Chapter 042 Happy Community (V)

The red-leaved photinia shook its branches towards the white peach with ill intent.

Baitao: "..."

What a willing follower! For the first time, Bai Tao's smile became as stiff as that of other residents.

It seems like we're about to be attacked from both sides.

"I have an objection." Bai Tao dodged the attack and said quickly, "Mr. Host looks familiar to me. Which building do you live in?"

Building 2/I don’t know, but they are not residents of our building. These two answers involuntarily emerged in the minds of the onlookers.

Bai Tao approached the host and said, "Mr. Host, since you are so sure that I am not the most beautiful gardener, there must be a better candidate for the most beautiful gardener. Why not let her come up and compete with me?"

Bai Tao has a kind face and will make sure she never returns.

"Or..." She thrust the gardening shears at the host: "Are you the most beautiful gardener?" She looked the host up and down, "You better behave yourself, or I'll think you're targeting our Building No. 3!"

After finding the residents of Building No. 3, Bai Tao deliberately pushed the host over there.

Bai Tao spoke slower and slower, and the host's face was covered with sweat.

Waving the banner of morality and dividing camps, Bai Tao just doesn't believe that there are no conflicts among the neighbors in Xingfu Community.

"Yes, Lao Haizi, you said our skills in Building No. 3 are not good, so you do it yourself! Are you afraid of a little girl?" The hot-tempered resident of Building No. 3 rushed to the host.

The onlookers spontaneously divided themselves into three teams, one team from Building No. 3, one team from Building No. 2, and one team for watching the fun.

The host's anger died down. The people in Building No. 2 were not convinced, but the contestants died too easily and their lives were at stake, so no one dared to step forward.

Seeing the situation reversed, Photinia quickly called Bai Tao, and the branches were ready to take action against the host.

The poor host stood there at a loss, holding the gardening shears, with beads of sweat slowly dripping down his face.

"That's right, what I mean is, don't be proud, keep working hard, there's still room for improvement," he explained, and suddenly announced, "I declare that the first prize of the first Most Beautiful Gardener event in Xingfu Community is Miss Taozi from Building No. 3."

After saying that, he threw the scissors away and ran as fast as he could, for fear that if he ran too slowly, Bai Tao would give it to Photinia as fertilizer.

Amateur host, Bai Tao judges.

The people who really are in charge are the residents with XX Plant Squad on their chests.

The game was over, and the plants and residents disappeared.

The halfling clapped softly, "Congratulations, you have won the title of the most beautiful gardener."

She pinned a bronze badge on Bai Tao's chest.

[Name: Happy Plant Team Badge (One-time Prop)]

[Description: This is the honor for outstanding residents of Xingfu Community. Wearing it will increase the initial favorability of plants by 20, crush them, and ignore plant attacks for 120 seconds.]

This badge is the same style as the badge on the chest of a halfling.

The moment she put it on, Bai Tao felt from the bottom of her heart that Xingfu Community had a beautiful environment and was suitable for living.

——It’s not bad to stay in the Happy Community forever.

Baitao: "..."

Assimilation is everywhere, resist the urge to take off the badge.

Praise the beauty and lushness of the plants in the community.

Then Bai Tao began to ask for payment: "Garden, I want to go to the garden."

Under the halfling's surprised gaze, he explained: "I promised Photinia to send him back to his birthplace."

The halfling's mouth curved up a little, she was smiling: "You were also going to the holy land to be baptized with the other two winners."

She said meaningfully: "Only the winners of the event can enter the holy land."

"They are coming."

At first glance, they appear to be two plants walking towards you, but in fact, one is a turtle covered with flowers and plants, and the other is a beetle wrapped in the shell of a tree.

As soon as their eyes met, Hakuto attracted the hatred of the other two winners.

——She is so clean

Bai Tao could guess what they were thinking.

"Why are we so miserable, but you are unharmed?"

The Ginkgo tree once said something right: your own failure is terrible, but the success of your peers is even more worrying.

The turtle and Bai Tao took the initiative to say hello, like kind elders.

The prerequisite is that when he waved his hand, the parasitic plant seeds on his body did not fly towards Bai Tao.

At the same time, the beetle deliberately made a big move, and the barbs on the tree's shell stabbed towards the white peach.

You definitely can't hit them. Given the importance of plants in this dungeon, harming the plants will attract the attention of the ghost itself.

Bai Tao had predicted the actions of the two people and took the lead, standing behind the half-man.

Pretending to look towards the small square: "Where is the red-leaved photinia?"

The inadvertent action caused the attack to fail.

As soon as he finished speaking, two residents carried out the red-leafed photinia together.

Halfling: "Everyone is here, let's go."

After arriving at Building 5, in front of the blue wall of the construction site.

The blue wall reaches up to the sky, completely blocking out the situation inside. Only those with the badge of the Happy Plant Team can enter.

The iron gate slowly opened, revealing a vast expanse of white mist inside. This was the core of the dungeon.

Just standing at the door and breathing, Bai Tao wanted to immediately become one with Photinia.

Halfling: "Three, please."

The turtle and the beetle rushed in impatiently and quickly disappeared.

Bai Tao took a deep breath, suppressed all impulses, and walked towards the core of the copy.

As soon as they entered the blue gate, the white mist disappeared, and was replaced by tall trees that were even more lush and green than the small square. Bai Tao felt as if she had arrived in the Amazon rainforest.

Root the red-leaved Photinia.

Bai Tao: "Stand here and don't move. I'll go find other people."

Starting with Photinia fraseri as the center, Bai Tao began to explore the 'Amazon Forest'.

The community only plans to build two buildings, and the construction site is not large, but Bai Tao walked for five minutes without seeing the edge.

Illusion, just a means of copying.

Only by finding the core can we prevent the copy from hatching.

But there were only plants in front of him, and he had no idea where to start.

The longer you stay, the more you will be affected by the copy.

Bai Tao wants to plant herself into the ground, take root and then bask in the sun.

Baitao: "..."

This time the impulse could not be suppressed by willpower, so Bai Tao used physical means to calm herself down.

Wandering around is not a solution, so I returned to Baitaoyuan Road.

Although it was an illusion, it was very rigid and all the trees were still in their original places, which greatly reduced the difficulty for Bai Tao to find the way.

Except for a willow tree that suddenly appeared on the grass.

Bai Tao took two steps closer and saw the facial features on the bark.

It was the beetle in costume as Qiaomu that put Bai Tao's idea into practice.

"Hey, stand further away, you're blocking my sunbathing!!"

After Bai Tao left for a while, the beetle closed his eyes again and enjoyed the sunshine.

Then she saw with her own eyes how the beetle's facial features disappeared.

The beetle completely transformed into a tree.

Bai Tao stepped forward again, blocking the sunlight, but still did not get any scolding from the beetle.

White Peach and the Beetle were not far apart, and the hallucination began when they entered the blue wall.

So there is no spatial transformation, the starting point is the blue gate.

On the way, Bai Tao tried to communicate with other plants, but there was no response.

Back to the starting point, where the Photinia is located, just after being away for a while, the Photinia has changed its appearance.

As if it had been injected with hormones, the branches grew rapidly, hanging down to the ground and entangled with another tree.

Bai Tao tried to communicate, but there was no response.

The so-called holy land is used to turn animals into plants.

The plants here don't move or talk.

Time is running out, Bai Tao gives up communicating with Photinia narioides. Eyes can deceive, but space cannot.

There are floor plans in both the "Xingfu Community Expansion Plan" and the "Xingfu Community Garden Construction Plan".

All Bai Tao has to do is find the location of the Xingfu Community Garden.

Close your eyes and eliminate visual misleadings.

The image of the 'Amazon Forest' disappears, replaced by a new map extending from the two plans.

After a while, Bai Tao felt the touch under her feet changed. She opened her eyes and found herself in an unfamiliar park. There was no longer soil under her feet, but a path.

It's foggy here, but not so foggy that you can't see your hand in front of you.

The mist is like an autumn morning.

But it gives people a chilling feeling in their hearts.

Unlike the lush Amazon rainforest before, the trees here are sparse and not that tall, but there is a shrub placed at regular intervals.

Bai Tao, who had just been a gardener, could confirm that these shrubs had been pruned very carefully.

This is the garden of Xingfu Community, which Bai Tao had seen in the plan.

The only difference was that there were things hanging on the few trees in the park.

——is a property manager wearing blue work clothes.

Bai Tao compared the staff members' faces with the photos and found that those hung on the trees were all the persons in charge of the "Happiness Community Expansion Plan".

The body is round and peaceful, with no lines on the back of the head.

These corpses existed before the instance was hatched.

Blood spilled on the tree trunk, forming four big words: Traitor Dies.

The handwriting is similar to that on the "Plan for the Construction of a Garden in a Happy Community" and was written by the same person.

House didn't resign, he was in the Garden.

Maybe he is the core of the copy.

The goal is clear, find him and kill him.

When Bai Tao stepped onto the stone path, the whole garden came alive.

The plants shook their branches and stared menacingly at the only invader.

The leaves, branches and vines all rushed towards Bai Tao.

At this time, Bai Tao's other foot had not yet stepped onto the cobblestone road.

Lean forward, push off with your feet, and start sprinting.

There is a saying that as long as you run fast enough, the attacks can't catch up with you.

Bang--

A tall tree broke off of its own accord and lay across the stone road.

Its courage is commendable, but it is not a strong tree. Bai Tao jumped up, grabbed the protruding branches, exerted force with its feet, and stepped over the obstacle.

Everything is trying to stop Bai Tao.

The grass beneath her feet turned into jagged shapes, trying to cut her tendons and kill her.

More and more plants participated in the blocking. Bai Tao did not feel the power of rules. This was just a spontaneous defense measure of the copy.

Bai Tao doesn't want to harm plants unless it's absolutely necessary.

Harming plants is likely against the rules.

The more rules you violate, the more you will be weakened. This time there is no company to back you up.

He bent down to avoid the sudden attack from the tree branch.

She hadn't encountered the boss yet, so she needed to conserve her energy.

Perhaps, it's time for Peach to leave and for the Halfling Spider to take the stage -

Ring, ring, ring——

This is the ringtone of Bai Tao's work machine.

Baitao: "...?"

No way, no way, no one would enter the dungeon and still have to work!

While dodging attacks, take a look at your phone.

It was the boss - the Centaur Minister Ma Ren. After they became familiar with each other, she asked Bai Tao to call her boss.

Since it was a call from the Centaur Minister, I had to answer it.

The call was connected, and Ma Ren's voice came: "Bai Tao, are you in Xingfu Community?"

She warned, "Never transform in a copy that's hatching!"