The botanical garden on the second floor seemed to have woken up from a deep slumber, and soon an army of greenery appeared in front of the three of them.

Akamatsu cleverly grabbed the dismantled machine gun head and ran to the room behind the glass curtain wall on the right, and the plants ignored him, did not even take the initiative to attack, but formed a formation like a platoon.

Plants with [nuts] and [tall nuts] on their heads, which are indeed large nuts, gurgle and roll to the front row of the formation, acting as solid guards, and behind them are [Pea Shooter], [Cabbage Pitcher], [Watermelon Pitcher] and other plants that have been transformed into strange appearances, which are responsible for long-range firepower.

Li Wu and the others naturally did not wait for the other party to line up in formation, Xingchuan Aoi raised the giant axe in his hand flat, and a shining ray pierced the distance of the entire botanical garden like a sword of light.

However, at this moment, the plant legion once again showed incredible cooperation, and the nuts in front of it jumped on the heads of their own kind like arhats, grinning in the shape of a tower.

Although their defensive efforts only lasted for a moment before being shredded by the magical girl's magic cannon, leaving a hollow in the center with the aroma of fried nuts, it still gave the soldiers in the rear a little time to maneuver.

Hoshikawa Aoi shook her wrist in a slight arc, and the sword of light extending from the magic guide slashed through the air inch by inch, sweeping out a fan-shaped arc before extinguishing.

The defensive nuts and tall nuts bore the brunt, and most of them were directly cut in half, and the nuts fell to the ground with a clatter.

The rest of the plants were not safe, and the fruits and vegetables that did not have time to escape were like characters in Cutting Fruit with a Quick Knife, turning into pieces, and even the trees in the center of the hall were cut into a hollow scar.

Judging from the performance of the other party, the combat power of these plants is not very strong, no wonder they will peck at each other with the zombies to this day.

The remnants of the group of nuts may have been so angry that they were flushed with anger because they witnessed the death of their compatriots, and they rolled and rushed towards the two of them regardless of the dispersal of the formation, and the remote plants that had been scattered in formation did not show any panic at all, but set up cold guns in pieces.

"Would the nuts have exploded in extreme rage?"

Li Wu watched the words on these heads suddenly turn into [Explosive Nuts], and even the plants whose eyes were dyed red complained.

He ignored the damage of peas, corn kernels, cabbage, etc., flying at high speed, and only dodged slightly when he encountered watermelons that exploded like a howitzer when they fell to the ground.

In a few turns, he tore through the plant's net of fire and threw a cloud of flame at the exploding nuts.

The resemblance of a spark into an arsenal was immediate, as the nuts licked by tongues of fire were sent into the sky before they could turn into fireflies in front of the enemy, leaving only a deafening explosion and an expanding ring of fire in their place, igniting more of the plants caught in it.

For a while, several fires lit in the lush botanical garden, constantly pouring green ground.

In the process, Hoshikawa Aoi unfolded the light wings behind him, floating in the air, and several rotating magic arrays appeared around his body, and began to bombard those long-range plants such as [Pea Shooter] and [Watermelon Pitcher].

With the cooperation of her firepower, Li Wu avoided opening his mouth and tried to swallow his purple man-eating flower in one gulp, and with a side kick kicked off the deformed head that was constantly spilling saliva from the green stems and leaves, and before it could fall to the ground, he grabbed the break in the back of the flower's body, and turned around to slam the red pepper that gradually swelled behind him into the unclosed blood basin mouth.

A sound similar to the setting off of firecrackers during the New Year's holidays sounded, and the tattered purple flower crowns were lifted into the sky in the flames.

After the two of them literally chopping melons and vegetables, behind the fallen plant carcass, two flatbed trucks with yellow corn on them appeared in their own shape.

Like missile transporters, they lifted the huge corn they were carrying, and the sense of threat they conveyed sent ripples of alarm in Li Wu's heart.

The next moment, he stretched out his left hand and grabbed the fruit stalk between the two large cherries with the text [Cherry Bomb] on it.

Before the latter exploded, Li Wu deftly swung the [Cherry Bomb] from the center as if wielding a meteor hammer, and then threw it violently!

Like a chain bullet fired in a naval battle, the two rapidly spinning bunches of cherries scattered the plants in their path, and finally landed on one of the [corn cannons], burying the soldier who did not fire a single shot in the explosion.

And the luck of the other car was not much better, the yellow corn missile was just launched when it was exploded by a volley of the waiting magical girl, and then a focused magic bomb blew it up from the corn to popcorn.

These two [corn cannons] seemed to be the last hole cards of these plant legions, and after being destroyed one after another, the few remaining plants scattered in a hurry, and ran into the left mycelium-covered wall in a hurry.

Li Wu and the others were not in a hurry to catch up, but advanced to the room on the right side that resembled an observation room.

Hidden behind the glass curtain wall were two compartments divided into one large and one small, and the escaped zombies were now crouching under a long stainless steel table placed in front of the large chamber, warily holding the head of the machine gun at the open door.

Seeing the two people who appeared, he crawled out from under the table in a daze: "It seems that I am not as afraid of death as I claimed, obviously I am dead." ”

"Understandable." Li Wu replied, "Did you find anything here?" ”

There were unexpectedly many things left in these two compartments, and the long table where Akamatsu was hiding alone was littered with strange parts and piles of smeared data charts.

Li Wu and Hoshikawa Aoi entered the cubicle, which was arranged like an ordinary infirmary, and a loose white coat hung on the wall facing them, which had accumulated a thick layer of dust. Underneath the garment is a small desk, also made of stainless steel, with a black notebook spread out on it.

He tried to touch the notebook first, but found that there was no damage or anything like that, so he continued to flip through it.

He thought it was the vampire's writing, but the handwriting on it indicated that it was from someone else.

Most of the content is similar to the records of caring for patients, the patient's medication, etc., narrated in the voice of a doctor, and from the middle there are some tips for caring for plants like a gardener's diary - it can be seen that the owner of the notebook was not dealing with these strange creatures who can run, jump and shoot bullet barrage.

However, as the pages are flipped backwards, it can be found that the mental state of the recorder seems to be becoming more and more erratic, and less and less content related to the sick or plant is taken up in favor of confused babbling and repetitive passages.

It's like a graffiti scribbled by an amnesia-stricken patient on the edge of lucidity.

The notebook turns to the last page, and a large bold line of font occupies the center of the paper:

Please forgive us for the sins we have committed!

Li Wu closed the notebook with a snap.

The content of this thing may be a bit scary on other sets, but with the background of zombies vs. plants here, it only makes him wonder if the buddy who wrote this note is called Crazy Dave......

This is of course impossible.

Because Hoshikawa Aoi had already blown away the dust, he took out a square document from the white coat hanging on the wall.

"Goro?"

This does not appear to be some formal identification, just a name.

"Maybe that's the name of the owner of the notebook."

Li Wu speculated and put the things in his hand back on the table.

After making sure there was nothing else of value here, the two turned back to the large compartment, where the zombie Akamatsu was sitting in a swivel chair holding a tape recorder and waiting.

"I found a tape recorder cassette in a drawer."

He slapped the start button of the machine in his hand, and a voice that Li Wu had heard came from it:

“…… Although the original purpose was to embezzle funds, it seems that I really found a way to develop superpowers, and Lao Tzu is really a genius. ”

“…… Mixing my blood with the blood of the things they provided outside the realm, I was supposed to use it to achieve a true 'resurrection from the dead', but instead of becoming ghouls, the blood-injected creatures became another half-dead creature......"

"Human assistants are still available, but it's troublesome to lose relevant memories after each assist experiment, and speaking of which, those things are almost planted, isn't it time to get out of here?"

The recording was intermittent, and I don't know if it was because the preface didn't match the afterword, or if the cassette had a problem during storage.

But even if it comes to an abrupt end, this recording is very likely to reveal the truth about the birth of zombies.

They were most likely the result of a forced blood transfusion after a vampire demon altered his own blood.

Akamatsu angrily turned off the tape recorder: "This person must be the culprit who turned us into this!" ”

"You don't sound like you've never seen him before."

Li Wu pointed out the sense of disobedience, and the zombie was indeed stunned: "I really don't remember how it became like this...... But judging from this recording, isn't it this evil being who invented the way to turn people into zombies? ”

What he said was indeed right, but Li Wu always felt that there were still things that were missed.

"Let's hurry up and go to the third floor."

In the end, it was Hoshikawa Aoi who clapped the shot.

But when the three of them return to the central botanical garden, they find that the scene is different.

The original flame has been extinguished at some point, leaving only yellow mycelium in the burning place, and the giant tree that was punched out by the magical girl is also densely wrapped with mushrooms like thin snakes, like a hollowed-out host.

The style of painting suddenly changed from Plant Story to Resident Evil.

Just as Li Wu was thinking about whether to make up for the fire here, the green mushroom blanket on the left side squirmed, squeezing out a huge mushroom from the middle.

It sat in a pumpkin pot and was carried out by four strange creatures with "Charm Mushroom" written on their heads, followed by a large group of mushrooms that had not appeared before.

Above the huge mushroom lid are the three big characters of "Mushroom King".

Hoshikawa raised the magic guide in his hand vigilantly, but the bloated giant mushroom in front of him did not make any hostile reaction, but unhurriedly let his subordinates lift a distance, and then let out an inorganic voice like resonance: "Human, we just want to talk." Friendly. ”

"You weren't very kind before."

Now that I find that I can't beat it, is it too late to start selling cute?

In the face of Li Wu's question, the big mushroom squirmed and replied: "The neural network built by the nest is not as intelligent as the one that commanded us before, so under normal circumstances, it only has the instinct to drive away the invaders, and it is not intended to provoke a fight with you. Sincerely. ”

"The ...... of nest building What? ”

Hoshikawa Aoi showed a confused look and looked at Li Wu as if asking for help.

"Are you all the plants uniting? What about the previous neural network? ”

Big Mushroom has a question: "After the creator took away the neural network center generated by all the plants in the communication and cooperation, we mushrooms built a new temporary communication network in place of everyone. Proud. ”

"This guy talks like an AI idol."

Hoshikawa Aoi complained.

I'm afraid it's more than just an image.

Hearing this, Li Wu suspected that the current Nero under Blue Dream Technology was the original neural network center of the plant cluster in this shelter.

This also explains why the plant legions they encountered before were so forbidden, and the co-authors were fundamentally connected to the same consciousness.

"Obviously you've been attacking us, who would believe you now that you're professing to be friendly?"

Akamatsu complained in a low voice, but he didn't expect the big mushroom to adjust its direction, giving him the illusion of staring at it even though it didn't have a visual organ.

"We just want to get out of here, and of course, it's not bad to have some protein by the way, even if it's rotten. Hahaha. Be proud of your sense of humor. ”

These words completely ignited the zombie's anger, and he waved his rotten fist, almost rushing at the monster in front of him: "The person who created you should go to hell with you!" ”

The Mushroom King twisted slowly, purple juice overflowing, and the pumpkin pot beneath him, which also had facial features, stuck out his tongue in disgust.

"You seem to think that our creator has caused your current predicament, and this victim mentality has become part of the source of your hostility towards us. Would it be better to communicate if this was corrected? With doubts. ”

It analyzes calmly and indifferently like a teacher in a psychology class, and continues without waiting for anyone to answer.

The pigment of the fungus blanket covering the wall on the left changed dramatically, and finally a vivid image emerged.

In the background, in the middle of the botanical garden on the second floor, a group of zombies in white coats gathered under the trees, looking at each other in dismay.

"That...... It's me? ”

Akamatsu shuddered and stretched out a finger that exposed his bones, pointing at one of the zombies in the image, "Damn, I don't remember this scene at all." ”

The Mushroom King's voice was not over yet, it was like a ruthless judge announcing the verdict: "You are not patients, but doctors, assistants and reserves carefully selected by the creators. ”

"You're not a victim, you're a perpetrator, Goro Akamatsu."

Underestimating the power of the virus, I almost collapsed in bed two days ago.

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