This thought flashed through Zhou Qiang's mind, but his face still looked respectful.

"No, you didn't say anything last night. You just said there were a lot of plants outside."

Li Daijun nodded.

"Maybe it's because I haven't been out for too long. I always want to go outside to breathe some fresh air. Sorry."

After the two exchanged a few pleasantries, Li Daijun stated his purpose.

"They want to go to the place where you found the fragment and take another look. This function may even promote plant growth. It should be more than that simple."

Things like sea crystal can be said to become stronger when facing a stronger opponent. Zhou Qiang himself doesn't know how useful this thing is.

He is now very curious about whether this thing comes from the bodies of those marine creatures or from the water of the ocean itself?

"Oh, by the way, the person leading the team this time is the eldest daughter of the Xue family. That girl hasn't been out for a long time."

The old man once again dropped a bombshell piece of news, and Zhou Qiang nodded, also looking longing.

The food in the research institute is normal. This group of people are too old to be used to nutritional supplements, so they can only eat normal food.

Moreover, in the entire research institute, Zhou Qiang only saw five of them eating; even the woman named Xiao Huai was not there.

Almost at the moment when the meal was over, Xiao Huai appeared like a ghost.

"Mr. Zhao, please follow me."

Zhou Qiang nodded and followed timidly.

When Zhou Qiang saw the woman with whom he had had physical contact again, he no longer felt much emotion.

After all, it is still a question whether this guy is a human being?

The woman's face remained unchanged, but her expression was cold.

It can be seen that they are somewhat anxious to obtain the sea crystal. After a brief interrogation, the team is ready to set off.

In addition to the eldest daughter of the Xue family, there are also people from the Lei family, and even the Xie family.

Obviously, he is not a living person, but the God of Wood can handle all these problems.

The team set out. There were five people from each of the major families, and the remaining ten guards.

No one from the Zhao family showed up, but someone from the Xie family kept looking at Zhou Qiang.

It was not someone else but the young man from the Xie family who had met Zhou Qiang once, and whose awakened special skill was ice.

This guy is lucky. Nothing happened to him even in such a chaotic situation last time.

This time they did not set out by car. Instead, a man from the Lei family summoned two huge mantis-like creatures.

This is a true awakener of the summoning attribute.

These two mantis monsters are level five and their flying speed is not slow. Most importantly, people sitting on them are quite stable.

The woman from the Xue family has been very silent since she got on the mantis's back, and she even closed her eyes to rest.

These people should be those who are relatively close to the Wood God. If all of them are killed, will the Wood God's real body leave the Divine City and come here directly?

Zhou Qiang sat next to him pretending to be nervous, while looking around casually.

After thinking for a moment, Zhou Qiang decided to wait until they were at a certain distance from the air-raid shelter and then set up a trap to try it out.

After all, how do you know if it works if you don’t try?

In order to avoid attracting less attention later, Zhou Qiang pretended not to dare to lower his head, and even pretended to be unconscious.

Almost no one paid attention to him. Except for the man from the Xie family, everyone else would just glance at him twice.

Zhou Qiang relaxed when he saw this.

However, the scope of Wood God's exploration should be quite limited, otherwise how could he be so impatient to send people out after I said that the sea crystal was in the body of a zombie?

In fact, it was pretty much what he thought.

The God of Wood itself is a very special being. He has always believed that every city has its own destiny.

It is not actually a zombie itself, but just an alienated plant.

When it devoured the first person's brain, it quickly inherited most of that person's memories.

As it devoured more and more human brains, it became stronger.

But somehow, it always felt that it must have a human enemy.

For the sake of long-term development, it restrained its instinctive desire to eat, and instead began to slowly develop the entire Cloud City.

On the one hand, it guards the entire city as the protector of mankind, and on the other hand, it takes into the research institute all those who have special physical conditions after blood tests when entering the city.

These people are very suitable plant carriers, that is, its future subordinates.

It will not easily take action against those stronger guys in the city as long as they don't do anything too extreme.

But once these people cross that line, it will intervene.

In order to be able to appear in Yuncheng openly, it even split its consciousness and merged it into someone else's body.

Moreover, it will ensure that everyone in Cloud City is under its control.

No matter it is nutritional supplements or ordinary food, anything it touches will leave some effects.

The thing it regretted most was integrating its split consciousness into the body of the eldest daughter of the Xue family.

This woman concealed her own strength. She was at the same level seven as it, and the Wood God's body was almost attacked by it.

If it hadn't reacted quickly and swallowed a bunch of human brains, it might have been that clone now.

However, as it became stronger and stronger, it slowly began to take control of the initiative, and even took the initiative to deceive the woman, telling her that it could take her to level ten together.

But how is that possible?

These people are just its food.

Moreover, it sensed Zhou Qiang the moment he summoned the ghost. This was the enemy it had been waiting for!

Although being a plant has many advantages, its disadvantages are also obvious.

Once the roots are established, they cannot be easily moved.

However, in order to kill Zhou Qiang, the Wood God's body has begun to consume its stored energy and started to take root in all directions.

After all, that person was too cunning and refused to enter the city no matter what!

…

"How on earth did you find something like that?"

Zhou Qiang was resting with his eyes closed when a man's voice sounded in his ears.

He opened his eyes in surprise and saw the man from the Xie family who had walked up to him out of nowhere.

This man is actually an outlier. Compared with everyone who seems numb, he is a little out of place.

Zhou Qiang looked over and found that although the man was asking this question, his eyes were always on him.

Exposed?

A strong murderous intent flashed through Zhou Qiang's heart. If he suddenly dropped someone from such a high altitude, the unprepared person would surely die.

"You haven't been parasitized yet?"

Suddenly, another voice that sounded more ethereal sounded.

Zhou Qiang looked strange.

Because this feeling is just like the system prompt sound he usually hears, it sounds directly in his head.

"Don't be nervous or scared. I can see that you are different from them! Let's run away together!"

The Xie family man said again.

Zhou Qiang lowered his head and began to answer the first question asked by the other party.

During this time, the man's voice kept ringing in his mind, and Zhou Qiang finally understood this guy's situation.

It turned out that the last time he hunted in the Yangtze River, he was planning to try to kill Xie Yujun. After all, according to reason, he was the only heir to the Xie family.

And before that, he had always been a loyal believer of the God of Wood.

In a desperate place like the doomsday world, many people will seek a belief to keep themselves going.

But when he discovered that his straw-like brother suddenly had a robe symbolizing holiness on his body, and even Zhou Qiang, whom even the God of Wood could not find, his faith began to waver.

Especially after he saw with his own eyes that the dead Xie Yujun was swallowed by the robe and resurrected.

He was terrified.

After that day, he didn't even dare to go back and kept wandering outside the city.

The main reason he went back this time was because nothing unusual had occurred for such a long time, and he suspected that there was something wrong with his thinking.

As a result, I was assigned such a task just after I got home.

Moreover, he is also a dual-talent awakener.

Compared to the powerful and dazzling ice attribute of the attack, this ability to communicate with people only through brain waves does not seem to have much use.

Even his family members were unaware of this ability.

After coming out this time, he recognized Xie Yujun among the guards at a glance.

Even if the other person had covered himself tightly, as someone who had lived with him for so long, he couldn't have been wrong.

There's something wrong with this city!

Even the eldest daughter of the Xue family, who was once good at socializing, was not right!

They had numb expressions on their faces, as if they were dead, and only Zhou Qiang's body looked like a living person.

So, in fact, this body level is only level five, and he also wants to come here to seek cooperation, or to be more precise, he is preparing to find someone of the same kind.

Zhou Qiang looked surprised.

He said that he had never seen a monster that would guard a corpse in all this time, but the eight-headed python he saw last time was a very unique creature.

If there is someone controlling everything behind the scenes, then everything is normal.

Listening to this guy's endless words of solicitation, Zhou Qiang nodded implicitly.

The only topic the two people discussed openly was how he found what was inside the zombie's brain, so it only attracted a few glances from others, but no one came over.

“Then we have a deal! When we get to the place where you found the zombies, we will attack together! Remember to run in opposite directions! Maybe one of us can survive! If we stay in this city, people will definitely die!”

After the man said this, he obediently returned to his previous position.

Zhou Qiang's mouth twitched.

Damn, are they thinking he's a fool and using him as bait?

The speed of level five is completely different from that of level six. If they run separately, he will definitely be the first to be caught.

It looks like this guy has been scared to the point of becoming insane?

If someone who has been struggling in the doomsday world encounters this situation, the mental breakdown may not be so serious.

But it is very normal for someone who has hardly ever suffered to collapse after discovering that his worldview has collapsed.

There was deathly silence on the mantis's back. Apart from encountering a group of skeleton birds, there was nothing stopping them.

When he was still more than a hundred kilometers away from the air-raid shelter, Zhou Qiang could already sense his real position.

It seems that although his level has not increased, his mental power has been slowly increasing.

Zhou Qiang tentatively turned his consciousness back, and in the blink of an eye he appeared in the basement of the air-raid shelter.

Two dark figures were still standing beside him guarding him. They were the Abyss Dwellers that he had released.

There is no time to waste. Even if the flying dragon zombie is faster than the mantis, he can't afford to waste time.

Rushing out of the cave quickly, he ran into Tang Jianlong and his group head-on.

After I explained the situation in a few words, both of them expressed their willingness to help.

But Zhou Qiang refused.

The danger is too high, the fewer people involved in this ambush the better.

He took the two Abyss Dwellers away, knocked off a piece of sea crystal fragment, and then rode his flying dragon directly to Shuangyan Town.

During this time, he was also paying attention to the distance of the brainless people.

Soon he arrived at Shuangyan Town, and after checking it out, he began to set traps.

All the explosive packs and explosives he had had were used up, and if there was enough time, he might even go back to the real world to get another batch.

When it comes to ambushing people, these bombs are great treasures!

After hiding the four remaining Abyss Dwellers and a Butcher on his body, Zhou Qiang quietly rode his flying dragon to the cave not far from Shuangyan Town.

He can't be exposed too early!

Then he closed his eyes and returned to the body of the Brainless Man again.

Fortunately, because he would occasionally close his eyes to rest on the way, no one noticed anything wrong just now.

When we arrived at the outskirts of Shuangyan Town, we could see the town wrapped in spider webs with our naked eyes.

"Are you sure it's there?"

The eldest daughter of the Xue family raised her head, looked at Zhou Qiang with cold eyes and asked.

Thinking of the other party's passionate look at the beginning, Zhou Qiang felt a little sad that women are too fickle, but he still nodded.

"Yes, there were quite a few zombies in this town before. They seemed to be fighting for something. I took advantage of the chaos and ambushed a guy to get the fragment!"

Zhou Qiang talked nonsense in a serious tone, but Miss Xue did not make any comment.

The mantis was controlled to stop ten meters away from Shuangyan Town. The land next to the town had already been destroyed.

Several people fell to the ground, and then a guard slowly stood up.

He waved his hand, and a ball of intense light appeared as his robe shook, directly hitting the white spider web.

Zhou Qiang was stunned. This aura was very familiar.