The green fruit looks like a green apple, but it exudes the smell of plant juice.
It doesn't smell good, but it's slightly better than the black fruit before.
Bai Ye stared at the big black tree and saw that it stopped growing after growing three and a half fruits. Even the vegetative mass bound in the roots shriveled up.
Bai Ye frowned deeply.
She is not a germaphobe, but she still has some inner resistance to the idea of planting a person and then growing it.
Regardless of whether this person is semi-vegetative or not, the other half of him does still retain his human appearance.
But this fruit was bred by this strange tree that sucked in vegetative people. It felt like a mushroom growing on a human corpse.
Bai Ye lowered his head and looked at the shriveled root system of the black tree man: "...Is it really okay to eat the fruits grown in this way?"
Ana Shen glanced at Bai Ye and followed her line of sight to see several roots of a big tree wrapped in a vegetative state.
A shriveled human figure can still be vaguely seen there.
Ana Shen walked to Bai Ye's feet, squatted down, reached out and lifted up the densely packed roots covering the vegetative body, revealing the vegetative body wrapped in it.
To everyone's expectation, the vegetative man did not turn into a mummy as they thought, but the parts of the plants that made up his body showed a withered gray-white color.
As for the part that belongs to the human body, it still maintains good activity.
Bai Ye let out a light sigh and knelt down to take a closer look.
The human half of the vegetative man's chest was still rising and falling slowly, apparently not losing vital signs.
Bai Ye turned his head, looked at Ana Shen in confusion and asked, "What's the principle? Is he really still alive?"
Ana Shen just nodded and did not explain immediately. Instead, he stuffed the green crystal the size of a dragon's eye, which he obtained from other vegetative people, into the vegetative man's mouth.
"This is……"
Under Bai Ye's puzzled gaze, the green crystal slid into the vegetative man's chest, instantly blooming with green light. Then the dead plant body on the vegetative man's half sprouted buds and began to miraculously glow with life.
Ana Shen casually covered the lifted tree man's roots back onto the vegetable man's body, and pulled Bai Ye back.
Once again sensing that the vegetative man under the roots was rejuvenated, the tree man's roots immediately wrapped around it, grafting each root onto the vines growing from the vegetative man's body.
The emerald green psychic power was once again injected into the dead vines with the heartbeat of the vegetative man, but then it was pulled away by the roots grafted on the vines.
Then, the half green fruit that stopped growing grew again.
Seeing this scene, Bai Ye immediately reacted: "...So, the tree man can grow fruits by absorbing the power of the plant part of the vegetative man?"
Ana Shen nodded: "Strictly speaking, they absorbed the spiritual power that turned them into vegetative states."
As he spoke, he took out another green crystal and handed it to Bai Ye.
"I took this out from the bodies of several other vegetative people. It was installed in an artificial pump and used to replace the hearts of the vegetative people."
Bai Ye took the spar from Ana Shen's hand and held it in his hand.
A dark red spiritual energy in Bai Ye's hand was spontaneously activated, and it collided with the green light emitted by the crystal, instantly bursting out a circle of sparks in her hand.
Ana Shen held Bai Ye's hand and suppressed the two excited psychic powers together.
"You have just awakened and are not yet proficient in the use of psychic powers. This is a stress reaction after encountering other psychic powers."
"……Um."
Bai Ye broke away from Ana Shen's hand. To be honest, his hand was not as big as his own, and it was only because of the black mist that he could barely cover it.
It is very likely that it will be difficult to feel the feeling of being held in the palm of your boyfriend's hand in the future...
Thinking of this, Bai Ye inevitably felt a flash of melancholy in his heart.
After taking a final look at the green crystal, Bai Ye returned it to Ana Shen.
Since the Tree Man is a fruit that absorbs spiritual energy to grow, the last traces of resentment in everyone's hearts have disappeared.
As Ana Shen continued to put crystals into the vegetative man's mouth, and after the whole process was repeated twice, the black treetops were gradually filled with green fruits.
Exactly 12.
Ana Shen and Bai Ye stood together. Opposite them, ten warriors stood in a row, each holding a green fruit in their hands.
Bai Ye glanced at the faces of the ten warriors and said in a deep voice: "We will enter the city later. In order to avoid attracting attention, we will disperse to six different locations to enter, with two people in each group."
"After entering the city, you must arrive at the town hospital within twenty minutes to meet up."
Bai Ye raised the green fruit in his hand: "I wish everyone good luck!"
After saying that, Bai Ye took the first bite.
Just like drinking Zhuangxing wine, more than a dozen people swallowed the green fruit together, and they all began to transform into a vegetative state.
…
In the southwest corner of the city, three to four miles southeast of the garbage treatment plant, there is a dry river bed.
Originally, this river was a major attraction of the town. The stream flowed down from the mountains in the distance, and the clear white silk satin surrounded the entire mountain town.
Ever since a group of people wearing protective suits arrived here half a year ago, the water flow in the Jade Belt Qinghe River surrounding the town has gradually become sparse.
Until three months ago, the flow was completely cut off.
Nowadays, the dry riverbed is covered with fluffy grass as tall as a person, and the banks on both sides have become more desolate and dilapidated.
At this time, two vegetative people, one large and one small, came to the dry river bed carrying buckets and shovels.
They have to dig mud and get water.
The two vegetative men waved their hoes again and again with somewhat slow movements, and soon dug a hole in the muddy river bed.
Continue digging until the pit is about one meter deep, and water seeps out from the bottom of the mud pit.
After a while, a small dirty puddle formed.
Seeing this, the two vegetative people hurriedly sent their roots in, half of their faces showing a soothing expression.
Immediately afterwards, little green pheromones emerged from their bodies:
"Phew - I finally got some water. All the reserves at home have been used up. Who knew there would be an accident at the water tower today."
"Hurry up and drink some more. I have to take it back to my two children at home. If I had known better, I would have stored more water at home."
"It's been a few months since we turned into this non-human and ghostly state. There has never been any problem with this water tower. Who would have thought of this."
"Dad, when will the lockdown be lifted? We won't have to deal with this kind of sewage in the next few days, right?"
The taller vegetative man shook his head: "We don't know exactly what happened to the water tower yet. Let's wait for the notification from the messengers."
"Anyway, with the way we are now, it's okay to drink some sewage. It's not like we could taste it before. Now... I'm thankful to be alive."
Some of the smaller vegetative people were in a depressed mood, and the branches on their bodies were probably a little wilted.
The tall vegetative man patted his wife on the shoulder, looked at the only half of her human face, and the comforting emotion came from the pheromones: "Don't think too much, drink up quickly, the children at home are still waiting. "
The female vegetable nodded: "Okay, let's pack some water and take it home."
As she spoke, she pulled out her roots from the puddle, and her feet that were still holding her body suddenly slipped, and she fell to one side.
Although the tall male vegetative man saw his wife's state, his body reaction was completely unable to keep up. It was not until his wife fell into the mud that he reached out to pull her.
"You were too careless. In a place like this, you should have stepped hard..."
As the man reached out to pull his wife, pheromones surged from his body. However, he did not pull his wife. She lay on the ground blankly, looking towards the front covered with wormwood in horror.
"What's wrong?"
The male vegetative man followed his wife’s gaze——
Behind Basil, a strange man who had completely transformed into a plant and whose body had completely turned into a vine lay quietly there, with his wooden face staring at him.
