To be precise, Banxia wanted to fight the mutated banyan tree king.
The mutated cypress tree said coldly, "If you're not going to tell the truth, you might as well go back to where you came from."
“I’ll go back once I see it.” Banxia simply used vines to roll up the mutated plants scattered all over the ground and threw them by the roadside to avoid blocking the way. “I’ll go find the Banyan King myself.”
Seeing that persuasion was futile, the mutated cypress simply lay dormant in place.
Don't think that just defeating it is enough. There are tens of thousands of mutated plants in Rongcheng. Even if you pluck a single leaf from one of these plants, it could bury this audacious human.
"Wife," Nanxing suddenly grabbed Banxia's hand, "Let's go!"
"Um?"
Nanxing's face turned pale: "I have a bad feeling."
The Devouring Tree suddenly shrank and jumped into Banxia's pocket, echoing in a serious tone, "Listen to Nanxing, I also have a bad feeling!"
Banxia hurriedly took out her motorcycle and, before getting on, kindly said to the mutated cypress tree, "Something bad is going to happen in Rongcheng. You'd better leave as soon as possible!"
The mutated cypress tree looked blankly at the tree and asked, "What do you mean?"
Banxia didn't answer it again, instead hugging Nanxing's waist tightly. She didn't have time to explain: "Okay."
Nanxing stepped on the gas and sped off towards the outskirts of the city with a roar.
The mutated cypress tree realized the seriousness of the situation and scrambled to its feet, running towards the city while shouting, "Your Majesty, something terrible is about to happen!"
After leaving the city, Banxia discovered that there were many mutated animals on the road. They seemed to be unable to see her and Nanxing and were frantically running away.
Banxia couldn't help but frown, trying hard to recall the information she had received in her previous life. However, at this time in her previous life, she was still unconscious and had no idea what had happened.
What kind of disaster could cause all the animals to become so anxious and frantically run away?
A word suddenly popped into my mind: earthquake!
Even mutated animals are so afraid, so this earthquake must have been quite strong.
The King of Banyan Trees, a powerful earthquake.
When these two words were put together, Banxia suddenly remembered something, and her face turned pale instantly.
She asked in a dry voice, "Tian Tian, do you still remember the widely circulated children's song 'The Fairy of the Banyan Tree' from our previous life?"
"There's a banyan tree fairy in Rongcheng, a true deity who saved my life?" The Devouring Tree suddenly realized, "A magnitude 9 earthquake!!!"
The story they knew went like this: In Rongcheng, there lived a kind, thousand-year-old banyan tree. After the apocalypse, the banyan tree evolved an extremely rare precognitive ability. It predicted that Rongcheng would be struck by a cataclysmic earthquake, and thus, citing humanity's mistakes, it banished men and women to other cities to survive. However, it itself was punished by heaven for revealing this secret and perished in Rongcheng.
"Ban... Banxia," the Devouring Tree stammered, grabbing Banxia's finger. "Could we have made a mistake?"
Didn't those survivors say that the Banyan Tree King only drove away the men, while the women and soldiers remained safely in the city?
Banxia gritted her teeth: "We caused such a huge commotion in the city today, did you see even a single human being?"
The Devouring Tree stood frozen in place, unable to utter a single word.
Banxia also fell silent. So what if she knew that Rongcheng was about to experience a magnitude 9 earthquake?
She could do nothing but watch it happen.
“Boss,” Xingzi shouted to Banxia from inside the space, “the mutated bamboo is about to wake up.”
“Honey, stop the car,” Banxia poked Nanxing’s belly. “Let’s go into the space.”
She suddenly realized that with the space around them, she and Nanxing didn't need to run away at all.
The mutated bamboo woke up quickly, feeling the normal temperature it hadn't seen in so long. The whole bamboo was bewildered: "My God, I slept until the world returned to normal?"
The climate in this space is like spring all year round, which is vastly different from the temperature outside, so it's no wonder they misunderstand.
The Devouring Tree scratched the bamboo that had spoken with its branch: "Silly bamboo, we have some questions for you."
The mutated bamboo, which is actually Xiao Feng, didn't mind being scratched at all. Instead, it excitedly grabbed a branch of the Devouring Tree: "Black and White Tree, the world has returned to normal!"
"You're celebrating too soon," the Devouring Tree poured cold water on him. "Besides, I'm not the Black and White Tree, I'm called the Devouring Tree!"
Xiao Feng, puzzled, released the bamboo branch: "What do you mean?"
The Devouring Tree threw Xiao Feng and Xiao Wei, who hadn't dared to utter a sound, out of the space together: "Do you understand?"
Xiao Feng, dumbfounded, poked the thick ice with her roots. Suddenly, she felt like the sky had collapsed and couldn't help but burst into tears. Xiao Wei, on the other hand, was so excited that she fainted.
The Devouring Tree helplessly sent the two mutated bamboos back into its space: "Hey, stop crying, we have something to ask you."
Xiao Feng sobbed, "I am Phoenix Tail Bamboo, and my name is Xiao Feng."
The Devouring Tree didn't care what kind of bamboo it was. It tugged at Banxia's hand, and Banxia took over the conversation, asking, "Are there still humans living in Rongcheng?"
It took Xiaofeng a while to slowly stop crying. It buried its roots in the soil and said, "No, they've all been driven away."
"The women and soldiers were driven away too?"
"Yes," Xiao Feng said honestly, "Before they left, Wang gave each of them five catties of fruit. I almost dropped a level from exhaustion because I was trying to harvest more bamboo rice."
It couldn't help but accuse, "I saw you were a woman and kindly let you into the city to get food, but you knocked out me and my kind!"
Banxia touched her nose sheepishly, realizing she had misunderstood. She quickly corrected herself and apologized, "I'm sorry, I was wrong. I'll apologize to you later. I didn't encounter any women on my way to Rongcheng. Which direction did they go?"
Xiao Feng thought for a while and said, "Shanhai City."
Shanhai City's geographical location is completely opposite to the direction they came from, and Banxia nodded knowingly.
"Did the Banyan King make you mutated plants leave as well?"
As the king of his kind, the Banyan Tree King surely wouldn't abandon the lives of all the mutated plants in the city, would he?
"This is our home, why are you making us leave?" Xiao Feng casually planted her unconscious companion in the soil, and after thinking for a while, added, "Wang said there will be a meeting tonight, and all the plants in the city must be present."
It seems the Banyan King plans to announce tonight that all the plants in the city will have to leave.
Banxia took out two level-three wood-type crystal cores and handed them to Xiaofeng: "As an apology."
Xiao Feng didn't take the money, and generously said, "You didn't knock me out on purpose, so I don't need the apology. Just let me and Xiao Wei go back to the intersection. I need to stand guard properly to prevent anyone from entering the city."
Banxia fell silent. How could she tell the naive Xiaofeng that they were at least twenty kilometers away from the highway exit?
Seeing that Banxia remained silent, Xiaofeng quickly and gently pulled her arm, assuring her, "Human, don't worry, Xiaowei and I will never expose your secret!"
It reluctantly pulled its own and its kind's roots out of the soft, fertile soil; no matter how good this place was, it was not its home!
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