Chapter 160: Disaster of Wild Grass (2.5k)
“What’s wrong with you two?”
Positioned between the two, Lucica leaned in with a solemn expression. Upon seeing grass blades sprouting from their faces, tinged with fresh blood, her solemnity turned to astonishment…
“When did you provoke something like this? Can’t you use your energy to expel it?”
Muttering to herself, she narrowed her eyes and reached for the sky. Instantly, golden fallen leaves descended from above, carrying a slight healing effect, landing on the two men who were clutching their heads and screaming.
As a light attribute user, she could learn healing skills, but she wasn’t proficient in them.
It would have been better if she hadn’t used the skill. As if her use of the skill had worsened their pain, the plants on their faces grew even more wildly, like the tentacles of an octopus supporting its body.
“Why is it them… Right, they didn’t put up an energy shield, it’s that pollen! The pollen has mushroom-like spores!”
From a distance, Su Jiu reacted quickly, recalling the strange sight from when they first entered. She instantly understood, but another question followed – were the people who came before them the same as these two?
But the numbers didn’t match, and there were still people on the road ahead of them.
“Ahhh!! My head is going to split open!” John’s face was covered in dirt and blood. He desperately tried to pull out the young sprouts in his nostrils, but it seemed that under the Spring Bloom Technique’s treatment, those sprouts were designed to “spring back to life with the spring breeze.”
Moreover, there were faint signs of flower buds appearing!
In the distance, the huge vine seemed to have stopped its erratic thrashing. With a “bang!”, it fell heavily, then slowly began to grope in their direction, as if it had sensed a locator.
Seeing this, Su Jiu glanced at the huge drag mark and knew it was bad. She quickly got up and shouted to stop them: “Stop using the Spring Bloom Technique! They might have spores on them! The Spring Bloom Technique is accelerating these spores!”
“These sprouts and vines are connected!”
However, it was already too late when Su Jiu said this. The young sprouts on John and the other man had already shot out, growing into sprouts over a meter tall, with a flower bud on each stalk, pulsating.
At this moment, a loud rumbling sound came from the ground. The few people were greatly alarmed. They flew up to look at the sky. In the distance, the vines, like mad dogs smelling excrement, were already rushing towards them.
And they were not far from them. Without anyone to stop them, they would likely reach them in less than half a minute.
“E Huo!”
With a flash of light in her hand, Su Jiu gripped E Huo backhand and turned to ask Laura, who was still working on the machinery, “How much longer will it take?”
“Two more minutes!”
Laura turned her head slightly and said nervously.
She didn’t even care about John’s life or death, continuously operating according to the manual provided by her family. That primordial blood was too important to her.
“This is truly bad luck! I’m leaving. You guys can figure it out yourselves!”
Hearing that it would take another two minutes, Lucica’s expression instantly turned unpleasant. She glanced at the almost lifeless old priest and the other person, then leaped from beside Su Jiu and flew deeper into the area.
Her reward was not the additional magic crystals given by the Lobey family, but…
“Don’t die on me.”
She glanced back at Yun Xi and Su Jiu, a slight smile playing on her lips, and picked up her phone to communicate with someone.
…
Su Jiu didn’t stop her either. She took a deep breath, lowered her body slightly, and touched Yun Xi’s head, saying very seriously, “You go with them too. Remember to take off your stockings and cover your nose when you go down.”
Unlike what Su Jiu expected, Yun Xi nodded gently, quickly took off her stockings, and handed them to Su Jiu, her small face slightly flushed as she said, “Sister Jiu, can you tie them for me…”
“I can’t do anything about you.”
Su Jiu smiled helplessly, pinch Yun Xi’s small face, treating it as childishness.
Taking the slightly warm stockings, her hand suddenly trembled. They were hers, yet holding them now felt different.
They had body temperature…
Swallowing, she was about to help Yun Xi tie them when a strong gust of wind from the front blew their hairbands away, tangling their black silk. They faced each other calmly.
In a fleeting glance, Su Jiu seemed to notice a tear mole at the corner of Yun Xi’s eye, albeit small, as if she had accidentally smudged chocolate on it while stealing.
The pointed ears and the tear mole had a visually stimulating effect, making Su Jiu mistake her for a little angel.
“Hiss… this little fairy.”
While Su Jiu was in a daze, the flower demons on John and the other two people’s bodies, their flower stems as agile as little feet, with a few “poof poof” sounds, suddenly lunged towards Yun Xi’s back.
“Seeking death!”
Snapping back to her senses, a fierce glint flashed in Su Jiu’s eyes. With no time to think, she instinctively stuffed the stockings into her pocket and slashed her sword towards the flower demon.
What came out was a Saber Draw Slash!
Su Jiu’s Saber Draw Slash could injure even Warrior Class creatures, let alone this level of flower demon.
Upon touching the red sword energy, the flower demon immediately shattered into pieces.
Seeing the flower demon shattered, Su Jiu then coldly said to the bald youth who was still wailing by John’s side, “They are beyond saving. Take Yun Xi to your so-called basement.”
“If anything happens to her, you won’t be able to bear the consequences.” Her words were chillingly cold.
The bald youth was about to say something else, but when he looked up and met Su Jiu’s cold, blood-red eyes, he immediately became silent. He could even smell a hint of killing intent from Su Jiu’s next words.
This Sword God’s Successor truly meant what she said – if anything happened to that girl named Yun Xi, she would kill him!
After speaking, Su Jiu turned into a bloody stream of light and rushed towards the source of the vine’s sound. Although they were both Initial Stage Battle Generals, her speed was nearly twice as fast as Lucica’s.
If Su Jiu were wearing those old pervert’s shoes, she would be even faster. That item seemed to have some amplification effect on her speed.
“Is she going to intercept that Plant Demon that’s almost Battle King Level? No, I need to leave quickly. Although her strength is great, she might not be able to stop a demon of this level.”
The bald youth quickly reacted and grabbed Yun Xi’s hand, saying, “Little sister, let’s go.”
Seeing the youth’s hand reaching out, Yun Xi dodged slightly, keeping her hands behind her back. She tilted her head and asked with a smile, “Do you not want your hands anymore? Just lead the way.”
After Su Jiu left, Yun Xi seemed like a different person. Her expression became lazy and nonchalant, as if her true nature was revealed when her companion was gone.
She looked down at her bare foot, revealing her tender white toes, then pouted and softly said, “Stinky perverted servant…”
She then threw her other shoe away, and blood energy slowly surged from under her feet.
Sensing the unhappiness in Yun Xi’s tone, even the bald youth, no matter how good-tempered he was, felt a bit annoyed. It was one thing for Su Jiu to bully him, but this Warrior Class girl, whose strength was unknown, dared to boss him around.
“Dog…”
As he looked up, ready to curse, he suddenly froze, swallowing the curse word. He chuckled embarrassedly and quickly used his phone’s map, pointing to the road on the left ahead, and said while running, “My lord, just follow me.”
“Mm.”
Yun Xi nodded gently and followed behind. However, a crimson longsword appeared under her tender white feet, with rose petals fluttering around it, undoubtedly indicating its existence as at least a Warrior General Class.
“After we get to the basement, forget what you saw.”
…
In the sky, Su Jiu stood against the wind, watching the giant vine. She kept charging her short sword, and after a moment, she swung it out.
“Whoosh!” A massive scarlet slash, like a half-blood moon, rushed towards the vine that was about to impact the control room, its speed swift and powerful.
“Chh!” The vine offered no resistance and was instantly cut off.
“Woo woo—”
Accompanying a sound like cutting sugarcane, a louder wailing sound erupted.
Looking at the motionless vine below, Su Jiu frowned slightly. Was it that easy? She had previously thought this vine was a powerful existence, which was why she had let Yun Xi go first. Now, looking at it…
“No… the aura it gives me is similar to Sister Youyou’s. It’s definitely not that simple!”
“Rumble!” Suddenly, another loud noise accompanied by violent shaking filled the surroundings with yellow mist.
“Is all this pollen? What’s going on?!”
Su Jiu looked towards the source of the vibration and saw, far away, at the fountain where they had entered before, several giant vines shooting up into the sky – and something seemed to be rising from beneath the vines.
