"Retreat immediately!"
Pingjiang gave the order loudly.
"Get out of here! Don't come in!"
Just a gate away from Xiangcheng University, Cheng Zhen chopped at the yellow tentacles of the mutated plant while loudly reminding others.
The entire university was entangled in the yellow filaments of this mutated plant. The key was that they had no idea what it was. It was impossible to kill or burn it. Even if they managed to cut a small opening, it would wrap itself up again in the shortest time, like a cicada pupa, completely enveloping them.
Cheng Zhen looked at the sun, which was almost invisible overhead, and felt extremely anxious. He roared, "Pingjiang! You can't handle them, get out of here! Protect the experts, get out of the city!"
Pingjiang remained expressionless, his demeanor unaffected by the disdain shown to him by his squad leader. He paused as he prepared to jump out of the vehicle to fight the mutated plant, seeing one of his subordinates instantly entangled by yellow tendrils.
He knew his own limitations; his special abilities were no match for this mutated plant.
"Get in the car! Retreat!" He fired his gun to deflect the yellow tube, rescued his subordinates, and shouted the order.
"You can't leave!" Jiang Wan rolled down the car window, her cool voice rising sharply, "Cheng Zhen! I need you to do everything in your power to clear a path! I need to get in!"
"groove!"
Cheng Zhen was furious and wanted to see what was going on in this woman's head.
But before he could utter his refusal, Jiang Wan's words followed: "This is a dodder. Without me, you can't kill it. In the end, the entire Xiangcheng will fall!"
Dodder?
What is that?
The men inside and outside the gate continued their hacking and slashing at the monsters, but their minds simultaneously went silent.
The next second, a beam of light instantly pierced through the airtight net made of yellow stems and threads. Cheng Zhen, wielding a sword, swiftly slashed countless times, finally breaking through a passage four or five meters wide.
Now!
Jiang Wan slammed on the gas pedal, and the first car sped past, with Pingjiang's convoy following closely behind!
However, the yellow silk of the dodder coils up very quickly, and the four or five-meter passage is reduced to less than two meters in an instant, which is no longer enough for a car to pass through!
At this point, only half of the convoy from Pingjiang had passed!
Jiang Wan immediately called out, "Let them in!"
The danger of dodder is that it surrounds its prey tightly, gradually consuming its nutrients until the prey dies.
Since they can't escape and don't intend to escape, it's better for them to stay together than to be wrapped up by the dodder one by one!
Cheng Zhen understood this principle, gritted his teeth and leaped up again. The lightsaber, having gathered its power, quickly unleashed a burst of light in his hand, and the passage, which had shrunk to one meter, was once again cleaved open to five meters.
The following convoy seized the opportunity and rushed forward, almost with the front of the cars touching the rear. Before the passage was once again wrapped up by the yellow stems of dodder, all the vehicles finally met up on campus.
The entire sky above Xiangcheng University was completely covered by yellow ribbons, making the campus as dark as dusk even at noon.
Jiang Wan warned, "Hurry up! Don't get tangled up in the yellow ribbons!"
It can be said that almost all plants share one characteristic: they are afraid of fire, and dodder is no exception.
But they dared not light a fire. The oxygen content in the air was already very low, and now they were completely surrounded by dodder. The oxygen they could breathe would only decrease, and there were more than 100,000 college students in this university!
Igniting the fire could only temporarily repel the dodder, but it could also deplete their oxygen supply and drive them all to their deaths.
Therefore, the only thing that matters is speed!
Jiang Wan's RV drove ahead, heading straight for the laboratory. Cheng Zhen leaped onto the roof of her vehicle, using her lightsaber to kill the dodder vines that tried to entangle her along the way.
"How do we fix this?"
Jiang Wan didn't actually need his help at all. She had Jiang Xiaoshu's purification ability, and those parasitic plants couldn't get tangled in her RV.
But if he wants to help, then he should. With him there, even if someone recalls it later and thinks her RV was safe and sound from beginning to end, they won't suspect her and the twins.
It's because this squadron leader is so dedicated to his duties!
As she turned the steering wheel from memory, she answered, "Dodder is an annual parasitic herb that usually parasitizes plants such as legumes and asteraceae. To strangle it, you have to find a parasitic host first."
Upon hearing this, Cheng Zhen couldn't help but curse under his breath, "Damn it!"
Xiangcheng University is so big, where is he going to find a host to parasitize?
They'll probably become food for the mutated dodder before they even find it!
He dared not relax his vigilance and immediately used the walkie-talkie to instruct his men to find plants from the legume and chrysanthemum families.
But a moment later, a chorus of groans erupted: "Boss! What are legumes and chrysanthemums? I only recognize chrysanthemums! But it's not chrysanthemum season yet, it's not blooming, and I don't recognize it!"
This is Yu Fen.
The others were in a similar situation; they were lucky if they could even recognize chrysanthemums, let alone distinguish between other legumes and plants in the Asteraceae family.
Cheng Zhen was also in a dilemma, because he himself did not recognize it.
Sure enough, at this point, we still have to rely on Jiang Wan.
He simply shared his location and summoned them all back. At this point, he had to be careful that they were picked off one by one and eventually wiped out.
"Ahhh, watch out!"
Inside the car, the twins clung to the seats on either side, heads close together, staring at the road ahead. As a thick, adult-sized stem made of a dozen or so yellow threads tangled together hurtled toward the car window, Jiang Xiaoxin couldn't help but scream in fear.
Jiang Xiaoshu gathered his power, and with his current abilities, his purification power was precisely aimed at the car window, protecting the vehicle.
But before the stem could pierce the car body, it was severed by Cheng Zhen's powerful sword strike.
Jiang Wan slammed on the brakes, swerved, and then shouted at the twins, "Put on your oxygen masks, we're getting out of the car!"
Upon hearing this, the two little ones skillfully put on masks for each other, then put on their small backpacks, put the tiny oxygen cylinder just big enough for them into the backpacks, and then stood at the car door.
Jiang Wan got out of the car first, opened the back door from the outside, hugged them, and then rushed into the laboratory.
Behind them, countless dodder stems followed closely.
Cheng Zhen and Ping Jiang led their men to protect them from behind, rushing towards the laboratory while repelling the attacks of the yellow stem tubes.
The distance from the car door to the laboratory gate was only about ten meters, but they ran it like they were sprinting eight hundred meters.
But just as they were about to enter, they were blocked by a triple-layered, reinforced tempered glass barrier.
With the road ahead blocked and the mutated dodder behind them radiating murderous intent, they found themselves on a dead end!
Pingjiang's usually cold and hard face showed signs of anxiety as he angrily said to Jiang Wan, "Are you going to have us all die for some equipment?"
He was furious because the people behind him were his brothers who had risked their lives for him!
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