Arc 4: Chapter 17
Everyone was surprised.
Ran away?
Meng Mingqian’s group scoffed contemptuously and said quickly: “The people have already run away, we should drive away now too.”
“Yeah, we should leave quickly. He was probably trying to trick us in staying and scaring us on purpose.”
Chu Minghe kept in mind that this group of people had conflicts with Lu Ye and asked a key question: “Hey! What direction did they run to?”
The person who saw them replied: “To the right.”
Chu Minghe cursed in his mind. Seeing that they ran off to the right instead of the front or back, it seemed likely that it was impossible to continue driving on the road.
Min Chengze also came to the same conclusion and ordered loudly: “All of the power users, except for Minghe and Ruan Qing, get off the truck.”
Ruan Qian had healing powers and Chu Minghe had water powers, they were both not suitable for combat at this time.
Min Chengze’s team obeyed his orders, but Meng Mingqian’s people were naturally more reluctant and procrastinated.
One person had just jumped off the truck when a nearby tree suddenly extended its branches and attacked him.
“AHHH!” The man screamed as he tried to avoid the tree and attack it with his power, but it was all useless. The tree grew at a rapid speed and multiplied in an instant.
The entire team was struggling to defend against the zombie trees. Their counter attacks weren’t able to cause significant damage because of the sheer magnitude of trees in the forest.
“Fuck! What the hell are these things?!” He Xun outputted his power to create a wall of fire. Fire was the natural enemy of plants, so his fight was less arduous than others. He looked to his side and was shocked to see the zombie trees lifting up all of the trucks in the air. The trees began to move away as if they were carrying it somewhere.
The trucks were full of ordinary people, and they screamed for help in horror.
“Save us!!”
“AHHHH!”
“Help!! HELP!!”
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Lin Yuan and Lu Ye entered the inner depths of the forest. Lu Ye’s mental power spread around them like a soft wind, confusing the perception of the zombie trees to make them regard the two living beings as air.
The smell of blood and corpses became heavier and heavier, which made Lin Yuan want to puke.
He could only sneeze repetitively.
Lu Ye noticed his discomfort and lay down on Lin Yuan’s back. He reached out and rubbed Lin Yuan’s head comfortingly and kissed him through the thick layer of fur. He said: “Sui Sui, I’ll go deal with it. Your water power can’t be used in the forest because it will only help the zombie trees grow faster, I will solve it alone.”
Lin Yuan was not willing to leave him and howled in protest.
Lu Ye kissed him again and said: “Sui Sui, be good. You listen to me the most, right?”
In his heart, Lin Yuan thought, yes yes, who made him so well-behaved ya, but before Lu Ye walked away, Lin Yuan still licked him and whimpered: Awoo, you can’t get hurt!
Lu Ye smiled to himself and thought that the aggrieved expression of his white wolf was too cute.
He moved forward alone and at the same time, tiny seeds drilled into the soil and began to grow. Those slender, green vines invaded the insides of the zombie trees. Lu Ye sensed the location of the crystal nucleus in each tree with his mental strength, and then controlled a vine to wrap around the crystal nucleus. The vine pulled out the nucleus quickly and the zombie trees immediately lost their vitality and withered.
Like this, Lu Ye collected numerous crystal nuclei and neared the most sinister center of the forest. In the center stood an ancient tree that was wide enough to be encircled by three people.
Human corpses were littered everywhere on the soil below the tree, making one unable to see past the white bones and rotten flesh.
Lu Ye silently probed into the trunk of the ancient tree with his mental power. Luckily, although the trees in the forest had mutated, they did not mutate to the extent of gaining intelligence, and their instinct to eat was more like a survival instinct.
Lu Ye found the nucleus of the ancient tree, which was bigger than the ones before, and manipulated his vines to take it out.
The moment the nucleus left the ancient tree, about a third of the trees that were originally overwhelming the power users on the highway stopped moving completely, and the rest became much weaker.
Lu Ye bounced the crystal nucleus that was the size of an apple around in his hand and turned around and went back the way he came.
By the time he returned to Lin Yuan, he had collected over 200 crystal nuclei.
The moment Lin Yuan spotted Lu Ye, he rushed over and licked him and howled: Husband~ Husband~~
Lu Ye hugged the big, furry head and showed Lin Yuan the biggest crystal nucleus: “Sui Sui, this crystal nucleus is probably at the third level, I’ll give it to you, okay?”
Lin Yuan shook his head and whined: You take it, you use it ma~
Lu Ye’s heart felt a burst of warmth and he smiled: “I understand, Sui Sui likes me more than the crystal nucleus.”
Lin Yuan blinked, did he say that?
Lu Ye let Lin Yuan store all of the crystals in the storage ring, and then got on Lin Yuan’s back and said: “Let’s go back.”
Lin Yuan obediently started running, but he was actually a little confused in his heart. Didn’t his husband just leave for a little bit, how come they’re going back already? And why didn’t the zombie trees attack them anymore? What happened?
The wolf’s speed was very fast, and he could get rid of obstacles with his claws very efficiently. The two of them quickly reached the place where the rest of the people were.
The scene on the road was a little jarring. The trucks were suspended five or six meters in the air by the vines and seemed like they could fall down at any time.
Min Chengze and the others immediately noticed Lin Yuan’s eye-catching figure and shouted anxiously: “Lin Yuan! Come and help!”
“AWOO!!” I’m coming!
Lin Yuan squatted down to let Lu Ye get off first.
Lu Ye patted Lin Yuan and said: “It’s Sui Sui’s turn to protect me, okay?”
Lin Yuan puffed out his chest and howled: En! Of course I can do it!
Lu Ye smiled and an azure light glowed in his pupils.
People exclaimed in surprise as everyone suddenly saw the trucks were slowly levitating downwards, as if someone was controlling them.
When the trucks were finally placed on the ground, everyone’s heart seemed to finally be at ease and the power users could focus on dealing with the rest of the zombie trees.
Lu Ye panted and his slender hands grabbed Lin Yuan’s fur.
The zombie trees were already like headless flies, and soon most of them slipped away.
“What’s going on?” He Xun’s fire was still burning around him.
Min Chengze frowned and said: “Not sure.”
Chu Minghe, who was suspended along with the trucks, was a little dizzy when he stood back on the ground. He said with surprise: “We actually beat them? I can’t believe it.”
He Xun was a little annoyed: “Like hell we beat them, I have no idea what just happened.”
Chu Minghe looked towards the giant snow wolf. There was a slender figure lying on the wolf’s body, with his dark hair scattered and half covering his eyes.
He walked over and asked: “Lin Yuan, is Lu Ye all right?”
Lin Yuan wrote on the ground: He’s tired.
Tired?
Chu Minghe didn’t know what to think, but he didn’t ask further: “Do you want to let him lie down in the car? It might be more comfortable.”
Lin Yuan shook his head and wrote: No need, like this is fine.
Chu Minghe made a sound of acknowledgement and added: “Did you do something in the forest to make them stop attacking us?”
Lin Yuan nodded. His husband did it, which equals him doing it too.
Meng Mingqian’s team didn’t believe it. One of them argued: “Oh please, when we were being attacked, you guys ran away. Now that everything’s fine, you’ve run back to claim that just you two defeated all of the zombie trees. Do you think we’re fools?”
Chu Minghe stared at that man with the eyes of looking at a fool. So he thought that he could stop the zombie trees with his measly ability?
Lin Yuan really hated this group of people. He bared his fangs and roared: You want to get beat up?
The man’s ego instantly deflated and he quieted like a turtle.
Lin Yuan wrote on the ground: Chu Minghe, you guys go ahead. Lu Ye and I will go to Nan City by ourselves. Our car only has our stuff, we didn’t touch yours.
Chu Minghe wanted to persuade him but Lin Yuan was steadfast: Go go go. But you should check the road ahead first, it’s not good.
Seeing this, Chu Minghe hurriedly called Min Chengze and the two of them walked forward. After they walked a section of the highway, the scene ahead of them left them in cold sweat.
The road ahead had become a deep valley that was about twenty meters deep. If they hadn’t stopped and kept driving, they would’ve all died.