Ice Age: I can control plant growth

Chapter 35: First Experience with Bloodvine (Thanks to king2 for the reward)
As long as there is source energy between heaven and earth, all surviving creatures on the entire blue planet will evolve, but the speed of evolution will vary.

Compared with the wild growth of animals and plants, humans rely on their own wisdom to accelerate their evolution and enhance their own strength.

Blood vine is the first symbiotic plant created by Li Mu in order to quickly improve the strength of the hunting team.

As we all know, just like the magic techniques, any method that can quickly improve strength will have extremely fatal flaws.

Blood vine is no exception.

First of all, the cultivation of blood vine is not 100% successful. If the adaptability is too low, it is also likely to fail. Once the cultivation fails, the patient may be weak for a period of time at best, or even lose his life at worst.

Secondly, the blood vine absorbs the host's blood to survive, so it naturally has a deep connection with the host. If the blood vine is severely damaged in battle, the human host will also become weak.

The worst case scenario is that the host and the blood vine live and die together, and if one dies, the other will not be spared.

The day after Li Mu created the blood vine, on the tenth floor of the City Lord’s Mansion, was the laboratory that Li Mu used for research.

"Fu Zikui, Zhang Tiankuo, have you two thought about it?"

"Once the blood vine is planted, your lives will be tied to it. There will be no chance to regret!"

Li Mu looked at the two young men in front of him and asked with a serious expression.

"Thank you, Grand City Lord, for the opportunity. I will never regret it!"

The taller, thinner young man of the two spoke firmly.

"I will never regret it either. Please start, Grand City Lord."

The other dark and strong young man had a burning gaze and a determined look on his face.

After Li Mu created the blood vine, he immediately summoned Yu Shuaikang's hunting team and explained the advantages and disadvantages of the blood vine to everyone.

After listening to Li Mu's description, one-third of the more than 20 people in the hunting team looked hesitant, obviously unable to accept the symbiotic blood vine; another one-third expressed their willingness to coexist with the blood vine very firmly; and the remaining one-third had flickering eyes, wanting to see the situation first.

Finally, Li Mu selected two people from the six people with firm attitudes, namely Fu Zikui and Zhang Tiankuo who were standing in front of him.

Looking at the two people in front of him, Li Mu felt complicated and secretly decided that even if the experiment failed, he would do his best to save the lives of the two.

After everything was ready, Li Mu chose Fu Zikui as the first experimental subject.

Since the blood vine needs to absorb the host's heart blood, the first step in planting is:
Cut open the chest and let the blood vine seeds take root in the heart!
Li Mu first used the modified Datura (a strong anesthetic) to make the two men fall into a coma, and then gently cut them with the scalpel in his right hand.

A finger-long wound immediately appeared on Fu Zikui's left chest, and blood immediately flowed out. Through the cracked wound, the beating heart could be faintly seen.

Then stuff the pea-shaped but blood-red blood vine seeds into the wound. As the seeds come into contact with the blood, they immediately come to life with a different kind of vitality!

Countless hair-thin roots spread towards the heart, and Li Mu immediately activated his ability after seeing the seeds taking root, and the bright green light was spread towards the wound.

The seed began to grow rapidly after coming into contact with the green light, and in the blink of an eye a blood-red vine as thick as a noodle grew out.

Seeing this scene, Li Mu began the second step of planting the blood vine:
Absorbing animal blood for the first time.

The vine grew very fast. In just over ten seconds, it had grown to more than ten centimeters. As Li Mu placed a basin of the blood of a third-level mutant beast in front of the vine, the vine seemed to have its own consciousness and quickly plunged its head into the basin of blood.

An entire basin of animal blood was being devoured by the vines at a speed visible to the naked eye. Looking at this scene, Li Mu couldn't help but imagine the "gulp, gulp" sound when a person drinks water.

In just a few minutes, a basin of animal blood was completely absorbed by the vines, and the vines, which were originally only as thick as noodles and a dozen centimeters long, grew to the thickness of fingers and five or six meters long!
The blood-red vines swayed strangely in the air, as if celebrating their new life, and then slowly fell towards Fu Zikui's body, and finally coiled around his right arm like a snake. At present, the experiment was successful, and the comprehensive combat power of Fu Zikui and the blood vines had to be observed in the future.

Li Mu repeated the same steps on Zhang Tiankuo again, and fortunately no unexpected situation occurred.

Then Li Mu sat cross-legged, closed his eyes, and practiced breathing techniques to slowly absorb the source energy.

Three hours later, the two slowly woke up.

"The experiment was successful. How do you feel?"

Li Mu looked at the two of them and asked calmly.

"I feel very good now. Not only am I full of strength, but I can also achieve preliminary communication with the blood vine. See."

Fu Zikui stretched out his right hand, and a blood-red vine appeared in his hand, as straight as a steel bar.

Then he waved it gently, and the vines made a series of light sounds in the air.

"Looks good, how about you?"

Li Mu looked at Zhang Tiankuo beside him.

"My feelings are similar to Lao Fu's, but my blood vine seems to be thicker than his."

A vine that was thicker than Fu Zikui's blood vine emerged from Zhang Tiankuo's collar, then slowly wrapped around his body, finally forming a half-body armor.

Li Mu looked at the different performances of the two and had some guesses in his mind. Perhaps the blood vine would evolve with different emphases according to the wishes of the host. Fu Zikui's was obviously biased towards offense, while Zhang Tiankuo's was more inclined towards defense.

Interesting, really interesting.

"I have already told you about the advantages and disadvantages of the blood vine, but you two are the first people in the world to have symbiotic blood vines, so how to improve the blood vines or how to exert their power are all up to you to try step by step."

"Next, you will follow the Third City Lord to hunt mutant beasts. Remember to observe the evolution of the blood vine and report to me."

Li Mu looked at the two people who were somewhat excited and said calmly.

"I have something else to do, you guys go down."

Li Mu waved his hand, signaling the two to leave.

"Yes, Grand Lord."

The two men bowed and left Li Mu's laboratory.

Watching the two people leave the room, Li Mu's mind began to surge. Since the blood vine was transformed using vines, could other plants also be transformed into symbiotic plants similar to the blood vine?

He thought of a particular organism, algae.

I don’t know if algae can be considered plants, but there are really many varieties of algae, and they have many unique functions.

For example, it can gather organic matter and produce oxygen through photosynthesis, and long-term consumption can also enhance immunity and protect the cardiovascular system.

When I think of algae, I think of the many magical plants in nature waiting for me to study.

Li Mu just wanted to say:
It can’t be used up, it can’t be used up at all!
(End of this chapter)