It’s another day at work.
Anxi took the big scissors and swung them around in the fern garden. She no longer had any sympathy for these plants. Even if there was only one spore on the leaves, she would cut off the entire one.
"Susu..."
The plants trembled, as if they were crying, condemning Anxi.
Anxi continued to cut and cut the plants until the leaves flew everywhere.
"Squeak!"
Following an unknown cry, there was a slight pain and impact on the calf.
Anxi stopped cutting leaves and looked down at her feet.
A gray mouse was attacking her ankle crazily. Anxi was startled and immediately raised her leg and threw the gray mouse away.
"Squeak!"
After being thrown out by Anxi, the gray mouse struggled on the ground twice, turned over, stood up, and rushed towards the direction where Anxi was standing.
Anxi raised her gardening shears and hit the gray mouse on the head with a bang.
"Squeak...squeak..."
The gray mouse kicked his legs twice and fainted.
"Fortunately, I'm wearing rubber boots." Anxi looked at the white marks on the ankles of her rubber boots. If she had been a little later, she might have been bitten by the gray mouse.
"Logically speaking, rats rarely attack people. Is this rat rabid?"
Anxi wondered why she was bitten for no reason as she was just standing here cutting leaves and not attacking its nest.
She poked the gray mouse again with the gardening shears in her hand. After confirming that it was no longer panting, Anxi came closer and squatted on the ground to observe the gray mouse.
The gray mouse is not too big, of medium size, with thick fur. It seems to be doing well in the botanical garden, and there is nothing unusual about it.
Anthy used garden shears to turn over the mouse.
The mouse turned over and opened its mouth, and a thin green root emerged from its mouth.
"Did you eat it?"
Anxi tilted her head and looked carefully, and found that this green rhizome stretched out from the depths of the gray mouse's throat. The real roots were deeper, such as its heart and stomach.
Is this...parasitism?
Anxi reacted immediately. She thought of the veins on the face of the third employee yesterday. Now that she recalled it, 80% of that employee also had plants growing in his body.
"It" in this botanical garden relies on parasitism to make ghosts and humans its helpers.
And "it" also divides the helper's responsibilities in detail.
The third employee who appeared in the fern park was full of hostility towards Anxi.
That's because Anxi, as a conservationist, is constantly pruning the spores grown by plants to prevent them from reproducing, so she is naturally regarded as an enemy.
This mouse will attack her, and it must have seen her pruning the leaves.
As for the salesmen at the gift shop, because they have to deal with tourists who know nothing about them, they tend to be friendly and disguise themselves to trick tourists into drinking "flowery drinks"
Now that I think about it, the black particles I saw in the drink were probably the seeds inside the flower.
The reason why fruit-flavored drinks are sold in the botanical garden is because there are no seeds in the pulp and cannot grow.
From this point of view, the rules issued by the Botanical Garden are actually intended to protect visitors and employees in the park.
wrong……
Anxi took out the code and read it again.
[2. It is normal for plants to have fragrance. Don’t make a fuss. Please wear the masks and gloves issued by the park at all times during working hours. 】
The second rule says "scent is normal", and this rule is also included in the tourist regulations.
But the fragrance is obviously not normal. Aren’t those tourists who are just having fun and are like this because of the fragrance emitted by plants?
But those tourists are not parasitized, they are just obsessed with the fragrance and come to the botanical garden every day to smell the fragrance.
“Come to the botanical garden every day!”
Recalling this, Anxi had a flash of inspiration and figured out why Director Mulberry resisted tourists from waking up from the "scented state" because he needed these tourists to keep coming to the botanical garden to spend money on tickets and give him money!
Anxi understood.
It is different from the "it" that students and teachers at Yunhui Middle School are afraid of.
The "it" in the botanical garden and the Qingqing Botanical Garden complement each other, and the botanical garden needs the existence of "it".
But "it" is too powerful, constantly evolving, and is in danger of counterattacking the botanical garden at any time. Therefore, the botanical garden is also very afraid of "it", so it has set up rules to prevent "it" from parasitizing more helpers.
In view of the above, it can be easily inferred that the "it" in the botanical garden is a plant or a group of plants, and it is a very smart plant that can begin to think.
The other plants in the botanical garden can only be regarded as "it"'s younger brothers. The body of "it" should still be under the control of the botanical garden, otherwise the botanical garden would have been completely occupied by "it".
Because the botanical garden still needs "it"'s help, the botanical garden will not destroy "it", but find a way to trap "it" and hide "it" somewhere.
...Where will it be hidden?
"Xiao An, please give in a little bit."
Uncle Chen's voice came from behind.
Suddenly, An Qian, who was immersed in thinking, was startled. She turned around and saw Uncle Chen standing behind her. Next to Uncle Chen was a thin staff member wearing white clothes.
Seeing An Qian's confused look, Uncle Chen explained: "A plant made a noise yesterday, and I asked Xiao Zhang and the others to move it away. Today, Researcher Li came here specifically to bury a new plant."
"Researcher?" Anxi was surprised.
"Yes." Uncle Chen nodded and continued, "The plants in our botanical garden are all grafted and cultivated in our garden."
"Oh...that's right."
Anxi nodded slowly, lowered her eyes, and began to think.
"Okay, don't delay my work by chatting here." The employee in white, known as Researcher Li, suddenly spoke. He adjusted his glasses, his tone revealing impatience and disdain.
"Hahaha, I'm sorry." Uncle Chen smiled at Researcher Li, then turned to An Qian and said:
"Then I'll go back and continue working. Xiao An, wait here. After Researcher Li finishes planting the plants, you can continue working."
After saying that, Uncle Chen turned around and left to work, leaving only An Qian and Researcher Li where they were.
Researcher Li held a small flowerpot in his hand. In the pot was a flame bird's nest fern. He walked to the flower bed and squatted down.
Anxi looked in his direction, and there was indeed a small pit in the flower bed. If you didn't look carefully, you wouldn't be able to tell. After all, the plants here were too lush. One less plant and one more plant didn't make much difference.
"Researcher Li, what do you usually do?" An Qian walked up to Researcher Li and started chatting casually.
"Cultivation of plants." Researcher Li replied coldly.
Anxi nodded, and then said: "Oh, are you tired from work? What time will it be?"
Researcher Li: "Eight a.m. to six p.m."
Anxi exclaimed: "Oh! It's so hard! I'm exhausted from working in the Fern Garden for three hours. There are only two employees but so much work. How many employees are there in your institute? It's not just two or three. Employee?"
Researcher Li carefully took out the flamebird's nest fern from the flowerpot and replied to An Qian impatiently: "A lot, close to 100."
"Then..." Anxi wanted to continue.
Researcher Li frowned and interrupted: "I've already told you, don't delay my work. If you want to talk about such useless things, go to other employees!"
"Well, okay, then I'll stay away from you."
An Qian shrugged, turned and walked behind Researcher Li.
Researcher Li rolled his eyes when he saw that An Qian was no longer bothering him, turned his head and continued planting new flamebird's nest ferns.
Turning the soil, planting, and burying the soil, all in one go.
Just when he had just buried the new Flamebird's Nest Fern and wanted to get up and leave.
"ah!"
He was hit hard on the head, the pain was unbearable, his vision went dark, and he fell straight to the ground.
"You're not dead, are you?"
Anxi emerged from behind Researcher Li's "corpse" with a wrench in her hand. She stretched out a finger to check Researcher Li's breath, and breathed a sigh of relief after confirming that he had just fainted.
Immediately afterwards, An Qian took off Researcher Li's white clothes, took away his employee card, and even took off his glasses and put them in his pocket.
"It's so heavy."
She dragged Researcher Li's body, hid him, and tied him up with ropes to gag him.
After doing this, Anxi took off her gray staff uniform, put on her white coat, then put on her gray staff uniform again, and continued working in the fern park.
