Chapter 373
Ling Shaoyang remembered the location of the laboratory very clearly. Even though the environment here had changed a lot in the apocalypse, he still accurately brought the group to the place they had visited that year.
Most people here don't have access to such secrets. Who would have thought that more than a year before the end of the world, someone here tried to use the zombie virus to conduct human experiments and create insane monsters. The laboratory was located here, and it was obviously aimed at China.
"Is the situation in America not much better than in China?"
"Yes, before the blood moon, we could still see news about the United States on the Internet. Their country is even more chaotic than our China. They deserve it!"
Because this place had been blown up a long time ago, it was difficult to get in without the help of machines before the end of the world, but now everyone is either a psychic or a warrior, so they can easily move away the rubble blocking the door, and the door was simply broken through by them.
Some places were blown up, while some places were intact. They turned on the lighting tools they brought and went inside, and found traces of previous battles in many places. This does not pose a threat to them now, but at the beginning it was a group of special forces who sneaked in secretly. Even if they are very skilled, they are still a group of ordinary people.
At that time, only Ling Shaoyang walked out of here alive, which made everyone respect the soldiers who died here. If it weren't for the end of the world, they might never have the chance to know that a group of people sacrificed here to protect the safety of China.
"Look here!" Zhong Wenzhou said in surprise.
Hearing his voice, everyone rushed over and saw dozens of roots of varying thicknesses extending into the underground laboratory, completely destroying it. Hearing their voices, the roots moved and extended towards where they were.
"It's a strange plant, perhaps it has mutated due to the zombie virus here. Let me take care of it." Yuan Jing walked out from behind. It was not the first time he encountered a strange plant, but the aura of this one made him feel particularly strong, and it was hostile to invaders like them.
"Be careful!" Liang Wei warned.
Ling Shaoyang followed Yuan Jing. Yuan Jing walked to one of the rhizomes that was about to move, reached out and touched it, and the movement of the roots stopped.
Others thought of Yuan Jing's strange affinity for strange beasts, and wondered if this affinity could also be used on strange plants? In this apocalypse full of strange beasts and plants, wouldn't Yuan Jing be the strongest person in the apocalypse? He could literally walk sideways in the apocalypse.
The next moment, more than a dozen roots jumped out from the soil and cracks in the rocks. The people behind were ready to join the battle. Some of them had supernatural lights in their palms, but when those roots jumped to Yuan Jing, they just wrapped his hands and rubbed against them. This action made everyone immediately turn their heads to look at a psychic in the imperial capital. The strange beast he led often did such actions.
The psychic also thought of this situation and scratched his head and blinked, wondering if this strange plant was of the same character as the strange beast.
Feeling that the alien plant's hostility was gradually dissipating, Yuan Jing communicated with it, asking it how long it had been here and whether it knew about the subsequent changes in the laboratory. The alien plant transmitted the scenes when it first had memories to Yuan Jing. Although many of them were blurry, he was still able to unravel them. Yuan Jing sighed in his heart, it seemed that things were really as Shaoyang had expected.
He patted one of the rhizomes and said, "Send us up first."
Those roots immediately weaved into a net, leaving some roots outside to hook Yuan Jing's clothes. Such humane actions made it clear that this was to let Yuan Jing sit in the net, and the alien plants would send him to the ground. What about them?
Yuan Jing did not refuse the kindness of the alien plant and sat in. Ling Shaoyang took a tentative step forward, and the root that was hooking Yuan Jing quickly pulled out, and then pulled Yuan Jing up. The crowd behind was silent for a moment, and then burst into laughter.
Wei Ting laughed so hard that tears came out of his eyes. He patted Ling Shaoyang sympathetically and said, "It's really not easy for you."
Not only does he have to compete with those strange beasts for his lover along the way, but now a strange plant has appeared and is trying to snatch Yuan Jing from Ling Shaoyang. It makes people feel extremely sympathetic, but why is it so funny?
Ling Shaoyang was extremely upset, but what could he do? Yuan Jing only had him as his lover, so he said, "Let's go up quickly. We shouldn't be able to find anything here."
Even the corpses were gone, and the scene here confirmed his guess, and he sighed from the bottom of his heart.
Everyone could only follow Ling Shaoyang and crawl out of the hole made by the alien plant. No one could enjoy the treatment of Yuan Jing. When they came outside, they saw Yuan Jing sitting on a chair made of leaves and vines. The alien plant behind him was very tall, but it happened to be at the other end of the laboratory, so they did not notice the situation here when they first arrived.
Yuan Jing patted the chair he was sitting on and said, "This is a fragrant dragon blood tree, a level five exotic plant. You don't have to worry about being attacked with me here. There is no safer place than here. Let's rest here tonight."
"Okay, I'll listen to you, Yuan Jing. I can finally have a good night's sleep and set off back tomorrow morning."
"Yuan Jing, what are you going to do with this Dracaena fragrans?" Looking at the leaves that are completely different from before the mutation, with very sharp edges, there is no doubt about how dangerous it is, despite the fact that no zombies have appeared in this area.
They only just remembered that they had not encountered any zombies or strange beasts near the laboratory. They were obviously afraid of this strange plant and did not dare to step into its territory.
Another leaf came to seduce Yuan Jing, but the sharp leaf became soft again in front of him. Yuan Jing touched the leaf and said, "I'll see if I can take it away and bring it back to Hope Base. It will give me an extra protective force."
They knew this would be the result. It was really enviable. One person could be worth thousands of troops. They looked at Yuan Jing with envy, and then looked at Ling Shaoyang with jealousy. Ling Shaoyang was speechless. What was he thinking? Yuan Jing and he were lovers for life, and these people couldn't snatch them away even if they wanted to.
Everyone was finally able to relax and have a good meal, and they all got busy, hoping that the base would be the happiest as well. They believed that this exotic plant would become a unique landscape in the base if they took it back.
After eating and drinking, everyone basically went to rest. With the level 5 alien plants and those strange beasts around, they could alert everyone in time if any situation occurred, so there was no need to worry about being attacked by zombies while sleeping.
Only Ling Shaoyang left that night. Yuan Jing knew the whole process, of course. He also knew why he went out, which was to collect the bones of his fallen comrades. They had turned into part of the meat mountain monster. The monster walked out of the laboratory. If those people still have spirits in heaven, they would definitely not want to see such a situation, so it was best for Yuan Jing and Ling Shaoyang to kill the monster.
Ling Shaoyang burned all the bones into ashes with a fire, and finally collected the ashes. He couldn't tell whose were whose. There might be researchers from the original laboratory, as well as monsters and other zombies among them. But he thought the original body and his comrades would not mind. What they cared more about was being able to take them back.
After doing these things, Ling Shaoyang returned to the alien plants. Some people noticed his departure but said nothing. Ling Shaoyang had no obligation to explain to them. Some people guessed that he might have gone to do something because no bodies were found in the laboratory, but they did not say anything about this situation because no matter what happened to them after their death, it was not within their wishes. The real culprit was the American side that conducted the experiment in the first place.
Everyone slept very soundly that night. I don’t know if it was because they were relaxed after completing the mission, but even the air here felt very fresh, unlike what we felt when we just crossed the border.
Only Yuan Jing knew that after the mutation, this Dracaena fragrans could also filter the air. What it filtered out was naturally the zombie virus. Even the viruses contained in the soil where the Dracaena fragrans was rooted were very limited. Taking it back might help purify the soil of the Hope Base.
The next morning, everyone set off after breakfast. Under their gaze, the Dracaena fragrans pulled all its roots out of the ground, then twisted them into a ball and turned them into several claws. It put Yuan Jing on it and ran away. Its speed was much faster than theirs.
"We are now worse off than a tree, aren't we?" someone said with a smile.
"Stop talking nonsense and get on the road quickly. Don't let a tree really leave you behind."
The fragrant dragon blood tree was running in the front, followed by twenty strange beasts. The poor Ling Shaoyang could only follow the people from the Hope Base in the car to catch up.
Halfway through the journey, Ling Shaoyang and Yuan Jing separated from the other teams. Of course, they sent Zou Haiyang and his men as representatives to follow the main force to the imperial capital to report the results. The rest took a detour back to the Hope Base. Of course, they did not travel at full speed. On the way, Yuan Jing specifically walked through places where alien plants were likely to appear and collected more alien plants, which would be beneficial to the research of the base. He could also bring a few more alien plants with special functions like the Dracaena fragrans and establish an alien plant garden in the base.
They are skilled and courageous, and they go to dangerous places more often. Naturally, their final harvest is very rich. When Zou Haiyang led his men back to Hope Base from the Imperial Capital, the two leaders of Hope Base were still outside with their men. When Zou Haiyang wanted to report the situation in the Imperial Capital to the leaders as soon as possible, he was at a loss whether to laugh or cry when he heard the news.
"But there is something that is difficult to deal with if the boss and the others don't come back. We don't know where the boss and the others are, and we can't even get through on the phone." Although communications have been restored, they cannot reach the level before the end of the world, and the satellites in the sky have long since lost their function.
"What's going on? Is there someone trying to cause trouble when we leave?" Zou Haiyang asked seriously.
"That's right. Fortunately, the boss and his men kept Sanwei. It was Sanwei who caught the man and discovered the problem. Sanwei was the hero this time."
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