Chapter 485: Passionately Opening the Mic

Chapter 485: Chapter 485: Passionately Opening the Mic

After destroying the research institute and killing almost half the researchers, the mutated plant seemed to have lost its appetite for people.

Afterward, it just focused on collapsing buildings. At least, that was the case in the core residential area. There weren’t many casualties, but the property damage was extremely severe!

Lily Hart scanned the surroundings but saw no sign of the mutated plant.

But she could imagine how it attacked: a massive wave of green vines surging forward, crushing everything with a deafening ROAR.

"Can you see it, Sys?" Lily Hart asked.

Her eyes were starting to ache from searching, but she still couldn’t spot it. All around her, members of The Guardian Corps and other superpower users bustled back and forth, their footsteps a cacophony of noise.

"I can’t. Only you can see it," Sys replied.

Lily Hart cursed internally. ’Damn it, show yourself already.’

A thought suddenly struck her. ’The plant is only attacking important areas. Could the next one be the warehouse?’

Elder Shaw was thinking the same thing. Their eyes met across Roman Rowe, and they spoke at the same time:

"The warehouse!"

"The communication tower!"

They both heard what the other had said and, surprisingly, thought the other’s idea made sense.

Elder Shaw couldn’t worry about the details. "Go, go, go! We’ll split into two teams. One team to the warehouse, one to the communication tower!"

Elder Shaw formed one team with the High-level Superpower Users from Central Command and rushed toward the communication tower.

Lily Hart, meanwhile, formed the other team with her shop managers and headed for the warehouse.

Neither side wasted any more words. They just exchanged a look and hurried off.

Lily Hart was leading her group in a frantic rush when, after just a few dozen meters, a crucial question occurred to her.

"Does anyone know where the warehouse is?" Lily Hart asked hesitantly.

Roman Rowe timidly raised his hand. "I do. Follow me. I used to be stationed at Central Command."

Even in such a tense moment, Lily Hart couldn’t help but praise him. "That’s great."

’If no one had known, she could have just asked Sys for a map of Central Command.’

After a brief pause, the group set off again.

The warehouse was located in the southwest sector of Central Command, under heavy guard twenty-four hours a day.

Because it covered a large area, there were no residents or other buildings nearby, leaving room for future expansion.

When Lily Hart and her group rushed over, they found the warehouse still completely intact.

Dozens of massive, iron-roofed sheds sat neatly in rows.

These maintained the daily operations of Central Command and were considered part of the logistics department’s jurisdiction.

Everyone breathed a sigh of relief. Panting from the mad dash, they quickly tried to catch their breath.

It was unclear whether the mutated plant had no intention of attacking the warehouse, or if it simply hadn’t gotten to it yet.

The thought had barely crossed her mind when Lily Hart caught a glimpse of a familiar green shape in her peripheral vision.

In the blink of an eye, a dense mass of vines filled her entire field of vision.

"Watch out behind you!" Lily Hart yelled, quickly telling Sys to raise the Protective Shield.

’She had her Protective Clothing, so she wasn’t afraid for herself, but she worried her shop managers wouldn’t react in time and get hurt.’

But no one who managed to become a first-prize shop owner was weak.

Hearing Lily Hart’s shout, they immediately dropped into a defensive stance, hitting the ground in perfect unison.

They covered their heads with their arms and curled into a ball, their first instinct to protect themselves.

Lily Hart was also tackled to the ground by Frost Shaw, a thick wall of ice materializing behind him to protect them both.

An instant later, a tremendous, terrifying pressure crushed down on everyone.

’In that moment, Lily Hart felt like an ant being stepped on by an elephant.’

Luckily, she had her Protective Clothing. Although she felt the pressure, she suffered no actual harm.

The ice wall, however, shattered in an instant. Frost Shaw’s Adam’s apple bobbed as he forced down the blood that had risen in his throat.

"Protect the warehouse!" Lily Hart said decisively, scrambling to her feet.

’That damn plant is definitely going for the warehouse.’ Just as Lily Hart got up,

the first iron-roofed shed was crushed. ’How infuriating! Even the sheet metal is bent out of shape!’

A wave of fear washed over the others. If it hadn’t been for Lily Hart’s warning, if they hadn’t put up their defenses in time,

would they have been the ones crushed and bent out of shape?

But there was no time for such thoughts. The second iron-roofed shed had already been crushed.

Needless to say, the supplies inside were completely destroyed.

Lily Hart was furious. ’Most of these supplies were purchased from her! Even though they paid, it still hurt to see them destroyed!’

She was so angry she shouted, "You damn plant, stop and fight me one-on-one if you’ve got the guts! What’s so great about destroying a warehouse?! You’re just a piece of trash!"

Since she wasn’t speaking a human language, but the language of plants, Frost Shaw and the others just looked on in confusion.

’What is she babbling about?’

Another blink, and Lily Hart saw that it had actually stopped. The undulating, wave-like advance ceased.

Now it wasn’t moving at all, giving it the dazed look of something frozen in place.

Lily Hart’s eyes lit up. ’It’s working?’

She kept on yelling, "Come on! Come over here if you’ve got the guts, you little piece of trash! Don’t think no one can see you just because you’re invisible. I’m telling you, I can see you!"

It remained still, perhaps truly pondering why this stinking human could see it.

’Wait, the scent on her... it’s so familiar.’

Unable to resist, it sent out a small tendril, which slithered across the ground like a green snake.

Of course, Lily Hart couldn’t see this. She was still in the middle of her passionate tirade.

The small tendril quickly reached Lily Hart’s side and circled her feet several times.

Then it rapidly crept back to the main body and successfully merged with it.

After a moment of description and shared sensation, it remembered. ’She has the fragrant scent of the soil on her.’

’No wonder it’s so familiar, so comforting.’

’But so what?! At her core, she’s still a stinking human! An accursed human! A human who doesn’t know what’s good for her!’

Seeing that it still wasn’t moving, Lily Hart couldn’t figure out what it was thinking and could only continue her tirade.

The others couldn’t see anything at all. They could only follow Lily Hart’s gaze, but all they saw was the collapsed warehouse.

Lily Hart eventually ran out of insults, so she simply summoned a bunch of plants.

"Come on, you’re all plants. You guys curse it out for me. A group effort should be simple, right?"

There was the Sunflower that had carried her earlier, a willow tree, a sea buckthorn, Laurel, and Tulip.

Each one was enormous, but all of them together were still no match for the ocean of green...

Lily Hart really wanted to know. ’Just what Rank is this mutated plant?’

’How can it be so powerful? Is this for real?’

Suddenly faced with so many other plants, it grew even more bewildered and no longer seemed in a hurry to crush the warehouse.

It split off a small avatar, which appeared before the group of plants and actually started... chatting?

"Where did you all come from?" it asked.

Lily Hart heard and saw everything clearly, so she decided to just sit down on one of Sunflower’s leaves and take a break.

Tulip exuded a rich fragrance. If she hadn’t been deliberately holding it back,

a single whiff would be enough to make any superpower user below the Fifth Rank faint instantly.

Her pink pistils bloomed, radiant and beautiful. She swayed, pointing a slender leaf at Lily Hart.

"Because of her. We were summoned by her," Tulip said.

It glanced at Lily Hart with some disdain. "Why? And who is she?"