Chapter 14: The Murderous Vine
Ye Ming once went to the Botanical Garden. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info
It was spring when he went, and everything was coming back to life. It also rained that day, and the rain was pouring down on the spring flowers that had just bloomed. The grass and trees sprout new shoots and spit out green shoots. There is mist in the mountains and forests, and from a distance, it looks like a fairyland.
This time is clearly different.
Before entering the interior of the botanical garden, from the outside, the botanical garden did not change much. What it was like before the end of the world, what it was like after the end of the world, except that the plants got bigger and taller, there was no difference.
But after being dragged to the inside of the botanical garden, Ye Ming found that there had been a huge change in it.
The vegetation on the periphery of the botanical garden is tall and large, and the foliage is green, covering the sky and the sun. On the contrary, the grass and trees inside have become very short and small, and the branches of the original thick varieties have become thinner, and the trunk hangs down to the ground like a vine, and the vines of other trees are entwined. In the past, a tree could be full of flowers, but now a single flower can occupy the whole tree, the trunk is short, the branches and leaves are completely absent, and only one flower is left to show in the wind, but there is not even the slightest fragrance of flowers.
The entire botanical garden is full of vines, covering the sky and the ground, Ye Ming is dragged along, occasionally touching the vines on the ground, and you can see that those vines will move slightly, if there are living creatures standing on it, they will definitely be like those vines on the road, dancing wildly, tying up all the living creatures.
The vines dragged Ye Ming far away, and the plants around him changed from tall to short, from thick to delicate, and when they reached the innermost part of the botanical garden, all the plants and trees disappeared, and the ground was full of rotten leaves and dead branches, and the sunlight poured down from the top of his head, shining on the only small tree in the circle.
The tree is just over a man tall, with dense foliage and numerous branches. At the top of the tree is a small canopy covered with small white flowers, which are blown by the wind and float down to the surrounding ground. Then it was entangled in the delicate vines that poked out of the ground and quickly digested it.
At this point, the vines finally stopped.
Everyone was placed in the open space in front of the small tree, and from under the rotten leaves and dead branches rose many thumb-sized green vines, which slowly crawled over their bodies and poked through the gaps in the thick vines.
It's summer, and everyone is wearing short-sleeved shorts, and the cold vines are walking around against the fabric, wrapping around everything that isn't wrapped in the vines.
The process was slow, so slow that you could clearly feel the cold feeling of the vines against the skin, as if something was crawling over, and the whole person's scalp was numb and uncomfortable.
From head to toe, people are wrapped in a vine like a cocoon. Then the thick vines slowly let go.
Thankfully, the vines enveloped the people, but there were still gaps through which oxygen could enter, enough for the people inside to breathe, otherwise they would die from lack of oxygen not long after.
Ye Ming was lying on the ground and didn't move, there were many "human cocoons" like him around him, and there were several cars wrapped in cocoons in the distance, and the people inside were in slightly better condition and could still talk.
"Anyone? Who's still alive, say. The people in the car shouted, sounding a bit like Fang Wendong's voice.
"I'm alive."
"And me."
"I ......"
Quite a few people are responding.
The voice like Fang Wendong said again, "Report the number of people who are alive and say their names." ”
The people who responded reported the number one after another, and after the count, there were 67 people when they set off, 19 were missing, and 48 people remained.
As soon as the number came out, everyone fell silent. I thought it was a smooth road, but there were nineteen people halfway through, and the rest were all tied up here, and I didn't know if I could escape.
The sound of a child's crying came from the car, accompanied by a low atmosphere, which made people even more upset.
"What should I do?"
"What else can I do, let's find a way to get out of here first."
The people tied up in the car tried to cut the vines from the car with sharp objects found in the car, and those who were tied up had to wait for them to come out and save them.
Just as the people in the car were cutting vines, there was movement of the dwarf tree in the middle.
It stretched out its long vine-like branches, slowly climbed towards the nearest "human cocoon", and after a while climbed to the "human cocoon", and then lifted high, revealing the suction opening at the top of the branch that resembled a reptilian mouth.
"Huh? How do I feel limp, no strength. ”
The wrapped "human cocoon" didn't know that he was in trouble, and he was still writhing, shouting: "These vines wrapped around the body are poisonous!" I don't have any strength at all. ”
The others were also blocked from view, and no one noticed that something was wrong, and they were still echoing his words.
"I don't have any strength in me."
"I ...... too"
Everyone was terrified, but this did not make them really aware of the danger, until a terrible scream suddenly rang out and resounded throughout the forest.
"Something! Ahh It hurts! Help me! ”
"What's going on!"
"What happened?"
"This is Wang Yu's voice! Wang Yu! Wang Yu! What happened to you! ”
All the "human cocoons" are shaking desperately, wondering what the hell is going on.
Ye Ming was also rolling left and right, he didn't have a sharp weapon on him, the only thing he could use was his teeth. Every time you roll, hit the vine next to your mouth with your teeth, and bite the vine around your mouth like a beast.
The vines are very tough, and when you bite into it, there is a fishy smell that makes you almost want to vomit. If it weren't for Ye Ming's evolution, the toxicity released by the vines would have had little effect on him, and he probably wouldn't even have the strength to bite.
Hurt, the vines in his mouth quickly withdrew, Ye Ming took the opportunity to bite the vines that he could touch with his mouth, and after a while, most of the vines on his head had gone, revealing half of his head, so that he could clearly see everything around him.
The screams had long since stopped, and everyone was silent.
No one dared to ask what was going on, they just shook desperately, trying to get rid of the vines on their bodies. Others were urging the people in the car to hurry up.
Ye Ming looked at the place where the screams came from.
And he lay on the ground, dead. The vines that bound the limbs had long since faded, but the vines at the mouth of the heart stretched into the blood hole, attached to the flesh and blood, and slowly digested the skin of the body.
On top of his corpse, a wrist-thick branch stood tall, its original emerald green color turned blood red, and under the sunlight, the branch was as transparent as glass, and the bright red blood and internal organs flowed inside, flowing from the branch port into the middle tree.
The blood-sucking branch was quickly retracted, and the tree pulled out another branch and slowly climbed onto another "human cocoon" nearby.
"Ahh
The branch is quickly inserted into the heart, and the mouth at the top is like a drill, plunging into the body! Blood suddenly spilled out from the cracks in the vines, and before it could fall to the ground, it was absorbed by the vines all over the body. The person inside rolled in pain, but the branch on his chest did not move at all, and he bit hard.
After more than ten seconds, the screaming stopped abruptly.
Another person died.