Chapter 30
Qiao Ning didn't haggle with the man-eating flower. After agreeing, 1000 experience points were deducted from her balance, and 3 packs of desiccant were missing from her backpack.
Perhaps seeing how readily Qiao Ning paid, the man-eating flower shook its large blossoms and said, "Your temperament suits my taste, and you smell nice too. I like you."
"Come here, let me see your name... Qiao... Ning? Qiao Ning, I'll remember you."
Guess what my name is?
Qiao Ning never expected that after paying the toll, she would also have to answer questions. Looking at the huge, ferocious man-eating flower in front of her, she, who was terrible at naming things, replied earnestly but somewhat perfunctorily, "Little Red?"
The carnivorous plant happily split off several more petal-shaped heads: "That's right! My name is Little Red! I like you, I like you!"
Qiao Ning: ...I felt it, but there was no need to put your mouth so close to mine.
"Don't worry, I won't hurt you. Come on, I'll clear a path for you. The other paths don't give you enough. This path is better for you, and you won't encounter those ugly monsters."
"Trust Xiaohong, Xiaohong likes you and won't hurt you..."
"And this, here you go, this is a flower seed of mine. It will help you in the future. Goodbye, beautiful and fragrant Qiao Ning. Don't forget me next time we meet."
Qiao Ning took a black, carnivorous plant seed, about the size of a peanut, and returned to the car.
This thing...should be planted in a planting pot, right?
Qiao Ning happened to have an empty spot in a pot, so she planted the carnivorous flower seed in it.
The planting pot can display plant information and growth status. As soon as Qiao Ning entered, she saw the following displayed:
Name: Man-eating Flower (Owner can change this once)
Race: Descendants of the main lineage of the Man-Eating Flower King
Status: Flowering stage (starving, needs nutrient supplementation)
This race looks pretty awesome.
Perhaps because it hasn't fully matured yet, no icon or specific information about the carnivorous plant appeared on the system interface.
Qiao Ning didn't know how powerful this thing was, or how to care for it.
In the online games she played, even a random pet egg or plant seed would dare to be called a descendant of a divine beast or a descendant of a great demon, but in reality, it was just a very ordinary pet. It was just that the name sounded impressive.
Having been scammed so many times, she dared not have any hope in this area.
Judging from the condition, the flower seeds were hungry, but they wouldn't cause any problems for the time being. Qiao Ning didn't know how to grow them and didn't dare to mess with them, so she could only leave them alone for the time being.
She instructed the smart assistant to drive her on the road, and by around nine o'clock, her energy had mostly recovered.
Qiao Ning parked the car, turned off the engine, packed her luggage into her spatial backpack, and left the highway into the wilderness.
Driving around to find supplies is no longer her daily job; going into the wilderness to hunt monsters is her daily routine.
I can't be too lazy to grind. I can only grind monsters for five or six hours a day at most, since I also need to set aside half of my time to find supply boxes.
Qiao Ning suspected this was a trap left by the game; the rewards in the wilderness are so generous that many players are easily blinded by them when they first enter the wilderness. If the drop rate of stamina potions continues to increase, a significant number of people will neglect to look for supply boxes.
Since resources can be traded and exchanged, you can farm more resources in the wilderness, get the wilderness rewards, and exchange them for gasoline, drinking water, food, etc. It's easy to exchange them.
But is it really that simple?
Qiao Ning didn't believe it, always feeling there was a trap ahead. So she spent half her time farming in the wild and the other half searching for supplies. Others might see her as greedy, not wanting to miss out on either side, but Qiao Ning had the luck of the game, plus three gold talents, giving her enough confidence.
Upon entering the wilderness, one is greeted by shades of green and a profusion of colorful flowers.
The previous wilderness area had jungles, grasslands, and valleys, but this time it's like a naturally formed botanical garden.
There were countless exotic flowers and plants inside, but Qiao Ning only recognized a few plants that had not mutated too badly; she couldn't recognize any of the others.
These plants do not all grow together; most of them have their own territory, with only one type of plant in each territory. Very few are mixed together. After careful observation, Qiao Ning concluded that they should have a symbiotic relationship.
She first tried attacking a low-level plant, but the other plants in the area seemed to be stimulated and instantly sprang up, with countless leaves attacking Qiao Ning like flying knives.
Even though Qiao Ning was somewhat prepared, she was still startled by the overwhelming barrage of flying leaf knives. She quickly used several earthen wall shields to completely surround herself and block all the flying leaf knives.
The earthen wall serves as a defensive barrier, but it also has health and durability. When attacked, activating the defensive effect will reduce its durability. Furthermore, if an enemy's attack exceeds the defensive value, the excess attack value will cause the earthen wall to lose a corresponding amount of health.
If either health or durability reaches zero, the earthen wall will break, and the card will be destroyed and disappear. Each card can only be used once.
Qiao Ning was always cautious and meticulous when studying games. After trying it a few times, she noticed that these plants did not attack without limit.
At least once in Qiao Ning's three attacks, she will trigger the leaf-throwing knives of all the plants in the area. Each attack lasts for 5 seconds. It is difficult to count the number of leaves that fly out with the naked eye, but it doesn't matter. She can see the amount of health the earthen wall is losing.
The earthen wall has a defense value of 1000 and a health bar of 30,000. A single all-out attack will reduce its health by around 4000.
This proves that each attack from all the leaf-throwing knives deals around 5000 damage, while the attack from a single leaf is less than a little, because the total damage from a single leaf-throwing knife would be at least 10,000 to 20,000.
If there is no area-of-effect attack and only a single-target attack, then a single plant will produce more leaves than in an area-of-effect attack, probably several hundred leaves.
A single-target attack cannot break through the earthen wall's defense, but it will reduce its durability by 1 point. Each earthen wall card has 100 points of durability.
The attack's damage exceeds the earthen wall's defense by 4 times, reducing its durability by 5 points per hit.
The earthen wall has limited durability and health; it might not withstand more than a few rounds of area-of-effect attacks. Qiao Ning just summarized the pattern and tested it six times, triggering two area-of-effect attacks, losing 8,000 health and 12 points of durability.
During this time, she tried to use skill cards to attack these plants, but strangely, they were not afraid of fire or water. They were covered in copper and iron, and even if they were injured, they could heal in just two or three seconds.
Plants' self-healing ability likely stems from drawing energy from elsewhere to replenish themselves; beneath them lies fertile soil, providing a continuous supply of energy.
In this situation, it's difficult to get rid of these plants unless you either kill them instantly or inflict devastating, irreparable damage on them.
This was the first time Qiao Ning had ever felt that fighting monsters was so difficult, especially since it was only a level 1 Green Vine.
Killing level 2 fang rats was much easier than before. Dealing with hyenas that attack in groups is a little more troublesome, but not this difficult.
Skill cards weren't very useful, so Qiao Ning had to manually slash them.
When faced with an area-of-effect attack, she summons an earthen wall to defend herself; when attacked by a single target, she can retaliate. Hundreds of leaf-shaped throwing knives cannot penetrate Qiao Ning's defenses; they shatter upon contact with her.
I'm just a little worried about the durability of my equipment.
The more she felt sorry for Qiao Ning, the harder she slashed. She discovered that even though normal attacks were accompanied by black flames that amplified the damage to these plants, they could not prevent them from healing themselves.
Only when the Black Flame Bone Blade's corrosive effect is triggered will it inflict wounds that cannot heal themselves.
Each green vine can withstand a maximum of three of her corrosive attacks, but to trigger three corrosive attacks, Qiao Ning would need to attack at least four or five times.
Based on this calculation, it would take about 2 Earth Wall cards to kill 7 green vines.
There are about 100 green vines in the area, and the consumption of a single earth wall card is quite frightening.
Fortunately, Qiao Ning is a big holder of skill cards. She has more than 50 of each type of skill card in her possession, and she makes more when she needs more.
Earthen walls are one of the few defensive cards, so we build a lot of them. Including the ones that drop, we currently have more than seventy.
Level 1 plants have such high attack power, so don't bother trying with level 2 or 3 plants. She doesn't have that many defensive cards to use up right now.
Qiao Ning slowly cleared out the entire area of green vines, and the drop rate of resources was so low that Qiao Ning questioned her existence.
100 green vines yielded only 10 large stamina potions and 2 green vine seeds. Nothing else, not even a single low-level piece of equipment.
this……
She glanced at the chat channel and saw that the drop rate of stamina potions had indeed increased significantly today; almost everyone had gotten some.
The price of stamina potions has plummeted, meaning that after spending so much time, expending dozens of stamina points, and using up a bunch of skill cards, she gained almost nothing of value.
With her luck, this shouldn't be happening...
Qiao Ning picked up the two seeds and examined them carefully.
After looking for a while, I still couldn't see anything special. However, the seed encyclopedia was unlocked in the system's planting section.
The page lists the habits of some unlocked seeds and detailed planting instructions. However, it doesn't explain what happens after they grow.
She has now unlocked the green ivy seed and the carnivorous plant seed.
According to the feature description, you will only get more seed information if you unlock more seeds.
Since she was already here, Qiao Ning couldn't leave empty-handed.
Fortunately, these mutated plants gave a lot of experience points; 100 green ivy plants gave Qiao Ning 10,000 experience points.
If it weren't for so much experience, even the landlords wouldn't have been able to withstand such a disparity in the ratio of effort to reward.
Qiao Ning's next target is the mutated rose area, which is also level 1.
As is well known, many roses have thorns, and their attacks are more intense than those of green ivy.
It wasn't that she didn't want to choose an easier variety; the key was that there wasn't a single plant species that looked simple within a hundred miles.
The more beautiful a plant is, the more dangerous it is. Some attacks are not even physical, but rather use scents and psychological manipulation.
Fortunately, Qiao Ning had an antidote and the Eye of Truth skill, which made her immune to mental illusions.
Otherwise, you'd definitely get caught in the trap and die here after only a few steps.
The rose bushes are relatively easy to deal with. They're just more numerous than the green wisteria, and their attack and defense are actually lower.
Planting 500 roses took Qiao Ning three hours. She used up only 2 Earth Wall skill cards, 3 large stamina potions, and her equipment durability dropped by 30 points. However, the Black Flame Bone Blade was not damaged.
Although this weapon is only red-level, Qiao Ning always felt that its potential far exceeded that of red-level weapons.
The Rose Garden yielded 25,000 experience points, 20 large stamina potions, and 2 rose seeds.
Looking at the mutated rose corpses scattered all over the ground, Qiao Ning suddenly realized that she seemed to have overlooked a problem.
Why didn't these roses disappear after they died?
It seems that even after I killed the green ivy in the green ivy area, it didn't disappear.
Previously, after she killed wild beasts in the grasslands and valleys, their corpses would disappear, leaving only the dropped rewards.
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