Although Li Xiaolan and Chen Zhong put on test gloves and test suits thicker than raincoats, they carried the bodies of their colleagues to a natural soil pit outside the island, and Li Xiaolan never stopped crying and tears.

Even Chen Zhong, a big man, also vomited while crying.

The corpses were all in the pit, and the two of them collapsed on the lawn like corpses, staring blankly at the sky.

No one had any intention of speaking.

Both were high-level intellectuals, and both were good at analyzing and using logic to think about problems.

After a while, Li Xiaolan suddenly spoke, "Chen Zhong, you said that Guo Ge is several years younger than us, but I found that he is not only superior in martial arts, but also has a high IQ.

"You're finding this problem too." Chen Zhong laughed self-deprecatingly, "I also recalled the scenes of meeting him just now, he seemed to drag us into the pit step by step, and we were stupidly following his will......"

"I don't like that......" Li Xiaolan sighed. She really doesn't like this helpless feeling of fate being controlled by others.

"Yes...... What can we do? We must admit the fact that without him, we have no future. ”

"I think my parents, you said they were in Phuket, South Korea, would the same thing happen to us on the cruise."

Chen Zhong didn't say anything for a long time, and said in a hoarse voice: "After the accident, I immediately called An Yun's phone, but there was no signal." I checked on the Internet, and there is also a large-scale outbreak of zombie virus in South Korea......"

The two were silent again.

Everyone knows what the outcome will be. No one dared to imagine.

"Groove cake, Guo Ge also limited the time ......"

Hearing this, Chen Zhong got up violently, wiped his glasses with sweat or tears, and muttered, "It's been thirty-two minutes...... Landfill, with the physical strength of both of us, could not be taken in four or five hours. ”

Li Xiaolan is highly intelligent in the end, and quickly reacted, "His theme today is to limit us to find the flowering and fruiting knotted ash trees within five hours, and landfilling is only auxiliary labor, there is no time limit, we can completely landfill tomorrow." ”

The two took off their clothes and gloves and ran towards the landscape of the plant community in the Three Gorges Rising Belt.

Chen Zhong ran all the way and asked, "As far as I know, the plants in the Three Gorges Rising Zone are mainly endangered plants such as sparse-flowered cypress branches and lotus-leaved ferns, and it seems that the jointed ash does not belong to the unique plants of the Three Gorges Reservoir area?" ”

Li Xiaolan replied: "The ash trees were not introduced as endangered plant species in the Three Gorges, but as landscape trees, and I remember that more than 600 trees were introduced last year, distributed in various parts of the botanical garden...... Strange, why did he designate in the Three Gorges Rising Belt, in the flower path square, alpine plant area to plant knotted ash. ”

"Maybe he's just entertaining us." Chen Zhong had no confidence in whether he could find the knotted ash that bore fruit.

Li Xiaolan ran into the plant community landscape area of the Three Gorges Rising Belt, and asked, "You said he instructed us to go here, what is he doing on the island?" ”

"Only God knows." Chen Zhong accelerated past Li Xiaolan, "It's better to be careful, I don't want to see a zombie suddenly emerge from the bushes." ”

Li Xiaolan also slowed down, and her steps became cautious.

The so-called "Three Gorges Rising Tide Flora" is to simulate the construction of a riverbank-like Three Gorges Rising Tide in the park, simulating "high tide" and "low tide" in summer, autumn, winter and spring respectively according to the changes in the water level of the Yangtze River, so that plants can "live" comfortably between the 70 cm water level drop.

As far as the eye can see, the ebb and flow zone is an artificial river.

The river is no more than seven or eight meters wide, and the opposite bank is made of large stones, and on this side is a meandering belt of river beach plants.

At the entrance to the landscape above the river beach, hundreds of large knotted ash trees are fan-shaped.

Jointed ash is the only precious tree species of wood rhinoceros ash in the world today, and it is the best of the world's scenic spots, bonsai and root carving families, with a life span of about 2000 years. It is known as the "living fossil" of plants.

"Wrong...... Chen Zhong looked at the plants in the landscape, his eyes were surprised.

As a doctor of botany, Li Xiaolan's pupils shrank sharply, and she lost her voice: "All plants are growing rapidly......"

The closest succulent plant to her was introduced from the Americas by the park, and it is also one of her observation and research topics, and she will come to see it every day as long as she goes to work to record some growth data.

The last time she saw the succulent plant was four days ago, that is, in just four days, the plant had grown twice as tall as before, and its growth rate had exceeded its growth regularity.

Not only this succulent plant, but also the plants in the park, including the No. 2 turfgrass at Midnight, have jumped three or four times in a few days, and are more than a meter tall.

What's even more bizarre is that some cold-season flowers and trees that do not bloom in winter also suddenly bloom with huge petals.

It can be said that the garden is full of beauty, and the grass and trees are lush and lush, such as spring coming in advance.

"No wonder he said that this world is no longer the ......world we know," Chen Zhong was the first to come to his senses and ran towards a knotted ash tree.

Before he could get close to the big tree, Chen Zhong exclaimed, "It's blooming, the ash tree is really blooming!" ”

Li Xiaolan followed, staring around, her face full of shock, "The last time I came, this tree was only less than eight meters, and now it is at least twelve or thirteen meters high, and this diameter at breast height is at least one meter and two thick...... How is it possible, how is it possible ......"

The reality in front of her had shattered her perception of the world.

"I can't see if there is any fruit...... "Chen Zhong looked up.

"You have to climb the tree to see." Li Xiaolan said.

"I'll climb ......" Chen Zhong climbed up with the dark gray trunk, an intellectual who was not diligent in his limbs, and he slipped down after climbing several times.

"This can't be done, there are still more than 100 trees to climb...... Li Xiaolan turned around and rushed out of the landscape area, and after a while, she panted and ran over with a plastic steel ladder, "Set up a ladder." ”

Li Xiaolan was leaning down the ladder, Chen Zhong successfully climbed the trees, he leaned over to a few stamens and shook his head.

The two of them carried ladders and were busy under the rows of knotted ash trees.

Two hours had passed, and they had climbed almost a hundred or so knotted ash trees, but they had never found any of them bearing fruit. Even the flowering ash is only a dozen or so.

The physical strength of the two was almost exhausted, and their spirits were close to collapse.

The mutated world, the mutated people, the mutated plants, plus Guo Ge's almost absurd exam questions.

The remaining dozen or so trees, the two spent more than half an hour.

But no answer has been found.

The two of them sat against the trunk of the tree with their eyes closed, so tired that they didn't even have the strength to speak.

"If he doesn't take us with him, we may not be able to survive in the botanical garden, as long as he keeps us with a gun." Chen Zhong has already begun to think about the way back.

"How precious are guns in the last days? Do you think he's the kind of person who helps others? Li Xiaolan hit the nail on the head.

"Even if we don't have weapons and we encounter danger, we can hide in the basement and not come out......," Chen Zhong comforted himself.

"I don't want to live that kind of life where people don't live ghosts, I'd rather die." Li Xiaolan thought of the tragic situation of her colleagues and the fate of the goddess-like Director Fan, and fell into despair.

If there is no protection from him, what will they do if there are zombies entering the park, and another devil like Chen Xiongwu will appear?

She is less and less afraid to imagine the future. Or rather, they don't have a future at all.

She looked at the rocks on the other side of the river beach and wondered, could she die immediately if she hit her head?

She looked at the three-story building in the distance and jumped from the third floor. If you're just crippled, you can't die......

Just as the two of them were in a trance, they heard a faint sound of branches cracking.

Li Xiaolan looked up at the place where the voice sounded.

The sound comes from a jointed ash tree.

To be precise, it's the sound of the stamens popping. The dark gray trunk of the tree also showed longitudinal cracks, cracking in circles before their eyes, and the thorny vegetative branches of the tree shook and trembled like a child's arm, and the feathered leaves continued to expand and contract......

From a distance, the tree appears to be in some kind of movement throughout its body.

"Smack!" There was another small sound. A pagoda-shaped stamen bloomed on the top of a branch, revealing a small black ball, about the thickness of a finger.

Chen Zhong was pleasantly surprised: "It's in the result!" ”

Li Xiaolan was dumbfounded and fascinated.

What they didn't notice was that at the moment when the knotted ash tree bore fruit, all the plants within a hundred meters around it instantly shrugged off their towering leaves, the flowers withered instantly, the branches bowed their heads, and the trunks of many trees cracked and wrinkled as if they had aged for a hundred years in an instant.

Most of the vitality of these plants has been drained by some inexplicable force.