Chapter 105 Plant Withering
When Roubaozi Dagou, the base chief of the Shanhai Base, learned that someone in the base had mutated, he quickly led his teammates to deal with it.
"Who is it? How did it mutate? Does anyone know what's going on?"
The three questions posed by the man who threw the meat bun at the dog elicited a collective shake of the head from everyone around him.
The mutant's wife looked desperate, clinging tightly to her husband's hands to prevent him from hurting anyone.
"I don't know. He wasn't injured. We noticed something was wrong today, so we didn't leave the base. It just happened like that..."
Black, fine vein-like lines visibly appeared on the mutant's face. Upon closer inspection, his hands also began to turn black, and his fingers were squeezed and deformed like melted candy.
"This... is it hopeless?"
Why?
"Quickly tie him up a few more times, so he doesn't break free."
As soon as he finished speaking, the mutant began to struggle violently. He twisted his neck, his mouth splitting open in a human-like manner, and was about to bite his wife who was clinging to his arms.
A middle-aged woman next to him swung a shovel still covered in mud and shoved it into the mutant's mouth.
"ah--!"
The man's wife screamed in fright and ran away as she watched her unfamiliar husband, who could hardly be called a human being.
Tears streamed down her face, and she cried out in her heart, "Why did this happen?!"
As she raised her hand to strike the dog, vines sprouted from her palm, winding and extending until they quickly bound the mutant into a rice dumpling-like shape.
"Who will go and call Mr. Gu Yun here?"
One person in the crowd responded enthusiastically, turned around and squeezed through the crowd, running towards a building in the base with a red cross sculpture.
"Boss Gu! The base commander needs your help! There have been mutants in the base! Please come and take a look as soon as possible..."
Upon hearing this, Gu Yun felt a familiar, inexplicable sense of fear welling up inside her, and many images flashed through her mind in an instant.
"Boss Gu!"
A loud shout brought Gu Yun back to her senses. She closed her online store and followed the people to the area surrounded by the crowd.
Seeing the mutant wrapped in vines, but whose exposed body had turned black and resembled a rice dumpling, Gu Yun's heart sank.
Meat Bun Throws a Dog: Worried, I asked Gu Yun, "Yunyun, what should we do? Is there any medicine in the pharmacy that can cure him?"
"I've heard that many people in various bases have mutated, and if there's no cure..."
The rest of the words were left unsaid, like throwing a meat bun to a dog, but everyone present could imagine the consequences.
Many people hugged their arms, feeling a chill creeping up their skin, and they felt uneasy.
In particular, the discussion on how these people mutated has not yielded a conclusion in the forum since yesterday.
They had been hoping for the best, thinking that there wouldn't be any mutated people in their base, and that it was just a low-probability event, but today such a case has occurred.
They could no longer reassure themselves that they were safe.
The area outside the base is fraught with danger, and the area inside is no longer safe either.
Gu Yun took out a palm-sized device and put a piece of flesh from the mutant into it.
People around him whispered among themselves, looking curiously at the unfamiliar props or instruments in Gu Yun's hands.
After waiting for half an hour, the instrument beeped and the red light came on, and everyone's eyes immediately turned to Gu Yun's hand holding the instrument.
Before Gu Yun could give a result, someone in the back of the crowd suddenly exclaimed, "Base Commander! The plants in the farmland are withering!"
The person who heard clearly asked incredulously, "What? The plants are withering? Did I hear that right?"
The man clutched his heart, his mouth agape, unable to believe what he was hearing.
"...You heard me right, the plants withered, and my mom, who's working in the fields, just messaged me! I wish I were blind!!"
Meat Bun Hit Dog's heart clenched. Without even asking Gu Yun about the test results, he rushed out of the crowd, grabbed the person who had shouted, and confirmed the news again.
"It's true, it's true, the plant leaves are turning yellow. What should we do? Should we put them away first?"
The meat bun was thrown at a dog, pushing people aside and rushing into the planting area.
A vast expanse of farmland, clearly divided and neatly arranged, was a vibrant green yesterday, but today, at a glance, the leaves of the plants in every plot have turned yellow.
Many people were pacing anxiously around the farmland, muttering to themselves. A few of them, while talking, broke down in despair and cried, burying their faces in their hands.
"Heavens above! Are you trying to kill us?!"
"What am I going to do! I don't have much food stored up, so I thought I'd try farming to survive. I just planted the seeds yesterday and am waiting for the harvest!"
The young man raised his sleeve to wipe away his tears. In front of him was a small pit in the ground, and in the pit was a withered seed.
This seed was plump and full of life just yesterday, and he even paid a high price for fertilizer, hoping it would sprout today.
Jiang Baiyue had been mining for over ten hours and felt she had made a good harvest, which gave her a slight sense of security. Just as she returned to the base, she heard someone screaming in terror.
She was startled, not really frightened, but a strong sense of unease quickly spread from her heart to her whole body.
This made her hands tremble slightly.
"Ah! Look, the leaves on these leaves have suddenly turned yellow!"
"My grandpa said the plants in the fields are also withering. What the hell? Is it true? My heart can't take it. I have to go and see for myself."
"Come on, I'll go too. Oh dear, I didn't sleep well all night, and today I have more bad news."
Jiang Baiyue walked quickly to a tree she had planted for landscaping, and sure enough, the leaves on the tree were turning yellow at a visible speed.
In the blink of an eye, the green leaves on the orange tree turned dry and yellow, and the leaves crumbled with a gentle squeeze.
Just then, some people, still carrying the stench of blood, rushed back to the base. Upon hearing the news, they all wailed and groaned in distress.
Jiang Baiyue could only quickly notify the planting staff to harvest the vegetables and food that were about to ripen at the base.
Upon arriving at the planting area, a group of people were busy harvesting vegetables, and many of the planting staff's family members were also helping with the harvest.
Jiang Baiyue pursed her lips, expressionless, rolled up her sleeves, and began harvesting vegetables nearby.
I don't know why the plants withered, so I can only harvest the vegetables that are almost ripe.
After harvesting a plot of land, the withered tree saw the next field where seeds had just been planted the day before. With a quick turn of its foot, it dug a small pit in the ground.
The seeds inside have shriveled up!
Kumufengchun slapped his thigh and couldn't help but cry out. An uneasy feeling had been lingering over the entire base since yesterday.
She wasn't usually such a fragile person, but at this moment, she could no longer suppress the grief and indignation in her heart.
"These seeds were just planted!"
The people who had just arrived to help collect the vegetables heard this, went over to take a look, and immediately understood the situation, their faces showing even greater worry.
Without further delay, knowing that time was of the essence, they immediately joined the queue to harvest the vegetables.
Jiang Baiyue overheard this and knew the seeds were beyond saving, so she sped up the harvesting.
The plants were withering right before their eyes, a sight they could see, and this was no time for sadness.
More and more people joined in to help harvest the vegetables. Jiang Baiyue didn't care if anyone was trying to take advantage of the situation and steal the vegetables. At this point, it was already a win for humanity if fewer vegetables withered and rotted.
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