Battle against mutant plants
Wen Yan stood behind Jiang Lin and handed her a machete: "Go and try it."
Jiang Lin walked into the giant pumpkin field under everyone's expectant gaze. Wen Yan followed behind her, paying attention to the movements around her.
She took a machete and chopped at the vines on the pumpkin. This action completely aroused the anger of the mutant plants, and the dense pumpkin vines surrounded Jiang Lin and Wen Yan.
Someone outside who was too close accidentally touched the tiny hairs on the pumpkin vine, and his entire hand swelled up instantly: "Help, help, my hand." He shouted, raising his hand.
Tang Xiaoyan always carries some commonly used medicines with her. Seeing this situation, she took out the ointment to eliminate allergic reactions and applied it to the man.
Although it is not that effective, the burning sensation has been relieved a lot.
Jiang Lin was now extremely thankful that he had put on protective clothing, which minimized the possibility of contact with the fuzz. After struggling with these mutant plants for so long, Jiang Lin found that although these pumpkins were aggressive, they were very weak and only slightly more dangerous than ordinary plants.
She no longer hesitated, and with a sharp movement of the knife, the huge pumpkin left the vine and sank completely into the ground. Jiang Lin and Wen Yan each carried the pumpkin out.
Jiang Lin wielded a machete and cut down all the pumpkin vines that blocked the way. The remaining pumpkin vines seemed to sense that she was in danger and automatically made way for her.
Everyone was curious about the giant pumpkin being carried out. After leaving the dangerous pumpkin field, everyone gathered around and touched the mutant pumpkin to see what the difference was between it and a normal pumpkin.
Jiang Lin wiped the machete and cut a hole in the pumpkin, revealing the golden flesh inside and the unique pumpkin flavor.
She took a small piece and handed it to Tang Xiaoyan: "Test it to see if it's poisonous." Although she wanted to eat it, Jiang Lin was still very cautious.
Tang Xiaoyan took the mutant pumpkin sample and walked towards the temporary hospital where some laboratory equipment was placed.
Jiang Lin didn't follow. She remembered that Cui Yawen had planted other crops, so it couldn't be just the pumpkins that had mutated. She went around to the back of the field and saw the mutated wheat and rice fields.
Like pumpkins, the most notable feature of all mutated plants is their increased size.
But at the same time, the wheat awns on it also became extremely sharp. Jiang Lin threw the machete aside and used the ice knife transformed by his supernatural power to chop down a field of mutated wheat and rice.
This way she could avoid contact with these mutant plants. Similarly, she picked up a grain of wheat and a grain of rice and sent them to Tang Xiaoyan.
"This pumpkin is no different from ordinary pumpkins." Tang Xiaoyan looked at the experimental results and said to Jiang Lin who came in with wheat and rice.
"What about these? Take a look at them too." Jiang Lin handed the things in his hand to Tang Xiaoyan.
Xu Anan had already run down to tell everyone that the pumpkin was not poisonous. Everyone picked up the machete that Jiang Lin had thrown aside and cut the huge mutant pumpkin into pieces.
Xu Anan and others worked together to build a large grill and put the fresh pumpkin on it. After a while, the sweet smell of roasted pumpkin slowly wafted out.
Xu Anan took a few pieces of roasted pumpkin to share with Jiang Lin and the others.
Jiang Lin took a bite of the roasted pumpkin, which tasted soft, sticky and sweet: "It's much better than seafood." They had really eaten enough seafood during their time at the beach.
"It seems that these cultivated plants are still edible even after they mutate." Jiang Lin finished the last bite of pumpkin with reluctance.
Cui Yawen also heard about the mutated plants, and she has gathered a group of people to go for a big harvest.
In one morning, the mutant plant fields were harvested by everyone, but since it was the first time and they had no experience, even though they had taken precautions and were protected by people with special abilities, many people still suffered minor injuries.
Tang Xiaoyan counted the few remaining wound medicines in the makeshift hospital and said, "Looks like you need to go back to the First Base. We're running low on medicine."
"I think we should go back. Remember the herbs we planted? Do you think the herbs will mutate and become bigger?" Jiang Lin has been thinking about this question since he saw the mutated plants.
After hearing this, Tang Xiaoyan also became interested: "I didn't think of it, it is indeed possible." She just wanted to go to the hospital at the first base to see if they could dig out some medicine.
"Do you want to go back with me or write me a list?" Jiang Lin was really not familiar with medicine.
"I'll go with you."
Jiang Lin came to the place where the earthquake vehicle was parked with familiarity. Sheng Wei and Wen Yan followed him, and Xu Anan stayed at the base to help.
Four people got into the front cockpit of the earthquake vehicle and drove towards the first base.
Unlike the previous ruins, the current First Base has become the base camp of mutant plants. Jiang Lin pointed to a particularly prominent tree in the distance and asked, "Is that the peach tree you planted for me?"
A tree with pink petals falling all over the ground and peaches hanging on its branches stands out among the mutant plants in the first base.
Next to it are the fruit trees that Jiang Lin had planted before.
Wen Yan picked up the telescope and observed it carefully: "It really is that peach tree. Do you want to pick some peaches to take back?" He looked at Jiang Lin with a smile, as if he had come across a fruiting peach tree on a spring outing and wanted to pick a fruit.
"Forget it. I'm afraid of danger. After all, the sacred tree is right here." Jiang Lin actually suspected that these mutated plants were also created by the sacred tree.
The four of them jumped off the earthquake truck and walked into the base camp of mutant plants. Many of these mutant plants were taller than them. Wen Yan checked the navigation system on the wristband while Jiang Lin kept cutting down plants that were blocking the way.
The four people forged a path to the hospital in this ocean of green.
The hospital's cold storage wasn't completely destroyed, and the medicine inside was still well preserved. Tang Xiaoyan opened the large sack she had brought with her and directed everyone to put the urgently needed medicine inside.
Jiang Lin and Wen Yan were watching nearby to see if there was any danger.
Perhaps because the surrounding vegetation was too dense, the four people's breath was largely covered by the smell of grass and trees. Shenmu vaguely sensed a familiar breath, but when he looked carefully, it was very faint.
Tang Xiaoyan and Sheng Wei filled two huge sacks with medicines, and the four of them approached the direction of the original human civilization warehouse. Jiang Lin picked up the key hanging around his neck and inserted it into the spare keyhole.
Now that a large part of the power system has been destroyed, the key has become the most useful unlocking device.
There is a separate power supply system in the human civilization library. It looks intact and unaffected, and the plants stored in it have not mutated.
"Do you think the plant mutation is related to yesterday's rain?" Jiang Lin looked at the plants in the warehouse that were still normal.
Tang Xiaoyan paused while picking herbs: "Next time it rains, collect some rainwater. It may indeed be related to the rain."
"No need to wait for the next time, it will rain tonight." Wen Yan looked at the weather system on the bracelet, which indicated that it would rain tonight, and it would be quite heavy.
Tang Xiaoyan nodded, and she had almost finished getting the things.
After loading all the war supplies into the car, Jiang Lin walked in another direction. She wanted to see if there were any intact cars at the base. Although the earthquake truck was good, it was too big and inconvenient to travel.
Wen Yan accompanied her there, and they actually found an armored vehicle and two motorcycles. Wen Yan hung the motorcycle on the back of the armored vehicle, and went to the grain warehouse to get some sweet potatoes and flour and put them in the reserve compartment of the armored vehicle.
Two fully loaded cars drove out of the first base.
"It's amazing. It was a barren land not long ago, but now it looks like a primeval forest." The car was driving on the road in the first base where the vegetation was slightly sparse.
"This doesn't seem to be the way to the door." Jiang Lin sighed, and then realized that they seemed to be on the same earthquake car as Tang Xiaoyan.
"Well, let's go pick peaches." Wen Yan looked ahead calmly. That was the area where he and Jiang Lin used to live. Mutated plants were growing on the ruins.
Wen Yan stopped the armored vehicle and Jiang Lin jumped out of the car. The peach tree now really blocked out the sun and blocked out the sunlight above their heads.
This causes the plants below to grow a little shorter than elsewhere.
Her ice skates flew towards the peaches, knocking them down from the tree. Wen Yan stood below and caught each peach accurately.
The two of them filled a big bag, and Jiang Lin was curious and wanted to see the picked peaches.
Wen Yan tied the bag tightly. "Be careful. Let's go back and check. There's fuzz on these peaches. We need to deal with it when we get back."
Jiang Lin had no choice but to look away reluctantly.
After Tang Xiaoyan found out that they were gone, she waited for them at the door. The two cars drove one after the other on the way back to the beach.
"Have you noticed that Shenmu seems very quiet recently." Jiang Lin always had a feeling of unease, as if Shenmu was planning something bad in its silence.
But in fact, Shenmu really didn't have the energy to deal with them these two days.
The mutant plants were indeed her doing, but awakening them had consumed most of her strength, and she was now sleeping deep in the cave.
Once her abilities are fully developed, these mutant plants that are scattered across the land will become her next deadly weapon.
But now Jiang Lin and the others obviously don’t know what kind of attack power the mutant plants can unleash.
It was almost dark when they returned to the base. The sunset over the sea was particularly beautiful, a vibrant orange. Tang Xiaoyan put the medicine into the makeshift hospital.
The herbs taken out of the warehouse were divided into two batches, one to be planted outside and the other to be planted indoors. Jiang Lin set up supplementary lights and various devices to protect their growth.
It was already dark when they finished everything. Wen Yan took out a small bag of flour, sugar, the remaining pumpkins, and the pumpkin vines that no one wanted and left aside. "Would you like some pumpkin pie?"
Jiang Lin's eyes lit up: "Then why don't you go back quickly."
Wen Yan moved quickly. Jiang Lin lay on the table waiting for him, and the sweet smell of pumpkin kept entering her nose.
When the golden pumpkin pie and stir-fried pumpkin vines were served, Jiang Lin couldn't wait to grab a piece of pumpkin pie.
It was sweet and a little chewy: "Delicious!"
Today's staple food is rice made from mutant rice, which is freshly harvested today. Jiang Lin wanted to laugh as she looked at the big bowl of rice. Although it still tasted like rice, it was inexplicably a little strange. She still liked normal rice.
It rained as expected in the evening. Jiang Lin looked at the raindrops falling outside the window with a solemn expression.
Tang Xiaoyan collected a few bottles of rainwater and placed them in the laboratory. She planned to spend the night in the laboratory.
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