"Sizzle..."
"Hey, can you hear me? Can you hear me?"
Just after the thunder and fire stopped, I heard a crackling sound coming from the walkie-talkie.
"I am Lin Yang, little sister, I can hear your voice. What's up?"
Inside the RV, Lin Yang immediately answered the walkie-talkie as soon as he heard the voice coming from it.
"Please bring the car over here, the zombies have been cleared out!"
After saying this, Lin Xue hung up the walkie-talkie.
After thinking about it, I realized that besides our own people, there were many outsiders in the team!
If she appears before everyone looking so radiant, perhaps no one will feel sorry for her sacrifices in the future.
Most importantly, she's a rather lazy person and doesn't have much of a saintly complex, so while the car was still waiting, she took out a mirror and cosmetics and put on a rather pale makeup.
After touching up her makeup, Lin Xue noticed the RV was already far away on the other side of the bridge, so she immediately put away her mirror.
He leaned against the railing by the bridge, feigning exhaustion.
"Minor Snow!"
Lin Zhenyuan was the first to jump out of the RV and went forward to carefully examine Lin Xue's body.
"Xiaoxue, are you alright?"
Following closely behind was Lin Xue's mother, Tang Wenwan.
"I'm fine, let's get in the car and keep going!"
After Lin Xue finished speaking, she stood up straight and prepared to walk to the car, but she swayed after only a couple of steps, which startled her father and mother, who immediately supported her.
"It's nothing, just excessive depletion of spiritual energy. I'll be fine after a rest!"
Lin Xue smiled weakly at her parents, and then, with their help, returned to the RV.
They helped Lin Xue to her private bed and thoughtfully drew the curtains so she could rest well.
Xiao Lei was in charge of the route, and the passengers had become very reliant on the radar system.
The people in the car behind also saw Lin Xue's appearance just now. It seems that even for a superhuman, clearing out so many zombies would come at a great cost.
This gave them the impression that Lin Xue was not omnipotent. Even though she could use talismans to clear out the zombies, there were still limitations!
Drawing talismans requires the support of supernatural abilities, and casting spells also requires the support of supernatural abilities.
This dissuaded Gao Feng from using Lin Xue to save more survivors.
It's already quite good that the employer was able to bring these people along. If the number increases further, it might become a burden, ultimately dragging the entire team down to the jaws of zombies.
With this in mind, even when he encountered other survivor teams later, Gao Feng never thought of bringing them into his team to travel together.
The rest of the journey was relatively peaceful until, as dusk approached, they arrived at a small village where they planned to spend the night.
However, just as the car was about to enter the village, they heard Xiao Lei's sharp alarm.
"Ah! Ah! Ah!"
"Danger! Danger! Danger!"
"Some kind of plant in the village has become sentient. It has eaten all the zombies in the village. It's terrifying, terrifying, terrifying!"
The radar system's sharp beeping alerted everyone in the carriage.
"Shut up!"
Lin Xue rubbed her forehead, feeling a headache coming on. This navigation device was getting noisier and noisier.
"Yes, Master!"
"Go Master! Little Lei believes in you!"
Stepping out of the RV, Lin Xue stood at the entrance of the village, looking at the desolate village ahead.
There wasn't a single person in the village. It seemed Xiao Lei was right; the zombies inside had probably all been eaten by the mutated plants.
Lin Xue scanned the village with her mental energy, but unfortunately all the plants remained quietly still, and she couldn't detect anything unusual at first.
"bite!"
"Host, that mutated plant is hiding underground; you can't see it just by looking at it like that!"
Just as Lin Xue's mental energy was repeatedly scanning the village, the system's voice suddenly floated out.
"underground?"
Upon hearing 629's reminder, Lin Xue immediately shifted her mental energy downwards, passing through the thick soil to reach the ground.
"Hiss~"
The underground space had long been hollowed out by mutated plants, and was densely packed with vines that looked like intertwined snakes.
The vines varied in thickness, with the thinnest being only as thick as a person's little finger and the thickest being even thicker than a gas cylinder.
"Tongzi, what kind of plant has mutated? Why does it have so many roots?"
Looking at the images that appeared in her mind, Lin Xue couldn't help but gasp.
"Host, if I'm not mistaken, the plant's true form is a rose. Do you see that patch of roses in the village? That's the true form of this mutated plant, and everything below it is its root system!"
"The rose looks bright and beautiful, and its personality is equally bloodthirsty and passionate. Although the part of the rose that is exposed above the ground doesn't look very big, it only covers half of the yard!"
"But whether it's the branches exposed on the ground or the vines underground, they can all stretch and contract."
"Once it senses something approaching, it will immediately extend its vines to wrap up its prey and drag it to the ground to become its nourishment!"
While using her mental power to observe the roses in the yard, Lin Xue pondered a solution in her mind.
"Would burning the branches kill this mutated rose?"
Lin Xue asked tentatively, since she had never seen such a mutated plant before and it was normal that she didn't know its characteristics.
"Useless host! Unless you remove the underground roots as well, the rose will never truly die!"
"The mutated roses in this village have evolved into third-tier mutated plants because they have absorbed too much flesh and blood from humans and zombies. If you kill it, you might get the inner core of the mutated plant!"
Although this mutated rose is quite troublesome, 629 still hopes that Lin Xue can find a way to deal with it, after all, the inner core of mutated plants is a valuable item.
"Inner core? Isn't that a crystal core?"
The mention of inner alchemy caused Lin Xue to pause for a moment.
She thought all mutated creatures would produce crystal nuclei, but she didn't expect that mutated plants would produce inner cores instead of crystal nuclei.
"No, it's not a host, but the inner core of a mutated plant has a similar function to the crystal core of a zombie!"
"Compared to the crystal core of a zombie, the inner core of a mutated plant is much gentler. If someone of the same attribute absorbs the inner core of a mutated plant, the success rate is much higher than that of a zombie crystal core. Moreover, it can be consumed without being soaked in spiritual spring water!"
This is undoubtedly good news for Lin Xue.
If word got out that she could purify zombie crystal cores, it would bring her endless trouble.
However, the fact that the inner core of the mutated plant can grant people supernatural abilities is no longer a secret.
After all, her spiritual spring water wasn't involved, so it wouldn't matter if people found out.
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