Chapter 83 Rafflesia

Rustle.

Jiang Ning's ears moved. What sound?

Rustle.

It seemed to come from behind the little fat man.

Jiang Ning and Zhou Shuai looked at each other, and they both looked behind him. Something seemed to be moving in the bushes over there.

"You heard it too?" Zhou Shuai said.

Jiang Ning nodded gently.

"What?" Among the three people, only the little fat man had a look of confusion on his face. How could he not hear anything?

Jiang Ning reacted very quickly, and his perception quickly spread, sweeping towards the depths of the jungle.

"Something is approaching us."

The three of them stood back to back and gradually moved towards the middle.

Zhou Shuai released his superpowers, and his skin gradually hardened, revealing a cold gray color like steel. He was a superpower who relied on pure energy output. In other words, he could both fight and carry.

Rustle.

Another sound of leaves under pressure and friction.

"..." The fat man froze, pointed at the middle of the half-high trees, and couldn't say a word for a long time.

The two were attracted by his actions, turned their heads and took a look, and their faces suddenly changed.

It looked like a person in front of them, and the male and female characteristics could no longer be distinguished. He was ragged and skinny, and the skin and flesh of his left calf were all eroded, leaving only a section of white bones exposed, which looked very permeable.

The man's eyes were bulging like balls, his head was shriveled, and the veins under the dark green skin were constantly wriggling.

Green buds grew in his ears and nose.

He walked with a swaying gait, and his movements were slow and stiff.

He looked a bit like a zombie.

Jiang Ning commented in his heart.

"Contaminated body?" Zhou Shuai frowned and looked at the "man" in front of him.

Judging from his condition, it was unknown how long he had been infected by the contaminated body.

While the three of them were stunned, they saw the contaminated body in the distance suddenly waving its arms, and its limbs accelerated and ran towards them.

The little fat man had never seen such a scene before, and in a panic, he barely erected a perception barrier to protect himself.

The contaminated bodies currently have no rating in the Federation, but according to a large amount of data, they are not as strong as alien beasts.

Zhou Shuai gathered strength in his left hand, and when the contaminated body was about to approach the crowd, he blocked in front of the two people and punched the contaminated body in the face.

"Crack--"

A sound of bone breaking was heard.

Zhou Shuai gathered 80% of his strength in this punch. Under the huge impact, the face of the contaminated body was instantly deformed and bent at 90 degrees.

The contaminated body, which was coming at a high speed, stopped moving, as if a pause button was pressed.

Dead?

Several people waited quietly for a few seconds, not daring to relax.

Crack, crack, crack.

The sound of bones moving could be heard all around. The contaminated creature in front of him slowly turned its head. Its skull must have been broken, and the right side of its face was sunken.

It's okay?

The skull must have been broken at the beginning. Jiang Ning made the first judgment in his mind. Contaminated creatures are between life and death. They have already died once.

Being able to live with a broken skull is completely different from the alien beasts.

Jiang Ning was thinking about how to deal with it.

The competition had started for a few days, and many people had already entered the jungle area, so it should be more than just the three of them who encountered the contaminated creature. Since they had encountered it long ago, the surrounding soldiers and teachers outside also knew about it. They knew about it but remained indifferent. I think this is also a big test in the arena.

Just as Jiang Ning thought, after the first student encountered a contaminated body, the teacher on the judges' panel wanted to call for a pause, but was interrupted by Feng Yanzi.

Feng Yanzi's original words were: "Since the freshman competition is for selecting talents, it's a good opportunity to see how these students react to unexpected situations. There are so many single soldiers stationed around. It won't be too late to rescue them when they are unable to cope."

She is the chief judge, and since she said so, everyone chose to listen to her.

After reaching a consensus, Feng Yanzi continued to stare at the screen. Why didn't I notice that there were so many contaminated bodies in the N001 area in previous years? Behind each of these contaminated bodies is a superpower.

After the competition is over, I have to let the Red Star government send people to search it thoroughly.

In the stadium.

The contaminated body twisted its limbs and rushed towards the few people again.

Zhou Shuai reacted and immediately wanted to follow up with another punch.

"Get out of the way." Jiang Ning raised his hand, and a chili pepper appeared in his hand.

Zhou Shuai went back to watch the replay of the previous game, and knew how powerful the thing in Jiang Ning's hand was, so he quickly stepped aside.

Jiang Ning used her perception to control the chili pepper and projected it in the direction of the contaminated body.

It would be best to destroy it with sufficient firepower, but if that doesn't work... she will think of other ways.

"Bang——"

The sound of an explosion rang not far away.

The fire cloud dissipated, and the explosion effect of the chili pepper was just to blow a hole in the middle of its belly, and the surrounding skin was turned outward, which looked a bit disgusting.

The contaminated body squirmed.

Damn!

Jiang Ning couldn't help but swear.

This thing is not dead yet.

The vitality of the contaminated body is too strong. Its stomach is empty, but it can still move.

The little fat man and Zhou Shuai grimaced. The two used basic light balls to attack it like a bomb. Fortunately, the continuous impact slowed it down.

The body of the contaminated body was soon riddled with holes. It could no longer bleed, and the huge hole was exposed.

Jiang Ning noticed something in the middle of its pierced stomach. She wanted to see it more clearly, so she asked Zhou Shuai and the little fat man to stop attacking.

At this glance, she discovered that what was wriggling under the skin of the contaminated body was not veins at all, but tiny green vines that supported its body.

Jiang Ning concluded that this was a mutant plant covered with a layer of contaminated skin.

No wonder the three of them couldn't kill it, it turned out that they had the wrong target from the beginning.

The mutant plant relies on the main root system to survive, and if you want to deal with it, you must find out where its main body is.

Jiang Ning told the two people about his guess.

Zhou Shuai raised a question at this time: "Mutated plants are usually connected to the main root system, but this thing in front of us is obviously independent."

Jiang Ning pondered for a moment: "I guess it should be related to the environment here."

"The wider the root coverage of the mutant plant, the larger the range of its activities." Jiang Ning said.

"Then it will be difficult to find it." The little fat man blinked.

Who knows where it hides the main root system.

The little fat man: "Besides, even if we know these, what's the use? Whether it is a pollutant or a mutant plant, we can't kill them at present."

"Who said there is no way to kill it." Jiang Ning said calmly.

"Do you have a way to deal with them?" Zhou Shuai was surprised.

He and the little fat man turned their heads to look at her at the same time.

Jiang Ning raised both hands at the same time, and a strong spiritual power gathered with her thoughts. Within three seconds, a purple flower suddenly appeared on the ground in front of the few people.

"?"

What is it?

Before the two people could open their mouths to ask.

The small flower quickly grew under the nourishment of spiritual power and grew to two meters high. The flower also reached an astonishing one meter.

When people looked at it from below, they could only see a few petals hanging down like tongues.

This is the Rafflesia, also known as the man-eating plant. It

was originally a fleshy parasitic herb.

The shape of its flower primordium looks like a wide-mouthed jar, and its function is to devour living things. Once sucked into its big mouth in the middle, the mucus secreted from the center of the flower can corrode the object.

But it also has two fatal flaws.

One is that it takes a long time to digest, and the other is that it cannot corrode anything that is a little harder.

So Jiang Ning usually doesn't use it.

Today, it just happened to encounter a contaminated body on the opposite side, and the skin tissue is still in human form, so the Rafflesia can swallow it perfectly.

Under the sight of the two people and the audience outside the field, Jiang Ning controlled the Rafflesia to bend its waist and swallowed the twisted and crawling contaminated body in one gulp.

Zhou Shuai, the little fat man: "..."

Audience: "..."

For a moment, it was unclear who was the alien beast.

Jiang Ning clapped her hands and said to the two people beside her: "Okay, let the Rafflesia digest it slowly."

Zhou Shuai came to her, took a deep breath and said: "...Sister, to be honest, your plant is the real mutant plant."

Jiang Ning: "..."

It takes at least ten minutes for the Rafflesia to digest an object. The larger the object, the faster it digests.

The three waited in place for ten minutes, and heard the Rafflesia swallowing sound. At the same time, the counting device on Jiang Ning's wrist also jumped up.

She raised her eyebrows. She didn't expect that the contaminants were also counted in the number of hunts, and the calculation ratio was equal to that of S-level monsters.

"Let's continue to go inside." Jiang Ning said to the two people.

The little fat man pointed at the group of people around him and asked, "What should we do with this thing?"

"It's a problem." Jiang Ning held her chin and thought for a moment. She suddenly raised her hand and released her perception towards the Rafflesia again.

Then several people saw that the Rafflesia was uprooted in front of everyone, and the roots were like two legs, walking on the ground.

Jiang Ning smiled and said to the two of them, "That's good."

"So this is how it was solved!" Zhou Shuai raised a thumb and had to admire it.

The little fat man looked at this scene and couldn't help twitching his mouth twice.

Next, the team changed from Zhou Shuai leading the way at the beginning to Rafflesia leading the way.

The three of them walked in the jungle for more than half an hour. The Rafflesia was like a happy little angel, swaying as it walked.

After adapting, the little fat boy said: It's good, it's cool!

However, being so arrogant in other people's territory always has a price to pay.

The mutant plant sensed a breath that did not belong to it wandering in the jungle area, and began to gather "troops", slowly moving towards the direction of the outsider.

Jiang Ning was strolling in the jungle, but suddenly she stopped.

She looked into the distance. Her

keen intuition about danger forced her to tighten her nerves again.