Chapter 1 Chapter 1 Human, she is a human!
The desert stretches for hundreds of kilometers, with its sharply defined sand dunes, but as far as the eye can see, all sorts of filthy, smelly garbage piled up like mountains, and the air is filled with a pungent odor of metal and decay.
Here and there, animal skeletons several meters tall could be seen stuck upside down or standing tall. The wind swept the yellow sand, hitting the various metal debris, making a harsh friction sound.
The sun slowly set, and millions of falling ice crystals refracted the sunlight into circles of different halos, which were connected into countless blood-red, thick light pillars reaching the zenith.
In the post-apocalyptic era, all natural vegetation has become extinct. Even in the remote wilderness, there is no greenery to be seen. The environment is naturally becoming increasingly degraded.
In the wilderness, men wearing neat military uniforms, protective suits and gas masks were marching quickly.
The dim sunset covered them with a light golden hue and also stretched the figures infinitely.
This is one of the federally restricted areas with the highest standards, filled with extremely high concentrations of type E viruses. It is also the only area in the Xisha region where natural plants may be found.
All the men were tall and muscular, their bodies tightly wrapped, their slim-fitting uniforms highlighting their powerful muscles as they marched, each inch showcasing immense explosive power.
[17:30]
The flashing red dot on the bracelet finally overlapped with the green area. The leading man stopped, raised his left hand, and everyone behind him stopped instantly.
Gu Yu looked around and said, "This is the last location marked by Ander."
"The sun will set at 18:55. Whether or not we find any natural plants, we must leave here before sunset."
"If there were no natural plants, Long Qi..."
"Don't overthink it. The commander has already sought assistance from other districts. Long Qi is the last Emperor Dragon. They won't let anything happen to him."
"Heh—" the man to his left sneered, "They wish he'd died quickly. They went to all the trouble to send him to the Xisha Islands just for this day."
Gu Yu said sternly, "Mu Yan!"
"Okay, I'll shut up." The man put on special black gloves and carefully took out the equipment. "Let's get started. If we don't leave before sunset, we will all die here."
*
The sky gradually darkened, and the blood-red beams of light around them multiplied at a visible rate. Dark red light particles continuously intertwined and danced in the air. A strong wind gradually picked up, and the temperature plummeted several degrees.
In the desert on the other side, a cub over one meter tall was squatting on the ground, concentrating on looking at a swamp that was only two or three meters wide.
She was wearing ill-fitting adult clothes, with her sleeves and trouser legs rolled up several times and held together with vines. She was filthy from head to toe, her hair sticking to her face in a messy mess of sweat, and her lips were cracked and peeling. Only her eyes were bright and beautiful.
The small swamp didn't look like anything special, and there was nothing floating in it, except for the occasional string of gray-green bubbles.
Ye Ning tried hard to restrain her breath.
"Gurgle-Gurgle--" another string of gray-green bubbles emerged.
Ye Ning didn't dare to get close to it. She stood far away and carefully threw a handful of sand over. The moment the sand touched the bubble, a subtle vitality spread slightly in the air.
The feeling was fleeting, and if Ye Ning wasn't a wood-type mutant, it would be impossible to detect it.
Ye Ning's eyes lit up. They were dull due to fatigue, but now they were as bright as stars. "The seeds are in here!"
As long as she takes it out and lets the seeds germinate, her novice mission will be completed.
Ye Ning was so moved that she wanted to cry. She had been searching in this place full of yellow sand and garbage for a whole day. If she didn't have special abilities, she didn't know how many times she would have died in accidents.
Moreover, she had walked for a whole day and didn't even see the most common cactus in the desert, but this happened to be the first map she was on for the mission.
In her mind, a palm-sized mushroom was tumbling joyfully in the air. [I told you my landing spot was perfect. There must be seeds here!]
This cute little mushroom is her system. According to it, because she was thinking about grilled mushrooms at the time, it changed into this shape specifically to please her.
Whether she likes it or not is another matter, but the more she looked at it, the more she wanted to eat grilled mushrooms.
As the sky darkened, the virus concentration around her continued to increase. Little Mushroom had told her that if the virus concentration continued to rise, something terrible would happen.
Ye Ning wiped her face and quickly turned her attention back to the swamp, but she still made no move to get closer.
Seeing corpses everywhere, and this place, clearly by the water, being clean and clear, with no footprints or animal traces, she knew this place was definitely not a simple place, and she definitely couldn't get close.
Ye Ning stood a little further away and only used her special ability after determining the safe distance and angle.
Four vines, so thin that they were barely visible to the naked eye, stretched out from her hands and silently sank into the water.
Ye Ning held her breath. The vines were like her senses, clearly transmitting the movements underwater to her.
The entire swamp was filled with a muddy, dirty, rotten and disgusting smell, but fortunately she was already used to it.
Fearing she might disturb the creatures underwater, Ye Ning could only be extremely cautious. She tried her best to minimize her presence, blending in with the surroundings. Finally, relying on her keen sense and intuition, she managed to perfectly avoid the creatures underwater as the vines sank.
Her wood-related ability allowed her to naturally get close to any wood-related element, and the vines naturally moved closer to the area where the seeds were.
A seed the size of a mung bean, emitting a faint vitality, was lying quietly in the mud filled with a strange smell.
It was obviously not the seed of an aquatic plant, but it was wrapped in a very hard shell. It was this shell that prevented it from getting moldy or soaked to death. Ye Ning was in awe of its tenacity.
The moment the vine approached it, Ye Ning's heart beat slightly, and for a moment, she actually felt a faint resonance with it.
It seemed as if something was scattered at the bottom of the water.
Ye Ning's eyelids twitched.
“Gurgle——”
Without caring about anything else, she twisted the four vines like a twist, weaving them into a tight net, firmly wrapped the seeds in the middle, and slowly pulled them up.
“Gurgle gurgle—”
On the surface of the water, gray-green bubbles began to rise wildly, like a boiling hot pot.
Ye Ning's heart was filled with alarm. While running backwards quickly, he wrapped the seeds with vines and pulled them out as quickly as possible.
The moment she took out the seed, several extremely strange tentacles suddenly rose from the swamp!
A sharp and piercing buzzing sound instantly filled the sky, the mud quickly fell off, and the air was immediately filled with a disgusting stench, and the hundreds of pairs of deformed eyes with red light on the tentacles actually looked at her!
Ye Ning's breath was held, and her running speed instantly increased several levels.
That curious glance caused her to suffer a massive mental attack. A jagged mouthparts nearly took up the entirety of the monster's head, and from it, a stream of sticky, slippery, turquoise slime occasionally oozed. The slime dripped onto the yellow sand, instantly creating several large gray-green pits.
Its head was covered in tentacles, but they lacked skin; only a tangled web of muscle fibers could be seen. Four of the tentacles bore eyes with black pupils on a red background, each one a blood-red color. As the tentacles moved, their pupils continuously expanded and contracted. The strange, eerie humming sound even intensified in frequency!
Food, huge food, fresh meat that tastes like fresh living things—
It actually relied on the extremely strong elasticity of its tentacles to rush straight towards her!
"Is this the plant-eating zombie you were talking about??? So scary!!!"
Even the most dangerous and advanced zombies in her original world were not half as terrifying as this one!
Yellow sand was flying all around, and Ye Ning's nerves were stretched to the limit. She never thought that she had only taken out a seed, but it would lead to such a terrifying monster.
Could it be that the seed she took out was some kind of treasure that could protect the lake?!
[Hurry, hurry, hurry! Let the seeds germinate first!] The little mushroom was very anxious.
It is bound to Ye Ning, and if she dies, it will also be formatted!
Ye Ning immediately pinched the seeds in the palm of her hand.
The gray-brown seeds look flat and collapsed, and if planted using ordinary methods, the possibility of germination is very small.
But she is a wood-type mutant, Ye Ning used her superpowers to hold the seed tightly!
The hard shell broke with a sound, and her unique emerald energy began to be madly injected into the seed, and the green light tightly lingered around Ye Ning.
Vitality is flourishing!
The seed quickly became full, and with a "bang", it grew directly from the germination stage to the aging stage!
[Novice mission completed, novice rewards distributed! ]
"Ding ding ding--" At the same time, everyone's devices began to flash wildly, and sharp alarms sounded wildly in the wilderness.
"S-level natural plants have been discovered!"
"S-level natural plants have been discovered!"
"S-level natural plants have been discovered!"
The red dot flashed rapidly! Everyone beneath their masks revealed expressions of shock. "S-rank natural plants?!"
"Did I hear it right? I must be hallucinating?!"
"I heard it too!"
"Is the detector broken?!" Mu Yan knocked on the detector that he had just cherished. "Didn't S-level natural plants become completely extinct in the wild a hundred years ago?"
The highest-grade natural plants that only exist in historical records and legends actually appeared in the restricted area of the Xisha District. The men's first reaction was disbelief.
“…”
"It's impossible that all the equipment is broken." Gu Yu put the instrument on his waist and said, "Go and take a look."
[18:05]
Everyone suddenly woke up and found that Long Qi was seriously injured. Only the special energy emitted by natural plants could cure the virus in the orc's body. They must get this plant!
Everyone stopped talking nonsense and turned around and headed quickly in the direction indicated by the instrument!
They moved even faster than when they came. In just ten seconds, they had already covered a distance of five or six kilometers and arrived at the location shown on the instrument in the blink of an eye!
As for Ye Ning, she didn't expect that the moment the seeds sprouted, the monster became even crazier!
Relying on her petite size, she barely dodged a few attacks. But the monster, in its extreme excitement, seemed to have triggered a berserker mode. The muscles woven into its tentacles instantly swelled to twice their size, dancing wildly in the air. The black pupils on the tentacles began to spin wildly, while the red ones became even more seductive, even emitting a high-pitched vibration.
Not only it, the originally quiet swamps around it began to bubble up, and even the garbage dump began to shake off the yellow sand.
At the moment when the tentacle monster was about to pounce on her, Ye Ning used her supernatural power to break off the vine and throw it away!
But she didn't expect that the tentacle monster completely ignored the vine and continued to approach her madly!
Ye Ning didn't hesitate at all and threw out the newly sprouted plant again, but the pursuit continued without any pause!
[The newbie gift pack includes insecticide and a shovel, use them now!] The little mushroom made a sharp popping sound.
A tentacle suddenly appeared from nowhere and stabbed at her from behind. Ye Ning rolled on the ground, and at the moment the tentacle was about to touch her, she stabbed the tentacle hard with a shovel!
The tentacles peeled off instantly, and dirty blood with a strong smell of decay splattered out.
If she had turned a little slower, the tentacles would have pierced her body. The little mushroom was so scared that she was incoherent for a second.
Ye Ning panted: "Didn't I give it the plant?"
Before coming here, Little Mushroom told her that the zombies here like to eat plants. In addition, the pollution concentration in the wild is extremely high, so the plants in this world are extremely scarce and cannot survive in the wild.
[Of course, zombies prefer eating human flesh to plants! Run! Spray the pesticide!]
Okay, it makes sense.
Ye Ning leaned sideways and shoveled the tentacles again. But the broken limbs rolled on the ground a few times and soon disappeared into the yellow sand.
There is something under the yellow sand!
Ye Ning didn't know that she, who exuded the aroma of fresh meat and rich plant fragrance, had become the biggest attraction in this desert.
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When the group rushed over, they saw this scene.
Pollutants that were supposed to appear after sunset are now emerging from the yellow sand and swamps. Among them, a weak and pitiful cub is struggling to escape with a shovel!
The air still clung to the rich energy of the plant. The instruments in their hands flashed frantically, giving prompts.
But no one cared about those things at the moment. The moment they saw Ye Ning, their hearts began to beat wildly, and their blood flowed faster. The natural love for pure humans, rooted in their genes, was aroused at the first sight of her.
"Human, she is a pure human!" Someone was muttering to himself.
In this restricted area filled with pollutants and contaminants, there is actually a living human being!!!
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