Ice Age: I can control plant growth

Chapter 16 Source Energy and the Awakener

The aroma of food filled the kitchen.

Tonight's dinner is a sumptuous bowl of noodles, the topping being stir-fried with the mutant beast meat that Cheng Cheng brought back and the peppers that Li Mu carefully ripened.

"Old Li, do you think we have a chance to become awakened?"

Ah Sao asked Li Mu curiously while slurping the noodles.

"Didn't I tell you that eating more mutant beast meat can increase the probability of awakening? You can go and change it tomorrow!" Li Mu replied with a smile.

Originally, Cheng Cheng wanted to keep the mutant beast meat for Li Mu alone, but with Li Mu's insistence, they finally decided to stir-fry the mutant beast meat into fried meat with peppers and share this delicacy together.

"Do you remember how you woke up?"

Cheng Cheng asked Li Mu curiously.

"I don't know either. I woke up as soon as I woke up."

Li Mu smiled and didn't explain any further. He wasn't sure whether he could be considered an awakener. Even if he was, he should be very different from ordinary awakeners because his abilities were given by the jade pendant, not a natural awakening. He couldn't tell the two about the awakening process.

"Although I don't know how to awaken it, it's definitely right to replenish more source energy."

Li Mu felt the meager source energy brought by the mutant beast meat, and then he realized that the energy consumed by using his abilities was the source energy.

The glacier has only been here for over half a month, but the government has already discovered so many things. The power of the official is indeed beyond my reach.

There are also mutant beasts. Perhaps the government opened up firearms to fight against them.

And it’s time for me to consider transforming some plants into ones with both offensive and defensive capabilities.

Time flies, a month later.

"This is my latest high-nut, which is made from pecans. When you encounter danger, just use the energy in your body to infuse it into its body, and it will become a defensive shield."

"like this."

Li Mu infused the source energy in his body into the half-palm-sized pecan in his hand and threw it to the ground. In an instant, a two-meter-high and one-meter-wide wooden shield appeared in front of the three people.

"It can last for an hour, and then it will turn into debris. You should bring a few more for your own protection."

After saying this, Li Mu handed six unactivated high-nuts to Cheng Cheng and Asao.

"Old Li, your abilities are becoming more and more fantastic. We have seen other awakened ones before. They either transformed into giant muscular men or mastered elemental powers. You are nothing like me, acting like a creator!"

"So you really don't have a system?"

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"This is your first battle, so be careful when hunting mutants! If things go wrong, run away immediately. I'm waiting for you two to have dinner with me."

Li Mu ignored Ah Sao's teasing and turned to Cheng Cheng and said:

"A Sao's personality is not as calm as yours. You must keep an eye on him this time. The mutant beast is not as important as you two. Do you understand?" Cheng Cheng nodded and said, "Don't worry, I will bring A Sao back for dinner!"

"Alright, alright, Lao Li, stop nagging me. Wait for us to come back with the mutant beasts and give you a snack."

Ah Sao walked forward and grabbed Cheng Cheng and walked outside. He really couldn't stand Li Mu's motherly nagging.

"With those modified plants, returning safely won't be a problem, alas."

Li Mu watched the two people walking further and further away and could only pray silently in his heart.

Turned back to the villa to continue researching the transformation of plants.

During this month, Li Mu and his team learned more and more about the awakeners, mutant beasts, and source energy through multiple transactions with the shelter.

After such a long period of research, Li Mu discovered that the plants he could transform were limited and could not be too detached from reality. For example, if the transformed plants wanted to function, they must have a basis, and their abilities could not come out of thin air; they still had to follow the law of conservation of energy.

It happened that Li Mu learned about source energy from the shelter. When he transformed the plants again, he would shift the energy source of the plants to source energy when activating their abilities.

"Source energy" came with the Ice Age. The official explanation is that source energy is a special kind of cosmic energy. As the blue planet was hit by solar storms, source energy also came along. It has the function of accelerating biological evolution and can turn decay into magic.

Awakening refers to the situation where the internal energy of some people reaches a certain level, the hidden "x" gene is activated, and they gain extraordinary abilities, so they are called awakened people.

The awakened ones are only a few lucky ones. Not everyone has the "x" gene in their bodies, but not awakening does not mean that you will always be an ordinary person. For humans without the "x" gene, the source energy in their bodies will feed back into the body and enhance their various abilities, similar to Captain America who has been injected with super serum. The official name is "Source Warrior".

Mutated beasts is a general term. All creatures in nature can evolve under the nourishment of source energy. The evolved animals, fish, birds or insects are collectively called mutant beasts.

Plants that contain large amounts of source energy and are beneficial to the human body are called "source plants."

Unfortunately, although the plant fruits ripened by Li Mu have various special abilities, they are not "source plants" and cannot help with awakening.

But with Li Mu's support, Cheng Cheng and Asao naturally had no shortage of mutant beast meat. After more than half a month of crazy nourishment, the two did not awaken in the end, but became source warriors.

At first, the two felt a little disappointed, but after Li Mu equipped them with various plants, this disappointment was swept away.

During this month, Li Mu transformed five plants.

Potato Mine: After being transformed, its size has increased. Once buried in the soil, it will absorb source energy and grow to the ground after ten minutes, with only a slight corner exposed. Within a range of 500 meters, it can be detonated by thought. If it exceeds 500 meters, it will automatically explode when touched. Its power can blow creatures within three meters into pieces!
Cherry Bomb: After being modified, its size is close to that of a table tennis ball. It can be detonated by mind power within fifty meters, and its power is equivalent to that of a grenade.

Sunflower: The size of a medium-sized floor fan, it can absorb energy and release heat. When it reaches maximum power, its heat output is comparable to that of a small solar heater at the highest level. However, the maximum power can only be maintained for two hours, after which it needs to be replenished by human energy or allowed to recover on its own.

Pea Shooter: Cheng Cheng and Asao call it the Pea Hand Cannon, which consists of a launching nozzle the size of mineral water and a 20-centimeter-long stem (handle). It can absorb source energy and fire source energy bullets. It is similar in size to a ping-pong ball and has a range of up to 150 meters. The power is adjusted according to the amount of energy charged by the user.

Tall nuts are different from other plants. Li Mu transformed them into energy storage mode. They can be used as long as they are activated with source energy before use. Moreover, during the transformation, Li Mu set these plants so that they can only be activated by the source energy of the three of them.

With these modified plants, Cheng Cheng and Asao's combat effectiveness is not inferior to that of fully armed special forces soldiers.

In order to avoid being too lengthy, I decided to speed up and give a brief description of the awakener and the source of power and get to the point as soon as possible.

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