After climbing the tower, Shen Muyu followed the same method, this time having Zhan Yi bring the gas cylinder and grenades to the cave entrance.
As a burst of flame shot out, the plant roots in the pit were ignited, and the fire spread downwards. Shen Muyu immediately used his mental power to follow.
The zombies rushing in from outside were left to Zhan Yi and his group; since there were no survivors left, they could just blow them up as they pleased.
Carefully avoiding the immobile and preoccupied human-faced flowers, Shen Muyu easily reached her previous position.
"What is this thing?" Shen Muyu's lips twitched involuntarily as he looked at the humanoid creature that had been split in two by a beam of light.
The person's body looked quite normal, but there was a ring of colorful flower petals around their head.
It looks a bit like a sunflower with its center hollowed out and a head attached, which adds a strangely comical touch.
The flames were cut off by the layers of human-faced flowers. If the light barrier hadn't been bright enough, Shen Muyu would have had a hard time seeing the humanoid creature through the shadowy gaps.
With just one glance, Shen Muyu withdrew his spiritual power. The density of the human-faced flowers here was simply too high. When he touched them just now, Shen Muyu was worried that the bracelet would not be able to catch the towering black mist.
"Master, the zombies have started retreating back into the pit," Little A reported to Shen Muyu.
"Let Zhan Yi go in, Xiao A, you keep an eye on the situation outside." Shen Muyu picked up the rifle and began to test his idea again.
With the ability to multitask, Shen Muyu directly separated a small wisp of his mental energy and wrapped it around the bullet.
Concentrating his mind and calming his spirit, the bullet shot out from the muzzle and, guided by his mental energy, directly merged with another mental energy, being drawn from the real world into Shen Muyu's mental world.
However, perhaps because it was my first time using it, my aim wasn't very good, and I missed.
Fortunately, the density of the human face flowers was high here, and I happened to shoot onto another flower.
Since these human-faced flowers do not have a crystal core, they cannot detonate the crystal core to cause large-scale damage. However, the bullets wrapped in mental energy have strong penetrating power, and the roots of the human-faced flowers were directly severed.
"Yes!" Seeing that the experiment was successful, Shen Muyu immediately switched to the laser weapon. This thing had too much energy and a long tail, making it very difficult to mentally envelop it and consuming a lot of mental energy. That's why he dared to use it now.
brush!
The laser beam hurtled towards the dense cluster of human-faced flowers, but the sheer amount of effort required to envelop them caused a sharp pain in Shen Muyu's head. Had it not been for her upgraded superpower, she probably would have died instantly from that attack.
However, the effect was remarkable, directly clearing a small path. Seeing this, Shen Muyu fired another shot, and countless petals floated in the air, which was very dazzling.
Shen Muyu followed the passage that had been cleared and went inside. Inside was a semi-circular cave with countless entrances, which were probably the paths the zombies used to get out.
The delay had caused some time to pass, and some zombies had already crawled out of the cave. However, Shen Muyu's spiritual power was invisible, so they simply surrounded the person in the middle.
"Little A, has Zhan Yi gone in yet?" Shen Muyu asked upon seeing this.
"Master, Zhan Yi said it's blocked by those roots and human-faced flowers, and it will probably take some time." Zhan Yi had a walkie-talkie hanging around its neck, which it used to communicate with Xiao A. The fact that they could communicate meant that they hadn't even gone three kilometers yet.
"Understood, make it happen as soon as possible." Those roots and stems pose little threat and won't cause any danger.
"Wait a minute, why doesn't it go through my passage?" Shen Muyu asked, puzzled. Little A was also stunned for a moment.
"It...it says it doesn't know, and I forgot about it too. I'll let it out now and then let it go back in." Little A replied somewhat awkwardly. It had also forgotten about it just now, truly becoming an artificial idiot (˘̩̩̩ε˘̩ƪ).
"Okay…" Shen Muyu didn't know what to say.
...
The semi-circular cave in front of them was rather low, only about the height of a person. Shen Muyu could only see the person stuck on the light screen through the gap in the zombie's head.
"I know you're here, let's chat," a slightly hoarse male voice said.
Shen Muyu ignored him and went straight through the pile of zombies to enter the man's body.
There was no resistance as I had imagined, and the entry was very easy.
"I know you're probing me, but it's useless. This half-body has nothing; you can't use it." The hoarse male voice rang out again.
Shen Muyu was now focused on his body and had no time to pay attention to him.
It wasn't the plant roots and stems you might imagine; it was just normal human internal organs and various fleshy organs. But upon closer inspection, you could see that the surface of these things was constantly pulsating.
"How disgusting." Shen Muyu couldn't help but think, and saw that the pulsating thing was actually a thin, insect-like thing. These things were not large in size but there were a lot of them, all moving at the same frequency.
"It's alright, you get used to it after a while." The hoarse male voice seemed to be responding to Shen Muyu's words.
"Don't be afraid. Your thoughts reside within me, so I can naturally sense some of your emotions," the hoarse male voice explained.
"My name is Xiang Dong, and I'm just an ordinary superhuman who's trapped here. Don't be afraid. Once the passage opens, you'll be able to leave this special space. Isn't that a win-win situation?" Xiang Dong, the owner of the hoarse male voice, said.
Shen Muyu continued to probe downwards and saw that the superhuman who called himself Xiang Dong was not wearing shoes; his feet were already connected to the ground.
The tiny worms on the flesh continued to extend outwards, turning into the plant roots we had seen before. It seemed that this person was the source of those strange roots and the human-faced flower.
After searching repeatedly, Shen Muyu couldn't find the crystal core in this half of his body. As for the other half, it was completely isolated by this strange light curtain, and Shen Muyu's spiritual power couldn't penetrate it.
Could it be that none of the strange creatures in this space have crystal cores?
"This place is abandoned by energy. It can't condense crystal cores or absorb additional energy. If this continues, we'll eventually die here," Xiang Dong explained.
"You can not only tell me my emotions, but also hear my thoughts?" Shen Muyu thought silently, using his mental power.
"Not really, I only know a little bit," Xiang Dong said with a smile.
"Since he's a superhuman, why did he kill all those people outside?" He acted like he was playing with a cat before, but then he became so anxious. Those people must be very important to Xiang Dong.
"It's for survival, of course. The energy in this space is limited, and they're consuming it, so naturally I don't have enough," Xiang Dong said matter-of-factly.
"You killed him, so why act like it's a game?" Shen Muyu didn't really want to ask this question; she just needed a little time to put on her emotional glasses.
"To thank them, after all, I'm only alive because of them." Xiang Dong's tone was tinged with resentment.
Shen Muyu didn't have time to figure out their grudges, so he changed the subject and casually put a wisp of mental energy on his emotional glasses.
"How can I leave this space? Is the passage you just mentioned this light curtain?"
"You can leave this space by going through this light curtain, but the passage is where I am now. I'm melting this passage, and you'll naturally be able to follow me in once I'm out," Xiang Dong replied without hesitation.
Seeing the anxious and resentful emotions reflected on the glasses, Shen Muyu naturally wouldn't believe it entirely, but he guessed that the light screen was indeed the key point.
Shen Muyu calmed down and examined Xiang Dong's body again. Noticing something, she quickly withdrew her spiritual power, and the surrounding situation reappeared before her eyes.
"His body is slowly passing through; it seems he's stalling for time." Xiang Dong's body, which was just halfway through, suddenly disappeared, clearly indicating that he had passed through the light barrier.
Without wasting any more time, Shen Muyu fired a laser weapon directly, but the zombies in front of him blocked it all. Shen Muyu also saw tiny roots constantly emerging from the ground, healing the wounds on the zombies' bodies.