The search team members did not stay at the door for long and walked inside one after another.

It was not realistic to find living plants here, so they wanted to dig in the ground to see if they could find some sunflower seeds or edible grass roots.

Zhang Chunliang followed them and walked in. Before entering the door, he looked back inadvertently.

Outside, a large group of thin and dark survivors were leaning against the wall to rest. No one was talking to each other. They stared straight at the taskers who went in, with creepy anticipation in their eyes.

The team leader did not let everyone in, because there were very few supplies inside, and if too many people rushed in rashly it would cause chaos. Therefore, the hopes of thousands of people rested on these dozens of taskers. It was hard to imagine what the consequences would be if they did not bring anything out.

Zhang Chunliang frowned slightly and was about to stop when he was pulled in by the person in front of him.

"Stop dilly-dallying. I can't stand you dragging your feet like this—"

The two entered later, and those who were quicker had already followed the instructions and ran into the planting area.

The layout of this botanical garden is very simple. Opposite the gate is a three-story office building, which blocks the view of those entering. The planting area is behind this building. To enter the plantation, one must pass through both sides of the building.

"Ahhhhhhhhhh-"

The first person who ran into the garden let out a scream, and the sound was abrupt and creepy in the empty and quiet abandoned garden.

"You're asking for death! You're so scary!" The man who pulled Zhang Chunliang was in a very bad temper. He went around the back of the building, cursing, and wanted to cause trouble for the person who was screaming.

But when he saw the scene in front of him, his mind went blank.

Behind the small building, there was an endless field of sunflowers, so dense that there was no end in sight. The hot summer was blocked by the dense branches, and the searchers could even feel a long-lost coolness.

The sunflowers have full and round disks, and long branches that are graceful and strong. The shortest sunflower is nearly two meters tall. At this moment, they are facing away from the crowd, with their branches swaying slightly, and they all look up at the scorching sun in the distance.

In the natural disaster of drought, this is a unique and stunning beauty.

"Oh my god... I must be dreaming..." A searcher swallowed and muttered in a daze.

He rushed into the sunflower bush like a madman, grabbed the branch that was thicker than an adult's arm and shook it hard. A few gray-black seeds fell from the flower disk.

He picked up the sunflower seeds with trembling hands, put them in his mouth and took a bite. Only when he tasted the moist and sweet kernel did he believe that all this was real.

"Ha, ha ha..." His expression was distorted with ecstasy and he couldn't stop shaking all over.

The fact that these flowers can grow so vigorously means that there must be plenty of water in the soil. He doesn't need to go to the ghost Shuangshi Village anymore, nor does he need to endure hunger and thirst. He can live safely by guarding this sunflower forest.

"Ahhhhhhhhhhhh!" For a moment, all humans were going crazy. They rushed into the tall sunflower bushes, touching the roots of each sunflower, shaking them madly, and countless sunflower seeds fell like raindrops.

Zhang Chunliang stood outside the sunflower bush, watching the scene motionlessly. He felt a chill on his back and could not help but step back.

Very strange.

The land outside the Mingming Garden is so dry that it is almost cracking, so why can such vibrant sunflowers grow in this garden?

Or in other words - what do they feed on to grow so strong?

Zhang Chunliang seemed to be hallucinating again. He heard some sharp giggles, as if someone was feeling smug about having succeeded in a prank.

Zhang Chunliang believed in his intuition and retreated towards the door calmly.

"Why don't you go in? Those sunflowers are blooming so beautifully." A voice close at hand suddenly sounded in Zhang Chunliang's ears.

Goose bumps appeared on his neck and his whole body tensed up.

He had never heard this voice before, and it didn't belong to anyone in the search party.

A strange "hand" was placed on his left shoulder.

It was a heart-shaped leaf that was larger than a human face. The veins on the leaf were clearly visible. It was like a powerful claw, pressing Zhang Chunliang firmly in place.

Zhang Chunliang turned his head stiffly and saw clearly the "person" who was almost next to his ear.

It was a huge sunflower disk, with petals twisted and long like tongues, emitting golden light. The disk was full of plump gray-black sunflower seeds, emitting a strange fragrance.

Suddenly, the sunflower seeds in the center of the flower began to tremble, and then two dark round holes suddenly opened up in the upper part. The round holes were spinning around, and there was bloodshot white around them.

Those were a pair of human eyes.

"Hehe..." A mouth opened under the flower disk, revealing sharp white teeth and some scarlet flesh threads between the teeth.

Zhang Chunliang looked a little nauseous - he instantly realized that there was clearly a human head in the sunflower disk, and the person's face was covered with dense sunflower seeds, covering up his expression.

"Ahhhhh——" The human who had gone deep into the sunflower bushes suddenly let out another heart-wrenching scream.

However, this time the screams no longer contained surprise and excitement, but deep despair and pain.

Long, bright red snake-like tongues poked out from the sunflower disk, pierced through the humans' eye sockets and ear holes, stirred wantonly in their brains, and then hooked out clumps of pink, trembling flesh.

"We are so beautiful—" The sunflower beside Zhang Chunliang's ear laughed excitedly, "Stay with us, it's fun here!"

It let out a sharp and crazy laugh, and the entire flower disk kept shaking, and the sunflower seeds that were piercing people's faces were shaken off one by one.

Zhang Chunliang looked along the flower stem under the human-face flower disk and discovered that this "sunflower" grew out of the flowers not far away. Its flower stem was like a giant python, extending to an alarming length in the air and quietly circling behind Zhang Chunliang.

The sunflower head laughed so hard that its entire disk trembled. Then it suddenly stuck out its long scarlet tongue and was about to pierce Zhang Chunliang's eyes.

Zhang Chunliang jerked his head away and avoided the fatal blow. He then took advantage of the situation to get out of Kuihua's encirclement and ran towards the building from which he came.

But he had just run less than ten meters when he sensed a strong sense of malice. He suddenly stopped his momentum and slapped himself hard.

The slap made him grimace in pain, and his mind suddenly became clear.

——His premonition was correct. There was no building in front of him, but another sunflower field. The sunflowers all twisted their flower disks towards him and stared at him motionlessly.

It turned out that there was no three-story building in this botanical garden. As soon as the searchers stepped into the botanical garden, they had already fallen into hallucinations and were surrounded by these human-faced sunflower monsters.

Zhang Chunliang paused and turned back, but was blocked by the sunflower-faced man who was chasing him from behind. The long tongue no longer attacked his eyes, but instead pounced on him and tightly wrapped around his neck.

The sudden suffocation and pain made Zhang Chunliang's eyes go dark, and the air in his chest suddenly leaked out.

At this moment, the whole world seemed to dim.

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