Chapter 29: Heaven-Defying Plant System
For a moment, the people could not tell whether the tree frog growing with the tree belonged to the category of mutant beasts or mutant plants.
However, one thing was certain, that is, the level of the mutant in front of them would definitely not be lower than level A.
Otherwise, with Cole's level B mental power, it would be impossible for his perception to be blocked by it.
However, with the current strength of the people, it might be a bit difficult to deal with a mutant of level A or above.
The pink vines shot out from the middle of the tree frog's mouth again, rushing straight towards Ji Fan. The suction mouth in the middle firmly attached to Ji Fan's abdomen, and the hook-shaped teeth pierced into the flesh.
Ji Fan grimaced in pain.
"Save me... cough cough... Li Xiang, save me quickly."
The vines wrapped around its waist gradually tightened, and Ji Fan's skin was congested and he couldn't breathe. He struggled hard and looked at Li Xiang for help.
Li Xiang was about to go up to help, but the white tree roots suddenly emerged again, and the thick vines were pulled down suddenly. He could only raise his knife to block. The
pink vines tied Ji Fan and sent him into the mouth of the tree frog. Ji Fan's face was pale, and infinite fear spread in his heart. He forgot the pain of the wound on his abdomen for a moment, and tears kept falling down.
He, Ji Fan, are you really going to play?
Ji Fan closed his eyes in despair.
Suddenly, a gust of wind swept through the air with a sound of breaking through.
He opened his eyes and saw Jiang Ning quickly grabbing the high-speed flying sword in the air and slashing at the vines wrapped around him.
Ji Fan stared at her in a daze. At this moment, Jiang Ning seemed to be emitting light.
The next second, he heard a "click".
The vine was fine, and the sword was broken.
Ji Fan: "..."
Jiang Ning touched her nose awkwardly, blinked, and showed a bit of guilt in her eyes.
The air was silent for two seconds at this moment.
"Remember to compensate me." Jiang Ning looked at the half-broken sword in her hand, and a painful look appeared on her face.
She spent 1,000 star coins on this sword, and bought it from a second-hand market.
It is not cheap at all.
Ji Fan was anxious: "Is this the right time to talk about this?"
The two were about to hit the tree frog in the face.
"Help me get rid of this annoying vine." Ji Fan showed a painful look, "I'm almost strangled by it!"
Jiang Ning held the half-broken knife, her eyes did not fall on the vines wrapped around Ji Fan, but on the place where the vines connected to the tree.
She jumped down several times and jumped directly to the wide-open mouth of the tree frog.
"Hey! Jiang Ning, where are you going?" Jiang Ning's departure made Ji Fan look flustered for a moment, "Don't leave me, ah!"
He struggled harder and harder, but the vines shrank tighter.
Jiang Ning ignored him.
Lianas mainly rely on the main root to absorb nutrients and water. As long as the connection between it and the tree is cut off, Ji Fan will be saved.
The tree frog seemed to have sensed Jiang Ning's thoughts. In an instant, countless white roots emerged from the ground and rushed towards her.
Just as they were about to envelop her, Jiang Ning smiled.
The tree was resisting, which showed that her idea was right.
Jiang Ning nimbly dodged the attack of the tree roots. The broken light sword was about to leave an afterimage, and the white roots were cut off one by one. After a series of operations, she was getting farther and farther away from the mouth of the tree frog.
"I'll deal with those tree roots."
Not far away, Kelai set up the energy beam cannon he had used before, with some dissatisfaction in his eyes: "You, die!"
Damn, it was not easy to use it in the tunnel before, but it is different now.
Kelai pulled the trigger, and an energy beam cannon shot out from the barrel, blasting towards Jiang Ning less than a meter away.
'Boom--'
This shot was so powerful that the white tree roots were blown everywhere, leaving a shallow deep pit on the ground.
Kelai didn't have time to be happy for two seconds, but the white tree roots began to split infinitely again, and soon grew back again, even more than the previous ones.
Kelai made an irritable "tsk" sound, and continued to pull the trigger, and two energy beams were fired in succession.
Jiang Ning saw the right moment and successfully approached the tree frog's mouth in the few seconds after the first shell of Cole exploded.
Twisting the handle, the light knife transformed into a double-headed knife, but at this time, only one section of the double-headed knife was left.
She stretched her hand to the root of the pink vine, released her senses and groped around twice. A continuous stream of small yellow-green light balls were flowing from the tree to the pink vine.
Found it, it's here!
Jiang Ning injected her mental power into the light knife and stabbed it into the nutrient transport pipeline.
As the tree frog and the vines continued to tremble, the pink vine withered at a speed visible to the naked eye and turned into a dry and withered branch.
Ji Fan's body was tense, and as the vines withered, he fell from the sky.
Jiang Ning was quick to catch the falling Ji Fan.
At this time, the collar of his shirt was soaked with blood, and it was a bloody mess.
"Wuwuwu."
Ji Fan was crying, and he felt lucky to have survived the disaster: "I was scared to death."
"Don't cry yet, it's not over yet." Jiang Ning swung a knife and cut off the roots that were trying to approach her from behind.
"If you are still alive, go and help Ke Lai and Li Xiang cut off the mutant roots." Jiang Ning said.
"Jiang Ning, you are not a human being. I am almost dead." Ji Fan cried even harder.
Jiang Ning pulled Li Xiang behind her and bent down to cut off another mutant root that was approaching the two of them.
She warned, "If you keep crying, we'll all die."
Ji Fan swallowed and stopped crying, apparently frightened by these mutant plant roots.
"If you want to survive, take out your weapons, and then seize the opportunity to climb to the top of the cave." Jiang Ning pointed in the direction of the tree trunk.
Jiang Ning cleared a safe path for Ji Fan to get behind the tree frog.
Among the four people present, Ji Fan was the weakest.
The tree frog has self-awareness. It can be said that all mutants above level B have self-awareness.
Its beloved pink tongue was cut off by Jiang Ning, and the tree frog was in a state of riot at this time.
All the white tree roots suddenly stopped attacking everyone.
Ke Lai and Li Xiang's hands suddenly stopped, and they looked at the center of the tree in confusion.
There, the roots kept gathering in the direction of the tree frog.
Li Xiang had already come down from the tree. He walked over to the people and asked, "What's going on?"
The giant tree swayed without wind, and leaves fell off the tree in large numbers.
Jiang Ning reached out to catch a leaf, lowering her head in thought.
In the blink of an eye, the tree cocoon retreated, and the tree frog actually broke free from the root system. The bundled roots formed its new tongue and shot towards her.
Seeing this, Jiang Ning's heart skipped a beat. She couldn't block it with her knife, and was swept backwards and fell into the pool of water around the island, choking several times.
"Jiang Ning!"
Kelai raised his hand and fired several energy cannons. However, the energy cannons hit the opponent, which was like tickling. It had no effect at all.
"..."
Kelai frowned and his face turned ugly.
The strengthened tree frog could not be harmed by the energy cannons.
On the other side, the tree frog raised its feet, and its huge paws stomped down on the remaining three people like covering the sky.
Fortunately, the few people reacted in time and rolled to the side, so they were not trampled by it.
When the tree frog's paw fell, the whole island trembled.
The few people didn't dare to imagine that if this foot stepped on them, would their internal organs be instantly crushed.
Jiang Ning climbed out of the pool, staring at the mutant in front of her without blinking.
We are all plant-type, how can it be so powerful?
Jiang Ning became more and more angry, and a weird idea spread in her mind.
If she could also summon a plant of the same level as this mutant, could she beat it?
Since the experiment five years ago, Jiang Ning has never tried to summon other plants. Now that she has enough mental strength, she can test whether her ability can summon other plants besides sunflowers.
There is planting soil here, and the plants can survive as soon as they fall to the ground.
Jiang Ning held her breath and concentrated, and many plants she had seen in books flashed through her mind.
After a while, a seedling appeared in front of her.
Jiang Ning gathered his mental strength and injected energy into the seedling. In ten seconds, it matured quickly.
The plant was two meters tall, green, smooth and hairless, with about five pinnate leaves and swollen pods in an oblong shape.
What is this?
A giant pea seedling! ?
"Never mind, let me see what you can do to deal with this mutant creature." Jiang Ning didn't want to think about it. He sensed and controlled the pea seedling and aimed it at the mutant tree frog.
"Puff--"
The pea pod burst along the middle line, and round and plump peas shot out from the pod. The moment they touched the mutant tree frog's skin, they quickly formed a layer of light green silk net.
The wire mesh looks thin, but it is actually very strong. If you look closely, in addition to tightly entangling the tree frog, the wire mesh itself also carries a layer of electric current, which passes through the mutant tree frog's skin and corrodes into the body of the tree.
"Puff puff puff--"
Seeing that there was hope, Jiang Ning controlled the pea seedlings and pursued them.
Two more bean pods on the plant exploded and shot towards the mutant tree frog.
The mutant tree frog was fixed in place by her and could not move at all.
The other three looked at the green spherical substance that suddenly emerged in confusion, and didn't understand why the mutant tree frog was fixed in place and could not move after touching these spheres.
They looked in the direction where the ball was shot, and saw Jiang Ning controlling a two-meter-tall plant with a big smile on her face.
"What new weapon is this?" Even though Cole was well-informed, her brain couldn't understand the scene of controlling a plant to deal with a Class A mutant.
She just thought that the beans on the soap pods of the plant looked like her energy light cannon, so she guessed whether this was another weapon invented by some genius designer.
Although there was a slight difference between the two, there seemed to be no other explanation in her mind.
"No." Jiang Ning shook her head and denied it, and took the opportunity to explain to the others, "This is my ability."
As soon as she said this, a question mark popped up in the minds of several people at the same time: Isn't Jiang Ning's ability plant-based?
Plant-based... When did it become so amazing?