Ice Age: I can control plant growth

Chapter 43 Return
After strengthening the ability of the dragon blood tree, Li Mu continued searching in the botanical garden.

The search lasted for a day and a half.

Not only did he find the hemp plants he needed, he also discovered various fruits from all over the world in another fruit orchard. Out of caution, he collected all the plants he saw.

Although collecting samples was not difficult for Li Mu, it still took him a lot of time due to the large number of plant species.

Time passed by unknowingly, and nearly two days had passed since he left the hunting team.

However, the plant samples he collected accounted for less than one-third of the entire park.

Thinking of this, Li Mu barely suppressed the urge to continue collecting. After breaking off a branch of the dragon blood tree, he set off on his journey home with the various plant samples he had collected.

Because the sun has become dimmer, the night on Blue Planet comes more than two hours earlier than before. Every day at around four o'clock in the afternoon, the moon that is no longer bright in the sky and the shining stars complement each other, forming a beautiful picture.

At this moment, it was four o'clock in the afternoon, and the stars gradually became shining. Against the backdrop of the brilliant starry sky, the huge leaves of the clover were spinning, carrying the heavy sedan chair and flying towards the direction of the hunting team.

In the process of chasing the hunting team, Li Mu flew for about an hour along the source energy emitted by the vegetables he ripened. Twenty kilometers north of Wanling City, he suddenly saw a dozen figures appear in his field of vision.

Some of these people were holding weapons, while others were carrying the corpses of mutant beasts on their shoulders. More than a dozen of them formed a long dragon and walked towards an abandoned house.

After counting the number of people in the hunting team and confirming that there were no casualties, Li Mu did not show up, but chose to fly to another place to set up camp. When night fell and the sky was shrouded in darkness, Li Mu quietly came to the hunting team's resting place and quietly called out Asao.

Ah Sao looked at Li Mu with a puzzled look on his face and asked, "Old Li, why are you calling me out at this time? Is there something urgent going on?"

"There were some errors in the previous plan, so we are looking for you to make a new plan." Li Mu replied.

"Please sit down and tell me about your hunting experience over the past two days." Li Mu said as he waved his hand, and two chairs made of vines appeared under them.

Ah Sao briefly described the general situation of the past two days, then looked at Li Mu, but did not speak again.

Li Mu nodded and said, "As long as there is enough beast blood, the blood vine will evolve very quickly, but the strength of others will increase much more slowly."

He paused and continued, "This is also normal. The blood vine is a bit like a cheat, but ordinary people need to practice breathing techniques and improve their strength step by step, so it will naturally be much slower."

Li Mu created the blood vine. He knew that the advantage of the blood vine was that it would progress rapidly after sufficient resources, but its disadvantage was also obvious, that is, once the blood vine and the host were seriously injured, the other party would also lose strength. This was different from the source warriors or awakeners, whose strength was all their own.

"After all, the hunting team's strength is still too low, and the cleanup speed will not be very fast. According to the current progress, it may not be possible to clear out all the mutant beasts within a 20-mile radius of Wanling City before the new solar calendar year."

"So, you will return to Wanling City immediately after dawn tomorrow."

Li Mu pondered for a moment and spoke slowly.

"Why did you suddenly change the plan?" Ah Sao asked in surprise. "Although the hunting team's cleaning speed is slow, it will eventually be cleaned up if they spend more time. There is no need to return to Wanling City now!"

Upon hearing Li Mu's new decision, Asao stood up from the rattan chair with a puzzled look on his face. It was obvious that he wanted an explanation before he was willing to go back.

"I was originally planning to tell you and Chengcheng when we get back to Wanling City, but seeing how you are now, I'm afraid I can't help but tell you the truth."

"In recent days, I have always found it difficult to calm down when cultivating my energy, which has given me a bad feeling that something major is about to happen." "Therefore, in order to avoid possible accidents, I have decided to take new actions."

Li Mu rubbed his temple and spoke slowly.

"Big thing...premonition?"

After listening to Li Mu's explanation, Ah Sao couldn't help but fall into deep thought. He felt that this kind of thing was too mysterious and he didn't believe it before. However, the end of the world has already happened, and he felt that this kind of thing might not be groundless.

"Okay, we'll leave tomorrow!"

After some thought, Asao decided to trust Li Mu's judgment again.

"Tomorrow, take these things back and put them in my room."

After Ah Sao agreed with his decision, Li Mu took out a bunch of large bags woven from vines from behind him.

"what is this?"

"These are the many plant samples I collected from Lin'an Botanical Garden, which will be of great benefit to my future research."

Li Mu briefly explained the contents of these packages and waved his arms lightly to knot the packages for easy carrying.

"After returning to Wanling City, help Chengcheng deal with some affairs that he can't handle alone."

Li Mu reminded again, then turned and left.

Since he had decided to speed up the cleaning process, he might as well start from tonight and save as much time as possible.

Li Mu's ability allows him to communicate with plants, so even in the complete darkness of the night, he can control the plants to hunt mutant beasts.

The moment the thought flashed through Li Mu's mind, a vine like a giant python suddenly grew under his feet. It was as thick as a bucket and more than ten meters long.

With a thought, he controlled the giant python to meander forward. Following the perception of the plants, Li Mu quickly found the habitat of the mutant beasts and ended their lives silently while they were sleeping.

In order to improve the cleaning efficiency, Li Mu only killed some of the third-level mutant beasts and strung them on vines, and the rest of the low-level mutant beasts were abandoned by him without hesitation.

After a long night, Li Mu finally eliminated all the mutant beasts in the north, but his source energy was also exhausted.

Li Mu paused and built a wooden house to live in with a wave of his hand, then took a short rest.

Although Li Mu no longer needs sleep and can restore his energy by practicing for two hours a day, he still chooses to rest normally in order to maintain his regular life and not let himself live like a machine.

But now, faced with the urgency of time, he could no longer sleep for seven or eight hours like he did in Wanling City. As soon as he replenished his energy, he would set out again immediately.

In this way, Li Mu spent another day clearing out all the mutant beasts in the west and south directions, and returned to the City Lord's Mansion quietly at around ten o'clock in the evening.

(End of this chapter)