Chapter 2 All Plant Mutation

The direction of things is getting weirder.

The dazzling sunshine in his head made Gu Xi's already dizzy mind even more dizzy.

If this wasn't a ridiculous dream after she got drunk... Gu Xi closed her eyes and her eyes fell back on the booklet in her hand.

The booklet was only a few thin pages, and Gu Xi finished reading it soon.

It turned out that thirty years had passed, but the beautiful world she had longed for and fought for bloody battles did not appear; although human society has restored order, a new food crisis has arisen:

——After the zombies were completely eliminated, not long after, animals and plants ushered in the second large-scale mutation.

After mutating again, the plants are no longer aggressive, but suddenly there is a strange energy in the body that the human body cannot digest and absorb, and cannot be excreted through metabolism.

Once the energy contained in the human body exceeds the standard, it will become a monster that loses its mind, no less than zombies.

The food crisis once again puts human survival under great threat.

Therefore, over the years, while organizing efforts to eliminate dangerous mutant animals, the country has also been vigorously developing agriculture.

Many policies have been introduced to encourage people to go out of safe bases, open up land and cultivate, and try to find and plant crops with low coefficient of variation and can be safely eaten.

Gu Xi closed the booklet in his hand, and his eyes fell on the dark green under the high wall in the distance, thinking about something.

...

Half an hour later, when Gu Xi walked out of the camp gate, she noticed someone following her.

He is a young and thin man.

His facial features are straight, thick eyebrows and big eyes, but his face is very pale and his steps seem a little weak.

The man saw her turn and look over and smiled: "You are about to leave as soon as you come to the camp. Uncle Zhou is a little worried, so he asked me to come and take a look..."

Uncle Zhou is the scar-faced man before.

People look fierce, but in fact they are gentle and enthusiastic.

Last night, he and several others found Gu Xi unconscious in the ruins and took the people back to the camp.

Gu Xi knew that the person who came was kind, but she glanced at the young man's pale face and weak steps. After thinking about it, she refused and said, "Thank you, but no, I'm just going around..."

Inexplicably, thirty years of life were missing. Gu Xi was eager to see what the outside world had become.

"Let me follow me. When we found you last night, your situation was not very good..." As he said this, the young man smiled slightly, and a suspicious blush appeared on his pale face.

He avoided Gu Xi's sight and walked to her as if nothing had happened: "There are mutant plants everywhere. Although they do not attack people, there may be no other situations..."

"And you just came here and are not familiar with the situation nearby..." He was worried that Gu Xi, a weak little girl, walked out of the camp alone.

Although the nearby land had been cleaned up before the camp was established, the mutant plants are growing rapidly and vigorously, and no one knows whether there will be any powerful poisonous insects and beasts hidden inside.

Gu Xi watched the man grab a hatchet from the cloth bag he carried with him, and his steps were bland to open the way for her, and he was silent for a moment.

"Thank you. My name is Gu Xi," she walked to the man quietly, "You are..."

"Wei Heng." The young man tightened the hatchet in his hand, saw Gu Xi's gaze falling on the cloth bag around his waist, and explained with a smile:

"Although the wild plants now have a high coefficient of variation and there are almost no ones that can be eaten directly, we may not be lucky?"

The higher the coefficient of variation, the more strange energy the plant contains.

Plants with a coefficient of variation of more than 5 cannot be eaten.

Gu Xi was silent. She didn't expect that the human food crisis had reached this point now, as if she had returned to the famine.

After a while, she looked up at the lush fields and forests around her. A small piece of tender green bud quietly emerged from her fingertips.

Gu Xi has seen many mutant plants and even hunted many high-level mutant plants with his own hands, but he never thought that this world would enter the era of full plant mutation one day in the future.

Yes, the whole plant mutates.

Wherever you see, you are dense and lush, all of which are mutated plants.

The green color that originally symbolized vitality, represented hope and life, is now scary.

Seeing this, Wei Heng pursed his lips and clenched the hatchet in his hand again.

The mutated plants around these are too lush. Although they have no lethality, the little girl is obviously a weak wood-type supernatural. If she encounters some powerful poisonous snake and beast suddenly jump out...

Gu Xi didn't know what the man was thinking, and while following him and silently observing the mutant plants around him, he habitually activated his superpowers.

Although the booklet issued by the camp stated that the mutant plants in the wild will not actively attack humans.

But in Gu Xi's eyes, the bodies of these mutated plants are filled with some irritable energy, which is still very dangerous; if they suddenly get into trouble...

Suddenly, she stopped.

"Gu Xi?" After Wei Heng noticed it, he looked up and followed her gaze and looked at the forest not far northwest.

But no exception was found.

"What's wrong?" he asked, subconsciously clenching the hatchet in his hand.

"It's okay." Gu Xi shook his head slightly, drooped on one side's fingertips, and curled up slightly, "I just feel a little strange. This place is very close to the camp, so no one has come to clean the road?"

"Why aren't there? The road under our feet was just cleaned up a few days ago..." Wei Heng smiled bitterly: "But now these wild alien plants outside are growing crazy, and their growth and reproduction speed are terrifying..."

He used the hatchet in his hand to brush away the weeds in front of him, and faintly exposed the road surface covered by lush vegetation.

This is about a cement asphalt road before the end of the world, but the originally flat road surface has long been broken, and traces of damage from plants can be seen everywhere.

Gu Xi lowered his eyes and looked at a weed that was more than half a person tall beside him. After being silent for a while, he actively released his supernatural powers...

She wants to give it a try.

Although the energy in these mutated plants is still a bit unfamiliar to her...

But at this moment, a harsh alarm suddenly sounded over the camp.

Wei Heng, who was beside him, instantly changed his face. He took Gu Xi's hand, turned around without saying a word and ran towards the camp, desperately.

After a sudden prevention, Gu Xi was staggered and frowned slightly.

But seeing the other person's face was pale and panting, it was very difficult to run. He only opened his mouth and asked nothing.

After running back to the camp, Gu Xi found that many people had run out of the house and came to the open space in the center of the camp. Their faces were pale and their expressions were particularly solemn.

There were many people who frequently looked up at the sky.

What happened? Could it be that some powerful mutant bird came over?

But it shouldn't be. The booklet says that the country has tried its best to strangle for thirty years. Now there are few powerful mutant animals in the wild...

Otherwise, people will not be encouraged to go out of the safe base and go out to open up land and farm.

Gu Xi glanced at the young man who was squatting on the ground with his hands and knees and was gasping violently. He gave up his thoughts of asking, and quietly pricked up his ears and began to receive information from the outside world quietly:

"What happened? Why did the alarm suddenly sound?"

"I heard that the camp machine detected an abnormal energy riot in the forest in the northwest. After the drone passed, it found that the alien plants there were withering in patches..."

"How could the alien plant suddenly wither on its own? Is there a superpower killing team passing by?"

"It would be great if it was a superpower killing team, I'm afraid that the world will change again..."

"It is also possible that there are more advanced mutant plants nearby..."

Such speculation made the camp people change their faces one after another.

As we all know, plants have always been tenacious in vitality, while mutant plants have extremely strong vitality, and their growth rate and reproduction rate are terrifying.

After the end of the world, plants with higher coefficient of variation will become more vigorous, and their growth rate and reproduction speed will be faster; there are only two possibilities that can cause large areas of high-level wild alien plants to wither suddenly:

First, just like the sudden outbreak in the end of the world more than fifty years ago, the soil and environment here have undergone some unknown changes and are no longer suitable for the growth of plants;

Second, plants with higher variation coefficients appeared nearby, and they quietly plundered the living space of the original alien plants.

But either of these two situations makes it almost impossible for the pioneers in the camp to successfully plant edible crops with lower coefficient of variation and edible crops nearby.

Since the end of the world, farming has become an extremely difficult thing.

Wild alien plants all over the mountains will seize the living space of crops with lower coefficient of variation, and any environmental changes may affect the variation coefficient of crops...

The seedlings you plant with hope may be swallowed by the weeds that appear in the ground at any time. Even if you are carefully protected, you may have exceeded the standard before the harvest, and you will be unable to eat at all!

At this moment, everyone fell silent.

Gu Xi leaned his back against the wall and turned his head to look at Wei Heng on one side. Seeing that he was still breathing, he thought about it and then let it go.

At this moment, the roar of a helicopter suddenly sounded in the distance.

Soon, several helicopters flew past the camp.

When he saw a familiar sign flashing by the fuselage, Gu Xi narrowed his eyes slightly.

(End of this chapter)
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