They both froze, and then Ye Xiao said to Lin Tan, "Come up."
Lin Tantan was stunned for a moment, then understood what was going on. He quietly climbed onto the bed and squatted on it, staring at the door curtain. The glass door was open, so they saw the dark curtain being lifted up, and then something crawled in from underneath.
Ye Xiao made the air around him stagnate. If he didn't use his eyes, he would not have noticed that there was a second person in the room, and the thing that came in obviously had no eyes.
It seemed to be able to sense where Lin Tantan was. It did not approach, but crawled in slowly, making a very slight sound as it rubbed against the floor, with a smell of earth. It circled the bed as if it was scouting the terrain.
Lin Tan Tan silently estimated the length of this thing, two meters, three meters, four meters, and then a bulging part appeared, dragging behind it two "broken limbs", one long and one short, about two meters long.
It was obviously a horrifying scene, but looking at the "broken limb", Lin Tantan felt like laughing for some reason.
After it came in, Ye Xiao did not move immediately, but wanted to see what it was going to do. He saw that this guy probably felt that the environment was very safe, and was actually planning to climb onto the bed from the end of the bed.
How courageous! Ye Xiao acted like lightning, grabbing the end of the daring person who wanted to climb up, and condensed the air around him extremely, forming an invisible and inescapable air wall.
Lin Tan turned on the light.
He saw a brown tree root-like object, but it was thicker and fuller than a tree root. It looked a bit round and was caught in Ye Xiao's hand. It struggled desperately, and then it seemed to be trapped in an invisible glass tube. No matter how it struggled, it could only hit the wall and make clanging sounds. The space for it to move was very narrow.
Lin Tantan crawled to the end of the bed and finally got a clear look at the thing.
Before I saw it clearly, I really thought it looked like a snake, but after seeing the light brown skin, the small whiskers on the skin, and some soil particles on it, it was definitely a plant root without a doubt.
Then the swollen part should be the core of this guy. There are many short roots on it, carrying more moist soil, which is just short of wrapping up the entire swollen part. Is it worried that it will be away from the soil for too long?
Obviously, this thing is a root with three rhizomes, but the other two were cut off by Lin Tantan, and they were still oozing mucus. The mucus also dragged two lines of green traces on the floor, just like those left by a mollusk crawling by.
"So this is what it looks like." Lin Tantan said, "It seems that the two roots I cut off are the longest?" The complete rhizome in front of him was more than four meters long, and the broken one was about two meters long, but the two roots that pierced and squeezed the vehicle during the day were more than ten meters long.
This thing struggled for a long time, and finally stopped, as if it had used up all its strength. It's a pity that it couldn't make any sound, otherwise it would be crying now, right?
Lin Tan Tan said, "Can I touch it?"
"You touch it."
Lin Tantan touched it and it felt like an ordinary tree root, cool and hard, but flexible. She muttered, "What kind of plant is this?"
"It's probably not a normal plant, it's a mutant."
"So what do we do now?"
"Just kill him." Ye Xiao said without hesitation.
Although it behaves timidly and non-aggressively at night, it wants to crawl onto the bed as soon as it arrives, and attacks vehicles so ferociously during the day. It is indeed a dangerous creature.
After hearing Ye Xiao's words, the guy who had been pretending to be dead suddenly jumped up again and struggled even more violently.
Lin Tantan was undecided for a moment, but a mutant plant that could move by itself, run all over the ground, had intelligence, and seemed to understand human language was rare.
Lin Tan Tan asked, "What do you think it eats? It doesn't have any plants above ground, so it probably can't photosynthesize. So it absorbs nutrients from the soil?"
Ye Xiao heard that Lin Tantan didn't want to kill it, and was about to persuade him, but when he thought of the nest of mutant rats below, he swallowed his words.
After thinking for a moment, he said, "Do you want to keep it?"
"I want to observe it. It seems quite docile at night, but it's so fierce during the day. And it runs so fast. What if it's a bad guy and I can't keep an eye on it..." Lin Tantan poked the guy's tough skin, "What do you want to do by coming to me? Do you want to eat me? Or do you want to suck my blood? Or are you just here to heal your wounds?"
Ye Xiao looked at her helplessly, but then he felt the guy under him move. The force was a little light, with a hint of negotiation. He hesitated and loosened his grip appropriately, and saw the thick and round root lifted up and performed a difficult movement.
It made the Arabic numeral "3".
I almost broke myself.
Lin Tan Tan: "..."
Ye Xiao: “…”
Lin Tantan was stunned. Was he that clever? But she immediately set her face in a stern tone. "You lied. You came to me to heal your wounds, but why did you sneak up on my bed? Shouldn't you have woken me up? Tell me, did you intend to pierce me and suck me dry while I slept, just to replenish your own nutrition?"
Lin Tantan had read the literature and knew that many mutated plants in the apocalypse followed this path. They appeared ordinary and harmless, or bright and beautiful, luring people to get close. Once people got close, they would extend their mouthparts in the flowers, or directly use their branches, leaves and roots to suck blood, turning people into mummies. It was so cruel.
She had seen it so many times that she was used to it, but Ye Xiao heard this for the first time and immediately frowned: "Talk about it, don't talk nonsense!"
But the more he looked at the strange thing in his hand, the more he felt that it might have the same intention. Murderous intent surged in his heart. It would be better to kill this strange thing once and for all to eliminate future troubles.
The thing in his hand was so frightened by his murderous intent that it couldn't even hold a "3" and it swung left and right, like a human shaking his head.
Ye Xiao looked at it. It was shaking with fear, and particles of dirt on its body were falling down.
Knock knock knock, there was a knock on the door, and Bai Cheng said outside the door: "Ah Xiao, let's talk, have you caught him?"
The moment Lin Tantan heard Bai Cheng's voice, she jumped out of bed, her face pale with fear: "Oh my God, it's Bai Cheng! Quick, quick, get out of the balcony!"
Ye Xiao opened his mouth: "What?"
"Uh..." She was a beat late in catching the second half of Bai Cheng's sentence. Did she catch it?
What did you catch?
She reacted and pointed at the mutant plant: "He knows about this?"
"Yeah, everyone knows." Ye Xiao nodded slowly. Her first reaction when she heard Bai Cheng's voice just now was panic. To put it bluntly, it felt like... she was caught in an affair, and he was asked to walk through the balcony...
Ye Xiao narrowed his eyes and felt that he seemed to have discovered something.
He unconsciously exerted force on his hands, and the root was deformed and crackled. It was in great pain, but it didn't dare to struggle at all, and remained motionless like a real tree root.
Lin Tantan also felt something. Ye Xiao's face looked a little strange. Why?
Did she misunderstand him just now and ask him to go through the balcony, making him unhappy? She pointed to the door and said, "I... will go open the door."
Ye Xiao's expression softened: "I'll go."
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"Put on your coat." Ye Xiao said as he carried the thing and walked towards the door. Lin Tantan hurriedly put on his coat. When the door opened, there were several people outside, including Bai Cheng, Mei Baisheng, Jiang Xiaotian and others.
So when did they make the appointment? She thought that thing would come to find her, so she stayed up waiting, but when did they make the appointment and knew that Ye Xiao would come to her room to help catch that thing?
Anyway, everyone gathered in the corridor and looked the thing up and down.
"So this is what it looks like." Everyone exclaimed.
When asked what to do with it, Ye Xiao said calmly: "Keep it first. If it behaves well, continue to raise it. If it doesn't, kill it."
The thing shrank back and stayed obediently in Ye Xiao's hand. Ye Xiao said, "Leave it here with me tonight. You all go to sleep."
Lin Tan Tan hesitated for a moment: "Then you better be careful, or I'll kill you."
Ye Xiao's eyes were slightly warm: "I know."
He returned to his room and threw the thing on the ground: "If you don't obey, I'll cut you into pieces!"
He went to the bathroom on the second floor, washed his face, looked at himself in the mirror, and took a deep breath. She was always thinking strangely, and she must have felt embarrassed to be discovered in the same room with him.
After thinking carefully about how she usually gets along with Bai Cheng, there is no problem at all. Well, it is obvious that he is overthinking it. She is just a girl who has not yet come to her senses.
Although he thought so, he still paused when he turned around and faced Bai Cheng who was about to come in.
Bai Cheng smiled and said, "What's wrong? You look unhappy with me. It's rare for you to be alone in a room with me. Although this opportunity was not something you actively sought, it is still a great progress. Shouldn't you be happy?"
progress……
Ye Xiao thought about tripping over the bed just now. He subconsciously supported his waist. Indeed... that's progress, right? Ahem, he said seriously, "Let's go."
Nothing happened that night. The next day, when Lin Tantan went downstairs, Ye Xiao was already there. At his feet was the mutant plant, curled up in a ball, looking wilted. It seemed to have dimmed a lot after the night had passed.
Lin Tan asked if the cat hadn't made any noise last night, and Ye Xiao said it was very well behaved.
Lin Tan Tan looked carefully at the cross-sections of the two poor broken limbs. The cuts made by her golden blade should have been very neat and smooth, but probably because they had drilled in the soil too much, they were now very miserable, mixed with soil, and looked muddy.
Since I plan to keep it, even though it is still in the observation period, I can't completely ignore it.
She was not sure whether her special ability would be useful to plants, so she asked Ye Xiao. After getting his approval, she tried to treat this guy.
She placed her hand on the broken part and slowly released the energy. At this moment, the short and thick roots on the bulging part suddenly stretched out and wrapped around her hand.
Ye Xiao attacked almost at the same time, and Lin Tantan hurriedly said, "Wait a minute." The wind blade passed by the mutant plant and stood on the ground, leaving a deep trail.
Ye Xiao looked at Lin Tantan and didn't move. Lin Tantan felt the roots absorbing the energy she released. She understood: "So it absorbs energy from here. Does it also absorb nutrients from here?"
After a while, she stopped releasing energy. The mutant plant seemed unsatisfied, but did not dare to pester her anymore. The whiskers left Lin Tan's hand and returned to their original length. At this time, its two broken ends had healed a lot.
Lin Tan smiled and said, "It looks pretty fast."
Ye Xiao hummed.
He also had a lot of things to do today, and it would definitely not work to leave this thing in the villa, so he found a box to put it in and placed it where it could be seen.
Lin Tantan felt that this mutated plant was quite miserable. Such a powerful mutant species ended up like this, but who made it attack them first?
She was in the shantytown all day today. She was no longer hiding in the folding tent, but sitting outside, carefully watching the patients coming and going, whether they were seriously ill or not. After a day of observation, she actually found a few who had the possibility of awakening superpowers. She secretly asked Jiang Zhongyi to have people pay attention and write down their names.
Another thing happened today. The manager of the shantytown drove over to distribute meals to the sick. Only the patients could get them, and not much, either a bowl of porridge, a steamed bun, or a pack of biscuits.
Although it wasn't much, it made the patients very happy and they almost shed tears of gratitude.
On the one hand, these things could fill their stomachs to some extent, but on the other hand, it meant that the base had not given up on them, and they did not, as some people said, wish that these sick people would die so as not to hinder their progress. The mental strength these sick meals gave them was greater than their actual effects, and it immediately improved the mental outlook of these patients.
Lin Tantan was also very happy.
She was even happier because she knew that this was food brought from Yang City.
It just so happened that there was no rain today. The sky was clear and the sun came out. The sunlight shone on people. Although it was not very warm, it made people feel particularly good. The sky after the heavy rain also looked particularly blue and clean.
During the break, Jiang Zhongyi came over and said, "Sister, someone said they would give me a lot of supplies as long as I join them."
Lin Tan Tan was puzzled: "Isn't this a common occurrence? What happened this time?"
"The promised supplies were substantial, and it wasn't just me. Yang Xinyu and Zhao Yidan were all contacted. They cast a wide net and exerted great force."
Lin Tan Tan didn't think there was anything to worry about. If the news that Ye Xiao was going to develop here got out, there would definitely be people who would be restless. If someone was willing to spend money to snatch people, then let them do it. People who could be snatched away now could also be snatched away in the future, so it would be better to snatch them away sooner and save worry.
She smiled and said, "Are you moved?"
Jiang Zhongyi quickly waved his hands: "No, no, I must follow you."
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