Chapter 19: Flesh-Eating Vines

"I can do it myself!"

Lei Xingyi, who was also aware that something was wrong with his condition, took the detector from Lei Xingxu's hand with a good temper, held it horizontally in front of his eyes and began to test.

Lei Xingyi, who was waiting for the test results, did not stop. Instead, he suddenly raised his leg and kicked Lei Xingxu in front of him.

"You're so rebellious! You still want to be my brother!"

"snort!"

Twin brothers born from the same birth always care particularly about the title of "brother".

Drop! Drop! Drop!

The shrill alarm sounded, interrupting the two brothers' quarrel about "who is the older brother" in time.

——Your current pollution value is 88. Please find a suitable way to reduce your pollution value in time. Once your pollution value reaches 90, you will be expelled.

"88?" Lei Xingyi's eyes widened as he looked at Lei Xingxu, "Did you break the detector?"

"I was only 84 before I came here, and now I've been in the contaminated area for less than a month, and I'm already 88?"

"Your detector must be broken, right?"

In response to Lei Xingyi's questioning, Lei Xingxu frowned, took the tester and started testing himself.

——Your current pollution value is 82, which is on the high side. Please find appropriate ways to lower your pollution value in time.

"The detector is fine," Lei Xingxu put down the detector in his hand. "The problem is you! Your pollution level is too high."

"It's high...not normal!"

Lei Xingxu's last sentence expressed the confusion in everyone's heart.

A normal sentinel, when active in a contaminated area that matches his strength level, will only increase his pollution value by 1 point per month. Even if he encounters a situation where he needs to transform back into a beast to fight, his pollution value will not increase by more than 2 points per month.

However, Lei Xingyi has only been out for ten days, and the pollution value has increased by 4 points. There must be other reasons.

"Could it be because of the floral scent?" An Nuo asked cautiously, "I'm not allergic to floral scents myself. Besides, when we first rested, there was indeed no floral scent in the air."

"So, could it be that there are some mutant plants around us?"

"Because Lei Xingyi was already in a bad state, was he affected?"

"It's very likely." Zang Ye nodded, "Grab your weapons and find the source of the scent."

Bai Han and Bai Yan glanced at An Nuo, who seemed to have 'happened' to have guessed the key point of the problem, and both glanced at Lei Xingyi, who had a fierce look on his face, without any expression.

He actually dared to mess around with His Highness like this. He is truly a warrior! Not a top sentinel, but better than a top sentinel!

Five sentries, each holding an energy gun, surrounded An Nuo and slowly walked in the direction where the fragrance of the flowers came from.

In the quiet forest, the only sounds were the chirping of insects and Annuo's occasional sneezes.

After more than ten minutes, Zang Ye and his team not only failed to find the source of the floral fragrance, but the floral scent at their noses also gradually disappeared and could no longer be smelled.

"The fragrance is gone!" Bai Han frowned and turned to look at Zang Ye.

"Yeah." Zang Ye nodded, "Maybe we found the right place, so 'it' hid."

"This unknown mutant plant should be nearby, so be careful."

"Um."

An Nuo folded his hands and raised them to his chest, his cat eyes looking out anxiously from the gaps between the five sentinels.

Thick or thin tree trunks, tall or short tree trunks, winding vines, rotten or dry branches and leaves, mosquitoes flying by from time to time...

After carefully exploring the surroundings, Zang Ye and his companions could not find anything unusual. Not to mention flowers, they didn't even see a flower bud.

"Why don't we go back and find another place to rest?" Bai Han walked to Zang Ye and asked in a low voice.

"Okay, let's go back and pack up!" Zang Ye nodded and prepared to return with a few people.

If we can’t find the location of this strange mutant plant, we can only hide from it!

"Zang Ye!"

An Nuo walked behind Zang Ye, pressed tightly against his body, and tugged at the corner of his clothes very lightly.

"Hmm?" Zang Ye lowered his head and looked at her.

Bo Han and the other three also spared a glance to look over.

"Look at that bag on the vine, isn't there something wrong?"

The five sentries looked in the direction of Zang Ye's finger.

A tangled web of vines snaked up a massive tree so thick it would take five adult sentries to wrap their arms around it, finally disappearing into the dense foliage. From the vines' thin and thick branches hung lumps of varying sizes, hanging in mid-air like cocoons.

The five sentries, who only noticed the bulges when An Nuo pointed them out, looked at each other calmly and noticed the vigilance in each other's eyes.

After carefully observing for a minute and finding nothing unusual, Zang Ye looked down at An Nuo and took her away from the place.

"Isn't there something wrong with that vine?" An Nuo tilted his head and looked at Zang Ye who was protecting him. "Am I too nervous and scared?"

"Am I causing you any trouble?"

"Watch the road carefully." Zang Ye touched An Nuo's head. "I haven't found any problems yet."

"Wait here for a while, I'll go back and check the situation."

Zang Ye stopped only after he had walked a short distance.

After confirming that An Nuo was completely hidden behind him, Zang Ye turned around and shot at the largest bump on the vine.

Bang!

The bulge hit by the energy bomb exploded like a watermelon hit by a huge force, spraying countless juices and fragments in all directions.

As the bulge exploded, a strong smell of blood mixed with the intoxicating fragrance of flowers burst out, causing the five sentries with keen sense of smell to temporarily lose their sense of smell.

With their good night vision, the five sentries clearly saw the fragments falling from the bulge. They were not plant fragments, but animal limbs!

"Damn! It really is this vine!"

“He’s actually a meat eater!”

Lei Xingyi, who was already restless, was stimulated by the smell of blood and flowers in the air. While swearing, he turned back into a snake and rushed back.

The vine that was suddenly attacked no longer pretended to be dead. Countless branches emerged from the roots and treetops, and wrapped around Lei Xingyi's huge snake body.

The trunk of the tree was suddenly covered with small white flowers, and the familiar, intoxicating fragrance of the flowers once again filled the air.

The snake's body, which was already covered with barbs on its scales, provided a good climbing point for the approaching vines, which tightly wrapped around the snake's body in circles, like a tailor-made armor.

Lei Xingyi, who was tightly entangled by the vines, was like a real giant python at this moment, and he only knew how to roll and grind continuously.