80: Chapter 80 Harvest

Chapter 80: Harvest

Wang Ting's face showed a look of joy. Even though the last few shots failed to kill the Grafted Mother Vine, his goal had already been achieved.

Through continuously instilling damage and tangling and fighting with the Grafted Mother Vine, he had harvested enough information about the Grafted Mother Vine, and had now completed the cataloging of the Grafted Mother Vine.

To a certain extent, this was his first time completing a live cataloging.

"The Parasitic Fungus Vine has an exchangeable skill called Parasitic Seed. If that skill is used to wound a monster, wouldn't it be able to continuously damage monsters and acquire monster information?"

Wang Ting's eyes lit up, and a good idea popped into his mind. At this moment, the surrounding forest rustled as if a large number of monsters were rushing over.

He frowned slightly; the delay just now with that final move had given the Parasitic Fungus Vine an opportunity.

He could feel rapid and frantic vibrations coming from all directions; that was the commotion of the Parasitic Fungus Vines crazily pursuing and killing.

Their leader had been killed by Wang Ting, plunging the entire Parasitic Fungus Vine community into a frenzy.

Wang Ting immediately stowed the corpse hound sniper rifle deep into his consciousness, grabbed the vine skull tyrant blade, and turned to charge toward the weakest point of the encirclement.

Wang Ting rushed out of the woods. The Parasitic Fungus Vines outside were like a wave, stacked layer upon layer, with roars rising and falling. At a glance, there were at least several hundred of them.

He showed no fear at all. Facing the monster that was like a green wave, he plunged straight into the Parasitic Fungus Vine group.

He first raised his hand to summon the Earth Vine Spike, and countless spikes rose from the ground.

Around him, within a 300-meter range centered on his figure, those Parasitic Fungus Vines were directly pierced through their bodies by the Earth Vine Spikes, hanging in mid-air like skewered candied haws.

Wang Ting bypassed these vine spikes and directly swung the vine skull tyrant blade. Before those Parasitic Fungus Vines could react, their bodies had already been chopped into several pieces.

He swept continuously through the Parasitic Fungus Vine group like a fierce tiger. The vines on the ground were controlled by him, surging like giant pythons and constantly ramming into the Parasitic Fungus Vines trying to approach.

In a short time, the Parasitic Fungus Vines forming the encirclement had been scattered to pieces by his charge.

Taking advantage of this opening, without looking back, he fought while speeding up his charge toward the outer perimeter.

Although there were many Parasitic Fungus Vines, Wang Ting was only one person. His movements were flexible, and he had no worries while ambushing and killing. He was like a sharp blade, easily breaking through the encirclement. Whichever position he charged and killed towards, a breakthrough point would be blasted open in that position.

Charging back and forth like this, the Parasitic Fungus Vines were simply unable to effectively intercept him, and could only watch helplessly as Wang Ting broke through the encirclement and escaped into the urban area of Vine Town.

The Parasitic Fungus Vines pursued crazily. Roaring, they sprinted constantly, trying to surround and intercept him, but Wang Ting had already made preparations.

Just as he crossed into the suburban area of Vine Town, a pitch-black motorcycle was already parked by the street.

He directly got on the motorcycle, twisted the throttle, and the throttle roared with a boom, and his whole figure flew out with a "swoosh" sound.

In just a few breaths, the speed of the motorcycle became faster and faster, leaving only a burst of roaring sound and a gradually shrinking and receding figure, ultimately disappearing completely into Vine Town.

The Parasitic Fungus Vines themselves had low intelligence. Having been left behind by such a great distance, chasing was not an option, nor was not chasing.

Fortunately, at this moment, the shrill howl of the Grafted Mother Vine was heard again, and only then did they quickly shrink back into the Industrial Zone like a receding tide.

Seeing that no Parasitic Fungus Vines continued to chase him from behind, Wang Ting instantly breathed a sigh of relief.

He also knew in his heart that the intelligence of the Grafted Mother Vine was higher than that of the Parasitic Fungus Vines.

During their first contact, although the Grafted Mother Vine had set a trap for an ambush, out of territorial awareness, it had merely guarded its territory and had not easily stepped out of its sphere of influence.

But this time, Wang Ting took the initiative to ambush and kill, which had already made it feel a threat to its life.

I'm afraid that once it recovers, this leader-individual-level monster will not let the matter rest.

Wang Ting ran directly back to the residential area stronghold, dropped the motorcycle, and immediately summoned Feng Bo and the others.

"Take people to the edge of the town and keep a close eye on the monsters over at the Industrial Zone. If any monsters flood in, immediately call our people to retreat."

Hearing this, Feng Bo had a solemn expression: "I will lead a team over immediately. Is that monster about to rush out?"

"The Grafted Mother Vine was sniped by me with a dozen or so shots, and is only heavily injured. It might recover very soon. Pay attention to its movements, and in a couple of days, I will completely solve it."

Feng Bo gasped: "It still didn't die?!"

He had used the corpse hound sniper rifle; that was an anti-materiel sniper rifle, capable of piercing steel plates.

Listen to what Wang Ting said; was that human talk?

Sniped a dozen or so shots and it still didn't die? How much exuberant vitality must one have to achieve that?

He nodded heavily: "I'll send a few more teams of people to keep an eye on it."

After giving instructions regarding the Industrial Zone, Wang Ting returned to his room.

He took off his other equipment, drank a cup of water, rubbed his face to relax slightly, and then cast his attention onto the cataloging information of the Grafted Mother Vine.

[Low-level anomaly Grafted Mother Vine successfully cataloged, obtained 800 monster points]

Wang Ting: ?

He almost thought he had read it wrong, but looking closely, it was indeed 800.

A wave of joy surged into his heart. The cataloging reward for a Grafted Mother Vine turned out to be 800 monster points, which was a full 400 points more than the Vine Spider Nurse.

"The bigger the storm, the more expensive the fish; this saying really doesn't lie."

The more powerful the anomaly monster, the more rewards it naturally gave.

Wang Ting even had a thought in his heart now: to specifically go look for those leader-individual monsters or even intermediate anomalies inside the Infinite Building. If he could catalog them one by one, I'm afraid the one-time reward alone would make him immensely rich.

However, this thought flashed away.

Wang Ting took a few deep breaths to calm his mood. One-time rewards were naturally important, but making steady progress was even more important.

"Let's first check what the exchangeable items of the Grafted Mother Vine are. A one-time reward of 800 monster points means the exchangeable items can't be cheap stuff."

Thinking this, Wang Ting locked his attention onto the exchangeable items of the Grafted Mother Vine.

Looking at this, his heart shook even more, and he couldn't take his eyes away.

[Available exchangeable items for the low-level anomaly Grafted Mother Vine are as follows:]

[Grafted Demon Vine Tree (Creation): Grown by absorbing various corpse nutrients and extraordinary factors, an extraordinary alien plant intertwining limbs and vines, capable of generating demon vine fruit containing special extraordinary factor structures. Multiple ingestions can grant the Tier 1 path: Vine Controller — 800 monster points]

[Vine Mother (Creation): Influences and modifies the environment within a 1,000-meter range, urges vines to grow to modify the land's nature, increases the influence range over time, up to a limit of 3,000 meters — 800 monster points]

[Vine Core Space (Trait): Constructs a 20-meter diameter vine space inside the body using a special extraordinary factor structure to nurture a large number of vines, with a probability of mutating special vines, and capable of providing area projection when used — 600 monster points]

[Vine Demon Skin (Trait): Tough skin intertwined by a large amount of limb essence and vine rules, greatly enhancing body defense, comparable to heavy armor — 600 monster points]

[Grafted Mother Vine (Servant Beast): 1200 monster points]

"The Grafted Demon Vine Tree can actually nurture demon vine fruit that bestows extraordinary power, allowing people to gain extraordinary abilities?"

Wang Ting was attracted by this creation at first glance, and he couldn't help but take it seriously.

Because according to what was said in the introduction, having such a Grafted Demon Vine Tree meant that he held a stable channel to acquire extraordinary paths in his hands.

The demon vine fruit was equivalent to an extraordinary potion. Although there was a high probability that it couldn't bestow a special extraordinary path all at once, its strength lay in its stable output.

Wang Ting slightly calmed his mood, while continuously pondering in his heart: the blood vine fruit corresponds to limit-breaking-tier power, and the demon vine fruit corresponds to Tier 1 extraordinary power. If both are exchanged, the problem for Dong Hu and the others would be completely solved, and there would be no need to worry about the expansion problem at all.

The two kinds of fruits can not only enhance Wang Ting's own power, but also become the final piece of the puzzle for the power construction of Wang Ting's camp.

As long as he controlled it properly, the stronger the people under him, the more stable his status would be, and the entire camp would become even more powerful.

"The Grafted Demon Vine Tree needs to be exchanged, but it can be put off for a bit."

Wang Ting saw the power of the Grafted Demon Vine Tree, but he was also an extremely rational person.

Most people in the camp now had not reached the limit-breaking tier. Feng Bo was the only one who had broken limits once, and there wasn't a single person who had broken limits twice, let alone meeting the minimum limit required to bear extraordinary power — peak twice-limit-broken.

No one knew whether the efficacy of the demon vine fruit was gentler or more violent compared to extraordinary potions.

Even if it were gentler, presumably it couldn't possibly let someone directly skip breaking limits once, allowing ordinary people to step into the extraordinary in a single bound.

What Wang Ting wanted to exchange most right now was actually the second creation, the Vine Mother.

Because a section of the Vine Mother was equivalent to a small habitable floor.

Regarding the Vine Mother modifying terrain, although Wang Ting had not seen it with his own eyes, he guessed that the projection of the Vine Town floor forming the current simple oasis of the Outpost Camp was itself a modification of the terrain.

Now the description of the Vine Mother was extremely similar to that. If his guess was correct, as long as the Vine Mother was buried in the current Outpost Camp, as its influence continued to expand, one would soon see many, many vines growing out of this Gobi desert within a thousand-meter range, or even a three-thousand-meter range.

With vines taking root, the nature of the soil could continuously change under the influence of the projection. By then, the Outpost Camp would naturally be able to expand outwards much more easily, instead of being trapped in this one place by the boundless yellow sand.

A desert oasis with a diameter of 3,000 meters was enough to accommodate thousands of survivors, and more farmland could also be cultivated.

The two creations were unexpectedly powerful, and while the remaining two traits seemed simple, when Wang Ting thought carefully about them, he found that these two traits probably had other uses, especially for him, and their effects were not small.

"Plant Control fears nothing most except having no plants around. The Vine Space can cultivate vines at any time and has a probability of mutating them, and can also be projected out during battles to assist in combat. This is simply a trait specially prepared for me!"

Wang Ting raised the corner of his mouth and showed a smile. However, with a second thought, an inspiration flashed: "No, this isn't specially prepared for me, but a trait specially prepared for Vine Controllers."

The ability of a Vine Controller was similar to the Plant Control he currently displayed, and naturally shared common shortcomings.

As long as there were no controllable plants, or the plant strength was too low, the strength of extraordinary beings like Vine Controllers and Gardeners would shrink drastically.

It was precisely because of this capability limitation that on the Tieling Wasteland, the combat strength of a Tier 1 Gardener profession was far lower than that of the Painless profession of the same Tier 1.

And such a vine space essentially provided Wang Ting with portable combat tools—a large amount of vines and vines that might mutate special abilities. The two could greatly enhance the strength of plant-type extraordinary beings.

As for the final trait, it was a physical trait that enhanced bodily defense.

Its description was the simplest, but also extremely crude: greatly enhances bodily defense, comparable to heavy armor.

The sand scorpion armor and the Scorpion Skin, the defense of these two things was only referenced from Sand Scorpion shells. Although slightly stronger, it wasn't truly impervious to swords and spears.

Now this Vine Demon Skin was unexpectedly directly comparable to heavy armor. The power of heavy armor goes without saying, and being impervious to swords and spears is a given.

Even if a large-caliber anti-materiel sniper rifle truly hit this skin, I'm afraid its power would be reduced by more than half.

Super-strong constitution plus heavy-armor-like Vine Demon Skin, plus sand scorpion armor and Bloodthirsty Poison Web, no matter how many monsters like Parasitic Fungus Vines there were, they wouldn't be able to break his defense.

Everything was good stuff. Even for that servant beast Grafted Mother Vine, Wang Ting didn't think it was expensive.

Because once exchanged, he would essentially possess a leader-level monster henchman, whose strength was almost no less than that of an extraordinary being.

Wang Ting carefully considered what to exchange, and soon had an answer in his heart.

"Exchange Blood Vine Corpse Tree, Vine Core Space"