Chapter 506: The Thumb-Sized Core
Chapter 506: The Thumb-Sized Core
When Little Mint saw An Ran come out with Doll, her expressionless face immediately turned serious, and she fell into step beside her.
“We may need to leave Xiangcheng soon,” An Ran said, bending to put on her shoes while holding Doll in one arm. She wore jeans and hooked her foot into a pair of flat women’s boots.
“Go call Hengheng back. We need to pack.”
Little Mint nodded and left without a word.
Watching the girl’s attitude, An Ran sighed. Once they reached the north, she planned to get Little Mint a therapist to help address any buried resentment.
She pulled out the Flesh Flower’s crystal core—hidden inside a thermos casing to disguise its size—and infused it with more wood energy.
“With you gone, the southern monsters are all heading north. That means we have to flee north too. This time… we’ll bring you along, okay?”
There was no reply in her mind. The wood-type crystal core was overly saturated with energy; it might be a long time before it would be willing to sprout again.
Outside, Zhan Lian returned with Luo Feifan, holding a dinosaur’s thumb-sized crystal core. He went to Yun Tao to report the creature’s characteristics, then hurried to give the core to An Ran.
Luo Feifan told Fatty’s men to pack—departure north was urgent.
An Ran boarded the vehicle with Doll, examining the core in her hand as she waited. It was transparent, aqua-blue, and cleanly lustrous—larger than a marble but no bigger than a thumb.
It was the second-largest crystal core she’d seen. Others might find it impressive, but after seeing cylindrical cores the size of a thermos, it felt underwhelming.
She tested its energy—no different from an ordinary core. So far, aside from common types, they had only encountered metal, water, and wood-element cores.
She had absorbed a metal-type core before, which made her plants much harder. Zhao Ru, a water-type ability user, had also absorbed one, and afterward, her body felt as if encased in armor—allowing her to move freely among mutant plants and animals.
Yet for An Ran, absorbing metal came with a searing pain, as if her body were scraped from the inside with a knife. She didn’t know if others felt the same and never asked.
After Zhan Lian absorbed one, his whole body hardened like bronze, his skin turned golden, and his durability greatly increased. His throwing knives also multiplied in number.
Luo Feifan’s experience was more like Zhao Ru’s—slightly tougher skin, but no enhancement to his flames.
Aside from these elemental cores, the rest were ordinary—like the one in her hand. At most, it was simply more energy-rich than others, with no special properties.
Safe for anyone to absorb.