Chapter 523: Snow Particles Begin
Chapter 523: Snow Particles Begin
Upgrading plants isn’t difficult. The chance of a normal plant mutating into a mutant is incredibly small, but once a mutation succeeds, the plant reproduces rapidly. With enough nourishment, a mutant forest soon flourishes.
Mutated plants cultivated by extracting their cores or breaking their vines start at the weakest level. They can only increase their level through constant feeding—assuming, of course, they survive the hazards along the way.
An Ran decides to keep the Level 2 Fat Thorn Ball in the trunk. Who knows? Maybe one day it will grow into a behemoth like the Xiangcheng Meat Flower. Its ultimate level is anyone’s guess—but whatever it becomes, it will be a great help to her.
She focuses on nurturing the Fat Thorn Ball, occasionally giving ‘candy’ to the mutant vines outside the car and making sure Meat Flower’s crystal core receives enough energy.
An Ran and Zhao Ru share all the water crystal cores Little Mint collects.
By this point, metal-type zombies have effectively retired from the mainstream. No one considers them a threat anymore. Except for An Ran and Zhao Ru, all Strength-Type Ability Users are no longer afraid of them.
Meanwhile, water zombies have become the primary attack force.
As the rain persists, the water zombies keep coming. No one but Luo Feifan, An Ran, and Zhao Ru can handle them. Luo Feifan can kill water zombies, but only by creating a vast sea of fire, which generates a cloud of steam. Whether or not the steam is poisonous, the zombies are destroyed—but their water crystal cores are destroyed as well.
Luo Feifan’s method always feels like a double-edged sword. With his power, he can eliminate several metal-type zombies, yet his efficiency is still inferior to that of Zhao Ru and An Ran working together.
Zhan Lian can fend off water zombies but can only trap them in small iron boxes, unable to kill them.
Zhao Ru seizes the opportunity to intensively hone her control. At first, she needs water crystal cores to control two water zombies. Now, without absorbing any cores, she can control five or six. Her progress is obvious.
The rain lasts for several days, and when it finally turns to snow, the unending stream of water zombies ceases.
Everyone finally exhales in relief and begins packing up. They carry the bulletproof car out of the mutant forest, preparing to continue toward the Beijing-Tibet Expressway.
Meanwhile, Fatty, trapped in the stone and metal house, is busy. He gathers soil and plants fruit for the elderly, the weak, the sick, and pregnant women. The fruit comes from ordinary seeds grown by wood-type Ability Users, but it is incredibly sweet.
By the time they are ready to leave, the road has already started to freeze. Fatty and his companions find a few vehicles in the village and load them with all the fruits and vegetables they produce. Thanks to the cold, they don’t even need a refrigerator—the produce stays fresh in the vehicles for a long time.
Zhan Lian installs anti-skid chains on all the tires. Originally, the compartments for the elderly, weak, sick, and pregnant only have a thick leather cover. Zhan Lian builds proper compartments for them and also significantly widens and heightens all the compartments.