There are mutated plants!
Cheng Zhen immediately looked up at the 17th floor of Building 1, his eyes narrowing. When he left, everything here was clearly normal!
He ran wildly, leaped up from the ground, and climbed up with his bare hands.
Given Jiang Wan's vigilance, she would only open the protective window during the day when the whole family was home to let the sunlight into the room. When she was not at home or was sleeping, she would always close the protective window.
However, at this moment, not only were the security windows outside her bedroom open, but the windows were also open.
The oxygen inside kept escaping out, while harmful gases from outside kept crowding into the room with the stuffy airflow.
Those who should have been fast asleep, adults and children alike, were huddled together in a corner by the window, tightly embracing each other!
Cheng Zhen's heart tightened as he watched, his jaw clenched, and he pushed off with his feet while using his hands for leverage, flipping himself straight in.
"Jiang Wan!"
"Strange uncle!"
Cheng Zhen and Jiang Xiaoxin spoke at the same time. The latter covered her mouth tightly with her hands, her eyes wide with surprise and delight. The next second, she screamed, "Ahhh, watch out!"
Cheng Zhen's sword flashed out instantly, severing the stem that was trying to attack his side. The sword then slashed in front of Jiang Wan and the others, cutting off the stems of the densely packed mutated plants that were entwined around them.
"What is this?" he asked as he chopped down the attacking plants.
He knew she didn't have any plants at home, so where did this disgusting and perverted thing that keeps growing even after its stem is cut come from?
“This is Alternanthera philoxeroides.” Jiang Wan’s cold voice came from behind him. “It belongs to the Amaranthaceae family and is a perennial herb with creeping, tubular stems that become hairless when old. The leaves are oblong, oblong-obovate, or obovate-lanceolate.”
Her voice suddenly paused, interrupting a long string of professional academic terms, "It is a kind of noxious weed that can grow in both water and on land. It grows rapidly and is difficult to control, causing a great impact on the ecological environment and biological energy of the invaded area!"
"It invades water bodies, causing the extinction of higher plants and the disappearance of aquatic animals, and devastating the ecological balance of the water. Therefore, it has another name: water peanut."
Cheng Zhen brandished his sword repeatedly: "This thing has mutated! How did it get here?"
Moreover, he has discovered that this thing cannot be cut off by simply cutting it; if the stem is cut off, it can quickly regrow!
We need to find its root cause!
Jiang Wan was also thinking about this question. She didn't have any plants at home, and this thing was a noxious weed that she had never seen in the neighborhood before. How did it suddenly get into her house?
Jiang Xiaoxin suddenly looked up at her mother; she had something to say.
Jiang Wan immediately thought of the time when the city's water system was destroyed before she died in her previous life, and it seemed to have been around this time!
"water pipe!"
"It climbed up the water pipe!"
As Cheng Zhen chopped, he asked, "Can we start a fire?"
This was, after all, an indoor space, and he worried that she wouldn't be willing to burn down such a nice house.
Jiang Wan did not disappoint him: "No."
This is what she and her twins rely on to survive in the apocalypse. What if they accidentally burn down her whole house?
Besides, with Xiao Shu around, these mutated monsters can't really do anything to them for the time being.
Before he arrived, they had been locked in a standoff for almost an hour. Unable to attack them, the cunning water pea had tried to single-handedly fill the entire room, then densely surround them, attempting to trap them in a corner and suffocate them.
That's why she opened the window, but this is the 17th floor, and jumping out of the window to escape is obviously not realistic!
Cheng Zhen glanced back at her only once. The next second, he conjured a ball of fire in his hand and threw it onto the stem he had cut off. The stem burned with fervor, as if it were alive, and struggled violently on the ground.
He picked up his longsword, intending to throw the burning stem he had cut off from the 17th floor.
Jiang Wan immediately reminded him, "Don't throw it away! Water hyacinths are extremely resilient; they can even grow if their stems touch the ground!"
If ordinary water hyacinths have such strong vitality, imagine how much stronger the mutated ones must be.
If even a tiny bit of the stem isn't completely burned and falls to the ground, the consequences would be unimaginable.
Cheng Zhen stopped, but then began chopping even faster.
Behind them, Jiang Xiaoxin's childish voice suddenly rang out: "It's afraid of fire!"
Cheng Zhen was taken aback, and Jiang Wanqing explained, "Its stem dares not go near the fire!"
He looked around and saw that the area around the burning stem was indeed clean, so he dared not approach!
He grabbed a small blanket from the bed that the twins used to cover their stomachs while sleeping, rolled it up in his hand, lit it, and then held it in front of him before quickly heading towards the door.
Jiang Xiaoxin's childish voice suddenly rang out again: "It's not the kitchen, it's the bathroom! The bathroom in our living room!"
He paused, and Jiang Wan said, "We saw its stem retracting into the bathroom."
Cheng Zhen was suspicious. From their angle, could they clearly see whether the stem was shrinking into the bathroom or the kitchen?
But he didn't have time to investigate further; his immediate priority was to strangle the mutated plants!
Having pinpointed the location and with his intervention, the mutated water peanuts that had suddenly attacked the house in the middle of the night were quickly wiped out.
Seeing her once clean and tidy home now a mess, with sticky, murky liquid covering the floor and walls, and blackened marks from a fire, Jiang Wan felt extremely uneasy.
Cheng Zhen immediately said, "It's not safe here. You must come with me right now."
"Where to?" Jiang Wan didn't really want to leave her little home; it made her feel very insecure.
"Come with me, to a safe place." Cheng Zhen's dark eyes were fixed on the damaged water pipe in the bathroom. He had a feeling that as long as Jiang Wan was here, danger would still come.
"Okay, let me pack up." Jiang Wan understood this as well. If they didn't rely on him, and only relied on Xiao Shu's meager purification ability, they wouldn't be a match for the mutated plants.
She is a clean person, and even if she is leaving home, she can't let the house be such a mess. So she quickly mopped the house and packed her clothes and belongings.
The two little ones helped together, and Cheng Zhen didn't rush them, but stayed by their side to lend a hand.
"Xinxin, how do you know that monster was afraid of fire?"
Jiang Xiaoxin was packing up her favorite cheese sticks and ice cream together, and said without turning her head, "I saw it!"
After a while, Cheng Zhen asked again, "Then how did you know Xin Xin came out of the bathroom?"
This time she finally turned her head, but looked at him as if he were an idiot: "I saw it!"
Then, as if her eyes had been stung by the spiciness, she quickly turned her head away, pouting as she continued packing her snacks.
After a while, Cheng Zhen heard her whisper to her brother, "He's so stupid, do we really have to move in with him?"
Can she refuse?
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