Chapter 33
After eating and drinking, Qiu Min strolled back to his own farmland and found a figure squatting there.
Lu Renshuang turned around and pointed at the unusually shaped plants with a suspicious look on her face: "What are these?"
Qiu Min paused: "These... are the experimental subjects."
"I remember these varieties weren't included in our plan, right? Did you bring them here yourself?" Lu Renshuang brushed the dirt off her hands and held out her hand. "Anything else?"
Qiu Min touched his nose awkwardly, ran back to his dormitory and took out a pile of seeds: "They are all here."
Lu Renshuang glanced at the labels: "Sleepy Peas", "Tear-Jerking Onion Bomb"...
"Is this called a small experiment?"
If these can be cultivated, their lethality will be very strong, but at the same time the distortion rate will also be very high.
Qiu Min laughed dryly and said, "The seeds are all here. If you want to confiscate them, just take them away."
She originally wanted to come to the island, partly because her brother was there, and partly because the institute wanted to stop her research project, so she signed up and squeezed in. She just wanted to continue her experiments in a different place.
Lu Renshuang said nothing. She first took out the detector to confirm that the current distortion values of these plants were still within the controllable range. Finally, she sighed and said, "...Report the data to me every day. At least we can't blow up the gathering place."
On the other side, Zhao Ming was busy recording surgical data, his pen rustling on the paper. The table was piled with pharmaceutical information and calculation drafts, but in the end, they were all in a mess because there was no experimental data.
Jiang Zihan leaned against the door and observed quietly for a while. Although this young man was not very good at medicine, he was able to note the most appropriate dosage of medicine based on the data and reaction status of the war beast.
"Knock knock." She knocked on the door, "Xiao Zhao."
"Doctor Jiang!" Zhao Ming quickly stood up and pushed his glasses awkwardly.
"Starting tomorrow, you will move to the pharmacy. I will explain this to Researcher Lu. If you have any plant samples, you can go directly to the greenhouse to get them." She said lightly.
Zhao Ming was stunned and asked hurriedly, "Doctor Jiang, is there something I didn't do well enough?"
Jiang Zihan shook her head. "The pharmacy is more suitable for you. We are more in need of a pharmacist than a doctor's assistant."
Zhao Ming's eyes lit up instantly: "Thank you, Dr. Jiang!"
After learning that she no longer had to be locked up in the pharmacy, Lu Renshuang relaxed completely and immediately generously packed up all her previous research data and gave it to Zhao Ming.
After the operation, Jicheng began to slowly explore the gathering place, but he still didn't dare to go too far and spent most of his time basking in the sun in the open space in front of the clinic.
Jiang Zihan had specially laid a blanket for it. Lu Chenyuan happened to be passing by at that moment. He peeked into the empty clinic and casually asked, "How about hiring a doctor's assistant? Spring is here, and I guess those war beasts in the mountains will be making a move soon."
Jiang Zihan shook his head: "There are no suitable candidates in that batch of resumes. If I submit it now, I'll probably still use the previous batch."
"You don't like any of them?"
"Well, I don't like it. Who knows what you want to do when you come in." She said calmly, "Let's talk about it when we are really too busy."
The other cubs, tired from running outside, curiously came over to lie down beside their new companion, nudging it with their noses from time to time. Soon, a group of them lay down at the door.
…
A few days later, Lu Chenyuan suddenly knocked on the door of the clinic with a strange expression: "Come out for a moment."
"What's wrong?" Jiang Zihan walked out with some confusion, and looked in the direction of the other party's finger, only to see a forest with green buds beginning to sprout.
Lu Chenyuan's tone became even stranger: "Don't you think... that tallest tree looks a little familiar?"
Jiang Zihan's eyes fell on the tree. When he saw the countless vines hanging from the tree, his eyes almost burst out.
"Strangler fig? Why is it here?!"
The ferocious alien plant that was supposed to be lurking deep in the dense forest had now appeared silently in an area with frequent human activities, and its vines were showing a tendency to continue winding towards the gathering place.
This is great news for everyone.
Jiang Zihan's breath was caught in his throat. Without saying a word, he jumped onto Zhuifeng's back and ran wildly in the direction where the strangler fig appeared.
When we got closer, we saw a deep ravine on the ground, as if it had been dragged out, extending all the way to here through the dense forest.
The strangler fig sensed her approach, and its drooping vines trembled a few times, then coiled around her in a flattering manner, tremblingly holding out a bunch of small flowers, like a child who had done something wrong and was trying to get away with it.
I don't know how long it has been moving, but the cluster of flowers has already wilted. Jiang Zihan stared at its pitiful appearance, feeling a little amused and helpless for a moment.
She sighed and could only quickly clear a space outside the gathering place.
War beasts have a sense of territory, and she cannot let the later trees affect the indigenous people.
She waved from a distance, "Here! Go this way!"
The crown of the strangler fig shook violently, as if it was hesitating. It tried to move its roots, but suddenly stopped under the curious gaze of everyone gathered there. The crown closed with a "swish", and it seemed a little embarrassed.
"Okay, then you can move it tonight."
Jiang Zihan turned around and frowned. After returning to the clinic, he thought for a long time and finally got up to pack his luggage.
Lu Chenyuan rushed back, exhausted, and raised his eyebrows: "You want to go out?"
"I have to go to the dense forest to check, in case other trees also start to move..." Jiang Zihan stuffed the potion into his backpack neatly, and several possibilities began to appear in his mind.
"No need for 'just in case,'" Lu Chenyuan interrupted her, his voice a little serious, "The migration has already begun."
Jiang Zihan was shocked: "How could it be?"
"The trees on the north slope are all moving outward, but if they move this far, they'll strangle the fig tree." He pointed to the faint shadow of the mountain outside the window. "There must be something wrong in the mountain. It's already threatening the other deformed trees."
Jiang Zihan couldn't help but hold his forehead.
She should have thought of it earlier. The guy named Strangler was too smart and must have discovered the problem long ago.
"Go up the mountain," she said decisively. "If it's a war beast, it's fine, but if it's a highly distorted plant..."
If it were plants, the resources on the mountain would definitely be plundered crazily, and the mountain springs they had worked so hard to store would probably be lost again.
The road into the mountains is full of potholes.
Jiang Zihan stepped over the pits, one step deep and one step shallow, and kept complaining in his heart, it is said that people move and live, and trees move and die, this has already overcome the instinct of death, what kind of crisis would make the alien plants move collectively?
"Be careful, something doesn't feel right here." Lu Chenyuan reminded in a low voice.
Jiang Zihan nodded and tightened the strap of his backpack.
Suddenly, a spotted poisonous snake suddenly jumped out from the grass. With a cold flash of the military bayonet, Lu Chenyuan was quick-eyed and quick-handed, and quickly nailed the snake to the tree stump.
He walked over quickly and killed the snake completely. He picked up the snake's tail and shook it: "Perfect, I'll take it back and give it to the goshawk as a snack."
When I turned around, I suddenly saw Jiang Zihan had walked several meters away silently.
It seems that he is really anxious.
Lu Chenyuan caught up with him in three or two steps. Just when he was about to ask whether feeding the snake to the goshawk would aggravate the deformity, he suddenly found that Jiang Zihan had unnoticedly widened the distance again.
He swallowed his words and looked thoughtfully at the other person's inexplicably stiff back. Suddenly, an idea struck him: "Ah, there's a snake over there."
The next second, Jiang Zihan jumped up and quickly hid behind Lu Chenyuan.
He looked at his tightly grasped sleeve and couldn't help laughing: "It turns out that the calm and composed Dr. Jiang is afraid of snakes."
Jiang Zihan realized that he was being tricked. His face flushed red and he kicked: "Lu! Chen! Yuan!"
Ever since he established his prestige in the gathering place, he has become a little reserved and it has been a long time since he lost his composure like this.
The man smiled and raised his hands in surrender, the morning light filtering through the gaps in the trees onto his chiseled face.
Jiang Zihan turned his face away and muttered, "... childish."
The mountain road in the second half gradually became steeper, the temperature of the forest wind dropped by several degrees, and Jiang Zihan's pace became noticeably slower.
Along the way, she picked some wild mushrooms and herbs from time to time, and her backpack was almost full. However, every time she got close to Lu Chenyuan, she would deliberately take a step away.
There was a snake lying in the basket. Even though it had died a long time ago, it still made her scalp tingle.
As dusk falls, the layered mountains turn into dark blue silhouettes in the distance.
Lu Chenyuan looked up at the darkening sky, and suddenly his ears caught a glimpse of unusual movement.
Swish, swish.
"careful!"
A black shadow suddenly jumped out from behind the tree. In the night, the other party almost merged with the shadow. Two pairs of green animal eyes were bloodshot, staring at the two humans who broke into their territory.
It lowered its front body, kicked its feet and launched another attack. Lu Chenyuan held the bayonet and swung it horizontally. The beast dodged quickly, adjusting its body in mid-air and turning like the wind.
Jiang Zihan dodged sideways, and suddenly heard a clear clinking sound. She was distracted. The next second, the leopard's claws brushed against her sleeve, and its sharp teeth bit her arm.
"Ouch!" She cried out in pain and suddenly injected the anesthetic into its neck with her left hand.
The black beast's eyes went blank for a moment, and Lu Chenyuan kicked it in the abdomen. The beast let go in pain, staggered a few steps, and fell to the ground with a bang.
Jiang Zihan leaned against the tree trunk and slowly slid down to sit on the ground. His vision began to blur, and his last thought was, "I should practice fighting next time..."
Lu Chenyuan took a quick step and caught the person who was about to fall. Jiang Zihan's hot breath brushed across his neck. Was he infected by the abnormality and had a fever?
He frowned and glanced at the unconscious Black Panther not far away, then decisively picked up Jiang Zihan, ran for a distance, and kicked open the wooden door of the patrol house.
"Leopard... Black Panther..." Jiang Zihan murmured.
"It's already late, and you're still thinking about other things?" Lu Chenyuan rummaged through the potion in her bag. "Do you have the antidote?"
Jiang Zihan grabbed his sleeve with difficulty: "...Then it must be a war beast. I...saw the nameplate on its neck."
Lu Chenyuan said nothing. After reading the label on the medicine carefully, he quickly injected it into her and then closely watched her reaction.
Jiang Zihan patted him and said, "The medicine is almost taking effect. I might need to take a nap... Please come back soon..."
Lu Chenyuan looked back at the sky, took off his clothes and covered her with them, then quickly stood up and pushed the door open to go out.
Jiang Zihan breathed a sigh of relief, opened the system panel with trembling hands, and finally got the people away.
The antidote has limited effect on highly distorted infections, and she doesn't want to lose her life here.
Her consciousness was no longer clear. She refreshed the mall with half-closed eyes for a long time, and finally injected the high-efficiency purifier into her neck before she completely fainted.
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