Chapter 73
What Yuzu didn't know was that almost all the human teams that passed through here in the past were either going to the Sky Base or coming back from there.
Yuzu only grabs some food each time, and then runs away very quickly; she doesn't intentionally hurt anyone.
The robbed humans couldn't catch it, nor could they find its whereabouts.
It used its leaves as a disguise, concealing its aura, making it impossible to tell that it was a top-grade exotic plant.
Due to the nature of the skill, it's even impossible to determine if it's the same plant, which keeps "robbing" people in the vicinity.
Over time, the passing human groups stopped paying much attention to this matter.
But just a few days ago, Sky Base was attacked and almost turned into ruins, and Wen Jue disappeared without a trace.
Furthermore, due to interference from the Yunchuan base, many teams were not even allowed to visit the ruins and were blocked at a more advanced position.
Yuzu was completely unaware of this. She sat on a low rock behind the ruins and waited patiently for a while longer.
The pomelo leaves hanging on its body slowly fell off, and new ones grew from its top. The pomelo bowed its head and blew a breath, blowing away the old leaves.
The weather was quite nice. Yuzi squinted and looked up at the sky through the gaps in the leaves. It was a rare treat to bask in the warm sun, and it almost forgot about food.
However, its stomach soon rumbled.
The small bite of dry food I just ate wasn't filling at all.
Just then, a mid-level zombie wandered into the vicinity, making a "heh heh" sound.
Yuzu tensed up, and without turning her head, she immediately pulled her arms and legs back, her round body sliding down the low stones and quickly rolling away along the ruins.
The zombies heard the noise and immediately gave chase, but they couldn't catch up at all and only managed to pounce on a few grapefruit leaves on the ground.
The pomelo rolled all the way away, and only stopped when it felt it had gone far enough. It nervously hid behind a section of broken wall.
All the leaves on its body had rolled away, but now they have grown back and are covering its entire body.
Several minutes later, Yuzu thought she was safe, but then she heard the "whoosh" sound again.
It was terrified, thinking that the intermediate-level zombie was so powerful that it could actually chase after them, and couldn't help but peek out.
In the distance, a mid-level zombie advanced, stepping on the rubble.
It turned out to be another one...
This zombie seemed to have been transformed only a few months ago; its clothes were still intact, it was wearing a thick coat, and it had a dirty bag hanging on its back.
Backpack!
The pomelo's eyes lit up as it parted the leaves that were blocking its view and peered out carefully.
It is indeed a human backpack, barely intact on the outside, and looks bulging, so it must contain something.
Perhaps we can find food inside; some dry rations can be stored for a long time.
Yuzu stared at the backpack until the zombie saw it too, roaring as it pounced forward.
It tucked its limbs in and rolled nimbly to avoid the zombie's attack.
As leaves sprouted from its body, the pomelo circled around the zombie's feet, quietly kicking it several times before forcefully ramming into it.
As a top-tier alien plant, Yuzu was quite strong, knocking the zombie to the ground with multiple fractures in its legs and arms.
Yuzu shook off the leaves stained with zombie blood, shakily reached for her backpack, and turned to flee.
The backpack was quite heavy and smelled a bit bad, so Yuzi stopped after running only a short distance.
It put down its backpack, used a pomelo leaf as a glove, and carefully opened it.
Sure enough, there was a lot of food inside, packed in different bags, but it was all spoiled.
Yuzu was heartbroken and slowly threw out all the spoiled food. Finally, at the very bottom of her backpack, she found two bags of dry food.
The dry rations were not much, and they felt hard to the touch, like stones.
The pomelo, however, was delighted to open and took a sniff.
It's not spoiled, you can still eat it!
Yuzu packed some dry food and prepared to return to her lodgings. As she looked up, she met a pair of eyes.
It was a... very thin little bitter gourd, staring at me with wide eyes.
I was so focused on finding food that I didn't notice when the little bitter melon approached.
Its eyes were somewhat timid, but it did not run away. It mustered its courage and stood still, looking at the backpack behind Yuzu.
The little bitter melon was probably looking for food nearby, and it probably didn't want the pomelo in the bag that was thrown out of its backpack.
I don't really want them, but can't it smell that they're all spoiled?
Yuzi walked away silently, ignoring the little bitter gourd. The leaves hanging at her feet slid across the ground, making a rustling sound.
It deliberately walked slowly, turning its head to take a look halfway through.
Little Bitter Gourd had already reached the backpack, picked up a food bag from the ground, and was about to take a bite.
Yuzu instinctively cried out, "Woo..."
The little bitter gourd was startled and didn't know what to do with the food in its hand.
That won't do... Eating spoiled food will definitely make me feel terrible.
Yuzu quickly ran over and kicked over the pile of rubble next to her. The falling stones buried her backpack and a bunch of food bags.
The little bitter gourd sluggishly dodged, looking blank, and sniffed.
The pomelo made two "woo-woo" sounds, indicating that it was bad and couldn't be eaten.
The little bitter gourd looked up at me, remaining silent as if it didn't understand.
Yuzu suddenly realized that even if she knew it was bad, the little bitter melon might still eat it.
If even they can't find food, the nearby plants will only be in even worse shape.
Hesitantly, it tossed one of the two packets of dry food it had just found to Little Bitter Gourd.
After giving out the food, Yuzu walked away with her head down, quickly disappearing from the surroundings.
The road was quiet. Youzi slowed down, opened the package of dry food, and took a small bite.
Hmm...it tastes awful.
But it can fill your stomach.
He took another small bite of the pomelo, saved the rest, and walked slowly in the sun.
Without any passing human groups or zombies, the area was very quiet, as if it were isolated from the world.
Yuzu wondered if she should lift the roof off the "room" and let it air out when she got back.
Suddenly, a faint noise came from not far behind.
Yuzu turned her head and saw that it was the little bitter gourd.
Little Bitter Gourd, panting heavily while carrying his dry rations, had a glimmer of light in his eyes when he saw Pomelo.
The pomelo ignored it and kept walking. After a while, it turned around and saw that the little bitter gourd was still there.
Oops……
How did I catch up with myself?!
The pomelo hurriedly pulled its hands and feet back and rolled away with a "glug glug".
Little Bitter Gourd chased after it quickly, only to see that the pomelo's figure had disappeared in the blink of an eye, leaving only pomelo leaves scattered all over the ground.
It picked up a leaf carefully and tried to follow the trail of the fallen leaf to find its way back.
On the other side, two modified vehicles sped along the abandoned streets.
The modified car has no markings on its exterior, and the windows are one-way, so the "person" inside cannot be seen.
However, sitting in the driver's seat was a four-leaf clover, with a durian next to it responsible for changing shifts midway.
In the back seat, Carrot peered out the window, with Qian Hui and Nan Tingjin beside him.
The mimosa plant was stuck to the carrot's forehead, occasionally peering around.
There were also a few peas and lettuce in this car, along with some peanuts.
Big Peanut was a little reserved at first, sitting quietly with his little backpack, only daring to peek out slightly.
But it was probably excited all night, and somehow it just closed its eyes and fell asleep.
Qian Hui was looking at his communicator when Chili sent him a message saying that there were some powerful plants that hadn't come to the base.
Although chili peppers can read, there are simply too many human words, and they learn many of them on their own. Sometimes the information they send cannot fully express their meaning.
Qianhui tried to guess, thinking that Chili meant to tell them to bring back some new plants.
He sent a "good" message and then asked the plants at the base if the bell peppers and eggplants had eaten breakfast properly.
"have!"
"I am sweet!"
Upon seeing the reply, Qian Hui smiled and sent another message: "Okay, Tian Tian is very good, you can have two snacks."
"Um!"
"Finish eating!"
The modified car is still moving forward, and Qianhui wants to find Youzi as soon as possible, so she decides to head to the destination immediately.
I brought mimosa plants with me on this trip, in case anything happens along the way.
Carrot rolled down the car window a crack and sniffed the outside air.
The cabbage behind it reached out and tugged at the leaves on its head: "Ooh!"
The cabbage said that the carrot was blocking its view, and it couldn't see the scenery outside.
The carrot didn't even turn its head. I told it to be quiet; there were only ruins outside, no scenery to be found.
The cabbage clenched its fist, wanting to punch it.
Suddenly, the carrot became alert.
The mimosa on its forehead twitched, raising its rightmost leaf to point forward.
This was the code we agreed upon before setting off. The leaf on the left represents plants, the one on the right represents zombies, and the one in the middle represents humans.
The fact that the mimosa plant can emit a warning indicates that there are at least five zombies.
Carrot let out a "whoosh" to signal the team to get ready, while patting the sleeping peanut.
Big Peanut sat up abruptly, clenched his fists, and looked around.
They're just some zombies blocking the way; it's not a big problem. We can deal with them as soon as possible.
Clover gripped the steering wheel and, upon seeing several zombies in the distance, pulled the car over to the side of the road.
A car behind them also stopped, and as soon as the door opened, the plant team jumped out and attacked the small horde of zombies in front of them.
Big Peanut was excited and rushed to the front of the group, punching down a mid-level zombie.
As two more zombies lunged at it, it opened its mouth again and spat out three enormous peanuts.
The peas and the carrots left in the car were quite surprised to see them.
Normally at the base, Peanut looks very honest and speaks in a dull manner, but he is surprisingly good at fighting.
Big Peanut really wanted to show off and stretch his muscles, so he turned around and knocked down another zombie, looking quite like a cabbage.
To the side, Cabbage nodded approvingly in her heart, waiting for the time to pass.
Then Peanut can officially join the attack team.
Soon, seven or eight zombies were quickly dealt with, and Durian was in charge of digging out the crystal cores.
Durian filled the crystal core, kicked the zombie's corpse aside, ran back and got into the car.
The two modified vehicles continued driving and disappeared at the end of the street.
More than ten minutes later, another car arrived and stopped in front of the dead bodies.
The vehicle also had no markings. Two people got out, inspected the corpses of several zombies, and then returned.
The person in the driver's seat held a communicator, reported a coordinate, and said to the person on the other side, "They're in the southeast direction of District 5. Their destination is still uncertain."
“Okay,” the person on the other end of the communicator said, “Stay as far away as possible, and be careful not to be discovered.”
The number of alien plants gathering together is increasing, and the main base has suffered heavy damage. They must be extremely cautious now to prevent any alien plants from having special abilities.
"clear."
The communication was cut off, and the man put away the communicator and drove away from the vicinity.
There were five other people in the car, all from the Jianghai Base, which had always been on the best terms with the Sky Base.
On the very night the Sky Base was attacked, Wen Jue and several of his subordinates fled to the Jianghai Base, a fact known only to a few of the leader's close confidants.
Earlier, Jianghai Base had sent people to keep an eye on Black Ridge Mountain and immediately spotted the two vehicles that had gone out.
Regardless of how many alien plants were on the vehicles, or whether Qian Hui and Nan Tingjin were inside, attacking those two vehicles was far easier than attacking the base.
Once they learned the destination of those exotic plants, they arranged for support.
By the way... we can also try out the medicine Wen Jue gave us to see how effective it is, and whether it's really as miraculous as he said.
Among the six-person team, one member has the special ability of enhanced eyesight, allowing him to see through the car window the slightest traces left on the road.
This way, it can track vehicles even when they are far away from the car in front.
He was highly focused, keeping a close eye on the outside, ready to guide the vehicle forward at any time.
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The sun sets and rises again, and in the desolate ruins, a stone moves slightly.
The stone was moved aside, and the pomelo poked half its head out, peering outside.
There wasn't much dry food found yesterday, and it even gave half to Little Bitter Gourd out of pity...
Later, Little Bitter Gourd actually came here, but couldn't find where Pomelo was hiding, and seemed to have left again.
The food supplies were too little, enough to last for at most three days, and the fact that not a single car passed by yesterday made Youzi feel a sense of crisis.
It needs to be more diligent; it can't wait until all the food is eaten before looking for more.
Yuzu sighed deeply, her face full of worry, and crawled out of the "room," deciding to go to the intersection to squat for a while longer.
It had only taken a few steps when it heard a slightly surprised voice: "Woof!"
Yuzu suddenly had a bad feeling. She turned her head and saw that it was indeed Little Bitter Gourd.
Little Bitter Gourd was carrying a few pomelo leaves in his arms. He must have finished his dry rations. He trotted over.
As it got closer, it didn't go any further, but stood at a distance that wasn't too close or too far.
Yuzu was conflicted and didn't know what to say. She let out a fierce "woof" to warn Little Bitter Gourd not to follow her, and then quickly slipped away.
However, thinking about the two zombies she encountered yesterday, Yuzu's pace gradually slowed down.
But I can't even get enough to eat myself... Will I have to share all the food I find with Little Bitter Gourd?
Yuzu suddenly remembered the wooden piece of wood with the words "plant base" engraved on it.
It stopped and thought about it carefully.
Give the wood chip to the little bitter gourd and let it go by itself, or...
Yuzu shook her head and decided to wait at the intersection first to find some new food.
Perhaps after a while, the little bitter gourd will simply leave and stop following it.
Ten minutes later, the pomelo, covered in pomelo leaves, squatted by the roadside, head bowed and sighing.
Not far away, Little Bitter Gourd hid behind a pile of rubble, peeking over quietly.
Not only did it not leave, it followed us.
never mind……
Yuzu pretended not to see it and waited patiently.
After an unknown amount of time, the sun gradually rose higher.
The pomelo by the roadside was drowsy, but suddenly it sensed something and immediately widened its eyes.
It reached out and touched the road surface, feeling a faint tremor.
A car is coming!
Yuzu quickly stepped back, staring in the direction from which the vibration was coming.
When Little Bitter Gourd saw Pomelo's movement, it also hid behind her.
Shortly after, two modified vehicles arrived.
The modified car looks relatively new, and there are no markings on the body, indicating that the owner does not want outsiders to know their identity.
Yu Zi has some experience; such vehicles are generally more dangerous.
In the past, it would have definitely turned around and left, choosing another team.
But times have changed... Once this team leaves, there's no guarantee they'll find another one.
The pomelo was well prepared, with even more pomelo leaves sprouting from its top, completely covering itself.
Listening to the sound of the wheels, it wondered why the two cars slowed down considerably when they reached the intersection.
Never mind...
Yuzu closed her eyes, curled up her arms and legs, and skillfully rolled forward, landing in the middle of the road.
It gripped a leaf tightly in its hand, ready to blast the wheels of the vehicle apart with the tip of the leaf if the convoy didn't get out to check and instead drove away...
This trick works every time the pomelo is covered in leaves, making it impossible to tell what kind of plant it is, which arouses a lot of curiosity.
However, it then heard a familiar, subtle sound.
Yuzu had a bad feeling; something was wrong...
In the middle of the road, a little bitter gourd lay down like a pomelo, closing its eyes and pretending to be dead.
The air was very quiet, and the modified car came to a stop.
Yuzi couldn't get up at this time, so she could only hope that the "person" in the car would come to her first, ignoring Little Bitter Gourd.
Too many leaves covering the face also affected the pomelo's sense of smell.
Then it heard some footsteps, but something seemed off...
A slightly familiar scent slowly approached, and by the time Yuzu realized what was happening, it was too late.
A leaf was blown off its face, and a lettuce looked down at itself: "Huh?"
Yuzu froze for two seconds, then suddenly rolled over and stood up.
Behind the lettuce, there were several other plants, some familiar, some unfamiliar...
The modified car door opened, and the silver-haired, red-eyed boy got out. Upon seeing himself, he exclaimed in surprise, "Youyou!"
[I have already acquired a premium mutant plant, the "Round Pomelo"!]
[“Yuan Youzi” loyalty has increased dramatically, reaching 100%!]
Yuzu held her breath, feeling as if she were dreaming.
Is this for real...? Has someone come to pick it up?
Or perhaps Qianhui and the other plants just happened to be passing by, and were almost "robbed" by it...
Yuzu was at a loss. She instinctively closed her eyes, curled up her arms and legs, buried her head, and rolled away, trying to find a place to hide.
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