bayedsolid Chapter 262 Kidnapping the Spruce Tree
Chapter 262 Kidnapping the Spruce Tree
Chi Feng glanced at Shen Zechuan and retorted directly, "You're really rude. How is this called kidnapping? We have important business to attend to! Besides, why would I kidnap your wife? We share the same phone number; we can only ever be sisters!"
However, Zhou Yang was also unhappy about this, and she elbowed Chi Feng in the back: "You can be a sister yourself. I choose to be a man!"
Zhou Yang's blow wasn't hard, so Chi Feng just pretended to rub his stomach and quickly backed down, saying, "Hey, let's not worry about the details. Are we going or not? Time waits for no one!"
Of course, they should go, but it didn't seem realistic to leave Shen Zechuan at home as a stay-at-home husband, so Zhou Yang finally sighed and said, "Let's all go together."
Upon hearing this, Shen Zechuan immediately gave Chi Feng a smug snort.
Chi Feng shrugged, completely unconcerned about Shen Zechuan's childish provocation.
Since Zhou Yang himself didn't mind having Shen Zechuan come along, he naturally had no objection either.
After the three of them made their decision, they didn't delay and went out together with Pea.
Because the base was under martial law, the three of them couldn't openly leave through the main gate. Although they could leave through the back door, that would damage the military's prestige and be detrimental to base management. So, the three of them went to the side of the base closer to Baiji Mountain and sneaked out by using Chi Feng's mutated plants.
Once outside the base, to avoid attracting the attention of others, Zhou Yang didn't make the pea grow bigger. Instead, he took out a car from his spatial storage.
Anyway, the base is only a few kilometers away from the Baiji Mountains, and it's a quick drive away.
Five minutes later, the three arrived at the foot of Baiji Mountain, and each of them grabbed a flashlight and began to walk up the mountain.
After several rounds of extreme heat and cold, the area at the foot of the mountain is now sparsely vegetated and almost completely barren. However, as you continue uphill, the situation begins to improve significantly.
Various plants and trees lined the ground in lush greenery, showing no signs of having experienced extreme heat or cold.
Normally, Zhou Yang and his group wouldn't dare to go up the mountain so casually. After all, these seemingly ordinary plants have survived countless trials and tribulations, and there are countless mutated plants hidden among them.
However, with Chi Feng around now, things are much more convenient. If there are any mutated plants nearby, they can be sensed immediately.
Moreover, once a level 6 plant ability user released their aura, those lower-level mutated plants didn't even dare to breathe, and simply pretended to be ordinary plants, not daring to move.
Even so, Zhou Yang still summoned Little Tiger just in case.
The three of them traveled for a long time without encountering any mutated plants they liked. To be precise, they didn't find any mutated plants that satisfied Chi Feng, because they either found the plants too low-level or too weak in attack.
Zhou Yang felt that if these mutated plants could talk, they would be swearing filth by now.
Finally, when he reached the halfway point of the mountain, Mr. Chi Feng stopped.
In front of the three of them was a large cypress forest.
"Tsk, this spruce forest is pretty good, it's comparable to mine, it'll do!" Chi Feng nodded in satisfaction as he looked at the spruce forest. "Let's go, let's take them!"
"..."
Upon hearing this, Zhou Yang froze on the spot, feeling as if his forehead must be covered with invisible black lines.
Dude, these are a bunch of mutated trees that are just as good as you. You just go up there and say you'll take them down?
Are you sure it wasn't the three of us who got taken down by them?
Zhou Yang was so overwhelmed that he didn't know what to say.
Seeing that Chi Feng had already walked quickly to the front of the spruce forest, Zhou Yang could only sigh, then exchanged a glance with Shen Zechuan, and quickly followed, thinking that if Chi Feng were to be ganged up on by these cypress trees, the two of them could lend a hand.
The two followed Chi Feng into the spruce forest.
It was very quiet inside; apart from the rustling of leaves in the breeze, you couldn't hear anything else.
If Chi Feng hadn't mentioned beforehand that this area was full of advanced mutated trees, Zhou Yang would have truly felt like he had returned to the mountains and forests before the apocalypse.
After standing near the center, Chi Feng stopped, closed his eyes, and began to try to communicate with the spruce trees using his supernatural abilities.
"Hello, trees, how about moving your roots somewhere else? Staying on this mountain all the time is so boring, isn't it?"
Hey, can you hear me? Give me a response!
The spruce trees, which were originally observing the two-legged creatures and communicating with their roots about whether they wanted an extra meal today, suddenly fell silent upon hearing Chi Feng's telepathic shout.
They've been living in the mountains since the apocalypse began, and usually only encounter wild animals and birds, or occasionally stray zombie-like bipeds. This is the first time they've ever seen a living biped, and one that they can even talk to—it's truly amazing.
So the spruce trees also became interested, and after discussing it, they decided that the oldest tree in the grove would speak on their behalf.
"No... change... place... I like... sleeping."
Trees like to find a fertile place to take root. Running around is too tiring. Isn't it better for them to sleep?
"Hmm? Don't you want the good food down the mountain? You guys only eat the energy from the soil and air, and at most hunt some passing birds and beasts. Your growth is too slow! How many years will it take for you to evolve again?"
The old tree remained unmoved and continued unhurriedly, "We...live...long..."
Any tree here is decades old, and will only live even longer in the future; time is of no importance to them.
Therefore, they did not deliberately pursue evolution; they naturally evolved over time.
"So you've made yourselves kings on this mountain? Why don't you go up to the top? The sunlight is so much better up there!"
The old tree was stunned for a moment: "No...the camphor tree...the territory...will...be attacked..."
Upon hearing this, Chi Feng became even more enthusiastic in his persuasion: "Then you should go down the mountain even more. The camphor trees up there will definitely expand in the future. Will you still have room to survive then? You might as well find a new place as soon as possible. Besides, millions of zombies will soon come down the mountain to deliver food to you. As long as you help us protect the base, you can eat a lot of this."
After saying that, Chi Feng took out a few crystal cores from his pocket and showed them to the spruce trees.
The spruce trees glanced at it and realized it was just stuff pulled from the heads of mutated animals and zombies. Apart from having a little more energy, it didn't even taste as good as the soil under their feet, and they immediately lost interest.
If going down the mountain means they can only eat this, and they also have to guard some land for humans, they would rather stay here and eat more delicious food.
Besides, who knows when the camphor trees up there will be taken down? And those spruce trees aren't pushovers either.
So after collecting all the opinions from the spruce plots, the old tree tycoon refused again.
Seeing that the spruce trees were unmoved, Chi Feng angrily pulled Zhou Yang forward: "Come on, show them the good stuff, a bunch of bumpkins who only like to eat dirt! Let them see what they've got!"
Although the spruce trees had never encountered human language, they had seen many forest rangers before and learned a little bit, so they could understand the word "country bumpkin." As a result, the spruce trees that were being scolded started waving their branches, and judging from their momentum, they wanted to hit Chi Feng at any moment.
Seeing that the spruce trees looked like they were about to get angry, Zhou Yang didn't have time to scold Chi Feng and quickly took out a basin of spring water from his space.