Superbase Evolution

Chapter 23 Flower Arrangement
"It turns out that in addition to failed fires, there are also imperfect fires. If there are imperfect fires, are there also perfect fires? And what exactly does this sacrifice to heaven mean? Do all my teammates have to die before I can increase my strength? This is too mean. And how do I define teammates? If I consider my teammates to be teammates, then can I treat all enemies as teammates? Killing an enemy makes my teammate stronger..." Lin Shen thought greedily.

He studied it for a while but still couldn't figure out how to use this offering to heaven. It didn't seem like it was an ability that could be used actively, and the effect could only be known when it came into play in the future.

Lin Shen spent the rest of the time recuperating at home, hoping that the injury on his hand would heal before leaving.

The medicine had to be changed every 12 hours, and five bottles of medicine were needed to completely soak the hands each time. The money spent on the medicine alone amounted to six figures.

Fortunately, these potions are really effective. Although they failed to completely heal Lin Shen's hand injuries before departure, they are not too serious. He can lift heavy objects normally. However, if he wants to fight in a high-intensity manner, it is still a bit difficult because he is afraid that the bones that have not fully grown will crack again.

Lin Shen carried some medicine with him and applied it every once in a while. It should take only a few days to heal.

During the recovery period, Lin Shen took some low-level genetic mutation eggs to feed to his diehard fans. The fans accepted them all and ate twenty or thirty of Lin Shen's steel genetic mutation eggs.

I thought that after eating so many genetically modified eggs, I would at least get some talent. But in the end, not a single thing happened. Not to mention talent, even my body shape didn't change at all.

Lin Shen was wondering if only by eating a genetically modified creature with fire could the die-hard fans plunder the talent.

Before the agreed departure time, Lao Ye brought an alloy-grade pet capsule to Lin Shen, which was a platinum beast.

The Platinum Beast is not a particularly rare alloy pet. It is fast and is mostly used as a mount.

Many people like to use the Platinum Beast as a mount. In addition to its fast speed, the main reason is that this guy looks really good. Its whole body is snow-white, and it has a single horn on its head, just like the legendary holy unicorn. It is the first choice mount for many people who are obsessed with appearance.

Lin Xiangdong himself is a person who loves appearance, and among his mounts there is a platinum beast. Lao Ye found such a platinum beast so that Lin Shen can continue to dress up as Lin Xiangdong.

The two platinum beasts look exactly the same, but Lin Xiangdong's is a top-grade one with a speed of 20. The speed of the one that Lao Ye found is 18.4, which is a bit different, but it is enough for impersonation.

The white beast with a ghost face was wearing chain mail made of alloy. If no one took action, no one could tell that he was not Lin Xiangdong.

When the two were about to go out, Wei Wufu followed them. He didn't say anything, just followed Lin Shen silently.

Lao Ye glanced at Wei Wufu and wanted to say something, but was stopped by Lin Shen.

The three of them went to the agreed meeting place together. People from the Qi and Wang families had already arrived. The leaders Qi Shuheng and Wang Tianer were talking to Concubine Bai.

"Are you three the only ones going to the Lin family?" Wang Tianer frowned as he looked at the three of them.

"It's just a Hulu Mountain. Aren't three people enough?" Lin Shen sat on the back of the platinum beast, with no intention of getting off.

Wang Tianer's face darkened and he wanted to say something, but Qi Shuheng stopped him with a look.

Qi Shuheng smiled and said, "Each family has its own situation. It doesn't matter how many people want to go, as long as everyone works together."

"Since everyone is here, let's set off." Concubine Bai glanced at Wei Wufu who was following behind Lin Shen, and said nothing.

She stretched out her hand and threw out a white pet capsule. When it landed on the ground, it turned into a pet that was as white as jade, and looked like a cow and a triceratops.

When everyone saw her mount, they all looked a little strange, because the mount was obviously a crystal-based creature.

"The people coming out of the Cape Base are indeed extraordinary. Even their mounts are crystal-base grade." Lin Shen sighed in his heart.

No one said anything else. Everyone summoned their own mount, and the group left the base in a mighty manner.

Lin Shen looked around curiously. Since he was born, he had left the base only a few times, and the outside world was still very new and interesting to him.

Most of the areas on both sides of the road are covered with green plants, with flowers of various colors scattered among them, and there are undulating "hills" everywhere. However, if you look closely, you will find that those "hills" are not actually mountains, but buildings covered with green plants.

More than two hundred years ago, this was a modern city, but now it is almost impossible to see the appearance of a city. The occasional roads and buildings are in ruins, and many have collapsed and been occupied or buried by green plants.

Among those green plants, there are occasionally some strange plants, which actually have metal branches and leaves.

Lin Shen knew that those were not metal-cast works of art, but real living metal plants.

These metal plants are also a type of genetically modified organisms, but the genetically modified fluid in their bodies is very scarce and difficult to refine. Most of the time, they are cut down and used as materials.

No one was in the mood to talk much. They urged their mounts to gallop across the green fields following the White Goddess.

They encountered some low-level mutated creatures on the road, which were frightened and fled in all directions, and they were too lazy to chase them.

After walking around for most of the day, they only walked about 70 to 80 miles at around 3:00 p.m., when a colorful road suddenly appeared in the mountains ahead. Concubine Bai stopped in front of the colorful road. Everyone stopped as well. Lin Shen looked around and realized that it was not a colorful road at all, but a road covered with colorful metal flowers, extending into the distance, and no one knew how long it was.

"I came here a few years ago. At that time, the colorful steel flowers here were only scattered among the green plants, and you could only see a few clusters occasionally. In just a few years, so many have grown, like a long river." Lao Ye said beside Lin Shen. He was mainly speaking to Lin Shen, fearing that Lin Shen would not recognize these colorful steel flowers and would reveal his true identity.

"Where there are colored steel flowers, there must be steel-tailed scorpions. There are so many colored steel flowers here, so there must be a lot of hidden steel-tailed scorpions. Let's go and check it out first." Wang Tianer looked at Bai Shenfei and said.

"Okay." Concubine Bai nodded calmly.

Wang Tianer seemed to want to show off in front of Concubine Bai, and without asking Qi Shuheng and Lin Shen's opinions, he let a mutant riding a unicorn to explore the way.

After the man's genetic transformation, a steel shell appeared on his body, and then he urged his horse forward carefully. The unicorn's speed was very slow, and its hooves stepped on the colored steel flowers, making a teeth-grinding squeaking sound, which was very uncomfortable to hear.

After walking forward for twenty or thirty meters, there was still no sign of the steel-tailed scorpion. The man became much bolder and sped up.

After running for more than a hundred meters and still not seeing the steel-tailed scorpion, the mutant stopped, turned his horse around, and shouted, "Boss, there is no steel-tailed scorpion here."

"Strange, there are so many colorful steel flowers, but not even a steel-tailed scorpion. This is a bit wrong." Wang Tianer pondered.

"Steel-tailed scorpions love to eat the liquid inside the colored steel flowers. If there are such flowers, there must be steel-tailed scorpions. It is also nine out of ten. Now there are no steel-tailed scorpions here. There are only two possibilities. One possibility is that these are not colored steel flowers, but just look similar. The second possibility is that something strange happened here, so we can't see the steel-tailed scorpions." Qi Shuheng looked at Concubine Bai and asked, "Miss Bai, can we bypass this flower path?"

Concubine Bai took out a notebook from her bag, looked at it and said, "There is no way around it. We can only go in from here."

Everyone's eyes were on the notebook in her hand, even Lin Shen and Lao Ye were no exception.

Lin Shen thought: "Could it be that she really knows the way to Hulu Mountain? There shouldn't be a map to Hulu Mountain in the notebook, right?"

"Since we can't take a detour, let's explore the road carefully." Qi Shuheng looked at Wang Tianer.

Wang Tianer shouted at the man on the flower path, and the man turned his horse around and continued to explore the way forward. Soon he disappeared into the depths of the flower path.

After waiting for more than half an hour, I saw the man riding his horse back at full speed.

"Second boss, this flower path is more than ten miles long. At the end is a canyon. There are no colored steel flowers in the valley." The man returned to Wang Tianer and said.

"Have you seen the steel-tailed scorpion?" Wang Tianer asked.

"No." The man shook his head.

Wang Tianer looked at Qi Shuheng, and Qi Shuheng said to a mutant beside him: "Go check it out as well, and walk along the other side of the flower path."

The Qi family's mutant also used his mutation power. Most of his body was covered with an iron shell. He rode an iron-horned horse into the sea of flowers.

Because of the Wang family's pioneering work, the Qi family's mutators were obviously much faster and returned in less than half an hour.

"The flower path is more than ten miles long, and there is indeed a canyon at the end. There are no colorful steel flowers growing in the valley, no steel-tailed scorpions were found on the road, and no other genetically modified creatures were seen." The man said very straightforwardly.

"What does Miss Bai think?" Qi Shuheng looked at Concubine Bai.

"The place we want to go is that canyon, and we can only go through it." said Concubine Bai.

"In that case, let's go to the canyon first. What do you think?" Qi Shuheng looked at Wang Tianer and Lin Shen and said.

"This is the only way." Wang Tianer and Lin Shen had no objection.

The crowd set out again and stepped onto the flower path. Lin Shen looked at the flower path under his feet. The colorful steel flowers were very bright. The flowers were only the size of a fingernail, and the petals were in the shape of shells. The edges were very thin, like sharp blades.

It's no problem for a pet with a body of steel to step on it, but if a pet with flesh and blood falls on it, it will probably be covered in wounds immediately.

Everyone was on high alert, fearing that there might be some problems. Fortunately, after walking seven or eight miles, there was nothing unusual. It was just as the two pathfinders had said, there was not a single colored steel scorpion or other genetically modified creatures in the flower path.

Everyone couldn't help but speed up. When they were about to rush to the valley, they suddenly saw the entire flower path swaying. They were all startled and quickly stopped their mounts.

"Steel-tailed scorpions...so many steel-tailed scorpions..." someone screamed in horror.

Lin Shen looked intently and saw clearly that it was not the colored steel flowers swaying, but countless palm-sized steel-tailed scorpions crawling out from under the colored steel flowers. They were so dense that they looked like a scorpion river, even under their feet.

(End of this chapter)