Doomsday Catastrophe

Before the war started, Shen Feng only saw two kinds of mutated plants in a year, namely the apple tree at home and the plant heart in the laboratory, but now, after fighting the mutated beast for more than a month, Shen Feng Three mutated plants that have never been seen before have been discovered here.

Previously, Shen Feng did not pay attention to the mutation of plants, because it is impossible for mutated plants to leave the land. Maybe after mutating, they can obtain energy without photosynthesis. However, mutated plants have a fatal weakness, that is, they cannot move!

Even the heart of a plant cannot move casually, at most it just hides in the soil, and occasionally drills out of the soil to breathe.

As for these mutated plants, as long as you don't touch them casually, basically there will be no consequences. If Shen Feng didn't enter the mist at the beginning, there would naturally be no damage later on. Of course, it is impossible for Shen Feng to obtain a new production evolution. base way.

At this moment, Shen Feng did not dare to underestimate the mutated plants, because he was not sure what the evolutionary direction of the mutated plants would be, just like the junipers we encountered today, which are harmless in themselves, but can Achieving large-scale hypnosis, if it suddenly appeared on the battlefield, it might cause damage to soldiers.

Therefore, Shen Feng asked people to send the juniper branches wrapped in clothes to the laboratory in Yuzhou. In short, it is always safer to find out the composition and function of juniper pollen, so that there is no preparation.

Shen Feng originally thought that the junipers could not cause too much impact. After all, the junipers in the center are more than ten kilometers away from the front line. With such a long distance, there is no need to worry about pollen in other directions except for the south. Cypress grows in a mountain depression, and the pollen floats in the air to form fog. The cold wind in the north can blow away part of the pollen, but most of the pollen will not be blown away.

However, Guo Pinming from the southwest front sent a message that the number of mutant beasts killed today was very small, only more than 8,000, and no mutant beasts came to attack the formation.

The number of these mutated beasts seems to be a lot, but in fact, for hundreds of thousands of mutated beasts, such a small number is not enough. In the past battles, there were tens of thousands of trophies every day, but now it is too few.

"Did the mutated beast panic and go to other directions to break through?" Shen Feng asked.

Lu Kaiyang replied: "City Master, that's not the case. Except for the southwestern direction where eight thousand mutated beasts were killed, there were no mutated beasts in the other directions. Recently, the number of mutated beasts has increased. The less you attack the defense line, maybe you are tired from running."

"Impossible!" Shen Feng immediately shook his head, frowned and said, "It is absolutely impossible to be tired from running. The mutant beast is not tired after fighting for so long. How could it be possible that it is suddenly tired these few days? I know the physical strength of the mutant beast very well." , It’s not bad to be able to run for several days, and it’s unreasonable to be tired after more than a month!”

Shen Feng chased and killed the Dragon King of the Yangtze River in the summer. After chasing for a week, even the Dragon King was already tired, and the Dragon King was 70 meters long, so it was exaggerated to last for such a long time. The Dragon King's physical strength is not bad, but Shen Feng doesn't believe it.

Lu Kaiyang scratched his head, and said to himself: "Could it be that the mutant beasts are resistant to the grinding method? But, are these mutant beasts so smart?"

Shen Feng thought for a while, took out the walkie-talkie, and notified Yuzhou to send a helicopter to observe the situation of the mutant beast.

Since he couldn't figure out the abnormal situation of the mutant beast, he could only let the helicopter observe it.

After receiving the order, the pilot immediately drove the helicopter to the very center of the encirclement to investigate the situation. The pilot's recent tasks are still very heavy. They often have to deliver supplies, observe the enemy's situation when they have time, and pick up important people at critical moments. In this case, the pilots can only grit their teeth and persist. Their tasks are easy when they are free, but now that the battle has begun, no matter how many tasks there are, they cannot refuse.

As a result, the helicopter really captured a lot of enemy situations. Among them, the strangest ones are a group of monkeys with white hair on their faces, dark body, and ugly looks. The ugliest monkeys, and these monkeys are waving water ladles in their hands, and they are wearing clothes.

The mutant beasts bowed their heads to these monkeys and obediently lay down on the ground. Even mutant beasts several meters tall could only crawl in front of the Guizhou snub-nosed monkeys.

When Shen Feng saw the photo, he immediately understood that the water scoops of these golden monkeys were full of pale yellow pollen. Although it was winter, the junipers had been producing pollen all the time, and the golden monkeys could easily shake them off by waving branches. The pollen on it hypnotizes other mutant beasts, and these golden monkeys are waving branches while covering their noses, obviously knowing the effect of pollen.

"Damn it, these monkeys can still have this kind of IQ?" Lu Kaiyang opened his eyes. He thought that the foolproof grinding method under his command could crush the mutated beasts, but when the mutated beasts stopped running around, they surrounded them. On the contrary, it has little effect, because many mutated beasts gather together to form a beast horde, and they start to sleep after being hypnotized. Once the mutated beasts cannot be driven out at will, then the grindstone tactic will be considered a failure.

Shen Feng looked at the golden monkey in the photo, and said helplessly: "Don't underestimate these animals, especially primate animals, they are not without brains at all, the result is very simple, so many mutant beasts are all hypnotized Yes, and the instigators are these monkeys."

"This monkey is too hateful, I really want to kill them all!" Lu Kaiyang said through gritted teeth.

After thinking for a while, Shen Feng said: "Instead of killing these monkeys, it is better to burn the juniper forest. I have seen the terrain. There are juniper forests in the valley and barren hills outside the valley. Even if it is a fire, That will only burn the woods in the valley, and the fire will not spread."

"It's a good idea. Burn all the junipers. I don't believe that these monkeys have the means to hypnotize mutant beasts." Lu Kaiyang agreed to this decision. Anyway, it is a mutant plant, so it is safe to burn it.

For the next two days, the golden monkey still held the juniper branch to hypnotize the mutant beast, stopping the rampage of the mutant beast, which made Lu Kaiyang's grinding tactic fail.

The most important point of the Mopan tactic is to expel the mutant beasts, so that the mutant beasts are exhausted every day. In this way, the mutant beasts' physical strength can be consumed, and the mutant beasts will not rush to jump over the wall to fight to the death because of too much pressure.

However, Lu Kaiyang never imagined that his perfect plan would be ruined by a group of monkeys with obviously low IQ. Then, the easiest way to continue the Mopan plan would be to burn the juniper forest. In this way, Then we can continue to expel the mutant beasts, and it is the grindstone tactics to continue.

Shen Feng originally wanted to do this in person, because he is very fast and can fly into the sky at critical moments, and using the "Wind King Barrier" can also isolate the pollen from the outside world.

Lu Kaiyang disagreed. He felt that Shen Feng could stabilize people's hearts by staying in the barracks. If Shen Feng went out in person, he might not be able to control the soldiers under him. One, one is Chang Haojie who was recruited before, and the other is the pilot of the helicopter.

In the end, the helicopter departed from Yuzhou with a lot of Molotov cocktails on board. Just drop the Molotov cocktails from the sky, and the juniper forest can be directly ignited. The reason why Shen Feng had people build firebreaks.

After three days of analysis, the laboratory also analyzed the true effect of juniper pollen, which is sedative and hypnotic. These pollen are powerful sedatives. After inhalation, they will have a sedative effect on the nerves, and sedation and hypnosis are divided into two parts. It is not very prescribed, sometimes a smaller dose can produce a sedative effect, and a larger dose can produce a hypnotic effect.

The lab came up with the final result, although it was slightly different from Shen Feng's guess, but overall, Shen Feng still got it right.

The ignition plan was about to continue, but on the other side of Yuzhou, the director of the hospital came to the front line to find Shen Feng himself, saying that he could not burn the mutated plants.

Shen Feng frowned and asked: "Dean, it stands to reason that these mutated plants have affected the progress of the battle, and now I don't know how much time has been delayed. If the battle cannot be ended as soon as possible, winter will come, and the war will fall into a very difficult situation." situation."

The dean said: "City Lord, there is a shortage of medicines in Yuzhou, especially anesthetics. These mutated plants are gifts from the heavens. With these gifts, the hospital can perform operations more smoothly. So many Pollen, as long as it can be collected, is a natural anesthetic, and please don't burn these cypress trees."

Shen Feng figured out the reason for the dean's intercession. It seemed that the dean didn't think he was an environmentalist. The dean just wanted to get narcotics.

However, after Shen Feng thought for a while, he said to the dean: "How about it, dean, I will suspend the plan to burn the woods, and wait until I go to the woods to find some juniper saplings and seeds for you. Come on, as long as we have tree seeds, we can plant junipers ourselves, and you can also have enough anesthetics in the future, will that work?"

As for the juniper forest, Shen Feng must burn it, but he can’t consider other people’s opinions. Now, let’s make a compromise, wait until the juniper saplings are brought to Yuzhou, then he will have the seedlings on his side, and then he will plant the forest If it is burned, it is the best of both worlds.

When Shen Feng said this, the dean couldn’t continue to persuade him. After all, the most important thing in Yuzhou now is the war. End the war as soon as possible, and Yuzhou will get peace as soon as possible. Now if the battle fails, even next year, Yuzhou will not be able to An Ning still suffers from the harassment of mutant beasts.

"Then I wish the city lord success immediately." The dean said quickly.

Shen Feng put on a gas mask and a paraglider and set off. He was going to look for juniper saplings in the woods. As long as he could find a few dwarf saplings, he would be able to do business, and the hospital director couldn't say otherwise.

However, when Shen Feng came to the woods, he immediately noticed something was wrong, because the woods were very quiet, and there was a lot of pollen in the air, resulting in extremely low visibility. After walking a short distance, the mask on Shen Feng's face was covered He was covered with yellow pollen, and he could only wipe it off as he walked.

Before Shen Feng heard from Chang Haojie that there were mutant beasts coming and going in and out of the woods. He thought the woods would be more lively, but after he walked in, he found that there were many corpses on the ground, so he had to be careful when walking. Only under your feet, otherwise, you will trip over the corpses on the ground.

"What's going on, isn't it that the pollen only has a sedative and hypnotic effect? ​​Why are there so many corpses in the forest? Could it be that the pollen is also poisonous?" Shen Feng thought in his heart.

At this time, Shen Feng couldn't figure out the reason for a while. He had only one task now, which was to find juniper saplings and bring them back to find a place to plant them.

There are many corpses of mutated beasts in the woods, many of which have been decomposing for a long time. Although Shen Feng is wearing a gas mask, he still seems to be able to smell the stench vaguely. This is probably a psychological change. After all, the quality of the gas mask is quite good. Under normal circumstances, the gas is isolated from the outside, so it is impossible to still smell the stench.

On these corpses, there are many rhizomes entangled on them, like spider webs, which seem to be absorbing the nutrients of the corpses.

Seeing this scene, Shen Feng couldn't help frowning. It seems that mutant plants have similar characteristics, that is, they are not limited to photosynthesis, and even corpses can absorb the nutrients in them, changing from a producer to a part-time producer Decomposer.

Animals and plants in nature can be roughly divided into producers, consumers and decomposers. Most plants are producers, that is, gather energy through photosynthesis or nitrification. However, since plants began to mutate, plants can directly absorb the energy of corpses, which seems abnormal.