After practicing all night, Cheng Lin didn't know what had become outside, but thinking about the wildly growing vegetation after midnight last night, he vaguely had some guesses.
But when he walked downstairs and came to the street, he was still shocked by the scene in front of him.
I saw that the originally neat road had become dilapidated, and the street trees on both sides of the road had grown in size. They were not only thicker, taller, and denser in branches, but also had underground roots expanding.
Thick roots emerged from the soil, cracking the smooth road surface like blood-filled veins.
On the road, except for the middle part, the two sides are already uneven and have cracks everywhere. The pavement paved with bricks and stones is even worse. The weeds in the gaps between the bricks and stones have gathered in groups, and large pieces of soil have appeared, which is serious.
In various places, the bricks and stones were crushed and broken.
There was still a faint mist in the air, which blocked the sunlight, leaving only an obscure coldness between heaven and earth.
Cheng Lin was walking on the street. In the past, there would have been a lot of traffic, but now, there were only a few vehicles trudging forward. In the distance, the shrill sound of horns could be heard.
People from nearby residences and shops came out one after another, some stopped blankly, and some were cleaning up the billboards that had been damaged by the overgrown trees.
At this time, many people had just walked out of their homes. When they saw this strange scene, they immediately made a lot of noise and asked people around them, but they couldn't get any answers.
“Better than I expected.”
Cheng Lin muttered and breathed a sigh of relief. His worst expectation was that the entire city would be turned into ruins, but now it seems that it is much better. The main damage is on both sides of the road.
"Most likely it's because there are relatively few plants in the city, and the spiritual energy recovery hasn't reached its peak yet."
Cheng Lin nodded secretly and walked towards the familiar breakfast shop. The shops were operating as usual, but the boss looked a little worried: "Who knows what's going on? These trees and grass have grown bigger as soon as I opened my eyes."
Cheng Lin paid the money and asked, "Have you called the police?"
"Do I still need to call the police?"
"Too."
Cheng Lin nodded, then bit the bun and left. Looking at this familiar-faced high school student, the shop owner always felt a chill running down his spine.
This student is too calm!
…
Cheng Lin didn't care too much about what others thought. Since the city had not changed much except for the strange atmosphere, he continued to walk towards the school.
While eating on the way, he turned on his "Hazy Eyes" and took a look, and found that most plants emitted very faint light. As for the "special species" that might exist, he didn't see them yet.
.
Breaking through the fog and arriving at the school gate, he found that the school gate seemed a little deserted today.
Walking in, he raised his eyebrows slightly, and saw that the originally flat playground had become bumpy and cracked, as if there had been an earthquake. Through perception, he found that the concentration of spiritual energy here was higher than in other places.
some.
"Could it be that the grass seeds in the soil under the playground have sprouted?"
Cheng Lin looked at the green and tender plant stems revealed through some cracks and couldn't help but guess.
I walked silently across the broken road and entered the teaching building. Fortunately, the power of the grass seeds to sprout was still limited and it would not overturn the building.
However, the situation in the corridor didn't seem to be very good. Cheng Lin clearly saw that the cracks in the door of an office were filled with green grass. Not surprisingly, it must have been caused by the wild growth of the flowerpot plants inside.
There are also some faculty members who are tearing and clearing these weeds, and everyone's face is immersed in some unspoken panic.
Pushing open the classroom door, Cheng Lin took a look and found that many classmates had already arrived, but the number was obviously smaller. They must have been at home and their parents did not let them over.
At this moment, the students are huddled together, panicking and excitedly discussing what they saw on the way to school this morning.
"Cheng Lin! You are finally here!"
Suddenly, Sun Xiao, who was sitting in the center of the discussion, stood up suddenly and shouted in a trembling voice.
This immediately caused everyone to look towards the door.
Cheng Lin frowned, and slowly walked to his seat with some discomfort, took off his schoolbag, and said calmly: "Is something wrong?"
Sun Xiao walked over. His mental state seemed to be in some kind of uneasy excitement, and his face was paler than usual:
"Yesterday...you asked me to stay away from plants in physical education class yesterday...I don't know why you said that, but when I went to bed last night, I still put the flower pots in the bedroom on the balcony."
"Well, what next?"
"Then..." Sun Xiao swallowed, as if recalling a bad memory, he shuddered and said, "As soon as I woke up this morning, I found that the potted flower had squeezed in through the crack of the window and turned into a flower.
It was extremely long and extended all the way to my bed. It had already touched the foot of the bed, as if... it was like it wanted to catch me!"
His narration was very straightforward and lacked good epithets, but upon hearing this, the students present felt an indescribable discomfort welling up in their hearts.
"Oh." Cheng Lin blinked and nodded to show that he understood.
His calm attitude was in sharp contrast to the others.
"You...don't you want to say something else?" Sun Xiao opened his mouth.
Cheng Lin pondered for a moment, then suddenly smiled and said: "Maybe it likes you and wants to touch you, it's as simple as that."
Sun Xiao's face suddenly turned bitter and he said directly:
"Can you please stop teasing me? This is obviously wrong! You must know something, right?"
he asked expectantly.
Faced with this strange incident, Sun Xiao instinctively panicked, and he was afraid that his parents and sister would be worried, so he didn't dare to tell his family.
In the morning, I hurriedly cleaned up the pot of flowers with a knife and disposed of all the living plants in the house. I told my family not to get close to the plants. Then I came to school in a hurry, looking forward to meeting Cheng Lin and finding out what happened.
What he saw along the way made him even more uneasy.
"Me? What can I know? I'm just telling you casually, don't scare yourself."
A gentle smile appeared on Cheng Lin's childish face and he comforted him.
Sun Xiao was about to say something when suddenly, a harsh scream came from outside the window!
"ah!!"
The scream clearly belonged to a female student. Her voice was sharp and penetrating, breaking through the gloomy fog and coming in.
Everyone was startled and rushed to the window.
During the morning duty, the windows need to be ventilated, so the windows are open and the class is on the first floor, very close to the source of students.
Cheng Lin also walked over, and immediately his eyes narrowed, and he saw dense white and green leaves sprouting out of a dark crack on the playground, like a mess of hair, with beards and hair flying, and like some kind of weird sea bottom.
The creature was rushing towards a girl who fell to the ground.
However, the latter's legs had already become weak and he could no longer move except for screaming.
Cheng Lin silently opened his hazy eyes and discovered that the squirming plant emitted a higher light than other plants.
"Is this the leader in evolution?" Cheng Lin had just thought about it, and suddenly realized something. He saw a slender figure running over on a playground, blocking the way between the girl and the wriggling plants.
.
The figure was running extremely fast, it was hard to imagine that an ordinary student could run at a speed.
"Song Jun! It's Song Jun from the next class!"
Someone in the class exclaimed.
That was indeed Song Jun, but it was different from the strong and heroic appearance when we met again later. At this time, she was still soft and frail, a typical little girl who studied well.
People couldn't help but be surprised and didn't understand where she got the courage. Only Cheng Lin's eyes moved slightly and he realized something.
The next moment, people only saw Song Jun's frail figure suddenly trembling, gritting her teeth, as if she was exerting great force. Then, she suddenly stretched out her hand and grabbed it in front, and the air was squeezed, and then exploded.
The sound rang.
An "air bomb" that ordinary people couldn't see was shot out and hit the group of plants. The leaves of the plant trembled, emitted some weird chirping, and retreated into the cracks on the surface.
Seeing this scene, everyone watching on the playground or in the classroom was stunned.
"what happened?"
"What did she do? How come there was a sudden noise and that was it?"
The discussion suddenly started, even diluting the fear of the plant.
Song Jun, who fired the air bomb, turned paler and her body swayed slightly. Obviously, this was not an easy task for her who had just awakened.
Gritting her teeth, she turned around and squatted down to pull the girl on the ground, but she couldn't pull her up for a while.
"careful!"
Suddenly, someone shouted again.
I saw that the wriggling plant that had retracted suddenly rushed out again, with countless branches flying, as straight as a spear, piercing Song Jun's back!
This scene was unexpected by everyone. Some girls in the classroom directly covered their eyes and did not dare to open them again.
At this moment, suddenly, another figure emerged from a classroom on the first floor. This figure moved faster than Song Jun. He jumped out of the window, turned back and stepped towards the wall. As he jumped up, a mixture of
The fiery red and green rotating light group suddenly flew out at an extremely fast speed.
Flame cutter is on!
At this moment, Cheng Lin extremely skillfully combined the two superpowers "low temperature fireball" and "spiral cutting" to form a first-class superpower "flame cut" and threw it forward.
He has not used this power for a long time, but with his sixth-level knowledge, he can use it now without any hesitation.
"Whoosh..."
A ray of light passed by and hit accurately. Immediately, the squirming plant broke apart and burned. The leaves quickly withered and turned into a charred dead thing amidst the shrill roar.
At this time, Song Jun just turned around.
Amid countless shocked looks, Cheng Lin, who was wearing school uniform, slowly landed on the ground, glanced at her, and then immediately turned his gaze to the dead plant and frowned.
…
In classrooms.
The students in Class 3 had their mouths open in shock, as if they had never gotten to know this inconspicuous classmate again until this day.
"Monitor...is that really Cheng Lin?" A classmate couldn't help but ask.
Sun Xiao swallowed and said with some uncertainty: "Is it...?"