Xia Chuhe, Lu Dangui, and the man with the gap-toothed tooth each took out their own headdresses and put them on. Wang Yan also tightened the red cloth strip around her wrist. The rest of them hid behind them.
The iron fence that Xia Chuhe had placed in the basement beforehand was very effective; the plants bumped against the iron fence, making it shake, but they still couldn't break it open.
It seems that this door can hold out for a long time, and perhaps it will allow everyone to get through the night safely.
Just as everyone was beginning to feel a little relieved, a soybean suddenly flew out from the gap in the iron fence, hitting Lu Dangui's iron bucket and creating a dent. The impact made Lu Dangui's head buzz.
"Lie down!" Xia Chuhe made a decisive decision.
The helmet has gaps, and the top is quite sturdy, making it safer to lie down. The same applies to everyone else.
The plants in the basement seemed to have some intelligence. After discovering that they could break through the cracks, one by one, the edamame beans and tiny tentacles emerged from the gaps in the iron fence.
Xia Chuhe, Lu Dangui, and the gap-toothed man were beaten up in front of the stage while the rest of the group hid in the back, trembling with fear.
Fortunately, the items given by the strange man were sturdy enough to allow everyone to withstand wave after wave of attacks.
By the time the plants finished their rampage, the iron fence had become nothing but scrap metal.
Xia Chuhe's helmet was split in two and lying on the ground; Lu Dangui's head was buzzing and he couldn't get up; the iron bucket was so sore he could turn it upside down and use the bottom to hold water. The gap-toothed man wasn't in much better shape.
Fortunately, there were no casualties tonight.
After the battle ended and they returned to the basement, the flowerpot brought Xia Chuhe and the others a pleasant surprise—the seeds inside had sprouted.
Seeing this result, Xia Chuhe confidently planted all the other seeds.
Before going to bed, Xia Chuhe noticed that Du Zhen was staring at the flowerpots, so he wrote the character "water" on the ground. The soil in Du Zhen and the others' flowerpots was a bit dry, so the seeds hadn't sprouted yet.
...
Although the three teams had formed a brief friendship while fighting together, they each arranged for someone to keep watch at night in order to protect the soil in their own flowerpots.
There was no handover during this night watch.
In order to get the reward from the strange man, almost everyone got up under the cover of darkness.
Aside from the night watchmen who caught up on some sleep, the only one who didn't get up was Du Zhen. Du Zhen wasn't in good condition; he had developed many lividity lesions on his body, making him look similar to the gap-toothed man and the others who entered the instance a couple of days earlier.
Old Qin, still worried, left Du Zhen some medicine and gauze. Although the medicine was ineffective, Old Qin still thought it might slow down the rate at which the wound worsened.
Old Qin and A Bao went outside to work, while Xiao Sanhua stayed to watch over Du Zhen and the flowerpots.
A group of corpses were working hard outside. The man with the gap-toothed tooth got up to work before dawn for two days in a row and couldn't sleep well at night. The lividity under his eyes had deepened.
The result of everyone competing against each other is that no one gets the reward.
The strange creature even climbed into the basement and used tentacles growing from its palms to wake up the sleeping people, chasing them out to work.
Even Du Zhen couldn't escape the clutches of the strange man, because corpses don't have the right to ask for sick leave.
Du Zhen leaned on the thick bamboo pole that Lao Qin had found, catching fish in the field. When she opened her eyes, she felt exhausted, weak, and her muscles ached; when she closed her eyes, all she could hear was her mother's nagging voice.
On many occasions, Du Zhen even thought that she should become the mother of that demonic voice, which might bring her some peace.
Fortunately, there was a boisterous and unreliable leopard who let Du Zhen experience the pain of motherhood in advance, which kept her rationality above the bottom line of becoming a mother to an unknown creature.
When Lao Qin saw that Du Zhen came out in a hurry and that the bandage on her leg was still wrapped with yesterday's bandage, he was about to take it off and change the bandage for her.
Once the gauze was removed, Old Qin stopped moving.
Du Zhen's calf muscles had almost completely atrophied, and even his thighs seemed to have thinned a bit...
as if……
She had worms growing inside her body, and the worms were eating her body.
Du Zhen also saw the condition of his leg clearly. The wound was deteriorating too quickly, no wonder the effect of the dulling ability was getting weaker and weaker.
Du Zhen shook his head at Lao Qin, signaling him not to make a fuss.
Their team was already the smallest, and with Old Qin being a healer, only Ah Bao was capable of fighting. If the gap-toothed man and his gang found out, there was no guarantee they wouldn't harbor malicious intentions.
Old Qin could only grit his teeth and bandage Du Zhen's wounds, praying that someone could find the core of the dungeon, or that the planting competition would end soon.
The man with the gap-toothed tooth and his group entered the instance two days in advance. Today is their fifth day in the instance. Perhaps things will get better once they leave the instance.
...
The intense competition prevented Du Zhen from getting a good night's sleep and brought no benefit to anyone else.
Having failed in their internal competition, the corpses could only pin their hopes of obtaining items on metaphysics and by currying favor with the strange man.
The man with the gap-toothed tooth was lucky today; he found a balloon in the field, which means he's saved his life for tonight.
Xia Chuhe went to find the strange man, who was leaning against a pile of cabbages, holding a piece of paper in his hand and looking at it repeatedly.
Perhaps it's a newspaper?
Whatever it is, it's still a prop, and it can provide some form of defense, right?
Xia Chuhe caught a bright and robust rooster from the farm: "How about I trade this rooster for the paper you have?"
The strange man cautiously hid the paper behind his back.
"It can help you eat the little bugs in your vegetable garden, making your botanical garden grow better." Xia Chuhe put the chicken in the vegetable garden, hoping it would display its amazing power and impress the strange man.
The strange man's head slowly turned in sync with the rooster.
Under Xia Chuhe's approving gaze, the rooster headed straight for the cabbage patch.
Then they started pecking at the cabbage.
Tap tap tap... The cabbage disappeared in Xia Chuhe's increasingly desperate gaze, turning into a few drops of water.
The rooster, having failed to eat the cabbage, pecked at the next cabbage with even greater zeal.
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