Cut the grass at its roots
Jiang Lin closed his eyes, and the tragic scene of the earthquake emerged in his mind. If the sacred tree growing near the base could have been dealt with earlier, everyone would have been spared.
Her face was pale and her lips had lost their color.
"Jiang Lin?" Wen Yan touched her gently: "Are you okay?"
"It's okay. This time we have to eradicate it completely and never let it grow here." Jiang Lin's eyes became firm. She didn't want the tragedy of last time to happen again no matter what.
"Okay, I'll go with you." Wen Yan raised the corners of his lips and smiled faintly. He was actually nervous too, but he didn't want to show it and put more pressure on her.
In the darkness, the rapidly spinning ice blade cut through the air and flew straight towards the young trunk of the sacred tree.
Before she could react, a section of her tree was quickly cut off, leaving only a small stump: "How come you are here?" Shenmu's tone was a little panicked: "How come you are here?"
"You can be here, why can't I be here." Jiang Lin's figure slowly emerged in the darkness. She approached the sacred tree step by step, and the sacred tree felt a pressure that could not be ignored.
Shen Xu was shocked: "She can still speak?"
Before he could finish his shock, he saw the sacred tree that Jiang Lin had chopped down into a stump, rapidly sprouting branches and growing wildly. "You can't stop me."
It kept growing branches and ate any moss creatures it caught. These weak mutant plants became nutrients for its growth.
The sacred tree finally stopped growing until her size was like a tree that had been growing for decades.
Jiang Lin frowned. The growth rate of the sacred tree exceeded her expectations. She thought the sacred tree would remain in this state for a long time, but she didn't expect it to grow so fast.
"Don't let the people you are supposed to manage come out." Jiang Lin said quickly to Shen Xu.
Shen Xu immediately controlled the bracelet to lock the door to the accommodation area.
"Hmph, Jiang Lin is useless." Vines grew out like tentacles and bound the person closest to her. The person was instantly turned into a cicada pupa and fell to the tree.
Jiang Lin immediately used the flying ice knife to cut the vines. The man who was wrapped like a cicada pupa fell to the ground. The vines wrapped around him loosened, and his skin already had signs of ulceration.
"Do you need me to replace your body with one that will never rot? This way, you won't suffer any more and your body won't age. All I need to do is let these vines enter your body."
The voice of the sacred tree was full of temptation, guiding and coaxing the person who was shaking on the ground.
The man used his hands and feet to crawl towards Jiang Lin and the others. Qin Yun glanced at Chu Jinghan behind her. Years of tacit understanding allowed Chu Jinghan to know what she was thinking at a glance.
Vines sprouted from his hands and he pulled the person on the ground back.
The man survived the disaster and returned to the crowd, sitting on the ground and gasping for breath.
"Jiang Lin, why don't you want an immortal body? Look at Chen Guanghai and Li Qi, aren't they still alive and well? They are no different from humans."
Jiang Lin frowned in disgust: "Have you given them a choice? Chen Guanghai may have volunteered, but how many of your mutant army members volunteered to become mutants?"
"Have you asked them?"
Jiang Lin's words were particularly harsh in Shenmu's ears.
"A little human, are you worthy of my thinking? You are just a bunch of guys who can't do anything good but always make things worse." Shenmu got angry when she thought of this. Before she rushed to City B with all her strength, she clearly asked Chen Guanghai and others to pay attention to Jiang Lin's movements.
It turns out that Jiang Lin already has a base in City B, but they didn’t know about it. What a bunch of idiots.
Before Shenmu could finish his thoughts, Chen Guanghai's message arrived. He briefly said that Jiang Lin had disappeared from the seaside base, but no one knew where he had gone.
"Let me tell you where she ran to. She is in City B, right in front of me." Shenmu's message from a distance echoed in Chen Guanghai's mind.
His face looked very ugly. He originally thought that the mutant was killed by Jiang Lin, but he didn't expect that it was inexplicably knocked unconscious on the road.
If it weren't for the fact that the mutant's eyes were still confused, Chen Guanghai would have suspected that his brain had recovered and he was deliberately going against him.
Li Qi soon learned that Jiang Lin had gone to City B to confront Shenmu.
Qu Mo looked at her face carefully. He originally thought that Li Qi would be angry when she knew that Jiang Lin had gone to City B, but he didn't expect her to laugh.
"She is really capable." Li Qi said silently after laughing.
Jiang Lin had already taken action. She and Wen Yan used ice and fire respectively, which completely enraged the sacred tree. She began to concentrate her firepower on Jiang Lin and Wen Yan.
Just as the vine with poisonous thorns was about to brush Jiang Lin's face, an unfamiliar force wrapped around her waist and pulled her back, allowing her to avoid the attack.
Jiang Lin looked back and saw that it was Chu Jinghan who helped her.
Chu Jinghan saw Jiang Lin looking at him, smiled embarrassedly, and then threw himself into the battlefield, using his special abilities to help those who were about to be hurt by the sacred tree.
Jiang Lin was a little surprised. It was the first time she thought that the wood-type ability could be used in this way.
Especially the cooperation between him and Qin Yun. Neither of them has outstanding abilities, but their combined destructive power is quite great.
Qin Yun just needs to stay in attacking mode, and Chu Jinghan behind her keeps changing her position to help her find a good attacking point or avoid the attack.
As expected, those who have managed to survive the apocalypse have their own way of surviving. Their attack strategy was also developed under the pressure of the mutated moss creatures in City B.
However, due to the subsequent food shortage, Qin Yun could only maintain basic activities, so he had to give up.
Jiang Lin withdrew her gaze from them and threw herself into attacking the sacred tree. She felt that the sacred tree in City B looked very strong, but in reality it was far less powerful than the one in City A.
She calmed down and thought quickly. When she was in City A before, no matter how serious the physical damage Shenmu suffered, she would only feel angry, but she recovered quickly.
Only that time, when she had severed the sacred tree's spiritual threads, the tree remained silent for a long time. Perhaps the true way to destroy her was to attack it spiritually.
Jiang Lin found a slightly sheltered corner and signaled Wen Yan to cover her.
Wen Yan didn't know what she was going to do, but protecting Jiang Lin was his instinct. Under the cover of flames, Jiang Lin left the station without anyone noticing.
She carefully recalled the feelings from the previous times, and soon she felt the fluctuation of mental power again.
The system watched Jiang Lin trying to figure out how to launch a mental attack in the void, and couldn't help but sigh that the host it chose was truly a genius.
110 admired his own vision very much. He was able to accurately choose Jiang Lin from so many people. Maybe she could really end the chaos in this world.
Shenmu was bored as she resisted these insignificant attacks. These attacks could harm her physical body, but the impact was actually not significant. It was like an ant crawling on your body. You needed to keep flicking it off, but the damage caused was very limited.
Shenmu gradually relaxed his mental focus and even communicated with Chen Guanghai in City A. The reason Chen Guanghai gave was that the mutant he sent out had inexplicably fainted for several hours.
Shenmu found it unbelievable, but after investigating Chen Guanghai's mental strength, he discovered that he was not lying.
The mutant was still in an unconscious state, his entire brain was contaminated by spores, and he had no ability to think independently.
Shenmu checked one by one to find out why they fainted. Her mutant army must not have any terrible flaws.
Before she could find the reason, she felt a shock in her mental power, as if someone was attacking her spiritual world.
Shenmu's consciousness drifted back to City B, and she realized that Jiang Lin was missing from her attackers. She was sitting in a corner with her eyes tightly closed.
Jiang Lin actually used his mental power to attack it again.
The previous times she was mentally hurt by Jiang Lin, it was she who initiated it. She lured Jiang Lin into her spiritual sea of consciousness, causing her own spirit to be attacked.
But this time Jiang Lin actually took the initiative to attack.
The sacred tree was horrified, feeling like it had lost control, and panicked. Her panic exposed her weakness, and the flames released by Wen Yan began to burn at the roots.
Shen Xu got a bucket of gasoline from somewhere and poured it on the fire. The fire instantly grew stronger, and everyone was repelled by the sky-high heat wave.
Fortunately, Jiang Lin was able to spare some consciousness and built a row of ice walls before the fire got bigger, otherwise someone would have been burned.
Shen Xu touched his head. He seemed to have been a little too rash just now. He smelled a burnt smell and some ash-like things fell on his head.
He saw that his hair was burned by the flames that just appeared. This was the first time that Shen Xu looked so embarrassed.
The sacred tree was afraid that its spiritual sea of consciousness would be attacked, so it didn't want to stay here anymore and needed to recuperate.
The originally towering tree suddenly shrank, and its roots hidden in the ground retreated rapidly.
Jiang Lin opened her eyes. She had already felt that Shenmu had escaped. She didn't expect that she was really afraid of mental attacks.
But this also took a huge toll on Jiang Lin. She fell to the ground uncontrollably and was caught steadily by Wen Yan.
She looks very bad now, with a cold and pale face.
Wen Yan picked her up from the ground: "She seems to be gone."
"Yes, we escaped temporarily. We won a small victory."
After the flames burned out, Shen Xu looked at the spot where the tree had grown. Nothing was left, not even a pit. "Did we burn it to death?"
"No, it just escaped temporarily. From what I know about it, it will come back." Jiang Lin looked at the place where Shenmu had stayed.
After using her mental power to investigate and confirming that Shenmu had indeed left City B, she finally relaxed. The feeling of having a knife hanging over her head was really unpleasant.
But now she has discovered a more effective way to attack the sacred tree.
Shen Xu sat on the ground exhausted. The land was a hundred times more dangerous than he had imagined, and the seabed was no longer as safe as before.
He was a little confused, but this was fatal for a leader. He had to hide his emotions, otherwise everyone would lose their fighting spirit before they were destroyed by the mutated plants.
He took a deep breath. Perhaps staying in the underwater base and dying after the equipment was damaged would not be such a terrible thing. He somewhat understood Shen Wei's reluctance to come up.
Living on land is a very difficult thing.
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