The residential building was completely quiet...
There were no zombie roars, nor the sound of human breath.
Jiang Sinian walked at the front, Qin Wan walked in the middle, and Gu Shaoyan brought up the rear.
Behind the three, Qin Nuan, who had been unconscious in the car, quietly sat up straight.
In the darkness, Qin Nuan stared intently at the departing figures of the three people ahead.
Qin Nuan's lips curled slightly, revealing a meaningful smile...
Gu Shaoyan's fire-based superpower was used for lighting, illuminating the entire residential building.
"I don't think I've seen any zombies..."
"We didn't see anyone alive either..."
“How strange…” Gu Shaoyan said with a furrowed brow.
“Something unusual must be going on,” Jiang Sinian said warily.
"Can you smell it?" Qin Wan suddenly asked.
"What?"
Jiang Sinian and Gu Shaoyan said in unison.
"The smell of blood," Qin Wan warned. "There's a strong smell of blood in the air."
"It really is..."
"The ground looks very clean; I didn't see any corpses or bloodstains." Gu Shaoyan frowned as he surveyed his surroundings.
“But the smell of blood in the air was very strong,” Jiang Sinian added.
As they spoke, the two men frowned, their bodies tense as they looked around warily.
"Whoosh!"
A whooshing sound suddenly came from the air.
Qin Wan immediately pulled Gu Shaoyan aside, while Jiang Sinian, caught off guard, quickly unleashed a bolt of lightning at the oncoming creature...
"squeak!"
A sharp scream rang out, and the apartment building they were in began to shake and tremble.
The ground beneath their feet crumbled into pieces...
Gaps appeared, and countless vines, carrying a chilling killing intent, rushed towards the three of them...
"Wow!"
"What the hell is this?!"
"Mutant plant!"
Qin Wan protected Gu Shaoyan, dodging left and right, avoiding the attacks of the vines time and time again.
Jiang Sinian was all alone, with no one to rely on, and could only rely on his own strength, unleashing bolts of lightning to attack the vines.
"squeak!"
"Squeak squeak squeak!"
The vines screamed incessantly, and the vines attacking them became increasingly frenzied, increasing their speed and power.
"Set it on fire!" Qin Wan warned.
Gu Shaoyan snapped out of his daze and, with a wave of his hand, scattered countless fire snakes in all directions...
"squeak!!!"
The screams grew increasingly piercing as the ground beneath their feet cracked wider and wider, as if forming an abyss.
The residential buildings that were once within easy reach have long been swallowed up...
Countless tendrils stretched out, obscuring the sky and the moon, as Qin Wan squinted at the unusual movements in her surroundings.
"Add more fire!" Qin Wan patted Gu Shaoyan on the shoulder, reminding him.
“I’ve been setting fires, but this mutated plant is very strange; the severed tentacles will split off into even more new vines…”
Upon hearing this, Qin Wan frowned as she observed the battle between Gu Shaoyan and Jiang Sinian.
Flames burn the vines, and the vines grow new life...
Lightning severed the vines, but countless new vines appeared...
Upon realizing something was wrong, Qin Wan immediately took Gu Shaoyan to Jiang Sinian's side.
"You two hold them off for now."
After speaking, Qin Wan flew away from the area controlled by the vines.
Gu Shaoyan: "???"
Jiang Sinian: "???"
"She...did she just leave us behind and run away?" Gu Shaoyan's eyes widened, his face filled with disbelief.
Jiang Sinian pursed his thin lips, paused for a moment, and then said, "I believe her."
Upon hearing this, Gu Shaoyan stared intently at him with a deep gaze, "If your tone had been any more firm, I might have believed you."
"..." Jiang Sinian's lips twitched. "Stop talking nonsense, saving your life is the most important thing."
As they spoke, the two stood back to back, continuously unleashing their supernatural powers to attack the vines flying all around them.
"This can't go on. We must find the weakness of this mutated plant." Gu Shaoyan frowned, his usually unreliable expression unusually serious.
"How about we move out of this residential area first?" Jiang Sinian suggested.
"I'd like to, but do you think it's possible?" Gu Shaoyan said irritably.
Upon hearing this, Jiang Sinian realized that, without him noticing, the direction Qin Wan had gone had been blocked off by countless vines...
He and Gu Shaoyan were completely surrounded by vines, forming a circle.
Looking up, you can't see the sky; looking down, you can't see the ground.
"It's over..."
Gu Shaoyan let out a wail, filled with regret, "If I had known it was this dangerous, I would never have insisted on staying one night."
"Traveling without sleep or rest is safer than encountering a horde of zombies!"
Jiang Sinian's temples twitched as he listened. "Alright, let's figure out a way to get out of here first."
"This can't go on."
Gu Shaoyan accused, "Do you think I don't want to?"
"Didn't you notice? The fire I set was barely a scratch on this vine."
"And your lightning ability! The lightning you unleashed seemed to sever these vines, but in reality, it just helped them successfully regenerate branches!!!"
Jiang Sinian was speechless: "..."
Gu Shaoyan was right; the current situation was indeed as he described.
"ah!!!"
"Qin Wan!!!"
"You bitch!!!"
As a shrill scream rang out, Gu Shaoyan and Jiang Sinian exchanged a glance, both seeing surprise and astonishment in each other's eyes.
"What happened?"
"It sounds like Qin Nuan's voice..."
"Did Qin Wan go to see Qin Nuan?"
"Qin Nuan doesn't have any special abilities, so what's the point of looking for her at this time?"
The two men, their brows furrowed and faces grave, continued attacking the vines as they approached the source of the sound...
"Qin Wan! Let me go!"
"I don't understand what you're saying!"
"Qin Wan, I will not let you get away with this!"
"ah!!!"
"I'll talk!"
"I said it, okay?!"
A piercing scream echoed throughout the land. Qin Nuan's face was deathly pale, her lips were bloodless, her body trembled uncontrollably, and her pupils were filled with terror.
She never expected that Qin Wan would know that she had a way to deal with the mutated plants here.
How did she know?
Who exactly is Qin Wan?
No, she is definitely not Qin Wan.
Qin Nuan pointed with trembling hands to an inconspicuous old locust tree at the entrance of the village.
"There, there..."
"That old locust tree is the root of this mutated plant."
"These vines will disappear as long as the locust tree is burned."
"Otherwise, as long as the main body remains intact, these vines will never disappear. They might even absorb the attack energy they release, constantly mutating into new vines, more and more..."
"Until the superhuman exhausts their power and is entangled and devoured by the vines, not only will there be no corpse, but not even a drop of blood will remain..."
Qin Nuan finished speaking through sobs, her body trembling uncontrollably.
"Let me go! This vine is about to touch me, I'm going to die!"
"I've told you everything I know, so you'd better keep your word and let me go right now!"
"Qin Wan!!!" Qin Nuan's hoarse roar echoed all around.
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