strictlysupreme Chapter 216 Bottle Tree
Chapter 216 Bottle Tree
"How do you know all this?" Gong Jingming asked, looking at her.
From the very beginning, he noticed that Miao Yin's understanding of supernatural abilities and mutations seemed to far surpass that of everyone else.
"I've seen it all before."
“Perhaps you don’t know enough,” Gong Jingming said.
Superpowers are incredibly diverse, and the base has only categorized them based on what has been discovered so far. There may be many other strange superpowers hidden in the shadows, but no one knows about them yet.
Although he had an extra ability, he looked just like any other person with superpowers, without any abnormality or discomfort.
“You’re right,” Miao Yin agreed with him.
In a sense, she really didn't know enough. Gong Jingming was so famous in the apocalypse, yet no one had ever discovered that his special ability had such a mysterious aspect.
People in the apocalypse don't really like outsiders.
It seems that he hid himself after finding out.
"If there's nothing else, I'll be leaving now," Gong Jingming said.
Miao Yin is too dangerous. He doesn't like being alone with her for long periods of time, especially after she almost killed him.
Miao Yin didn't stop her, but said, "Although I don't quite understand what your special ability is, since you've taken such good care of my flower field, you can take care of it from now on."
"……it is good."
He accepted the task, then took the bunch of weeds he had picked and left the flower field.
Miao Yin watched his departing figure and took off the rose she had just tucked behind her ear.
The flowers in her hands were so vibrant that it was impossible to look away; they possessed a delicate beauty that could never be cultivated in the apocalypse.
Miao Yin looked at it and gradually clenched her fist.
The flower was crushed into a paste between her fingers, like the rotten red apple in Snow White's hand. The juice and fragments dripped down, and a rich fragrance exploded from her palm.
"it's beautiful."
Miao Yin said softly.
……
Gong Jingming originally thought that once he left the flower field, there would be no more trouble, but to his surprise, Miao Yin came to his door that very night.
It was already 11 p.m., and everyone had returned to their rooms. The small manor was quiet, and he had already changed into his pajamas and was ready to go to sleep.
Miao Yin arrived so suddenly, without even knocking, and instead deftly burned the lock on his door.
Even Gong Jingming was taken aback by her behavior, thinking that some kind of mutant had broken in.
"What are you doing here?" he asked, getting out of bed and lowering his eyes.
Miao Yin was still wearing the same red dress she wore during the day, but with her hair down. In the dim light of the moon, she looked like some kind of terrifying ghost.
"Gong Jingming, quickly change your clothes, let's go out and play."
"What?" He was somewhat confused.
"Hurry up, or you'll have to come out with me in your pajamas," she urged.
"Why now..."
The flames transformed into sharp blades, suddenly pressed against his eyes, and Gong Jingming's breath caught in his throat.
Miao Yin tilted her head and looked at him through the flames: "Hurry up."
"..."
Five minutes later, Gong Jingming was forced to change his clothes and was then dragged out the door by her.
"Shh, be quiet, this is a secret operation." She whispered in his ear as if it were some kind of childhood epic, leading him out of the villa and into the water cabin.
He had seen this place during the day, but seeing that the door was locked, he didn't try to go in. He never expected to be dragged here in the middle of the night.
“Alright, now I’ll show you the most terrifying guy in our manor.” Miao Yin turned on the light.
Gong Jingming: He actually didn't want to watch it.
But there is no way.
When the lights came on, he finally knew what was hidden in the locked little room.
It was a huge glass case covered in cracks, the transparent glass smeared with an unidentified black liquid, as if it had been splattered from something, a terrifying sight.
Through the blurry glass, a half-human, half-spider monster lay half-dead inside.
"...A mutant?"
"Gong Jingming, have you ever heard of a demonic fetus?"
"No." He shook his head.
"Then let me tell you, the demon fetus is the child in the pregnant woman's belly after the end of the world. They are special. The mother body that is parasitized will not turn into a monster. Instead, they will grow in the mother's belly like ordinary fetuses until the day they are fully developed. Then they will cut open the mother's belly and crawl out from inside."
These little guys were born with green crystal cores and were incredibly intelligent, just like humans. They even possessed their own abilities. This one, for example, could attract other mutants using sound waves; it was this one that almost caused the death of the entire rescue team.
Miao Yin's dark eyes shimmered with a bright, fragmented light, as if she were telling an exciting little story, which was eerily unsettling to Gong Jingming.
"Guess what? Besides this demonic fetus, I also found a very strange spider-shaped mutant human. Like the demonic fetus, it also has its own mother. It usually hides in the mother's belly and is fed by the mother. It is incredibly intelligent and can communicate with people as soon as it comes out."
"I was curious about what would happen if these two special things were combined into one. So I helped the spider by letting it eat the demon fetus, and that's how it turned into what it is now."
She opened the counter, pulled out the little Spider-Man that looked like a corpse, shoved it in front of his eyes, and said, "Look how strange it looks. This is a very rare specimen; you won't find another one like it in the whole world."
Gong Jingming quickly took a few steps back, his expression wary.
"I understand, so what does this have to do with me?"
"Of course it's related. Such a special sample naturally needs to be properly sealed, but look, I can hardly contain it anymore."
Miao Yin pointed to the glass cabinet that was full of cracks.
Gong Jingming understood what she meant: "You want my bottle tree?"
"Yes."
"If that's the case, you could have told me during the day. There was no need to drag me here in the middle of the night," Gong Jingming said coldly.
Miao Yin seemed to completely ignore him, simply holding the half-dead little monster and demanding that he release the bottle tree.
"Let me see if you can lock it up."
Helpless, Gong Jingming had no choice but to summon his plants.
Huge trees appeared in the stilt house, instantly taking up most of the space, making the house feel very crowded.
This is how it looked after he adjusted the size of the tree.
The bottle tree looks much like an ordinary tree, except that its trunk is particularly thick and round, its branches are relatively short, and its black leaves hang down softly.
A crack appeared in the center of the tree trunk, and when Miao Yin looked inside, she saw a bottomless blackness.
This is where things are stored.
"You can just put it in," Gong Jingming said.
So Miu Yin threw the little spider inside, and without a sound, the mutant disappeared.
The dry, hard wood closed, sealing the crack. Gong Jingming sensed his connection with the bottle tree and said, "It's shut."
Immediately, he saw Miao Yin's dark eyes.