After sweeping up the zombies in the urban area adjacent to the fifth stop and collecting materials from three supermarkets, Hou Ying and others divided into two teams according to the map’s directions. One to the grocery market and the other to the flower and bird market.
The purpose of their trip is very clear, that is, for vegetable seeds and fertilizer.
The team consisting of Hou Ying, Li Xuanyuan, and Wang Hehe drove the first heavy truck (one car) to the small flower and bird market. The others formed a team and divided into two groups. Before the car entered the flower and bird market, they faintly saw the vibrant greenery ahead. Hou Ying was a little surprised. “Isn’t the market a fifty-meter street? How come there are so many flowers and plants?” When they turned from the main street into the flower and bird market, they were shocked by what they saw.
It’s like a large-scale greenhouse. The whole street is covered with green vines with intertwined branches and leaves. The flowers are studded with grass vines and colorfully dotted among the vivid green fields. It’s like a paradise on earth.
The three lost their minds for a moment, but soon they realized a strange and serious problem!
There’s not a single zombie.
Li Xuanyuan frowned and said, “It’s weird here. Do you want to go in?”
Hou Ying didn’t answer him first but looked at Wang Hehe. The latter was stunned for a moment before he realized that his uncle was confirming with himself whether this trip was dangerous. Wang Hehe said with little confidence, “I didn’t feel the same as Uncle Lao Er last time. I also didn’t seem to have a dream last night… It should be okay?”
Hou Ying breathed a sigh of relief. If there was a life-threatening danger during this trip like Qiao Daye’s last time, Wang Hehe’s ability should’ve warned him.
Since there isn’t, it must be threatening at best. So he nodded and said, “I want to identify the reason why there are no zombies here. If there is something that can expel zombies, it’ll be very helpful to us.”
Li Xuanyuan immediately thought of this benefit, so the two of them worked together. They left Wang Hehe in the cab and instructed him not to get out of the car before they went down to investigate.
As soon as they got out of the car, the fresh aroma of plants and trees greeted them, tangy and refreshing. The cool smell is refreshing in this hot weather, just like walking into a natural oxygen bar. Hou Ying carefully identified it and found that although the green plants covered the entire street, they’re actually mainly three plants: creeper, ivy, and mallow. The flowers above, in addition to the flowers and fruits of creeper and ivy, are covered with some herbaceous flowers that extend out of them.
Hou Ying turned to Li Xuanyuan and asked, “Do you have any special feelings?”
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Li Xuanyuan shook his head, “It’s a bit strange. It’s hard to say.”
When he first triggered the wood ability, his weapon was a nameless plant on the urban green belt. Now it has nothing in common with that before the end of the world. At that time, he didn’t have any special feelings about this plant, but it was easy to use. When he got here, he could obviously feel its excitement and feel that the environment made him very comfortable. But no matter how much it was, it was gone.
Hou Ying thought about it and asked Li Xuanyuan to wrap them up with vines to avoid some danger. Wang Hehe leaned on the car window to watch the two Hulks walk among the green. They were soon out of sight. He couldn’t help but curl his lips, he could only honestly wait for them to come out.
Walking in, Hou Ying could see more clearly.
On both sides of this street, most of the shops are for flowers, plants, ornamental fish, and birds. The fish tanks and birdcages can be vaguely seen but no sound can be heard. Hou Ying thought that after the power failure, the oxygen supply to the water tank was insufficient. These ornamental fish were dead, and the birds also took the opportunity to fly away. Although it has increased their vigilance, they still go deep into it. The storefronts are covered with creepers and mallows. The plants planted in the pots in the shops have become much bigger than before the apocalypse. The flowerpots are crushed by their roots and plunged deep into the concrete or tiled floor.
And the species are very single. Most of the ornamental indoor plants have withered and died, the rest are the vigorous cactus, aloe, spider plant, and other plants.
He curiously said, “These creepers look like there is only one.”
Plants cover the entire street. And if there’s really only one creeper that stretches so far, they have to be more vigilant—these plants look so different from before the end of the world, and it’s difficult to guarantee if they can become very aggressive. He looked left and right, and said to Li Xuanyuan, who’s silent on the side, “Can you subdue them?”
They came to this flower and bird market not only to collect culture soil, fertilizer, and seeds, they also wanted to try their luck to see if there’s anything Li Xuanyuan could use. Although his ability has reached level 3 mid-level, he still can only spawn vines and attack in a single way.
Li Xuanyuan wasn’t sure, but there’s confidence in his eyes. He said, “I’ll try it.”
He chose a tall and straight keel as high as a house. The thorns on the three stalks and the jade forest-like leaves are incomparably sharp. If he can conquer it, its lethality is at least double that of the current vine.
Unexpectedly, his hand just touched the keel, the originally “quiet” green plant suddenly seemed to come alive. The scaly leaves brushed open, “shaking all over”, the fleshy thorns from the succulent plant flew out to attack them!
Ding Ding Ding. The thorns that hit the vines fell to the ground after the impact, but it was “sucked” back by the keel plant and grew back on its stem.
The keel calmed down, as if nothing had happened, and stood there quietly. But when Li Xuanyuan put his hand on the plant again, the keel shook slightly, as if very afraid of him. Hou Ying was impressed by its anthropomorphic posture, while Li Xuanyuan rarely showed his affection. He smiled and sighed, “Really interesting.”
Seeing that he liked it, Hou Ying urged him to take the keel for his own use.
Li Xuanyuan released his wood ability. With the movement of his fingers, a small tender green vine bud gently stroked the sharp barbs and leaves of the keel. The keel seemed to be ticklish, and it shook more severely. Li Xuanyuan laughed in a low voice, “Would you like to come with me?”
It’s as if the plant could understand him.
Hou Ying looked at Li Xuanyuan blankly. Even if the vines wrapped his face and he couldn’t see the other’s expression, the dazzling light in his curved eyes made Hou Ying obsessed and reluctant to look away. He wanted to laugh at Li Xuanyuan’s childishness and tease him like ordinary friends so that the keen Li Xuanyuan wouldn’t notice his gaffe just now. Unexpectedly, the next instant, the green vine buds on Li Xuanyuan’s fingers suddenly soared and multiplied. The whole keel was completely wrapped up in the time he took a breath! Li Xuanyuan’s threat was very obvious, extremely overbearing!
Hou Ying only felt his heart beating faster, and the gaze he had just ordered himself to withdraw once again stuck to Li Xuanyuan.
Li Xuanyuan’s fingers squeezed slightly, and the green vines shrunk tightly. The keel, which had been submissive, suddenly fired the scales and barbs all over its body. But it quickly discovered that it could not break through the vines. And this action seemed to anger Li Xuanyuan. The vines tightened even more as if to strangle it alive. Li Xuanyuan gently asked it again, “Do you want to come with me?”
Hou Ying, “…”
He shut up quickly. He almost blurted out the word “Yes”!
Li Xuanyuan’s threat to the keel obviously had an effect. The keel trembled and shook. Soon, the vines came across a crystal clear green “seed” the size of a nail from the plant. Li Xuanyuan was stunned for a moment. He spread the vines and put the “seed” on his palm, and when the “seed” got very close to his hand, it disappeared.
The nervous Hou Ying relaxed. Just when Li Xuanyuan’s vines around the keel spread out, revealing the crystal-clear green seed, he felt the plant breath suddenly rising. The nearby creeper and ivy vines suddenly rushed towards them!
But when the seed disappeared in the palm of Li Xuanyuan’s hand, the place immediately restored calm.
The creeper and the ivy quietly retracted their vines and returned to their original state, just like the keel that attacked them then pretended to be innocent.
Hou Ying was amazed. After the sharp light on the barbs and scaly leaves disappeared, the keel seemed to have become weak. He hurriedly asked, “Xuanyuan, what happened just now? How are you? Is there anything wrong?”
Li Xuanyuan once again dispersed the vines on his right hand, revealing his palm. He stared at his palm for a while and felt it with his heart. Hou Ying saw his slender fingers move, and suddenly a thin needle-like keel grew from his fingertips, slowly winding around Li Xuanyuan’s fingers slowly like a dragon. Li Xuanyuan glanced at a wall, and it suddenly shot towards the place where the owner’s sight was directed. Even if the street was shaded by the greenery and didn’t let in much light, Hou Ying still clearly saw the keel moving forward in a spiral, suddenly swelled, and shot out barbs and scaly leaves.
The next moment, the green plants on that wall rustled away like ebbtide, revealing the original appearance of the wall!
Hou Ying was tongue tied and it took him a while to say, “It’s really awesome…”
Hou Ying realized afterward that Li Xuanyuan chose this keel not because it’s burly and tall, but because he felt the traction of the plant’s power. Hou Ying carefully asked about the crystal “seed” and learned that it was the essence of this mutant keel plant. About every mutant plant had this kind of thing.
He asked Li Xuanyuan to give this precious seed a name. They should pay attention to this when they pass through places with abundant vegetation in the future.
According to Gongsun Jing’s naming habit, Li Xuanyuan, who had no creativity, called it wood crystal. It means a mutant plant nucleus similar to a zombie nucleus. Hou Ying’s lips twitched and agreed with him against his will.
The two immediately shifted their targets and found the roots of the creeper and ivy that had just plugged their ears while stealing a bell. With such “humane” plants, they didn’t believe that they hadn’t condensed wood crystals! After Li Xuanyuan harvested the wood crystals of the creeper and the ivy, the dense green shades dispersed in half. Only the mallows remained on the street still growing densely.
They thought about it and went to find the root system of the mallow, but to their surprise, the mallow didn’t condense a wood crystal.
Hou Ying thought for a while and asked Li Xuanyuan to take the mallow with him and take it back to plant. Maybe it will be able to grow a wood crystal in the future?
With such great harvests, the two of them are in a good mood. When they go to the store to collect materials, they’re a little more relaxed than usual. Until he got to the third potted plant shop, Li Xuanyuan noticed a very lush spider plant growing in the shop. He was ready to test whether there was a wood crystal in it when suddenly, he heard a bang—
He turned his head sharply, but saw Hou Ying behind him unconscious on the ground.
The chapter was so relaxing until the ending part! What happened to my baby! Why sudden collapse??!
Thanks for the chapter ❤️❤️
A sneak attack? Urgh why would they ruined the moment between this two >•<