Chapter 115: Mutated Pebble Plant

Guan Sheng issued a sub-task shortly after.

Hearing the task details, Mo Chenxuan and Qin Wu looked at each other.

“Do you want it?” Mo Chenxuan asked and Qin Wu immediately nodded.

On one hand, she wanted the task points reward and on the other, she wanted to know what was going on.

Even if she and Mo Chenxuan didn’t complete the task, walking around the town would give them an opportunity to collect supplies.

“It’s a win-win.” She said and Mo Chenxuan agreed.

After accepting the task, Mo Chenxuan and Qin Wu walked to their team.

“Boss Mo, what’s going on?” Lu Hao asked.

“Wu’er and I have accepted a task to explore the town.” Mo Chenxuan revealed.

However, for this task, he didn’t plan on bringing the other team members.

After all, the situation was unknown and the danger level was unpredictable.

If worse came to worst, he and Qin Wu could escape into the space, but bringing others would complicate the situation since their spaces rejected all other humans.

“Xu Fei, you will be in charge while we are away.” Qin Wu said, looking at Xu Fei with solemn eyes.

“I understand.” Xu Fei nodded.

After arranging everything, Mo Chenxuan and Qin Wu walked into the town.

At the same time, several teams and soldiers also entered the town, ready to explore and figure out what was going on.

“Anything?” Qin Wu asked as the two walked.

“Not yet.” Mo Chenxuan answered.

In this way, the two walked aimlessly, hoping Mo Chenxuan’s spiritual ability would detect something.

Unfortunately, this didn’t happen until two hours later.

At this time, Mo Chenxuan suddenly stopped walking and his eyes widened.

“Did you find something?” Qin Wu asked and Mo Chenxuan nodded with a confused expression.

“I found…, something.” The man said.

“What’s wrong?”

“I am sure it’s a living thing but it looks like a stone.”

“Looks like a stone?” Qin Wu couldn’t help but frown.

“Could it be a tortoise?” She asked but Mo Chenxuan shook his head before speaking.

“I am not sure but either way, it’s level three.” He said.

“This is going to be troublesome.” Qin Wu muttered, her eyes narrowed into slits.

During the Pine Fresh mission, she and Mo Chenxuan killed two level three zombies.

As a result, their previous low-profile life became somewhat conspicuous.

If they killed another level three creature, they would surely attract more attention.

However, neither Mo Chenxuan nor Qin Wu thought of ignoring the level three creature.

After all, they needed to protect their team and the mission.

Most importantly, level three crystal cores were relatively rare.

No matter what, they needed to get the crystal core.

“Let’s go.” Mo Chenxuan said.

Half an hour later, the two arrived at the town centre.

“Is this it?” Qin Wu asked, pointing at a stone.

The stone was ten metres long, five metres wide, and three metres high.

It had smooth surfaces and looked like a polished pebble.

“Chenxuan, is this really what we are looking for?”

“Mmh.” Mo Chenxuan nodded.

Although the stone had a weak life signal, Mo Chenxuan still recognised it as a living thing.

“What is it?”

“If I am not mistaken, it’s a mutated pebble plant.’

“Pebble plant? I have never heard of it.”

“It’s not strange that you have never heard of it. It’s native to southern Africa.”

“I…” Qin Wu started but suddenly stopped.

Less than a second later, yellow flowers appeared on the pebble plant.

At a glance, the flowers looked like sunflowers but their colouring was lighter and their petals were thinner.

Before the two could react, yellow gas floated out of the flowers but soon enough, the smoke turned colourless.

Seeing this, Mo Chenxuan thickened the spiritual barrier around them, not wanting to get affected by whatever was going on.

“Chenxuan, do you think that gas is poisonous?”

“I suspect it is.” Mo Chenxuan answered.

In this way, Mo Chenxuan and Qin Wu watched the pebble plant until the flowers disappeared one hour later.

However, after the flowers disappeared, more than one thousand blood-red tentacles sprouted from its body.

“What kind of plant is this?” Qin Wu shuddered.

“Ordinary pebble plants do not have tentacles. The tentacles should be a mutation.” Mo Chenxuan said, his eyes narrowed into slits.

As they watched, the tentacles stretched into the distance but soon retracted, bringing back thirty-three survivors tied to the ends of the appendages.

“This…” Qin Wu couldn’t help but be shocked.

“Hurry and cut them down.” Mo Chenxuan instructed, jolting Qin Wu from her shock.

Without delay, Qin Wu unleashed a space blade and Mo Chenxuan attacked with a lightning bolt.

Instantaneously, two tentacles were severed and two survivors fell to the ground.

However, something strange happened.

When the tentacles were cut, they didn’t remain as tentacles or turn into dead branches.

Instead, they melted and became a pool of blood.

“How evil!” Qin Wu exclaimed and a trace of murderous intent flashed in her eyes.

Even thinking with her toes, she knew the blood belonged to the townsmen and other survivors who had previously come to the town.

“It’s already sucking their blood. We need to hurry before they lose their life.” Mo Chenxuan reminded and Qin Wu nodded.

Over the next fifteen minutes, Mo Chenxuan and Qin Wu saved the captured survivors while evading the pebble plant’s tentacles.

Unfortunately, even with all their hard work, they only managed to save fourteen out of the captured thirty-three.

“We did our best.” Qin Wu sighed.

“Wu’er, I don’t know where its crystal core is. For now, let’s sever the tentacles. Maybe we will find a clue.”

“Alright.”

Space blade after space blade and lightning bolt after lightning bolt, Mo Qin Wu and Mo Chenxuan began attacking the tentacles.

However, the pebble plant was not a vegetarian.

Now that it was not eating or trying to prevent its food from being stolen, it focused all its attention on the two humans who were attacking it.

In the blink of an eye, it raised all its tentacles and before the two could react, the appendages fell towards them.

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