Chapter 927: Bound to the Child-Bearing System, Becoming a Winner in Life Chapter 928 Survival Instance Loading (18)

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Main Character:

Shen Yao

"Here, Sunflower Garden?"

Surely it's not some kind of colorful human-faced hall, right? These, these creatures with human-shaped smiling faces growing one after another—are these the sunflowers described above?!

Shen Xi didn't understand and was greatly shocked, mainly because they were different from the sunflowers growing toward the sun in her imagination.

Huo Mingjue and Huo Mingze were also more terrified than curious; who let these sunflowers grow so weirdly? Not only were their stems like human bodies, with two arms growing outward as sunflower leaves, just looking at that human-faced sunflower made one's whole body go cold.

Huo Xunqi and Shen Yao blocked the three children behind themselves to protect them, then they carefully examined these sunflowers enclosed by iron railings.

"They are sunflowers, just human-shaped," not humans.

At least the sunflowers they can see right now are not humans!

Shen Yao released her mental power; although the time was short, she still quickly scanned the body structures of these sunflowers. Indeed, there were no human organs; those human-like appearances were mostly composed of plant fibers, but their faces were more impactful, causing those who saw them to associate them with human bodies.

"This" Shen Xi hadn't finished speaking when Shen Yao raised her hand to press down on the other's body that wanted to move forward. "I'll go in, you wait outside for me."

As the words landed, Shen Yao stepped forward. As she got closer and closer to the small door of the Sunflower Garden, those sunflowers that were still chasing the sun all turned their sunflower faces and suddenly faced Shen Yao.

Wedding Guests:?!?!

Even Huo Xunqi, who had experienced hundreds of battles, was scared into a heart skip. The scene before his eyes gave a kind of absurd and eerie horror; no one knew if these sunflowers would suddenly rise up and hurt people in the next moment, or even truly become like humans and come back to life.

However, after Shen Yao formally entered the Sunflower Garden area, those sunflowers that turned their heads to stare at her did not come back to life; they just stared straight at her, using their bodies to completely block Shen Yao.

Shen Xi and the others stayed outside the garden. All they could see was Shen Yao walking into the Sunflower Garden, then disappearing from sight due to the layers of sunflowers blocking her. Afterwards, these blocking sunflowers suddenly turned their heads back; that human-faced smiling sunflower plate was even more eerie, as if mocking those who hadn't entered the garden.

Shen Xi:...

Truly amazing; no wonder the casualty rate of this instance has remained high. If you have bad luck and encounter this kind of eerie instance, it must be very difficult to survive.

"Yes, who would have thought these sunflowers are existences of the same root and source?" Shen Yao half-squatted down and raised her hand to touch the damp ground.

The closer to the ground, the stronger the smell of fresh blood could be smelled. That nauseating feeling kept stimulating Shen Yao's body.

Somewhat similar to how it clearly shouldn't be like this, but the body was uncontrollable, very similar to the method of mental control.

Inevitably spreading her mental power again, Shen Yao's original vision turned pitch black. The original positions of the sunflowers were replaced by red dots one by one. Finally, the red dots connected into a whole, forming the largest smiling face, exactly the same as the human-shaped smiling face on the sunflower plate.

The dark ground emitted a strange red light outward, matching the smiling face perfectly.

Shen Yao:... Yo ho, this is quite fitting!

Withdrawing her mental power, Shen Yao stood straight. In just a short moment, the sunflowers originally scattered around her had blocked her front, back, left, and right. One human-shaped smiling face after another kept wriggling forward, wishing to press tightly against her.

Shen Yao didn't mind; she just patiently turned the long blade in her hand. The system reminded in horror that the ticket rules had a requirement not to destroy the plants in the garden: "These sunflowers, not good."

The words weren't finished when Shen Yao suddenly held the long blade and drew a line across her own palm. The fishy smell of fresh blood drifted outward, causing these sunflowers to riot. "Garden plants? You say these sunflowers? Do you want to see what they actually are?"

System:... Ah?

The system, hearing the words, turned around blankly, only to see that the sunflowers originally stuck in the ground and only able to turn their heads had suddenly come to life.

Hmm

Come to life in the literal sense!

The sunflower roots rooted in the ground were pulled out, revealing white, movable root tendrils. The arms acting as leaves reached out to grab, and the human-faced sunflowers were even worse, spitting out sunflower seeds full of eyes toward the host's position while spewing vulgarities.

System:... Ahhh! Its eyes! Its eyes!

Hiss—

The long blade flashed, drawing a cold silver light. Falling along with it were the sunflowers diagonally split open.

In an instant, the squeezed space became spacious. Shen Yao slashed another blade behind her. These frightening-looking sunflowers all lost their heads, leaving only bald, wildly moving stems.

The spat-out sunflower seeds stopped moving just a few centimeters from Shen Yao. Soon, these sunflower seeds blocked Shen Yao's entire field of vision, but this did not affect her slaughter of the surrounding sunflowers. By the time the sunflower seeds lost energy and fell to the ground, Shen Yao's feet were already covered with a layer of sunflowers.

"Host, what are these?" So scary, eyes and worms, and crucially they still need to find the seal of the Sunflower Garden.

Ahhh!

The system felt it had been harmed, and it was the kind of image temporarily impossible to forget, constantly hiding in memory and polluting itself.

"Just a vanguard," Shen Yao raised an eyebrow, raised her hand to take out a hair tie to tie up her fallen hair. The long blade in her hand, even after chopping so many sunflowers, was still cold and sharp. "Ready? The big one is coming."

Rumble—

Dust flew everywhere, and miasma filled the surroundings.

Shen Yao was like a nimble little bird, constantly leaping her body to dodge attacks coming from behind and even from her side.

Compared to the giant several stories tall, Shen Yao was like a petty person who had mistakenly entered the land of giants. It was just that the long blade in her hand could change shape; occasionally striking at things extending to her side could greatly stimulate the huge monster behind her.

The tall red sunflower waved its leaves; sunflower seeds the size of human heads were spat out as hidden weapons. White root tendrils constantly crawled out from beneath, densely rushing toward the distance to kill.

"Host! You didn't say the big one was this thing. Quick, think of a way!"

I was about to get trypophobia. After all, who wants to see white worm-like root tendrils crawling all over the ground, sunflower seeds with eyes rolling their eyeballs, leaf-like arms climbing everywhere... Ahhh! What kind of ghost place is this exactly!

The system was driven crazy by the sanity-dropping scene before its eyes. Finally, it crashed and played dead, no longer speaking.

Shen Yao still moved her body with ease, constantly expanding the range, forcing this red sunflower to increase costs to chase her.

Until Shen Yao saw the iron railings appearing before her eyes.

Oh dear

This was the edge of the Sunflower Garden. Moving forward, there was no path left.

Turning around and looking up, Shen Yao looked at the tall and extremely oppressive sunflower ahead, shook the long blade in her hand, and before the other side could attack, she had already slashed out.

Run-up, jump, climb, swing blade...

"It's almost eleven o'clock." Still not out; won't she run into trouble?

Outside the Sunflower Garden, Shen Xi couldn't help but mutter anxiously, her face full of worry. From the time Shen Yao entered until now, there had been no sound coming from the Sunflower Garden.

Those sunflowers that had originally blocked their view once again returned to the state they were in when they first arrived, their flower disks tracking the sun overhead.

Huo Mingjue and Huo Mingze tugged on Huo Xunqi's arm; the two of them were also very worried about Shen Yao inside.

"I'll go take a look," Huo Xunqi signaled Shen Xi to watch over Huo Mingjue and Huo Mingze, emphasizing that if they hadn't come out by 11:30, they should immediately go visit the other gardens and not continue waiting here.

"Uncle Huo"

Shen Xi pursed her lips, feeling that compared to herself, Huo Xunqi bringing the two younger brothers stood a better chance of clearing the instance; she should enter the Sunflower Garden herself.

"I'm an adult, and an Intermediate Player," how could he let a child like Shen Xi run off to save someone? Having handed several protective items to the three of them, Huo Xunqi arrived at the Sunflower Garden and was just about to raise his hand to enter when he saw the surrounding sunflowers suddenly shift to both sides as if frightened by something, opening up a walkable path in the middle.

Huo Xunqi:...

Lowering his hand that had been about to push the door, Huo Xunqi turned to face the three puzzled faces, "They're back."

They're back?

"Mom"

Shen Xi and the other two clustered around Shen Yao in a group; seeing Shen Yao uninjured, only her hem slightly dirty, they all let out a breath of relief.

Thank goodness, thank goodness; but since Shen Yao got out smoothly, that meant she had obtained the Sunflower Garden's seal.

"Right, hand over the tickets," raising an eyebrow, Shen Yao pinched the Mini Sunflower Seal and stamped all five people in a few quick bangs.

The Mini Sunflower's seal was pinched in Shen Yao's hand, then tucked into her own pocket.

Shen Xi blanked for a moment, then suddenly recalled the "items return to original owner" mentioned on the back of the ticket, "This seal" doesn't need to be returned?

Shen Yao smiled and shook her head, "The Sunflower Garden's seal is rather special; new seals will appear inside it," since that was the case, the one seal she had fought so hard for so long as compensation wasn't excessive, right?

Everyone:...

"Let's move forward, three gardens left," Huo Xunqi's voice was slightly low; at their current speed they would definitely run into more trouble, they had to obtain seals as much as possible.

Shen Yao nodded, then the party of five moved ahead, their figures quickly disappearing outside the Sunflower Garden.

The wind blew past, the rainbow-like Human-faced Sunflowers continued tracking the sun in peaceful years, only occasionally a tremor would transmit from the garden's center — that was the Eldest Brother's anger signal; after all, being beaten up and having good things stolen, even sunflowers couldn't forgive...

Human-Faced Sunflower Seal (Special): Sunflowers that cannot produce the sun have their own worries; chasing is the sunflower's nature; as long as you stamp the seal, you will have your own sunflower... (Immense destructive power, not recommended to summon the irritable companion in narrow places)

11:30 AM

The party of five arrived at the Banyan Tree Garden, and at the same time, they ran into other tourists.

Hm?

"There are people ahead of us?" Huo Mingze scratched his little head, thinking their speed was the fastest, so how could there be people walking in front of them?

"Perhaps they came from the other side," besides coming from the Willow Garden, one could also come from the Maple Garden; Shen Xi looked at those who had already entered the garden, feeling this possibility was small — a player's intuition is accurate, these people's capabilities aren't stronger than theirs, unless

"Only sightseeing, didn't get the seal," that would very likely put them ahead.

Shen Yao stepped forward, then pulled several palm-sized minivans from her pocket — she had casually stuffed them in because the clothes were outdoor type, with large inner pockets.

Huo Mingze and Huo Mingjue didn't eat theirs themselves, but divided the minivans evenly among the others.

Huo Xunqi also produced quite a few ready-to-eat items as if by magic, "I have more here, just say if it's not enough."

Shen Xi was curious how Huo Xunqi stored them; the player panel has no backpack function — could it be some special spatial artifact? Mm, the previous instance had food, which made Shen Xi overlook basic survival rules.

"Upon achieving Junior Player, the player interface unlocks luggage space; it upgrades based on the instance evaluation the player passes," Huo Xunqi's current luggage space is as large as a normal room; daily it mostly holds food and carbs, rarely electronics and weapons, because electronics malfunction inside, weapons are restricted, and usability is low.

Huo Xunqi also explained the rarity of spatial artifacts; if one truly had a spatial artifact, whether for transaction or personal use it would be extremely profitable.

The family of five just ate and chatted outside the Banyan Tree Garden until the people inside walked out dejectedly — clearly, they hadn't found the Banyan Tree Garden's seal.

"Brother, can you spare some food? We can pay when we get out."

Someone approached to negotiate with Huo Xunqi; compared to the rest of the team, Huo Xunqi clearly looked more like the leader who could make decisions.

Huo Xunqi glanced at the youth whose mouth corners were already peeling, turned and tossed an unopened bottle of mineral water over, "No money needed, tell me how you got to the Banyan Tree Garden."

The youth looked like a fresh university graduate; in fact he indeed was — this male student named Sun Ziwei graduated last year, was on vacation this year when he went out with friends, never expecting his bad luck would land him directly in the Changming Botanical Garden instance.

"We took the Maple Garden; the first Maple Garden had leaves red like blood..."

According to Sun Ziwei's account, they were timid and didn't dare try the Maple Garden and Dodder Garden; by the time they reached the Banyan Tree Garden they wanted to turn back but couldn't, so they had to brace themselves and try — predictably, they couldn't find a trace of the seal.

Hearing this, Huo Xunqi tossed a few more breads from his pocket; after receiving Sun Ziwei's thanks, he asked whether they had seen any staff on the road, whether they had encountered any gardens not marked on the botanical garden map, and whether there had been any personnel losses.

Sun Ziwei:...

Sun Ziwei shook his head, "No, we walked very smoothly all the way; it was just delayed too long when passing through the Dodder Garden. As for personnel losses," he turned to look at the people sitting leaning against the railing, a trace of bewilderment flashing in his eyes, "None, right? They're all people I know, everyone's fine."

Huo Xunqi:...

Huo Xunqi didn't continue questioning, but gave him a few more bottles of water and bread; after all, without a backpack to conceal it, Huo Xunqi couldn't conjure too much himself, and besides Sun Ziwei's team had Official Players and official identities, so they needed Huo Xunqi to save them even less.