Chapter 862: Binding the Birth System to Become a Winner in Life Chapter 863 Global Evolution (23)

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Protagonist:

Shen Yao

After the end of days, mutated creatures had become much smarter.

When they came before this landscape tree, they saw the landscape tree moving without wind; not only that, leaves were stuck all over the ground and buildings around the landscape tree, clearly launched by the tree itself, and the purpose was surely to drive out foreign creatures in its territory.

Mutated creatures all had their own territories, especially certain mutated animals and plants; their attachment to their territory was nothing Wood Puppets could compare to, and if one accidentally wandered in, they could wait to be hunted down endlessly.

Shen Chengyi couldn't help but think of the last wilderness mission; they were out, and most of them died during that mission, the scariest part being wandering into a territory, apparently that of fire-red ants, which chased them for a day and a night, with many bitten until their whole bodies swelled in pain.

"Be careful, act according to the previous plan."

After reminding them, Shen Chengyi shrank his body and circled to the side of the landscape tree with Sun Tiantian, Leng Wei, and Zhou Ye.

The area around the landscape tree was open on all sides with no corner range, but the landscape tree couldn't fight on multiple fronts; if they split into three teams to surround it completely, there were bound to be a few weak points in attack power.

Their plan was to take advantage of the lax defense at the weak points, break through directly, subdue the landscape tree as quickly as possible, and obtain the crystal core.

Sun Tiantian and Leng Wei walked on either side of Shen Chengyi, while Zhou Ye fell to the rear, never forgetting to guard against danger behind them, to prevent being ambushed by certain forces (people or other things).

As they slowly moved their bodies to a position less than a hundred meters from the landscape tree, Shen Chengyi clearly noticed the leaves on the landscape tree beginning to tremble slightly.

"Watch out, it's about to attack!"

As the words fell, leaves like flying knives shot straight toward Shen Chengyi and the others.

Not only Shen Chengyi's group, but others around were also targeted by the landscape tree; after all, its perception of its own territory was very keen, and sneaking into its territory for no reason was definitely suspicious.

Shen Chengyi bent his knees and stood up, dodging easily before the leaves arrived; the others did the same. Even though these leaves looked as fast as lightning, they themselves were not Kamilla; without this bit of mobility, how could they have run out?

Shen Chengyi drew his long blade and held it in his hand; a layer of faint purple lightning appeared on the blade. Then Shen Chengyi suddenly accelerated forward, charging ahead. When the leaves became denser, he raised the long blade high and brought it down heavily until the blade was embedded in the ground. The purple lightning on the blade traveled through the ground and exploded forward, quickly spreading across the surrounding area, including the landscape tree.

Sun Tiantian fell to Leng Wei's side, watching the landscape tree being struck by lightning ahead while sighing that she and Shen Chengyi had a good relationship; otherwise, who could withstand being struck by lightning, especially this kind of purple lightning? Those weaker would probably be reduced to nothing.

"This landscape tree has thick skin and tough flesh; be prepared. The captain's move might not be able to take it down."

Sure enough, Leng Wei knew Shen Chengyi well, because Shen Chengyi was mostly testing and hadn't used much strength at all.

Moreover, the landscape tree indeed had thick skin and tough flesh; it couldn't be said that it wasn't afraid of being struck by lightning, only that the lightning Shen Chengyi threw at it was like playing house.

As the lightning disappeared, the landscape tree became angry without saying a word, wishing it could shoot out all its leaves and throw them at the woman who sent lightning to it.

Too bad!

The landscape tree was willing but powerless; no matter how many times it shot its leaves, it couldn't hit that woman!

After measuring strength with this landscape tree a few more times, Shen Chengyi roughly gauged the other's power; it wasn't troublesome. If they cooperated well, they still had time in the afternoon to cause trouble for other mutated creatures.

He turned and made a concealed hand signal to Zhou Ye, and saw Zhou Ye turn around, at the same time telling Sun Tiantian and Leng Wei to come over and protect him.

After a few seconds of motionless blankness, Zhou Ye regained his senses and nodded to Shen Chengyi. His main ability was communication, leaning toward support, and his ability to resist danger was insufficient, so when he activated his communication skill, he needed protection.

Having agreed on the time to act together, Shen Chengyi turned his wrist and continued to radiate his lightning ability outward.

In an instant, her whole body was like a lightning body, and no one dared to approach her.

"Wow, Big Sister is so powerful!"

"That's what an ability is. The two of us are just playing house."

Shen Chengyu and Shen Chengning stayed far in the rear, guarding the car fleet's property while glancing at the great battle in the distance.

Well, it couldn't be called a great battle; it could only be said that Big Sister's ability was still too strong. With full firepower, it was basically a roll from beginning to end.

No matter how thick-skinned and tough-fleshed that landscape tree was, it couldn't withstand constant lightning bombardment. Moreover, there were fire and water abilities here, cooperating with each other. The landscape tree could be said to be suffering, and the whole tree was driven mad.

Shen Chengyu suddenly grabbed Shen Chengning, raised his hand and pointed at the landscape tree, now completely black, but with green light flashing, it returned to its normal color.

"This is the wood ability. Once used, recovery is simply abnormal."

"Wood abilities and wood abilities are worlds apart," Shen Chengning sighed and wailed. After all, she was also a wood ability user, but her ability completely couldn't compare to that landscape tree, because her ability was limited to healing minor flesh wounds; if the wound was slightly larger, she couldn't stop the bleeding.

"It's fine. We've only just become ability users. Take it one step at a time. Believe that one day we can reach Big Sister's level."

Shen Chengyu raised his hand and patted Shen Chengning's shoulder in normal encouragement. After all, their two dreams still had to exist, regardless of whether they could be realized in the future.

Shen Chengning smiled helplessly and also cheered herself up in her heart. Mm, believe that she could definitely do it; even if she couldn't, she couldn't be discouraged.

Looking ahead again, although the landscape tree, which had recovered more than half, became active again, such recovery was undoubtedly a huge consumption. The landscape tree could recover once or twice, but it couldn't recover without limit.

Shen Chengyi had teammates cooperating; she wasn't just charging forward madly by herself.

Just like that, everyone took turns hitting the landscape tree, which was struck by lightning one moment, burned by fire the next, washed by water the next, buried by earth the next. The energy stored in its body became less and less, until it finally ran out.

"It's going to go mad!"

Without reserves, the landscape tree could only quickly end the battle to recover; otherwise it would have to die here.

Intelligent mutated creatures were all very afraid of death. And because plants originated from their nature, moving was extremely difficult for them; otherwise the landscape tree would have run away long ago.

Right now this landscape tree had unspeakable bitterness. It couldn't run or escape; it could only do its best to die with these people. As a result, it couldn't even take them down with it, and was chopped into pieces by a single bolt of lightning from Shen Chengyi.

A black hole appeared where the landscape tree should have been.

This should be where the landscape tree's root system was. It was just that Shen Chengyi's lightning was too strong, striking from top to bottom at once, leaving no escape.

The plan couldn't keep up with changes. Originally they had thought to break through via the other's weak point, but in the end it turned into a mutual beating, leaving the surrounding area a mess.

Shen Chengyi moved his wrists, then had the others go forward to look for the landscape tree's crystal core.

The crystal core was a palm-sized irregular crystal with variegated colors inside, very obvious among the black debris.

Zhuo Yuan put away this crystal core, raised his hand and wiped the sweat that had broken out on his forehead.

"Captain, it's only two-thirty now. We can kill another landscape tree before dark."

Landscape trees were very common in Ping City; basically every street had one or two. It was just that those landscape trees weren't as tall and mighty as the one before them, but the crystal cores inside landscape trees were not lacking. No matter what, they couldn't give up.

"Mm, let's go."

Shen Chengyi didn't refuse. She still had more than half of her ability in her body. This time she hadn't used her full strength. Moreover, even if the ability was used up, it could recover on its own. If she really got tired, she could just rest more when she returned at night. The danger in Ping City couldn't compare to the true wilderness. They had to seize the time to obtain crystal cores.

Shen Chengyu and Shen Chengning waited for the Wedding Guests to regroup, then they all boarded the vehicle and, with the rumble of the engine, left this street, heading for the location with Landscape Trees next door.

The Operation was exactly the same as before; the only difference was that the Landscape Trees here were somewhat malnourished, looking like they had none of the imposing presence of the first one at all. Shen Chengyi assessed the other party's Capability and decisively had Shen Chengyu and Shen Chengning follow along, treating it as Advance training for them.

Shen Chengyu and Shen Chengning: ……

The two followed behind Shen Chengyi in high spirits, and then witnessed the gorgeous performance that made them gasp in admiration, especially Shen Chengyi who delivered the final blow — Lightning Ability really is too Handsome. With a boom, after it fell, the entire Landscape Tree was quickly turned into black fragments.

The Crystal Core inside was dug out; it had shrunk by half compared to the previous one, but Zhuo Yuan was still smiling happily. After all, no matter how small, it was still a Crystal Core, and for Ability Users like them, it was enough to Use.

Tsk tsk tsk

Good thing I Answered quickly back then; otherwise, a spot in the Team might not have fallen to me. The Captain really is too Authoritative.

The Authoritative Shen Chengyi led them through one barrier after another all the way. By the time night fell and they returned to rest, the Crystal Cores had already reached five.

Although three out of the five were malnourished, this was only the first day — did their Luck have to be this good? Had they known they could obtain Crystal Cores through private hunting, why would they have bothered with Official Missions in the first place?

No matter who in the Team, even the coldest Leng Wei was smiling broadly.

Shen Chengyi sat in a Corner with eyes closed, resting. Beside her lay the Long Blade she often used. Shen Chengyu and Shen Chengning sat next to Shen Chengyi. The two of them had seen quite a few Battles today and felt that staying by Big Sister's side was the safest.

"Rest quickly. We have to continue early tomorrow morning." Shen Chengyi didn't open her eyes, and after speaking, she continued to remain motionless.

Shen Chengyu and Shen Chengning let out "oh oh" sounds upon hearing this, unable to resist exchanging meaningful glances with each other. Oh my, this is such Happiness — really can't fall asleep.

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Because the Perfection of the first day's harvest opened a good start, the following days were spent by their group in various harvests.

The Landscape Trees of Ping City were fiercely culled by them, yielding many Crystal Cores, including those stray cats and stray dogs that had wandered in and Evolved — they all fell into their hands as well.

The Crate Zhuo Yuan used to hold Crystal Cores had already been Swapped/Replaced; the original ones were Loaded Full. By rough estimate, each of them would be able to receive several pieces.

Sure enough, even without the Official map, they could still harvest abundantly. Just thinking about having to hand over a portion to the Official side made one's heart ache.

Shen Chengyu and Shen Chengning also learned quite a bit of Knowledge, and even both of their Abilities had Improved. It's just that compared to Big Shots like Shen Chengyi and the others, Shen Chengyu and Shen Chengning's progress wasn't considered large.

"Are we continuing next?" They had already been out for a week, and one could say they had been Wind and Rain Lodging. It's just that the Crystal Core harvest made them forget the pain, feeling they could still grit their teeth and Persist.

"Continue. Coming out this once is not easy. Moreover, bringing back this many Crystal Cores will definitely cause a sensation. The Official side might still Despise them, but what about other individuals? There are quite a few Ability Users capable of forming Teams. Whether Official or individual, once Competition becomes too fierce, what they can obtain will be less."

Obtain more Crystal Cores for their own Ability Improvement before others React. Shen Chengyi Raised Her Hand to move Her somewhat Sour and swollen Shoulder, adding that everyone was indeed very Tired, but the Opportunity comes only once; if missed, there's nothing more to say.

Shen Chengyi's words gained everyone's support. After all, coming out this once really wasn't easy; they themselves had borne many risks.

Including some Ability Users' family members who were Unwilling to let the Ability Users take risks.

Shen Chengyi took out the previous map and Raised Her Hand to point at the content on it.

Soon, they discussed and decided on the next destination: the Factory located in Ping City's Northwest direction. Because there were many Workers there, there were also many stray animals. Plus, after the End of Days arrived, humans could barely take care of themselves, and many household pets also became stray animals.

These animals, after various Evolutions, all possessed not Weak capabilities. Going there now was both for those Crystal Cores and to eliminate hidden dangers.

Mutated Creatures need to eat. Compared to Wood Puppets with little Nutrition, fresh humans are naturally more appetizing. If they deal with more Mutated Creatures now, then when Wind and Snow block the roads in the future, the number of creatures Besieging the Shelter will also decrease considerably.

"Then let's go to the Factory in the Northwest direction. There are more large buildings there; who knows, we might even be able to gather Supplies."

These words were truly overly Optimistic. The Factory was long ago scavenged empty by the Official side. If they arrive and can pick up a few Cheap scraps, that counts as Lucky. "Better to focus the Main energy on Mutated Animals. Watching the sky get colder and colder, they also need food to survive the cold Winter."

Another night passed. Early the next morning, after the Wedding Guests ate Breakfast, they Departed, rushing toward the Factory in Ping City's Northwest direction.

From afar, those cylindrical chimneys reaching a Hundred Meters were extremely shocking. Although many of the surrounding workshops had collapsed, the endless expanse of factory grounds was still awe-inspiring.

"It's this big!"