Ancient Gene [End Times]

It's slow to say, but in fact all this happened in a flash.

He Siming could see clearly from a high place. The moment the clip fell, he clearly saw the purple-red tube in the plant land.

Searching for the few plant cognitions in his mind, that thing is mostly pitcher plants.

But how can pitcher plants grow underground?

Fortunately, Tiangui wittily threw something over to try, if someone walked over rashly, the consequences would be disastrous!

The more he thought about it, the more horrified he felt. He Siming glanced at Tian Gui, and there was a little cold sweat on his forehead.

"Those buckled leaves may also push the leaves into the trap, so you can't walk on the snow without sinking." Qiu Ling said, "He Siming! Can you compress all the land in this area and put it in the trap? The underground traps are all squeezed to the point where no one will fall in?"

He Siming looked a little embarrassed.So far, he has become more and more comfortable using jade cards, and the area and extent he can use are also increasing.

But you must know that jade cards will consume a lot of a person's mental and physical strength.Even if He Siming can temporarily pave the way for everyone, what about the battle later?You can't let other people rush to the front, so He Siming hangs up alone behind.

"Maybe, I can just do this where we're going." At least it saves energy.

Although if the jade card is used to kill a creature, the jade card will be compensated by the life force of the creature to the user, but before the Venus flytrap died, Qiuling did not get vitality, so this pitcher plant probably has a similar function.

Tiangui said: "Let's block them one by one. If it's just this kind of trap, it won't be too much trouble for us. Anyway, there are so many traps, throwing them one by one is ready-made paving material."

"Then be careful with the digestive juices." He Siming jumped off the treetops, took the initiative to respond to the traps coming from the siege, cut off the traps, and threw them all into the giant bottles of those pitcher plants.

These pitcher plants used the snow to hide under the snow, but they also exposed their existence because of the height of the snow.

The white fish accidentally touched the digestive juice, a big hole was corroded in the clothes instantly, and a piece of skin was rotten.

Hei Niu took out his kettle and poured water on it.Through the dilution of water, the horror of digestive juice is reduced.

He Siming walked over a few steps to check Bai Yu's wound.

"The corrosion has stopped." Baiyu frowned.Under the condition of high tension, he could no longer care about the pain.

"Qiu Ling! Bandage him up." He Siming instructed Qiu Ling, then turned around and continued cutting clips to pave the road.

Qiu Ling took a close look at Bai Yu's wound.Because the water was poured in time, the wound was not corroded deeply.Although it looked scary, for mutants, such wounds did not pose much threat.But pain cannot be changed by mutation.

After digging out the first aid kit, Qiu Ling asked him to take off his coat, cleaned his wound, tied it with a bandage, cut off the part of the coat that was stained with digestive juice, let him put it on again, and only glued the sleeves with tape go back.A large part of the sleeve was broken, and half of Baiyu's forearm was exposed.

But right now there is no other good way.

"This wound will be healed after sleeping. If it hurts, bear it." Qiu Ling said.

They did bring painkillers, but that stuff was for serious injuries.The white fish only hurt the skin, not even the meat inside, so I had to endure it.

When Qiu Ling bandaged Bai Yu, the road had already been paved.The parts of those pitcher plant traps are basically thrown into the Venus flytrap trap.Even if they digested quickly and opened the trap again, it would be no problem for them to take a detour without the cover of snow at this time.

After successfully walking over, the target tower is very close.

When I first entered the botanical garden, I actually saw a lot of promotional bulletin boards introducing this tower.The appearance looks antique, but in fact it is just imitated by modern construction technology.Most of the materials inside are still steel bars and cement, but the surface is covered with a layer of wooden materials.

People who come to the botanical garden, in addition to breathing fresh air and watching all kinds of rare plants, also enjoy the pure beauty. Such a tower, even if it is fake, is also a big goal for people who come here for sightseeing. An eye-catching building.

"There are obviously more flytraps over there. I just don't know if that person is lying." He Siming said.

If that person is really inside, then their risk is worth it.If it was just a trap, then He Siming would definitely tear that man alive when he got out.

"Go in and have a look." The ghost was also puzzled.

If there were real people, it stands to reason that they just opened a lot of wooden warehouses, and the people there should have heard it.But until now she has not called for help.

Then there are only two answers.Either the person is not inside, or the person is unconscious or trapped and unable to call for help.

Anyway, go ahead and have a look.

Even if people are not inside, it is not completely useless for He Siming and others.At least they have an in-depth understanding of these carnivorous plants and have experience in dealing with these mutated plants.

This kind of setting goals and actively gaining experience in depth is much better than being caught off guard suddenly in the wild and resulting in losses.

There were more and more traps, and there were only five people who came in. It was okay at first, but later on, as the physical strength was lost, it became a bit difficult to deal with.

He Siming is okay, the mutation makes him more comfortable.Even if the speed of breaking the clips cannot increase, those clips will not be able to catch him.Tiangui has one hand and the other hand has mutated.Those that can be torn by hand can be torn by hand, and a wooden warehouse that cannot be reached is perfectly solved in the past.

Hei Niu was the calmest, advancing steadily and steadily. He was a competent backup, but Bai Yu was injured and his combat effectiveness was reduced.But experienced, he can also solve some clips, and he will not hold back.

Qiu Ling is temporarily acting as a think tank.It is basically useful for a person to keep his eyes open and put forward some discoveries and suggestions at any time.

"Be careful." He Siming turned over and kicked away an incoming trap, his brows were slightly frowned, feeling that the progress was too slow.More than half an hour passed, and the tower was still at least 100 meters away.

The closer you are to the tower, the more plants will mutate.This kind of law seems to tell them that there is something in the tower that these mutated plants are guarding.

What if there is not a person inside, but some amazing mutant creature...

He Siming jumped onto a big tree beside him and looked in the direction of the tower, trying to see inside the upper floors.

The appearance of the tower is to imitate the ancient style as much as possible, and the windows are also thumb windows.Most of the windows are closed, only one window on the third floor is open.

With He Siming's mutated eyes, looking at it from such a distance, the situation over there seemed to be in front of He Siming's eyes.

It was almost full of clips, and in the innermost part, I saw some other plants.It's just that there are too many clips, blocking the view, and He Siming doesn't know much about plants, so he can't tell what the strange plants are.

"That tower is full of flytraps!"

"How is it possible? There isn't much soil in there, how could the plants be so lush." ​​Tian Gui frowned.

"Maybe there is some nutrient base inside that can support their crazy growth. I only saw the situation on the third floor, and I don't know the rest."

"Attention everyone, after entering the tower, if the situation inside is really not optimistic, then use thermal weapons to attack no matter the cost!"

Although military fire is precious, human life is more important.

"understand!"

Baiyu took out the guns on his body, and tied a rope through the safety of all the grenades on his body.When in use, the hand mine can be taken off at any time, and it can be exploded directly by throwing it out, which is convenient for him to operate with one hand.Then he handed over the micro-punch he was carrying to Hei Niu, and replaced the step wooden warehouse on Hei Niu.

Although the attack power of the micro punch is not as good as that of the wooden barn, but the attack speed and range are very wide, which is very suitable for the strafing attack when dealing with mutant plants.

Except for the pistols and mines, the guns and the like were useless at all. Qiu Ling fiddled with the wooden warehouse in her hand, moved her body, and prepared for a tough battle.

He Siming wiped out the rhizomes of several Flytraps one after another, watching those Flytraps being eaten by other traps.After more than ten minutes, those offensive clips were obviously much less.

In order to avoid trouble, He Siming simply damaged all the surrounding rhizomes by compressing the soil, making these flytraps lose their fighting power.

The gate at the bottom of the tower has been rotted, and it seems that it should be due to the digestive juice of the flytrap.

He Siming ran at the front. After entering the first floor, he did not see too many Venus flytraps as he had imagined. Several Venus flytraps attacked and were wiped out by He Siming a few times. He even started to evacuate upstairs.

He Siming almost thought that there was something wrong with his eyes.Because he clearly saw that at the entrance of the corridor, there was a flytrap clip across, and another flytrap took root on it, and grew out of that clip.And that Flytrap is no different from the Flytrap rooted in the soil, and the big traps are as cruel.

In other words, the flytrap in this tower is not rooted on the ground, but rooted in another flytrap clip.In other words, they are absorbing nutrients from each other!

The same race parasitizes each other, the outermost clip hunts for food, and after the nutrition is absorbed, the rooted clip will digest part of the root of that plant as nutrition.Correspondingly, if the outside clip cannot hunt for food, then the rooted clip must feed the plants rooted on him.

This situation is almost unprecedented!

Not to mention laymen like He Siming and others who don't understand plants at all, even if botanists come here at this time, they can't answer the questions inside!

This also explains the reason why there is no soil here, but so many flytraps have been able to grow wildly.

But there must be a source for this!And this source must be a great source of nutrition to support the common parasitism of so many Venus Venus flytraps.

He Siming felt Qiu Ling's footsteps behind him: "Did you see it?"

"I see." Qiu Ling said.

"What do you think?" He Siming asked.

"What do you think?" He Siming asked.

"It's useless to guess, just find out the source." Qiu Ling actually smiled, "I'm really curious, how did this place become like this."

"Could it be a jade token?" Sky Ghost asked.

"It's possible. But it's unlikely." Qiu Ling said, "Jade tablets do have the ability to feed these plants. But as far as I know, jade tablets with similar abilities should not appear here. Of course, there is no absolute .Let’s find out the root cause before we can get to the bottom of it.”

Qiu Ling saw a few "big mouths" blocking the stairs, apparently turned from offense to defense, and directly opened fire from the wooden warehouse.The embarrassing thing is that she aimed at the leaf stem, but hit a clip, which pierced the clip.

The digestive juice leaked out of the clip, directly corroding the clip itself into a hole.

The two big clips on the side did not know how to feel it, but they directly shared this "I digest myself" clip.

In other words, these plants obey the law of the jungle.A group of clippers can work together to attack prey, but if one is weakened, it will be swallowed by other relatively stronger ones.

This situation is even crueler than some animals.

Some animals that live in groups will protect their weaker relatives.Even those with low IQs like ants and bees who don't take care of their companions' minds just send their weak companions far away and let them fend for themselves.

This kind of law of the jungle is cruel and reasonable.

But man has not yet reached the point of pitying a man-eating plant.

With this discovery, several people all picked up the wooden bins, and no longer felt distressed that the bullets pierced the clips one by one.Soon, the clips that originally blocked the entrance defense began to devour each other.

It takes a certain amount of time for the clip to digest after taking a bite of the same kind. Although the digestive juice is strong and can digest food quickly, the spare time is enough for He Siming and the others to take advantage of the "clamp" to attack.

Easily solved the clips blocking the stairway and went up to the second floor, the number of flytraps on the second floor increased significantly.He Siming cut off a few flytraps, took two steps up the stairs, and looked at other places on the second floor from a height.There are occluders inside that can't be seen clearly, but in the leftmost edge area, I still saw a few different mutant plants.

He Siming seemed to have seen it before, but he couldn't name it for a while.

"Tiangui, let's see what that is?" He Siming went down to take the place of Tiangui, dealing with the attacking trap.

Heavenly Ghost looked over at the place where He Siming was just standing, and said, "It's also a kind of carnivorous plant. I can't remember the name for a while. It's just a plant that first secretes mucus to stick its prey, and then secretes digestive juice to digest the prey." .”

There are many carnivorous plants in the world.However, most people only know the two commonly raised plants, Nepenthes and Venus Venus.How could everything else be clear.

"Do you want to go over and have a look?" He Siming asked.

The Heavenly Ghost looked at the Flytraps that were constantly attacking from the second floor, and said, "Go upstairs first! Search on the fifth floor first, and then come down gradually."

Since it is said to be in the tower, the top floor is most likely.And it now appears that those Flytraps grew from upstairs.Not only do they want to find people, but they also need to be able to understand the original roots of these flytraps.

The others stood guard at the stairs downstairs, while He Siming walked upstairs alone.

After solving several big traps that came, the world solved a big trap with roots.After the big clip was cut open by He Siming's two claws, the roots of the plant growing on it moved a few times in the air.Seems to be looking for new parasitic clips.

Sure enough, there were new traps coming over, to be used as new parasites, how could He Siming give them this opportunity to solve all the big traps that came over.

But the root fell to the ground, and the rhizome spread out for nearly half a meter to find nutrients, but it was of no avail. The plant began to wilt, and the attack of the clips that had no roots to provide nutrition became slower.

Seeing that the method worked, He Siming solved the three parasitic traps at the entrance of the corridor one after another. Soon after, the flytraps on the entire second floor began to slow down.

He Siming had seen it outside before the third floor, and he knew that there were demons dancing wildly inside. As soon as he went up to the second floor, several traps attacked at the same time.He Siming dodged back, his hands forming claws to block left and right.

Tian Gui held a micro punch and shouted: "Stand back!"

He Siming jumped back, and the sky ghost took a few steps forward. In an instant, the sound of wooden warehouses sounded, and the reverberation in the originally quiet tower was deafening.

Hei Niu also rushed forward, shooting with White Fish's micro-shooter.

He Siming pointed in the direction of Bai Yu: "There are different plants over there. Although I don't know what the problem is, there is nothing wrong with being careful. Try throwing a grenade over there."

Bai Yu nodded, went up a few steps, and under the cover of Tian Gui and the two, pulled out a pistol and threw it at the location He Siming said.

"Boom!" After the shock, Tiangui turned his head and glanced at He Siming. He Siming stepped forward and patted him on the shoulder, passing by and walking straight up.

The sky ghost followed, and He Siming had already heard a voice that was different from that of a plant, and it was probably a human.

The fourth floor obviously had a lot more clips than the downstairs, so he took two steps back as soon as he went up to let the sky ghost support him.Then with the help of the sky ghost, several parasitic clips were solved, and the clips on the third floor lost their vitality.

Afterwards, the traps on the upper floor turned from offense to defense again, and blocked the corridor leading to the fourth floor, looking like they would guard to the death.

Seeing that they didn't attack again, He Siming patted Tian Gui on the shoulder to make him stop, and then he shouted upstairs: "Is there anyone upstairs? We are not bad people! We are here to save you!"

There was no movement, but the flytraps downstairs stopped attacking and fell silent.

Could it be that the plants here are controlled by someone?

He Siming and Tiangui looked at each other.

Tiangui shouted: "We are the People's Liberation Army, we have no malicious intentions! Someone came to us and asked for help, saying that there is a lesbian trapped here, and we are here to save people!"

After listening for a few seconds, the clamps blocking the entrance of the corridor began to evacuate one after another, making way for them.

Unexpectedly, there are actually people controlling this place.

He Siming went up the steps, and the clamp on the fourth floor was still shaking, but he didn't intend to attack at all.And the corridor leading to the fifth floor was unobstructed, obviously the man was inviting them.

He Siming took the lead and went up to the fifth floor.

"Are you really special forces?" Just upstairs, a hoarse female voice came.Like a 80-[-]-year-old woman.

When He Siming went up to the fifth floor, he could only see green clips everywhere.

Tian Gui then followed and said, "I'm a soldier who passed by here. It's also a coincidence to be here. He said that you are a plant mutant trapped here by mutated plants."

"Trapped by mutant plants?" The woman sneered.

Afterwards, the large and small clamps spread out along a path, and in the innermost one, on a large closed clamp more than two meters long, sat a skinny naked woman.The woman had two relatively small clips covering her chest and her lower body.In fact, even if it is not blocked, no one dares to take a serious look.Because this body can no longer be described as thin alone.It can only be said that a skin was born on the outside of a skeleton, which is so creepy.

Even He Siming was taken aback.

"you are……"

This man was obviously the one they were trying to save.In order to deceive He Siming and others to save others, the man lied that it was his sister who was trapped here.The appearance of that person, at most 30 years old, everyone thought that the trapped person should be a young girl in her 20s, who would have thought that it would look like this?

"Am I scary?" The woman touched her face.The skin of the fingers is almost transparent, and even the thin blood vessels and the looming knuckle bones can be seen inside.

"We're going to rescue you," said the ghost.

The corner of the woman's lips curled up.There is no writing to describe the appearance of the skeleton laughing with its thin face. If it is filmed and made into a ghost film, it will definitely be the finishing touch in a horror movie.

"I'm going to die soon, how can I get out?"

He Siming saw the lifelessness in her withered eyes, and couldn't imagine what the only plant mutant had experienced so far.

"Can you tell me what happened? The person who entrusted us, we know he is lying. And he has murderous intentions towards us. Although we don't know what happened, there must be a lot of right and wrong in it." He Siming said.

The woman first introduced herself, "My name is Liu Ying. My husband's name is Li Jialiang."

He Siming is not stupid, he can tell that this woman's tone is more like leaving a will.It seemed that she really didn't want to get out alive, but hoped that He Siming and the others would get out alive.

"I remember." He Siming said.

The woman looked at He Siming gratefully: "After you go out, set up a monument for me. Even if we are married in a few days, we are still husband and wife."

He Siming nodded again.

Women finally started talking about themselves.

"Jialiang and I both work here. He is a botanical major, and I work here as a guide for tourists. We finally got his parents' consent so that they don't care about my education and work. There are only three The next day we got married, the world changed."

The woman hasn't talked to anyone for a long time, and she knows that her life is not long.At this time, he said all the words in his stomach.

"The surrounding area is very strong, and there are greenhouses and generators. At the beginning, many of us hid in the greenhouse and waited for someone to rescue us. In the past week or so, the original carnivorous plants began to eat people. I told Jialiang tried his best to escape from here. After going out, he met a man surnamed Gao. He should have entrusted you to take me out. When we first went out, we got confused. They stretched out their hands, and we He really is a good guy."