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Chapter 163 Plants vs. Monsters
The sky over the Demon King's territory is always covered with a layer of dark clouds, making it impossible to tell whether it is day or night.

Above the barren land, wisps of dark demonic energy rise up, and the air is filled with a strange and ominous darkness. Any living thing that steps into here will feel a strong discomfort from the depths of the soul, but for the monsters, being here is like going home.

Two off-road vehicles drove over from the direction of the Demon King's City, and in the vehicles were Zhou Yuan, master and apprentice Saba, and six soldiers of the Demon King's army.

There was deafening rock music playing in the car, which seemed to be from a legendary band in Night City. The soldiers swayed their heads to the rhythm of the music, and the engine of the off-road vehicle made a loud noise from time to time, blending in with the music.

That was the excited roar coming from the aberration.

The two off-road vehicles were also polluted by the evil spirit and mutated into activated deformed bodies with independent consciousness. They even possessed impressive combat capabilities after being transformed by the craftsmen of the Demon King's army.

Demonic energy is a force with extremely strong polluting properties. Not to mention mechanical creations like cars, even inanimate objects like stones and water, and concepts like filth and garbage may become activated in the pollution and turn into horrible monsters.

Two hours later.

The convoy arrived at the plant mutation area east of the Demon King's Castle.

A large number of troops are stationed here, always on the lookout for plants in the mutated area. Otherwise, with the speed at which these plants spread, they will endanger the Demon King's City in just a few days.

The soldiers dug a trench with no end in sight, lit a fire, and let it burn fiercely to stop the spread of the mutated plants.

But this is ultimately a drop in the bucket. The saying that life will find its own way out is vividly reflected in these mutated plants.

At first, the spread of plants was indeed blocked by flames, but it didn't take long for plants to evolve the ability to resist burning by flames. The soldiers had to use more powerful extraordinary flames. However, the plants were also constantly adapting and evolving, and their fire resistance was getting higher and higher.

In addition, plants are also trying other ways of spreading, such as wind propagation, where a plant that has evolved wind abilities summons a hurricane to allow seeds to fly far away with the help of the wind.

Or it could spread from underground—its roots grew wildly, piercing hundreds of meters underground, bypassing the flame gullies and the layers reinforced by earth magicians, breaking out of the ground in unknown corners, and growing secretly...

During this period, the soldiers stationed here were extremely busy, weeding from morning to night, and they dared not delay even for a second. Any negligence would allow the plants to run out.

In the busy military camp, an officer with a rabbit head and a human body was ordered to come and greet everyone.

"You two must be the new potion masters, right?" The bunny-headed leader shook hands with Zhou Yuan and Saba, and sighed helplessly, "I hope you can deal with these damn plants."

"Let me tell you about the situation first." Saba put his hands behind his back, still looking proud and superior.

"This was originally a swamp forest, a natural defense line for the Demon King's City. But a few days ago, the damn resistance army threw a biological weapon here. After the explosion, everything here changed."

The rabbit-headed leader paused and shook his head, "I'd better take you to see it directly."

It led the two to a sentry tower several dozen meters high. Standing on the top and looking into the distance, they could see that behind the fire line of defense was a golden plant paradise full of sacred atmosphere!
Saba showed a rare look of shock on his face: "What an evil Holy Light power that actually transformed the plants into such a disgusting form."

Ah this... Zhou Yuan was stunned for a moment, then he realized that in the eyes of these monsters, holy light is the power of evil.

[Is it true that only demonic energy has a strong polluting nature in the world? That doesn't make sense. Since there is "evil fall", there must be "good fall".

The Holy Light Bomb dropped by the Control Bureau has the same power as the Demonic Energy, so it is best not to touch it. If you are accidentally contaminated, you must clean it up in time, otherwise you will become a fanatic who only knows how to praise the Holy Light.

Of course, Ms. Raven will definitely not allow such NTR incidents to happen. 】

"Does Holy Light also have the power to pollute and assimilate... I knew that those who play with Holy Light are not good people!" Zhou Yuan complained in his heart.

"Those sacred plants can use the demonic energy as fertilizer to thrive, and can also transform the demonic energy into holy light. Every day they exist, the concentration of demonic energy between heaven and earth will decrease by one point."

The rabbit-headed leader said seriously, "And they have very terrifying evolutionary abilities. See that blue area? Those are plants that have evolved water and ice abilities, and they are trying to extinguish the fire defense line.

The innermost area is where plants with evolved light abilities can produce holy light to supply the entire area. We launched an airstrike there, but all attacks were blocked by an umbrella-shaped plant.

Even underground there are plants defending it..."

As they were talking, a shrill alarm sounded in the military camp.
Someone shouted:

"Air strike!"

"Look for cover!"

The military camp fell into chaos for a moment. The bunny-headed commander said quickly, "There is a barrier around the tower. We are safe here."

Zhou Yuan looked intently into the distance and saw countless dense black shadows rising from the sacred plant paradise, like overwhelming arrows, rushing towards the direction of the military camp.

Wait a moment……

At that moment, Zhou Yuan widened his eyes in shock, and then he couldn't help rubbing his eyes a few times, suspecting that he had seen it wrong.

Why is it watermelon, frozen watermelon, cabbage, flaming peppers, corn butter, corn cannon!!!
Boom boom boom boom!
Plants fell from the sky, destruction came suddenly, and the military camp was instantly destroyed into a mess.

When the frozen watermelon falls, it will form an ice area, and all the unlucky people in this area will be frozen into ice sculptures in an instant, and then smashed into pieces by the falling plants.

With a roar, trees of fire rose from the ground in various parts of the military camp. The scorching wind and flames spread in all directions. The soldiers who were touched could not even scream before they were burned to ashes.

The corn cannon was even more heavyweight. While still in mid-air, countless corn kernels separated from the main body, and the destroyed buds fell like flowers from heaven.

Every plump kernel of corn was a cannonball. Thousands of flames shot up into the sky, causing turmoil and noise, turning the military camp into a sea of ​​fire, and countless figures were torn into pieces in the explosion.

Then the bare corn cobs fell to the ground with a thud.

The earth-shaking roar and the terrifying air waves swept in all directions, and a huge charred pit with a diameter of dozens of meters suddenly appeared on the ground.

Zhou Yuan saw with his own eyes a level 71 Tauren who had no time to dodge and tried to withstand the explosion of the corncob, but was turned into ashes in the explosion as soon as it came into contact with it...

Countless plants attacked and fell on the tower. Even though there was a barrier to resist it, the tower shook violently, like a shaky and dangerous bridge.

Finally, the air raid stopped.

Zhou Yuan looked down and saw that the huge ruins of the military camp had disappeared without a trace, replaced by a scorched earth with holes formed by the explosion everywhere. There were very few soldiers who could still move.

"These damn plants actually evolved this kind of skill!" The rabbit-headed leader's eyes were bloodshot. After this wave of air strikes, the army suffered heavy losses, and almost all of them were killed or injured!

"Harry, it looks like this time it's dangerous."

Saba's face was solemn, but even after witnessing the power of the sacred plants, he had no intention of retreating.

Zhou Yuan put on a righteous look and said, "No matter how dangerous it is, we have to go. This is for the Demon King!"

Saba nodded: "Very good, let's go in now and collect some plant samples outside first."

[It's fake. Old Deng is afraid that you will seize power in the future, so he wants to take this opportunity to kill you.] Zhou Yuan sneered in his heart. Even if the Eye of Appraisal didn't say it, he could guess that this old man definitely didn't have good things to do when he came to him.

In that case, he would use the opponent's trick to kill Old Deng in the plant forest and then get away with it.

Hmm... I just don't know if the plane escape device can be used in the plant forest.

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After crossing the wall of fire, Zhou Yuan, Saba and the six orc soldiers they brought officially stepped into the sacred plant forest.

As soon as he entered the forest, Zhou Yuan tried to activate the plane escape device, but it still didn't work, and the notes that popped up were exactly the same as before.

It seems that I can only activate the device after leaving this map section.

"Ugh...I feel so uncomfortable..."

A goat-headed soldier showed obvious discomfort at this time and vomited after a while.

"The concentration of Holy Light here is too high. It's like walking in poison for us." Saba took out bottles of magic potions and handed them to everyone. "This magic potion can help us temporarily resist the erosion of Holy Light."

[The potion has been added with a potion that attracts plants. After drinking it, you will be more likely to be attacked by plants. 】

Zhou Yuan knew that this old man had no good intentions, so he rejected the potion handed over by Saba and took out a bottle himself: "Teacher, I have made a potion with the same effect before. I will drink this one first."

"That's fine." Saba took back the potion without changing his expression.

After walking about two hundred meters forward, the number of sacred plants increased, and everyone immediately suffered the first wave of attacks.

Countless vines shining with holy light sprang up from the ground. An orc soldier walking in front became the first unlucky one. He was tied up by the vines all over and strangled to death on the spot.

The rest of the soldiers hurriedly waved their weapons and cut off all the attacking vines. The battle lasted for five or six minutes before the vines stopped attacking again.

"It's okay. Even though one of them died, we got these vines. That should be enough, right?" A soldier looked at Saba, panting. The vines all over the ground were fresh samples.

"Only vines are not enough. It's better to collect more and go deeper inside." Saba said in a deep voice.

Everyone had no choice but to move on.

As they walked, Saba's eyes grew gloomier. It was so hard to get such a good opportunity, he had to find a way to kill Harry Zhente.

Although this student is loyal, it will inevitably affect its status in the future. If there is no chance to kill him, it will definitely not have such an idea, but continue to maintain the image of a good teacher.

But the current environment... is the best place to kill people and destroy the bodies. How can Saba not be tempted?

Saba turned his head and saw Zhou Yuan looking around, but he was not looking at the surrounding plants, but... the tall tower farther away.

"Harry, what are you looking at?" Saba asked with a frown, feeling a little uneasy and panicky.

"Let's make sure we can see this side from the tower."

Zhou Yuan said, "It seems that we can't see it anymore."

The next second, he suddenly punched Saba's head.

At that moment, Saba's eyes were filled with panic and fear, but it could not make any defense at all and could only watch the fist coming.

boom!
Its head exploded like a watermelon, and scarlet blood splattered everywhere.

The soldiers in front heard the sound and turned around, but before they could react, sticky dark tentacles emerged from the shadows under their feet, tied them up tightly, dragged them down, and sank into the quagmire little by little.

Ten seconds later, Zhou Yuan was the only one left at the scene.

He clapped his hands, done.

The next step is to run away.

However, in this place full of holy light, it is better not to use the shadow system. Flying is also not possible, after all, these plants have throwing skills. If you crash, you can only go to hell and prison to fight for resurrection...

Then you can only run with your legs.

Zhou Yuan removed his disguise and activated the protective Qi to suppress his breath and life fluctuations to the minimum. Then he turned into a sharp arrow and shot out into the depths of the forest.

His level now reached LV82. Warriors at this level had extremely fast movement speed. If he ran at full speed, he would be able to leave the sacred forest in less than two minutes if nothing unexpected happened.

But reality is reality after all, and Zhou Yuan still encountered an accident.

The plants were quick to notice this outsider who had intruded without permission, and they began to chase and intercept him. Suddenly, the entire forest came alive. Even if Zhou Yuan was very fast, there were always attacks waiting for him ahead.

It’s as if there is an invisible net connecting all the plants, updating their movements in real time.

Through his super strong perception, Zhou Yuan could clearly sense that these plants were communicating.

Can we communicate... Zhou Yuan thought of a prop.

Boom boom boom! ! !

After a while, Zhou Yuan rushed out of the bombardment covered in dust and dirt. In front of him, a huge cabbage blocked his way.

This cabbage has human facial features, with two leaves acting as arms. The front part of the leaves are rolled up like a clenched fist.

"I'm super, Caiwen!"

Zhou Yuan was shocked, and at this moment, Master Cai punched him, the air exploded, and strong wind whistled.

He turned his head to avoid the punch and felt thunder exploding beside his ears. He then dodged and avoided the subsequent swift punches like a storm.

The bow-shaped voice changer at the collar finally completed the audio collection and obtained the sounds that the plants used to communicate.

"Stop fighting, we're one family!"

Zhou Yuan hurriedly shouted using a voice changer.

Caiwen's attack paused, he stared with one big eye and raised his eyebrows, as if he was surprised.

(End of this chapter)