Chapter 41 This Monster Has Wisdom

Zhao Yunduo was confused for only a moment when she noticed the gasoline entering the space. Before she even read the message Shen Linglan sent her, she knew what Shen Linglan was thinking.

Using gasoline to burn vegetation is a good idea.

But it probably won't be needed anymore, as Zhao Yunduo, Zhou Micheng and Yaoyao are leaving the second-floor terrace of the milk tea shop together.

To their horror, the corpses of several zombies that were originally on the first floor disappeared.

The zombies themselves would not evaporate, so the only possibility was that the vegetation had expanded and extended onto this street.

They knew nothing about vegetation, so they didn't know whether the vegetation had the ability to reproduce itself or whether it would greatly increase its activity range every time it devoured a human or a zombie.

But no matter which one it is, it is not advisable to stay here for long.

The three of them carried their bags and walked out faster.

"Yaoyao, hurry up!"

Yaoyao was still young and couldn't keep up with the adults when she ran. Zhou Micheng simply picked up his daughter and walked to the street at full speed. Zhao Yunduo, who often didn't exercise, almost couldn't keep up with Zhou Micheng's pace.

Yaoyao, who was held by her mother, waved at Zhao Yunduo, "Sister Yunduo, hurry up!"

Before her childish voice fell, she suddenly caught a glimpse of a branch sticking out from the milk tea shop.

"Ah——!" Yaoyao was the only one who was looking at their backs, so she was the only one who noticed it. She screamed and reminded Zhao Yunduo, "Sister, there's something!"

Just as Zhao Yunduo was about to turn around, she heard Yaoyao shout again, "Left! Sister is on the left!"

Zhao Yunduo quickly flashed to the right and looked back. He saw that the monster plant had indeed stretched out its long branches, preparing to attack Zhao Yunduo who was falling behind.

After being dodged by Zhao Yunduo, it attacked to the right again, but was hit by Zhao Yunduo's mace and its branches retracted. However, it soon regrouped and attacked Zhao Yunduo again.

The branch was moving too fast and was extremely thin, so the hidden arrow had no effect at all. It finally hit the target and passed through the branch, but it did not affect its movement at all.

When Zhao Yunduo was nearly tripped, Zhou Micheng, who had already put Yaoyao down, grabbed a steel stick and hit the branch hard.

"This thing—"

While Zhou Micheng was talking, another branch suddenly grew out of the branch, attacking the two of them from both sides.

The branches were flexible and small, and they were completely defenseless when they attacked.

After hitting it, before Zhao Yunduo could retract her movement, it attacked her leg again.

“This thing seems to have intelligence.”

Intelligent life has always been the most terrifying thing for humans on Earth, before the apocalypse and even more so after the apocalypse.

The branches would observe the human's movements and quickly optimize their next move. Soon, both of them were at a disadvantage, with one hand and both feet entangled.

Maces and steel clubs can do no harm to it.

Zhao Yunduo took out two machetes from the space, held one in his own hand, and wanted to throw the other one to Zhou Micheng, but it was knocked away by a branch and fell to the ground with a clang.

Yaoyao was quick to pick up the machete and stood on tiptoe to hand it to her mother.

Both of them had been lifted up high by the branches, half a body's length from the ground. If they didn't cut off the branches, they would be injured if they fell down from a higher position.

"Right now!"

Zhou Micheng shouted, and the two of them moved quickly, chopping at the branches that were entangled with their hands and feet without hesitation. The branches tried to entangle their remaining hands, but fortunately the machetes were sharp enough, and with one chop, all the branches were cut off.

The two also fell to the ground. Because they had slightly adjusted their positions before, Zhao Yunduo only fell on his buttocks, and other places were just minor scratches, which were not serious.

After the branches were cut off, more than a dozen small branches quickly grew out from the roots, trying to attack them from different positions.

Zhao Yunduo did not hesitate any longer and took out the gasoline that Shen Linglan had just bought for her from the space - the gasoline was divided into more than a dozen small boxes in advance. She took out a box and opened the lid. While pouring gasoline into the place where the branches came from, she took out a lighter from the space and threw it to Zhou Micheng.

"Sister Orange, quick, light the fire!"

After Zhao Yunduo finished pouring the gasoline and ran out holding Yaoyao, Zhou Micheng immediately pressed the lighter. The branches seemed to know what humans were going to do and were trying hard to use all the branches to entangle Zhou Micheng's hands and feet.

"mother--"

Yaoyao called Zhou Micheng worriedly.

Zhou Micheng ignored the branch that had pierced the wound on his shoulder, and instead threw the lighter with all his strength towards the gasoline-soaked area.

With a hissing sound, a huge fire broke out instantly.

The branches that were originally vigorous seemed to be burned and quickly retracted all the branches, but its movements were still no match for the rapidly spreading fire.

After the branches were burned by the fire, they actually made screams similar to those of injured animals, which was very creepy to hear.

As for the burnt branches and leaves, Zhao Yunduo thought that the branches would retract and heal themselves, but he did not expect that they would cut off themselves at the burnt and gray parts, leaving a pile of "broken limbs" in the flames and burning into ashes.

"That was a close call..."

Zhao Yunduo collapsed on the ground. The fight just now made her feel that she was about to be swallowed by this monster. If Shen Linglan had not anticipated it and bought gasoline, Zhao Yunduo couldn't imagine what she would be like after being torn into pieces by this monster.

"mother--"

Yaoyao ran towards Zhou Micheng, and Zhao Yunduo discovered that Zhou Micheng's shoulder was bleeding again.

But she still covered her shoulders and told Yaoyao, who was already crying with worry, "Mom is fine, don't worry."

Her face was frighteningly pale. The branch had deliberately attacked her wound, hoping to make Zhou Micheng feel pain and drop the lighter, but Zhou Micheng held on.

Zhao Yunduo hurried over, helped Zhou Micheng find a stool to sit down, and took out the disinfectants and medicine powder.

The wound that was almost healed was torn open again.

"sky……"

Zhao Yunduo carefully applied iodine to the wound for disinfection. The previous sutures were violently torn apart, and now she had to get an anesthetic injection and suture it again.

"It's okay," Zhou Micheng comforted Zhao Yunduo, then lowered his head and said to Yaoyao, "Sister Yunduo has anesthetics, Mommy won't feel any pain at all."

After the wound was sutured again, the three of them packed up their bags and left.

Before leaving, Zhao Yunduo took a deep look at the remains of branches that had been burned to ashes on the ground. At least after being burned dry, it looked no different from ordinary plants.

She suddenly thought that if the group of people were still there, the man in the white coat might stay and pick up this thing and take it back to study.

But Zhao Yunduo was not interested.

She'd better not see this monster again, or she'll get all the gasoline and burn it all to ashes!