Yuqiongyin

"Yes, so I'm already trying my best to make up for my mistakes."

"I know." Ji Chenning stepped onto the frozen ground and pointed at the giant green silkworm pupa hidden by the blood-red flowers. "What do you think that is?"

When I arrived at the back mountain, the first thing I noticed was the tree, and the second was the green silkworm pupa that Ji Chenning had just pointed out. Not only was it wrapped in vines and hanging on the tree, it could also be seen between the roots of the ancient tree exposed on the ground.

"Zombies?"

Before she finished speaking, Ji Chenning had already used a knife to cut open the silkworm pupa closest to her. The tough mucous membrane was easily broken by her, and the contents flowed out.

It wasn't hollow inside, but instead a pool of mucus was gushing out of it, and it smelled extremely bad.

Ji Chenning immediately expanded the space field and wrapped herself and Rong Yunluo in it. She lowered her eyes and looked at the slowly flowing mucus, and lightly snapped her fingers.

A small bluish-purple flame fell from her fingertips and burned instantly when it touched the pool of mucus. With a "crackling" sound, the poisonous gas in the air was also burned away bit by bit.

The mucus had been burned out. Rong Yunqiu picked up the knife and removed the thick mucous membrane, finally seeing the inside of the silkworm pupa.

"It really is a zombie." Ji Chenning nodded. "I thought it was just the ancient tree absorbing the nutrients of the zombies, but I didn't expect it to breed such deformed mid- to high-level zombies."

As soon as he finished speaking, the "premature" zombie stood up, turned its head mechanically to look at Ji Chenning and Rong Yunqiu, and while slowly getting up, it kept making a "wheeze wheeze..." sound from its mouth.

The two men did not move, just quietly observing the zombie.

Unlike the original zombie, this zombie's eyes were completely black, as if it was because Ji Chenning had broken out of the cocoon early. Large black spots appeared on the zombie's body, and it stared at them with a distracted look.

Several raised shapes appeared on the zombie's pale face and were still wriggling.

Rong Yunqiu was a little surprised, "Bug?"

"Parasites, no wonder those zombies look so dull and their movements aren't as fast as before."

More and more bugs crawled out of the zombies' mouths and noses, bringing with them a disgusting smell of blood. Fortunately, Ji Chenning had deployed the space field in advance to separate the two.

"Uh...ah..."

The zombie stuck to the space, spitting out thick black blood from its mouth. The black blood flowed to its chest, and dozens of small insects crawled out of it.

Ji Chenning frowned slightly and threw out a cluster of flames to burn the insects that were trying to crawl out. He got too close and couldn't help but smell the foul odor similar to burnt meat.

"It's better to burn it in a fire."

Rong Yunqiu smiled, patted Ji Chenning on the shoulder, and said softly, "Don't be impatient, let's wait and see."

"Ah."

I saw the other thick vines wrapped around the crown of the ancient tree slowly approaching the zombie, their movements as gentle as a mother comforting her child.

As if seeing that the zombie could no longer grow, the vines quickly attacked and stabbed the zombie into pieces.

Countless tree roots slowly squirmed, and at the moment the zombie flesh fell, they rushed towards the flesh like sharp arrows, and then drilled back into the ground.

The surroundings became quiet again.

"The vines and the tree seem to be symbiotic. They need nutrients to 'grow' these green silkworm pupae. I guess all the zombies in City Z have been eaten by them."

Rong Yunqiu analyzed the current situation of the tree. Ji Chenning used his wind ability to bring a piece of vine that had fallen on the ground. There were a few bright red flowers on it, emitting a faint fragrance.