Chapter 615: Plants Following
"Is this thing really coming for us?" Zhou He saw that the other party had indeed changed direction, so he turned around and wanted to escape.
Then Taotao was heard pulling at Zhuang Mingxu's thigh, trying to get out of the half-person-high pit, "It's been following us."
Zhou He turned his head and looked at Tao Tao, "How did you know?"
Taotao pointed puzzledly to the back of the underground passage they had opened up. On the wall there, one could see a plant root as thick as a finger, lying there motionless, no different from an ordinary plant.
"We saw a lot of this thing along the way. It must be a plant that grows luxuriantly in this area." They were in a hurry to leave, and since it wasn't aggressive, they didn't pay too much attention to it.
After Qu Zhu finished explaining, he tried to understand what Tao Tao had just said, and slowly turned his attention back to the thing, "You're not saying... this is..."
He pointed at the mutant plant outside that was almost approaching, "It...it..."
"Yes, it followed us all the way." Taotao looked as if she thought everyone knew it, and asked in surprise, "Don't you want to find it? Don't you know it?"
They were looking for him to contract him for their own use, but being followed quietly like this was a completely different thing.
This made everyone in the team alert, and Qu Zhu looked at this section of the root system with a wary look.
Everyone present was an A-level or above psychic who could follow them at full speed, so the possibility of getting rid of them was zero. Zhou He waved his hand and asked everyone to prepare for a possible battle at any time.
Zhuang Mingxu looked at Taotao, "What does it want to do?"
"It..." Taotao thought about it seriously, "It wants to follow us."
"Follow us?" No one understood what he meant, but Taotao giggled and said to Zhuang Mingxu, "It must be because Taotao is too cute."
The corner of Zhuang Mingxu's mouth twitched, and he glanced at the group of gentlemen who praised him to the sky all day long. Several of them looked a little embarrassed, but this was not the time to care about this.
"Does it want to attack us?" Zhuang Mingxu asked again.
"No," Taotao was surprised, "it is..."
"Want to follow us."
As they were talking, the mutated plants outside were already approaching, and along with them were the zombies following behind them.
At this time, the team members' supernatural powers were seriously depleted. Zhou He held the energy detector and kept adjusting the values. The corners of his mouth twitched, "...a lot...a lot of A-level."
Even without high-level ones, the sheer number of them would be enough to kill them.
Zhuang Mingxu tried to remain calm and said to Zhou He, "Let the earth-type mutants get ready, we can leave at any time."
He looked at Taotao, "Why does it want to follow us? What is its purpose in following us?"
Taotao frowned, "Dad, what is the purpose?"
This is the disadvantage of putting the focus on children, making it difficult to communicate at critical moments.
Fortunately, Zhuang Mingxu had been prepared and changed the question, "Ask it what it wants to do by following us?"
Qu Zhu felt that the two of them were wasting time and that he had some kind of relationship with this mutant orchid, so he immediately reached out to touch the roots growing on the wall. However, unlike yesterday, this time his hand had not yet completely covered the wall when it was suddenly hit by the roots and moved a little further away from him.
And Qu Zhu's expression became embarrassed.
"What's wrong?" someone asked Qu Zhu.
Qu Zhu said nothing, and the wood-type mutant next to him explained, "It releases a message of disgust."
Because their level is too low, they can only judge the simple meaning from the information emitted by the plants. Qu Zhu gave a somewhat confusing explanation, "It said it doesn't like me."
"We had a good cooperation before. I said goodbye to it when I left, and it even gave me a beautiful flower," Qu Zhu muttered in a low voice.
Seeing that his communication was fruitless, everyone could only turn their attention back to Taotao. Taotao jumped out of the pit where she had been hiding and wanted to go in the direction of the mutant plants, but was stopped by Zhuang Mingxu, "Don't go over there, just communicate like this."
"Okay." Taotao hugged Zhuang Mingxu's neck and looked at the mutated plant silently. The man and the plant confronted each other silently at a distance of hundreds of meters. The other party showed no signs of attacking and even used branches to block the zombies that followed.
"It said there was a fireball burning it, and it wanted to eat it..."
"It...changed many homes...and ran for a long time..."
"It's scared...it wants to follow us out of here."
From his vague description, Zhuang Mingxu roughly understood that the other party was probably being chased by something. Combined with the mutant green peacock and the giant mutant snake he had seen before, he had a rough guess in his mind.
Looking at the other side again, it was discovered that its huge root system was scattered everywhere, twisting and whipping the zombies behind it from time to time. The not-so-lush green stems and leaves had signs of burning, and there were even traces of corrosion by something on them. From the perspective of the mutant plant, it was actually a bit embarrassing.
"Tell it to wait, we'll discuss it." Zhuang Mingxu gave Zhou He a look, indicating him to go back underground and talk. He turned around and saw the zombies blocked behind him. His eyebrows twitched, and he whispered something in Taotao's ear.
"That's all money. You can save it and buy a gift for your brother when you go back."
Taotao's originally uninterested look suddenly disappeared, and she said energetically, "I'll buy one for my dad too."
"Hey, Dad is waiting for your surprise."
"Yeah," Taotao responded, and with a jump he jumped out of a hole that was higher than him. His movements were so fast that the people watching were amazed.
Seeing him running towards the mutant plants, Zhou He asked, "Is it okay?"
Zhuang Mingxu shook his head. The kid had no problem escaping, but he didn't have enough energy. "Baby, don't do it yourself."
"Taotao knows," a babyish voice was heard. Zhuang Mingxu asked Yun Bai to keep an eye on the movement over there, and he and Zhou He went underground.
After signaling the psychics to put up a barrier, Zhuang Mingxu told a few people his judgment.
"This is a good thing. We got a mutant plant for no reason. Isn't this the purpose of our trip this time?" Qu Zhu excitedly.
Zhou He shook his head, "If it is being chased, it proves that its power has been targeted. If we take it away, will our base be put into crisis?"
After all, the mutated animals they had seen before were not something they could afford to provoke.
"..." These words calmed Qu Zhu down. After thinking for a few breaths, everyone looked at Zhuang Mingxu at the same time, wanting to hear his opinion.
"I think it's better to take it away," Zhuang Mingxu said, "First of all, since it can follow us for hundreds of kilometers, it proves that the other party has been targeting us. It is almost impossible for us to avoid it. Instead of letting it follow quietly, it is better to directly grasp its whereabouts."
"Secondly," he looked at Zhou He, "our base does need mutant plant protection."
"Finally..." Zhuang Mingxu touched his chin without saying anything, and saw a small figure jumping down from the opened cave. He grabbed a handful of crystal cores in both hands and handed them to Zhuang Mingxu, while taking out the ones in the space.
In an instant, a small hill had piled up in front of them. The colorful colors made the surrounding psychics' eyes red - they had not absorbed any crystal cores since they entered the underground.
Zhou He looked over in surprise, and heard Yun Bai, who followed Tao Tao, looking at Tao Tao in a speechless manner and explaining, "It was given to him by the mutant plant. It killed all the zombies that followed him."
"All... all killed?" Someone was incredulous and immediately went forward to check. Then he looked down at his teammate holding the energy detector with a stunned look on his face, "What level is that thing?"
"The energy detector is only set up to detect three types of zombies, mutants, and mutated animals. The three types of creatures have different energy levels. If calculated according to the human level, it is SS level. If calculated according to mutant animals or zombies, it is between S and SS."
"So what level is it?"
"A level we can't afford to offend!" Zhou He concluded, and turned to look at Zhuang Mingxu, "Can make..." He looked at Taotao who was fiddling with the crystal core with her head down.
"Baby, go ask the mutant orchid to get some more. There are too few of them. I'm afraid they can't buy a small cake." Zhuang Mingxu lied with his eyes open, but Taotao believed him without a doubt. She trotted away with her fists clenched and high morale.
He then shook his head at Zhou He and said, "His condition is related to Xiaoyi's health. Once something goes wrong, it will be very troublesome. It is best not to let him take action unless it is absolutely necessary."
"Like this..." Zhou He did not force it. He lowered his eyes and thought.
Then I heard Zhuang Mingxu continue, "We already have a mutant plant. If the energy of the plant can really attract the other party, it will be our turn sooner or later." So adding one more plant will make no difference.
and……
Zhuang Mingxu looked at the zombie crystal core at his feet and felt that he seemed to have thought of a way to generate income.
They can't get rid of it, they can't hide from it, they have no choice at all.
Zhou He had no choice but to nod and look at Qu Zhu, "Go and try to contract it."
"Yes." Qu Zhu stood up straight and saluted with a happy look on his face. "I guarantee to complete the task."
He trotted up, but Zhuang Mingxu was not optimistic and said to the other three wood-type ability users who followed him, "You guys go up and take a look too."
Four people went up, and Zhuang Mingxu handed the crystal core on the ground directly to Zhou He, "There is no way to purify it now, let the brothers absorb it like this to temporarily replenish their superpowers, so as to avoid any unexpected situations that they cannot deal with."
"Okay, I'll have them hunt them down and bring them back later." Zhou He quickly had people sort out the crystal cores, and looked at the nearby cave entrance like a thief, "Will Taotao cry when she sees this?"
It's quite a headache when children become unreasonable.
Zhuang Mingxu said shamelessly with a righteous face, "Then don't let him know."
"What if this happens?"
"Then I can only say that you snatched it away," Zhuang Mingxu spread his hands, "After all, in our family, both father and brother need protection."
"Does the captain know that you are such a bitch?"
"You can go and complain to him."
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