Chapter 252 - 219: Little Kui Blooms

Chapter 252: Chapter 219: Little Kui Blooms

"This should be in the Wilderness..." Huai Yu was a bit puzzled.

Zhou Qian thought for a moment and replied, "If there’s no record of this place after five years of exploring the Wilderness, there’s only one possibility—it’s extremely dangerous."

So dangerous that no one had ever set foot there.

But this wasn’t absolute. After all, the Defense Army mostly did preliminary and guiding work; they couldn’t follow into the deeper battles. So Zhou Qian suggested, "I’ll contact some friends later. If anyone knows someone in the Guard Army, I’ll ask them to look into this place."

"But..." He flipped Huai Yu’s flatbread drawing over and over again, studying it. "Some plants are exclusive, like Kuang Biao. Its root system is too developed, and it plunders resources far more aggressively than other trees, which is why its bamboo quickly forms a forest. But in the Wilderness, most plants will even cooperate with mutated animals. If such a large clearing suddenly appears, then the single plant in that clearing is likely the strongest within a hundred-meter radius."

And the large lump of "filling" in the center of the flatbread drawing, according to Huai Yu’s description, was a bizarre, leafless giant tree.

Zhou Qian frowned. "Little Yu, whether your dream is real or not, and regardless of why you had it, this place is very dangerous. I’m afraid even the Guard Army wouldn’t dare approach it carelessly."

However, he was also a bit curious. "Why exactly did you dream about Lin Xuefeng? Shouldn’t your dreams replay your own memories?"

Huai Yu’s face fell.

Even if it was a nightmare—well, dreaming about Lin Xuefeng dying was indeed quite a nightmare. But it was still better than her own memories!

It was truly a blessing that she had lost her memory; she didn’t want to know about those disgusting scenes at all.

"I don’t know," she replied stiffly and coldly.

Zhou Qian sighed. "Your ability is too strange. We can’t tell anyone about it right now, nor can we guarantee that what you saw in the dream is real. Otherwise, with General Lin’s whereabouts at stake, there would definitely be many willing to take the risk..."

In short, his vigilance returned. "Until the events of your dream are verified, you are absolutely not allowed to go to the Wilderness alone!

"After all, based on the scene you saw, if it’s true, General Lin would have absolutely no..." Zhou Qian swallowed the rest of his sentence and looked out at the large expanse of wasteland. "How about we just plant more vegetables for now."

Huai Yu nodded. "I know!"

She wasn’t stupid. Lin Xuefeng was very important, but so was Zhou Qian! And she herself was the most important of all!

Without a plan and foolproof preparation, how could she recklessly go on an adventure? The Wilderness was so vast, and she didn’t even know the location. Was she supposed to just wander in and rely on the will of heaven?

But planting vegetables was serious business. She nodded and said, "Then you go ahead and continue clearing the vegetable garden. I’ll go purify the vegetables."

Yesterday, she had been worrying about this massive undertaking, but today, she had already regrouped and was full of fighting spirit, determined to take this opportunity to properly train her abilities!

Zhou Qian had only brought up clearing the vegetable garden to divert Huai Yu’s attention. But when he took out the hoe and tentatively found an empty spot next to the garden to start digging, he broke out in another layer of hot sweat.

Looking up at the sky, the sun had only just climbed halfway up. But clearly, the temperature had skyrocketed once again after the heavy rain.

In this kind of weather, even a Superpower User wouldn’t be able to work, right?

He paused and decisively put the hoe away. However, just as he stepped toward the storage shed, something seemed to catch the corner of his eye. He subconsciously looked up at the roof.

Behind the house was a patch of brilliant golden color, exceptionally eye-catching.

At this moment, Huai Yu was standing at the corner of the house, staring wide-eyed at the sight before her.

After several consecutive days of polluted rain, many robust bamboo shoots had sprouted in the bamboo forest. Kuang Biao’s irritable mood was clearly difficult to vent, but after being beaten by the Rose Corridor in the rain, it had begrudgingly behaved itself.

Because the rain had been so heavy, the bamboo forest tunnel hadn’t been able to completely block it. The ground was a muddy mess, and the air was heavy with dampness; it would still need a day or two to dry out.

But Huai Yu had no time to pay attention to any of this. She only stared in utter shock at the large patch of sunflowers she had planted behind the house.

Before the rainstorm, the sunflowers had been just over a meter tall, with the most robust ones barely surpassing two meters. Small flower buds were wrapped within their top leaves, showing no rush to bloom as if they were still trying hard to grow taller.

But now, the tallest sunflower had grown to over four meters, far exceeding the height of the roof. Right in its center, an enormous flower disk—larger than her washbasin—had unfurled its plump body.

The petals weren’t the yellow she had imagined a sunflower would have, but rather a brilliant golden hue. Along the edges, sharp reflections could faintly be seen, making it look like a circular saw fitted with countless blades.

In a daze, Huai Yu couldn’t help but wonder: "Will they move on their own? Can they chop down trees?

"And with a flower disk this big, will there be more sunflower seeds? If one disk can fill an entire basin with seeds, that would be absolute bliss! But I never noticed the polluted rain could suddenly mutate plants like this before."

She recalled the inspection station staff mentioning a Mutant Value of 23 when handing the seeds over. She guessed that plants with such high Mutant Values were inherently unstable in their traits, making them prone to sudden mutations under extreme conditions.

But it didn’t matter. Regardless of their Mutant Value, she would still be able to eat them.

"Could Kuang Biao’s influence actually be at play here?" she thought.

Huai Yu leaned closer and asked softly, "Little Kui?"

"What?! Little Kui?!" Kuang Biao snapped out of its sluggish state. Its bamboo leaves RUSTLED wildly as it subconsciously looked toward its girlfriend’s location.

Then, the entire bamboo forest seemed to hit the pause button.

"Little Kui!"

Kuang Biao cried out, "How did you suddenly grow so big?"

It gestured at its own height. "Stop growing, stop growing! If you grow any taller, I won’t be able to shield you from the rain."

Then it chuckled foolishly. "But your flower bloomed so big! My flowers are way too small... You look so pretty!"

The sunflowers before them didn’t speak, and the one that had bloomed the largest, most beautiful, and most robust remained completely motionless.

Huai Yu could vaguely sense its emotions and found that its state of mind was exceptionally stable. Basking under the blazing sun, it harbored none of the irritability or wild thoughts typical of mutated plants.

Looking over at the bamboo forest on the other side, she was truly afraid that Kuang Biao would get lovestruck and uncontrollably extend its roots over again. So, she warned it once more, "Even if it has bloomed, you still can’t cross the boundary. Otherwise, the next time the Rose Corridor beats you up, I’ll have it pull out all your bamboos, leaving only a tiny root. Let’s see how you date then!"

But Kuang Biao was already ignoring her, instead speaking in a pretentious, literary tone: "The moment I saw you, my true feelings flowed through my chest, and a breathtakingly beautiful love poem naturally welled up...

"Little Kui, I will recite it to you right now."