"That branch has barbs on it, so it's impossible to pull it off."
Shi Jin used her ability but to no avail. Even if she slowed down the flow of time, she couldn't remove the thorns from Wang Xiao's body.
After thinking about it, Shi Jin came up with a good idea:
"Let's cut off another piece of Wang Xiao. He should still be able to survive."
The other three were a little surprised to hear such outrageous remarks, but no one refuted it immediately. They seemed to start thinking about the feasibility of this plan.
After all, a good death is worse than a miserable life, and Wang Xiao’s abilities must not be obtained by those terrible plants.
They only hope that the analysis of the ability will start from the brain, so that the remaining half of Wang Xiao's body will not become the target of analysis.
At this time, the surrounding branches had gathered together again, and would soon force the few people into the cage again. But this time, they did not have Wang Xiao, energy batteries, or flares.
Just when they were planning to turn Wang Xiao from half to a quarter for easier carrying and running, they suddenly felt dizzy and had a strong sense of weightlessness.
The bodies of five people, or rather four and a half people, actually slightly lifted off the ground and began to rise slowly but steadily.
At the same time, all the surrounding plants and their branches seemed to be clamped by some force. The branches began to shake to avoid that force, but there was nothing they could do.
This ability, this method of manipulation, was quite familiar to everyone present except Shi Jin.
The few of them continued to rise to a height of about one meter from the ground. In a trance, a voice sounded in their ears:
"run!"
"Swish!" Several people were thrown out by an invisible force.
They were very familiar with this ability, it was the power of mind, and the power just now was undoubtedly helping them escape from trouble.
Fresnel turned his head and glanced at the puppeteer, the confusion in his eyes was so thick that it could not be dispelled.
"I roughly know. I'll report to you later."
Several people landed in a parabolic trajectory, about twenty meters away from the branches.
Afterwards, the ability to "think" and the sound disappeared out of thin air, and there was no longer the feeling of being controlled by an invisible force.
After the fall, Fresnel and the others got up from the ground, checked each other and soon found a small problem -
Wang Xiao is gone...
Where are my teammates?!
Several people immediately looked in the direction they came from. Perhaps it was because "Nian" had no spare strength to pull out the thorn after activating its ability, which resulted in Wang Xiao, who was supposed to fly over with them, being hung on the thorn.
And now, more and more branches broke free from the restraints and began to gather towards where Wang Xiao was, like moths trying to get closer to the light source.
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"Wow, you want to graduate after writing this kind of structure? When I think about the fact that you are the one treating patients in the future, I want to die immediately."
“…”
"I'm on duty these two days. Let's relax together the day after tomorrow. You're graduating soon, so it's rare for you to have a day off."
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"My package is very cheap. You can't lose money or get cheated with 2,000 information coins."
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"Thank you so much, buddy. If you hadn't pulled me back from the front yesterday, I would have lost more than one leg."
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"Tell me, are you willing to sacrifice everything for Hope City?"
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Memories of the past flashed back in Wang Xiao's mind.
He could actually hear everything that was happening outside and could roughly feel it.
But after confirming that all teammates were alive, an almost irresistible feeling of fatigue suddenly surged over the body.
At this moment, Wang Xiao was like a vegetative person in the traditional sense. He could hear, feel, and think, but he could not truly wake up.
His ability seemed to have reached its limit, his ability seemed dissatisfied with what he had done, and his ability seemed to resist endless use.
How could that be?
In that strange dream, it was because of his determination to cut off his own flesh that he finally gained this powerful ability.
Was his choice wrong?
Is there no meaning to what he does?
The branches around him were getting tighter and tighter, and Wang Xiao felt that if this continued he would wake up in extreme oppression and pain.
But in such a situation, even if I woke up, it would be meaningless.
And if you can't come to terms with the abilities within your body that have almost reached their limits, everything that comes after that will be just empty talk.
What does the [Flesh and Blood] Path represent? Is it nearly infinite recovery power? Or is it the power to break through human limits? Or is it infinite life?
Dedication in the dream, betrayal outside the dream, differences in ability, and a nearly desperate situation.
In the middle of the layers of thorns, Wang Xiao, whose life was slipping away, opened his eyes.
He understood the core of the [Flesh and Blood] path.
This is a selfish path, and all of its branching capabilities exist to strengthen itself.
Everything needed to exert these abilities must be plundered from the outside world. Plundering provides flesh and blood, and the strengthening of flesh and blood brings about more powerful plundering.
In the past it was through food, but now it will be more direct.
Everything is for strength, everything is for oneself.
As for the so-called dedication, it would be more appropriate to describe it as alms rather than dedication.
Wang Xiao realized the absurdity of his past, and at the same time, he once again remembered Lin Qingliu's advice during psychological counseling.
Whether it is dedication or charity, it is a subjective behavior. If you want to avoid being controlled, you must be strong. If you want to become strong, start plundering from this moment.
Wang Xiao, [Flesh and Blood] path, the third energy level ability - [Absorption].
In the cage made of branches, Wang Xiao suddenly opened his mouth wide and bit a branch on one side, and began to suck the juice in it, which was not sure whether it was harmful or not.
Just like the mutual devouring with the meat ball a few months ago, Wang Xiao recognized the nature of his ability and what he should do.
The illusory life force began to be continuously injected into Wang Xiao's body. The thorns and branches wrapped around his body began to turn gray and quickly entered a state of collapse.
Those branches that were full of vitality the moment before became like burnt charcoal the next second, turning into ashes at the slightest touch.
At this moment, the speed at which he absorbed vitality was several times or even dozens of times faster than the other team's extraction.
The branches did not retreat because of the withering of the inner layer, but instead increased their entanglement. However, Wang Xiao's body seemed to be able to contain a vortex of infinite vitality, constantly attracting the surrounding power, turning all the branches that approached into dry ashes.
As the branches withered, Wang Xiao's body recovered little by little. The life and death of the two was a plunder of life.
In the huge cage of branches, countless "moths" are continuously "flying into the fire".
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