Chapter 611: Unable to Contract
When Taotao heard Zhuang Mingxu's words, she immediately stretched out the small green branch, but the wind was too fast and the small green branch was blown into one and entangled with the branches on the ground.
The same thing happened after trying twice. Taotao looked at Zhuang Mingxu with grievance.
"Let's lie down and you crawl out from underground," said Zhuang Mingxu, and he fell down first. The small green branches tied around his body cushioned him and he didn't fall at all.
Following Zhuang Mingxu's instructions, Taotao extended the small green branch out from underground and tied up the team members in her sight one by one.
With this connection, an earth-type mutant immediately opened up a small space underground and pulled a group of people down.
"How is everyone? Is anyone injured?" The moment Zhuang Mingxu appeared underground, he was the first to light a few torches and distributed them to several people outside to guard against possible attacks from the mutant plant roots.
"I'm fine. Is anyone injured?" Zhou He moved his arms and looked around, quickly determining that more than a dozen people were missing.
"It's nothing." Qu Zhu saw that most of the injuries were just scratches or collisions, and after checking, he thought they were not a big deal, so he answered for everyone.
"The person who was just captured by the mutant plants..." He moved faster and pulled the one who was close to him out alive. He looked at the other wood-type mutants and asked.
Several people looked at each other and shook their heads. At this moment, an earth-type ability user hesitated and said, "I feel them..."
Seeing his hesitant look, Zhuang Mingxu had a bad feeling.
Zhou He didn't seem to notice and immediately said, "Bring the person back quickly."
Several passages immediately reappeared, and the bent bamboo instantly gave birth to several seeds, and emerald green branches and leaves spread along the cave entrance.
While the two were working together, Zhuang Mingxu asked someone to take another roll call and confirmed that there were still twelve people who had been blown away by the strong wind and no trace could be found.
"Let's go back one section and find all the people first..." Before Zhou He finished his words, he saw the people being dragged back by the plants grown by the curved bamboo.
The person who was still alive three minutes ago was now covered with blood holes. Mud mixed with blood covered his entire body. There were holes on his uniform, and the blood had drained out. The location of the crystal core on his forehead was severely torn, and the crystal core inside had disappeared.
"Fuck him..." Zhou He's tears instantly came out, and he turned around and wanted to seek revenge on the mutant plants.
Without waiting for Zhuang Mingxu to remind him, he put his raised foot down again and swallowed hard, as if he wanted to swallow down the anger that was about to burst out of him.
After wiping his face and looking back, Zhou He had calmed down. He ordered in a hoarse voice, "Go back one kilometer and find other people first."
"yes!"
"yes!"
A few minutes later, the group rebuilt a temporary shelter underground, and Zhou He immediately took a few psychics to land to search for people.
Zhuang Mingxu handed Taotao in his arms over and said, "He is not affected much, let him help."
"Thank you." Zhou He already knew who had helped to keep the remaining people at the critical moment, but Taotao was just a little girl who was not even as tall as her calf and sometimes could not even speak clearly. Even though he knew that the other party might be able to help, he was too embarrassed to ask.
At this time, Zhuang Mingxu took the initiative to speak, immediately took Taotao over, pulled a sheet and tied the child tightly to his chest and promised, "Don't worry, Zhuang, I will bring the child back the same way I took him out."
Zhuang Mingxu patted his shoulder and reminded him to go and come back quickly.
"The rest of you please follow the arrangements made by Captain Zhuang. I will be back as soon as possible," Zhou He said, then turned around and left with his men.
"Has anyone seen what the mutated plant in front is?" Zhuang Mingxu, who stayed behind, quickly started collecting information.
Several wood-type ability users shook their heads and said, "The opponent is too fast."
"Sorry, I didn't detect any trace of mutant animals at all."
"It proves that its taproot is very far away from us"
"I can sense the mutated plants within 500 meters, it must be beyond this range."
Amidst the buzz, not much useful information was obtained. Zhuang Mingxu looked at the people lying on the ground, took out a towel from his backpack, asked the water-based mutant for water, helped them clean the dirt off their bodies, and closed their eyes.
"Let's cremate the body and we will leave with the ashes."
"I don't agree, I..." A man with red eyes and tears in his eyes choked and said, "I want to carry him on my back."
"I want to freeze him and take him back to Moon Bay. He...he said he likes the breeze by the sea the most and the peace in our base the most..."
"I want to take him back to have a look."
The man's words made everyone's eyes tear up. Although they had expected that this journey would be difficult, they did not expect to lose several people on the first day.
Zhuang Mingxu also felt bad, but he was standing at a higher position and could see more clearly the current situation of their temporary base.
Now, every action they take is a necessary one after careful consideration. It concerns the lives of more than 2,000 people in the temporary base, and they cannot afford to make mistakes or errors.
Zhuang Mingxu had been in charge of the base's political affairs for too long and had left the military in power. Everyone among the people this time still obeyed Zhou He from the military. He knew the answer well and didn't say anything.
The group waited for more than half an hour. An earth-type ability user sensitively looked in one direction. Everyone became alert and saw a passage opened in the ground. Zhou He was holding Tao Tao, followed by a group of people who had been found.
"Captain, how's it going? Are you all back?"
Zhou He nodded, his expression not very good, and made way, revealing the person following him.
All twelve are here, the difference is that one of them was carried back. He had a huge hole in his chest, some of his internal organs had disappeared, and the area around the wound was frozen by the ice-type mutant.
Everyone was in deathly silence. Tao Tao still didn't understand the difference between life and death. She looked blankly at the people around her crying and helplessly reached out to wipe Zhou He's tears.
"Uncle, don't cry, Taotao will be delicious for you."
"Yeah," Zhou He responded, burying his head in Taotao's chest so that no one could see his tears.
There was total silence all around, and only the suppressed sobs of everyone could be heard.
After a while, Zhou He took a deep breath and returned Taotao to Zhuang Mingxu, "We still have a mission to do and we can't waste time. Please pack up for our brothers and send them off for the last time."
"team leader……"
Zhou He raised his hand to stop them from saying anything, "Hurry up and cremate the body, we——"
"Go get revenge!"
His enunciated voice stopped other opinions and immediately made everyone eager to fight. Zhuang Mingxu disagreed with his behavior intellectually, but he couldn't stop it emotionally.
The group quickly cremated the bodies of several people, put the ashes in their backpacks, and quickly made a plan to head in the direction of the mutant plants.
This time they did not choose to start from underground. Instead, after exploration, they went around the valley, chose a direction with big trees as shelter, and then moved forward with difficulty on the ground.
The group struggled to march through the night, relying on ropes to tie everyone up so that no one would get lost in the wind. Fortunately, they were on high alert and were not attacked again along the way.
However, when the group approached the mutant plant with difficulty, Tao Tao excitedly said, "That's it. It has a good temper. Who among you wants it?"
"This is..." Qu Zhu pointed at the spherical plant in front of him that was less than one meter above the ground and looked at Tao Tao in disbelief.
Zhuang Mingxu measured the distance they had traveled and found that this distance was indeed the distance to the first mutant plant they were looking for.
Just as Taotao said, its temperament was really gentle. There were so many psychics standing in a circle, but the opponent had no intention of attacking and didn't even move at all. If the psychics could not clearly feel the energy surging from the opponent, it would be hard to imagine that there would be such a plant.
"I don't agree," said the first person who stopped the cremation of his teammates. He pointed to the location of the mutant plant roots and said, "He killed our teammates, and there is their blood there... I want to kill him."
Looking in the direction he pointed, dried blood could be vaguely seen in the soil at the roots of the plants. No one could be sure whether it was from a teammate, but no one was willing to confirm it at this time.
Qu Zhu looked at the other three wood-type ability users, and all three of them shook their heads.
The mutated plants in the contract can kill people and absorb human crystal cores, but in the future they will need to fight side by side. If he has the blood of his teammates on his body, he will feel uncomfortable every time he foresees it in the future.
Qu Zhu also shook his head at Zhou He and said to Zhuang Mingxu, "Sorry, we can't do it."
Zhuang Mingxu understood and retreated, leaving the range of the battle. The group acted quickly. The moment their superpowers were used, the mutated plants that had been motionless suddenly surged, and huge roots came from all directions.
Countless small green branches immediately appeared on Taotao's body and protected Zhuang Mingxu and Yun Bai who was standing beside him to protect him.
Yun Bai, who already knew that he was a wood element, was not surprised by this. He noticed that the mutant plant had no intention of attacking them. He looked out through the gap and said, "Didn't you say it was very gentle?"
Fierce roots densely emerged from the ground, and their fire-type psychics kept attacking with fireballs, but the surrounding temperature was too low and there was wind from time to time, so the effect was limited.
In addition, after an attack by the roots, they quickly return to the ground, making them slippery and hard to guard against.
Although the water-based ability is effective at the moment, the places it can freeze are limited, and the opponent's root system is too developed, so the effect is not obvious.
The earth-related ability could control the land to provide assistance at this time, but they were tied together to protect themselves from the strong wind, which became a burden to them, making Yun Bai very anxious.
"Having a good temper doesn't mean you don't have a temper, and what's more, they want to kill it," Zhuang Mingxu argued on behalf of Taotao who didn't know how to explain.
"Base Commander, I'm sorry, that's not what I meant." Yun Bai noticed the difference in words and explained immediately.
"I know." Zhuang Mingxu was also paying attention to the situation outside. Taotao in his arms saw him frowning and looked up and said, "Dad wants its energy? Taotao, bring it to you?"
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