Flower vine?
Eva followed Qi Mi's gaze and saw several emerald green vines hanging from the wall. One was as thick as a child's wrist, and its leaves were also as big as a hand. The vine whose tip had just been cut off was twisting violently, splashing black and red liquid everywhere.
As it twisted, the cross-section of the severed side began to grow dense, fine green threads, which grew wildly and entangled with each other like tassels. In less than a minute, a new tip grew out.
As the old replaces the new, and the new grows out, the part that falls to the ground becomes motionless. It urgently needs to shrink and wither, turning into a dry brown color. If you step on it, it will break into powder.
During the polar night, animals and humans advanced, and plants were no exception. Perhaps these wall-climbing roses had also withstood the test of the apocalypse, blooming strangely on their vines as if blown by the wind.
One flower is as big as an adult's head. If you look closely, you can see that the stamens in the center of the petals are like tentacles with eyes, sensing the presence of prey in the air.
Eva held the broadsword across her body and retreated cautiously to Qi Mi's side.
She had just taken a firm step when the flower vines suddenly exploded in the air like a whip and attacked her quickly.
Eva and Qi Mi retreated quickly.
Eva spun around and swung her machete, cutting the vine in half. The chopped-off part, unable to stop due to inertia, slammed into the shopping cart. Seeing that her phone was still there, Qi Mi quickly threw the machete through the vine and flung it into the distance.
With a slight bang, the cut flower vine fell into a pile of cement not far away and gradually withered.
Qi Mi stepped forward and picked up the phone. For them, who now couldn't see at night, light was their eyes, and they couldn't let it be destroyed.
Eva: "Tsk, I'm starting to hate roses. Mi, shine a light on the wall for me and I'll take care of them."
After hearing this, Qi Mi moved the light upwards and aimed it at the wall.
Eva leaned forward slightly, holding the big knife tightly with both hands. The moment she frowned, wind suddenly blew around the blade of the knife, causing the gravel under her feet to vibrate.
She took a step forward, lowered her body, and whispered a spell. In an instant, the wind from the sword expanded, causing sand and gravel to linger around, and her whole body seemed to be protected by a layer of armor made of sand and gravel.
At the moment the big knife chopped, the wall and the flower vines collapsed, splashing a cloud of yellow dust.
However, when the dust settled, the two found that the fun had just begun.
The crumbling wall had only damaged a few vines. The truly vast rose vines had already covered the entire road, a dense expanse of purple-red roses as big as human faces. Pale bones, both human and animal, were interspersed among them.
The stamens in each flower were swaying freely in the air like antennae. Suddenly, they felt the light shining on them, and all the stamens stared at them in unison.
Eva couldn't help but shudder: "Oh my god! I think I have gigantic fear, what is this?!"
As soon as he finished speaking, boom, the flower vine that was pressed under the wall and reborn suddenly broke through the stone and pounced forward.
Qi Mi reacted quickly and grabbed Eva and ran towards the unfinished building behind him: "Run first!"
Eva turned around and swung her long knife, cutting off several more vines at once, buying time to escape.
"Mi, how long are we going to run? It seems like this flower vine will keep growing!" Eva ran after Qi Mi, "We might die of exhaustion and still not be able to escape!"
She had been paying attention to the movements of these flower vines. Not only could the vines regrow, but they were also as strong as whips, and they recklessly rammed into the unfinished building. When four or five flower vines rushed over, no matter how thick the wall was, it could not withstand them.
boom!
The load-bearing walls were hit, causing the entire unfinished building to shake.
Qi Mi paused and continued to run towards the roof. When he reached the top row of steel frames, there was no way to escape.
Eva followed closely, with a cluster of deadly flower vines following below.
Qi Mi threw his scimitar at the attacking flower vines and asked Eva, "Can you hold on against these flower vines?"
Eva seemed not to understand and raised her voice: "What?!"
"No matter how the mutant changes, it will still be a plant. As long as its roots are destroyed, it will be safe." Qi Mi retracted the scimitar.
Boom! Eva swung her sword and cut through the vines, destroying the walls of the unfinished building along with them, buying about another minute.
Eva asked hurriedly: "Where are its roots?"
Qi Mi raised his hand and lightly tapped his left eye. In an instant, his left eye emitted a bright blue light in the darkness again.
In my left eye's field of vision, where the light hit, these living rose vines were covered in countless lines of various colors: red, green, blue... like dividing lines, they divided their bodies into several areas. It seemed as if the slightest touch would loosen them.
The most densely populated part of these lines is the window sill on the fifth floor of the opposite building. Hundreds of lines of various colors are entangled and intertwined into a ball, like an unsolvable tangled ball of wool.
This place is the [Death Gate] of the Mutated Rose.
[Object in view: Mutated Rose
Type: Plant
Death Gate Degree: Low (Requires Kill Strength 103)
Weapon in hand: Homemade machete (lethality: 82%, most things can't escape this knife)
Suitability: High
Suggestion: Use the knife in your hand to deliver a critical hit! 】
Qi Mi curled his lips and answered Eva's question: "Its roots are on the opposite side... Can you use your knife to open a path for me?"
"No problem, how do I open it?" Eva looked up and met Qi Mi's eyes, and was stunned for a moment.
Qi Mi didn't notice and was still talking to Eva, pointing to the flower vines spreading on the road and saying, "Just cut them down to make a path for me."
Eva: “…”
Qi Fan: "Eva?"
Eva came back to her senses and said, "Okay."
After Eva held her breath and concentrated on wrapping the knife in the wind, Qi Mi counted to three softly.
three……
two……
Whoosh, she jumped down.
When she fell in mid-air, Eva swung her knife to cut a path for her.
Eva frowned slightly and watched Qi Mi land lightly on the ground like a cat: This is... the sixth floor.
Qi Mi didn't dare pause for even a second. As soon as one foot touched the ground, the other stepped forward. She had calculated the mutant rose's regeneration speed. A horizontal cut would take about a minute for a new vine to grow. Now, Eva was only splitting the vine horizontally, so the time it took for the two halves to stay together would be at least halved.
In less than 30 seconds, she had to run across a wide road with a guardrail in the middle.
Qi Mi held her breath, concentrating so fast that she left behind a trail of afterimages. As soon as she jumped off the guardrail, the flower vines on all sides suddenly became excited by the smell of her human flesh, raising long vines to the sky, wrapping her up like a cage.
brush!
The scimitar broke a hole and entangled the balcony railing on the second floor opposite. Qi Mi used the force to swing out.
But the flower vines couldn't catch up. The closer they got to the roots, the thicker and denser the vines became. Qi Mi had just landed on the second-floor balcony when the flower vines rushed in and surrounded her again.
A black-tailed swallowtail butterfly fluttered down between the vines.
Qi Mi raised his eyes and sneered, "You think you can trap me and everything will be fine?"
As soon as she finished speaking, when many flower vines were shrinking towards the center to squeeze her dry, Qi Mi turned around and swung her scimitar, creating a gap and crawling out.
But in the end, he had arrived at an area where he was attacked from both sides. Just as he escaped from the prison, the flower vines attacked him again.
The swallowtail butterfly flew up and hung in the air.
Seeing Qi Mi struggling alone with the flower vines covering the ground, Eva shouted, "Mi, do you need help?"
Qi Mi retracted his sword: "Don't worry, everything is fine now!"
Eva: “Hmm?”
At this time, Eva saw several flower vines in front of her suddenly fall to the ground. Starting from the very tip of the vine, they began to wrinkle and wither, and quickly spread to the thick end. After the vines turned dark brown, the roses also lost their color and drooped down, and the petals were scattered all over the ground.
The vines that were glossy green just a few minutes ago now looked like a withered yellow carpet, lifeless and spread out on the ground.
Qi Mi stepped on the crackling dead vines on the ground and slowly jumped down to the bottom of the building.
Looking up, the flowerpot placed on the windowsill on the fifth floor is where the roots of the mutated rose are.
Suddenly a flash of light appeared and Qi Mi raised his hand to catch it.
When I opened it, I saw a tiny, ladybug-shaped object nestled in my palm, about the size of a fingernail. It was made entirely of metal, even its eight tiny legs were metal, and the tiny antennae on its head emitted a faint green light.
Gently touch its back three times, and the ladybug's metal wings will suddenly rise, vibrating at a high frequency to drive its body into low flight.
Qi Mi grabbed it and was about to put it in his pocket when Eva came running over and saw it: "What is that?"
"Ladybug No. 8, I made it last night." Qi Mi spread it out.
Invention Name: Ladybug No. 8
Size: Small
Structure: general metal, signal wire, modified small circuit board, etc.
Purpose: scouting, sneak attack, hitting
Kill Strength: 105 (Low)
Advantages: small size, not easy to be found; provides signal source
Disadvantages: slow flight speed, vulnerable to damage, low killing power]
Eva held it between two fingers, a bewildered look on her face. "What did you make this little thing for? For fun?"
Qi Mi took it and put it back in his pocket: "Of course it is useful."
She flung it out the first time she broke through the flower vines. Although it flew slowly, as long as she held on for about 20 seconds, this little thing would be able to destroy the mutant rose's [Death Gate]. She drew the flower vines' firepower here, allowing it to launch a sneak attack, and the coordination was perfect.
Eva looked like she had gained some new insights, and followed Qi Mi back to the unfinished building.
After what had just happened, the unfinished building was in even greater disrepair. The shopping cart had been overturned, and the red bricks were scattered and shattered. All they could do was pick out the remaining intact pieces to pack.
Perhaps because they had developed a mutual understanding after fighting side by side, Eva took the initiative to help her move the bricks this time and asked the question that had eluded her for a long time: "My, I still don't understand. How did you know I have the ability to heal?"
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