"I've always felt that I'm a cautious enough person to live to my age." The man spoke slowly.

His name is Wang Xiang, and he is indeed older, looking close to fifty years old.

Most of the 50-year-old office workers have already carried a body of fat, clocking in and out every day, and spending the last years of their lives in boredom.

But he was a fifty-year-old mercenary.

The muscles of the whole body are still strong, pay attention to work and rest every day, the eyes are sharp, and the mental state is far beyond that of many young people in their twenties and thirties.

"But I was careless this time."

He looked down at the vines on his body.

The vines hadn't moved much, but they had already reached the position of his chest.

There seemed to be countless sharp cuts on the edge of the vines, cutting through his shirt, revealing the innermost bulletproof vest.

"These vines are very smart, they release some kind of anesthetic that you can't notice, and you even feel tired, and then they wrap around little by little."

At first, Wang Xiang felt that his exhaustion was due to his old age and continuous escape.

When he found those vines on his body, it was too late,

"If I'm not mistaken, the wounds cut by these vines are not easy to heal, and they will continue to bleed, like being bitten by leeches."

Wang Xiang knew that he would definitely die today, so it was not bad to have someone to chat with before he died.

"If you walk all the way in, you should be able to detect the weirdness of these plants." Lu Wen said.

"But who would have thought that there would really be plants that could kill people." Wang Xiang shook his head, he came in on a motorcycle, and he didn't pay much attention along the way.

After all, for him at the time, the danger came from behind.

Xia Chuluo's team was in hot pursuit.

"Since there is a city on your escape route, you should do your research in advance."

"It's too late, the news of Luo Ruyan's death is too sudden, that person is quite cunning, and he does things unscrupulously, I really didn't expect him to die before me."

As he spoke, the plant vines tightened his body further.

It was as if it were a poisonous snake spitting letters, roaming his body, the sharp vines cutting through the skin.

The skin of his arm was cut into strips.

Blood slowly dripped down the wounds and onto the vines.

These vines slowly absorb the blood.

"It looks scary, but I don't feel pain, and the anesthetic used in this plant is pretty good."

Wang Xiang's psychological quality is quite strong.

He watched his arms and legs being cut off little by little, and his expression was indifferent, as if this body was not his.

If you change an ordinary person whose psychological quality is not strong enough, you may have already started to shout at this time.

"You're lucky, there are actually some floating plant seeds in the air, and if I'm guessing correctly, those plant plants will parasitize on flesh life, and if you're flesh and blood, even if you don't touch those vines, you won't be spared."

He looked at Lu Wen calmly.

"Those plants will take root in your skin, the roots will slowly invade your flesh, penetrate your viscera, spread to your limbs, and even your brain, and finally control your movements, and your body will bloom with gorgeous blood-red flowers."

"Vegetative?"

Lu Wen smiled.

After an afternoon of chase, I wasted a certain amount of time on the way into the city.

It's already dusk.

The dusk in the no-man's land looks beautiful and has a sense of vicissitudes.

"Bell-bell-"

The bell tower not far away rang out for everyone.

It was six o'clock in the evening.

It's summer, and it's still bright at six o'clock.

But the city is starting to change.

There was a certain fluctuation in the water of the lake, and it seemed that some huge monster was moving below the surface of the lake, disturbing all the living beings in the vicinity.

"The animals are coming."

Lu Wen looked into the distance.

There were no animals in sight, but he heard it.

Dense.

The animals that had been hiding in the ground, under the rubble, in the crevices of the concrete bricks, had now left their hiding places and ran towards the lake in the center.

It didn't take long for the animals to come into view.

Most of them are Lepidaceae, and there is no record in the Azure database, and only a few that seem to look very similar can be found.

It was as if they had heard some kind of call.

They all ran to the edge of the lake and began to drink the precious water resources.

From time to time, huge vines rise from the bottom of the water and drag some animals into the lake.

The animals struggled for a moment, then they didn't move, and the water was a little scarlet.

"Interestingly, the plants in this city dominate the water, and therefore the animals." Wang Xiang looked at the lake in the center lightly.

His face was already very pale, which was the cause of the excessive blood loss.

"Trouble give me a good time, I don't want to be sucked dry alive and thrown into the bottom of that lake to become one of the countless bones." Wang Xiang earnestly requested.

"Yes."

Lu Wen slowly approached.

Keeping an eye on the vines around him, he removed the tactical dagger from his waist.

The vines didn't seem to notice his arrival.

Maybe it's because he's not flesh and blood.

Lu Wen stabbed Wang Xiang into the neck with a knife, and picked open the trachea, esophagus, blood vessels and other tissues inside.

Blood gushed out like a fountain and sprayed on Wang Xiang's body.

"Your heart is partially blocked by body armor, and there are ceramic plates in it, so it's easier to choose your neck." Lu Wen said.

Wang Xiang naturally couldn't answer.

Half of his neck was sliced open.

So he could only look at Lu Wen, and the luster in his eyes slowly disappeared.

The last look may be gratitude.

The vines that were wrapped around him sensed that the prey's vital signs were rapidly disappearing, and a large amount of blood was spraying on the surface of the vines, exceeding the speed at which the plants could absorb it.

So the plants got angry.

A few vines with thick arms snaked towards Lu Wen, like deadly poisonous snakes.

But the speed of these vines is still too slow.

Lu Wen cut off a few with great force.

"This thing is quite tough, no wonder Wang Xiang can't get out."

It took him more strength than the average adult to barely cut the vines.

The blood that flowed from the fracture was also bright red.

"Would you like to bring some back and check them out?"

Lu Wen had this strange thought in his mind, and finally shook his head.

It is likely to cause considerable harm to human society if it is brought back like this.

Of course, it is also possible that this thing can only grow in a specific environment, and if it leaves this environment, it will wither and die.

"Gurgling ......"

Suddenly, the surface of the lake began to bubble upwards.

The animals drinking by the lake began to become restless, sometimes looking at the surface of the lake, sometimes at the road behind them.

Eventually, the animals scattered and fled.

The lake is getting more and more turbulent.

Lu Wen also felt that something was wrong, so he rode the motorcycle left by Wang Xiang.

"Buzz ——!"

The mountain bike roared and then flew out like an arrow.

Lu Wen understands why so many people like to ride motorcycles.

Indeed it is stimulating.

The wheels crushed the wreckage of the ruins, jumping from collapsed floors to floors, the wind blowing in front of you, and the whole person felt like they were about to fly.

Today's sunset is reddish, stretching his departing figure very long.

……

At the same time.

Outside the city.

Everyone also saw those strange plants through the video of the drone.

"Unexpectedly, Wang Xiang is also a fairly famous mercenary, and the big man who died in his hands also has the number of hands, and he is cautious by nature...... In the end, he was killed by a few rattans. Team members sighed.

Most of these team members are also mercenaries, so they naturally know how powerful Wang Xiang is.

"To be precise, he was stabbed by Lu Wen." Jiang Fatzi added.

"What the hell are those vines, and why do they eat animals? Is Nepenthes a relative? Have any of you seen this before? ”

"I haven't seen it, this is a polluted area, who would be afraid to run to this place for a long time?"

While everyone was talking, Lu Wen had already driven half of the city road.

The city isn't too big after all.

Jiang Fatzi began to gather the drones flying over the city.

"Damn, what the hell is this?"

He looked at the screen, and the sound drew everyone in.

Even Xia Chuluo moved his gaze to the screen.

I saw that in the center of the lake, a blood-red tumor slowly rose, like flesh and blood, but the lines on the exterior were only possessed by plants, and it was very large, as big as two or three cars combined.

"Plop...... Plop ......"

The blood-red tumor was beating slowly.

It's like an animal's heart.

They didn't need drones to send back sounds, they could feel the pulse of the city from so far away.

"This thing is fine, isn't it? Have you seen A Chinese Ghost Story, the grandmother inside is a tree spirit......" Lu Yang said.

"Smack!" Jiang Fatzi slapped Lu Yang's head, "You also studied computer science, don't you know the supremacy of science?" Where in this world are there so many spirits, it's just a plant mutated by radiation. ”

At the same time, Lu Wen had already driven out of the city limits.

His system was frantically prompting him.

[Attack intent detected]

【Test ......】

【……】

The screen swiped in his head.

Driven by that strong sense of crisis, he didn't even change the car, and rode the motorcycle out of the city.

As for the off-road car he drove into, he could only stay in it for the time being.

"Wait a minute, Lu Wen, don't come over yet, I'll test and monitor you." Jiang Fatzi hurriedly shouted.

"Come on."

Lu Wen stopped more than twenty meters away from everyone.

Jiang Fatzi tied his detection instrument to the drone, controlled the drone, and flew towards Lu Wen.

The results came out quickly.

"How?" Lu Wen asked.

"There's some radiation, but it's not a big problem, and you can come over." Jiang Fatzi replied.

The team returned to the car.

Fortunately, there is still a spare space on the car, so Lu Wen doesn't have to ride a motorcycle to the city.

Just as the whole team was about to leave, Jiang Fatzi suddenly shouted again.

"Wait a minute!"

"What's wrong again?"

"Hurry down and check it,, I've been tricked."

When everyone heard this, they were a little confused and got out of the car one after another.

I saw that Jiang Fatzi had a strange expression.

He stared at his fat arm.

A blood-red flower bloomed on that arm.

The petals are translucent, and you can see the tiny tubes inside, some of the blood is circulating in the tubes, and the rhizomes have penetrated into the top layer of the skin.

……

Good night, book friends!