Chapter 19

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The collapse of the broken temple began from the roof, and the hollow and decayed beams could not support the weight of the stones, making a rumbling sound, then suddenly breaking and smashing down.

Zhong Yin’s way forward was blocked by large and small gravel rain, and a cracked beam blocked the retreat behind her. She raised her hand in front of her to block the dust and dry rain. She looked up with difficulty and saw that the roof had broken out. Several huge holes could be seen clearly under the bright moonlight, and the yellow flowers made people’s skin numb one after another between the green creepers.

The stamens, like rows of teeth, swayed in the wind, as if they were chewing flesh and blood, aftertaste the sweet taste of human beings.

The repetitive and dense scene made Zhong Yin couldn’t help but take a breath.

“Captain, Zhong Yin is still in there!” Xiaowen shouted in panic. She subconsciously approached Jiang Huan’s direction but heard an anxious roar from the lieutenant in the distance, “Zhang Xiaowen! Back off!”

Xiaowen quickly stopped moving forward. In the next second, a cloud of green-yellow acidic liquid rubbed the front end of her hood and spilled onto the land. The tip of the hood that was rubbed was instantly corroded, and a large piece of it was gone. The brown soil directly burned, turned black and sank deep.

“…” Xiaowen’s pupils shrank suddenly, and her pale lips trembled under the mask.

On the other hand, the lieutenant’s hoarse cry obviously made Yao Wuque even more irritable. He stared straight at the temple with both eyes. Zhong Yin slept in the innermost place. She was also the one who was most likely to be trapped in the house and unable to get out. What happened to Sister Xiaowen? Did she also encounter an accident when she rescued Zhong Yin?

If…If the captain hadn’t adopted Jiang Tong, he wouldn’t have to stay here to protect a useless bear child.

Shen Shanwu himself looked at all this calmly. There was always a rustling sound in his ears. It was the sound of branches and leaves rubbing together. It was not a special movement, but it was a bit strange.

“… Yao Wuque,” Shen Shanwu turned around cautiously, with a chaotic darkness behind him, “It doesn’t feel right.”

“Shut up.” Yao Wuque’s tone was so bad that he was blatantly angry.

Shen Shanwu pursed his lips slightly. He looked up and saw that Yao Wuque’s whole attention was on the side of the broken temple. He cautiously and quickly replaced the mutant’s pupils. The moment his black and red eyes appeared, everything around him was completely revealed. He looked around and lowered his head in confusion.

Suddenly, he pushed Yao Wuque away abruptly, so strong that Yao Wuque jumped out a meter and fell to the ground.

Yao Wuque’s thoughts were all on his teammates. He simply believed that their only enemy was the creeper that occupied the entire ancient temple, and the area where he and Jiang Tong were located was absolutely safe. When Jiang Tong slammed him away, he realized that he was ridiculously wrong.

He didn’t even know where Jiang Tong had such a lot of strength, but when Yao Wuque reacted from a daze in his mind, he realized that where he was standing, a stout green vine suddenly appeared directly below the ground. He was pushed away by Jiang Tong and survived, but Jiang Tong was entangled in the green vine around his waist and was lifted directly into the air.

“Jiang Tong!” Yao Wuque immediately got up from the ground, buckled his pistol and pulled out the knife from his umbrella. Shen Shanwu, who was hanging at an altitude of more than two meters, quickly shouted, “Be careful! The juice of these vines is corrosive!”

The green vines wrapped around the waist shrank tighter and tighter, and even three more rose from the ground, entangling Shen Shanwu’s legs and left hand, and the protective clothing and gloves smelled burnt in the slightly corrosive juice.

Yao Wuque couldn’t watch much anymore, so he raised his hand and slashed down at the roots of the vines. Fortunately, the creeper had not yet cultivated its ferocious body, and the sharp blade immediately cut off the vine that trapped Shen Shanwu’s left hand. Shen Shanwu felt a light touch on his left hand and immediately pulled the green vine entangled in it down.

“Don’t be afraid of Jiang Tong! Brother will save you right away!” Yao Wuque raised his head and shouted loudly. He was riveted and about to cut down the remaining vines, but he didn’t expect his waist to suddenly tighten. A thick green vine silently drilled out of the soil behind him, and it grew dozens of meters in the blink of an eye, tightly wrapping around his waist and abdomen, and then suddenly tightening.

Shen Shanwu only heard Yao Wuque let out a painful muffled hum, and then Yao Wuque suddenly fell face-to-face to the ground. With one hand, he tightly grasped everything he could grasp, such as weeds, soil, and stones, and with the other hand, he used his strength to insert the blade into the ground to stabilize his figure.

But all this was to no avail. After struggling for a few seconds, he seemed to be suddenly grabbed by a vicious and rapid great white shark on the bottom of the sea. He screamed and was quickly dragged for several meters before disappearing into the thick darkness in an instant.

That scene was more terrifying than a nightmare.

“Fuck.” Shen Shanwu cursed angrily, and the nails on his right hand instantly changed from pink and white to dark, sharp, and hard. He raised his hand and waved it neatly to cut off the vines that bound his legs, then fell lightly to the ground, retracted his nails, took off his troublesome helmet, and pulled out the umbrella knife around his waist.

Getting used to the nails of the mutant, he almost forgot his silent, sharp blade.

The matter on the broken temple side had still not been resolved. The yellow flowers with stronger acidity were even enough for the main force of the Shanhai team to have a potful. Shen Shanwu did not hesitate and left the place directly in the direction where Yao Wuque was engulfed.

The mutant creeper was very cunning and intelligent. After dragging its prey for tens of meters, it seemed to have discovered that its behavior would leave traces on the ground. Shen Shanwu tracked it halfway, and found that the traces such as knife marks, scratches, and strife suddenly disappeared, as if the creeper had disappeared out of thin air with Yao Wuque.

Perhaps these little tricks could cause a little trouble to humans, but for mutants, their keen sense of smell and hearing were enough to make them ignore any blindness in their vision.

The residual plant juice and the fishy smell of the soil guided the direction as obvious as if a road sign was engraved in the air. Shen Shanwu walked quickly through the dense jungle. The shiny blade reflected the bright moonlight, with a chilling cold, mercilessly cutting off all the branches and leaves that blocked the way.

The unique taste of the creeper became stronger and stronger. Shen Shanwu gradually slowed down. He looked around vigilantly, and his military boots stepped on the wet dead leaves and soil, splashing a little mud.

Waving away the branches that blocked his sight, a gentle and open area suddenly appeared in front of him. Shen Shanwu took a step forward and cautiously retracted it. He noticed that the touch under his feet was slightly strange, and he kicked away the dead leaves for concealment with the tip of his shoe. The roots and leaves of several green vines were indeed underneath.

There was something strange mixed in with the roots of the plant. Shen Shanwu squinted to see and found that it was a piece of clothing, cotton and linen textured, and the material did not belong to Yao Wuque.

His gaze looked to the side again, The mutant green vine was still squirming and undulating slightly, and a piece of phalanx with a little tendon was turned out of the soil under Shen Shanwu’s eyelids.

“…” For a while, it was impossible to see whether it belonged to Yao Wuqu.

He continued to look forward in the direction of the extension of the green vine, but on the ground fifteen meters away, there was a very strange bulge, like a small earthen bag, and like a burial mound for the dead.

“…” Shen Shanwu’s expression suddenly became cold. He quickly rushed over and poked away the dead branches and leaves that were spread above the ‘mound’, and where there was soil underneath, the tangled silk was all green vines, and the thick rhizomes were intertwined and wrapped into a huge pupa-like shape, and it was like a green heart, contracting and expanding slightly regularly.

Shen Shanwu cleaned up the rest of the debris covering the surface of the vine pupa again. He observed the huge mass for a while, found a place, and directly slashed it down with a knife, cutting off the top three vines.

The corrosive acid immediately gushed out of the fracture. Shen Shanwu tore open the broken vine indifferently, holding a long knife in his hand, and continued to cut down. At that moment, he regretted not letting Zhang Xiaowen equip him with another dagger. The umbrella knife was really not very handy.

About a dozen green vines were cut off, and a handful of black hair belonging to humans finally emerged from the bottom. Shen Shanwu inserted the knife back into his waist. Starting from this breach, he tore the vines fiercely with his bare hands.

The first thing that came out was a new metal mask, followed by a badly corroded protective clothing jacket. Most of Yao Wuque’s upper body was already exposed, and the skin above his waist was full of corroded and burned marks, and the skin was open and bloodstained.

“Yao Wuque! Yao Wuque!” Shen Shanwu couldn’t judge Yao Wuque’s current state of mind under the cover of the mask. He shouted the man’s name loudly, then quickly took off his protective clothing and wrapped it around Yao Wuque’s body.

The green vine was obviously unwilling to return the food that had been swallowed obediently. It shrank the rattan and tried to wrap Yao Wuque again, and wanted to attach another small snack that was delivered to the door.

Shen Shanwu held the back of Yao Wuqu’s neck with one hand and wielded a knife with the other, neatly cutting off a rattan that wanted to attack from behind his side.

The person in his arms kept whimpering in pain. He seemed to have regained his senses slightly. The fiery pain all over his body made Yao Wuque scream uncontrollably. He gasped and slowly turned his head. He actually saw a person who was beyond his expectations, “Jiang…Jiang Tong?”

“Hold on, the others will be here soon.” Shen Shanwu’s words were concise. Although the vines were easy to cut off, the trouble was endless, and he was not afraid and tireless. As soon as Shen Shanwu cut the green vine that entangled Yao Wuque’s left arm, his legs were rolled up in the blink of an eye, entangled him and dragged him down.

Yao Wuque saw that Jiang Tong was gradually shrinking from left to right, and the only inner shirt on his body was also being corroded by acid, but he, a person who should have served as a protector, was unable to move because his limbs were firmly tied, so he could only stand idly by and watch, “You go…”

Shen Shanwu continued to do his own business as if unheard.

“What can you do?! Go quickly!” Yao Wuque roared with all his strength, and this angry shout finally attracted Jiang Tong’s attention, although it was only a short second—and Jiang Tong actually laughed.

After laughing, he buried his head and continued to pull the green vine that entangled Yao Wuque’s waist and abdomen again, saying, “You’d better keep some strength and scream when you heal.”

Seeing that the vines entangling Yao Wuque’s waist were cut off, and the vines suffered heavy losses, it was finally angered by Shen Shanwu. It viciously accelerated the speed of devouring its prey and decided to teach these two prey who didn’t know whether to live or die a lesson.

Yao Wuque suddenly felt a sharp pain in his feet. He screamed, his whole body trembled with pain, and blue veins burst out of his forehead.

Shen Shanwu hurriedly asked, “What’s the matter?”

“Feet…my feet.”

Taking advantage of the moment Shen Shanwu lowered his head, the vine quickly pulled out one and strangled Yao Wuqu’s neck, causing him to lie down on the ground again. The rest of the branches immediately fell like a tide, and Yao Wuqu’s cheeks became blue and red due to a lack of oxygen.

“Hmm…” His neck was strangled and full of protruding blood vessels. Shen Shanwu couldn’t cut this key part directly with a knife. He could only pull it with his bare hands. At least Yao Wuque’s face must be exposed for breathing.

Vines immediately took advantage of the situation to restrain Shen Shanwu’s wrist.

“Jiang Tong… It’s hopeless, you go…” Yao Wuqu said with difficulty, “Take my…nameplate, go…”

“You won’t die.” Shen Shanwu broke open the rattan and tore off the vine that was tightly tied to Yao Wuque’s neck again. He thought to himself that Jiang Huan’s movements were too slow. What kind of efficiency did the Shanhai team have? Haven’t they found the root of the creeper yet?

“Put my…nameplate next to…my sister’s…” Yao Wuque’s neck was also injured just now, and his voice was like an old rusty saw, rough and hoarse.

“You actually have a sister?”

“She and I…agreed…died together…”

“But I didn’t agree, you’d better not die.”

“You…Jiang Tong!!”

Yao Wuque’s dumb voice suddenly trembled and magnified. Shen Shanwu realized something and turned his head abruptly. He only saw a blooming yellow flower hanging one meter above his head. Facing the back of his head, a giant flower half a meter in diameter appeared silently. In the center of the row upon row of stamens, there was a green-yellow liquid condensed in the center, exuding an acidic smell, crumbling, and about to drip in the next second.

Shen Shanwu turned around without hesitation, facing up on his back, and protected Yao Wuque under his body.

The author has something to say:

Don’t worry, the love will definitely be sweet, and it will definitely in the content, and soon, the big Shen Shanwu will appear, and it will definitely make Brother Huan wet as soon as he appears.

—Eyes wet 😉