"team leader!"
Cheng Zhen stood protectively in front of Jiang Wan with a stern face, dealing with Ping Jiang's indignant anger, "Now is not the time to pursue this!"
Just as they were talking, all the stems around them attacked them. He swept his lightsaber around, severing countless tentacles.
With a sullen face, Pingjiang attacked together, venting his deep dissatisfaction with Jiang Wan by severing the stem.
Jiang Wan glanced at it, said nothing, and went to open the door.
She tried entering the password, but it was clear that the previous password had been changed.
This combination lock door only allows three attempts to unlock; if all three attempts are wrong, it will automatically lock.
"Mother……"
When the first incorrect password alarm sounded, Jiang Xiaoxin anxiously hugged her leg.
Those people were so fierce, but her mother did nothing wrong; her mother was saving everyone!
Her mother didn't want to come here for any equipment!
These people are framing my mother; they are all bad people!
Jiang Wan had no interest in the twins' feelings. She stopped what she was doing. The password had been changed, and she wasn't an expert at cracking passwords. She didn't know who had set the new password, so she didn't dare to make a move rashly.
but……
Her hesitant gaze fell on her right index finger. After a moment's hesitation, she finally pressed it down.
The tempered glass door opened with a click!
"It's open! It's open! Mom is so amazing!" Jiang Xiaoxin clapped her hands excitedly. The next second, Jiang Wan grabbed her arm and threw her in, along with her brother Jiang Xiaoshu.
Jiang Wan ducked to avoid the attack from the dodder stalk, rolled inside, then immediately jumped up and ran to the light switch to close the door, shouting, "Quick! Come in!"
The city guards filed in, with Cheng Zhen still bringing up the rear. Fortunately, Yu Fen and his men arrived in time, and Yu Fen's special ability was able to help Cheng Zhen deal with the dodder's attacks.
They entered the laboratory building just before the door closed.
The stems of dodder were kept out of reach, and even if some were wrapped around people and brought inside, they were eventually snapped off by the closed glass door.
"Phew... It's such a fragile thing!" Yu Fen sprinted over from the other end of Xiangcheng University. He had just exhausted himself cutting the stem with all his might and was now collapsed on the ground, unable to move, panting and complaining.
"How could it be so deadly!"
Jiang Wan supported the two children on either side, looking worriedly towards the stairwell. Upon hearing this, she simply said, "Dodder, don't underestimate it just because it's a thin stem. The host it parasitizes has only one destination."
That is, death.
Yu Fen looked out the glass door with lingering fear. He could still see clearly outside before, but in the time it took to say a few words, his eyes were once again covered with densely packed yellow stems, which were becoming more and more tightly wrapped at a speed visible to the naked eye.
"Holy crap! Boss, what do we do?"
Cheng Zhen frowned as he looked outside. When they arrived, they only found this mutated plant in a corner, but they never expected that in just a few hours, the entire university would become its prey.
He went to look at Jiang Wan and asked, "What is it doing?"
After their brief exchange, he clearly sensed that while these yellow stems looked frightening, they didn't actually intend to kill him; they simply wanted to entangle and wrap them up.
"Trapped us, providing nourishment for the host."
As soon as she finished speaking, the surroundings fell silent.
Using the people trapped in the entire university as nourishment, isn't that a bit too much...?
Jiang Wan then asked, "Did you see anyone when you arrived?"
"No."
Cheng Zhen and Yu Fen exchanged a glance, both seeing the gravity in each other's eyes. The apocalypse had arrived, but the university hadn't been paralyzed and was still holding classes as usual. During the school's operation, there wasn't a single person on campus, which was extremely abnormal!
Jiang Wan took a breath, glanced deeply at the stairwell entrance, took one child in each hand, and went straight upstairs.
Perhaps her intense tension affected the twins, for the two little ones squeezed her hand together, then looked up at her with their baby faces and comforted her in their sweet, childish voices: "Mommy, everything will be alright."
Jiang Wan's tense heart warmed instantly.
Jiang Xiaoshu said this because he has the ability to purify.
The silly girl said this because she had specifically sensed that there was no consciousness of the mutated plants here, so she felt there was no need to worry and nothing would happen.
Cheng Zhen winked at Yu Fen, who understood and led the way past Jiang Wan.
"Expert, which floor should we go to?"
The outside was completely entangled by the stems of dodder, making the indoor lighting extremely poor. Jiang Wan walked around, turning on the lights one by one from memory.
"Third floor, far left."
They made their way to the third-floor laboratory without any obstacles.
The place was empty. Jiang Wan still used her fingerprint to open the laboratory door. She was surprised, but only for a moment. She quickly came to her senses and went straight to the various precision instruments placed in the laboratory.
"Is this all?" Cheng Zhen glanced at the list, took it out, and was immediately dumbfounded. The names and the actual items didn't match at all!
"Yes." Jiang Wan nodded, and opened the innermost medicine cabinet with practiced ease, picking through the colorful bottles of reagents.
The room was silent for a moment, except for the clear, clinking sound of glass bottles colliding with each other.
"What are these?" Pingjiang suddenly asked, then pointed at his men, "Move them! Let's fight our way out!"
Jiang Wan turned around from in front of the cabinet, her icy gaze fixed on him, "If you don't want to die, then stay put!"
Pingjiang himself didn't react, but his loyal subordinates, who had brought him along, had long been fed up with her. Seeing her arrogant attitude and complete disregard for their leader, they rushed forward one by one.
"groove!"
"Please show some respect! We are city guards!"
"So that means you can act without thinking?" Jiang Wan didn't want to waste any more time talking to them, and simply told Cheng Zhen, "Be careful, it's not safe here."
According to Cheng Zhen, when they arrived, there was no one at the school. All the students were either entangled in dodder and turned into cocoons, or like them now, trapped in a building.
There are people in the lab almost 24 hours a day, but they haven't heard a single voice since they came in, which is very unusual.
Cheng Zhen immediately arranged for people to be on guard, and Pingjiang restrained the people who were still dissatisfied and sent them out to stand guard as well.
Time passed slowly, and it grew darker outside. It was clear that the stems of the dodder were becoming increasingly intertwined.
Everyone was getting impatient, but Jiang Wan, immersed in the various reagents, became increasingly calm and unhurried in her expression, attitude and movements. Influenced by her, the twins each hugged an apple and sat quietly to the side, munching on it.
Pingjiang didn't want to talk to her, but Yu Fen, who couldn't contain himself, immediately asked, "Expert, what are you doing?"
But before he could finish speaking, Cheng Zhen, who was standing to the side, immediately rushed out, shouting, "Who's there? Stop!"
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