In the underground shelter hall of the White City Rail Station, the air seemed completely frozen.
Crackle, crackle, crackle!
The lighting system created by Lin Xian emitted a strange flicker, and a crimson hue began to fill the entire space.
Lin Xian, Chen Sixuan, KIKI, Brother Huo, and Shi Zhi stood in a line at this moment, all with tense expressions, like facing a great enemy!
Numerous crimson tentacles slowly grew in all directions. At the center was an egg sac emitting a faint glow and covered with blood-red veins, seemingly expanding with some liquid. Finally, the crimson object expanded to cover an entire wall before stopping, yet the smooth red tentacles continued to sway, looking eerily frightening!
"Lin Xian, should we take action?" KIKI whispered,
Lu Xingchen watched intently, flames in his hands, ready to act at any moment.
Lin Xian assumed a ready stance. It was tide time, and if they were marked, hiding in this sealed underground room would be a dead end, surrounded by endless Abnormal Bodies. So, he was prepared to use the Gravitational Lens at any cost to eliminate this strange thing immediately.
But strangely, after the crimson object emerged, there was no further movement. The Soul Swinging Value Detector detected no Dark Mark, and aside from the terrifying crimson sight, there seemed to be no abnormalities.
No attack, no sound.
Everyone only saw countless tentacles moving slowly.
Shi Zhi, standing beside Lin Xian, looked tense, whispering into the communicator, "There’s a strong dark aura, and...outside too."
By outside, she meant the passenger hall and the rail station inside.
Thud, thud, thud, clang, clang, clang~
Even through thick layers of decking, Lin Xian could hear the sound of numerous creatures crawling and wandering from the parking lot above and even the rail station, transmitted through the concrete structure, making one’s scalp tingle.
Even the signal was severely affected by the rising tide. Just then, Chen Sixuan suddenly spoke up,
"Lin Xian, something’s coming down!"
Hearing this, Lin Xian looked at the crimson thing, frowning, "We clearly don’t have a Dark Mark. Could it be attracted to this thing?"
"KIKI, Brother Huo..."
"Lin!"
Just as Lin Xian was about to call on some of them to act against the crimson object, Mochizuki Masashi’s voice suddenly came through the headset. The signal delay finally delivered Shi Zhi’s returned footage, and Mochizuki Masashi said to Lin Xian,
"That’s a Disaster Plant. Quickly remove it, or many Abnormal Bodies will detect it. Its lure is on par with a prey mark!"
As soon as they heard it, Lin Xian and the others’ expressions changed drastically. A Disaster Plant?
Does that look like a plant?
Shi Zhi, hearing Shinji’s words, also realized and exclaimed, "Right! We encountered one on the third night in Star Abyss. Although it wasn’t quite like this one, it grew along the shelter’s pathway. Lan pulled it out and collected it. Its properties are still unclear, but it’s definitely a Disaster Plant."
Pointing to the giant crimson egg sac, she continued, "Get it off first, or it will attract many Abnormal Bodies."
"KIKI!" Hearing Shi Zhi’s words, Lin Xian without hesitation ordered KIKI to act.
KIKI nodded, bit down, and immediately advanced using telekinesis to seize the crimson thing covered in countless tentacles clinging to the wall, then yanked fiercely.
Rip-rip!
In an instant, everyone heard the sound of wall and biological tissue being crazily torn apart. Under KIKI’s telekinesis, the crimson thing seemed startled, with numerous tentacles writhing rapidly. However, the next moment it was entirely ripped from the wall by KIKI’s powerful telekinesis, with countless red plasma spraying, wall skin falling, and the shadows of dense tentacles twisting and swaying madly in the flickering light within the shelter hall, creating quite a terrifying scene!
KIKI shouted, pulling back with his right hand, and the crimson thing, like a giant sea anemone, was finally torn down, immediately staining half the hall’s floor and walls with the ’plasma’. Just then, the flickering lights promptly stopped, and the innumerable tentacles on the crimson object ceased moving after being detached.
Lin Xian and the others couldn’t help but step back at this scene, while the agitated noises from the floors above gradually faded, and the crawling sounds from deep underground ceased abruptly.
Chen Sixuan looked around, holding her breath, and all she saw was the tentacles on the fallen crimson object rapidly losing color, shrinking, and dissolving into a puddle of reddish-brown liquid on the floor. The large glowing egg sac wriggled, its light gradually dimming until it split open, leaving only thick liquid on the ground. At the very center, a crimson Blood Vine emerged, with a few leaves sparsely visible, looking like a seedling.
"It really is a Disaster Plant!"
Chen Sixuan was shocked. This was the first time they saw a Disaster Plant growing like this, but does this look like a plant? Clearly, some bizarre creature parasitized a plant causing this anomaly.
Seeing this, Lin Xian looked slightly intense, raising his hand to create a Plant Cultivation Chamber like the one previously holding the regional black chrysanthemum. Out of caution, he instructed KIKI to telekinetically fetch the Blood Vine.
With a flick of her finger, KIKI had the finger-thick, mere ten-centimeter-long Blood Vine twistingly fly over, then Lin Xian placed it into the sealed Plant Cultivation Chamber. On closer inspection, the vine’s exterior resembled the smooth skin of those crimson tentacles earlier; without the leaves, it didn’t look like a plant at all.