"Can these blades split it open?" Lin Yiran asked.
That thing looked like a crystal diamond. Diamonds are so hard! She really felt that the little broken knives she had picked up from the junkyard couldn't cut through the core of the mutated celery.
"How about I give it a try first?" She said, about to throw her throwing knife. After exchanging and absorbing three crystal cores with the system, her metal-type ability had recovered to level three. Now she couldn't wait to try it out and get out of there as soon as possible.
Senran: "Don't rush. The core of this thing is very hard; you can't split it open with ordinary knives."
Lin Yiran was still a little incredulous, but she chose to believe Senran, who seemed to know a lot.
"Then what should we do?" Lin Yiran asked.
Upon hearing this, Senran immediately took out the hunting knife he had just used from his Star Brain and handed it to Lin Yiran, saying, "Try using this knife later."
"Also, a knife alone won't do," he then handed Lin Yiran a small oval ball.
Lin Yiran took a look and found that the surface of the oval ball was made entirely of metal, but the inside was not. It seemed to be hollow inside, containing something that could be shaken.
"What is this?" Lin Yiran asked.
Senran looked at the core in the distance and said, "This is the latest type of CS4 bomb in interstellar space. The outer layer is made of molten metal, and the inside is filled with high explosives. One bomb can shatter half a planet."
Lin Yiran suddenly felt the bomb in her hand gain weight and hurriedly put it into Senran's hand.
Senran: "Don't be nervous. Let's discuss how to blow up the plant's core. All we know is that I only have this one explosive, so I have to aim carefully before releasing it. Can you do that?"
Lin Yiran looked at the red core at the bottom of the screen in mid-air, thinking, "No problem, I can do it."
"But you just said that this one explosive can shatter half a planet, wouldn't that kill us all?" Lin Yiran was puzzled. What was the difference between this and suicide?
Could it be that he doesn't want to leave? Does he want to drag me down with this level-ten mutated plant?
Sen Ran didn't miss Lin Yiran's little expression. Although he didn't know what she was thinking, he could tell from her expression that she was definitely not thinking anything good. However, he ignored it and began to explain seriously.
"The outer skin of this mutated celery is very thick, and it can act as a laser shield. The thickness of the outer skin of a level 10 mutated celery is almost comparable to the strength of the star shield of the Ninth Star System. So even if we play with explosives inside, the explosives will not affect the outside. As long as we can cut through the outer skin and get out at the moment the bomb explodes, there will be no problem."
Lin Yiran: "That is indeed a good idea, but how are we going to escape? If we don't time it right, we might both perish here, possibly without even a complete corpse. I think your suggestion is too risky; I don't want to die here."
Sen Ran smiled slightly: "You don't need to be too nervous. The lightsaber on my mech is also made of special materials. It can easily cut through the skin of this mutated lynx. As long as I can get you out of here the moment of the explosion, neither of us will be hurt."
"However, the core of this level 10 mutated plant actually has a protective shield on the outside. If it weren't for the protective shield, I could have piloted the mecha up there and blown up the core myself."
Lin Yiran: "What protective shield?"
Then, in front of Lin Yiran, Senran took out a fruit from the Star Brain and flicked it. The fruit flew directly to the core of the mutated plant.
Under Lin Yiran's watchful gaze, a transparent halo rose around the core, repelling the fruit.
It's like a protective shield.
"This is the protective shield around the core. It's something that mutated plants of level 10 or higher formed by their own mutation. If it weren't for this shield, I could just throw the bomb over there and then leave in my mech. But this shield is immune to artillery shells, so you'll need to use your hunting knife to cut a gap in it, then throw the bomb in, and then I'll take you away."
"But once we touch that protective shield, the plants inside will go berserk, so I have to use the mech after you've cut through the shield and before the bomb explodes."
"Because if I summon the mech in advance, I will inevitably be entangled by these mutated plants and directly absorb my mental energy. So before you finish cutting the protective shield, I can't use the mech and can only use pure force to fight against these vines."
"Did you understand?"
Lin Yiran understood: "So what trapped you before was this protective shield on the core? You need me to cut open this protective shield, then drop the bomb, and then we can leave together."
Mori: "That's right."
Lin Yiran: "But what if other problems arise? I always feel that we've oversimplified this, and are you sure this knife can cut through the plant's protective shield?"
Senran: "It can be cut, but it requires a long time to maintain. This protective shield is immune to bombs and can only be cut with a traditional knife."
"But the moment my knife touches this protective shield, I'll be attacked by this mutated plant, right?"
Senran: "It's okay, you can leave your safety to me. While you're cutting the protective shield, I can use my energy gun to drive away the vines of the mutated plants around you. You just need to stay focused on cutting the protective shield."
"Or if you have a better idea, you can tell me."
Unfortunately, Lin still didn't have a better solution. Now they could only divide the work: the protective shield, the bombs, and the mutated celery's outer skin all needed to be cut.
The mutated celery's outer skin can be sliced open by the sharp blade on Senran's mecha, and the protective shield is immune to bombs. She can only use her special ability to slice it open with the blade, then drop the bomb inside. The instant the bomb is dropped, Senran will release the mecha at the perfect moment to protect both of them, then fly above and use the sharp blade to slice open the mutated celery's outer skin.
That sounds pretty simple.
But there are always variables.
"What if your sharp knife can't cut through the mutated celery's skin immediately?"
Senran: "And you, when I take you up there, you can also use your special ability to cut open the skin of that mutated celery."
"There shouldn't be any problems with this, unless the vines of that mutated plant are still circling around me and absorbing my spiritual energy. In that case, you can help, or the two of us can join forces. They won't absorb my spiritual energy too quickly, and I should still have a chance to cut off the outer skin."
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