As soon as it finished speaking, Yu Yuan and Hei Jiang were instantly thrown from mid-air.
Jiang Wan said urgently, "I have a way!"
Just as the two were about to fall to the ground, only an arm's length away from the ground, they were suddenly frozen in place and slowly pulled up by the mutated metasequoia roots, suspending them back into the air.
"What can you do?" The mutated dawn redwood's voice sounded old and weak, and even breathless.
Jiang Wan sensed something was wrong, but she didn't think too much about it at the moment; saving lives was the priority.
"Although we only dug up 31 dawn redwood trees, I know how to propagate and cultivate them. Give me time, and I will return a large dawn redwood forest to you. In the future, the dawn redwoods will live on this land forever!"
The mutated dawn redwood did not speak immediately, but its heavy breathing could be heard in the air, which sounded very strange.
Jiang Xiaoxin was lying on Cheng Zhen's shoulder, her eyes closed, trying to sleep. Suddenly, she raised her little head and exclaimed excitedly, "Mommy, it's going to die!"
Just then, the strangely shaped tree in front of them, which was twisting upwards in a bizarre way, suddenly moved, its branches twisting and baring their fangs at them.
"The strangler fig has mutated!" Jiang Wan exclaimed.
All of this happened very suddenly, and Cheng Zhen's purification ability was not effective against it instantly.
Just as Jiang Wan was about to be attacked, the roots of the mutated metasequoia suddenly wrapped around her tightly, pushing her back to Cheng Zhen's side. At the same time, Yu Yuan and Ping Jiang were also thrown to the ground.
Its aged voice, like that of a dying old man, whispered in her ear, "Remember what you said: save the dawn redwood, cultivate and propagate it properly, and you will be rewarded!"
After saying that, its mutated roots became entangled with the branches of the strangler fig, in a posture of going to its death and perishing together.
This dawn redwood had grown for over three hundred years before the mutation, making it a truly towering tree, while the strangler fig that was able to kill it was also quite large.
The two towering trees mutated simultaneously, and the battle was extremely loud.
A fierce wind swept across the entire mountain, making it difficult for people to stand. Tree trunks nearby snapped, and branches and leaves withered.
Just then, Cheng Zhen suddenly took out a card and summoned a giant stone slab, more than three meters wide and five or six meters high. With a powerful throw, he firmly planted most of the slab into the soil, creating a barrier that blocked everyone behind it.
But the wind they were fighting against was completely unpredictable. They could block the wind from one side, but the next moment, a hurricane would blow from another direction.
The wind was so strong that even in the sweltering heat, one could feel the chill.
Adults can handle it, but children can't.
Jiang Wan held the twins behind the stone slab, trying her best to shield them from the wind with her arms.
Cheng Zhen and Yu Fen braved the hurricane to drag Yu Yuan and Ping Jiang over, and then replaced their oxygen cylinders.
"How are you?" Cheng Zhen asked, leaning against Jiang Wan with his back to try and shield the mother and her two children from the cold wind with his own body.
Yu Yuan and Ping Jiang breathed in the fresh oxygen and finally felt alive again. The four of them leaned on each other and gathered outside Jiang Wan and her two children.
Cheng Zhen observed the battle between the two mutated plants: "We can't let the strangler fig devour the dawn redwood's crystal. Its power is too strong. If it increases the dawn redwood's power, this entire mountain will be finished!"
It will be very difficult for them to get out safely then!
At the same time, the mutated dawn redwood warned them: "Run!"
Jiang Wan suddenly felt a pang of pain in her heart and turned to Cheng Zhen, saying, "Then go and kill the strangler fig!"
“Okay!” Cheng Zhen jumped out of his comfort zone almost without hesitation, and softly approached to help the Metasequoia attack the strangler fig.
Yu Fen followed closely behind, while Yu Yuan and Ping Jiang each used two crystals. Once their strength was restored, they immediately joined the battle.
Behind the stone slab, only Jiang Wan and her two children remained in an instant.
The weather was getting colder and colder. They were all wearing light summer clothes, and the two little ones were shivering from the cold. Before long, their little faces turned pale and their lips turned purple from the cold.
Jiang Wan was startled and quickly took out a down comforter from the tree hole space. She spread her arms and wrapped the two little ones tightly in her arms.
"Hold me tight, don't be afraid, Mommy's here."
A thick, ten-pound down comforter instantly blocked out more than half of the cold.
The two little ones clung tightly to each other against her chest, the mother and her two children keeping warm together.
Meanwhile, to ensure that Cheng Zhen could keep an eye on them while fighting the strangler fig, Jiang Xiaoshu did her best to concentrate on releasing her purification abilities to prevent any mutated plants around them from harming them.
The bloody battle lasted for two full hours before it was quelled.
The newly formed strangler fig, which had absorbed the energy of a three-hundred-year-old dawn redwood, was strangled by the four of them and the mutated dawn redwood, and a black crystal was extracted from it.
Cheng Zhen and the other three were so exhausted that they were speechless. Since the apocalypse began, this was the first time they had encountered such a powerful mutant.
Yu Fen lay on the ground, panting heavily, and complained, "How can this strangler fig be so monstrous? It was a bad thing when it was alive, but I didn't expect it to have so much energy after mutating?"
They were still shaken. Pingjiang said, "Given its habits, if we don't kill it this time, it will become a major threat once it absorbs the energy of all the mutants covering the mountains and fields. It will be much harder for us to kill it then."
"Um……"
The voice of the mutated dawn redwood echoed once more in the air, hollow and weak, like the voice of a dying old man: "It became so powerful because it absorbed three hundred years of my energy..."
"Damn it!" Yu Fen cursed, "This thing is still alive!"
He quickly looked around warily, but saw no mutated metasequoia roots nearby.
Cheng Zhen walked behind the stone slab and saw a white blanket. He was taken aback at first, but after confirming that they were all safe and sound, he breathed a sigh of relief.
He patted the blanket and said softly, "I'll take you back."
The metasequoia has completed its mission; it can now open the portal and send them away from here.
Jiang Wan already felt the weather getting colder and colder. She had a strong bad feeling. After the apocalypse, the climate was two extremes, and the timing of their alternation was not regular. The scorching summer would come suddenly, and the extremely cold winter would arrive just as quickly.
Right now, her intuition tells her that winter has arrived!
She was worried that the twins were small and weak and might not be able to withstand the cold, so she naturally agreed: "Okay, let's go back to the RV."
"Wait..." The old man's voice, mutated from the dawn redwood, suddenly rang out again, "Come here."
"Who?" Cheng Zhen's eyes were cold and sharp as he stood guard in front of Jiang Wan and the others.
Jiang Wan asked uncertainly, "Me?"
"Yes, little girl, come here, don't be afraid, I won't hurt you..."
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