Chapter 98 Trinity (Third Update)
When Pandora woke up, it was already the afternoon of the third day.
As soon as she opened her eyes, she saw Zuo Shan lying by her bedside, and Xiao Bao curled up at the foot of the bed.
The magnificent chestnut-shaped creature squatted on a bamboo chair opposite her, staring intently at her with its beautiful heterochromatic gold and silver eyes.
"Mao Li, what happened? Why is everyone in my bedroom?" Pan Duole's hoarse voice startled her.
Then Zuo Shan woke up, and seeing that she had opened her eyes, she burst into tears of joy: "Waaah! You unlucky child, you're finally awake! You scared your sister to death!"
"Am I sick? Why can't I remember anything?" Pan Duole looked confused, her pale face appearing even thinner.
"She says she doesn't remember. Mao Li, can you help her remember? I'll go make her some vegetable soup!" Zuo Shan said dejectedly.
Despite saying that, she didn't move an inch. She reached out and touched Pandole's forehead to make sure she didn't have a fever. Then she got up, poured a glass of warm water, and half-carried, half-supported her as she fed her the water.
Mao Li chattered on and on, giving a complete account of what had happened during the three days she was unconscious.
"So, my body has been invaded by mutated plants? Sister, will those dry grasses grow inside my body in the future?!" Pan Duole asked in horror.
"I really don't know, why don't you try to feel it for yourself?" Zuo Shan said half-jokingly.
Pandora was terrified, and then Mao Li carefully taught her how a novice who had made a contract with a mutated plant could sense and control the plant with which he had made the contract.
After repeated attempts, Pandora finally learned to communicate with the mutated plant inside her body and completely understood her current situation.
There are now two mutated plants in her body: one is a mutated Ophiopogon japonicus, and the other is a mutated resurrection plant.
Ophiopogon japonicus is a herbaceous plant with extremely strong vitality. It just so happened that the mutated resurrection grass encountered it and wanted to steal its wood spirit core.
Both of these are extremely resilient plants in nature, and their tug-of-war had been going on for several days, so both Pandora and Chestnut sensed strong energy fluctuations.
However, Pandora, being an ordinary person, did not know that the intoxicating comfort she felt was the result of the continuous release of wood-type energy.
She saw the wood spirit core of the mutated Ophiopogon japonicus, which was only wrapped in a clump of dry grass, and planned to reach out and take it directly.
Little did she know that the clump of dry grass was actually a resurrection grass swept over from the desert by a storm. It was fighting against a mutated lilyturf. Sensing someone approaching, and knowing that fresh blood was a source of energy for it, it pierced its finger and began to suck blood.
The mutated Ophiopogon japonicus, worried that the Resurrection Grass would gain the upper hand by sucking her blood, used its own Wood Spirit Core to help her heal her wounds and stop the bleeding, trying to prevent the Resurrection Grass from continuing to suck her blood.
At this moment, she fainted due to excessive blood loss. Mao Li accidentally cut off the resurrection grass that was wrapped around her finger, but some of the grass had already pierced her skin and entered her body through her blood vessels.
To save her, the mutated Ophiopogon japonicus voluntarily merged its Wood Spirit Core into her body, essentially signing a contract with her.
However, she was just an ordinary person and could not withstand the contract of the mutated plant. Her body was on the verge of collapse. At this time, the resurrection grass left in her body took effect and quickly repaired her collapsing body.
Because they have left the host, once the symbiotic host dies, they will enter a dormant state, becoming a clump of dry grass, drifting in the wind, until they encounter another resurrection grass host, so that they can take root, sprout, bloom and bear fruit together with the host.
To put it bluntly, over these three days, the mutated Ophiopogon japonicus contract has been damaging her body, while the resurrection grass that was originally meant to drain her dry has been constantly repairing her body.
The complex struggle between the three caused many violent energy threads to wander within her body, constantly damaging her meridians.
Fortunately, Zuo Shan remembered the Purple Cloud Egg and took it out in time. With its purification function, those violent energy strands were finally strangled.
The Heart-Tempering Stone that Xiao Bao dropped on the ground continued to emit mental energy, helping her repair the damaged nerves in her brain. Otherwise, even if her body could be repaired, her brain would be too damaged, and she would become an idiot when she woke up.
Ultimately, she used the power of the contract to fuse with the wood spirit core of the mutated Ophiopogon japonicus, and then, with the help of the mutated Ophiopogon japonicus, she fused with the resurrection grass.
In short, they are now a trinity, sharing life and death, and she controls both of these mutated plants.
Of course, this information was given to her by two mutated plants, and the whole process was deduced after combining the information. She herself was unconscious at the time and knew nothing.
"So, are you considered a superhuman now?" Zuo Shan asked worriedly.
"Should I be considered... a person in a vegetative state?" Pan Duole asked uncertainly.
"Pah! What nonsense are you talking about? Do you even know what a vegetative person is? You're just spouting nonsense! You're at most a plant-type ability user." Zuo Shan glared at her and said.
"Okay, what it's called doesn't matter. What matters is that this resurrection grass has a very useful ability. As long as there's still a breath left, it can bring a person back to life."
However, with my current skill level, saving one person would probably cost me half my life.
"But this mutated lilyturf's ability is quite useful. Its wood spirit core can be used to nourish plants, making them grow faster and better," Pandora said excitedly.
"Stop right there! Look in the mirror and see what a mess you look like! You can't do anything right now, the important thing is to take care of your health!" Zuo Shan said irritably.
"Yes, yes, sister, don't be angry. I'll eat and sleep well, and I promise I'll be lively and energetic again in two days!" Pan Duole playfully stuck out her tongue at her.
She has become more and more lively lately because her sister has always treated her with equality and mutual respect. This makes her feel that she doesn't have to be too careful in this family. She can laugh when she wants to laugh and cry when she wants to cry.
Zuo Shan had just breathed a sigh of relief when he received a message from Chi Zhengyang: "Pei Zhongguang said that a small-scale beast tide has broken out at the border of District 50. Thousands of mutated beasts of the second rank or above are besieging the energy shield, and the safe zone is in grave danger."
If you think about it carefully, from the mutated giant squirrel she encountered when she transmigrated, to the third-tier mutated python, and then to the large-scale invasion of gold-devouring ants, these were all tests one after another.
The energy shield set up by humans serves not only to filter the sun's intense radiation, but also to prevent mutated beasts of rank two and above from passing through.
High-level mutated beasts can forcefully create a passage at certain weak points to send one or two into the protective shield, but this is not possible with large numbers.
So they sent gold-eating ants to dig tunnels underground to cross the protective shield and enter the safe zone.
After such probing, humanity failed to take it seriously and send a group of high-level superhumans to wipe them out, which led to this small-scale beast tide.
If this beast tide successfully allows the mutated beasts to break through the protective shield and enter the safe zone, then perhaps an even larger beast tide will follow.
By then, it might not just be District 50 or District 49, but even more safe zones could fall.
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