Jiang Wan felt a slight tightness in her heart. These people probably had their eyes on their oxygen tanks, right?
She remained expressionless, simply holding the twins tighter, turning her body to the side as if to leave, but in reality, she didn't move her feet.
She was observing that from her current vantage point, she could see the mutated Canadian goldenrod and the menacing people around her.
Sure enough, after only a short while, a middle-aged woman couldn't stand the suffocating feeling of lack of oxygen. She rushed straight towards Jiang Wan and the others, reaching out to snatch the oxygen mask from Jiang Xiaoshu's face.
Choose the softest persimmons to squeeze; they're obviously easier for kids to handle!
Jiang Wan's face turned cold. She raised her foot and kicked the woman in the stomach, knocking her to the ground. She then said to Jiang Xiaoshu, "Put your mask on."
She looked coldly at the group of people following the middle-aged woman, who were planning to grab the oxygen cylinders. Some were residents of their Yincheng Yazuo, while others were people who had gathered from other communities.
They were complete strangers with no prior conflict, but in the oxygen-deficient post-apocalyptic world, the immense allure of high-concentration oxygen made Jiang Wan and her two children an absolute hot commodity, tempting them to madness and lose their true nature.
Jiang Wan could understand. After all, lack of oxygen was really uncomfortable, a direct confrontation with the danger of death. Moreover, the air here was filled with all sorts of toxic gases, which were definitely harmful to the body and smelled terrible.
But she couldn't accept that she and her twins had been taken away!
She held the twins tightly, her gaze icy as she looked at the group of people in front of her: "Instead of wasting time robbing, you should hurry up and mine for crystals. Then you can buy oxygen tanks too!"
These people remained silent, silently saying: "Why bother digging up crystals and queuing to buy them? It's nowhere near as convenient as robbing them!"
Several teams were mining crystals in this area. Apart from the few people who were trying to steal them, the others were either engrossed in mining crystals and ignored the conflict, or they simply watched coldly from the sidelines.
She carried the twins and backed away step by step, deliberately moving closer and closer to the mutated Canadian goldenrod!
But as she passed them, she turned sharply and ran away in another direction, far away from them.
The person chasing her instinctively took a few steps, then paused for a moment before continuing to chase after her.
Almost the instant she started running, the mutated Canadian goldenrods seemed to smell blood, and the entire plant trembled violently with excitement. The conical inflorescences began to rotate, and the yellow petals shot towards the crowd that was approaching!
"ah!"
"Help! What is this thing?!"
"Ouch, it hurts! Help!"
"Ah! Help! Run! Run!"
Those who were chasing after Jiang Wan were completely unprepared and were instantly riddled with holes by the poisonous flowers!
Jiang Wan had anticipated this, and carrying the twins, she ran away without looking back. Even so, the yellow petals that shot out still flew straight towards them in a few scattered bursts!
Jiang Xiaoshu leaned on her shoulder and suddenly stared intently at the petals. Two seconds later, three or five small yellow petals fell silently to the ground and were trampled into the mud by the people who were following them in their escape.
No one noticed this slight anomaly, not even Jiang Wan, who was running at full speed.
Their commotion finally attracted the attention of the city's guards, and with them dealing with the mutated plants, the people finally breathed a sigh of relief.
Jiang Wan stopped in a place away from the crowd and carefully gave the twins a full-body check-up. Only after confirming that all three of them were safe and sound did she breathe a sigh of relief.
She did it on purpose, deliberately using the mutated Canadian goldenrod to deal with these people.
She only regretted it when she started running. She was too slow. And if she had been a second slower when turning the corner, it would have been her and her two children who had been riddled with holes by the poisonous flowers!
Fortunately, her prediction was correct. Within the attack range of the mutated Canadian goldenrod, nothing grew. She turned the corner precisely by stepping on the clear dividing line on the ground!
She glanced instinctively at the people who had been hit by the mutated poisonous flower. They began to itch intensely all over their bodies, lying on the ground and groaning incessantly. Then, as if guided by something, one of them crawled on the ground, trying to get closer to the Canadian goldenrod. Immediately afterward, the five or six people stumbled and ran back!
"Them! What happened to them?"
Nearby, someone cried out in terror, "Those are mutated plants! They eat people! Don't go near them!"
However, it was too late. Those people, as if they had lost their minds, rushed directly into the arms of the mutated Canadian goldenrod!
Five or six living people were swallowed up in an instant!
Without even a splash of blood, several grown men were gone!
Jiang Wan immediately covered the twins' eyes with her hands and whispered soothingly, "Don't look, don't be afraid, Mommy's here, don't be scared..."
The surroundings fell silent instantly, with only her awkward and strained voice soothing the child being heard.
People were terrified by this horrific scene and instinctively looked around, as if observing whether the wild grass and trees around them had mutated.
Some people were so frightened that they wanted to run back to the city, but suddenly they heard someone shout: "Dig for crystals! You only have four hours, what are you waiting for?!"
Oh! Yes!
Mine crystals!
The mutated plants are being hunted down by the city's guards, whose mission is to mine crystals!
Not only will they have to pay a monthly fee to leave the city, but they will also need crystals for their daily needs, including food, clothing, shelter, and meals. All the currencies from before the apocalypse have been abolished, and crystals are now the currency.
If you can find an oxygen stone, depending on its size, it can be equivalent to a corresponding number of crystals. For example, an oxygen stone of the same size is equivalent to five crystals.
So, after the initial panic, people bowed to the pressure of life and forced themselves to dig hard.
Jiang Wan also found a relatively clean spot and started digging with a shovel. However, unlike the others, she didn't need the crystals urgently, so she observed the plants around her while digging.
Logically, green plants only need chloroplasts, chlorophyll, and light to perform photosynthesis and produce oxygen, but right now the oxygen is decreasing sharply, as if they have all stopped photosynthesizing.
Why is that?
Jiang Xiaoxin also squatted down to observe, muttering to herself, "These plants are so pitiful, they're all going to die!"
Jiang Wan was taken aback: "Xin Xin, can you hear them talking?"
Jiang Xiaoxin shook her head sheepishly: "I can't hear them, but I can feel them. They're crying; they're going to die."
Jiang Wan was also confused. She frowned and dug the soil half-heartedly. Finally, just before returning to the city, she dug up two dark purple crystals. She wiped the dirt off, put them in her backpack, and took the two children's hands to walk back.
Suddenly she heard someone call out to her, "Hey, beautiful lady, come over and dig up all these pretty yellow flowers and take them home!"
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