Next came the social animals. Lin Yiran felt her surroundings shift, and she found herself beside a lake, standing on a rock in the middle of the lake.
All around were countless alligators, interspersed with a few pythons.
"Look, look, the high-difficulty level is here! Even Commander Senran, who was so excellent back then, only managed to trigger this underwater crocodile scene, right? This girl is so amazing, she actually triggered such a difficult scene randomly. Wow, this is not going to be easy!"
People outside are worried about Lin Yiran.
Lin Yiran stood on the reef, looking at so many crocodiles and feeling a bit of a headache. If she had a knife, she could take them down one by one in a battle of numbers, but right now she only had a knife and an iron rod, which made things a bit more complicated.
When soldiers come, we'll block them; when water comes, we'll dam it. We'll smash them one by one.
Without saying a word, Lin Yiran grabbed a stick and charged forward.
She stepped on the crocodile's head, then swung the stick at another crocodile, followed by a long knife slashing across the neck of a crocodile that had raised its head to eat her.
The crocodile's weak points are its belly and neck, where the meat is the softest.
Lin Yiran used herself as bait to force the mutated crocodiles to raise their heads, easily exposing their weaknesses, which she then slashed in circles, saving a lot of effort. She then used the same method to retreat back onto the reef and begin the next round of attacks.
One crocodile at a time wasn't too troublesome, and occasionally a python that lunged at you could be stunned with a stick.
The system briefly went black after the last crocodile died, then immediately switched to the next scene.
In the next scene, Lin Yiran seems to have arrived at a medicinal garden, which is full of tall plants.
Cocklebur!
Each of these plants is taller than Lin Yiran, about two meters tall, and the cocklebur fruits on top are about the size of a watermelon, mainly because they are covered with dense, sharp thorns.
The most amazing thing is!
This thing can spray fruit!
The fruit, like a cannonball, immediately attacked Lin Yiran upon her arrival. Then, the watermelon-sized fruit covered in sharp thorns rained down on Lin Yiran.
Lin could only keep changing her position.
Then the plants also changed their position, and soon the ground was covered with cockleburs, with their thorns pointing upwards, leaving no room to even step on them!
Lin Yiran could only use her supernatural ability to levitate in mid-air.
Then, wielding the longsword, he attempted to harvest the roots of the mutated cocklebur tree.
Unlike the hardness of wood, Lin Yiran's level eight metal-type ability easily severed the roots of these mutated plants. With the crisis averted, Lin Yiran descended from mid-air.
"Did any of you see how she flew up there? A mecha? Her figure doesn't look like it."
"What's that? A small aircraft? That's outdated stuff, nobody would use it anymore, right?"
"Oh, why are you worrying about that? Maybe she has a hobby of collecting old things. You never know. What we should be focusing on is why she can harvest the roots and stems of these plants so easily, without any effort at all?"
"This usually means that the person has extremely strong mental power. If she has such strong mental power, why would she go to the ancient martial arts school? Isn't that a waste?"
"Who says she has to be a practitioner of ancient martial arts? That's not necessarily true."
"That's right, let's wait until she comes out and then take a look." "What level of mutated plant was that just now? I think it was level five?"
"Yes, it's level five!"
A large tree appeared in front of Lin Yiran this time. It was a very thick tree, and she couldn't even see the top of it with her naked eye.
Isn't this a bit exaggerated? It can't be this long! How long is she supposed to keep cutting it? Looking at the incredibly thick trunk, Lin Yiran felt speechless for the first time.
With each slash, her knife seemed to break!
What should we do then?
This time, the plant did not attack Lin Yiran. Instead, an envelope-like pattern appeared next to the big tree in front of Lin Yiran, which she clicked on to take a look.
The text above reads: Level 10 Mutant Plant.
"Level 10!!!" (Grimace)
"How did it suddenly jump to a level 10 mutated plant? Is the AI in this simulation playing games? A level 10 mutated plant? We'll have to send in the army to wipe it out, right? Let her deal with a level 10 mutated plant all by herself? Even if it doesn't attack people, it's still not enough! How are we going to handle this?! What do we do? What do we do? I'm so worried for her!"
"Or we could just quit the competition!"
The man in the faraway Phibates Palace stared intently at the main screen in front of him, not even blinking.
Lin Yiran remained completely unaware of all of this.
She simply stood under the giant tree, clenching her fists. She remembered what Senran had told her before, the first time they met.
"Mutant plants and animals of level 10 and above all have a core. As long as their core is destroyed, the mutated plant will die!"
"Huh? Why is she standing there? Can't fight anymore? If you can't fight, just quit. She's already amazing enough. Is this AI just too tricky, deliberately making things difficult for people?"
"How long would it take her to fight such a thick tree by herself?"
One student who knew the situation said, "My brother told me that mutated plants above level ten have some kind of 'core.' You just need to find that core and crush it; it's not difficult."
Others: "Really?"
The boy, who looked rather inexperienced, nodded.
Lin Yiran wasn't thinking; she was just looking up, trying to find the core of the big tree.
Where could it be?
Inside the canopy? Or perhaps? Inside the trunk?
Surprisingly, after searching for a while, she actually found the core.
There is a hole in the middle of the tree, and inside the hole is something that glows.
Lin Yiran's first reaction upon seeing the tree hole was that the core might be hidden there, and she never expected it to actually be hidden there!
That's right. For a large tree like this with a solid center, the core can't grow into the trunk, unlike the mutated celery, which has enough space for the core to grow inside the plant itself.
Once the core was found, things became much simpler. Lin Yiran directly used the hilt of her knife to approach the level 10 mutated fruit tree. The fruit tree went berserk, and fruits the size of footballs fell like stones, making a 'plop' sound when they fell, which showed that the weight of the fruit was about the same as that of a lead ball.
The blade tip entered the hole vertically, and was spotted by the plant the moment it went in. However, it was no use; Lin Yiran's blade tip still broke through the core's protective shield in one go and then touched the core inside.
The core was weak, and after it exploded, red fragments fell down.
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