Chapter 31 Hurricane Season 31 The cave changes, A Nian’s first kill!
Jiang Runian has always been curious about killing monsters.
Back in Qingshan Sect, the most inhumane thing her master had asked her to do was to slaughter the New Year pig. After coming to the other world, her weak body could only crush ants, and the only time she had used her hands was to stab a robot in the chest.
The movement here was noticed by Master Runtu and his apprentice, who immediately stopped and rushed over.
"Anian, are you okay?"
"Is Junior Sister injured? Does it hurt?"
Jiang Ruonian waved his hands repeatedly: "Don't you know how fast I react? Besides, I have a reliable thug here."
The dagger was inserted into the leg ring, Sui Yan lowered his head and calmly adjusted his cuffs that were stained with blood.
When they first met him, Bai Yexuan and Liu Yinshuang thought he was handsome but cold, like an honest man. But now, while they were busy working, he deliberately approached Ah Nian and acted like a hero saving a beautiful woman.
Bah, is it his turn?
Liu Yinshuang pulled Jiang Runnian over, and Bai Yexuan also moved slightly to cover her: "The bag is full, go back."
Following Jiang Runian's suggestion, the four of them took a detour along the edge of the coastline and then returned via the southwest entrance.
The closer they got to the outskirts of the abandoned city, the thinner the alienated green mist became, but the flatter the terrain became. Jiang Ru Nian squinted her eyes and looked far ahead, but she still couldn't see clearly whether the coastline extended to the safe area. She felt a little regretful. It seemed that this trip was destined to be fruitless. She would ride Xiaobai from Qingshan Inn another day and move forward in this direction. Maybe she could find traces of the sea from the other end, but that was all she could do.
"We have gained a lot today, let's go back the same way." Jiang Runian turned around and stepped on a flat ground, "Then we--"
With a loud bang, Jiang Ru Nian disappeared in front of them in a cloud of blue-gray dust. At the same time, a small hole appeared on the ground. The three of them hurried forward and saw Jiang Ru Nian lying on his side in the middle of the broken ground, motionless, as if dead.
Sui Yan frowned and leaned down.
"Anian!" Bai Yexuan jumped down without saying a word, and Liu Yinshuang followed closely behind.
Fortunately, Jiang Runian, who was lying on his side, just rubbed his aching buttocks and put on a mask of pain: "Don't touch me, it hurts! I can't move at all, now I'm the same as Second Brother, hiss!"
With the help of Liu Yinshuang, Jiang Runian stood up with difficulty. His facial features were wrinkled like a rag. He looked up and stared at the hole which was not very deep.
On the way here, she had observed that there were many shaky places in this collapsed city, but the ground was relatively solid. From the cross-section of this cave entrance, it was also a safe and thick ground. With her malnourished weight, how could it collapse?
Jiang Ruonian sighed and asked Sui Yan: "It seems that we can't climb out of this cave. Can you lead us out one by one?"
Sui Yan was brief and to the point: "I only have enough mana to use it twice more."
...Why does the superpower have a mana limit?
There is currently no one in Qingshan Sect who needs mana, so Feng Yuechen has not yet studied mana recovery potions.
It can only be used twice, which means that someone will be left behind. Just as Bai Yexuan and Liu Yinshuang were preparing to perform a self-sacrifice to impress Ah Nian, Jiang Runian waved her hand and said, "Forget it, save your flash for the critical moment. Let's move forward." After that, she held her buttocks and took small steps forward like a zombie tied up with ropes all over her body.
The underground space is surprisingly spacious.
Although it is dim, the echo of every step is long and ethereal.
Jiang Runian closed his eyes and listened to the feedback from the echo, looking for a way out, and came to a three-way intersection.
Suddenly, an emergency exit light lit up above my head!
With the sound of "thump thump thump" the circuits were connected and the emergency exits were connected to each other, forming a smooth and unobstructed road.
This kind of thing is made so that the old, weak, sick and disabled can understand it. Even if Qingshan Sect has never seen it, knowing four words and a running stickman will make it clear what the sign is. A lamp popping up in such a dangerous place is completely like treating people as pure fools.
Liu Yinshuang spat: "Inns need spirit cores to light up the lights, but this rubbish can light up so easily, who would believe it!"
Indeed, the day Jin Xiulian took her to stroll around Shuguang Town, she already knew that the main power of this world is "electricity". Electricity is more demanding than the spirit core conditions, and it needs to consider energy issues, power generation methods, power load, etc. In the entire southwest region, only Shuguang Town has completed hydroelectric power generation. And Sunset Wasteland, a city that was destroyed by alien radiation, has long been cut off from all energy sources. There is no life breath, so how can it generate electricity underground?
If you are a Blue Star person, you will definitely feel very familiar with this lamp, and you will try it even if you are afraid.
But Jiang Runian did not have any deep feelings for the emergency exit. He just felt that the green color was eye-catching - it was the same green light, it could be electricity, or it could be injected with alien energy.
Jiang Ruonian smiled lightly.
A cunning alien monster who thinks he is extremely smart.
One side is the "safety exit" and the other side is the way back. Jiang Runian chose the third way without hesitation.
The green indicator light behind her flashed repeatedly, like a warning, but more like an angry cry. She even found it a little funny to think of the alien monster breaking its defense and getting angry. I won't offend others if they don't offend me, and the same goes for the alien monster.
The third road came to an end as they walked along. They reached out and touched it, and there seemed to be a door in front of them.
Not only that, Jiang Runian smelled a... particularly familiar smell.
She knocked on the door politely and asked softly, "Excuse me, is there any ginseng in there? If not, do you have Panax notoginseng, Astragalus, Peony, Patchouli, and Honeysuckle?"
Three people: "..."
I knew her special ability was useful, but I didn't expect it could be used in this way.
There was a subtle rubbing sound from inside the door, and Jiang Runian struck while the iron was hot: "We are human beings, living people. We can take you back to a safe place if necessary."
She thought the conditions she proposed were not attractive enough, and was about to increase the price when a circle of warm light like the sun gradually appeared before her eyes - behind a locked glass door was a long-abandoned Chinese medicine warehouse, and glowing in the corner was a shivering alienated sunflower.
With the lighting from the sunflowers, the Sky Sword was aimed at the iron lock on the door and cut it off easily.
Once inside, the air was filled with an even stronger smell of stale medicinal herbs.
I heard from Feng Yuechen that most medicinal herbs have a long shelf life, even the stems, leaves and flowers can be stored for no more than two years.
Jiang Runian immediately opened her backpack and started stuffing things into the small drawer. The backpack had limited compartments, so she could only fill each item to the maximum limit, and the rest would have to wait until next time.
Like a bandit passing through and looting something, she walked to the corner. The poor alienated sunflower had been blocked and observed by Liu Yinshuang for a long time.
This sunflower was quite different. It was much thicker than an ordinary sunflower. Its petals were a little dark green, and the seeds in the middle were as dark as charcoal. Fortunately, the sunflower had not grown any horrible limbs like the deep-sea monster. It just had an opening in the center of the flower, like a mouth.
She got straight to the point: "Aren't you in the same group as the mutants outside?"
The sunflower shook its head violently, with several leaves twisting gracefully. It was obvious that it was trying hard to tell an exciting story.
"I'm sorry, I can't understand you at the moment."
“……”Sunflower was very disappointed.
Jiang Runian wanted to get closer, but was stopped by Sui Yan.
He said coldly: "The Sunset Wasteland has been alienated for a year. The plants have either mutated deeply or withered and died."
The implication is that Sunflower is deceitful.
A few days ago, Jiang Runian was bored and had a one-sided chat with Xiaobai. Through Xiaobai's nodding and shaking, she roughly understood the way of survival of alienated creatures. One is to continuously absorb alienated energy and become stronger; the other is to no longer be contaminated by alienated energy like Xiaobai, the alienated crystal core in the body will not disappear or continue to mutate, but can return to normal life. For alienated creatures, it is the difference between radicals and conservatives.
Sui Yan probably has never raised an alien creature, so he made two extreme conclusions - well, normal people really wouldn't think of raising such a pet^ ^
Shaking her head towards Sui Yan, Jiang Ru Nian squatted down and caught a few pieces of medicinal herbs at her feet. She picked them up with her fingertips, rubbed them and smelled them, and immediately realized: this sunflower has been hiding here, relying on chewing medicinal herbs instead of absorbing alien energy, so it can barely maintain its sanity.
Jiang Runian has limited physical strength, so he can only ask Liu Yinshuang to hold the sunflower temporarily.
The overly dazzling light was right next to their faces. Liu Yinshuang pushed the flower away in disgust: "Can you lower the temperature?" Upon hearing this, the sunflower actually obediently lowered the light and temperature, just enough for the four of them to see the road clearly.
Jiang Runian asked again: "Is there any way to get out from the medicinal materials warehouse?" Sunflower nodded, and its branches pointed to a half-open rolling door.
You know what, the alienated creatures are quite useful after they have spirituality.
With the "light", they walked through the rolling door for ten minutes and saw a slope that should lead to the ground.
Suddenly, the sunflower began to twist like a strand of kelp.
Liu Yinshuang felt itchy on her face from the petals, so she slapped them with her hand, only to see them trembling and pointing at the crack in the wall.
There is a bright red flower there.
Sui Yan had just said that there couldn't be any normal plants here. Liu Yinshuang's face suddenly changed, and just as she was about to turn around and tell him about the abnormality, the flower had grown wildly in an instant!
"Senior Sister!" Jiang Ruunian, who was following closely behind him, suddenly pushed Liu Yinshuang away.
As soon as he finished speaking, the red flower had grown complete limbs, and its flower stem was hunched. Its body, which was as tall as two people, neatly blocked the slope.
The alienated red flower monster had no head, and a fleshy flower of varying thickness bloomed on its neck, looking like a bud about to bloom, with a strange thread growing on it. Its two arms were covered with rose thorns, and at the ends of its limbs were also two fleshy flowers, but they were even more terrifying than the ones on its head.
The five fleshy petals suddenly opened, each with sharp and dense fangs, dripping with the fishy mucus that should have been sweet nectar, as if it could crush a living person into mud. Its sides were covered with deformed tumors, which squirmed from time to time.
The red flower monster roared suddenly, bared its fangs and bit straight at Liu Yinshuang! The flesh flower suddenly expanded as it approached the target, and it could devour her in the next second!
Liu Yinshuang protected the sunflower and rolled heavily on the ground, barely avoiding the attack. Bai Yexuan drew out the Sky Sword and swung it at the red flower monster's arm, lightly cutting off the disgusting flesh flower. But within a few seconds, the surrounding alien energy gathered at the broken end, and more petals of flesh flowers grew!
Not only that, the wriggling tumor on the red flower monster's body absorbed fresh alienated energy and gradually grew into mature flower buds, exploding into more thorny arms!
Jiang Runian frowned, this wouldn't work.
A twisted arm was about to twist her head off, but she jerked her body to the side, dodging the attack with pinpoint accuracy. Sui Yan's dagger flashed past, slashing the threat in front of her.
Sui Yan passed by her ear and left four words: "Find the crystal core."
Among the four of them, Jiang Runian was the only one who could concentrate on looking for the crystal core.
Seeing that the three people were able to deal with it easily, the Red Flower Monster seemed to be a little angry and humiliated. It swung its slime without any method and bit hard with its fangs bared. At the same time, frequent collisions were heard in the passage not far away.
...Like the emergency exit sign just now?
Jiang Runian's brows furrowed, and he suddenly stared at the strange long wire in the red flower monster's head - when it rioted, the light sign also went out of control, so could this wire be the medium for energy transmission?
If this is the case, it means that the alienated crystal core may be hidden in the flesh on its neck.
After calming himself down, Jiang Runian shouted to Liu Yinshuang, "Big Sister! Throw the sunflowers on the ground!"
Sunflower: "…#=&%*@$!"
I worked so hard to be your flashlight and you treat me like this?!
When the Red Flower Monster saw the sunflower fall to the ground, he immediately bent down to reach the food that was delivered to his mouth - but the next second, a light creature climbed up from behind.
Jiang Runian gritted his teeth, and hugged the red flower monster's neck covered with mucus with all his strength, and the Emei Spear in his hand pierced directly into the heart of the flower!
"Puff--" Green blood splattered everywhere, and the red flower monster struggled and threw her to the ground. It soon collapsed and turned into a pool of foul-smelling green slime.
[Items Obtained: Alien Crystal Core·Medium x1, Spikes x8, Leather Scrap x3]
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