Lu Shiyan became more alert.
Su Wan tried to calm Hongdou with her mind, but it had little effect. The little guy's fear seemed to be instinctive and could not be suppressed at all.
They pushed open the gate of a house and walked in.
The yard was very tidy, with a few clothes hanging out to dry, covered in dust, clearly having been hanging there for a long time. The door to the main room was open, and the scene inside made the four of them frown at the same time.
The furnishings in the room were simple, with an eight-person table and a few benches. On the table were several bowls of half-eaten food, which had completely dried out and turned black, and a layer of dust had accumulated in the bowls.
It seemed that something suddenly happened to this family while they were having dinner, and they left in a hurry without even having time to put away their dishes.
But the problem was that there were no signs of fighting or blood at the scene.
"Strange, where are the people? Even if they have turned into zombies, there should be some movement, right?" Xiao Han looked confused and poked a fallen bench on the ground with his toes.
"Go check out another room." Lu Shiyan's expression became more serious.
They investigated three or four households in succession and found the situations to be similar.
In some homes, the television is still on, with snow-capped screens flickering; in some yards, the axe for chopping wood is still stuck on the wooden stake; in some rooms, the quilts are still spread out, as if the owner had just got up.
The entire village seemed to be paused, and everyone disappeared into thin air.
"Brother Lu, what do you see here?" Ah Mo suddenly discovered something in the corner of one of the bedrooms.
When everyone came over to take a look, they saw a strange plant growing on the floor in the corner.
It was a dark green vine, only as thick as a finger, with several palm-sized leaves growing on it, and the edges of the leaves were a strange dark red color.
The vine seemed to have drilled out from the ground, penetrated the concrete floor, and clung tightly to the wall, full of vitality.
"Mutated plants?" Su Wan whispered. In the apocalypse, not only animals will mutate, but plants will as well.
However, compared to fast-moving and highly aggressive mutated animals and zombies, mutated plants are often more confusing.
Lu Shiyan stretched out his hand. As a wood-type mutant, he could clearly feel the energy flowing within the vine.
It was a kind of... greedy and aggressive vitality.
"It's not just here." Lu Shiyan retracted his hand and glanced at other corners of the room. "The entire house is covered with its roots."
After his reminder, everyone discovered that there were tiny, almost imperceptible protrusions on the ground and walls of this house, like a dense network of blood vessels hidden beneath the walls and floors.
A chill ran up everyone's spine.
"Fuck...are they using the house as a flowerpot?" Xiao Han felt his scalp tingling. "Will all the people in this village...been..."
He didn't say anything else, but everyone understood what he meant.
They left the room, their faces looking extremely ugly.
If the entire village is covered by the roots of this mutant plant, then this is a huge trap. Those disappeared villagers may have become nutrients for these plants.
"Leave here." Lu Shiyan made a prompt decision.
However, just as they were about to return the same way, something strange happened!
"Bang! Bang! Bang!"
Suddenly, there were loud noises of broken windows and walls coming from the houses around the village!
Immediately afterwards, countless dark green vines as thick as buckets, like awakened giant pythons, frantically drilled out from doors, windows, walls, and even the ground!
They waved their ferocious bodies, with cracked tops, revealing circles of dark red spikes like shark teeth, and swept towards the four people!
"Go!" Lu Shiyan growled, and lightning flashed in his palm. A thick electric snake struck out, charring the first vine that attacked and breaking it. Green juice splashed everywhere, emitting a pungent fishy and sweet smell.
Xiao Han also reacted immediately. He crossed his hands and wind blades whizzed out, cutting through the vines that were rushing towards him crazily.
A'mo calmly fired in bursts, each bullet accurately hitting the relatively fragile joints of the vines, delaying their attack.
Su Wan followed closely behind Lu Shiyan, shooting with a pistol as he retreated.
But there were too many vines! It was as if a monster made of vines was lurking under the ground of the entire village!
The path they came from was completely blocked by dozens of vines, forming a constantly creeping, disgusting green wall.
"Damn it! I'm trapped!" Xiao Han cut off three or four vines with a wind blade, but more vines rushed in from the gap, one after another.
"Go to the center of the village!" Lu Shiyan quickly assessed the situation. "These vines all extend from a central point. Destroy its core and they will naturally wither!"
The four of them immediately changed direction and rushed towards the building in the center of the village that looked like an ancestral hall.
Along the way, the vines' attacks became more and more frantic. They attacked from all directions, and the ground, walls, and even the eaves above were all covered with these deadly "tentacles".
"Be careful!" A'mo shouted and pushed Su Wan away.
A vine hidden in the shadow of the eaves suddenly stabbed down like a poisonous snake coming out of a hole, brushing past Su Wan's shoulder and piercing into the ground, stirring up a cloud of dust.
Su Wan was so frightened that she broke out in a cold sweat. If it weren't for A'mo's quick reaction, she would have a bloody hole on her shoulder.
Murderous intent surged in Lu Shiyan's eyes, and he struck out with a flaming palm. The raging flames instantly burned the attacking vine into charcoal.
Fire overcomes wood, and flames have a strong restraining effect on these vines.
Lu Shiyan simply gave up holding back. With lightning in his left hand and flames in his right hand, he forcibly opened up a charred passage leading to the ancestral hall in the sea of vines.
Finally, they broke through numerous obstacles and broke into the ancient ancestral hall.
The interior of the ancestral hall is even more horrifying.
The place was completely taken over by vines. Dense roots covered the walls and beams, turning the entire ancestral hall into a huge, constantly pulsating green nest.
And in the center of the ancestral hall, on the shrine where the ancestral tablets are enshrined, a huge tumor as big as a millstone, beating like a heart, is taking root there.
Countless vines extend from this "heart".
What is even more horrifying is that beneath the translucent surface of the tumor, one can vaguely see distorted, painful human faces, which are the missing villagers!
They are wrapped inside and have not been fully digested, becoming the source of energy for the heart of the plant.
"Ugh..." When Xiao Han saw this scene, his stomach churned and he almost vomited.
"This is... the Matrix!"
The huge plant heart seemed to have sensed the intruders, and its beating frequency suddenly increased. The vines in the entire ancestral hall seemed to have taken stimulants and rushed towards the four people like crazy!
At the same time, an invisible dust with a faint sweet fragrance sprayed out from the top of the heart and quickly filled the entire ancestral hall.
"Hold your breath! This pollen is poisonous!" Lu Shiyan reacted immediately and activated his wood-type ability. A layer of light green light shield instantly enveloped the four of them, temporarily isolating them from the strange dust.
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