What made Zhang Mu almost vomit blood was that his blood vine lotus took advantage of the two seconds when he was not paying attention and silently climbed up the branch where the mother-and-child gourd was hanging, and suddenly wrapped it completely into its body.

"Why do you eat everything? My gourd! Let me go!"

Although Zhang Mu was shouting in rage, the Blood Vine Lotus really ignored him and focused on devouring the mother-and-child gourd. Zhang Mu felt that his status was instantly lowered.

A very embarrassing picture appeared. A man had vines extending from his left arm that kept surging and wrapping something, but the man could only look helpless with a dejected look on his face.

He originally planned to use the Evolution Fluid to cheat and rapidly improve himself when he got the Mother-and-Child Gourd and could obtain the corpse of a mutant beast above level 3. He felt that when he advanced to level 3, his advantage of being reborn had been reduced to the same starting line as those favored ones by his innate talent disadvantage.

This is not what he wants. His goal is not just what he has now. There is only one possibility to avoid being lost in the crowd, and that is to constantly collect external things to improve himself and make up for his innate deficiencies.

The mother-and-child gourd at the moment is a huge opportunity. Everyone in later generations knows that this thing is the reason for the rapid growth of the Ice Queen, but when they know it, the Ice Queen has already become a hegemon, so no one dares to take the mother-and-child gourd. Some are just envious, jealous and hateful, but they dare not say it out loud. This is enough to show the importance of the mother-and-child gourd to the evolvers.

It is equivalent to enhancing the energy and ability perception of the evolver without any side effects. If it is a mutant beast with different attributes, then it only needs to drink the initial evolution liquid produced by the mother gourd, but no one is so stupid. Almost everyone finds a mutant beast that matches their own attributes, drinks the last step completed in the last sub-gourd, and integrates the perception of the mutant beast with the same attributes into themselves, directly improving their own abilities, and then quickly reaching the threshold of advancement to achieve the ultimate goal, which is to advance to the next level.

However, now

All fantasies seemed to have been shattered. The mother-and-child gourd itself seemed to have no defense capabilities at all. After its roots were eaten away, the blood vine lotus set its sights on the mother-and-child gourd body, which was more energetic.

There was no resistance at all, and before Zhang Mu could react, the vines of the blood vine lotus had become swollen.

Such a big mother-and-child gourd was swallowed up whole.

Zhang Mu was so regretful. Why didn't he keep an eye on it? It moved too fast.

However, after seeing the performance of the Blood Vine Lotus when it was fighting with the rhizome of the Mother-and-Child Gourd, Zhang Mu realized one thing: he and the Blood Vine Lotus were only in a parasitic relationship. At the critical moment when core interests were involved, this guy would not listen to him and would even draw blood from his body like he did just now.

Even though the Blood Vine Lotus usually helps him so much and has an absolute suppression effect on all flesh and blood creatures of the same level, it is also a double-edged sword and can hurt him if he is not careful.

Now he finally understood why the existence of the Blood Vine Lotus was a taboo in later generations. If his master could not provide him with enough energy, it was common for him to be sucked dry and die. No wonder the Jiyuan merchant in Xi'an City, after understanding the nature of the Blood Vine Lotus, used such a complicated tone to tell Zhang Mu to be more careful.

This cannot go on. He needs to think of a way to change this relationship so that the blood vine lotus that is parasitic in his body can completely become a part of his own power, instead of being a serious threat to his life as it is now.

Because he felt that if one day he could not obtain external energy, the blood vine lotus would probably backfire. Originally, he was only using his body to nourish the blood vine lotus seeds, but by that time, he would probably become part of the nutrients.

Zhang Mu's heart tightened, and he looked at the blood vine lotus that was slowly tightening around the mother-and-child gourd like a python, with a complicated expression.

Is it good or bad to let it grow so unbridled when there is no way to change the relationship between it and me?

It is unknown, but now he knows that he cannot interrupt the devouring process of the Blood Vine Lotus. He knows that if he forcibly interrupts its evolution process, it may directly cause backlash.

Parasitic relationships are equal and involve the most fundamental interests, which cannot be adjusted.

For Zhang Mu, this mother-and-child gourd is a treasure that can guarantee his future leading speed. But at the same time, for Bloodvine Lotus, it is also an important tool to improve his own abilities.

They are both mutated plants with similar devouring abilities, and they are attracted to each other like magnets.

Therefore, Zhang Mu could do nothing now. He could only wait quietly and pray that the fight between Baihu and Long Qi would not end so quickly. Because no matter which one of the two sides came here, Zhang Mu himself had no room to resist and could only rely on the obsidian worms and mutant wolfhounds to delay time.

The two of them would definitely not be able to resist Long Qi's mental abilities, and although Zhang Mu didn't know what the evolutionary abilities of the second-level mutant white fox were, both the obsidian worm and the mutant wolfhound were inclined towards the offensive direction, so they could fight against them, but if a real fight broke out, they would definitely be affected.

Of course, there is nothing wrong with him, but the range of his mental shield is only one meter of his own. He can't cover the blood vine lotus that has climbed high on the branch at all. If the fox gets angry and can't break the mental shield, and attacks the blood vine lotus, interrupting its evolution, Zhang Mu, as the host, will not have a good time.

Time ticked by, and Zhang Mu began to get anxious, because the roar outside the city had almost disappeared, with only a few sounds coming from occasional places, but they also felt very far away from him.

Apart from anything else, those mutant beasts might be coming back. Even if only half of them were left, Zhang Mu would not be able to handle them.

Xuetenglian, hurry up! If you are any slower we will become other people's food.

This time, the Blood Vine Lotus actually heard Zhang Mu's urging clearly, and it contracted suddenly again, and the bulging part of the mother-and-child gourd collapsed instantly.

Is it finally crushed?

A trace of pain and relief flashed through Zhang Mu's heart, and he urged Xue Teng Lian to come back repeatedly. They were about to withdraw, and it would be too late if they didn't leave now.

However, the Blood Vine Lotus seemed not to have heard his cry, and its body began to undergo earth-shaking changes after it had finished devouring the food.

(End of this chapter)