Before the war started, Shen Feng saw two mutant plants throughout the year, namely the apple tree at home and the plant heart in the laboratory. But now, after fighting the mutant beasts for more than a month, Shen Feng Three mutant plants that have never been seen before have been discovered here.
Previously, Shen Feng did not pay much attention to the mutation of plants, because it is impossible for mutated plants to leave the land. Perhaps after mutation, they can obtain energy without photosynthesis. However, mutated plants have a fatal weakness, that is, they cannot move!
Even the heart of a plant cannot move at will. At most, it can hide in the soil and occasionally emerge from the soil for air.
For these mutated plants, as long as you don't touch them casually, there will basically be no consequences. If Shen Feng didn't enter the mist, there would naturally be no subsequent damage. Of course, Shen Feng wouldn't be able to obtain new production evolutions. base way.
At this time, Shen Feng did not dare to underestimate mutant plants at all, because he was not sure what the evolutionary direction of mutant plants would be. Just like the juniper that he encountered today, it is harmless in itself, but it can Achieve large-scale hypnosis. If this suddenly appears on the battlefield, it may cause damage to soldiers.
So Shen Feng had the juniper branches wrapped in clothes sent to the laboratory in Yuzhou. In short, it was always safer to find out the composition and effects of juniper pollen, so as not to be completely unprepared.
Shen Feng originally thought that the juniper cypress would not have much impact. After all, the juniper cypress in the center was more than ten kilometers away from the front line. With such a long distance, except for pollen in the south, there was no need to worry about other directions. Cypress grows in a mountain depression, and pollen floats in the air to form mist. The cold wind from the north can blow away some of the pollen, but most of the pollen will not be blown away.
However, Guo Pinming on the southwest front received news that the number of mutant beasts killed today was very small, only more than 8,000, and no mutant beasts came to attack the formation.
The number of these mutant beasts seems to be very large, but in fact, for hundreds of thousands of mutant beasts, this number is completely insufficient. In the past battles, there were tens of thousands of trophies every day, but now it is too small.
"Did the mutant beast panic and break out in other directions?" Shen Feng asked.
Lu Kaiyang replied: "City Lord, that's not the case. Today, except for the southwest direction, where eight thousand mutant beasts were killed, no mutant beasts appeared in the other directions. In recent times, the number of mutant beasts has increased more and more. The less I attack the defense line, maybe I am tired of running."
"Impossible!" Shen Feng immediately shook his head and said with a frown: "It is absolutely impossible to be tired from running. The mutant beasts are not tired after fighting for so long. How could they suddenly become tired in the past few days? I know the physical strength of the mutant beasts very well. , being able to keep running for several days is not a good thing, but it takes more than a month to get tired, which is unreasonable!"
Shen Feng chased the Dragon King of the Yangtze River in the summer. After chasing for a week, even the Dragon King was already tired. With a body length of 70 meters, it was exaggerated that the Dragon King could last for so long, and the mutated beasts in the mountains were much bigger than The Dragon King has good physical strength, but Shen Feng doesn't believe it.
Lu Kaiyang scratched his head and said to himself: "Could it be that the mutant beasts are resistant to the millstone tactics? But, are these mutant beasts so smart?"
Shen Feng thought for a moment, took out his walkie-talkie, and informed Yuzhou to send a helicopter to observe the situation of the mutated beasts.
Since we can't figure out the abnormal situation of the mutated beast, we can only let the helicopter observe it.
After receiving the order, the pilot immediately flew the helicopter to the center of the encirclement to investigate the situation. The pilot's recent tasks were still very heavy. He often had to transport supplies, take time to observe the enemy's situation, and pick up and drop off important people at critical moments. And now this In this situation, the pilots can only grit their teeth and persevere. Their tasks are easy when they are free, but now that the battle has begun, no matter how many tasks there are, they cannot refuse.
As a result, the helicopter really captured a lot of enemy scenes. Among them, the strangest thing was a group of monkeys with white hair on their faces and dark bodies. They were ugly. It is said that this is the Guizhou golden monkey, the longest among golden monkeys. The ugliest monkeys, and these monkeys are waving water ladles in their hands, and they are still wearing clothes.
The mutated beasts all obeyed these monkeys and lay on the ground obediently. Even the mutated beasts that were several meters tall could only crawl in front of the golden monkeys.
When Shen Feng looked at the photo, he immediately understood that the water scoops of these golden monkeys were all filled with light yellow pollen. Although it was winter, the junipers were always producing pollen, and the golden monkeys could easily shake it off by waving their branches. The pollen on it hypnotized other mutated beasts, and these golden monkeys waved the branches and covered their noses, obviously knowing the role of pollen.
"Holy shit, these monkeys can still have this kind of IQ?" Lu Kaiyang's eyes were opened. He thought that the foolproof millstone tactics under his command could crush the mutant beasts, but when the mutant beasts stopped running around, they surrounded them. On the contrary, it has little effect, because many mutant beasts gather together to form a beast tide. After being hypnotized, they start to sleep. Once the mutant beasts cannot be expelled at will, then the millstone tactic will be considered a failure.
Shen Feng looked at the golden monkey in the photo and said helplessly: "Don't underestimate these animals, especially primates. They don't have no brains at all. The result is very simple. So many mutant beasts are all hypnotized." Yes, and the initiators are these monkeys."
"This monkey is so abominable, I really want to kill all these monkeys!" Lu Kaiyang said through gritted teeth.
After Shen Feng thought for a while, he said: "Rather than killing these monkeys, it is better to burn the juniper forest. I have seen the terrain. There are juniper trees in the valley, and there are barren mountains outside the valley. Even if it is set on fire, That will only burn the woods in the valley, and the fire will not spread."
"What a good idea. Burn all the junipers. I don't believe that these monkeys can hypnotize mutant beasts." Lu Kaiyang agreed to this decision. After all, it is a mutant plant, so it is safe to burn it.
In the next two days, the golden monkey still grabbed the juniper branches to hypnotize the mutant beast, stopping the mutant beast from running rampant, which made Lu Kaiyang's millstone tactics fail.
The most important point of the millstone tactic is to expel the mutant beasts, so that the mutant beasts will be exhausted every day. In this way, the physical strength of the mutant beasts can be consumed, and the mutant beasts will not be forced to jump over the wall to fight to the death.
However, Lu Kaiyang never thought that his perfect plan would be ruined by a group of monkeys with obviously low IQ. Then, if he wanted to continue the Mopan Plan, the easiest way would be to burn the juniper grove. In this way, We can continue to expel the mutated beasts and carry out the millstone tactics.
Shen Feng originally wanted to do this in person, because he was very fast, could fly into the sky at critical moments, and used the "Wind King Barrier" to isolate pollen from the outside world.
Lu Kaiyang disagreed. He felt that Shen Feng could only stabilize people's hearts by staying in the military camp. If Shen Feng personally took action, he would probably not be able to control his soldiers. Therefore, Shen Feng could not leave casually. Then, there were still two candidates to start the fire. One is Chang Haojie, who was recruited before, and the other is the helicopter pilot.
Finally, the helicopter departed from Yuzhou and carried many incendiary bottles on board. As long as the incendiary bottles were thrown from the sky, the juniper cypress forest could be directly ignited. It is early winter and the weather is dry. As long as the fire is lit, the woods will be easily ignited. Ignite, this is why Shen Feng asked people to build fire breaks.
After three days of analysis, the laboratory also analyzed clearly the real function of juniper pollen, which is sedation and hypnosis. These pollen are powerful sedatives. When inhaled, they will have a sedative effect on the nerves, and sedation and hypnosis are inherently different. The dose is not very high. Sometimes a smaller dose will produce a sedative effect, while a larger dose will produce a hypnotic effect.
The laboratory came up with the final result. Although it was slightly different from Shen Feng's guess, overall, Shen Feng was still right.
The ignition plan was about to continue, but over in Yuzhou, the hospital director personally came to the front line to find Shen Feng, saying that he could not burn the mutated plants.
Shen Feng frowned and asked: "Dean, it stands to reason that these mutated plants have affected the progress of the battle. Now I don't know how much time has been delayed. If the battle cannot be ended as soon as possible, winter is coming and the war will be very difficult. situation."
The dean said: "City Lord, there is a shortage of medicines in Yuzhou now, especially anesthetics. These mutated plants are gifts from God. With these gifts, the hospital can perform operations more smoothly. So many Pollen, as long as it can be collected, is a natural anesthetic. Please don't burn these cypress trees."
Shen Feng figured out the reason why the dean was begging for mercy. It seemed that he was not thinking of environmentalists, but that the dean just wanted to get narcotics.
However, after Shen Feng thought about it, he said to the dean: "Well, dean, I will postpone the plan to burn down the woods for now, and then I will go to the woods to find some juniper saplings and seeds for you. Come on, as long as we have tree seeds, we can plant juniper trees ourselves, and you can have enough anesthetics in the future, is that okay?"
For the juniper grove, Shen Feng must burn it, but he can't consider other people's opinions. Now, he will make a compromise and wait until he brings the juniper saplings to Yuzhou. Then he has the seedlings here, and then he can plant them in the forest. If it's burned, it's the best of both worlds.
When Shen Feng reached this point, the dean could not continue to persuade him. After all, the most important thing in Yuzhou now is the war. If the war ends as soon as possible, Yuzhou will find peace as soon as possible. Once the battle fails now, even next year, Yuzhou will not be able to Tranquility has to be invaded by mutant beasts.
"Then I wish the city lord immediate success." The dean said quickly.
Shen Feng put on a gas mask and a paraglider and set off. He was going to look for juniper saplings in the woods. As long as he could find a few short saplings, he would be able to do the job, and the hospital director couldn't say otherwise.
However, when Shen Feng came to the woods, he immediately noticed something was wrong. Because the woods were very quiet and there was a lot of pollen in the air, resulting in extremely low visibility. After walking not far, the mask on Shen Feng's face was covered. It was covered with yellow pollen, and he could only wipe it off as he walked.
Shen Feng had heard from Chang Haojie before that there were mutant beasts walking in and out of the woods. He thought the woods would be lively, but after he walked in, he found a lot of corpses on the ground. He had to be careful when walking. You have to keep your feet down, otherwise, you will trip over the corpses on the ground.
"What's going on? Isn't it said that pollen only has a sedative and hypnotic effect? Why are there so many corpses in the woods? Could it be that pollen is also toxic?" Shen Feng thought in his heart.
At this time, Shen Feng couldn't figure out the reason for a while. He only had one task now, which was to find juniper saplings and bring them back to find a place to plant them.
There were many mutated beast corpses in the woods, many of which had been rotting for a long time. Although he was wearing a gas mask, Shen Feng seemed to be able to vaguely smell the stench. This was probably a psychological change. After all, the quality of gas masks is very good. Under normal circumstances, the gas is isolated from the outside, so it is impossible to still smell the stench.
There are many roots wrapped around these corpses, like spider webs, seeming to absorb the nutrients of the corpses.
Seeing this scene, Shen Feng couldn't help but frown. It seemed that mutant plants all had similar characteristics, that is, they were not limited to photosynthesis. Even corpses could absorb the nutrients. From producers to producers, |Job decomposer.
Animals and plants in nature can be roughly divided into producers, consumers and decomposers. Most plants are producers, that is, they gather energy through photosynthesis or nitrification. However, since plants began to mutate, plants have directly It seems abnormal to be able to absorb the energy of a corpse.
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