Chapter 1155: Level Seven Plant
Seeing those huge and long branches thrust out of the ground near their feet and twist like serpents, the group of zombies quickly moved backward.
“Whoa! What the h.e.l.l are these!” Seeing those twisting branches, Yan Xiao had gooseb.u.mps covering her skin.
“Some kind of plant that grows underground,” Jingyan flashed to her side and steadied herself, then released a puff of red fire to burn the branches that were coming at Yan Xiao. The branches that were covered in hair-like roots shrank the moment the fire touched them.
“Oh, they’re afraid of fire! What kind of mutated plant is this?” Seeing how the plant reacted to the fire, Yan Xiao said delightedly.
“It’s at level-seven, but it’s still afraid of my level-five fire. Why?” Jingyan looked at those branches and said with surprise.
On the other side, Lin Qiao sent a large stream of dark fire with one hand toward the enormous, weird-looking plant that was located in the middle of all those branches.
That gigantic plant looked like a pineapple, also like a short but thick pillar that grew out of the earth. It was only a little more than a meter tall. On its head were tens of sharp and hard leaves.
Lin Qiao could feel the nucleus that existed in the large ‘belly’ of that pineapple-like plant. Therefore, she aimed at that area and launched a strike.
Boom! Boom! Another wave of branches broke the ground and came out. They didn’t come out to attack the enemies, but to wrap up the ‘belly’ of the pineapple and defend against Lin Qiao’s fire.
“Eh? Pineapple? Can pineapples grow in the Northwest? I think they’re southern fruits,” Yan Xiao turned to look at her Chief’s target. Seeing the giant pineapple, she immediately said to the others with surprise.
“Maybe it’s related to pineapples,” Jingyan said, then turned to Yan Xiao and complained, “Shouldn’t you be doing something? Are you still having fun?”
“Oh, oh… I’m coming,” Yan Xiao turned and gave her a glance, then threw out a fireball to burn the branches that were approaching her and Jing Yan from all directions.
“This thing won’t pull itself out of the earth and run away like the big mushroom, will it?” said Ye Qingxian with curiosity.
Six brushed across him and said, “It might run away underground.”
After all, it was hiding underground earlier.
Ye Qingxian abruptly pointed at a swiftly swinging branch and said, “Oi, isn’t that Nine? What’s he doing up there? Playing on a swing?”
Six turned and saw Nine hanging on the arm-thick branch, swaying from side to side. The branch was shaking so intensely like a man shaking his hand when it was stained by something dirty. But, Nine still clutched pretty tight on the branch.
What on earth was that idiot doing?
Six no longer wanted to know why the brainless Nine always behaved strangely, and only complained about it.
“I think Chief won’t let this huge pineapple run,” Six glanced at the Nine, who was swinging in the air, and said to Ye Qingxian before moving away.
Lin Qiao’s dark fire wrapped up the branches and turned the pineapple into a huge, black fireball. With that, the energy in the fire started to absorb the energy in the branches.
Feeling the devouring power, the pineapple instantly moved its branches that had the ‘belly’ wrapped up, swinging countless other branches toward Lin Qiao.
Lin Qiao flashed across the air and suddenly showed up right before the pineapple, then inserted her claw into the plant. In the next second, all the branches froze and fell to the ground two seconds later.
“Alright, the job is done.” Watching that, all the other immediately gathered together. Earlier, all they did was distract the plant to create a chance for Lin Qiao to get the nucleus directly.
Lin Qiao pulled out her hand that was covered in a sticky, green liquid. A dark-yellow nucleus was glowing on her palm. Once she took the nucleus out of the plant’s body, the giant pineapple turned brown and dry. Then, as a gust of wind blew across, the plant turned into sand and dissipated.
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Near All Being Base, the underground gorillas which had run out of the cave still didn’t want to go back in even though the night had already arrived. They stayed outside the whole night. The second day, they finally started moving when it was dark again. They weren’t heading toward All Beings Base, but in the opposite way.
“Roar!” Strong gave a roar toward the area where a strong scent of living creatures was sensed from, then leaped tens of meters high. A lot of underground gorillas followed him and leaped high. From a distance, they looked like a group of giant fleas.
As they weren’t heading toward the base, Yun Meng and Old Guo stayed quiet and followed behind them.
“Where do you think they’re going?” Standing on top of a building, Yun Meng asked Old Guo.
The latter looked into that direction. If he guessed right, the zoo which had become the rats’ nest was about a hundred miles away in that direction.
He held his hands behind his back and hunched his back as he said, “If I’m right, they are going to seek food.”
Yun Meng thought for a moment, then asked another question, “Do you think they’ll still go back to the cave?”
Old Guo shook his head and said, “How am I supposed to know? I’m not one of them.”
“What happened in that cave? Why did they all come out?” Yun Meng said curiously.
“You can go down there and find out,” said Old Guo.
Yun Meng turned and looked at him silently. Old Guo smiled at her in response and said, “What? Do you not dare to go down?”
Yun Meng gave him a glare and snorted, “Who said I don’t dare to go down?” While speaking, she turned and headed back toward the cave entrance.
Old Guo didn’t follow her, but stayed where he was as he brushed his beard with his fingers while murmuring, “Don’t go too deep.”
Yun Meng flew back to the cave entrance and observed it, then sniffed at the cave. She sensed nothing but the familiar earthy smell.
She felt that it was necessary for her to go down into the cave to find out what exactly had happened to cause those underground gorillas to suddenly come out in the middle of the day and stay outside for a whole night.
She walked down the slope while holding the wall. While walking, she carefully felt the scent in the cave and the change of the vibe in it.
After half an hour of walking, she finally came into a round-shaped room. The room had a dome, and was connected with a few tunnels. She didn’t know where those tunnels all led to.
The entrance of one tunnel was especially large, about eight meters tall and four meters wide. It might be exclusively for the big one.