The battle for plant survival

By Peter Beaudoin

It's a frazzled college graduate with crushing student debt, working only a minimum-wage job and about to be evicted from her apartment. One morning, she suddenly wakes up in the body of a short-lived villain

• Language: English
• Publisher: Peter Beaudoin
• Release date: Apr 1, 2024
• ISBN: 9798869315540

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Act 1

Ling Mo gloating voice came over How? Do you regret your impulse? These flowers that hit you are the advanced version of naked men's flowers, called 'hammer orchid', those purple-black fruits, to put it bluntly, are the fruits formed after the flowers of naked men's flowers wither, the power is not bad?

Catherine ran two steps forward quickly, and finally out of the coverage of the purple vertical pupils, lost the guidance of the purple spotlight, those hammerorchid seemed to suddenly lose the target, they were ready to 'throw' posture have closed up, looked at each other, froze in place.

The strange big eyeball slowly floated over the pile of hammer orchid, the crack in the middle began to close slowly, and soon the purple and black vertical pupil disappeared, and the round cake as the base gradually collapsed, and countless crumbs fell down, one after another sprinkled on the body of the hammer orchid.

The malletrees held their purplish black fruit high, and scattered as many of the debris as they could, until the eyeball had completely disappeared, and the malletrees formed a large circle, as if they were in a bonfire party, and each one danced an unknown dance, tossing the fruit up and down, looking very happy, and the faces of the anthropomorphic flowers were beaming with laughter.

Catherine gasped, she sat down on the ground, some depressed said, Master, you didn't say that naked male flower is only a class of warcraft? This thing that Hammerland throws, it's as powerful as a Level 4 monster, isn't it?"

The red dragon was just born and was only a second-level warcraft, and when it grew up, was it not a seven-level warcraft? You idle egg pain jump over to step on someone's child, someone's father can not angry to hammer you to death?"

Catherine was speechless, she snorted, angrily said, Even if again, those wretched flowers I will not let go! How can there be such shameless flowers in this world? And what about those purple-black eyes? If this thing hadn't been locked on me, the fruits of the Malleberries would have been so weak, so embarrassed!"

You are secretly happy, Ling Mo smiled, the number of naked male flowers you step on is not too much, the purple black vertical pupil formed after the death is relatively weak, does not have the ability to open the space crack, can only call the nearby hammer orchid to bomb you, if the vertical pupil is a little bigger, hey hey, it calls over is the hell plane of all naked male flowers - trebuchets orchid! This orchid will be leftover animal heads into shells, like a trebuchet to throw stones, each shot has about five levels of magic power!"

Hiss! Listening to Ling Mo's description, Catherine gasped, imagining that she was bombarded by a large five-level magic scene, and only felt a chill, Don't say master, this place is really evil, let's leave as soon as possible?

No, I mean you can't, Lingmo patted Catherine on the shoulder and motioned her to look around. Didn't you smell anything particularly unpleasant with all the gasping you've been doing?

Just did not pay attention to this above, at this time Catherine smoked her nose, and indeed smelled a disgusting smell, subconsciously looked around and found that the ground did not know when there had been a split fruit, these fruits below the formation of two large jagged leaves of the base, and the split part is particularly like a bloody mouth to eat people!

In the middle of the mouth, a section like a mammal's tongue sticking out, this disgusting tongue pointed straight to the sky, the background color is scarlet, looking very ferocious, full of unknown mucus, is slowly dripping down, at the same time emitting a strong smell, like the smell of highly decomposed corpses!

Catherine covered her nose and said in a muffled voice, At last, a species I know! This is konjac, isn't it? I've seen one of these in the rainforests of Sumentala, but it's a real thing, isn't it? How did you become a half-empty creature in the monster rainforest?

You're half right, this is Konjac, but it's an advanced form of Konjac Voodoo lily. Ling Mo said with a serious look, at this time you must not act rashly, the name Voodoo lily, derived from the original language of the Orc tribe fish people, meaning 'highly poisonous psychic lily', the ordinary corpse odor Konjac is through the odor of the corpse, attracting scavengers or small animals to lick its' tongue ', and then stick them, paralyze after digestion. The Voodoo lily is a direct sweep of the tongue, as long as the living creatures within a radius of three meters are involved, swallowed into the flower stem, very dangerous!"

Moreover, this is not the most dangerous, Lingmo paused, continued to say, the most terrible place is that after the Voodoo lilies gather in groups, they will unconsciously release the 'psychic', and the dangerous creatures in some inexplicable planes will be psychic to the real world, and in many cases will cause great damage!

Psychic... Catherine chewed on the word and said somewhat unexpectedly, Isn't channelism a Druid spell? Why is it in this disgusting plant?

The Druid sect originated from the high priest of the Elves, the original intention is to communicate with natural creatures, and more harmonious coexistence with nature, but after the introduction of the primitive Orc tribe, it is used by the Orc shaman wizards on the evil road, after all, animals or monsters, thinking is relatively simple, once you can communicate with them, it will be very easy to command them, As Ling Mo told these ancient stories, his voice was low and he seemed to have a great deal of sadness

It is not to blame those shamans for taking the evil path, after all, at that time the Orc tribes were short of food and clothing and starved to death all day long, and now the powerful northern Orc Empire is completely different, and the food that can communicate with animals and plants has increased greatly, and the vast majority of the tribe can survive. However, there is no limit to human greed, and communication will soon be unable to meet them. The next step is to control the thoughts of Warcraft, and the next step is to transform and biochemical tests... It's not surprising that there are these psychic creatures."

Catherine fell silent, forced a smile, and said, These things... It's too far away. Why don't we just stop? Well, if we keep talking about secrets, we're gonna lose the studio, so why don't we get back to this voodoo lily thing? Master, what do you think these voodoo lilies will produce?

I don't know. Ling Mo looked around, voodoo lily appeared in a very clever position, just fell in the hammer orchid community around, the faint hammer orchid community surrounded, these hammer orchid from the singing and dancing back to God, but found that their companions are one by one by the Voodoo lily's disgusting tongue, uprooted, into the open mouth of blood!

The malleberries soon fought back, throwing out a hammer-like purplish-black fruit, the fried Voodoo lilies shook left and right in a state of confusion, and even a few of the hapless ones took a few more blows, were torn apart by the explosion, and the Voodoo lilies seemed to be angry, their scarlet tongues swept more fiercely, and mucus splashed everywhere, and even from their bloody jaws, Faint drifting out of the pale toxic fog, these toxic fog soon joined together, condensed into essence, the whole plant war battlefield shrouded in it, became foggy see not real.

"It's coming! Ling Mo let out a low breath, Catherine also widened her eyes, a pale cloud of poison, a thick tentacle lightning out, swept across the battlefield of hammer orchid and Voodoo lily, both sides are broken into pieces!

Act 2

This tentacle, with the very obvious characteristics of Marine life, smooth, mucous membrane, but very exaggerated, this tentacle alone can be seen more than 50 meters, like an octopus tentacle magnified many times, covered with disgusting suction cups. The tentacle itself is black and gray, but the suckers on it are blood red, which looks particularly strange.

The blow hit directly between the malleweed and the Voodoo lilies, and the large flowers were smashed to pieces, and then all the debris was sucked by the suction cup of the tentacle, all turned into a strange reddish mist, and sucked into the tentacle! The strange flowers seemed to be frightened by this scene, there was a brief silence on the field, followed by a second tentacle to strike, causing more damage, and then the hammer orchid and Voodoo lilies woke up like a dream, fried the pot and fled.

The Voodoo lily's scarlet, death-like tongue swishes back into its large mouth, then the upper part of its bloody mouth snapped tightly shut, and in the blink of an eye it becomes an ordinary turquoise fruit, and then the two jagged broad leaves under the fruit rotate and shrink upward. Like a small drill bit, with the fruit on top of a whizz into the ground, disappeared.

The way of escape of the hammer orchid is more special, the obscene person composed of the stamen, the purplish black fruit in the hand to the bottom of the bottom, and then the fear of twittering up, the anthropomorphic face, but also just with the expression of death, very funny. Then, the purple and black fruit under its buttocks began to shine, and a second or two later, a boom burst open, and those humanoid stamens burst into the sky with a thin scream, and disappeared in the horizon in the blink of an eye.

I guess I didn't expect these weird flowers to run for their lives so fast, the third tentacle swung in the air in vain when it came, and there was almost nothing but a few naked man's penis, and out of the pale fog came a clearly disgruntled grunt, and then a huge breathing sound, and all the fog, and the surrounding too close, The strange flowers that had no time to escape were all sucked in the past, and a huge, giant octopus appeared in midair!

The color of its body was a horrible dead gray, only the protrusion of the eyes, the suction cups on the tentacles were blood red, the length of each tentacle was more than 100 meters, and the tall head was dozens of meters high. Only after the fog disappeared did Catherine see clearly that this giant octopus had not been fully psychic, and the space door created by the psychic operation of the Voodoo lilies was not huge enough. This giant octopus can only be allowed to put half of its head and tentacles over, its four huge arms waving wildly outside the space door, and the other four tentacles trying to pull the edge of the space door, hard to support the door, so that the door does not shrink quickly.

In terms of body structure, it is not much different from the ordinary octopus, the biggest difference is that under its terrible ringed mouth parts, there is a huge sphere tens of meters in diameter, larger than the octopus's head, at this time is surrounded by two tentacles, tightly attached to the octopus's head below. The huge sphere is slowly wriggling, regular retraction and contraction, like a beating heart.

This meat ball should be very precious to the big octopus. The prey it has sucked up, such as the malleweed and voodoo lily, is sent into the mouth parts and dissolved into a disgusting mess, and then vomited out of the mouth parts, and cherished the surface of the meat ball. The surface of the meat ball has a transparent luster, and the green paste that seems to be full of business is absorbed into it.

It was obvious that such a little bit of green goo could not meet the needs of the huge meat ball, and the speed of its contraction and expansion became more and more rapid. The face of the big octopus showed a very human expression of pain, extending a tentacle slowly stroking and soothing the surface of the huge meat ball, and when the frequency of the big meat ball was not so rapid, its huge scarlet eyes scanned down viciously. Soon locked those who seem to have no sense, still in the happy rotation of the dancing grass!

But it is quite far away from those dancing grass at this time, even if the tentacles are straight and can not reach, the huge octopus hesitated for a moment, or decided to repeat the same trick, four tentacles, trying to raise their head, and then open the ring tooth mouth to the maximum, see will once again hard to breathe in, suddenly become steep!

The dancers, who were spinning and jumping, sped up their rotation, and then in pairs, the weaker one was thrown high into the open mouth of the big octopus, while the stronger one, by the counterforce of the throw, spun away, and when it reached safety, The rest of the strong dancers pair up and soon they are in love again.

This grass... It's heartless. Catherine exclaimed, and then asked, What is this thing? Why do I feel like I don't know anything since I've been in the jungle of Warcraft? And it's clearly a sea creature? How can you be so happy in midair?

This is the Cthulhu octopus, because of the nature of the semi-virtual body, coupled with the dancing super long tentacles like the evil god in the myth of Cthulhu named, Ling Mu explained, its habitat was originally the sea of shadow on the demon plane, it is said that the sea is actually in the sky on the demon plane, is a large negative energy mixed impurities composed of clouds, so this thing is originally living in the sky species.

The Voodoo Lily's psychic skills are so awesome that even this monster can be summoned, Catherine exclaimed again, but what do they want? Wouldn't it be worth the cost of channeling these things and eating them all?"

Originally, the Voodoo Lily's psychic skills were unable to summon such powerful demonic creatures, at most summoning a night demon or other celestial beings, but... Yeah, you see that giant ball of meat he's holding under his mouth? This is a female octopus, the meat ball is her baby, because it is about to be born, as long as 50 years of egg holding period is finally coming to an end, it urgently needs a lot of food, so it responded to the psychic call, came to the main physical plane, fortunately, the space door is not large enough, it can not completely enter, otherwise it is really very troublesome.

Ling Mo said here, suddenly evil smile the studio should have the practice of shadow magic or demon curse of the people? Congratulations on your recent blessing! Cthulhu octopuses can give birth to 10,000 baby octopuses, and although most of them do not survive to adulthood, it is not difficult to get one or two young Cthulhu octopuses if they enter the sea of negative energy on the demon plane within a month! Well nurtured, she is a powerful spell servant!"

Water friends' Illidan died a household book 'to give the anchor a ruin! At the same time, thank teacher Ling for the reminder! I'll start preparing something for the demon plane! I lost my hellfire to some idiot, and I'm having trouble finding a powerful Dharma pet, so this Cthulhu octopus is perfect for me! Thanks again teacher Ling! There will be a big gift when it's done, and by the way, Illidan's dead!

Water friend 'old thief Gul 'dan deserved to strike a lightning strike' to give the anchor a destruction of the sky! At the same time, thank you very much for teacher Ling's reminder! I've been to the demon plane twice and got nothing, so it looks like we're gonna get a bumper harvest! By the way, Gul 'dan, your hellfire chicken is brittle. How do I know it'll fall apart? Don't let me meet you on the demon plane, or you and your frost giant legs will be discounted!

Waterfriends' Interpol Mavi Shadow Song 'awarded the anchor a chaos meteorite! At the same time leave a message to thank Ling teacher clues! Recently, the funds allocated above can only be rewarded this little meaning, don't feel less ha! Now I know where to catch these two thieves! I will wait for your two grandsons at the devil's plane in advance, don't come!

The front row worships the man who can go to the demon plane! I have never shivered outside the main physical plane!

Poor bastard who has never been abroad shivering +1!

The poor bastard who has never been outside his own province is shivering +2!

The poor bastard who has never been outside our village, who has never been on a train, shivering!

The last time we saw the magic flying car in this poor ditch, it was ten years ago!

......

Just as Ling Mo looked at the bullet screen more and more pulled away, Catherine's trembling voice came over teacher... Master, that big octopus seems to have spotted us both!

Act 3

Master, that big octopus, it seems to have spotted us both! Why don't we just run?

Catherine's voice trembled with unconcealed fear. She thought she was one of the bolder kinds, but when she was locked in the blood-red eyes of the Cthulhu octopus, she felt her heart suddenly clench, trembling like a mouse at a cat, and almost forgot to run away.

In the face of the suspected seven-level warcraft Cthulhu octopus, in the face of the pressure from the top of the food chain, Catherine finally understood that many times, your courage is far from as strong as you think, and willpower is far from as firm as you think.

The Cthulhu octopus has swept up all the living things it can reach with its tentacles, and the two small bugs not far away soon aroused its interest, but estimated the distance, and it was completely unable to reach the two small bugs. In the face of such small prey, it has rich hunting experience and deeply knows that, This creature's escape speed is generally very fast, they only have one chance to shoot, with a big mouth to suck I am afraid is not too safe!

Thinking of this, it pushed against the four arms on the edge of the space door, pushed the space door as big as possible, and a big head squeezed to the main material plane, and then it picked up three spare arms, the dead gray light on the toes of the feet faintly lit up, quickly waved in the air, across a mysterious track, an obscure symbol gradually formed in the air, Very familiar, yet plausible, Catherine looked at it carefully and could not help but exclaim, Shadow cloak?? !!

Although Catherine has lost her powers at this time, but she was once a high mage's vision is still there, the Cthulhu octopus arms draw the track, and the way the energy works, is not the dark fifth level magic - shadow cloak? This spell is simple: it releases a dark ring of energy that deals a large amount of dark damage while binding all objects in the area and then pulling them to the location specified by the caster. But does not the Third Edition of the Arcane Canon of the Dark System record that this spell was created 320 years ago by the Dharma saint Takula? Why is this giant octopus capable of such elaborate spells?

This was definitely not the time to think about this, she was a little stunned to come back to her mind, immediately quickly jump back, she had learned this magic, she knew very well that the only flaw in the cloak of shadow is the formation of the circular energy band, the farthest end of the junction there is a fleeting gap, once the circular energy band formed, Dead ends, front, back, right, right above!

However, she could not jump!

The legs push hard, want to jump with the reaction force, the result of the foot from the touch, but it is like stepping on a mass of mud! Not only failed to jump up, but his feet sank more than ten centimeters!

Catherine didn't have to look down to know what she was standing on -- quagmire! The lowest level of dark magic - Mire! She had never noticed when the giant octopus had used this spell, but it was so right that, in normal times, Catherine would not have looked at this inoffensive, lowest form of magic, but now it was her fate!

Is this the skill of the top predator? The other party did not use how powerful force, let himself completely into a desperate situation, Catherine's heart is full of wonder, but it is not very worried, see the shadow cloak of black energy belt has been close at hand, she turned her head, looked to the side of the Ling Mo, the meaning in the eyes is obvious, master, it is your performance, you do not think I can now contend with seven level warcraft?

Ling Mo helpless, in fact, Catherine's immediate response just now made him some dissatisfaction, but it is not the time to say this, his angry eyes were wide open, issued a light drink, a light golden energy shell in the air passed away, played in the