Chapter 42 Mutated Banyan Tree
Soon, Shen Qian found the answer.
At this moment, she was standing on the stairs next to the library. There was a hundred-meter-long staircase on one side of the library. Standing on the stairs and looking down, there was a huge banyan tree in the middle of the sports square at the bottom.
Even a century-old banyan tree is only about 15-20 meters high and has a crown width of about 50 meters. However, the banyan tree in front of us is more than 30 meters high, and its crown is like a giant mushroom cloud, almost covering the entire square.
The huge square was covered with black shadows. The square looked lifeless under the thick and dense branches of the banyan tree. Everything around it was shrouded in dead silence.
In addition, hundreds of thick aerial roots grow on the trunk and branches of the banyan tree, absorbing nutrients from other surrounding trees without reservation. Other plants have no vitality at all.
The aerial roots are covered with black raised veins, interspersed with large, tumor-like fleshy balls. The fleshy balls rise and fall rhythmically, like beating hearts, revealing a bloody color. The leaves are even redder than black.
The land around the square has cracked, and bottomless gullies radiate outwards, stretching for hundreds of meters.
However, this was nothing. What made Shen Qianxun feel suffocated and horrified was the layers of corpses piled up like mountains around the thick trunk.
The "people" who disappeared from the campus gathered here, their flesh and blood were sucked out, and they eventually turned into shriveled corpses.
"Gudong~"
The swallowing sound broke the silent atmosphere, and the sound echoed from near to far.
Shen Qianxun heard the sound and looked over. One of the air roots was surging inside the tube. Looking down, he saw a body that was unclear whether it was a human or a zombie. The air root penetrated from above the head, and as it swallowed, the body gradually shrank.
"Burp~"
Finally, there was a sigh of satisfaction.
At the same time, the aerial roots were suddenly pulled out from the top of the corpse's head. Without support, the corpse fell down like a piece of thin paper.
A sharp thorn grew at the top of the aerial root, emitting a cold light.
The “well-fed and well-drinking” banyan tree had already noticed Shen Qianxun’s arrival, but he didn’t take the little shrimp in front of him seriously at all.
He slowly extended one of the thorny aerial roots towards Shen Qianxun.
"Marshmallow, assist and heal at the same time!"
The energy source coming from the mutant banyan tree in the distance far exceeded her ability level. Shen Qianxun guessed that the other party's level was likely to have reached level three.
Although the book mentioned that the mutated plants did not contain the zombie virus, those large tumors made Shen Qianxun dare not let down his guard at all.
The aerial roots had amazing extension and movement speed, and in the blink of an eye they were 5 meters in front of Shen Qianxun.
Without hesitation, the space blade was swung out continuously, and the aerial root was immediately cut into several pieces. A red and black sticky liquid flowed out from the broken ends, and the stench was overwhelming.
Several tumors fell on the stairs along with the severed aerial roots. Taking advantage of the gap, Shen Qianxun took a closer look and saw a green sapling growing on a pool of flesh and blood, just like the leaves of a banyan tree.
As soon as the sapling landed on the ground, it began to absorb the blood and flesh underneath it crazily, and its roots even pierced through the hard bluestone floor directly.
One of them absorbed the nutrients the fastest. After absorbing its own nutrients, its black and red roots stretched directly to the nearest tumor to continue absorbing the nutrients. It then grew taller at a speed visible to the naked eye, and in a blink of an eye it reached a height of 1 meter.
Shen Qianxun “!!!”
This astonishing reproduction rate and terrifying growth rate will surely bring disaster to mankind.
Shen Qianxun then swung out the thunder ball, breaking the dozen or so tumors in front of him one by one.
There were more than ten tumors on one aerial root, and looking around, there were hundreds of aerial roots. Shen Qianxun didn't dare to think about it at all. In an instant, his back felt cold, his whole body was covered with goose bumps, and his hair stood up.
The mutant banyan tree did not expect that the human in front of it would easily cut off its aerial roots and harm its own children. It was so angry that it trembled all over, and its branches and leaves shook, making a "rustling" sound. The ground shook continuously, and dozens of aerial roots attacked Shen Qianxun at the same time.
Shen Qianxun threw a handful of crystal cores at Marshmallow's feet. Marshmallow stepped on them, looking forward with a firm gaze and a light green halo emanating from his body.
The big tree in front of it is so disgusting that it wants to kill it together with the shit shoveler!
Space blades and thunder balls were swung out one after another. Shen Qianxun was determined and moved two steps at most. She wanted to get rid of hundreds of air roots. The current position was most advantageous to her.
The spatial blade cuts the aerial roots, the thunder ball explodes the tumor, and there are plenty of crystal cores, which can slowly kill this mutated banyan tree.
The mutant banyan tree was so angry that it vomited blood. It had worked so hard to cultivate the next generation! The humans in front of it were really abominable!
As the trunk shook, hundreds of aerial roots attacked Shen Qianxun at the same time.
Shen Qianxun called for Marshmallow to retreat, with a thunder ball in one hand and a space blade in the other, busy all the time, and there was a thick layer of white powder at his feet.
Soon after, Shen Qianxun was covered in wounds, his clothes were torn, and he was covered in blood. Fortunately, with the help of Marshmallow's healing ability, the wounds healed quickly.
At this moment, the mutant banyan tree noticed Marshmallow’s abnormality, and countless aerial roots attacked Marshmallow behind Shen Qianxun.
Shen Qianxun immediately picked up Marshmallow and used his Space Blade crazily, running while dodging the pursuit of the mutant banyan tree.
However, after being cut by the spatial blade, only a few aerial roots of the mutated banyan tree remained, numbering no more than about 100. The tumor could only be left for last and dealt with.
At this moment, her head suddenly felt a sharp pain, and a voice in her ear was calling her, very charming, "Come here, come here quickly~"
Shen Qianxun’s feet stepped uncontrollably along the stairs.
Soon, she realized, "Oh no, it's a psychic ability!"
Then she asked Marshmallow to use the amplification on his own healing system and fully output the healing ability. She found that Marshmallow's healing ability was very powerful and very effective in alleviating mental attacks.
The other party is most likely a special psychic with mind control capabilities. No wonder the huge campus is deserted.
As the stabbing pain in his head dissipated, Shen Qianxun's consciousness gradually returned. He made up his mind and followed its will, going down the stairs.
After cutting all the way, they soon arrived at the mutant banyan tree, and there were only a few aerial roots left.
It is described in the novel that the fatal points and crystal cores of most mutated plants are in their roots.
Shen Qianxun frantically threw thunder balls and two grenades at the base of the roots of the mutant banyan tree. The combination of grenades and thunder balls doubled the critical hit rate.
The TNT bomb is too destructive. One kilogram of TNT is equivalent to the power of 200 grenades. If she and Marshmallow are thrown out, they will not be able to survive. Now they have to stay in the space and are of no use.
At the same time, one of the grenades was caught by the aerial roots of the mutant banyan tree, and Shen Qianxun immediately threw a thunder ball to increase the firepower.
"Bang, bang, bang~"
The shock waves caused by several loud noises threw Shen Qianxun and Marshmallow high into the air, and then they landed heavily on the mountain of corpses.
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