Chapter 27: The Second Day of Spring (1) The Mutated “Bamboo King”…
The rain lasted only half the night, so by the time Luo Wei woke up, the stone floor of the base was already dry. Briefly shocked by the in-game ground's high water absorption, Yu Luo Wei first checked on her farmland.
The plants in the farmland were not affected by the rain and were still growing normally. Yu Luowei left with peace of mind after seeing that there were no signs of mutation on the countdown. He took the bracelet he had packed yesterday and prepared to go to the forest to check the situation.
As soon as Yu Luowei stepped out of the base, she felt the world outside had changed. First, the bushes outside the fence. Since the base had been upgraded and expanded, they had become farther away, so she couldn't see much from inside the shelter. But now, outside, she could clearly see that the bushes had grown taller, almost as tall as Yu Luowei.
The number of flowers and plants on the ground has also increased. The path that was once opened up is now almost occupied by these weeds. If you are not careful, you will trip. Yu Luowei had to take out the ice axe to clear the original path again.
The buds on the trees and ground were already half open: tender pink peach blossoms, yellow forsythia, and morning glories of various colors. At first glance, it was a beautiful painting. But Yu Luowei was not in the painting after all, so she could still smell it. The fragrance was not strong, but the mixture of various odors made her frown. Although she had no symptoms of pollen allergy, if it continued at this rate, the smell would seriously affect her movements.
It was impossible to dispose of all these flowers. She could only see if she could get a mask today, preferably a gas mask. While searching for treasure chests, Yu Luowei picked some peach blossoms to make tea or pastries back home. Picking blossoms from the peach trees in the planting boxes and fields would reduce the peach harvest, so she had been resisting the urge to pick them. Now, she could finally let loose.
After finding a green treasure chest and having almost finished picking all the peach blossoms, Yu Luowei headed back to the bamboo forest. The bamboos there were so densely packed, reaching up to the sky, that there was no sign that Yu Luowei had spent an entire afternoon chopping them. A thick layer of fallen leaves covered the ground, and every few steps, two or three bamboo shoots popped up. Although Yu Luowei hadn't used up the bamboo shoots he'd dug last time, with so many more sprouting from the ground, it was a waste not to dig. Yu Luowei rolled up his sleeves and began frantically digging for bamboo shoots.
The weather was quite warm today. She had been digging along a path in the bamboo forest for a long time. Worried about the possibility of shoots growing suddenly, Yu Luowei was not only careful and observant while digging, but also used a torch to explore the path as she hurried along. This took quite a bit of effort. Slowly, sweat began to drip down her forehead.
After bending over and digging bamboo shoots for a long time, Yu Luowei was exhausted and hot. He wiped the sweat off his face and wanted to rest for a while. As soon as he sat down, he looked up and found that the bamboo here was a little different. Many of them were already blooming.
From Yu Luowei's knowledge, bamboo reproduces asexually and generally doesn't flower. Once it does, it dies soon after. But the bamboos around here are all in bloom. And unlike real-life flowering bamboo, their color remains emerald green, with no sign of dying.
Although the surrounding scenery was unusual in the game, the unusual sight and timing of its appearance still aroused Yu Luowei's vigilance. She didn't bother to rest and first circled around the flowering bamboos.
After this round, there were no obvious discoveries, but a good harvest of bamboo rice was achieved. Yu Luowei had never seen bamboo rice before, so she curiously took a few grains and observed them. She didn't know what it looked like in real life, but the bamboo rice in the game was darker and coarser than regular rice, but otherwise, it was the same.
The bamboo rice was also 500g per portion. Yu Luowei put away the bamboo rice and continued exploring deeper into the bamboo forest, following the flowering bamboos. The deeper he went, the more flowering bamboos he found. After collecting more than a dozen portions of bamboo rice, a distinctly different bamboo suddenly appeared before his eyes.
This bamboo has many white flowers on it. The bamboo body is twice as thick as ordinary bamboo, and the bottom is directly bulging, like a stone pillar on the road. If it is not in a bamboo forest, no one can recognize it as a bamboo.
In addition to its strange appearance, Yu Luowei could also vaguely feel that there seemed to be movement in the bulging part of the bamboo. She slowly walked closer to this "Bamboo King" and was surprised to find that the bulging part of the bamboo was beating regularly, much like a heartbeat.
This essentially confirmed Yu Luo's suspicions that the micro-plants would transform into monsters. For a moment, she even considered taking out her phone, taking a screenshot, and posting it on social media. Of course, this was just a joke; the most important thing right now was to nip the danger in the bud.
Before leaving home today, she drank another cup of lion's blood, giving her a good opportunity to test the power of fire magic. Yu Luowei used flames to condense a bow and arrow this time. Not only did it consume less mental energy than the ice bow she'd used last time, but she could sense it would be far more powerful than ice magic of the same level. It seemed the lion's blood was quite effective.
After confirming that the Bamboo King would not actively attack, Yu Luowei first simply cleaned up the surrounding bamboo to prevent it from starting a fire. Then he stood further away and began shooting at the Bamboo King.
When the first arrow hit the Bamboo King's "belly", Yu Luowei heard a faint and mournful scream. Worried that it was another mental attack, she immediately gathered her mental strength to resist, quickly adjusted her state and shot a few more arrows.
However, this time it was not a mental attack: as Yu Luowei attacked, the screams in her ears became louder and louder, and the flowers on the Bamboo King's head gradually fell down, and then, following the sound, they consciously floated towards Yu Luowei.
Yu Luowei didn't have time to pay attention to the flower for the time being. She was busy dealing with the Bamboo King. After the rocket hit the Bamboo King, the flames burned for only a moment before being extinguished by the liquid flowing out of the Bamboo King's stomach. It hadn't fully evolved into a monster yet, but it was able to extinguish Yu Luowei's flames. This thing was even more powerful than she expected. Fortunately, it was discovered in advance, otherwise it would have been at least orange level by the time it fully evolved.
When Yu Luowei was drawing her bow to shoot her next arrow, the white flowers appeared before her. She immediately moved away from where she was standing. The flowers paused for a moment, then noticed her move and immediately followed her.
Not knowing what would happen if the flowers stuck to him, Yu Luowei temporarily put down his bow and arrow and fired a fireball at the flowers. Fortunately, the flowers were not like the bamboo king itself, which could extinguish flames. The moment the fireball came into contact with them, they were instantly burned up.
After dealing with this patch of flowers, Yu Luowei increased her speed and continued to attack the Bamboo King before the next one could float over. Under her intensive attack, the liquid in the Bamboo King's body gradually decreased, the flames grew stronger, and the Bamboo King's body gradually became dilapidated, and its color gradually turned into a charred black.
Yu Luowei did not dare to be careless and kept attacking until there was no more sound in her ears and the flowers slowly fell to the ground, then she stopped.
Approaching this future monster, Yu Luowei habitually took out the flaming sword and chopped it a few more times until the system popped up a prompt to decompose the corpse, then he put away the weapon.
After decomposing the corpse, I got a Supply Box (Blue) and 5 Bamboo Fungus (500g), which is also a rare mushroom. However, this is much less than other monsters of the same level.
It would be best if this monster hadn't evolved completely yet. Otherwise, if new monsters in the future had the same attack difficulty and rewards, Yu Luowei would be really pissed off.
Just as he was about to sit for a while, Yu Luowei suddenly heard another wailing. No way, could it be that just as one battle ended, another one came? Yu Luowei stood up resignedly and prepared to find the source of the sound.
After walking deeper for a while, Yu Luowei found that the bamboo forest was much larger than he had imagined. Although he had not yet walked out of the bamboo forest, the number of flowering bamboos around him had gradually decreased.
As he walked further, a strong smell of blood wafted through the air, and a giant panda gradually appeared before his eyes. After a few more steps, he finally saw the panda in its entirety: it didn't seem to be fully standing yet, but it was already as tall as Yu Luowei, and about the same size as the elephants Yu Luowei had seen before.
The appearance of a panda in the bamboo forest was both reasonable and unreasonable. Yu Luowei still had the energy to complain: Ever since entering the game, I've barely seen a ghost.
The panda showed no desire to attack Yu Luowei. Upon closer inspection, they discovered that the panda's body had been pierced by more than a dozen bamboo shoots. Blood was flowing all over the ground, staining it red. It was howling in pain. Perhaps it hadn't noticed the bamboo shoots beneath it while foraging in the bamboo forest last night.
This unusually large creature was most likely a monster. Although it was already seriously injured, Yu Luowei still pulled out his weapon and slowly approached the injured giant panda. Strangely, the panda not only showed no hostility towards Luowei, but actually stopped wailing when Yu Luowei approached, and continued to struggle, trying to point to Yu Luowei with his eyes and limbs, even though this only widened its wounds and caused more blood to flow.
Yu Luo'e, who had read countless novels, immediately realized that the giant panda was probably "entrusting its orphan to someone else." She immediately followed the direction the giant panda pointed and, sure enough, found a little panda under fallen leaves not far away.
There was also a circle of white airflow around the shivering panda, destroying the bamboo shoots under the red panda, preventing it from suffering the same tragedy as its mother (), but now also preventing Yu Luowei from contacting the red panda.
Seeing that Yu Luowei had found it, the giant panda's eyes flashed, and the airflow around the red panda disappeared. Yu Luowei immediately picked up the red panda.
Perhaps because it was frightened, the red panda, about the size of an adult ragdoll cat, was very docile in Yu Luowei's arms. Yu Luowei brought it to the giant panda, allowing the mother and child to say their final goodbyes.
The giant panda licked the red panda's fur lovingly, looked at Yu Luowei with gratitude, pointed at itself with the last of its strength, and then, reluctant to look at the red panda, slowly closed its eyes.
Immediately, a prompt appeared in front of Yu Luowei:
[Whether to decompose the corpse of the level 4 monster Iron Eater]
It turned out to be a monster, but at only level four, it understood human nature so well, worthy of being a former national treasure. Yu Luowei patted the completely stunned red panda, then closed its eyes and chose to decompose.
When it was decomposing, Yu Luowei couldn't help but feel fortunate that he was very careful when he walked. This bamboo could easily kill even a level 4 monster, let alone himself.
The final product was a red treasure chest. A level 4 monster could actually drop a red treasure chest, so Yu Luowei forgave the lack of other products. Thinking of the giant panda's final actions, this red treasure chest must contain something very important.
After carefully observing the panda's death site, Yu Luowei noticed that the bloodstains on the ground were disappearing at a visible rate. Furthermore, blood-red veins were gradually appearing on the bamboos that had served as the "murder weapons." Yu Luowei's expression darkened as he immediately chopped down the bamboos with his weapon, then used a tool to pull them out by the roots.
The blood-red bamboos vanished as soon as they fell to the ground, and nothing more appeared in the bracelet. Sure enough, these were no longer ordinary plants. Just in case, Yu Luowei dug up all the blood-stained soil.
Since the red panda couldn't fit into the bracelet, Yu Luowei completed all the above tasks single-handedly. It was exhausting. Having just obtained a red treasure chest, Yu Luowei couldn't wait to go back and open it. She rested for a while to recover her strength, and then headed back home.
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