Care Guide to Raising a Max Level Leaf in Apocalypse - 5
Without any effort, the mischievous dark mists easily found several parasitic spine mutants behind the hospital, and they playfully circled around them.
Surrounded by numerous mutants, the true parasitic spine king stood in their midst.
Since the beginning of the apocalypse, it had been parasitic in a cancer patient, and the blue and white striped hospital gown was covered in long-dried bloodstains.
Although they hid inside the host without fearing pain, the corpses themselves couldn’t regenerate. The wounds on their bodies dated back two years ago, as it hadn’t been injured since becoming parasitic spine king.
Only it felt the terrifying pressure emanating from the seemingly dissipating black mist.
The fear of the parasitic spine king spread to every parasitic spine mutant, and they emitted silent cries within the host.
Ji Jiu, who was in the morgue, seemed absent-minded but was actually teasing the group of ugly and terrifying walking corpses with the dispersed black mist. The mist surrounded them, not attacking them but also not allowing any of the corpses to leave.
These mutants were enraged but dared not approach the black mist, which could devour everything. They were like ants trapped inside a chalk circle, endlessly circling but unable to escape.
Si Yin Yuan misunderstood Ji Jiu’s absent-mindedness and thought that the timid little fool was finally starting to feel afraid.
He stared at a bloodstain in the morgue, not daring to move.
He attempted to speak gently, “Don’t be scared. There are no corpses here; they’ve all been eaten.”
The effect of his words was akin to a terrifying nursery rhyme.
Yu Fei Chen sighed and wanted to say something, but he saw Ji Jiu smile softly at him and said, “Okay.”
He was actually placated by Si YinYuan.
These two really matched each other…
Yu Fei Chen abruptly stopped his dangerous train of thought. He felt like he had discovered something incredible.
Following the traces left by the foolish parasitic spine mutants, they quickly located the position in the rear mountain.
They walked cautiously in the rear mountain, with Yu Fei Chen unable to help himself, “They should have escaped long ago.”
Ji Jiu secretly grabbed Si Yin Yuan’s clothes and whispered, “Maybe they got lost in the mountains?”
Noticing his seemingly discreet action, Si Yin Yuan acquiesced.
The little fool was so timid that he might have been frightened and was forcing himself to stay energized.
So sacrificing a piece of clothing wasn’t a big deal.
The young chief didn’t realize that his indulgence represented countless future indulgences.
Leading the way at the front, Yu Fei Chen heard Ji Jiu’s innocent words and almost laughed out loud, “How is that possible?!”
In disbelief, he reached out to pinch Li Chao, but having learned from the previous lesson, Li Chao evaded him swiftly.
Yu Fei Chen could only pinch himself to check if he was hallucinating. Otherwise, how could he see the group of parasitic spine mutants, which should have long run far away, circling in front of his eyes?
He looked helplessly at the absurd scene before him, feeling like this mission had slapped him in the face numerous times.
The black mist that imprisoned them imperceptibly receded, without taking away any credit or reward.
Ji Jiu exclaimed happily, “I was right, wasn’t I?!”
Si Yin Yuan slightly raised the corner of his mouth, “Hmm, very clever.”
He used a tone similar to coaxing a child but reverted to an expressionless face when he turned to Yu Fei Chen and asked, “Still standing there? Do you want to think about intensifying your training?”
The moment the words “intensify training” were spoken, Yu Fei Chen trembled in fear. It seemed that Si Yuan’s gentleness was just an illusion.
To regain their dignity as advanced hunters, Yu Fei Chen and Li Chao fought fiercely, sparing no effort to kill all the parasitic spine mutants. In the end, only the parasitic spine king remained, wearing a blue and white hospital gown.
The parasitic spine king was a man in his thirties when he was alive. The parasitic spine king within him still wanted to control him in a desperate fight but was directly suppressed on a massive boulder by Li Chao’s elegant grappling techniques.
“He…he…”
“Mika…le…zhi…hua…”
Even though the vocal cords were partially damaged, they emitted sound at this moment.
Goosebumps rose on their skin, and Yu Fei Chen’s gaze turned cold as he looked at the parasitic spine king, “A plant-based aberration…actually speaking…”
He hurriedly took out his recording device to capture the scene, but the parasitic spine mutants no longer manipulated the corpse to speak, regardless of Li Chao’s threats.
Li Chao effortlessly sliced open the corpse in front of him with a bone spike, capturing the parasitic spine mutant firmly lodged inside.
Si Yin Yuan tossed another unused cube, and Li Chao quickly stuffed the parasitic spine king into it.
Yu Fei Chen swallowed nervously, “These plants have truly gone mad.”
Li Chao’s eyes held a hint of mockery, “In a world like this, nothing is impossible.”
Ji Jiu tightly clenched the hem of his clothes, innocently blinking his eyes.
Si Yin Yuan turned back as if sensing something and asked, “Do you want to go back to the base with us?”
He didn’t see the green emblem representing their base on Ji Jiu, so he didn’t rule out the possibility that Ji Jiu had run away from some small base.
“I’ll go wherever you go.” Ji Jiu looked up at him, his eyes full of dependence.
Having heard flattery and adulation countless times, this straightforward statement shouldn’t have left a mark in Si Yin Yuan’s heart. However, as he looked into those clear eyes, Si Yin Yuan hesitated.
The little fool was quite good at acting cute.
He nodded and shifted his gaze away, “Let’s go.”
He turned and walked, and the piece of clothing slipped from Ji Jiu’s hand.
Yu Fei Chen followed, and after completing the mission, he regained his playful expression, “Hey, what does that ‘Aster flower’ mean that it just said?”
Li Chao, walking behind, replied, “Maybe it was just saying things randomly. These mutants have low intelligence.”
Although they were joking, everyone present knew that this was something shocking enough to shake all the survivors. No one could leak a word before reporting this incident.
Ji Jiu, who had been staring at his empty palm, feeling a bit lost, quickly shifted his attention after hearing their conversation. In his innocent manner, he asked, “Could it be something delicious?”
Yu Fei Chen laughed, “Maybe, after all, the only instinct of these parasitic spine mutants is to constantly absorb nutrients.”
They chatted cheerfully behind, while Si Yin Yuan walked alone at the front, clearing the way. There was no small tail behind him, and his clothes were not tugged. It should have been a good thing, but his expression seemed even darker than before.
When he released the golden flame to plunder the mutants’ vitality, he became even more merciless. There wasn’t a single mutant left in his wake, and the mutants in the rear mountain were scared away, not daring to come close.
After about an hour, they returned to the place where Si Yin Yuan had been dispersed at the beginning, and the modified car was parked there.
Ji Jiu sighed at the sight of the massive vehicle, “Wow.”
If it weren’t for the owner here, he might have wanted to release the black mist to taste what this big piece of black iron tasted like.
Probably something with a cool, icy texture.
Yu Fei Chen didn’t realize that his precious car had narrowly escaped disaster. Proudly, he patted the modified barrel on the car, “This is a car the guild spent a lot of money to build. It’s only equipped for high-ranking hunters on missions. There are only five in the entire base.”
It was the most suitable vehicle for missions, but unfortunately, it was too difficult to produce.
He gestured to Ji Jiu with a playful expression, “Do you want to sit in Big Brother’s co-pilot seat and have a look?”
Ji Jiu shook his head, “I want to be with the owner.”
He spoke hurriedly and quickly, and no one heard the term of address clearly, but they all saw his sudden run to hide behind Si Yin Yuan, clutching his clothes.
The way he looked at Yu Fei Chen was as if he were looking at a villain trying to forcefully take away a maiden.
Yu Fei Chen questioned his own charismatic personality for the first time.
Why would such a pretty little beauty stick to Si Yin Yuan and not find him approachable?
More surprisingly, the usually emotionless Si Yin Yuan only glanced at Ji Jiu indifferently, without any reaction, allowing Ji Jiu to hide behind him, tugging at his clothes.
Yu Fei Chen suspected that he saw a hint of pride in Si Yin Yuan’s extremely faint gaze, and he knocked his head to stop this terrifying illusion.
With a large storage space, the modified car contained many cubes that held the samples to be brought back this time. Li Chao carefully placed the most important live cube with the parasite king in the most secure position before getting in the car.
Si Yin Yuan sat in the back seat, Ji Jiu happily followed suit, sticking to him, and ignoring the fact that he held a purple fruit with eyeballs growing all over it. The scene would have been harmonious if that detail were overlooked.
Si Yin Yuan:…
“You can’t eat this.”
Ji Jiu didn’t understand, “Why?”
Si Yin Yuan: “…Because it doesn’t look like a good thing.”
While he spoke, he accidentally made eye contact with the eyeballs on the fruit, and one of them even blinked at him.
It was extremely creepy.
Ji Jiu became unhappy, “But it smells really good, like grapes.”
Si Yin Yuan looked at the string of purple eyeballs and couldn’t match it with the sweet grapes from before the apocalypse.
As a seasoned battlefield commander, Si Yin Yuan rarely had such a headache.
He put on an imposing air. “Get rid of it.”
After saying that, he took the strange fruit and threw it out of the car window.
Ji Jiu watched with regret as the grape-scented fruit was taken away by some unknown creature that looked like a hamster-like mutant.
His food was thrown away, and other mutants got lucky.
Even if it was his owner who did it, he was still angry.
The sulking little plant looked out the window, refusing to even glance at Si Yin Yuan.
He didn’t want to talk to him or have any interaction.
If it were his true form, his leaves would have curled up in anger.
But his body still stuck to Si Yin Yuan honestly.
Such a big temper… He didn’t even know to run away when being bullied, foolishly sticking to the person who mistreated him.
A faint smile appeared in Si Yin Yuan’s eyes, unnoticed by himself. He tapped the edge of the car window. “After we get back, I’ll have the research institute make grape-flavored nutrient solution for you.”
He was becoming more and more skilled at coaxing Ji Jiu.
Ji Jiu’s eyes brightened. Though he still refused to turn his head back, he quickly and quietly said, “And strawberry flavor too!”
“Okay.” For the first time, Si Yin Yuan had the idea to provide funding to the research institute to continue studying this beneficial research project. He also decided that in the future, he would switch his nutrient solution to strawberry flavor.