Chapter Seventy-Three: The Mutant Willow Tree
When Zhou Linjia went home, it was already completely dark.
"Brother Jia, you're back!"
Li Ting and Zheng Haiqing threw themselves into his arms.
"Don't worry, wait until I'm going to take a shower first."
Zhou Linjia pinched the faces of the two and grinned.
The war of 1 VS 2 began.
The next day, early in the morning.
Zhou Linjia woke up very early, and he carefully removed the hand on his body.
After a simple wash, I went out with a knife.
...
"Roar!"
A second-order mutant zombie roared and rushed towards Zhou Linjia.
As he approached, the latter's figure flashed, and the long knife in his hand slashed into the air.
"Plop!"
The body of the second-order mutant zombie split into two and fell to the ground.
But it wasn't dead, its upper body crawling on the ground, dragging a trail of blood.
Zhou Linjia followed up with a knife and cut open its transparent skull.
After the second-order mutant zombie died, its thick soul fire drilled into Zhou Linjia's body along the blade, and then was absorbed by the system.
The system upgrade progress bar in my mind has advanced a square, and I am getting closer and closer to the upgrade.
Zhou Linjia was in good spirits.
He leapt out of the pile of corpses, leaping from building to building, disappearing into the sky in the blink of an eye.
......
"Still collecting soul fire?"
Zhou Linjia stood at the top of the building and looked condescendingly at Wu Kaixuan on the ground.
And Wu Kaixuan unhurriedly took out the soul fire from the zombie's head, and didn't look at Zhou Linjia behind him.
"I'll talk to you."
Zhou Linjia jumped down, landed in front of Wu Kaixuan, and asked with a smile, "How many bullets do you have left?" β
After that, without waiting for Wu Kaixuan to answer, he opened the other party's bag and counted it.
"1, 2.......7, you only have 7 bullets left."
Wu Kaixuan frowned and looked at Zhou Linjia, who had no sense of boundary.
"It's boring."
Wu Kaixuan's indifference made Zhou Linjia feel bored.
He shrugged his shoulders and turned to leave.
Before leaving, he smiled and said, "Hurry up, if you can't get together the soul fire, I'm afraid that the doctor you want to save will die." β
......
Zhou Linjia stood on the top of the high-rise building, looking at the People's Hospital across the road from a distance.
The once crowded hospital is now empty, and not even a single zombie can be seen in the huge courtyard.
Uncanny.
Zhou Linjia was vigilant.
What is the unimaginable monster that Qu Mengyun is talking about?
Is the anomaly in front of you related to the monster?
Zhou Linjia sat on the roof of the building and observed for a long time, and then continued to observe from a different angle, and just when he was puzzled, he suddenly realized that something was wrong.
"Why is this tree so tall?"
Zhou Linjia's eyes narrowed, staring closely at the huge willow tree in the courtyard of the east area of the hospital.
I remember that there were many varieties of trees planted in the People's Hospital, but now all of them are dead, and only one willow tree remains.
Not only that, the height of this willow tree is extremely exaggerated, it is more than 30 meters high, and the thickness is also several meters, and the huge thick rhizome breaks through the concrete ground and grows outside, spreading for hundreds of meters.
Hell, do plants mutate too?
Under the scorching sun, the breeze blows, and the wicker flutters in the wind, which looks quiet and harmless.
But Zhou Linjia knew that this guy was definitely not a vegetarian, otherwise the hospital would not be so quiet.
Swish!
Zhou Linjia jumped down from the roof, and then performed footwork, borrowing strength in the air one after another, and finally landed smoothly.
He grabbed a zombie and threw it at the hospital, then hid in the distance and secretly observed.
"Roar!"
The zombie got up and roared when it hit the ground.
After identifying the direction, it rushed towards Zhou Linjia outside.
But it had barely taken two steps when the concrete floor suddenly exploded, and an arm-thick plant rhizome burst out of the ground and wrapped it tightly.
The tentacle-like tiny rhizome instantly bloomed like a flower, sucking tightly into the zombie's whole body, and then suddenly shrinking back into the ground.
Zhou Linjia's pupils shrank, and then he concocted the same method, grabbed another first-order mutant zombie and threw it in.
Like ordinary zombies, mutant zombies were helpless in the face of the terrifying roots, and were dragged into the ground almost without a struggle.
Zhou Linjia didn't believe in evil and grabbed the tail of a second-order mutant zombie again, circled it a few times and threw it in.
Compared with the first-order mutant zombies, the strength of the second-order mutant zombies is much stronger.
The rhizome that easily bound the first-order mutant zombie was cut off by the second-order mutant zombie with the bone spurs of its arms, but just as it wanted to escape from the hospital, more than a dozen thicker rhizomes suddenly drilled out of the ground, tightly wrapping the second-order mutant zombie.
Although there were twists and turns, the second-order mutant zombie was also no match for the mutant willow tree, and was dragged into the ground to become nutrients.
Seeing this, Zhou Linjia felt a chill in his heart and was afraid.
It's a good thing he didn't rush in, otherwise he might not be the opponent of that monster.
No, not necessarily, but definitely.
Plant rhizomes are intertwined, and it is estimated that there are tens of thousands of rhizomes underground.
No matter how strong Zhou Linjia is, he is invincible with two fists and four hands.
However, although he couldn't win, Zhou Linjia judged that the mutated willow tree couldn't keep him.
After several observations, Zhou Linjia found that the speed of the stem was not too fast. In addition, its hardness is also average, and the seven-star Tang knife that sharpens iron like clay should be able to cut it easily.
In order to verify the idea, Zhou Linjia carefully stepped into the gate of the hospital with Qixing.
As soon as he walked in, he suddenly felt that the atmosphere was not quite right, and the air seemed to have become a lot more solemn.
"Bang!"
The ground exploded, and a rhizome broke through the soil and appeared at Zhou Linjia's feet, and it wanted to wrap around Zhou Linjia's ankle and drag him down.
But before it could wrap around, Zhou Linjia's right foot suddenly lifted, and then stomped hard, trampling the stem under his feet.
"Huh!"
The rhizome was quickly pulled out, and it was thrown twice in the air, making a piercing sound of breaking the air, and then like a spear, it stabbed straight at Zhou Linjia's face.
Whooshββββ
Zhou Linjia turned his wrist, and the seven stars were cut out from bottom to top, like a waterfall going upstream.
The blade was sharp, almost unblocked, and it cut the thorny rhizome to the ground.
The severed rhizome rolled several times on the ground, as if it were alive, and it looked extraordinarily permeating.
Zhou Linjia stepped forward and stepped on it, and the power exploded, crushing it to pieces on the ground.
"Come again!"
The corners of Zhou Linjia's mouth were hooked, and he picked the tip of the knife at the willow tree in the distance.
At this time, the willow tree was silent, as if everything was going to be calm.
Just when Zhou Linjia thought that nothing had happened, the ground suddenly trembled.
Dozens of huge rhizomes burst out of the ground like giant pythons, covering the sky and the sun, looking down on him.
Zhou Linjia seemed to be smiling, not afraid at all.
He has the blessing of the body, and it is not a problem to have more than one enemy.
......
"Plop!"
Zhou Linjia was hit hard in the chest, and his body flew more than ten meters high in the air.
Then it fell to the ground, smashed the bricks, and stirred up dust.
"Ahem."
Zhou Linjia clutched her chest and gasped, her face slightly red.
He was still a little arrogant, and the dozens of rhizomes worked together tacitly, far more powerful than he expected.
"You forced me!"
Zhou Linjia stood up and silently opened the system mall.
"System, help me improve my footwork to Dacheng!"
γDing! Host Redemption Footwork - Dacheng Success! γ
With the deduction of 30,000 points, Zhou Linjia was distressed, and then looked at the rhizomes in the distance viciously.
"Look at how Lao Tzu cleans you up!"
Zhou Linjia sneered.