Magical Creatures
"Crunch, crunch." She stepped on the warped wooden floor, making a harsh sound. The sunlight outside shone in through the window, and she could clearly see the stirred dust.
She used to be very familiar with this place, but now it feels a little strange.
There was a small round circle of light where she had fallen in the living room. Jiang Lin walked over curiously.
It turned out to be an unfamiliar green sprout that was glowing.
"110, did you make this?" This little bud made her feel inexplicably comfortable. It did not have the oppressive and evil feeling of the sacred tree, but a very warm power.
"Uh, not really." The system spoke.
"Why is that?" Jiang Lin continued to ask, but 110 remained silent.
She circled around the bud a few times. This was the place where she was on the verge of death and bound to the system.
Jiang Lin stretched out his hand tentatively, but before he could touch the small bud, it was blocked by the aperture. No matter how he stretched forward, he could not touch the tender bud in the center.
"Does Shenmu know about this thing?"
"It probably doesn't know, but maybe it will know later." 110's words were vague. In fact, it wasn't very sure either, so it was better to speak less to avoid misleading Jiang Lin.
Jiang Lin observed for a while. There was no rain or soil here, but the little sprout grew exceptionally well.
"You asked me to come here just to see this."
"Um."
"Now that we've finished looking at it, let's go." Jiang Lin stood up from the ground. She had no idea what to do with this little sprout.
"Come back next week."
During this period, she will probably have to travel frequently between City A and City B, so she can take the opportunity to observe the growth of this seedling.
Walking out of the old house, the outside was back to the dilapidated and desolate scene, and the only remaining warmth was locked in the old house with the door.
She drove towards the seaside base.
Jiang Lin and his team made quite a bit of noise while moving supplies, but Shenmu didn't have time to pay attention to them now. Since yesterday, Shenmu had been feeling a vague threat.
This feeling was different from Jiang Lin's sharpness, but Shenmu felt like he was naturally going to be suppressed by it, which made him feel particularly uncomfortable.
"Chen Guanghai, come here." She called her subordinate in her mind.
Soon Chen Guanghai entered the area covered by the huge tree canopy: "How can I help you?"
"Has City A seen anything else lately?"
"Are you talking about Jiang Lin? They seem to have returned to the seaside base. Are they going to cause trouble for her?"
"It's not her, it's something else, something I've never seen before, maybe a plant."
Shenmu's words left Chen Guanghai baffled. Unexpected plants? He had never seen any of the mutant plants in City A before.
"It's a plant species that has never appeared on this planet." Shenmu explained to him helplessly.
Chen Guanghai shook his head. He rarely even left his office.
"Then go find it. Search the entire City A until you find that thing." Shenmu's voice changed from calm to angry. Even though they had never met, she already felt threatened, which made her, who was always proud, very agitated.
"Yes, I'll leave right away." Chen Guanghai walked out of the giant tree canopy. Since the failure of expansion in City B, Shenmu's mood has been unstable.
It was impossible to search blindly in such a big city like A, so he searched around and made some modifications, and finally made a plant search machine.
Fortunately, the distribution of plants in City A is very uneven, and they are almost all gathered together. There are a total of 13 gathering points, so they can only be checked one by one.
Chen Guanghai sighed and looked at the scorching sun outside. He missed Li Qi a little. In the past, at least there was a Li Qi who could share some of the burden.
Now that Li Qi had been driven away by Shenmu, the remaining sane people were all stuck in the research institute, unwilling to do anything else. If they were forced to do anything, they would act like they were dying.
Chen Guanghai got a headache just thinking about it. He took his mutant bodyguards and quietly left the southern base.
The first place to be investigated was the First Base. Chen Guanghai was highly suspicious of this place. After all, a monster like Jiang Lin had appeared here, so the degree of suspicion might be very high.
The original First Base had now completely become the territory of mutant plants. Chen Guanghai moved the dense vegetation aside with a headache and walked into the First Base.
The instrument quickly detected the species of surrounding plants, most of which were common.
He frowned and slowly walked through the entire First Base, but found nothing. The mutants who had been sent out also returned to his side.
Chen Guanghai sat on a rock and crossed out the location of the first base. There were still twelve places left to explore, and he was already feeling exhausted.
After handing the instrument to the mutant he trusted most, Chen Guanghai drove back to the southern base alone. Going out was not suitable for him.
The entire southern base was quiet, a low atmosphere permeating the air. Chen Guanghai returned to his office like a wandering soul and lay down on the hammock.
My body clearly no longer feels tired, but for some reason I still feel exhausted.
When Jiang Lin returned to the seaside base, Wen Yan and others were moving supplies dropped from the bottom of the sea. The dozens of vehicles that drove over were half full, but things from below continued to come up.
"It's been a long time since we've seen such abundant supplies." Jiang Lin looked at the equipment and food all over the ground.
Wen Yan heard the familiar voice and took off the canned food box from his shoulder: "Indeed, the things on the seabed should be enough for us to use for at least a few decades."
"Storage is still a big problem." Jiang Lin looked at the full fleet.
"I asked Shen Xu. Base A and Base B have well-built underground storage warehouses. If there's no space, we can pile them up in the aisles. The temperature and humidity inside are perfect for storing things."
"I kind of miss the robots we had before. Human transportation is too slow." Jiang Lin has never enjoyed the use of advanced intelligent robots because she couldn't afford them before, and the First Base didn't seem to use robots much.
"Indeed, but all the robots in the First Base were destroyed for some reason. Base A should have preserved some. You can go back and ask Shen Xu."
"We just need the most basic handling robots."
Jiang Lin was a little curious. She had never used robots on a large scale. If Base A still had usable transport robots, it could reduce a lot of manpower.
Shen Xu quickly gave a reply. Base A and Base B did have a batch of transport robots, but the advanced "Homo sapiens" had all been destroyed.
Jiang Lin felt a little regretful that she had not yet experienced the robots called "Homo sapiens".
Chen Xu closed the chat interface. Not long after coming up from the bottom of the sea, he had to go down again, not only to persuade his stubborn sister to come up.
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The affairs of Base B were temporarily handed over to other members of the decision-making group. Fortunately, Shenmu had previously parasitized and killed most of the moss creatures, and the probability of Base B's survival was greatly increased. It was a blessing in disguise.
As the submarine descended, Shen Xu discovered something different again. The sea water became darker and there were fewer creatures swimming in it.
I don’t know whether it hid or disappeared, but either way it seems very weird.
Sailing through the dark sea, there is a feeling that there is no end in sight.
"I don't want to go up!" Shen Wei resisted unexpectedly.
"You will die if you stay down there." Shen Xu looked at the increasingly dark sea water outside the glass window.
"Haven't you noticed the changes in the sea water?"
Shen Wei was silent. She said that she didn't find it false at all, but the trauma left by the zombie outbreak was too great. When she thought of the scene at that time, she trembled all over and wanted to vomit.
"If you still can't adapt, death is waiting for you." Shen Xu said calmly. His days on land made him realize the end of the world more deeply.
People who are always immersed in fear cannot survive and must move forward.
The barren hills of City A.
Li Qi's side was surprisingly smooth. She and Qu Mo successfully found a water source, and there was suitable soil and mutant plants around.
Because she was a mutant, the mutant plants did not attack her, and Li Qi was surprised to find that she seemed to be able to feel the emotions of these plants.
"Did you hear any sound?" She turned her head and looked at Qu Mo beside her.
Qu Mo shook his head and looked around nervously and fearfully: "Could there be a ghost here?"
They stayed at the entrance of the cave. The cool air inside and the sight of no one around made Qu Mo pale and he leaned towards Li Qi.
"I'm so thirsty, I'm so thirsty." The voice continued.
Li Qi poked Qu Mo, scaring him so much that he almost jumped up.
"There's no ghost, and the voice doesn't sound like a human voice." She stood up and looked around.
"Are you hallucinating?" Qu Mo became more and more scared the more he thought about it.
Li Qi stopped in front of a plant growing in the crevice of a rock. Her face looked strange because she suspected that the sound she heard was made by this plant.
She used her water ability to water the grass.
"Water, I drink, lots of water." The voice sounded again. Li Qi was almost certain that she heard the voice of the plant?
"I seem to be able to hear the plants talking," she said calmly.
Xiaocao: “!!!”
Qu Mo: “???”
"It just said it was very thirsty." Li Qi pointed to the grass in the crack of the stone.
"Then I gave it some water and it was full."
Qu Mo looked at Li Qi in shock: "You have super powers." He looked around Li Qi carefully, but there was no change. How could he suddenly hear the plants talking?
The grass next to it trembled, trying to shrink back into the crevice of the rock so as not to attract Li Qi's attention.
In order to confirm his guess, Li Qi walked towards the mutated plants.
"It hurts so much, she stepped on me."
"Don't push me."
"What is she doing?"
“…”
Listening to the voices around her, Li Qi thought that she was either crazy, or she could really hear the plants talking, or she suddenly understood the way plants conveyed messages.
At night, the two of them slept at the outermost part of the cave, which could shelter them from the scorching sun and wind and sand in summer, but it was a little cold at night.
They got some hay and spread it on the ground. Li Qi was very sleepy but couldn't fall asleep on the soft hay. There were chirping sounds all around him.
"Quiet! I'll pull you all out if you keep talking." She roared, and the world finally returned to its normal state.
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