In the dark night, wisps of black mist continued to rise from the black patterns around the mutated banyan tree. The mist spread in all directions, some of it penetrated into the branches of the banyan tree, wandered in the meridians of the trunk, and finally gathered on the mutated spirit core with green and black in the heart of the banyan tree. As the amount of invading dark matter increased, the branches of the banyan tree began to become increasingly frantic, whipping the ground around them. The branches that originally wrapped a box of spirit cores also continued to absorb the spiritual energy in the spirit cores at an accelerated rate.
The book spirit circled around the banyan tree several times. He studied it for a long time and finally found that although the mutated spirit core of the banyan tree had become the core to open this dark area, the banyan tree still retained a trace of clarity as a spirit plant. It had not completely transformed into a dark plant without consciousness and was still absorbing spirit cores to desperately resist the invasion of dark matter. If he rashly absorbed the box of spirit cores, then the banyan tree would completely turn into a dark plant.
The Book Spirit was torn. To eat or not to eat, that was the question. Eating the spirit core would allow him to level up, but the mutated banyan tree would be completely transformed into a mindless, manic, and bloodthirsty dark plant. Not eating, well, for him, not eating would just maintain the status quo. At most, his leveling would be slowed down, but there was still a chance the tree could be saved.
Alas, why are there always so many dilemmas in this world, adding so much trouble to people!
Shu Ling sat on the branch of the banyan tree with his chubby face propped up, looking at the branch ball wrapped around the spirit core, feeling extremely conflicted.
Amid the sound of branches flapping against each other, several gentle footsteps approached, accompanied by the rustling sound of the ground. Shu Ling turned around and saw that many contaminated mutated animals and plants had suddenly appeared around the banyan tree. They approached the black patterns around the banyan tree step by step, stretching their waists to absorb the dark matter rising from the patterns.
"How could it be..." the Book Spirit muttered to himself, "The Dark Domain has only been formed for a day, how come so many plants and animals have been contaminated? This is too fast!"
“Ah~”
Suddenly, a woman's sharp scream pierced the night sky, as if a switch was turned on. The originally quiet environment suddenly became noisy, with all kinds of crying, screaming, scolding, collisions, and running sounds ringing everywhere.
It turned out that many contaminated animals and plants came out from nowhere. These animals and plants followed the breath of the spirit core and found people hiding around the school, especially those who were carrying spirit cores or things containing spiritual energy.
Most of the families whose children can enter the awakening stage and can send their children to the East City Cultivation School for admission tests are aristocratic families. Most of them carry talismans or treasures containing spiritual energy, and some even carry spiritual cores on them, just to absorb and increase their children's cultivation when necessary. Unexpectedly, these treasures rich in spiritual energy have now become the primary targets of attacks and competition by mutant animals and plants.
In the dark realm, things rich in spiritual energy are like a bright light, constantly attracting polluted animals and plants to snatch them.
"Ah! Why are there crazy mutant animals?! Run!"
"Quick, quick, quick! Block the door!"
"Where are the security team and the escort team? Help! "
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"What's going on?! How come so many mutant plants and animals appeared so quickly?! Where's the security team?! Let Li Shangxi bring the security team to protect me!"
In the center of the school, on the top floor of the classroom and dormitory building, the principal has an entire floor as his bedroom. At this moment, he is in the living room and is furious at the teacher next to him!
"Principal Ke, these mutated animals and plants might have escaped from the laboratory building." The teacher who was standing next to him with his head lowered glanced at the principal secretly and said hesitantly.
The principal was stunned for a moment after hearing this, and pondered for a long time before he remembered that he had purchased these mutant animals and plants from the Wang family, temporarily storing them in the school, and then intending to resell them to wealthy families at a high price!
"Why, why has it taken so long? These goods haven't been sold yet?! Now, they're all running out!" Principal Ke paced around the living room anxiously, then stared at the teacher standing next to him with deep eyes:
"Besides you and me, who else knows about this?"
The teacher was startled by the principal's look. The last time he saw the principal look like that was when he was looking at a mistress who was threatening him. A few days later, he heard that the mistress had died in a car accident! His back was wet with sweat, and he said in a trembling voice:
"Also, the security guard guarding the laboratory building, who was in charge of moving goods and guarding the building at the time, also knew about it."
The principal stared at the teacher carefully for a while, then his expression softened. He walked over to him, patted his shoulder, and said with a smile:
"Xiao Gu, I've never treated you unfairly, have I? Every time I eat a piece of meat, you get a bite of soup. We're all in this together. Remember, those mutant plants and animals locked up in the lab building have nothing to do with us. As for that security guard, he's already died at the hands of the mutants. I hope that starting tomorrow, I won't see him again. Do you understand?"
The teacher surnamed Gu shuddered: "Understood, understood!"
At this time, Xiao Bai and others in the northeast dormitory building also heard the roars of various animals and the shouts and screams of people coming from not far away.
"What's going on?!" Xiao Bai, Xiao's father and Xiao's mother ran to the balcony and looked at the school center across the road, but it was dark and they could only see flickering lights not far away.
Xiao Yao opened his eyes, and Ming Hu, Li Ming and others also ran out of the room, looking into the distance.
Many old men and women also ran out of the building and ran to the big iron gate to look out cautiously. A few old women suppressed their fear and moved large flower pots and landscaping stones from the flower bed not far away and piled them inside the big iron gate.
Xiao Bai, who had just come down from upstairs and saw this scene, was speechless. During the day, they had a quarrel with these uncles and aunts because of closing the iron gate. However, since seeing the crazy polluting species, these uncles and aunts were so scared that they moved all kinds of stone tables, chairs and benches from the dormitory area to block the big iron gate tightly. Now, even if they want to open the door to go out, it has become very troublesome.
Through the gap above the big iron gate, it was pitch black not far away. Apart from the light of a few street lamps, nothing could be seen. Suddenly, a cat with red eyes jumped out from the darkness, pounced on the big iron gate, and smashed it with a clanging sound.
The elderly men and women who were surrounding the big iron gate and looking out suddenly screamed and ran away.
Looking at the contaminated cat in front of him, its eyes glowing red and its body almost as big as a pig, Xiao Bai was puzzled: "Why are the animals mutating so quickly this time?!"
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