Chapter 71 Advanced
After the four people destroyed the giant flower plant, the sky had completely darkened, the fog became thicker, and the ground began to freeze.
Jiang Zhan had just expended too much mental energy, and his face was a bit tired. Qiao Yu stuffed some crystal cores and fruit juice into his mouth, and also gave some to Cheng Sinian and Luo Zhenzhen, letting them rest where they were.
Qiao Yu took out a Tang sword from the space, and when the leaves on the ground stopped twitching, he walked over and cut open the roots of the flower plant above the ground, and took out a crystal core from it.
"Sister Qiao, why is this crystal core so big? The color is also different from those of the alien species." Luo Zhenzhen leaned over and asked curiously, "Are the crystal cores of mutant plants and animals different from those of alien species?"
The crystal core in Qiao Yu's hand was a circle larger than the alien crystal cores they had dug up before. The color was not milky white, but had a hint of light yellow, and was more like beige.
Qiao Yu shook his head. "It's not that it's different from the alien species, it's that its abilities are stronger than the alien species we encountered before."
As Qiao Yu finished speaking, a cold wind suddenly blew through the air, dispersing much of the increasingly thick fog around them.
Qiao Yu was stunned and immediately looked at Jiang Zhan in surprise.
"A Zhan, have you advanced?"
Jiang Zhan was rubbing his temples with his eyes closed, his face pale. Hearing this, he opened his eyes and looked at Qiao Yu. "That's probably it. I feel like half of my energy has suddenly been emptied, and I want to absorb energy."
When Jiang Zhan advanced for the first time, he felt a sudden sharp pain in his brain, as if he had overused his supernatural powers, but the energy around him suddenly ran wild and he couldn't control it.
In just a moment, the supernatural powers in the body suddenly seemed to be gone.
"Yes! It's advanced! That's not because your superpowers are empty, it's because your crystal core has expanded and its capacity has increased." Qiao Yu's face flashed with excitement, "Is it because your wind superpowers have advanced?"
Jiang Zhan carefully felt it and said, "It seems that both abilities have advanced."
He could feel that the coverage of his mental power had also become wider.
Qiao Yu felt mixed emotions when he heard this.
In her previous life, it took her more than half a year to be promoted to the second level.
Qiao Yu had never seen a dual-system alien other than Jiang Zhan in his previous life, so he was not very clear whether the advancement of a dual-system alien was different from that of a single-system alien.
But theoretically speaking, the advancement speed of dual-system mutants should be slower than that of single-system mutants.
Because the advancement of the alien is a process of consuming energy again and again and accumulating it bit by bit, constantly flushing the energy barrier inside the crystal core, and finally breaking the original barrier to form a new energy barrier.
Compared with the single energy barrier of a single-system alien, the dual-system alien has to divide the same amount of energy into two and distribute it evenly to the two abilities. The impact speed on the energy barrier is definitely not as fast as that of a single-system alien.
But Jiang Zhan was the first among them to be promoted to the second level...
"Alas... it's really frustrating to compare yourself with others."
Qiao Yu sighed lightly, put away the crystal core of the giant flower plant, and took out a bunch of first-level alien crystal cores from the space. He stuffed them into Jiang Zhan's pockets while absorbing some himself.
However, Qiao Yu didn't expect that he would feel a dull pain in his head just after absorbing the two crystal cores.
Seeing that Qiao Yu looked unhappy, Jiang Zhan immediately pulled her into his arms and let her lean on his shoulder.
"Ayu?"
Qiao Yu did not answer.
The temperature around them suddenly dropped several degrees, and tiny ice particles appeared in the thick fog surrounding the four people.
After a moment of silence, Qiao Yu suddenly opened his bright eyes, his voice filled with joy. He looked up at Jiang Zhan and said, "Zhan! I've advanced too!"
Jiang Zhan breathed a sigh of relief, kissed her eyes gently, and smiled softly: "Ayu is great!"
Cheng Sinian looked at the ice layer that was rapidly spreading out from under Qiao Yu's feet and sighed quietly: "Alas... it's really frustrating to compare yourself with others."
We all killed aliens together, absorbed crystal cores together, and drank fruit juice together. Why was he the only one who hadn't advanced yet?!
Qiao Yu: “…”
This sounds a little familiar.
Qiao Yu absorbed all the remaining crystal cores in his hand and replenished the energy expanded after the advancement before observing the fruits on the ground that looked like pork belly.
Qiao Yu cut a piece with a knife and raised his chin towards Cheng Sinian, "I knew it wasn't meat."
After the fruit was cut open, it was filled with bright red, blood-like juice, and it smelled faintly of blood.
It's like a blood ball wrapped in pork belly skin.
"Tsk." Cheng Sinian curled his lips. "These mutant plants can actually deceive people."
"Isn't this just like before the apocalypse, when certain plants in nature used the sweet fragrance of their fruits to attract insects as prey? Only now, we've become the prey."
"But why do those villagers keep this plant?" Luo Zhenzhen blinked. "Aren't they afraid of getting burned by playing with fire?"
"This plant must have brought them some benefit." Cheng Sinian rubbed the top of Luo Zhenzhen's head. "I guess it's because it protected the village. Didn't you notice? Ever since we entered the woods yesterday, all the alien species that followed us have disappeared."
Luo Zhenzhen showed a look of sudden realization.
Qiao Yu thought about it and felt that what Cheng Sinian said made some sense, but he always felt that there might be some other reasons.
If it was just to protect themselves from alien invasion, there would be no need for these villagers to take such a big risk and guard such a "time bomb" that could take their lives at any time.
How is this any different from keeping the company of an alien species? Is it because these plants are quieter than alien species?
But compared to this, Qiao Yu was more curious about how this plant grew.
Given the population of Dama Village, it is absolutely impossible for this plant to transform so quickly.
But if it wasn't devouring living people, then what allowed this plant to reach such terrifying strength in such a short period of time?
In the end times, all unknowns are extremely scary.
This concerns their future survival, and she must find a way to turn all these "unknowns" into "knowns".
Qiao Yu also dug at the roots of the grass on the periphery, and as expected, he did not find any crystal cores.
In other words, all the living people or other substances that became "fertilizer" were absorbed by this kind of plant.
"Aren't these plants mutated too?" Cheng Sinian squatted beside Qiao Yu and dug up a few of the mutated plants with a knife. "Why don't they have crystal cores?"
"Because plants are different from humans and animals, their alienation originates from contaminated soil. The viruses in the soil are relatively trace, and absorbing them in a short period of time may not be enough for them to produce crystal nuclei. Only those plants that absorb viruses quickly and in large quantities, when they accumulate viruses in their bodies to a certain level, will produce crystal nuclei and thus develop alien powers."
Qiao Yu put away the knife and stood up. "But this is just my current guess and it has not been confirmed."
"But I think what Ayu said makes sense, and this may be the fact." Jiang Zhan leaned against Qiao Yu, with a look of deep agreement on his face.
So Jiang Zhan got a reward kiss from Qiao Yu.
Seeing this, Cheng Sinian grabbed Luo Zhenzhen and rubbed her against him again, thinking happily: Fortunately, I am not a single dog now!
There is also a house in this area.
The house originally had two rooms, but the east room had been destroyed by mutated plants, and now only the west room remains.
I guess that should be Dr. Yu’s living room.
The four were about to go into the house to see if Dr. Yu had any research records related to the flower plant, but suddenly they heard a faint burst of gunfire in the distance, mixed with the "tsk-tsk" sound of eagles.
The four of them looked at each other.
Qiao Yu: "It's the Eagle variant."
Jiang Zhan: "It's in the direction of the back mountain."
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