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Chapter 516: Chapter 516: Taming the Mutated Moss
"I was afraid you would frame me, so I thought about running away. I didn’t kill him, you better bring out the evidence if you have any," he said.
Xie Hengrui simply decided to break the pot since these people didn’t have any evidence anyway.
Su Jin opened the iron box in Lu Hao’s hands and looked at the moss with interest, noting that it was somewhat different from the mutated moss they had encountered before.
"Can this thing really kill a person?"
Li Haochu asked.
"Not kill, eat,"
Su Jin replied.
After saying that, she walked toward Xie Hengrui with the iron box, crouched down to look at him tied up on the ground, and asked with a smile, "I don’t have evidence, how about I try it on you?"
Xie Hengrui looked at Su Jin in horror. Wasn’t everyone saying she was very gentle? Why did he not feel that way at all now?
Just then, a scream came from outside the door.
"No zombies,"
Mao Qiqi quickly said.
No zombies, then it must be...
Su Jin and Lu Hao looked at the iron box in their hands simultaneously, had the moss spread?
Lu Hao was the first to rush out, followed by Li Haochu and Ye Rongxin.
In the corridor, a man lay on the floor screaming in agony, his shins covered with a layer of green moss which had eaten away everything it had spread over!
The moss had eaten his legs!
Aside from Li Haochu, many people wanted to help the man up, but Lu Hao stopped them.
"It’s contagious, it’s mutated moss,"
Lu Hao’s words instilled fear in everyone; the moss was still spreading upward, looking eerily sinister!
"Brother Chen, Brother Chen, please no!"
Members of the Sun Moon Rivers and Mountains Team shouted from the side, they had just gone upstairs again half-heartedly looking for Captain Zeng, but Chen Nian had returned with a small piece of moss stuck to the bottom of his foot which had slowly started spreading upward.
"If you want to save him, chop off his leg quickly,"
Su Jin’s words stunned the members of the Sun Moon Rivers and Mountains Team. Chop off Chen Nian’s leg?
"He... chop... chop it off,"
Chen Nian moaned in pain, the feeling of his body being eaten away was truly worse than death. He wanted to scream, but he had no strength to do so; he now just wanted to die, even being amputated was better than dying like this.
Everyone heard Chen Nian’s words clearly; while everyone hesitated, Lu Hao quickly unsheathed the Tang Sword from his back and chopped off Chen Nian’s shin!
Chen Nian was in agonizing pain, the excruciating pain caused him to pass out, but the moss on him stopped spreading.
"Quick! The Healing Element, come and stop his bleeding!"
Li Haochu also reacted, the man seemed to have been saved.
Those present watched as the mutated moss devoured the remaining bloody part of the shin and then slowly began to move across the floor?!
Boom!
A fireball struck the patch of moss, instantly burning the mutated moss to nothing.
Lu Hao said to the people present, "Mutated moss, it can eat anything except metal. If anyone has accidentally been contaminated, you must immediately burn it with fire, or it will end up just like what happened just now,"
Ye Rongxin also put away the shock in his heart; he had thought about touching the moss with his hands when opening the iron box earlier, luckily Su Jin had stopped him in time. He shouted to those present, "Everyone, please check under your feet, and beneath your luggage!"
Everyone who witnessed the mutated moss eating a human became extremely agitated; each person frantically checked the clothing and the soles of the feet of those around them, almost wanting to strip off their clothes to search them inside and out.
"It seems, Zeng Peng was also,"
Ye Rongxin’s brows furrowed into a character resembling the Chinese word "river." There had only been some verbal disagreements, yet Xie Hengrui resorted to such a sinister method. If he didn’t bring him back to the base’s prison for severe punishment, it would be hard to quell his deep-seated hatred!
He had always despised such unjust acts; now that he had encountered it, he had to intervene.
However, he quickly discovered that Xie Hengrui was already "being severely punished."
In the lounge just now, Xie Hengrui was still crying his eyes out, but unlike before, this time he was genuinely crying out of fear.
Su Jin scooped up a bit of moss with an iron spoon, then a small, tender green sprout sprang up in her hand, which leaped onto the stagnant moss and slowly merged into it.
It worked!
Su Jin was overjoyed; she had just felt that the moss in the iron box was different. It was the mother body of a mutated moss, resembling a seed; she had only tried to let Xiao Cui control the moss, not expecting it to actually succeed!
Her plant army gained another member.
"Congratulations, Su Jin,"
The family along with Liao Yifan and a few others all understood what Su Jin was doing. They hadn’t expected the problematic mutated moss to be tamed by Su Jin.
Xie Hengrui completely failed to understand what Su Jin was doing, but he saw a small piece of moss slowly creeping towards him.
Having seen the way Zeng Peng died, he felt a chill running up his spine.
"No, no, I was wrong, I was wrong, I will never dare again!"
Xie Hengrui cried and shouted.
When Ye Rongxin entered, it was to this scene; the moss on the ground appeared to be under Su Jin’s control, occasionally moving left or right in time with the movements of her hand.
When the moss crawled up to Xie Hengrui, it suddenly leaped onto his exposed hand.
"Ah~~"
A scream resounded as the moss slowly began eating Xie Hengrui’s fingers!
"..."
Ye Rongxin felt that women in the Apocalypse seemed to have two sides, just like the "smiling secretary" Sheng Jing who was always behind Liang Jiuhui.
And the members of the Heart Talk Team seemed to be watching on the side with great interest, even making lively comments.
"Su Jin, does it eat where you tell it to?
Lin Xiuyuan also stared at the moss and asked.
"Hmm, it seems so now, let me try again"
Su Jin ignored Xie Hengrui’s increasingly faint cries of agony and directed the moss slowly to his other hand.
"It only ate your two fingers after all; we’ll still have to hand you over to Captain Ye later,"
After testing enough, Su Jin happily took back the piece of moss.
The family flinched when they saw the moss jump onto Su Jin’s hand, but seeing that it posed no harm to her, they gradually relaxed.
The farce ended there. The tormented Xie Hengrui was very obedient and even admitted in front of the Sun Moon Rivers and Mountains Team that it was he who had used the mutated moss to kill Captain Zeng.
Li Haochu and Ye Rongxin did not stop the members of the Sun Moon Rivers and Mountains Team who were crying and cursing as they beat Xie Hengrui unconscious; everyone has to pay the price for their actions.
The consequences would have been unimaginable if it hadn’t been for the Heart Talk Team being familiar with this kind of mutated moss today. 𝚗o𝚟pub.𝚌𝚘𝚖
"Captain Ye, when you get a chance, ask him where he got this moss from,"
Lu Hao said, looking at the unconscious Xie Hengrui on the ground.
