A commotion came from ahead, and the group's expressions changed slightly as they hurried over.
Just around the corner, the temperature rose noticeably, and large patches of orange-yellow plants appeared, their stems and leaves long and serrated. Strangely, Lin Changli was cleaning them up with a water-based blade...
Lan Ye was speechless: "I said, if you're in a bad mood, you don't have to take it out on grass, do you? You..."
At this point, Lan Ye paused. The title of Major General was not given lightly. With his sharp eyes, he noticed that the sap from the cut orange-yellow grass was melting the stones on the ground.
Is this juice? This is magma, okay?
What's wrong with this world? Aren't these non-human plants just too mind-blowing?
What's even more amazing is that the plant wasn't a plant at all. As Lin Changli swept, towering orange-yellow grasses moved quickly closer.
Lan Ye's eyes narrowed. With one hand supporting Kong Sang on his back, he shot out white silk with the other, binding a moving object, and pulled it forcefully.
"squeak"
It looked like a rat magnified ten times and pulled from the ground. It looked no different from a rat except that its fur was the color of lava, and its original tail had been replaced by this plant...
The white threads easily strangled it, and the orange-yellow juice seemed to burst like tomato juice splashing onto the ground, the hissing sound of the corrosive substance sending chills down one's spine.
Looking at all those plant tails, Lan Ye's expression darkened: "What are you still fighting for? Run!"
Everyone looked solemn. After clearing a gap, Lin Changli grabbed Kongsang from Lan Ye's back and rushed in without a word.
The others followed, not because they didn't want to retreat, but because, unbeknownst to them, the path behind them had become covered with orange-yellow grass—a clear attempt to completely encircle them…
As the group ventured deeper, the dormant vegetation was thoroughly enraged, its squeaks sending chills down their spines.
Yu Wei's expression was cold: "These rats have probably all mutated. I don't know if it's Nie Qu's doing or the resurrected Heavenly Phoenix causing trouble. If Si Yu comes down and encounters these things, I'm afraid..."
Si Yu is alone, unlike them who can look after each other, and he doesn't know what the situation is like.
"Watch out!" Qi Yunshen shouted.
A creature broke through the defenses and rushed towards Yu Wei from the side. She was not a delicate girl; her skills honed in the apocalypse were enough to handle any unexpected situation.
With a swift slash of his dagger, he killed the rat, his pure black eyes filled with malice as he spat out a mouthful of orange-yellow blood onto Yu Wei's face.
The situation was sudden, and Yu Wei had no time to avoid it, but she was not afraid and was prepared to face the pain.
The person next to her acted even faster, pulling her into his arms and shielding her with his body.
There was a time when only An Xiuqi would do something like this...
But now another man is blocking her way again. A muffled groan brings Yu Wei back to her senses. The liquid must be the blood of a mutated rat, similar to magma, capable of corroding even rocks, let alone a human body.
Yu Wei hugged Qi Yun Shen's waist, using her healing ability without delay, but to her horror, the healing ability failed...
"How could this happen? I can't recover!"
Lin Changli's eyes darkened, and the surrounding water vapor gathered into round bubbles, temporarily resisting external attacks.
Carefully placing Kong Sang aside, he immediately tore open the clothes on Qi Yun Shen's back, revealing a large area of corrosive wound with red and black scabs mixed with blood flowing out, accompanied by a constant hissing sound of corrosion.
Lin Changli quickly took out a dagger and sprinkled it with the disinfectant he had brought: "The flesh stained with blood needs to be scraped off, otherwise it will corrode into the internal organs. Bear with it."
Qi Yun Shen nodded: "Let's do it."
The knife tip fell swiftly, Qi Yunshen's fingers dug into his clothes, veins bulging on his handsome face, but he didn't utter a sound.
Lan Ye shook his head: "It's better to scream it out. At least you'll have a place to vent. Slicing flesh raw... tsk tsk, you can tolerate that? You really don't seem like someone who works for the government."
This approach is so difficult that even the president's sons, born with a silver spoon in their mouths, and even the burly men in their own army would find it hard to remain silent.
Yu Wei looked at Qi Yunshen's deeply restrained expression, her eyes reddening. If it weren't for saving her...
Leaning down to embrace the person who always habitually suppressed his emotions, he realized that some things, with the passage of time and Qi Yun Shen's relentless attacks, eventually cracked open.
She just wanted him to feel better, even if it was just to distract him from the pain a little...
Qi Yunshen's long, narrow eyebrows froze as he looked closely at the red, worried eyes, a genuine smile appearing in his own eyes.
Lan Ye rubbed his forehead, feeling uncomfortable from this display of affection. They were engaged, so it was perfectly reasonable, and he couldn't say much.
Lin Changli glanced at it, then looked away and continued to focus on carving the meat. No one noticed that Kong Sang, who had been placed to the side, opened his eyes, his heterochromatic eyes, one red and one purple, staring at the intimately embracing man and woman...
Startled, Yu Wei glanced around. Only the unconscious Kong Sang lay in the water bubble, seemingly unaffected…
Fortunately, the group had always carried some medicine with them when they went out. It was in a sealed bag and hadn't been washed away by the water. Lin Changli was about to do a simple bandage when Yu Wei stopped him: "Let me try again."
The white light enveloped the wound, and the bleeding visibly stopped, but the wound did not heal. It could only be said that it had some effect, but not much...
Yu Wei frowned: "What kind of energy is blocking the skin and flesh from regenerating in the wound?"
This situation also exists in the apocalypse. Yu Wei can recover easily from bites caused by ordinary zombies, but the higher the level of the zombie, the more difficult it is to recover from the wounds.
At the level of a zombie king, the zombie virus becomes extremely virulent, and healing abilities have very limited recovery potential, just like now...
Lin Changli quickly bandaged Qi Yunshen's wound. He knew what Yu Wei was talking about, but Lan Ye was still there, so it wasn't the time to speak.
"That's all for now, we'll talk about it when we get back."
Lan Ye asked in surprise, "Sleepwalking?"
The three turned around, their expressions changing drastically, only to realize that Kong Sang had gotten up on his own and walked out of the water sphere's range at some point...
Lin Changli's face turned ugly. He immediately loosened the bandage in his hand and got up to rush out, but was stopped by Qi Yunshen, whose face was so pale it was almost transparent: "Calm down, look."
Wearing three heavy coats, Kong Sang's body appeared even smaller. With her eyes closed, she walked deeper into the cave, stepping on the slain rat corpses.
At first, the orange-yellow grasses were frantically gathering around Kong Sang, but after a moment, they seemed to sense something and scattered and fled...
Yu Wei's eyes widened: "Why?"
Lan Ye lifted Qi Yun Shen up, and the four of them immediately followed.
Nie Kongsang was acting very strangely. He walked with his eyes closed, yet his steps were steady, large, and powerful, as if he had everything under control. His aura was completely different from the Kongsang he usually was...
Looking at that figure from behind, Yu Wei felt a pang of sadness for some reason, and tears streamed down her face uncontrollably.
Qi Yun Shen and Lin Chang Li narrowed their eyes simultaneously, a chilling thought beginning to form in their minds...
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