye. The speed at which the branches swing slows down, the branches dry out, and many of them also fall to the ground. Finally, the bark quickly shriveles up...

Lin Ruo only withered away when the birch tree was completely dry and lifeless. A green water ball appeared in her hand, containing the essence of the birch tree, which could replenish the energy lost by A Liu's forced action last time.

Lin Ruo put the essence in his hand into his spatial storage. A spatial blade cut the tree in half, and the huge trunk fell to the side. This birch tree had just successfully mutated and did not yet have a crystal core. What a pity.

Thinking of the essence in the space, well, it's worth it with that essence.

She cut off all the branches and forks of the birch tree, then chopped it into pieces to use as firewood.

After doing all this, it was already dawn, and she decided not to sleep any longer and just go home.

Lin Ruo took out his skis from his spatial storage and quickly skied towards the fortress.

After speeding along, Lin Ruo finally returned to the fortress a few hundred meters away an hour later. At first glance, he thought his home had been robbed, as the platform outside was covered with the corpses of mutated animals. What was going on?

Perhaps sensing Lin Ruo's presence, Afu and Ashou came out to greet her from afar. The two, covered in blood, kept wagging their tails and circling around Lin Ruo.

Lin Ruo examined them and found only some scratches, which were not serious. However, the wounds were frostbitten and needed to be treated immediately.

As she followed them, she looked at them with confusion. "What's wrong with you all? What's with this bunch of mutated animals at our door? Have more mutated animals attacked our house?"

Afu barked at her, and Ashou barked twice. The willow branches beside them kept swaying. Well, none of them could talk.

Upon closer inspection, Lin Ruo frowned. This group of mutated beasts were all monkeys again, but the species seemed to be different from the last time.

There are many monkeys in the mountains, so it's quite possible that they discovered Afu and Ashou and came up to attack them.

Lin Ruo squatted down to examine the bodies of the monkeys. All of them were frozen stiff. There were 22 monkeys in total, each about two meters tall, piled together like a small mountain. There were also 3 monkeys with crystal nuclei in their heads.

Regardless of what happened, the house still needed to be cleaned up. Lin Ruo first put the frozen animal carcasses on the ground into her spatial storage, and then used her water-based abilities to clean the platform in her house.

The bloodstains on the platform had long been frozen, and the smell of blood had almost dissipated, indicating that the battle was over. Fortunately, the fortress was in a remote location; otherwise, given the animals' heightened sense of smell after their mutation, Afu and Shou probably wouldn't have been able to kill them all in one night.

The platform was spotless after being washed, revealing the original color of the stone surface. The huge water sphere in the air had turned red, showing how terrible yesterday had been.

After throwing the dirty water far away, the next step was to treat Afu and Ashou's injuries. Before going back to the house, she poured the essence of the mutated plant she had obtained today onto Aliu's roots. Aliu was so happy that its willow branches swayed wildly and gently rubbed against Lin Ruo several times.

Lin Ruo chuckled, "If you like it, that's good. When the extreme heat comes, there will be more mutated plants, and I'll make you this every day."

Ah Liu's willow branches swayed gently from side to side, and upon closer inspection, they resembled Ah Fu and Ah Shou wagging their tails.

She patted A-Liu's tree trunk before leading the two large dogs back into the fortress.

There were also many bloodstains on the bearskin curtain hanging inside the fortress, and bloody footprints were everywhere on the floor of the house. Lin Ruo sighed. She had locked the three of them in the house for one night, and now she had to do a thorough cleaning. She would be more careful next time she had to go out.

Lin Ruo handed the bloodstains on the ground to the automatic sweeper to clean them up. She needed to give Afu and Ashou a bath first, as they were still injured.

With their water-based powers activated rapidly, Afu and Ashou were lifted into the air by a large hand formed from flowing water, while another large hand rubbed them back and forth vigorously!

The bloodstains were extremely difficult to wash off their long fur, and Lin Ruo used shower gel three times before she could finally clean them. Only after throwing the two dirty blood globs a kilometer away from the fortress did Lin Ruo breathe a sigh of relief.

Fortunately, Afu and Ashou's wounds were not deep. Lin Ruo smoothed their dry, long fur, and blue light flashed in his hand. Tiny streams of water flowed over Afu and Ashou's bodies, and the wounds would heal and scab over quickly after the water flowed over them.

Because their wounds were healing, they were a little itchy. Ah Shou turned his head and wanted to bite the injured place, but Lin Ruo slapped him on the forehead.

"Just bear with it. Itching is a natural part of the healing process. Just bear with it and it will pass. If you bite off the scab, it will bleed again."

"Woof woof!" Ah Shou licked Lin Ruo's palm and didn't bite the scab anymore.