Lin Yifei's competitiveness in terms of speed did not gain the upper hand. She was a little unconvinced at first, but as she struggled, a smile overflowed from the corner of her mouth.
No wonder Jiang Yue is so proud and refuses to take refuge in me. He obviously has soft food to eat, but he remains unmoved.
It’s not that soft rice doesn’t taste good, it’s that this guy has the strength not to eat soft food.
Hum!
Lin Yifei was not disappointed. Instead, she secretly made up her mind to show off her strength in front of Jiang Yue, so that this proud guy would know that Miss Lin's food was still delicious.
The two slowed down, and after a while, they arrived at a place.
Jiang Yue was actually very familiar with this place. It was within the Yunshan Times Square business district.
When Jiang Yue's sister and other relatives disappeared in Yunshan Times Square, Jiang Yue had been active here many times. He is very familiar with Yunshan Times Square.
Although the location where the two parked was not inside Yunshan Times Square, the straight-line distance was only a few hundred meters away by the river.
This river is the inland river of Star City. It was the main urban area of Star City in the early years. Many trees on both sides of the river bank look very old, at least one or two hundred years old.
At first glance, these trees are relatively neat. Judging the age of the trees with the naked eye, it is difficult to tell which trees are longer and which are shorter.
Naturally, it is indeed difficult to distinguish the spiritual species that have awakened consciousness from the ordinary tree species that are still ignorant by judging with the naked eye.
Jiang Yue is also a spiritual awakener. If he feels one plant at a close distance, he can still sense some spiritual energy fluctuations.
Even though the spiritual species did not actively release their spiritual power, even when they sensed a human threat, they actively restrained their spiritual power and did not release their consciousness at all.
But Jiang Yue could still feel some subtle clues.
It is precisely because of this that Jiang Yue feels that it is too difficult to discover spiritual seeds, which is like finding a needle in a haystack.
It's not difficult to find one or two plants, but if you have to dig them one by one in such a large area of the entire Star City, it is obviously a drop in the bucket just relying on Jiang Yue, Tong Feifei and others.
He was also the reason why Jiang Yue was not particularly enthusiastic about the proposal to eliminate peripheral spiritual species before.
After all, the efficiency is too low.
There is no way the speed of digging can keep up with the speed of absorption by that weird tree.
You have worked hard all day and finally found eight out of ten trees. The strange tree may have absorbed the life source of dozens or hundreds of spiritual seeds.
Jiang Yue remained calm and followed Lin Yifei on the road along the river.
This scene makes people feel some memories of the sunshine era in a trance.
But looking around, I saw the devastated urban buildings, the potholed ground, the swaying billboards and barriers, as well as various crashed and overturned cars, and from time to time there were some weird smells...
Occasionally, a few crows would even pass by on the branches, making a heart-wrenching noise that would make one's scalp numb.
Every scene they see reminds them.
The era of sunshine is gone forever. This is the end of the world and a completely weird era.
Lin Yifei seemed to be deliberately considering Jiang Yue's strength, and said with a smile: "Classmate Xiao Jiang, you are so strong, you seem to be very proud. Then let me test you, why should we stop here?"
How could Jiang Yue not know what this girl was thinking, but he deliberately pretended to be stupid and said: "I'm really confused about this, please ask Mr. Lin to clarify my confusion."
Lin Yifei looked at Jiang Yue, as if trying to tell whether he really didn't know or was just pretending.
After looking at it for a while, I couldn't see any clues.
"Then take a guess. In this row of twenty or thirty trees, which tree do you think is the oldest? How many of them are spiritual seeds?"
The two of them had already walked back and forth within the 200-meter range for several times. Although Jiang Yue couldn't say he knew everything at all, he actually had some idea in his mind.
Just aware of Lin Yifei's competitive mentality, Jiang Yue simply pretended to be confused to prevent this girl from always trying to overpower him.
"I'm really not sure about this. If I were sure, I wouldn't ask you, Mr. Lin, to take action."
Hearing this, Lin Yifei raised a proud smile on her lips.
"Classmate Xiaojiang is still very open-minded and easy to learn. So listen carefully, have you seen this one? And that one... that one too... In this area, there are a total of seven ancient trees that are fully awakened spiritual species.
.There are still a few plants on the verge of awakening.”
"When other creatures come close to them, they will actively shrink and are very good at camouflaging themselves. On the surface, you can never tell that they are spiritual species. They are very good at camouflage and concealment. Unfortunately, there are some things that they cannot disguise.
.”
"Classmate Lin, there is something you are talking about. What do you mean specifically?"
Jiang Yue was really bargaining humbly this time.
He can judge the spiritual species entirely because of his strong mental power. Moreover, the judgment consumes quite a lot of mental power, and it cannot be seen at a glance, and the accuracy may not be 100%.
Listening to Lin Yifei's tone, does the spiritual species have some very conspicuous qualities?
Lin Yifei chuckled: "I told you what it is specifically, but you can't figure it out. This is the unique talent of my insect egg mutant beast. Even if you, Jiang Yue, have the ability to awaken, you don't have this talent.
, no matter how clearly I tell you, it’s useless.”
It turns out to be the talent of mutant beasts?
Jiang Yue was doubtful, seeing that Lin Yifei didn't look like she was lying.
So he nodded and didn't ask any more questions.
Jiang Yue does not have Lin Yifei's ability to create large quantities of mutant beasts, so this kind of talent is destined to miss him.
Since you have no chance to meet him, why bother asking?
Lin Yifei was a little frustrated when she saw that Jiang Yue's reaction was dull and he didn't look very enthusiastic: "Hey, classmate Xiao Jiang, even if you are not interested, you can at least chime in with a few words."
Jiang Yue smiled and said, "Aren't I just waiting for Mr. Lin to clarify his doubts?"
Lin Yifei pouted and said: "The trees I just said are spiritual seeds, don't you believe it? Do you want to see the evidence?"
"I believe it, but if there is evidence, it will definitely be more convincing."
"The biggest difference between spiritual species and other ordinary tree species is that they have independent spiritual consciousness and their own emotions. Although these emotions are not as strong as humans, their roots, branches, and even bark and leaves
, are actually equivalent to human organs. When the spiritual species is attacked, it will be reflected in the body."
"Moreover, their roots will be very developed, and their strength is many times that of ordinary tree species."
"Classmate Xiaojiang, don't you have a sword on your back?"
"Chop these two trees and you will know the difference between them."
Jiang Yue didn't want to refute Lin Yifei's statement. He actually agreed with it.
However, what she said will not help humans discover spiritual seeds at all.
If each tree had to be cut down for comparison and measurement, the workload would be too great.
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Moreover, most people may not be so sensitive to this. It may not be possible to determine exactly what the situation will be like after a chop.
However, Jiang Yue still followed Lin Yifei's words and chopped down each of the two trees.
One of the trees was almost broken in half by Jiang Yue's knife.
The bark of another type of tree naturally develops a resistance, just like when humans face a crisis, the muscle tissue will automatically indent, forming a defensive instinct against attack.
This is probably the sense of autonomy that Lin Yifei mentioned.
Jiang Yue silently put away the knife.
"How's it going? I'm right, right?" Lin Yifei asked in a show-off manner.
"That's right. But this method is not very feasible for humans. You can't cut them off one by one, right? Unless all the humans in Star City are mobilized."
"It's useless to mobilize. Ordinary people or ordinary awakened people can't be the opponent of the spiritual species. Don't look at the attack on it just now. It didn't fight back. There is a reason."
Jiang Yue actually knew very well that the mutated beasts controlled by Lin Yifei were moving underground at the moment, most likely attacking and destroying the roots of these spiritual seeds.
No matter what tree species it is, whether it is a spiritual species or an ordinary tree species, the roots are their lifeblood, which is equivalent to the human heart.
If the heart is destroyed, death is certain.
"Classmate Lin, is your current method efficient? How many mutant beasts can you mobilize at one time?"
Lin Yifei snorted softly: "You still have the nerve to ask. If you hadn't interfered with it in the past, which caused me to never plant fraternal eggs in humans on a large scale, how could I be so stretched now? The human body is the best medium.
It’s more useful than any animal. It’s a pity…”
Jiang Yue couldn't help but laugh when he saw Lin Yifei bite back.
"Classmate Lin, from a human perspective, it is only natural for me to destroy those insect eggs, right? I can't just watch each human being become your mutated monster, right?"
"Humph, what's wrong with that? It's better than the whole city being ruled by that weird tree, right?"
Lin Yifei made strong arguments.
Jiang Yue roughly knew the principles of the insect eggs controlled by Lin Yifei.
The mother nest in Qiluo Mountain can breed insect eggs in large quantities. And these insect eggs will grow into the kind of weird bugs that Jiang Yue took out from the hosts last time.
But if insect eggs enter a living body, they can evolve into mutant beasts. This kind of living body includes humans and any kind of creature.
However, the strange insects evolved from the insect eggs themselves look disgusting, are not actually very powerful in combat, and are easy to kill, but they are better in numbers.
However, once the insect eggs that enter the living body evolve into mutant beasts, the combat effectiveness of each individual will be astonishing.
For example, the two who were in Yangfan Middle School were abnormal in terms of their fighting ability and destructive power.
However, it is relatively difficult for this kind of mutated beast to grow.
When countless insect eggs enter the body, they must first fit in with the host, and then they must be able to defeat the host's own physical skills before they can affect the host and finally seize the host's body.
The success rate of this mutant beast is very low, maybe one in a thousand, maybe one in ten thousand.
This is also the reason why the number of mutant beasts is still limited even after Lin Yifei has been in business for so long.
After all, this requires casting a wide net.
Although Star City in the Sunshine Age had a large population, Lin Yifei did plant such fraternal eggs in many people at that time.
Many people have unknowingly been invaded by fraternal eggs.
But the vast majority of them did not become mutant beasts.
That's the limit.
In insect egg form, it is not powerful enough to guarantee success rate.
Of course, this is probably where the laws of heaven and earth are fair.
If every insect egg can be successful, one can be successful by hosting one. Then there are countless humans and various animals in Star City, and Star City has long become Lin Yifei's world.
At this moment, the entire root of the spiritual tree that Jiang Yue had chopped down suddenly began to tremble, and the branches and leaves also swayed and trembled, making a rustling sound.
It looked as if a human being was suddenly shocked by an electric shock, and his expression and body looked extremely happy.
Immediately, Jiang Yue clearly felt that this spiritual species was like a human being whose vital signs were gradually losing, and the signs of life were rapidly dissipating.
After a while, the tree stopped shaking.
The leaves on the branches also seemed to have lost their vitality and became dull.
Even ordinary humans who have not awakened can vaguely see that this tree is in two completely different states compared to before if they see this scene.
Follow, the second tree, the third tree...
Lin Yifei just mentioned that the seven spiritual seeds all lost signs of life within almost half an hour.
The several spiritual species she mentioned that were on the verge of awakening were also destroyed.
Lin Yifei clapped her hands, as if she had completed an ordinary little thing.
"Xiaojiang-san, is this efficiency acceptable?"
This tone is like a child who has done housework and is waiting for praise from his parents.
Jiang Yue smiled and said: "The efficiency is good. If you can command hundreds of batches of mutant beasts to attack at the same time, I believe the effect will be even better. Maybe you can really blind the weird tree and deprive it of food. It wants to evolve quickly.
Ambition will go bankrupt."
Lin Yifei raised her curved eyebrows: "Do you think this mutated beast is a sow's litter? Hundreds of batches? Twenty or thirty were used here just now. The most I can do is..."
Lin Yifei originally wanted to count, but then she shut her mouth and said with a faint smile: "Xiao Jiang, you don't want to take the opportunity to touch my bottom, do you? Hum, don't try to get it out of me.
The specific number of mutated beasts is unknown. But I can tell you clearly, don’t be so optimistic. Hundreds of batches, this is impossible."
"It doesn't have to be hundreds, fifty or sixty is fine." Jiang Yue said with a smile.
Lin Yifei rolled her eyes: "Go and daydream."
"Ignore you."
Lin Yifei pouted, turned around, and sped away in the other direction.
Jiang Yue smiled slightly, and of course he could see that Lin Yifei was not really angry, so he didn't care and chased after her.
He really wanted to find out how many mutant beasts Lin Yifei had controlled.
But this is by no means his main purpose. It doesn't matter to him if Lin Yifei doesn't want to tell the truth. After all, the main conflict now is the strange tree.
The relationship between him and Lin Yifei was not a life-or-death relationship.