The two of them froze, and then Ye Xiao said to Lin Tan, "Come up."
Lin Tantan was stunned for a moment, then realized what was going on. He quietly climbed onto the bed and squatted on it, staring at the door curtain. The glass door was open, so they saw the dark curtain being lifted up, and then something came in from underneath.
Ye Xiao made the air around him stagnate. If one didn't use his eyes to look, one would not notice that there was a second person in the room, and the thing that came in obviously had no eyes.
It seemed to be able to sense where Lin Tantan was. It did not approach, but crawled in slowly, making very slight sounds as it rubbed against the floor, and there was a smell of earth. It circled the bed as if it was scouting the terrain.
Lin Tan Tan silently estimated the length of this guy, two meters, three meters, four meters, and then a bulging part appeared, dragging behind it two "broken limbs", one long and one short, about two meters long.
It was obviously a horrifying scene, but looking at the "broken limbs", Lin Tantan felt like laughing for some reason.
After it came in, Ye Xiao did not move immediately, but wanted to see what it was going to do. He saw that this guy probably felt that the environment was very safe and was actually planning to climb onto the bed from the end of the bed.
How courageous! Ye Xiao acted as fast as lightning, grabbing the end of the daring person who wanted to climb up, and condensed the air around him extremely, forming an invisible and inescapable air wall.
Lin Tan turned on the light.
He saw a brown tree root-like object, but it was thicker and fuller than a tree root. It looked a bit round and was caught in Ye Xiao's hand. It struggled desperately, and then it seemed to be trapped in an invisible glass tube. No matter how it struggled, it could only hit the wall and make clanging sounds. The space it could move in was very narrow.
Lin Tantan crawled to the end of the bed and finally saw the thing clearly.
Before I saw it clearly, I really thought it looked like a snake, but after seeing the light brown skin, the small whiskers on the skin, and some soil particles on it, it was definitely a plant root without a doubt.
Then the bulging part should be the core of this guy. There are many short roots on it, carrying more moist soil. The only thing missing is to wrap up the entire bulging part. Is it worried that it will be away from the soil for too long
Obviously this guy is a root with three rhizomes, but the other two were cut off by Lin Tantan. It was still oozing mucus, which also left two green traces on the floor, just like those left by a crawling mollusk.
"So this is what it looks like." Lin Tantan said, "It seems that the two roots I cut off are the longest?" The complete rhizome in front of him was more than four meters long, and the broken one was about two meters long, but the two roots that pierced and squeezed the vehicle during the day were more than ten meters long.
This thing struggled for a long time, and finally stopped, as if it had used up all its strength. It's a pity that it can't make any sound, otherwise it should be crying now, right
Lin Tan Tan said, "Can I touch it?"
"You touch it."
Lin Tantan touched it and it felt just like touching an ordinary tree root, cool and hard, but flexible. She muttered, "What kind of plant is this?"
"It's probably not a normal plant, it's a mutant."
"What do we do now?"
"Just kill him." Ye Xiao said without hesitation.
Although it behaves timidly and non-aggressively at night, it tries to crawl onto the bed as soon as it arrives, and attacks vehicles so ferociously during the day, making it a dangerous creature.
After hearing Ye Xiao's words, the guy who had been pretending to be dead and motionless suddenly jumped up again and struggled even more violently.
Lin Tantan couldn't make up his mind for a moment, but a mutant plant that could move by itself, run around underground, had intelligence, and seemed to understand human language was rare.
Lin Tan Tan said: "You said what it eats? It doesn't have any plants above ground, so it probably can't photosynthesize, so does it absorb nutrients from the soil?"
Ye Xiao heard that Lin Tantan didn't want to kill it, and was about to persuade him, but when he thought of the nest of mutant rats below, he swallowed his words.
After thinking for a moment, he said, "Do you want to keep it?"
"I want to observe it. It seems quite docile at night, but it is so fierce during the day. And it can run around so fast. What if it is a bad thing and I can't keep an eye on it..." Lin Tan poked the tough skin of this guy, "What do you want to do by coming to me? Do you want to eat me? Or do you want to suck my blood? Or are you just here to heal your wounds?"
Ye Xiao looked at her helplessly, but then he felt the guy under him move. The force was a little light, and there was a hint of negotiation. He hesitated and loosened his grip appropriately. He saw the thick and round root lifted up and performed a difficult movement.
It made the Arabic numeral "3".
I almost broke myself.
Lin Tan Tan: “…”
Ye Xiao: “…”
Lin Tantan was stunned. Is he so smart? But she immediately turned stern and said, "You lied. You came to me to treat your wounds, but why did you sneak up on my bed? Shouldn't you have woken me up? Tell me, did you want to stab me and suck me dry while I was asleep so that you could get some nutrition?"
Lin Tantan had read the literature and knew that many mutated plants in the apocalypse took this approach. They appeared to be ordinary and harmless, or bright and beautiful, luring people to get close. Once people got close, they would extend their mouthparts in their flowers, or directly use their branches, leaves and roots to suck blood, turning people into mummies. They were so cruel.
She had seen it so many times that she was used to it, but Ye Xiao heard this for the first time and immediately frowned: "Talk about it, don't talk nonsense!"
But the more he looked at the strange thing in his hand, the more he felt that it might have the same intention. Murderous intent surged in his heart, so he might as well kill this strange thing once and for all to get rid of the trouble forever.
The thing in his hand was so frightened by his murderous intent that it couldn't even hold down a "3" and it swung left and right repeatedly, like a human shaking his head.
Ye Xiao looked at it. It was shaking with fear, and particles of dirt on its body were falling off.
Knock knock knock, there was a knock on the door, Bai Cheng said outside the door: "Ah Xiao, let's talk, have you caught him?"
The moment Lin Tantan heard Bai Cheng's voice, she jumped up from the bed, her face pale with fear: "Oh my God, it's Bai Cheng! Quick, quick, get out of the balcony!"
Ye Xiao opened his mouth: "What?"
"Uh..." She was a beat late in catching the second half of Bai Cheng's sentence. Did she catch it
What did you catch
She reacted and pointed at the mutant plant: "He knows about this?"
"Yes, everyone knows." Ye Xiao nodded slowly. Her first reaction when she heard Bai Cheng's voice just now was panic. To put it bluntly, it felt like... he was caught cheating, and he was asked to walk through the balcony...
Ye Xiao narrowed his eyes and felt that he seemed to have discovered something.
He exerted force unconsciously on his hands, and the root was deformed and made a crackling sound. It was in great pain, but it did not dare to struggle at all and remained motionless like a real tree root.
Lin Tantan also felt something. Ye Xiao’s face looked a little strange. Why
Did she misunderstand him just now and ask him to go through the balcony, making him unhappy? She pointed to the door and said, "I... will go open the door."
Ye Xiao's expression eased: "I'll go."
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"Put on your coat." Ye Xiao said as he carried the thing and walked towards the door. Lin Tantan quickly put on his coat. When the door opened, there were several people outside, not only Bai Cheng, but also Mei Baisheng, Jiang Xiaotian and others.
So when did they make the appointment? She thought that thing would come to find her, so she didn't sleep and waited, but when did they make the appointment, and did they know that Ye Xiao would come to her room to help catch that thing
Anyway, everyone gathered in the corridor and looked the thing up and down.
“So this is what it looks like.” Everyone exclaimed.
When asked how to deal with it, Ye Xiao said calmly: "Keep it first. If it behaves well, continue to raise it. If it doesn't, kill it."
The thing shrank back and stayed obediently in Ye Xiao's hand. Ye Xiao said, "Leave it here with me tonight. You all go to sleep."
Lin Tan Tan hesitated for a moment: "Then you better be careful, or I'll kill him."
Ye Xiao's eyes were slightly warm: "I know."
He returned to his room and threw the thing on the ground: "If you don't obey, I'll cut you into pieces!"
He went to the bathroom on the second floor, washed his face, looked at himself in the mirror, and took a deep breath. She had strange ideas all the time. She must have felt embarrassed to be discovered in the same room with him.
After thinking carefully about how she usually gets along with Bai Cheng, there is nothing wrong with it. Well, it is obvious that he was overthinking it. She is just a girl who has not yet figured it out.
Although he thought so, he paused when he turned around and looked at Bai Cheng who was about to come in.
Bai Cheng smiled and said, "What's wrong? You look unhappy with me. It's rare for me to be alone with you in a room. Although this opportunity was not something you actively sought, it is still a great progress. Shouldn't you be happy?"
progress…
Ye Xiao thought about tripping over the bed just now. He subconsciously supported his waist. Indeed... Is this progress? Ahem, he said seriously: "Let's go."
Nothing happened that night. When Lin Tan went downstairs the next day, Ye Xiao was already there. At his feet was the mutant plant, curled up in a ball, and seemed to have become much dimmer after a night.
Lin Tan asked if the cat didn't make any noise last night, and Ye Xiao said it was very well behaved.
Lin Tantan took a closer look at the cross-sections of the two poor broken limbs. The cuts made by her golden blade should have been very neat and smooth, but probably because they had drilled around in the soil too much, they now looked very miserable, and mixed with soil, making them look messy.
Since I plan to keep it, even though it is still in the observation period, I can't completely ignore it.
She was not sure whether her special ability would be useful for plants, so she asked Ye Xiao. After getting his approval, she tried to treat this guy.
She placed her hand on the broken part and slowly released the energy. At this moment, the short and thick roots on the bulging part suddenly stretched out and wrapped around her hand.
Ye Xiao attacked almost at the same time, and Lin Tan hurriedly said, "Wait a minute." The wind blade passed the mutant plant and stood on the ground, leaving a deep mark.
Ye Xiao looked at Lin Tantan and did not move. Lin Tantan felt the roots absorbing the energy she released. She understood: "So it absorbs energy from here. Does it also take in nutrients from here?"
After a while, she stopped releasing energy. The mutant plant seemed unsatisfied but did not dare to continue pestering her. The small whiskers left Lin Tan's hand and returned to their original length. At this time, its two broken ends had healed a lot.
Lin Tan smiled and said, "It looks pretty fast."
Ye Xiao hummed.
He had a lot of things to do today, and it would not work to leave this thing in the villa, so he found a box to put it in and placed it where it could be seen.
Lin Tantan felt that this mutated plant was quite miserable. Such a powerful mutant species ended up like this, but who made it attack them first
She had been in the shantytown all day today. She was no longer hiding in the folding tent, but sitting outside, carefully watching the patients coming and going, no matter whether they were seriously ill or not. After a day of watching, she actually found a few who might have awakened special powers. She secretly asked Jiang Zhongyi to have someone pay attention and write down their names.
Another thing happened today, the manager of the shantytown drove over to distribute meals to the sick, but only the patients could get them, and not much, either a bowl of porridge, a steamed bun, or a pack of biscuits.
Although it was not much, it made the patients very happy and they almost cried with gratitude.
On the one hand, these things could fill their stomachs to some extent, and on the other hand, it meant that the base had not given up on them, and they did not wish for these sick people to die as some people said, so as not to drag them down. The mental strength given by these sick meals was greater than the actual effect, and it immediately improved the mental outlook of these patients.
Lin Tantan was also very happy.
She was even happier because she knew that this was food brought from Yang City.
It so happened that there was no rain today, the sky was clear, and the sun came out. The sunlight shone on people, and although it was not warm, it made people feel particularly good. The sky after the heavy rain also looked exceptionally blue and clean.
During the break, Jiang Zhongyi came over and said, "Sister, someone said they would give me a lot of supplies as long as I join them."
Lin Tan Tan was puzzled: "Isn't this a common occurrence? What happened this time?"
"The supplies promised this time are huge, and I'm not the only one involved. Yang Xinyu and Zhao Yidan have all been contacted. The other party has cast a wide net and exerted great efforts."
Lin Tan Tan didn't think there was anything to worry about. If the news that Ye Xiao was going to develop here got out, someone would definitely be restless. If someone was willing to spend money to snatch people, then let him go. People who can be snatched away now can also be snatched away in the future, so it's better to snatch them sooner and save worry.
She smiled and said, "Are you moved?"
Jiang Zhongyi waved his hands quickly: "No, no, I must follow you."