Ice Age: I can control plant growth

Chapter 41 Botanical Garden

"kill!"

With a low shout, Yu Shuaikang rushed forward with a sword in his hand.

The mutant snow leopard saw him rushing towards it, but was not afraid. It raised one of its front paws and attacked while running.

Yu Shuaikang raised his knife to meet the attack, and when the blade collided with the sharp claws, he immediately felt a force that was many times stronger than his own.

A head-on confrontation is not advisable, so Yu Shuaikang decided to run away as soon as possible. He turned the sword in his hand and chopped towards the snow leopard's head.

However, although the knife flashed quickly, the snow leopard's reaction was not slow. It tilted its head to avoid the attacking blade, and opened its bloody mouth to bite towards Yu Shuaikang's right arm holding the knife.

Seeing that Yu Shuaikang was unable to dodge in time, a vine flew over from a distance, wrapped around his waist, and quickly pulled him away from the battlefield.

The snow leopard wanted to give chase again, but the other members of the hunting team immediately attacked, shooting arrows with bows or throwing spears, temporarily keeping it there.

"You entangle it in the front, and I will go to the back to look for opportunities."

Yu Shuaikang looked at Zhang Tiankuo and quickly formulated a new strategy.

Then the two of them, one in front and one behind, surrounded the snow leopard again.

Zhang Tiankuo directed the blood vines to wrap around the snow leopard's forelimbs, while he himself took a spear and attacked its eyes, while Yu Shuaikang used a sword from behind to continuously chop at the snow leopard's tail and hind limbs.

Although the snow leopard's claws are sharp, the blood vine is very tough. Although the claws can knock it away, they cannot cut it off.

In the constant fighting, the battle situation became tense for a while.

As the battle progressed, the physical strength of both sides was rapidly declining, but the snow leopard was outnumbered after all, while the hunting team had more than a dozen people.

Just when it was exhausted, Yu Shuaikang seized its carelessness and cut off its hind legs with a knife. Zhang Tiankuo took advantage of this opportunity to wrap it tightly with blood vines, and then stabbed its left eye with a spear, ending its life.

The continuously gushing blood dyed the ground red. Zhang Tiankuo had just fought a great battle and needed to replenish his energy.

Naturally, he would not give up this precious beast blood. He controlled the blood vines to pierce the ground and sucked up all the blood. The others stepped forward to deal with the mutant beast's corpse.

Li Mu observed that when Yu Shuaikang was fighting with the snow leopard, he did not dare to take the snow leopard's attack head-on. He could only adopt a flexible approach, avoiding the attack while looking for opportunities to continuously inflict more wounds on the snow leopard.

This method is like dancing on the edge of a knife. If you accidentally take a direct blow, you may be defeated instantly.

"The attack is OK, but the defense is insufficient."

Li Mu, who was sitting high in the sky and witnessed the entire battle, came to this conclusion.

How to enhance their defense?
The first thing Li Mu thought of was ancient armor, but metal armor had good defensive power but was relatively heavy.

The reaction speed of the awakened ones is much slower than that of many mutant beasts. If they put on dozens of kilograms of iron armor, they will become a turtle shell that can be beaten.

Besides, there are no skilled craftsmen in Wanling City who can forge armor now!
Li Mu changed his mind and decided to focus on the plants he was good at.

Although he could not directly control the plants to grow a set of armor, he could transform certain plants to produce materials that could be used to weave rattan armor.

The first thing that came to his mind was certain plant fibers, such as hemp.

Hemp plants have been used to make clothing since ancient times, and there is no shortage of coarse linen products in modern clothing.

And not only clothes, but also ancient wooden rattan armor is made of hemp rope.

When Li Mu thought of this, he immediately had the urge to return to Wanling City to do experiments, but unfortunately the situation did not allow it. He could only see if he could find wild hemp plants or related seeds on the road.

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Time passed during the long battle, and three days went by in the blink of an eye.

During these three days, the hunting team has hunted down five third-level mutant beasts and hundreds of low-cost mutant beasts.

There are many varieties of these mutant beasts, including wild boars, wild wolves, rabbits and pheasants.

These mutant beasts often appear in groups. When they appear, there is always a third-level mutant beast leading dozens of its own kind. Fortunately, the hunting team also has a large number of people.

Everyone divided the work and cooperated with Yu Shuaikang and Zhang Tiankuo. Yu Shuaikang and Zhang Tiankuo were responsible for restraining the Beast King, while the others dealt with the remaining low-level mutant beasts as quickly as possible and then came to support them.

Although the battle was fierce, there had not been a crisis of team annihilation, so Li Mu had not taken any action personally so far.

When the three days were up, Li Mu descended from the sky, supplied the hunting team with enough food, and then floated away again.

The hunting team has almost cleared out the mutant beasts to the east, and it's time to turn to other places.

Of course, Li Mu did not just fish in the sky during these three days. Whenever he saw that the mutant beasts were not strong enough to threaten the hunting team, he would go to other places to observe the situation.

During these three days, he has already discovered the situation of all mutant beasts within a radius of twenty miles.

He had personally dealt with the two strongest fourth-order mutant beasts, and the rest were left to the hunting team.

In that case, he should do something else.

Li Mu remembered that there was a botanical garden in Lin'an, where there were many precious plant specimens and seeds before the end of the world. Even after being destroyed by the low temperature, some of them should be preserved.

These plants come from all over the world, and perhaps there are some plant species among them that he can use.

Besides, there are so many plants there, and the probability of source plants appearing will be even greater, which is exactly the place he wants to find.

Thinking of this, Li Mu took out the map, found the direction of the botanical garden, and then he started to think, and the sedan chair sped towards the south.

The snow-covered ground was no longer white as before, but began to show spots of green.

Apparently, with the favor of source energy, ordinary plants began to show their potential after withstanding the initial severe cold.

After flying south for about an hour, when they were about to reach the botanical garden, a large area of ​​green suddenly appeared in Li Mu's field of vision.

The green was so dazzling against the white ground, forming a sharp contrast with the desolation around it, making him feel dazed.

Such a vibrant place still exists in the end times!

But Li Mu did not relax his vigilance because of this. He decided to observe the situation first.

After flying around this botanical garden that looked like a tropical rainforest, Li Mu discovered a strange place.

Because of the abundance of plants, the temperature here is very high, only about minus seven or eight degrees Celsius, and there is also a large amount of food that herbivores cannot refuse.

According to normal logic, this botanical garden is a good place to survive for both mutant beasts and humans.

But according to Li Mu's observation, although there are many plants in this garden, no other living things are found besides plants.

There is no trace of the existence of either humans or mutant beasts, and even the human buildings that once existed have disappeared!
(End of this chapter)