Cleaning up mutant fields
Tang Xiaoyan glanced at Jiang Lin: "What should we do now? We are surrounded by mutant plants." Unknowingly, their entire base was still covered with mutant plants.
Aside from the sandy patch by the sea, the surrounding purified land was overgrown with mutant plants. Even a pumpkin could inflict such severe wounds, so if all the mutant plants attacked like them, how would they control the situation?
Jiang Lin leaned forward, his hands resting on the table. The lights of the makeshift hospital shone coldly on the concrete floor, and everyone fell silent.
"It's just like fighting zombies and mutants. At least the mutant plants can still be eaten after being defeated." Jiang Lin looked at Tang Xiaoyan's somewhat discouraged face and comforted her.
Sheng Wei: "That's indeed much better than zombies." The era of zombies has been over for a long time, but thinking back on it, the rotten smell and sticky blood are still unpleasant.
"Don't worry, we'll chop all the pumpkins tomorrow. Pumpkins can be kept for a long time anyway." Jiang Lin felt it was quite dangerous to let these mutant plants continue to grow in the fields.
Sheng Wei was injured. If it were an ordinary person with little fighting power, the damage would be even greater.
The wounds were almost treated, and Jiang Lin hurried the other two people to go home and have a good rest, as they had a tough battle with mutant plants to fight tomorrow.
She returned to her cabin and checked her combat uniform for damage, as well as her current weapons. On the table lay a laser rifle and a machete.
Jiang Lin stood at the window and shot an ice knife at the pumpkin field below. Then he took out a telescope and found that a piece of pumpkin in the pumpkin field had been cut off from the pumpkin vine.
She looked at her hands with satisfaction, wondering how many mutant plants she could fight against alone, fully equipped.
It had been a while since she'd fought, and she felt a vague sense of excitement and nervousness. She hoped everything would go well tomorrow. Jiang Lin set an alarm for herself and quickly fell asleep.
She replenished her strength through sleep, and the sacred tree did the same, greedily absorbing nutrients from the earth and rain from the sky. The land where she was rooted was visibly turning gray.
Shenmu took a look at the nutrient-depleted land and controlled the mutant plants next to it. The fruits of the mutant plants all fell to the ground and then began to rot at a rapid speed. The originally grayish-white land was slowly filled with these rotten fruits again.
These rotting giant fruits provided far more nutrients than she needed to ripen the crops, and now she could finally achieve self-sufficiency.
The sacred tree stretched out its branches with satisfaction. Now its main body and clone had grown a lot bigger. The clone in the southern base had covered a large area of land and was as high as a four-story building.
Except for the area specially left for mutants to walk, the rest of the area has been filled with mutant plants.
Taking advantage of the night, the sacred tree quickly connected with the mutant plants far away in the seaside base. When it was late at night and everyone was asleep, those mutant plants suddenly became energetic.
Twisting its body in the moonlight, it looked extremely weird.
The next day, Jiang Lin opened her eyes as soon as the alarm rang. She ate some of the leftover food on the table to fill her stomach. There was no complete canteen at the seaside base, so the three meals became a bit chaotic.
Now that spring has arrived, the days get brighter much earlier than before. Jiang Lin looked outside, and as the pages passed, she felt that the mutated plants were more energetic for some reason.
She sent a message to everyone at the seaside base, asking them not to get close to the mutated plants unless necessary, and explained that the mutated plants were found to be quite aggressive.
When I opened the door, the scent of plants hit me in the face, mixed with the sunlight, it had a bit of the smell of spring before the end of the world.
Jiang Lin took a deep breath and saw Wen Yan from next door also coming out. He had recovered very well and had been exercising continuously recently.
Although he is not in his best condition now, he is much better than when he was first injured.
"What happened today?" Wen Yan looked at Jiang Lin, who was fully armed and even wore a helmet that she had never liked to wear. He was holding a small laser gun in his hand and carrying the machete he gave him on his back.
"Go and get rid of these mutated plants. We underestimated their strength." Jiang Lin's voice came through the helmet.
"Wait, I'll go with you." Wen Yan quickly changed into combat uniform and helmet and came out. After experiencing various apocalyptic events, everyone was now very cautious.
After Jiang Lin said not to get close to the mutated plants, except for those who originally had stronger superpowers to help eliminate the mutated plants, everyone else hid obediently in places where the mutated plants could not attack, trying not to cause trouble.
The first thing to be cleaned up was the pumpkin patch.
Jiang Lin didn't know if it was her illusion, but she always felt that the pumpkins looked more energetic today. Before she got close, the pumpkin closest to them had already launched an attack.
Wen Yan blocked Jiang Lin with a fire. The pumpkin seeds were quickly burned into a pile of ashes and fell to the ground. The faint aroma of fried pumpkin seeds lingered in the air.
Jiang Lin glanced at him and said, "Why don't you control the heat to just the right temperature to fry these pumpkin seeds."
Others may not be able to do it, but Wen Yan can really do it. He tried several times, and the pumpkin seeds that fell down were finally not burnt or ash-like, and they looked really edible.
Sheng Wei was speechless. She could never guess what Jiang Lin was thinking, and Wen Yan was a little too obedient.
Shenmu saw this scene through the eyes of the plants, and she felt a hint of provocation. Originally, she didn't want these mutated plants to become more aggressive, as this might alert Jiang Lin.
But now, seeing Jiang Lin frying the pumpkin's attacking things into pumpkin seeds, she couldn't hold it in any longer.
The mutated pumpkins in the pumpkin field all headed towards Jiang Lin's position, and the overwhelming pumpkin seeds rushed towards her at a rapid speed, as if they were going to pierce her like a plug.
Jiang Lin was not panicked at all. A huge water curtain enveloped everyone present. The pumpkin seeds that came at him with great force hit the water curtain and were tightly wrapped by the water.
Not a single one fell to the ground.
Jiang Lin looked at the pumpkins and asked, "Is this the limit of your abilities?"
Shenmu was shocked. It seemed that Jiang Lin had guessed that these mutated plants were her masterpiece. In the moment of distraction, all the pumpkin seeds embedded in the water curtain were bounced back by Jiang Lin's water curtain and all pierced the pumpkin.
"What a pity! Whole pumpkins can be preserved for a longer time. We can only find a way to make these pumpkins into other things that are easy to preserve." Jiang Lin sighed as he looked at the pumpkins that were somewhat damaged.
The pumpkin field no longer had an advantage, and Shenmu's mental focus instantly shifted to the wheat field. Jiang Lin felt as if he saw a golden thread pulling away from the pumpkin field.
The originally smashed pumpkin field looked even more dull. She thought she was seeing things, but it seemed that a golden thread really came out just now.
"Did you see it?" she turned and asked Sheng Wei and the others.
Sheng Wei shook her head in confusion. She had no idea what Jiang Lin was talking about.
"It's okay, let's go towards the wheat field." Jiang Lin walked in front. The water curtain protection cover was not removed. She was not aware of the various attacks of these mutant plants, so it was better to be careful.
The wheat in the wheat field sparkled in the sunlight, with its pointed awns pointing towards the sky.
Shenmu looked at Jiang Lin who was walking over. The group of people were well protected by her giant water curtain. Shenmu originally wanted to launch a sneak attack, but now she had to give up this idea.
She was waiting for Jiang Lin to remove the water curtain, otherwise the people she was protecting would not be able to attack the mutant wheat through the water curtain.
But Jiang Lin did not play according to Shenmu's idea. Her ice blade formed near the wheat and chopped over at a high speed, cutting down a piece of it.
The sacred tree sensed something was wrong, but the second mutant property of the mutant wheat was that its originally soft branches could become abnormally hard.
Jiang Lin's ice skates seemed to hit something very hard, making a bang, and no matter how she operated them, the ice skates could not move forward.
And it shattered, as if it were cut by the wheat in reverse. Jiang Lin watched his ice knife disappear into the wheat field. It seemed that this mutant wheat had the property of becoming abnormally hard.
Jiang Lin pulled out the machete from her back. She wanted to test how hard this mutated wheat was.
The water curtain was still propped up beside everyone, and Jiang Lin walked out of the water curtain by herself. The next second, Shenmu seemed to have seized a great opportunity, and a blanket of wheat awns flew towards her.
Jiang Lin was a little disappointed, as she had thought there would be more novel ways of attack.
Before she could make a move, Wen Yan hurriedly walked out of the protection of the water curtain and set fire to all the dense wheat awns in the sky.
Perhaps because he was too anxious, the flames were a little too hot, making Jiang Lin's face feel hot. Ashes fell from the sky and covered the ground.
Jiang Lin walked towards the wheat and chopped it with the machete, making a ping-pong sound, but she was very strong and the quality of the machete was also good, so she chopped off a large piece of wheat.
After a while, she was sweating all over. This was the bad thing about the weather getting hotter. She didn't like the feeling of sweating.
"Why don't we just burn it down?" Wen Yan watched Jiang Lin happily chopping wheat under the sun, but he was still worried that she might be too tired.
When Shenmu heard this, she felt that there was no point in staying in the wheat field. Her mental power moved towards the rice field not far away. She remembered that Jiang Lin liked rice the most.
This time Jiang Lin was sure that he was not dazzled. There was indeed a golden silk thread flying away from the wheat field and into the rice field next to it.
She had an idea: she wanted to catch this golden thread. Her intuition told her that this golden thread was inextricably linked to the sacred tree, and it would be far more useful than fighting wits and courage with these mutant plants.
She threw the machete to Wen Yan: "You come to the next rice field." She wanted to ambush nearby and grab the golden thread.
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