Chapter 093 Chapter 93 Blood Vine
An Qing now has four bottles of Body Tempering Spirit Liquid. In the past few days, she has only come across one bottle of Spirit Liquid, so she doesn't know how long it will take for her to come across Body Tempering Spirit Liquid again.
It seems that this really depends entirely on luck, and there is no pattern at all as to when you will encounter the Body Tempering Spirit Liquid.
Especially during this period, every time the products unlocked on the welfare shelf were either rice, flour, or cabbage, no other vegetables could be unlocked, which really hit An Qing hard.
So, this time, An Qing took out three bottles of body-tempering spiritual liquid and kept one bottle for their next competition.
In ten days or half a month, at least you can unlock a bottle or two of spiritual liquid for her, right?
Even if you don't have it, you should at least have one bottle a month.
If the spiritual liquid is not unlocked, she will change the competition to once every two months. Except for the top three at the beginning, only the first place will get a bottle of spiritual liquid every time.
Of course, after each competition, we have to add more people to the guard team to increase the sense of urgency for everyone and avoid the mentality of just waiting and waiting for your turn one day.
An Qing took out a piece of paper, tore it into ten small pieces, and wrote one, two, three, four, and five on them in order.
She crumpled the paper into balls. "Okay, now you guys get to draw your own balls. Those with the same numbers will be opponents. The winner will advance to the next round."
"Each loser has one chance to apply for another round with one of the five winners. The winner can replace the other and enter the next round."
"Base Commander, what is the content of the next competition?" Li Yu asked.
An Qing smiled and said, "I'll tell you about the next round after this one is over. Now, who's going to draw a paper ball first?"
Huang Jian was full of confidence and immediately came over: "I'll go first."
He took out a ball of paper and unfolded it: "I drew three."
Others also came over and took the paper balls from An Qing's hands.
"I'm five."
"Me too."
Those who drew the same number looked at each other with fighting spirit in their eyes.
Soon, everyone opened the note and found the person with the same number as themselves.
An Qing: "Okay, start with one group, everyone else step back."
The ones who drew number 1 were a girl named Ke Rui and a boy named Wen Jiubian.
Everyone dispersed and gave the two people the space in the middle of the training room.
An Qing stood aside and watched. When they were all ready, she spoke: "Begin!"
As soon as the words fell, the two of them exploded and rushed towards each other.
Both of them are very fast, their punches and kicks are very powerful, and they seem to be evenly matched in both offense and defense.
An Qing stared at the two of them intently. No matter how fast they were, it seemed a little slow to her. She even quickly noticed that Ke Rui had revealed several flaws in less than three minutes, but Wen Jiubian failed to seize the opportunity to attack Ke Rui's flaws.
Similarly, Wen Jiubian's flaws were also obvious, but Ke Rui was unable to discover them at all.
The two fought until ten minutes later when Ke Rui, with a slight advantage, pinned Wen Jiubian to the ground.
After a fierce battle, both of them were panting and sweating profusely.
In ten seconds, Wen Jiubian failed to push Ke Rui aside and stand up. Ke Rui won the competition.
After An Qing announced that Ke Rui was the winner of the competition, Group 1 went to rest nearby and Group 2 took over.
Wen Jiubian was a little annoyed, but losing was losing, and it was useless to be annoyed. He sat down in the rest area and started looking at other people.
He needs to rest well and conserve his energy. After everyone has finished writing, he will have another chance to challenge the winner.
He only has one chance left, and he must seize it.
Ke Rui wiped the sweat off her face with her clothes, went to get two glasses of water, and handed one to Wen Jiubian: "Drink some water."
Wen Jiubian nodded: "Thank you."
The two sat here and watched the second group of competition.
The second group is the boy Ren Dong and the girl Zhou Wenyi.
This group lasted three minutes longer than the first group, and finally Ren Dong won.
The third group is Zhong Yiji and Huang Jian.
An Qing didn't expect that the two would actually face off in the first round, but she was also very curious about who would win between the two.
Zhong Yiji and Huang Jian can be said to be among the most powerful among these ten people.
Although she used competition to select the top three, An Qing felt that the top three would undoubtedly be Li Yu, Zhong Yiji and Huang Jian.
Of course, knowing is one thing, but for the sake of fairness she must use a competition to determine the winner.
What's more, what if a dark horse emerges among them?
An Qing announced the start of the competition, but Zhong Yiji did not take action immediately. He just stared at Huang Jian.
Huang Jian roared and rushed towards Zhong Yiji with astonishing explosive power. The knotted muscles and veins in his hands bulged, which was enough to show the great strength of his hands.
Zhong Yiji did not resist Huang Jian's attack, but instead seized the opportunity and quickly dodged Huang Jian's fist, and almost instantly came behind Huang Jian.
It is true that Huang Jian only has brute force and is not very smart, but he has a lot of experience in competitions since he was a child.
Realizing that his fist had missed, his body reacted instinctively.
Zhong Yiji, who was behind Huang Jian, kicked Huang Jian.
Huang Jian turned around, grabbed Zhong Yiji's ankle, and rolled on the ground with Zhong Yiji.
The two men exchanged punches, and even though Zhong Yiji tried his best to dodge Huang Jian's attacks, he still couldn't avoid being attacked.
Huang Jian also suffered a lot. Zhong Yiji had already stretched his physique to its maximum. Even though he was not as strong as Huang Jian, he was more flexible and had a better brain. He would not confront Huang Jian head-on but would try to evade Huang Jian.
The winner was not decided until an hour later.
Zhong Yiji won.
The fourth group is Li Yu and Jiang Yuanjian, Li Yu stretched out.
The fifth group consisted of two girls, Wan Xue and Chen Qianqian, and Wan Xue won in the end.
After five groups of competition were over, Huang Jian, who lost to Zhong Yiji, was the first to initiate a challenge. The person he wanted to challenge was Ren Dong.
So Ren Dong, who reached out in the second group, was quickly defeated and lost to Huang Jian.
Everyone who loses has a chance to challenge, so Ren Dong also has one.
Those who lost started looking for someone they had targeted to challenge.
Two hours later, the winner finally emerged.
Li Yu, Zhong Yiji, Huang Jian, Jiang Yuanjian and Ke Rui entered the next game.
It was completely dark by then.
An Qing asked everyone to line up and then began to say, "That's all for today. The remaining competitions will continue tomorrow."
"Tomorrow, the five of you will compete in four areas: speed, endurance, agility, and strength. First place in each race will receive five points, second place will receive four points... and fifth place will receive one point."
"After the four competitions are over, the top three will be selected based on your average scores."
All five of them responded in unison.
After the competition ended the next day, no dark horse emerged. The result was just as An Qing expected. The top three were Li Yu, Zhong Yiji and Huang Jian.
Among them, Zhong Yiji ranked first, Li Yu ranked second, and Huang Jian ranked third.
An Qing asked everyone else to go back and rest, and took Li Yu and the other two back to her house.
An Qing now lives alone in this two-bedroom, one-living-room house. She originally thought the house was not big, but after living there alone for a while, she found that it was a bit empty.
Now that there are three people standing in front of me, the house suddenly feels less empty.
She took out three bottles of body-tempering spiritual liquid.
"Before using the Body Tempering Spiritual Fluid, I need to make it clear to you. While it's true that the Spiritual Fluid can remove impurities from the body, strengthen it, and increase your strength, you must also know that something that can instantly increase your strength definitely can't be taken lightly."
"Removing the impurities is like carefully scraping your body inside and out with a knife. It hurts so much, probably to the point where you want to die but don't have the energy to do it."
"Strengthening your flesh, blood, bones, and tendons is like repeatedly hammering your muscles and bones with a small hammer, making them stronger and tougher..."
An Qing looked at the three of them. "In short, after drinking the spiritual liquid, you will indeed become stronger, but it will also be very, very painful. Now you still have a chance to regret it."
Li Yu looked at An Qing and knew that she was reminding them seriously and giving them time to regret.
She looked at the three small bottles of body-tempering spiritual liquid in An Qing's hand.
An Qing may not know that her name has already been heard in the training camp.
When instant noodles first appeared, the news from the base was that the research institute had reproduced instant noodles, but the quantity was scarce, and everyone living in the training camp who was not old enough had no chance to eat instant noodles.
At that time, everyone was looking forward to becoming an adult as soon as possible so that they could earn some coins and buy instant noodles.
However, the base claimed that the instant noodles were reproduced by the research institute, but it did not deliberately hide it, so that people soon discovered that the instant noodles did not come from the research institute of the base at all.
This news spread quietly in the base, and more people began to observe An Qing carefully. Later, everyone found out that it was true that An Qing was the one who took out the instant noodles and food.
After that, when the base started to buy food from An Qing and distribute it to everyone, they no longer concealed it. Unless you were a fool, you would not think that this food was copied from the research institute.
Li Yu also ate the food distributed. The braised eggs were delicious, the duck legs were delicious, the bread, fish with fermented black beans, etc. were all very, very delicious.
At that time, Li Yu was eating the food in her hand and wondering what kind of person An Qing was, what did she look like, and how could she have so many delicious foods?
Occasionally she wondered how nice it would be if after she became an adult, she could work for An Qing directly without having to join the outbound team.
I heard that people who work for her can eat a lot of delicious food almost every day.
Just thinking about this kind of thing makes my mouth water.
Li Yu is a very calm girl. Although she has a lot of random thoughts in her mind, she still trains seriously step by step, and she is more energetic than before.
Li Yu is about to become an adult, and she is ready to be assigned to the outbound team. She is in a good mood thinking that she can earn some coins to buy food after being assigned to the outbound team.
However, Li Yu herself did not expect that An Qing would become the base commander of the entire base, and also selected her to join the guard team and serve as the captain of the base commander's guard team.
Li Yu didn't show it on the surface, but she was actually very excited inside. She was determined to manage the guard team for the base commander and protect his safety.
But she was still a little nervous. After all, as the base commander of the entire base, An Qing should actually choose stronger and more experienced people to form the guard team.
Just like the Fire Team that once protected An Qing.
But now she chose this group of inexperienced people. No matter how calm Li Yu was, she was just an adult. She was nervous and worried, afraid that they would not be able to protect the base commander when facing danger.
Therefore, after hearing about the effects of the Body Tempering Spirit Liquid, Li Yu was very excited and determined to obtain the spiritual liquid.
Facing An Qing's question, Li Yu did not hesitate at all. Before An Qing finished speaking, she had already walked over, took a bottle of spiritual fluid from An Qing's hand and said, "Thank you, Base Commander. I have thought about it."
After saying that, she opened the lid of the spiritual liquid, tilted her head back and drank it in one gulp.
Li Yu was taught from a young age that she must contribute to the entire base and preserve the human race, but in fact, under her calm personality, she has a rebellious heart.
She had no intention of contributing to the entire base. From childhood to adulthood, she had always thought about herself the most.
Working hard to improve yourself is for yourself, and competing with your heart is also for yourself.
Now that she is with An Qing, she can eat a lot of delicious food. She is very satisfied and likes her current life very much.
When I think back on my life over the past decade or so, and then think about it now, I really feel that those days were not a life for a human being.
And these delicious foods, these foods that make people feel happy, were brought by the base commander.
Therefore, she must, must protect the base commander and not let anyone hurt her.
Li Yu's eyes were firm. After a while, she was a little confused: "Base Commander, why don't I feel anything?"
Zhong Yiji and Huang Jian also drank the body-tempering spiritual liquid, but didn't feel anything.
This made it seem like what An Qing had just said so solemnly was meant to deliberately intimidate them.
"I don't feel anything either."
"Ah, me too."
An Qing nodded: "It's like this, it will start in a while, the three of you go to the bathroom in the next room and stay there, so you can take a shower in time."
Three people: "..."
When they went to different rooms and stayed in the bathroom, and were so bored that they were about to doubt whether An Qing's so-called body-tempering spiritual liquid was a scam, the effect of the spiritual liquid finally took effect.
The three of them successively felt the pain that An Qing described. Their faces turned pale, and before they could endure it for long, their bodies slid down uncontrollably and fell to the bathroom floor.
*
A few hours later.
The three people came out of the bathroom one after another after washing up, gathered outside, and then knocked on the door.
An Qing opened the door and looked at the three people who were obviously different from before. She smiled and asked, "How do you feel?"
Li Yu followed An Qing into the room and nodded, saying, "I can feel that my strength has increased, and my eyesight is clearer and my hearing is better than before."
Zhong Yiji: "Me too. I feel like if I go back to the competition now, it won't be a problem for me to take on three people at once."
Huang Jian: "I can fight five alone without any problem."
Zhong Yiji looked at Huang Jian speechlessly, but didn't say anything.
An Qing nodded: "Okay, you don't have to follow me for a while, go to the training base to adapt and teach each other some moves."
Li Yu hesitated. "Shall we all go? Base Commander, how about I stay by your side to protect you, and let Zhong Yiji and Huang Jian go first? Then Zhong Yiji will take my place, and then Huang Jian will take Zhong Yiji's place?"
An Qing laughed and said, "Don't worry, we're still here with Ren Dong and the others. The sooner you three get familiar with your physical condition, the better. Go quickly. Besides, I won't be leaving the base, so there's basically no danger."
Of course, the main reason why An Qing is so confident is that she is strong enough now and will not be in danger without protection.
Otherwise, she would never let Tang Ming leave.
Seeing this, Li Yu nodded in agreement. The three of them did not go to rest, but went directly to the training base to adapt their bodies.
*
Outside the base, it's time for the special team's shift change.
The Fire Team dealt with several waves of mutant animals today. Since the base provided enough dried meat, it was easy to deal with these mutant animals. After getting familiar with the rhythm of dealing with the mutant animals, everyone has become accustomed to it and is at ease.
The Fishing Team came to replace the Fire Team.
Of course, the Youyu Team has undergone a complete overhaul. The team members have nothing to do with the Youyu Team members who previously worked for the deputy leader. Instead, they are outstanding team members selected from various teams.
The captain of the fishing team greeted Tang Ming and they changed shifts.
The Fire Team also gathered and prepared to return to base.
Before Tang Ming got into the car, he suddenly heard a very subtle sound.
The rustling sound was a bit like the sound of a snake crawling.
He was referring to the tiny sounds made by small snakes crawling in his previous life, not the sounds of huge snakes crawling in this world.
Because the sound was too quiet, no one else seemed to notice. The captain of the fishing team was gathering the team members and arranging tasks in sequence.
"Captain?" Lin Xue, the leader of Team 1 of the Fiery Team, was puzzled when he saw that his captain suddenly stood still.
Tang Ming frowned and raised his finger to silence him.
When Lin Xue saw this, his face suddenly became solemn and he looked around cautiously, but after a long time, he didn't notice anything unusual.
Tang Ming slowly squatted down and gently touched the ground with his palm.
After a moment, he leaned over and put his ear to the ground.
Sure enough, when I put my ear close to the ground, the sound became noticeably louder.
The captain of the Fishing Team had not yet finished arranging his work when he noticed the movement from the Fiery Team and looked over. He frowned when he saw Tang Ming lying on the ground.
He was just about to walk over to ask Tang Ming about the situation when he saw Tang Ming suddenly stand up and roar: "Be careful, watch your step!"
Before he finished speaking, he stretched out his right hand, and his five fingers formed into claws and grabbed the ground like lightning.
His hand penetrated the hard ground and accurately grabbed the object that was moving underground. He exerted all his strength and pulled it out in one go.
A blood-red vine as thick as an adult man's arm was pulled out from the ground.
It was obvious that the blood vine did not react for a moment and seemed a little confused. It remained motionless in Tang Ming's hands for several seconds.
"Hiss! Is this, blood vine?" Someone gasped in shock.
In just one sentence, Xue Teng reacted.
It struggled furiously in Tang Ming's hands, and the hard and solid ground began to shake.
The next moment, blood vines of all sizes broke out from the ground and attacked the surrounding humans.
"Why are there so many blood vines? When did they get here?" Although the captain of the fishing team had only been in office for a short time, he was also a veteran. He was shocked at first, but he quickly reacted, drew his sword and slashed at the blood vines that emerged from the ground.
But there were too many of them. Dense blood vines kept emerging from the ground, so many that it was enough to make people suffer from claustrophobia.
Tang Ming was still struggling with the blood vine that was as thick as his arm. He pulled out his dagger and stabbed it hard into the blood vine.
The skin and flesh of the blood vine were very tough. Fortunately, Tang Ming was very strong. After awakening his supernatural powers, his physique was completely elevated to another level. The dagger in his hand directly pierced through the skin of the mutated blood vine.
“Squeak—”
The blood vine made a sharp sound, which was strange and eerie, completely different from the sound of humans or animals.
Both the Fiery Team and the Fishing Team were surrounded by mutated blood vines, struggling to deal with the densely populated blood vines.
Tang Ming: "It's obvious that they sneaked in from underground."
The captain of the swimming fish team was so shocked by Tang Ming's adjective that his scalp tingled, but it was the fact.
The blood vines did sneak in from underground. If Tang Ming hadn't discovered them just now, perhaps in another day, or perhaps just a few hours, these blood vines would have reached the base.
Let’s not even talk about whether so many blood vines can break through the base’s defenses.
Even if there is no way to break through the base's defense, once no one discovers that the blood vines have been entrenched around the base, as long as the base gate is opened, these blood vines will have an opportunity to take advantage.
"No, those potions that restrain plants have become ineffective?" You know, before, the base would only come out to spray potions every once in a while, but after the beast tide broke out early, the base has changed to spraying potions around the base every day.
As a result, these potions had no effect on the mutated blood vine. Not only did it want to sneak into the base, but after being discovered, it even broke out of the ground and attacked them, showing no fear at all.
Tang Ming tightly grasped the thickest mutant blood vine in his hand and kept pulling it out with all his strength, trying to pull out all the mutant blood vines hidden underground.
Blood vines always act alone and will not act with other blood vines.
So Tang Ming had a guess in his mind, so he grabbed the blood vine in his hand tightly and pulled it out.
"Ye Yu, drive back to the base immediately and ask for support!"
"Yes! Captain!" Ye Yu quickly broke free from the blood vines that were entangled with her and ran towards the car.
The people around Ye Yu immediately surrounded her and ran towards the car, helping her clear away the blood vines around her and beside the car so that she could drive out quickly.
The car shot out as fast as an arrow.
Tang Ming calmly input his ice-type power into the wound of the mutated blood vine in his hand.
The first time he caught the mutated blood vine, he thought of using his supernatural powers to deal with it, but the outer wall of the blood vine was too hard and thick, and it also had the function of resisting the cold, so Tang Ming had to pierce the mutated blood vine and cut a big wound.
If he now had the same level of supernatural powers as in his previous life, he would be able to directly freeze this patch of mutated blood vines.
Unfortunately, he had just awakened his superpowers not long ago. Even if he had time to practice, he had only just reached the third level.
Fortunately, Tang Ming was a psychic in his previous life, and one of the most powerful psychics. He was very familiar with ice-based psychics. Even if he was only at the third level, he could exert strength beyond the third level.
However, it is not possible to freeze so many mutated blood vines directly.
Tang Ming carefully observed the mutated blood vines that were entangled with them. No matter how these blood vines attacked people, their roots were always rooted in the soil.
Moreover, while he was fighting with the blood vine in his hand, many smaller blood vines kept approaching and attacking him.
His guess was very likely to be true.
Perhaps, these blood vines originally belonged to one root, but were just branches branching out from the main root.
If this is the case, it can explain why the blood vines originally acted alone, but now there are so many blood vines acting together.
This may be the secondary mutation of the blood vine.
Of course, it is not certain whether this is the case.
Tang Ming had to deal with the blood vines attacking him from all sides, and also had to concentrate on inputting his supernatural powers into the wounds on the blood vines.
Frost seeped into the wound and continued to spread inward along the wound.
The blood vine is afraid of cold. Normally, it is protected by a thick and hard outer skin, and it will not be eroded by the cold at all. But now, the cold frost that has pierced the outer skin penetrates into it like a maggot in the tarsal bone, and continues to spread towards the main body.
All the blood vines shivered due to the frost that quickly spread throughout their bodies, and then all the blood vines' movements became a little slow.
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