Rebirth: Leading Families to Survive in the Apocalypse

Chapter 292: Chapter 292: Inducing the Growth of Man-eating Flowers
 

Seeing Su Jin’s excited expression, Lu Hao also curiously took the box of seed gift set and looked at it.

“Did you find Man-eating Flower seeds?” asked Lu Hao.

“Yep! It should be it. I’ll try it in a bit!”

Su Jin’s cheeks flushed with excitement, which made Lu Hao want to pinch them.

“What? There really are Man-eating Flower seeds? Let me see!”

Lin Xiuyuan got up from the lounge chair when he heard that. He had only heard of the Man-eating Flower, but had never seen it, let alone its seeds.

Su Jin passed around a bottle of very small seeds for everyone to look at.

“They just look like ordinary seeds. Xiao Jin, why don’t you grow them so we can all take a look?”

Lu Guanhai was also curious about what the Man-eating Flower looked like.

“I can, but the Man-eating Flower… Its smell might be a bit unpleasant,” Su Jin cautioned, the Man-eating Flower, also known as the Corpse Flower, some people call it the Stink Flower, because it emits a stench. She had smelled it in her past life, and it was indeed somewhat disgusting…

“It’s okay, girl. If it stinks, I’ll just create a breeze to blow the smell away,” said Nie Qing, also wanting to see what the flower looked like. He had never heard of a flower that could eat people.

“Xiao Jin, when you actually grow that flower, it won’t really eat people, will it?”

Lin Yunguo was still somewhat apprehensive, as the name of the flower was quite frightening.

“It won’t, Grandpa. To this day, there’s no evidence that Man-eating Flowers actually eat people. Those are all just rumors.”

The usual Man-eating Flowers naturally wouldn’t eat people on sight, but the ones she grew, they would be in tune with her thoughts; it would eat whatever she instructed.

Seeing that no one objected, Su Jin carefully poured out a seed from the bottle and began to grow it.

The speed at which Su Jin grew plants was very fast; the tiny seed germinated, stretched, and grew at a visible rate, until a brownish-red small flower bloomed at the top. It was then that Su Jin smiled, as the appearance of the flower was undoubtedly that of the Man-eating Flower.

The brownish-red small flower quickly became larger and thicker. Although there were only five petals, each petal was 40 centimeters long, and the entire flower’s diameter had been grown by Su Jin to over one meter!

As the petals grew larger, a stench gradually filled the space. Nie Qing couldn’t help but create a gust of wind, which made the air feel slightly fresher.

There was a huge hole in the center of the flower surrounded by petals, but due to distance, everyone couldn’t see what was inside.

Nie Qing couldn’t help but float up and glance down into it, only to see a ring of dense serrations around the hole? Looking further down, it was a dark brownish-red. Since the smell from above was too strong, he quickly covered his nose and flew back down.

“It stinks so much, girl.”

Nie Qing was on the verge of tears and thought that perhaps it was better to let Su Jin put it away; the smell was too offensive.

“Don’t worry, it’ll be fine in a moment.”

Su Jin tried attaching the green vine in her palm to the Man-eating Flower. Xiao Cui seemed to accept it cheerfully, even shaking its large petals a few times.

Everyone watched in amazement as the small piece of vine that Su Jin had produced landed on the Man-eating Flower and then disappeared. Then, the Man-eating Flower started to shake like a Venus Flytrap, with the orifice in the center of the petals even symbolically closing twice.

Lu Hao wondered, could it be true that the special ability Xiao Jin mentioned before, the one that was alive, was real?

“Was that the sound of something colliding just now?”

Huang Yunxiang asked her husband, Lin Cheng, with a look of fear.

“It must be its teeth. I just saw them up there,” Nie Qing said.

Teeth?

“Did it really grow teeth?” Li Xiuying was startled.

“Grandma, those aren’t teeth, they’re just the flower’s pistils, but that’s also where its attack is strongest,” Su Jin explained.

Nie Qing again unleashed a gust of wind at the Man-eating Flower and asked, “Girl, can you control it to not emit any scent? That would be perfect.”

Su Jin shook her head helplessly. She had tried to do that in her previous life as well, but to no avail; as soon as the flower’s mouth opened, a strong foul smell would emerge.

It was the Little Cutie that had saved her from dire straits many times in her previous life.

Looking at it, Su Jin felt nothing but joy. Perhaps because Little Cutie had consumed a lot of “food” recently, it could now control many Venus Flytraps at the same time. She had only recently learned that the more Venus Flytraps ate, the more plants Little Cutie could control at once, which was why she hadn’t restricted the number of Zombies the Venus Flytraps consumed at the hospital today.

Having taken back the Man-eating Flower, it reverted to its unbloomed seedling stage, a small green plant so different from the smelly big bloom that connected in everyone’s mind.

The air in the space returned to normal, and everyone took a deep breath. The scent from before had been truly unpleasant.

Not daring to stay in the space for too long, though only about ten minutes had passed outside, they chose to leave.

They were worried something might happen to the base, and besides, Su Jin had mentioned distributing the Mutated Crystal Nuclei they had collected over the past few days to everyone, which could be used to replenish Special Abilities if they ran low during battle.

That night, the Guard Squad Members at the city gate had been notified. Not a single one dared to rest.

Although all the heavy attack weapons had been set up on the city walls and ammunition for their firearms was ready, the term Zombie Tide was new to them, and the fact that it was taken so seriously by the higher-ups meant the situation must be extremely grave.

On the city walls, watchtowers were situated at regular intervals for resting. Sheng Jing stood next to one of them, the wind lifting her veil to reveal the supple white chin beneath. A young Guard Squad Member walking by stared in a daze for a moment but then promptly turned away, forcing himself to continue his patrol with diligence.

She’s not bad looking at all. Why cover her face? the Guard Squad Member wondered to himself.

After holding an emergency meeting, Sheng Jing didn’t return to her place of rest. She no longer lived in the original shanty area because Kang Ning and a few others had passed the conscription assessment, and the base had allocated special apartment buildings for them.

Although these apartments were not as spacious as those in the villa district, they were better in that each person had one room with a complete bathroom and balcony.

She didn’t move into the villa district despite her role as the Base Leader’s secretary, choosing to live in the same apartment building as Kang Ning and the others.

The wind on the city walls was strong and brought with it a fishy stench. She frowned and found an unoccupied watchtower to enter and rest for a moment.

“Why don’t you go rest?” Liang Jiuhui’s voice came from outside.

Sheng Jing pursed her lips helplessly. She was just about to rest. Could her boss please not disturb her?

“I am resting here tonight,” Sheng Jing said to Liang Jiuhui leaning against the doorway.

“Good energy, you’ll get a raise,”

Liang Jiuhui said, then turned and left with satisfaction.

“…”

Why does the Base Leader always want to throw money at people without even a discussion?