It was midsummer, and the trees growing in the dilapidated residential areas were listless. The leaves, which should have been emerald green, were wilting and curling. Even the cicadas that used to chirp non-stop were now silent due to the heat.
The neighborhood was completely quiet, with only the sound of wind blowing through leaves.
Because the last test was interrupted by an emergency, the remaining residents who had not yet been tested were taken away by the Investigation Bureau for a second test.
Residents who had been tested were also taken away for routine questioning and confidentiality.
But Bai Yu is an exception.
He has been identified as an awakener on the plant side, and Lin Mo is right next to him, so after a simple registration he can return to his rental house.
The chess and card room, which used to be always filled with the sound of mahjong, was now dark. The sounds of children being beaten upstairs that happened every day were no longer heard. When it was time for dinner, the aroma of food did not arrive.
The whole building was eerily quiet.
But Bai Yu quite likes this kind of quietness.
It reminded him of the times when there were occasionally no players coming over.
...
...
The same is true in the entire dungeon [Botanical Garden].
Quiet, dead silent, dark, with only the sound of his leaves rubbing against each other in the wind.
When I'm tired, I just fall asleep. When I'm in the mood, I'll look through the task records and player records I wrote, and recall the "happy and joyful" times with the players.
Or watching the sunflowers, roses, and aloe vera playing and playing.
I don't know how they are doing now...
The relationship between plants is very weak, but after all, they are colleagues who have lived in harmony for hundreds of years. I hope they can survive the collapse of space.
Bai Yu lowered his eyes, retracted his thoughts that were wandering to the past, and focused his attention on a bandage he had pulled out of his pocket.
He took this out secretly from the trash basket while Chu Zehuai and Lin Mo were talking.
It was a pity that their conversation was too short. He only had time to take out one before Lin Mo forcibly dragged him out of the office.
Bai Yu stretched out his hand, and the dark green vines tightly wrapped around the blood-stained bandage.
Circle after circle, leaving no trace of white outside.
After a moment, the vine loosened and slowly shrank into the size of a normal human finger. The bandage also returned to its pure white color without any trace of blood.
“So sweet.”
Bai Yu pressed the tip of his tongue against his lower teeth, savoring the taste just now.
Sure enough, just as he imagined, the top-quality ingredients were indeed top-quality ingredients.
Even though the blood had become dried and cold, he still felt it was the most delicious thing in the world. The energy contained in it should not be underestimated and was equivalent to the sum of all the pollutants he had eaten before.
Bai Yu looked down at his right hand.
With the nourishment of energy, his hands were no longer pale and skinny as they were at the beginning, but had become beautiful and healthy.
The sunlight passed through the fingertips, and the five white and slender fingers slowly turned into five swaying green vines.
After a moment, the five vines intertwined together, along with the palms and backs of the hands, and turned into a huge dark green vine.
The vine's exterior is tough and cold, covered with hooked white, translucent barbs. In the sun, these thorns glow coldly, making them appear eerie and ferocious.
Bai Yu admired his prototype and withdrew his hand with satisfaction.
The energy contained in just a small amount of dried blood was enough to allow him to transform his entire right hand into a plant.
It would be nice if we could be with each other more often, maybe we could gain new energy every day.
It would be even better if I could eat the opponent whole, and I would probably be able to return to my peak state directly.
It’s a pity that this is just a luxury now.
Bai Yu thought so, and then took out a pen and a notebook from the drawer.
He opened the notebook and spread it flat on the table.
On the left side of the notebook is written "Don't join, stay free."
On the right side of the notebook is written "Join the Special Incident Investigation Bureau".
The black pen tip flowed across the paper, leaving behind a string of words.
left:
You don’t have to be forced to do any mission, you can go anywhere and eat whatever you want.
right:
They can be exposed to stronger and more pollutants, can be close to warehouses and storehouses, can be with top-notch ingredients, and can plan to eat each other in the future.
Bai Yu held his chin with his hand and looked at the paper on his left, then circled the last sentence on the paper on his right.
[Are you planning to join the Special Incidents Bureau? Are you not looking for energy everywhere?]
The system looked at the other party's series of actions, then looked at the content written on the paper, and instantly understood the other party's intentions.
[Well, I thought about it and decided that it would be better for us to let them help us find it instead of searching by ourselves. After all, they are also looking for pollutants and aberrations. If we follow them, we can pick up some leaks.]
Bai Yu tapped the paper with the tip of his pen and said.
And with so many people, they are definitely more efficient in finding pollutants than the two of them.
That is, when swallowing contaminants, you need to be careful not to be discovered by others.
[That makes sense, but I always feel that this is not the most important reason for you to change your mind. You actually want to eat that person. I suddenly became curious. If you were asked to choose, would you choose a low-level pollutant with a small risk and a large quantity, or a top-level ingredient with a high risk and only one quantity?]
Facing the system's curious question, Bai Yu simply turned the pen in his hand, held his chin and said naturally:
[Only young seedlings will make this choice, while mature plants will of course choose both. ]
**
**
This is how Bai Yu spent his first weekend in this world.
After the weekend, even if you are a plant disguised as an awakened being, you still have to go to Qinghe University at 8 am on Monday.
As the king of papers, the original owner has already finished all the academic stuff, including design, modeling, typesetting, and even the portfolio, so Bai Yu doesn't need to spend much time on his studies.
There were only two useless classes left on his schedule.
Following the memory fragments left by this body, Bai Yu walked through the morning sunshine on the campus and slowly came to the classroom in the professional building. According to the original owner's usual habit, he passed the empty rows of seats in the classroom and sat in the corner of the last row against the wall.
In the ten minutes or so after the bell rang, students came in one after another and chose to sit farther away from the podium.
Zhou Yi looked left and right at the door, and when he found his good friend, he ran over in two or three steps and sat next to him. Then, like most of his classmates, he began to doze off.
The teacher didn't care. He just opened his PPT and read it.
Compared to the classmates who had started playing with their phones and sleeping, Bai Yu, who was listening attentively, stood out.
It’s not that he was interested in this course or planned to be a top student, he just wanted to experience what it’s like for a male college student to attend class.
Fragments of memory cannot replace personal experience.
Plants that have never been human want to experience the classroom atmosphere that is unique to humans. This kind of human activity is quite novel to plants.
But when he wanted to listen to the class seriously, there was always a special fragrance coming into his nose.
It's like the aroma of food mixed with the scent of jasmine.
And as time goes by, the fragrance becomes fainter and fainter.
This situation could mean that either the pollutant was moving farther and farther away from him, or someone in the classroom had been exposed to the pollutant in a short period of time, or the body of the pollutant was slowly decaying and disintegrating, or the system had absorbed the energy before him.
Bai Yu looked around calmly, and at the same time moved his nose to search for the source of the mixed aroma in the classroom.
There was no smell of classmates leaving, and no pollutants or rotting corpses.
Fortunately, although the aroma became a little lighter, it was still quite noticeable in this classroom where not many people came.
He quickly locked onto a girl sitting in front of him on the right.
She has long black hair, fair skin, and is wearing a very fashionable black miniskirt and a pair of long boots.
Then he felt Zhou Yi, who was sitting next to him, poking his arm, and his friend's teasing voice came:
"Bai Yu, you just stared at our class goddess Huang Rui. What? Are you in love?"
Bai Yu retracted his gaze: "Not really."
"You can fool your buddy, but don't fool yourself. I see your eyes are almost glued to him."
Zhou Yi poked his arm again and sighed deeply.
"But I advise you to find someone else to like. The goddess is too cold. She disappears after class. It's hard to find her even if you want to ask her for a V. Many boys in our class have tried, but all of them have returned empty-handed. No one has made any progress."
"...I really don't."
Just as Zhou Yi said, after the bell rang, the other party immediately took his bag and left without stopping for a moment.
Bai Yu sniffed the almost inaudible aroma with his nose, frowned, and without bothering to talk to his friend who had a look on his face saying, "I don't believe it, your explanation is a cover-up, and the cover-up is the fact," he quickly stood up and left with him.
He still cares more about the other person's scent.
Zhou Yi, who was left in the classroom, looked at his departing figure and curled his lips: "Good boy, you said you didn't like it, why are you so anxious?"
Really, it’s not something difficult to talk about liking a goddess. There’s nothing to be embarrassed about admitting. This guy is just too shy.
**
**
In the empty campus, a black figure quickly shuttled back and forth on the path, looking around vigilantly from time to time. After making sure that there was no one around, he continued to move forward quickly.
And in the blind spot behind her, which she couldn't see, there was a white figure secretly following her.
Bai Yu is now certain that this girl is definitely not a contaminant, or even a strange and suspicious person.
The fragrance on her body had been completely carried away by the wind. In his perception, she was just an ordinary female college student, and even her anti-tracking ability seemed clumsy and poor.
Rather than the fragrance emitted by the other party magically dissipating in the wind, Bai Yu was more inclined to believe that the other party had been exposed to pollutants somewhere, and for quite some time, so he was contaminated with a hint of the scent of pollutants.
Just like the bank card Chu Zehuai gave him.
Bai Yu originally wanted to go back directly as he had no interest in anything other than food, but Huang Rui's vigilant look successfully aroused his curiosity.
So he hid out of the other person's sight and followed him all the time.
Until she stopped in front of a school building.
Bai Yu looked up and saw the laboratory building of the Medical College of Qinghe University.
In the golden sunlight, the big golden words on the building sparkled.
Huang Rui sneaked into the experimental building, and after a moment, she walked over with a silver box in her arms.
She looked around and found that no one was paying attention to her. Then she ran to the playground with the box and squeezed out through a broken railing.
[System, can you detect what is inside that box? ]
Bai Yu, who was following behind, thought about it and only remembered that there were some experimental materials on the box.
[I can only roughly feel that it is a pile of meat.] The system replied.
Bai Yu blinked his eyes. Could it be that the other party was the poor student who was so poor that he stole the experimental materials to eat?
No, normal humans wouldn't steal experimental materials to eat. If they were to steal, they would go to the cafeteria.
Soon, this doubt was solved.
In a remote warehouse in Hebai District, Qinghe City.
This is a logistics warehouse. However, the warehouse, which should be filled with express deliveries, is now filled with meat.
Thighs and calves, arms and forearms, pairs of hands and pairs of feet, and hanging heads.
The whole warehouse doesn't look like a warehouse, but more like a slaughterhouse.
Bai Yu carefully hid by the door and listened to the conversation inside.
"You're here so soon this time?" An unfamiliar, rough male voice sounded.
"The whole city was testing last weekend, and many students didn't come today, so the process went smoothly."
Huang Rui's voice was heard, followed by the sound of a box being opened.
"Here, this is all I got for what you asked for. It's time for you to fulfill your promise."
"Is that all? My little baby is hungry. You know the consequences of not having enough -"
The man continued to make noises, mixed with the groaning sound of some large animal.
"Sir, please wait a moment. I only tricked the teacher into giving me the key to a laboratory this time. There are many laboratories in the university. I..."
Huang Rui's anxious voice was heard, with obvious panic and fear in it.
Before she finished her words, the grunting sound of some kind of wild beast in the warehouse became more obvious, containing a sense of frenzy and restlessness.
In addition to the humming sound, there is also the sound of limbs rubbing against the ground.
The next moment, a huge black shadow suddenly rushed out of the door, and the door instantly turned into a pile of rotten iron.
It was a domestic pig contaminant that was far more violent than a normal domestic pig, with a disgusting smell of blood on its body.
A man's rough voice came from the door:
"I was wondering why my little baby was so frantic, it turns out there's a little bug hiding here."
Bai Yu couldn't help but pursed his lips.
Tsk.
Discovered.
Continue read on readnovelmtl.com
