Care Guide to Raising a Max Level Leaf in Apocalypse - 53
Sea of beautiful red lips
Up ahead was a vast expanse of red, bright-colored lip-shaped plants, which, due to mutation, are nearly indistinguishable from human lips.
Like the lips of a blood-sated beauty.
Chen Zhaonian was also taken aback, standing still and not daring to move forward, “Did those plants really…really turn into lips?”
When the large, beautiful lips appeared, even if the lip shape was exquisite, it became a form of mental torment.
A gentle breeze blew, causing these thousands of red lips to sway and slightly part.
Yu Feichen’s expression crumbled, “They won’t start talking, will they?”
These mutated plants really resembled lips, even their lip patterns and texture were almost the same as those of real human lips. When they parted, it was as if they were about to make a sound.
The imagined tinkling laughter of a beauty didn’t appear. From their slightly parted mouths, Ji Jiu saw tiny black and red dots intermingling.
As they swayed, these dots were carried by the wind.
Ji Jiu was about to open his mouth to warn when his mouth and nose were preemptively covered by a pair of calloused hands.
Si Yin Yuan had a serious expression, “Hold your breath! Something is drifting over!”
He used his ability to try to intercept these hard-to-see particles, but he couldn’t intercept them from all directions at once.
Ji Jiu watched in horror as Ying Xiao and Li Chao inhaled these particles, and in an instant, their gaze became hazy.
Meanwhile, Chen Zhaonian, who stood between them, held a stone, his face full of terror, trembling all over, not knowing what had happened.
Ji Ning reacted swiftly, “The red mist is what they exhaled, and it’s ineffective against ordinary people!”
His eyes quickly turned red, and sharp canine teeth emerged as he entered a vampire state.
Occasionally, there were induction-type mutants that only targeted awakened individuals, and ordinary people were immune. The research institute explained that these plants were only interested in consuming beings with high gama concentrations and wouldn’t affect regular people.
Chen Zhaonian could never have imagined that his ordinary status allowed him to escape a potential danger.
Yu Feichen’s throat tightened as he recalled the sea monster.
If Li Chao and Ying Xiao were controlled by mutants again and attacked…
His ability “Bullet Chaser” would automatically lock onto the enemy’s vital points, which was unfriendly to humans with vulnerabilities everywhere. He couldn’t possibly open fire on his comrades, so he would be defenseless like someone who had lost their abilities.
Ji Ning’s back sprouted a pair of huge bat wings. He stood at the rear of the crowd and rapidly stirred up a small whirlwind, which actually sent these particles back into the sea of beautiful red lips.
There was a limit to how many particles could be expelled at once, so these red lips, no matter how unwilling, could only close their mouths and continue to sway.
The faces of Li Chao and Ying Xiao became extremely abnormal. They seemed to be trapped in some kind of illusion, standing still but with a bewildered look, mixed with pleasure and struggle.
Yu Feichen waved his hands frantically in front of them, “Why aren’t they reacting at all?”
This time, unlike the previous enchantment by the sea monster, they were completely immersed in their own world.
Si Yin Yuan pondered for a moment, about to speak when he suddenly felt a slight moist sensation in the palm of his hand, causing a shiver, as if he had been electrocuted.
Si Yin Yuan’s pupils contracted slightly. He withdrew his hand and looked at Ji Jiu’s exposed, rosy-pink little tongue.
“Are you a little dog, wanting to lick everything?” The man’s voice carried a touch of helplessness and an unusual depth.
Ji Jiu creased his brows in bewilderment, “It’s a bit salty…”
It turns out that humans taste like this, as Chen Zhaonian taught him this morning, but being a small grass, he couldn’t quite grasp the implications of those suggestive words and could only learn a bit.
He learned, but not completely.
These three words instantly darkened the man’s golden eyes.
If the current situation weren’t so complicated, he really wanted to hold the young man’s face and give him a proper education.
Sensing that his owner’s aura had become somewhat heavy, Ji Jiu shrank his neck. Little grass’s intuition told him this was a danger signal.
As for why his owner was emitting an aura that made the little grass feel threatened, he didn’t know. He could only turn his head away and not look at him.
As he turned, he noticed a disturbance in the sea of beautiful red lips in the distance.
He pointed with his hand, “What is that?”
In the midst of swaying red lips, an abnormality suddenly occurred. A large red lip rose abruptly, overturning the nearby smaller lips.
This enormous red lip was at least five to six meters long, and the instant visual impact made people unable to help but get goosebumps.
Yu Feichen felt a little dizzy. He used Ban Tang’s body for support and muttered, “I might never be able to look directly at a beautiful woman’s mouth again.”
Ban Tang gave a bitter smile in response.
But what was even more terrifying was what came afterward. The huge red lip opened slightly, and within the pitch-black crack, things were constantly wriggling, squirming, and a foul-smelling black, sticky fluid flowed from the crack.
Extremely sticky and slippery things, barely visible, flashed between the lips, carrying a sinister aura, as if they could open a huge bloodthirsty mouth at any moment to swallow anyone who came too close.
Chen Zhaonian was nearly frightened to death, trembling, “I, we should run.”
He instinctively looked at the people beside him but found that the two who had been motionless a moment ago suddenly started moving!
Li Chao and Ying Xiao suddenly lifted their feet and walked towards the field of red lips, which swayed even more vigorously, as if enticing them to move forward.
Si Yin Yuan said, “Stop them.”
Yu Feichen and Ban Tang each grabbed them around the waist, trying to stop their forward progress.
Feeling the resistance, the two people moving forward didn’t raise their hands. They let themselves be held but persisted in moving forward.
The expressions on their faces were only filled with joy, as if they paid no attention to the bizarre lip-shaped mutants ahead and believed they were heading towards paradise.
Yu Feichen and Ban Tang, despite their best efforts, couldn’t completely halt their forward progress; they could only slow down their steps.
Ban Tang simply created two masses of syrup that glued their feet in place.
Unable to walk, they fell heavily to the ground and resorted to crawling forward with their hands. Their determination to reach the sea of red lips was astonishing.
Ban Tang had no choice but to create two more blobs of syrup to stick to their hands.
A brightly colored tree frog had also mistakenly inhaled the particles spit out by the red lips just now and was leaping forward in a daze.
Ji Jiu watched it jump into the sea of red lips without harm. The little red lips secretly chuckled and even actively swayed their bodies to avoid it.
The tree frog, when first entering the sea of red lips, was so small that it was almost invisible. Ji Jiu could only distinguish its position based on the silhouette it made when jumping.
The tree frog wasn’t slow; it had a clear goal, jumping straight towards the huge red lip.
Sensing the approach of a living creature, the giant red lip opened its mouth even wider, stretching the lip crack further.
Ji Jiu finally saw what was inside. There were dozens of extremely disgusting tentacles with wrinkled purplish-red skin, all covered in various-sized lumps. The way they wriggled inside the red lips resembled fat worms competing for food.
These tentacles were like its tongue; dozens of tongues filled the entire mouth, eagerly reaching out and wriggling frantically outside.
One of the tentacles grabbed the tree frog, which was swiftly pulled into the red lip.
The red lips closed instantly, revealing no signs of the horrifying and disgusting appearance from when they had opened their mouths.
If they hadn’t stopped Li Chao and Ying Xiao, they would have become a meal for the red lips, just like the tree frog.
Even though their hands and feet were stuck, they didn’t give up moving forward. Yu Feichen and Ban Tang could only suppress their bodies, making it impossible for them to move.
Si Yin Yuan wielded a golden sword, formed by his ability, with swirling golden flames around it.
“Stay put here and don’t run away,” Si Yin Yuan said before entering the sea of lips. Wherever the sword went, nothing could grow. The red lips he approached withered immediately.
Ji Jiu obediently stood in place and watched his owner go on a rampage. Si Yin Yuan used the sword to directly cut off the tongue that the giant red lips had spat out.
The severed part of the tentacle immediately withered and shrank into a palm-sized black dead vine.
Chen Zhaonian shivered and approached, “Let’s find a place to hide.”
Ji Jiu gave him a strange look and asked crisply, “Why should we hide?”
Chen Zhaonian looked anxious, “We’re ordinary people…”
A tongue that had been spat out by the red lips touched the ground at lightning speed.
The giant red lips, having been hurt by Si Yin Yuan, had its tentacles escaping frantically.
Black mist instantly enveloped the hapless tongue, and the sound of sizzling came. The tongue was devoured completely.
In an instant, the black mist that had swallowed up the menacing tentacles returned to Ji Jiu’s side, intimately wrapping around his owner’s neck. A strand of fine black mist separated and rubbed against his cheek.
With the black mist lingering, the otherwise innocent face carried a touch of unfamiliar wickedness.
The last word Chen Zhaonian wanted to say got stuck in his throat. He looked at Ji Jiu in horror, finally realizing he had misunderstood something.
Thinking of the things he said to him earlier in the morning, his face turned red and green with regret. He had mistaken Ji Jiu for a regular person who acted lasciviously and even tried to teach him seductive techniques.
If he held a grudge against him…
Chen Zhaonian’s face suddenly turned pale.
Ji Jiu didn’t care about the complex and entangled emotions of the human beside him; he focused all his attention on his owner.
The giant red lips fought for their lives but could only delay their death by a bit. Soon, their connecting roots were cut by Si Yin Yuan.
The severed giant red lips began to wither. The smaller red lips around them opened their mouths as if silently wailing for the giant lips.
In Ji Jiu’s ears, these sounds were nothing but mocking laughter.
These mutants didn’t mourn the passing of their giant companion but instead rushed to absorb its last value, hastening its death.
He looked at Li Chao and Ying Xiao, who still appeared to be under the enchantment, struggling to enter that sea of red lips even as the giant red lips had withered.
Yu Feichen, who tried to stop Li Chao, had his face scratched by countless small stones. He shouted, “What do you want to do over there!?”
Ji Jiu felt something was amiss and simply ran into the sea of red lips.
Si Yin Yuan turned his head and saw the young man running towards them. The violent emotions that hadn’t fully subsided in his golden eyes vanished in an instant, leaving only turbulence.
Without being able to help it, he rebuked softly, “How did you come over here?”
The moment he turned around, a massive amount of filth flowed out from the now withered giant red lips behind him.
Ji Jiu instinctively tackled his owner, “Be careful!”
Si Yin Yuan caught Ji Jiu, who had rushed at him like a little cannonball, and took a step back, stepping on a mechanism. They both fell together.
The instant they fell, Si Yin Yuan rolled over and used himself as a cushion.
When he was held and fell on top of his owner, Ji Jiu didn’t feel any pain. He sat up on his owner’s abs and asked with concern, “Are you hurt?”
After asking, he reached out and touched the chest muscles held up by his owner’s black combat suit.
Si Yin Yuan grunted and pressed the little hand that was causing chaos on his chest.
In Ji Jiu’s round, pure eyes with no impurities, he looked at him with puzzlement. Si Yin Yuan wanted to say something but held it back and helplessly said, “I’m fine.”
Ji Jiu replied with an “Oh” and then sneakily glanced at him.
He had learned that way of touching from Chen Zhaonian. Why did his owner not seem to like it?