🔥 Boss's Death Guide 🔥 by Jue Jue
Chapter 138: The Jujube Tree
Although the monkey was eager to take them somewhere, Nie Yi and Qi Jingchen still took a detour to the warehouse and brought along Qi An and Xiaomao before joining the monkey.
There shouldn't be any other danger in this area except for zombies. With Qi Jingchen around, they didn't have to worry about zombies. However, bringing along Qi An gave them an extra layer of protection. If they found something good along the way, they could just put it directly into Xiaomao's space.
"Where are we going?" This time, Qi An wasn't holding Xiaomao but had given her to Nie Yi. He was casually walking around Qi Jingchen, and at this moment, he ran ahead of Qi Jingchen and walked backward while talking to him.
"Following the monkey." Qi Jingchen pointed to the monkey that was running ahead of them.
Qi An pouted, turned around to look at Little Monkey, and said, "This monkey's butt is really ugly!" He then ran up and flicked the tip of the monkey's tail with his finger.
The monkey's tail swung to avoid his finger, but Qi An was reincarnated. His strength was not bad, and he accurately flicked the monkey's tail. After doing it, he burst into laughter.
"..." This mischievous child!
"Qi An, how old is your mental age?" Nie Yi sneered.
"I'm still a kid, can't you see?" When he said this, his eyes were filled with nostalgia, but also some confusion.
"Let's go, we'll take you on a trip." Qi Jingchen said. When they met Qi An in their past lives, everyone's days were difficult. Qi An didn't even have the chance to go out and play, let alone eat enough.
"Okay!" Qi An continued to happily chase after the monkey.
Near their city, some plants had turned black, but as they entered the forest, everything got better. The plants were lush, trees were shaded, and the dark atmosphere was suppressed.
Qi Jingchen felt very comfortable in the forest. Little Monkey was even more excited and did not run on the ground, but instead swung on the trees and ran forward quickly.
Little Monkey urged them back and forth. When it saw any water puddles or bricks, it stepped on them. However, Nie Yi and Qi Jingchen did not hurry to follow, but walked leisurely in the forest.
They had experience finding food in the forest from their past lives. Although they didn't know all edible things, they could still find a lot.
"This is an edible wild vegetable." Qi Jingchen pointed to a clump of vegetables under a tree. Nie Yi used his ice blade to dig it out of the ground along with the soil, then put Xiaomao down.
Xiaomao picked up all the wild vegetables. If they put live animals into her space, they would die, but if they put plants in, they could be planted alive later.
This wasn't the first time Xiaomao collected wild vegetables dug up by Nie Yi. After collecting them all this time, she said seriously, "I'll walk by myself."
"Okay, Xiaomao can walk by herself." Qi Jingchen knew that children liked to walk on interesting paths. They liked to look for water puddles or bricks to step on. He didn't stop Xiaomao and let Qi An watch her. After that, the group continued to walk slowly forward.
Little Monkey continued to urge them. Later, it didn't work, so it just shrugged and came to Xiaomao. It kept swaying in the trees and even grew a shrub, picking the berries on it and giving them to Xiaomao to eat.
They slowly went deeper into the forest, and by the afternoon, Nie Yi made a meal for Qi Jingchen using the materials at hand.
The taste of many wild animals was actually mediocre. After boiling the bird Nie Yi caught, it was very fishy and could only be consumed reluctantly. This was because animals raised and vegetables planted were often bred for taste.
After they finished eating, they continued moving forward.
"How long will it take to get there?" Nie Yi grabbed the monkey and asked. He had crossed a mountain with Qi Jingchen and saw that Qi Jingchen was exhausted.
The monkey couldn't speak, but just grinned and showed its teeth. It even stretched out its hand to imitate Nie Yi's movement to grab him.
"Let's pick up our pace." Qi Jingchen looked at Nie Yi. The place where Little Monkey was taking them was farther than they had imagined. If they continued to be slow, they wouldn't know when they would get there.
They sped up, but it was already dark when they arrived at their destination.
Nie Yi even looked around and felt it was unfamiliar. He had gone deep into the Dabie Mountains before, but he really didn't recognize the mountain roads here.
While it was still not completely dark, Nie Yi went out to find some firewood and caught two rabbits. With the addition of the food in Xiaomao's space, their dinner was sumptuous.
"I'm going to learn how to raise rabbits well in the future." Qi An swore as he ate the rabbit.
"You said you were going to learn how to raise chickens well before." Nie Yi glanced at him before placing a rabbit leg in Qi Jingchen's bowl.
Qi An silently sped up his eating.
There were tents in Xiaomao's space, and they slept in them at night. Qi An and Xiaomao slept in one tent, and Nie Yi and Qi Jingchen slept in another.
Squeezed together with their loved ones in one tent, it was inevitable that something would happen.
Although they couldn't move very freely due to the small space, they both felt very satisfied and even felt it was exciting to do it secretly.
The next day, Qi Jingchen and Nie Yi ate something, purified the place where they camped the night before using their ability, and then continued to follow the little monkey. Their speed this time was much faster than yesterday, and as they neared noon, they finally arrived at their destination.
The little monkey led Nie Yi and Qi Jingchen to a narrow valley, or rather, it could not even be called a valley, but a crack the mountain.
The monkey was small and disappeared into the crack. Nie Yi and Qi Jingchen looked around, and finally chose a larger gap to slowly climb down.
The gap on top of the valley was not very big, the widest part was only about two meters, but the bottom gradually became spacious. On both sides of the rock walls, many small grasses swayed their bodies in the wind.
The wind in the crack was strong, but the roots of these small grasses were deeply rooted in the cracks, making them tenacious. In the end, Qi Jingchen couldn't help giving them a little light energy.
The monkey stared fiercely at the grass and continued walking down. Qi Jingchen, however, had nowhere to step on - the mountain wall was difficult to climb!
"Let Qi An go down first and take us down later." Nie Yi suggested as he crawled down the crack first and stayed under Qi Jingchen the entire way. This way, he could catch Qi Jingchen if he couldn't hold on.
Qi Jingchen looked down and felt dizzy. Suddenly, he didn’t want to climb down anymore, so he slowly climbed back up to the valley above.
"Boss? What's it like down there?" Qi An saw Qi Jingchen and immediately asked. He actually wanted to climb the cliff himself, but Qi Jingchen didn't agree before.
"We haven't gone down yet. Use your ability to teleport down and take a look." Nie Yi climbed up behind Qi Jingchen and said immediately.
Qi An cheered and directly teleported to the bottom of the valley. After confirming that the little monkey wanted them to go there, he came back up to the top and first brought Nie Yi down, then Qi Jingchen.
Teleportation was very magical. Qi Jingchen felt the space in front of him sway, and then he appeared at the bottom of the valley, stepping on soft mud.
Or rather, not mud, but a thick layer of fallen leaves.
Perhaps because there were always dead branches and leaves falling into this valley and rotting, there was a thick layer of mud in the valley. On top of this layer of mud, there was a big tree.
This big tree was very large, perhaps to get more sunlight. It had been growing towards the entrance of the valley and was very, very tall, about twenty meters tall. Unfortunately, even so, it was still far from the entrance of the crack.
"What kind of tree is this?" Qi Jingchen asked subconsciously. Except for this tree, there were no other plants at the bottom of the valley - the fallen leaves on the ground were too thick to allow any grass to grow. Wait a minute, this tree gave him the feeling...
"Jujube tree." Nie Yi said. He had come down first and happened to see the little monkey picking some jujubes on the tree.
"Can jujube trees grow this big?" Qi An came down holding Xiaomao, and asked in amazement. Speaking of which, the trunk of the tree wasn't thick to the point of being outrageous. An adult could embrace it, but the tree was too tall.
"Something is strange." Nie Yi said, looking up. At this time, the little monkey was climbing down the tree and giving Nie Yi and Qi Jingchen a jujube each.
"There shouldn't be any jujubes left now, right?" Qi Jingchen took the jujube and whispered.
The tree in front of them and the feeling given by the jujube in his hand was similar to that of a mutant plant! Of course, the energy contained within it was different from any other mutant plant he had seen before, but it was somewhat similar to the energy on the little monkey ...
Thinking this way, Qi Jingchen suddenly put his hand on the trunk of the jujube tree. At the same time, he felt a surging energy inside the tree.
That kind of energy was exactly the same as the plant system ability!
This was a mutant plant!
Mutant plants were generally small because the energy of various factors in the air was not enough for a large plant to mutate. It was precisely because of this that anyone who sensed a mutant plant and wanted to have abilities had to eat the whole mutant plant!
But now, there was a huge mutant plant in front of them. This plant was so huge that it was incredible, and the energy inside it was also incredible!
If they brought back this mutated plant, would it be possible for a large group of plant ability users to appear in their safe zone? Qi Jingchen was both shocked and happy for a moment, but soon he suppressed the excitement.
Plant ability users were very rare, and there are few people had such talent. Even if he brought back the mutated plant, there probably weren’t many people who would awaken their abilities...
Qi Jingchen was disappointed, but then felt he was thinking too much. Even if their safe zone only had one more plant ability user, it would be good!
No wonder the little monkey brought them here, there was such a good thing here, which could even create many plant ability users...
But...it may not be a simple task to bring this tree back.
Xiaomao was bouncing the leaves. Qi Jingchen asked her, "Xiaomao, can you fit this tree into your space?"
The Xiaomao looked at the tree and hesitated before shaking her head.
The tree was very tall. It was normal that Xiaomao's space couldn’t fit it... Qi Jingchen wasn't surprised and immediately said to Nie Yi, "Since we can't take it with us, let's just take some jujubes back. The energy contained in one jujube can already rival that of a regular mutated plant."
"The tree no longer has any jujubes on it," Nie Yi said. "The taller and larger the jujube tree grows, the deeper its roots grow, and the fewer jujubes it bears. There weren't many jujubes on the tree to begin with, and now they've all been eaten by that monkey, except the ones in our hands."
If the roots and trunk of a jujube tree are too long, it will consume the energy obtained from photosynthesis and reduce the amount of jujubes it bears. Therefore, after a few years of harvest, jujube tree farmers often cut off its roots.
Qi Jingchen didn't know this, but he knew Nie Yi was right. His hometown was in the countryside where many people planted fruit trees in front and behind their homes and ate the fruits they produced, and jujubes were commonly grown.
This kind of tree was very strange, with many jujubes when it was small, but bearing fewer and fewer as it grew taller and larger.
Looking up at the branches of the jujube tree and scanning them with his spiritual power, Qi Jingchen found that there were indeed no jujubes on them, and the little monkey was still chewing.
It was clear that the monkey was able to awaken its plant ability by eating those jujubes.
"We'll just take some branches back?" Qi Jingchen suggested. The entire tree had mutated, and its branches and leaves were probably just as effective. And those who can awaken their plant abilities...they probably wouldn't mind nibbling a tree branch or two, even if jujube tree branches were abnormally strong...
"I'll dig it out and carry it back!" Nie Yi said. "This place is too far from our city. Leaving it here, it might be invaded by dark energy, we might as well bring it back."
Thinking of the dark world in the later stages of the apocalypse, Qi Jingchen also wanted to take the tree back, but it was such a big tree...
"I'll just make an ice path and drag it back," Nie Yi said, seeing Qi Jingchen's hesitation.
"Xiaomao, bring out the hoe," Qi Jingchen said.
Qi Jingchen and Nie Yi dug for a long time before they dug out some of the roots of this giant jujube tree, and at the same time, they found it almost impossible to dig out all the roots of this jujube tree.
After some thought, they gritted their teeth and finally cut off the few giant roots of the jujube tree that were already as thick as a person’s waist.
After it got dark, they turned on a batter powered lamp and continued to work. Finally, they dug the big jujube tree out of the mud.
The big tree was about to fall when Nie Yi held it up. His physical fitness had improved a lot, so he could even carry such a big tree on his shoulder!
It was at this time they realized one thing. The gap above the crack was only about two meters wide. To get the tree out, they must trim the branches...
"Uncle, do you want to bring the tree back?" Xiaomao suddenly asked.
"Yes," Qi Jingchen said to Xiaomao, and also began to consider where to cut the tree.
Then...the tree disappeared.
"Can you fit the tree into your space, Xiaomao?" Qi Jingchen looked at Xiaomao in surprise and suddenly felt that he might have picked up a treasure - Xiaomao's space was obviously larger than he imagined! But now that he thought about it, if Xiaomao's ability weren't so strong, he wouldn't have been able to sense it from afar.
"I can," Xiaomao said.
"Why did you say you couldn't earlier?" Nie Yi frowned.
Nie Yi's face was cold. Xiaomao may have been frightened, because she retreated a step and hid behind Qi An. She was aggrieved as she said, "The tree wasn't dug up just now."
This reason made sense. If the tree wasn't dug up, she wouldn't have been able to put the tree into her space...
Qi Jingchen was amused. Nie Yi looked at Xiaomao’s frightened expression and condensed a small jujube tree out of ice for her.
Xiaomao took the ice tree and became happy at once, and was no longer afraid of Nie Yi. At this time, Qi Jingchen frowned and looked at the big pit next to him: "The energy of the plant system here is even more dense now that the jujube tree is gone..."
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