Chapter 495: Such is Nature
Chapter 495: Such is Nature
At that moment, An Ran realizes—she still likes Zhan Lian. Otherwise, why else would she be this impulsive, trying to negotiate with a giant carnivorous flower? No matter how great or passionate a woman can be, she is definitely that kind of woman.
The flower lets out another furious roar, like it’s hurling accusations before delivering the final blow. It drags on and on, a tirade An Ran can’t understand. But she knows one thing—it’s scolding her.
It’s… scolding her?!
Suddenly, a vine lashes toward her.
“An Ran!!!” Yun Tao screams from behind.
Zhao Ru, having just bandaged a wounded man, turns and shoves Liang Ziyu forward. “Hurry! Help her! If An Ran dies, who will we follow?”
In the car, Little Mint, still guarding Doll, stares up at the towering flower.
This is all her fault. Her sister told her to extract the crystal core, but she didn’t do it. So her sister has to take the risk. She promised to protect Doll. She can’t die with her sister. This is all her fault. If only she were stronger. Just a little stronger...
Watching An Ran, she grits her teeth, pulls out the saber at her waist just as the vines close in—and then they grab her, wrapping tightly around her waist and flinging her into the air.
Wind howls past her ears. Enraged, An Ran stabs the saber into the vine. Blood-red sap gushes out and flows through the wound in her palm, entering her bloodstream.
Then she feels something snap in her mind—like a barrier breaking. Her brain lights up, fully activated, and a flood of images follows.
She sees it—first growing stronger than all the lilies in the vase. Then, a single branch left behind on the counter, quietly waiting for her with joy. She saves it. It absorbs virus-laced nutrients, no different from the other lilies. Gradually, they need her energy to survive. But it? It can fend for itself.
That’s when it changes.
The sugar she gives it—so little. Just like all the others.
When it is further from her, it gets no sugar at all.
A proud flower like that doesn’t deserve to go without sugar!
It begins to look down on the other lilies. They are beneath it. It evolves and keeps evolving.
A flower that stands out so much naturally becomes arrogant. It believes it and An Ran are the same. And when it finally stands before her, her first instinct is to kill it?!
If I wasn’t eliminated, I might have become a great threat, it seems to say. Don’t project your wickedness onto me! This is just who I am. Who do you think you are to blame me?!
An Ran screams, stabbing the saber deeper into the vine. She feels it tightening around her. “If I’m the cause of this, then let’s die together! Today, I’ll spill my blood for all the innocents you’ve devoured!”
She wraps her arms around the massive vine and pours her power into it without hesitation. Her energy surges wildly, draining her at terrifying speed.