Chapter 97 Mutant Resurrection Grass
A day and a night passed, and Pandole not only did not wake up, but also developed a high fever. Zuo Shan cooked meat and vegetable porridge, wanting to feed it to her, but she couldn't get her to eat a single bite.
She even sought help from Wanwan, hoping it could intimidate the mutated plant inside Pandole's body. However, as soon as Wanwan approached her, it was so frightened that it shrank back into its little sprout, clearly looking very scared.
From this, Zuo Shan roughly deduced that the wood spirit core inside Pan Duole's body must be an extraordinary mutated plant, and its level was even higher than that of Wanwan.
"Mao Li, think back carefully again. What unusual thing happened before Lele fainted that day?" Zuo Shan asked after calming down.
"When I sensed a strong fluctuation of wood-attribute energy, I quickly ran in that direction and met Lele on the way. She seemed to be walking in that direction as well."
I pointed out that there might be a Wood Spirit Core over there and told her to go dig it up, so she ran over there.
Then we saw a clump of hay wrapping the Wood Spirit Core, which emitted a faint green light.
Lele reached out and parted the dry grass. As soon as she touched the Wood Spirit Core, her fingers seemed to be sucked in by it.
Then she fainted. I saw that the hay had wrapped around her hands, so I used the robotic arm to cut the hay directly, and then I carried her to find you.
"Yes, that's the whole process, and nothing else went wrong," Mao Li said, recalling the events carefully.
The mechanical race's memory is comparable to that of a computer, and Zuo Shan believed that he would not miss any details. She carefully reviewed Mao Li's words several times and finally discovered the problem.
"There's something wrong with that clump of hay!" Zuo Shan exclaimed excitedly.
"What's wrong with the hay?" Chestnut asked, puzzled.
"I remember watching a documentary once, and there was a plant in it called the resurrection plant."
The resurrection plant has an extremely strong vitality. When it encounters drought, it turns into a clump of dry grass that sways in the wind. Sometimes it will roll in the desert for decades.
Until a heavy rain comes, this clump of what looks like dry grass absorbs all the rainwater and quickly takes root, sprouts, flowers, and produces seeds.
If the clump of hay that Lele encountered was the legendary resurrection grass, and it had mutated, it might have been transported to that collection point by a tornado not long ago.
It discovered a Wood Spirit Core, enveloped it, and is now trying to plunder the energy within it.
At this moment, Lele appeared. She wanted to dig out the Wood Spirit Core, and the Resurrection Grass naturally regarded her as an enemy.
It pierced her finger with dry grass and began to suck her blood. The enemy of my enemy is my friend. In order not to be drained by the resurrection grass, the wood spirit core chose to follow Lele and wanted to help her kill the resurrection grass.
When I took out my dagger to separate the Wood Spirit Core from Lele's hand, it chose to merge into Lele's body.
If I'm not mistaken, those resurrection plants didn't actually die after you cut them down. They merged into Lele's body and kept consuming her blood in an attempt to revive.
"That's why Lele exhibited symptoms of anemia and remained unconscious." Zuo Shan analyzed for a long time, but Mao Li was somewhat confused.
"Isn't it possible that the Wood Spirit Core was originally the Wood Spirit Core of a mutated Resurrection Grass?"
"If the Wood Spirit Core and the hay are one, it will leave after it has absorbed Lele's blood and go to plunder other energy sources."
"If it wanted to form a contract with Lele, it should have merged into her body the moment it drank her blood, instead of remaining outside of her body," Zuo Shan explained.
"Why is it that sometimes your human brains are more powerful than our machine race's database analysis capabilities?" Mao Li stared at her with bright eyes.
"In your mechanical race's theory, 1+1=2, but we humans sometimes deduce that 1+1+1=2," Zuo Shan said.
"Huh? I don't understand anymore!" Mao Li was so anxious that her brain almost shut down.
"You don't need to understand, and even if I did understand, I still wouldn't be able to find a solution. I can only wait for the final outcome of their three-way battle."
"But I swear, if that resurrection herb really kills Lele, I'll have Xiaobao tear it to pieces and throw it into the furnace to burn to ashes, so it will never have a chance to come back to life!" Zuo Shan said through gritted teeth.
To cool Lele down, Zuo Shan filled a large bamboo basin with cool water and soaked her whole body in it. She even thought, "Isn't the resurrection plant supposed to take root and sprout when it gets wet?"
With so much water, it might just leak out of Lele's body.
Unfortunately, her plan failed. Pandora's whole body was burning red, but not a single blade of grass could be squeezed out of her body.
Zuo Shan even sent a message to Chi Zhengyang, asking him to help find a high-level wood-type ability user to consult about the cause of this situation.
Unfortunately, after inquiring around, Chi Zhengyang found that no one could explain this phenomenon.
Zuo Shan then sent a message to the agricultural expert Chu Heng. The knowledgeable old expert said that he had never heard of Lele's situation before, but he said that he would come and see for himself and perhaps make some new discoveries.
At this point, Zuo Shan had reached a dead end and could not think of any other solutions.
That night, she stayed by Pan Duole's side, her eyes red and swollen. She even began to regret it. If she hadn't been so kind as to take Lele home and then to District 48, Lele might not have encountered this situation.
She leaned down and whispered in her ear, "Lele, I know you're having a hard time, but please hang in there, okay?"
She bought a cooling plug and then changed the water in the bamboo basin, which had been heated by her body temperature, over and over again, replacing it with fresh cold water from the tap.
"Lele, hang in there, you must hang in there! Our family has six members: Maoli, Xiaobao, Wanwan, Achen, and you and me. We can't lose any of them!"
"Waaah! Please wake up, I can't take it anymore!" Zuo Shan finally broke down and cried.
Mao Li stood by, unsure how to offer any advice. Xiao Bao gently nuzzled her palm with his head, and Wanwan secretly peeked out two tender leaves, rubbing against her wrist before quickly retracting them.
Judging from Wanwan's reaction, this life-or-death struggle is still ongoing. Zuo Shan held Pan Duole's thin, stick-like wrist and kept encouraging her.
Suddenly, she remembered the purple cloud egg still in Xiao Bao's space, slapped her forehead, and shouted at Xiao Bao, "Hurry up, hurry up, take that stone out!"
Xiao Bao touched his belly with his little paws, and a large, silvery-blue stone fell to the ground with a "clatter".
"What are you doing? What my sister wants is that Purple Cloud Egg!" Zuo Shan said irritably.
Xiao Bao quickly touched his belly again, and this time he took out the purple cloud egg.
Zuo Shan hurriedly placed the Purple Cloud Egg on Pan Duole's abdomen. Actually, she didn't know where to put it. She remembered that in fantasy dramas, people often talked about how important the dantian was, and the dantian was located three inches below the navel.
With the Purple Cloud Egg in her womb, Pan Duole's condition indeed stabilized somewhat; the redness on her skin gradually faded, and her body temperature dropped a bit.
Fearing she would catch a cold, Zuo Shan quickly picked her up, dried her off, and put her on the bed.
When Xiao Bao realized it was no longer needed, it finally remembered the big rock on the ground, which contained absorbable metal. It decided to absorb it as a midnight snack.
Just as it enveloped the large rock with its supernatural power, Mao Li suddenly shouted, "Stop! Stop right now! Xiao Bao, you can't just inhale that!"
Zuo Shan was also puzzled. She had been so focused on getting the Purple Cloud Egg to help Pan Duole alleviate his symptoms that she hadn't paid attention to this big rock.
After all, the stones in Xiao Bao's space might be things it liked to pick up and play with. Hearing Mao Li's words, it asked, "Why can't Xiao Bao absorb the metal inside the stones?"
Xiao Bao looked at him with a puzzled expression, the meaning of which was obvious: Yes, why can't we inhale?
"Oh my! This stone is no ordinary stone. It is a type of high-level energy stone called the Heart-Tempering Stone."
The reason it is called the Heart-Tempering Stone is because it is a treasure that mental ability users covet. It can help mental ability users improve their abilities, and its effect is ten or even a hundred times stronger than that of ordinary high-level energy stones!
"Our little treasure has a metal-based ability to manipulate metal, it's such a waste of talent, such a huge waste of resources! Do you understand what I mean?" Mao Li hurriedly explained.
"I understand. In other words, if we encounter a psychic in the future, this Heart Tempering Stone can be exchanged for resources, enough to obtain countless high-quality metals that Xiaobao needs, right?"
"Yes, yes, Master, you are so smart, you understand so quickly!" Mao Li sincerely flattered him.
"Alright, Xiao Bao, let's not suck on this for now, okay? I'll use it to get you a whole bunch of meat to eat later, okay?" Zuo Shan patted Xiao Bao's head and said.
Although Xiao Bao couldn't quite understand Mao Li's long explanation, it wouldn't suck if its sister said not to. It could always find some other stones to suck next time it went out to scavenge.
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