Rebirth: Leading Families to Survive in the Apocalypse - Chapter 952: 952: He Was Overestimated

Chapter 952: Chapter 952: He Was Overestimated

The family’s expressions all grew serious. Mao Qiqi said there were 23 people nearby, all in near-death states, which was truly eerie.

“Let’s go have a look first.”

Su Jin didn’t say much more and immediately had Mao Qiqi lead the family toward the target location.

At the edge of the greenery were some seemingly ordinary low houses, where Mao Qiqi said the 23 people were located.

Lu Hao saw Wei Jinghang had also come in, but he didn’t stop him because Wei Jinghang had just heard Mao Qiqi’s words and looked shocked and anxious as well.

“Huh? Why is there no door here?”

Lin Cheng walked around and didn’t find any place to enter surrounding the houses.

There was a wooden wall around those houses, layered with vines.

“Li Yushan used wood element ability to seal all the doors, and he said if the walls were forcibly destroyed, those inside using the wood element for healing would be in danger.”

Wei Jinghang explained from the side.

“Wood element ability? Like this?”

Su Jin waved her hand, and the vines obediently retreated to the sides, revealing a wooden door that creaked open.

Wei Jinghang had no time to be surprised before seeing the shocking scene inside.

There lay a row of seemingly sleeping men and women, with slender green branches growing from their bodies, especially from their heads and faces. Behind them were thick vine roots, and upon closer inspection, the slender green branches were all connected to the roots behind them.

“Zhang Yu! Xiao Guan!”

Wei Jinghang’s teeth clenched in rage. He had previously suspected his teammates weren’t brought here for healing; there were no healers here.

“Those mutated plants are absorbing nutrients.”

Su Jin had previously guessed there were mutated plants here and suspected that the near-death people Mao Qiqi mentioned might have been trapped by mutated plants, but she didn’t guess that these people were trapped here by human intervention in such a manner.

“Oh my, how can humans do this?”

Lin Xiuyuan couldn’t bear to look; those slender green branches were like straws, rhythmically sucking something from those people’s bodies.

In the past, when Su Jin punished those who overestimated themselves, it was only to warn others with wood element ability, never like this…

“Xiao Jin, can they still be saved?”

Huang Yunxiang squatted down and shook one of the people, but the person on the ground had no response.

“I’m not sure… They must have been like this for a long time.”

Su Jin said.

“I beg you, many of these are my teammates, please save them!”

Wei Jinghang unexpectedly knelt down.

Su Jin was also quite angry. She knew some of Wei Jinghang’s teammates, although in her past life their relationship was average, but…

She couldn’t just watch them being wantonly abused like this!

“Get up, I’ll do my best.”

Su Jin helped Wei Jinghang up and then walked to the thick roots next to them.

Was Li Yushan, like her, a wood element ability user, capable of nurturing mutated plants and controlling them?

Su Jin summoned Xiao Cui as she pondered, letting it try to discover the essence of these mutated plants.

The family watched as Su Jin placed her hand on the mutated tree root and closed her eyes, not disturbing her, but instead stood on guard around her.

“By the way, that guy with the surname Hu and Li Yushan, they didn’t look like good people from the start, how could you fall for them?”

Lu Guanhai took the opportunity to ask Wei Jinghang about the situation.

“We weren’t tricked by them; it was the previous team of special ability users who were. At the time, we were also looking for a place to rest, and like you, our car broke down halfway, then those people appeared…”

Wei Jinghang slowly explained.

Li Yushan would have those who were tricked bring others over, and then he would let the previous batch go, which is why they easily fell into the trap.

“That’s not right, what’s his purpose then, why use the seeds to control you for a while and then promise to let you go?”

Lin Xiuyuan found too many unreasonable points here, and he didn’t think Li Yushan would just release people.

“He said that the mutated plants he nurtured need some nutrients from human bodies, and those who meet the conditions to be released would have seeds taken out, which wouldn’t do much harm to the body, at most causing malnutrition.”

Wei Jinghang said, he had no choice, and the previous group that tricked them into coming over, Li Yushan said they had been released, and he hadn’t seen them again.

Being in a passive position, he and his teammates could only choose to believe, but later, teammates assigned various tasks disappeared one after another…

And now, he unexpectedly found most of them here!

“He didn’t plant seeds into your bodies.”

Su Jin had already opened her eyes and had heard Wei Jinghang’s words just now.

“But seeds did grow inside our bodies.”

Wei Jinghang said.

Su Jin shook her head, a small red fruit appeared in her hand, and the family recognized it as the red fruit that grew on the trees when they entered the village.

“This is a fruit from a mutated plant, which reproduces by parasitism. You must have come into contact with this fruit in some form, and its seeds naturally entered your bodies.”

Su Jin explained.

“Can Li Yushan take these seeds out of people’s bodies?”

Nie Qing curiously looked at the red fruit, initially wanting to touch it, but after Su Jin’s words, he didn’t dare to.

“I guess… he can’t.”

Su Jin used her special ability to destroy the fruit in her hand, then began manipulating the branches growing on the people.

Everyone waited quietly, Lin Xiuyuan noticed the straw-like branches were no longer swelling as they sucked.

In other words, Su Jin had stopped the mutated plants from feeding.

“I understand, these are just ordinary mutated plants that feed on humans, and Li Yushan is merely an unskilled wood element ability user.”

Lu Hao said.

Su Jin nodded with a smile, they had overestimated Li Yushan previously.

“I originally wanted to directly destroy these mutated plants, but the priority now is to save these people first.”

Su Jin said.

Poof~

A sound of something being pulled came from the bodies on the ground, followed by the slender green branches retreating back to the mutated tree roots as if frightened by something.

Wei Jinghang looked at Su Jin’s series of actions with joy. He had only heard that Su Jin from the Heart Talk Team was a wood element ability user, but he didn’t expect she really had a way.

And compared to Li Yushan, he clearly felt Su Jin wasn’t on the same level as Li Yushan as a wood element ability user.