Chapter 223: Meeting Li Qing Again
After a day's rest, I feel full of energy.
With the help of S-level, the group decided to meet the mutated plants again. If they couldn't use them for their own purposes, they could still capture them. The mutated plant crystal cores were just naked supplies.
"Has anyone seen clearly what kind of plant that is?" Ning Yuan marked the places they had visited before on the map and estimated the possible range.
"It looks like a peony," said Zhuang Mingxu. He was in the carriage, with the small window facing downwards, and he did not participate in the battle. It was more intuitive that "the inside of the peony bud...is similar to a Venus flytrap."
"Yes, it's that thing, and it moves." Xu Sa, who had close contact with it, was still frightened. He gestured, "It was so close to me, like it had an open mouth. I saw the blood and flesh inside and smelled the stench."
"The leaves can hug people, they are very strong," Bai Miao suddenly said, and when he saw everyone looking at him, he scratched the back of his head and said embarrassedly, "It hugged me, just like a cloth wrapped around the body, and I... seemed to emit some energy unconsciously, and then I let go inexplicably."
"How is it emitted? What kind of energy?" Ning Yuan asked.
"Plant-related abilities help plants grow. Unless they are abnormally violent, they will rarely be attacked." Lu Weiyi took the initiative to explain when Bai Miao didn't know how to answer.
"You can try to use your ability to emit a soothing scent, which may help calm the mutated plants." Lu Weiyi realized the situation and looked at several plant-based ability users in the team.
"I can," Gu Qingji took the initiative to say. He had a mutant plant that could often help him practice.
"I'll teach you later," he took the initiative to say to the other two.
"Can you find the crystal core of the mutated plant?" Lu Weiyi looked at the two of them again.
"Brother Qingji said that he hasn't tried it specifically," Bai Miao said, and Li Dongsheng nodded.
"You are responsible." This is the most basic ability of a plant-type mutant, but their team is more mixed and more attention is paid to the battle. Lu Weiyi looked at Gu Qingji.
Gu Qingji nodded.
"It's half a leg high, can move, its leaves can wrap around people, its flower buds can eat people, and its area is not yet determined." Ning Yuan summarized and looked at the people around him, wondering if there was anything he had missed.
"This time the captain will serve as the rear support, and the rest of us will gain experience in fighting mutant plants." Lu Weiyi's ability allows them to go straight to the final boss as if they were cheating, which can easily make people dependent on him. After discussing it, Ning Yuan and Li Zhuang decided to add another experience.
"First of all, we need to find out the range of the crystal core. You three are responsible for it." Ning Yuan looked at the three wood-type ability users, "The tentative operation is that the earth-type ability users will loosen the soil, the wood-type ability users will gather the mutated plants after the roots have been loosened, the water-type ability users will assist, and the fire-type ability users will concentrate on burning and move towards the taproot until the taproot is resolved."
After Ning Yuan finished speaking, he divided the team members into small groups and carefully confirmed the range of each person's abilities to ensure maximum cooperation efficiency.
Lu Weiyi, who was doing nothing, was sitting a little further back. When he saw this scene, his eyes suddenly lit up.
He seems to be able to be a salty fish again.
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The car drove for a long time without seeing any trace of mutant plants. If there weren't still corpses of zombies around, they might have thought they had taken the wrong path.
"It was here yesterday. Wasn't that caused by the fire of the little stutterer?" Xu Sa said, pointing to the land that had been burned.
Wu Yue pointed to the newly turned soil that was not yet dry and said, "It's not long since I left."
Gu Qingji felt it and pointed to the east and said, "Over there, I feel the excited breath of mutant plants."
The village road winds along the mountain range, and you have to go around halfway up the mountain to see what's on the other side.
"Let's go take a look? It's just on our way," Ning Yuan asked Lu Weiyi.
Before Lu Weiyi could speak, continuous gunshots were heard from the east.
It was obvious that he had been fighting with someone, so whether to save him or not was a question. In the past, he might have been considered a possible target for the crystal core.
"Let's go and check out the strength of the team here and ask about the situation of the surrounding bases," Zhuang Mingxu reminded.
The car drove quickly in the direction where the sound came from.
"Wow, this is a battle between humans and tentacles," Xu Sa, who was on the roof of the carriage, looked over with a telescope and reported in real time, "It seems like there are thousands of people, but not many people with special powers."
"Most of them are tied up as ordinary people. There's no suspense about the outcome. Tsk tsk tsk... Hey, there's a fire-type that's pretty good..."
"Hey, there's another thunder type." Xu Sa's interested voice just fell, and then he heard him say seriously, "It seems to be Lei Zi, and... Li Qing!"
As soon as he finished speaking, the car suddenly turned a wide bend, and Lin Yimu's voice in the driver's seat asked loudly, "Who are you talking about?"
"It's Li Qing, fire type, that's right," Xu Sa repeated and called out to Lu Weiyi.
Lu Weiyi had already come out of the car, jumped onto the roof, took the telescope he handed over and looked through it.
It really is...
"Aren't they in Qingyuan? How come they appear here?" Lu Weiyi muttered in a low voice.
"Master, something must have happened in Qingyuan. I told Li Qing that our destination" could only be Yueban Bay.
Without saying anything, Lin Yimu drove his car quickly towards the other party.
The range of the mutated plants is not large, and most of their roots and leaves are used to attack Li Qing and others.
After passing the road around the river village, there is a flat wilderness.
Green plants half a leg high were everywhere, and leaves of varying sizes were constantly moving, wrapping up the people around them. They were then pulled and tugged by the people around them, and the pink flower buds were stained with blood, turning completely bright red.
The sound of gunfire was accompanied by angry shouts. No one could retreat, and there was no way to retreat.
"Yes...it's Ning Yuan!"
"Captain, it's Ning Yuan and the others."
“We are saved”
"team leader……"
Lei Jun looked at the cars approaching quickly and shouted to the people around him who were at the end of their strength, "Everyone hold on a little longer, the rescue is here, hold on a little longer."
Lin Yimu drove the car directly into the mutated plants. With Lu Weiyi's mental barrier, it was as if they were in an empty space.
The invisible mental blade drew a circle along the crowd, cutting the mutant plants from their main roots. Before they could continue to connect, the mental barrier covered everyone.
The mutated plants that could not obtain the energy from the taproot became like ordinary plants and were easily dealt with by the group of people. They looked at each other, still in a trance.
The group of people were dressed in rags, so thin that they looked like humans, and had all kinds of injuries on their bodies. They were even worse than the people in the refugee area.
The small green branches entangled and threw all the broken mutant plants aside. Liu Rui set fire to them and destroyed them all.
"Go ahead," Lu Weiyi said to Ning Yuan.
Ning Yuan waved his hand, and according to the previous grouping, the group quickly headed towards the mutated plants outside the mental barrier.
"Dean?" Lu Weiyi called out to Dean who was taking care of Antonio who had lost too much blood, "Get to work!"
"Okay," Dean responded loudly, kissed Antonio, and trotted out.
Lu Xi, who was sitting in the passenger seat, moved to the driving seat, and Lin Yimu got out of the car and went straight to Li Qing, who was slumped on the ground.
After several months, Li Qing looked very old, with scars on his face that had not yet healed and a finger-long scar on his chin. He had not yet recovered from the predicament of certain death.
Seeing Lin Yimu appear in front of him, his lips trembled for a long time and tears came out first. "Captain," he said in a hoarse voice, as if it had been rubbed with sand, "My father is gone."
Lin Yimu froze, then Li Qing picked him up from the ground and hugged him. Li Qing grabbed Lin Yimu's clothes tightly and burst into tears.
There were intermittent cries all around. Lei Jun wiped his face, thanked Lu Weiyi who was standing on the roof of the car, then turned around and led his men to count the injured and sacrificed people.
Dean followed behind him, occasionally using his special powers to save the seriously injured man's life.
In the distance, Gu Qingji had already determined the range of the mutant plant's root system. Ning Yuan led his men step by step towards the main root. With the coordination of various superpowers, occasional mistakes were quickly made up by the auxiliary personnel.
The mutated plants that hundreds of people had been helpless about came into their hands, and they did it with ease as if it was just a formality, which made the other people present envious, making them look even more useless.
"Young Master Lu, do you have any medicine? Can I borrow some?" Behind Lei Jun followed a familiar military doctor, Sun Cheng, who was in a dishevel at the moment.
Lu Weiyi waved his hand and put down two rows of shelves of trauma medicines, his eyes still fixed on his teammates.
"Thank you very much. We... will return it." Lei Jun bowed and asked Sun Cheng to find the necessary medicine.
More than twenty minutes later, Ning Yuan and his men returned satisfied, holding a beautiful crystal core in his hand and handing it to Lu Weiyi, saying cryptically, "It won't obey."
It means that it cannot be conquered.
Lu Weiyi nodded, removed his mental barrier, and looked at the people busy on the plain in the distance.
"I'll ask them to clean up and see if there's anything edible." The last time Lu Weiyi saw the abnormal ivy, he almost dug up the surrounding land. This time, the team members had no intention of letting it go.
Ning Yuan finished speaking, looked around at the people sitting there, and walked towards Zhang Peng, who was familiar with him, "Brother, aren't you building a base in Qingyuan? Why are you here?"
"Qingyuan base... was attacked," said Zhang Peng.
After Lu Weiyi and his group left, Qingyuan entered into intensive reconstruction. The forces of all parties were reshuffled. Minor frictions continued but there were no major conflicts until a sudden illness occurred.
“Without any signs, plant-like growths inexplicably began to grow on the person’s body, like coral nodes, growing out of the skin in clusters,” Zhang Peng said with a sad look on his face. “It gradually became extremely painful, until the person died of the pain. After death... those things kept growing.” The man who was not afraid of blood and tears shuddered, and no more sound came out of his mouth.
Lu Nanyi wanted to urge him, but Zhuang Mingxu held his hand and stopped him.
Li Qing, who had calmed down, continued, "When everything inside the body turns into plants, the body will explode, and any living thing it touches during the explosion will experience a new round of growth."
There was no time to investigate the source. The entire base was shrouded in an atmosphere of terror. No solution could be found, and all kinds of rumors emerged in the base. Some people even began to believe in the so-called curse.
Under the guidance of several forces for various purposes, the army that first showed symptoms became the target of everyone.
"They say that the end of the world is because the gods are dissatisfied with the state power, and we are the running dogs of the state, and these are all punishments..." Lei Jun said this with tears on his face, but he couldn't help laughing.
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