I have no pheromones, you smelled wrong

Heinrich, who was kicked away, reacted immediately. After rolling twice on the ground, he immediately took out his light energy gun and shot at the vine. The light energy bomb directly blew up the vine from the middle, and the vine twitched a few times. , lay stiffly on the ground and lost the ability to move.

But the other part rose into the air as if being enraged, and rushed towards Heinrich.

More brown-green vines protruded from the weeds and moss, flying towards the two humans in the forest.

Lin Xu clenched the cosmic alloy dagger, turned sideways sensitively to avoid the attack of the vines, and raised his hand to stab the vines, but the special alloy dagger only left a shallow layer of marks on the surface of the plant.

Lin Xu attacked with a dagger and had to get close to the vines. The blow was ineffective, and the vines, which had seized the opportunity, pressed towards Lin Xu. Cut off the vines that had reached the tip of his nose.

"Use the light energy sword! Turn on the protection mode!" In the confusion, Lin Xu shouted at Heinrich.

Under normal conditions, the powered exoskeleton is a set of hollow brackets that support people's actions. After the protection mode is turned on, the electromagnetic barrier between the brackets wraps around the human body, which can resist external attacks to a certain extent.

The vines were electrified by the electromagnetic barrier on Heinrich's exoskeleton, Heinrich took advantage of this breath, pulled out the light energy sword and chopped off the dry and yellow vine branches in front of him.

"I'm going to find the source."

Heinrich looked up and saw that Lin Xuzheng was tearing up the vines with a light energy sword in one hand and tearing up the vines in the other hand, and quickly ran to the depths of the forest. He was quick and skilled in his movements, as if he could predict where the vines' next attack would appear. The hand is a sword.

Without hesitation, Lin Xu abandoned the dead vine corpse and ran along the surging branches. Heinrich used a light energy gun to clear away the small vines that inadvertently approached Lin Xu, and approached Lin Xu cautiously.

The vines seemed to have senses and pain. After several branches were cut off by Lin Xu, foul-smelling poison flowed from the cuts of the remaining branches. Suddenly, the number of vines tripled and danced angrily from head to toe. Surrounding Lin Xu was like a birdcage that was constantly tightened.

Lin Xu gritted his teeth and used brute force to smash the power supply of the light energy sword. After a burst of extremely strong light flashed, raging flames rose into the air, engulfing Lin Xu and the vines like a tide, even if there were no vines in the flames It was also immediately charred and dehydrated.

"Lin Xu!" Heinrich's heart tightened, and he rushed forward immediately, but before he could reach the edge of the flames, a black shadow jumped out from the flames, directly crushed Heinrich, and rolled on the ground twice. lock up.

The burned and hot exoskeleton was attached to the electromagnetic barrier, and the current lost stability, making crackling and cracking noises continuously.

"Lin Xu!" Heinrich ignored the high temperature and hugged the figure that flew out of the flames.

"Quick...let go." Lin Xu said with difficulty, "Hot..."

The first thing he did after he rolled out of Heinrich's arms was to remove the red-hot powered exoskeleton from his body. The high temperature made the metal material brittle and soft, and Lin Xu pulled the exoskeleton directly with a burst of force. Out of shape, Heinrich immediately stepped forward to remove the exoskeleton in the normal order of putting on and taking off.

Lin Xu supported the tree trunk, gasping for breath, but the high temperature in his hand directly scorched the bark, and he could only withdraw his hand angrily.

The mutated vine was still burning. Its body was two meters wide, and the depth of its root system was unpredictable. Lin Xu secretly used his abilities to control the range of the flames to avoid affecting innocent plants.

Heinrich handed Lin Xu a pot of water, checked him up and down, and confirmed that Lin Xu was not injured after walking in the fire.The temperature control system of the isolation suit could not stop the high temperature of the explosion of the light energy material, but even Lin Xu's exposed facial skin showed no signs of burns.

Heinrich was a little puzzled, but he was relieved, as if he could calmly accept everything that happened to Lin Xu.

"I asked Arnold to bring fire extinguishing equipment to deal with the follow-up." Heinrich said.

If the fire is allowed to spread, this pristine forest may suffer on the first day when human beings set foot on the earth home again.

"En." Lin Xu nodded and took a sip of water.

After receiving the news, Arnold dutifully returned to the lander to pick up special fire-fighting equipment, and then rushed to the forest.

Heinrich squatted down, picked up a severed vine corpse, and looked at it carefully, "All the plants on the ancient earth have the characteristic of autonomous attack?"

"No, it's a mutant."

After humans left, the earth has regained the vitality of mountains, rivers and vegetation in 3000 years. If all plants have aggressive characteristics, then this planet will not be a warm home planet, but a purgatory for the weak and the strong.

"The vast majority of plants are normal and cannot move independently." Lin Xu said, seeing Heinrich dig out an empty test tube from his backpack and collect the vines.

But plants that are infected and mutated by radiation in the last days can.

After Lin Xu confirmed that the body of the mutated vine was completely burned by the high temperature, Arnold started the intelligent program of the fire-fighting robot to put out the fire. An all-round search was launched in the mountains to find out whether there are hidden dangers of mutated animals and plants.

Heinrich sent a message to Zhou Pingbo, who had returned to the organization of the expedition, asking him to pay attention to possible mutant animals and plants, and sent him two test tubes as samples.

Time passed quickly, the sun was about to fall, the western sky was painted a rose color, and the east was a magnificent blue.

The air in the morning and dusk seemed to have turned dark blue. Ryan and Cassandra rushed back after receiving the news. Ryan held a bunch of plant fruits in his arms and piled them in the middle of the dining table.

Cassandra complained to Arnold with lingering fear: "If I hadn't stopped him and told him not to think about eating wild animals on unexplored planets, he would have come back with a rabbit."

At this time, Ryan was gnawing on the nutrient solution and artificial solid food, with an innocent expression, and asked Lin Xu which of these fruits he could eat.

Lin Xu pressed his temples, looked at Ryan, and looked at the fruits piled on the dining table. He used a Geiger counter to measure closely, and after confirming that these fruits bred from high-radiation soil could be imported by interstellar humans, he followed up. He pointed the turquoise fruit to Ryan for a moment.

Ryan asked, "Do you want to peel it?"

"It will be all right."

Rui En jumped up and ran to wash the fruit, without peeling off the outer skin, and took a bite.

"Help... help..." It only takes one bite, and this fruit can make Ryan grab the table, and his whole body is on the verge of falling.

The green plums were so sour that his whole face wrinkled up, his eyelids were trembling and he couldn't move them open, it was so painful, Ryan still managed to swallow the pulp.

Cassandra looked sideways: "Is it so sour?"

"Yeah." Ryan nodded crazily, with tears in his eyes, looking at Lin Xu, Heinrich pressed the corners of his lips when he saw him.

Lin Xu said: "...It's only March now, the plums are not yet ripe, they are indeed sour."

Heinrich glanced at him unexpectedly, he didn't expect that Lin Xu was teasing the big-hearted Ryan, but his expression was as calm as usual.

After several people settled their dinner with artificial fast food, the returned unmanned detector showed that there were no other abnormal animals and plants in this area. The intelligent fire extinguishing robot automatically returned and reported that the fire had been completely cleared.

Lin Xu asked Heinrich if he wanted to go out for a walk.

"now?"

"Well, I want to go back to the lake and have a look."

Heinrich had no choice but to lead Lin Xu to change into a new set of isolation suit and powered exoskeleton, and checked to make sure that Lin Xu was not burned by the high-temperature flames.

The dark blue sky is falling, but it is not too late, the missing moon hangs in the east, and the moonstone ring, which is dim in color and inconspicuous in the universe, surrounds the earth like countless pearls and gems, reflecting the soft and bright light. brilliance.

Lin Xu told Heinrich not to fly the aircraft. He followed the footprints left by Ryan and Cassandra on the mountain road and found the forest where Ryan picked the fruit.

In his memory, the hills outside the base were a commercial orchard before the model came, but they were all abandoned later, and the fruit trees that survived to this day are unknown for how many generations of wild species.

It is still spring, but after the overall temperature of the earth has risen, the flowering period of most fruit trees has ended, and the scattered old trees have their own fruits on their branches. It's not big, and there are still many gaps that are pecked by birds and beasts.

The night wind was gentle, Lin Xu bypassed the plum and peach trees whose fruits were still green, stopped under the cherry tree, and folded the fruit and branches together. When he returned to Heinrich, he was already in a blind spot, secretly using water control The ability washes the cherries over.

"This is a cherry, which ripens earlier." Lin Xu handed out the branch, and the cherry on it shook like a bell.

The skin of the small pale pink-orange cherries is soft and fragile. When Heinrich's fingers covered with isolation gloves were pinched, they shattered in the palm of his hand, exuding a ripe sour-sweet smell.

Heinrich dropped the accidentally pinched cherry and lowered his eyelashes to pick another one, but Lin Xu suddenly withdrew the cherry branch without letting Heinrich touch it.

Heinri wanted the past.

The next moment, the cool breath suddenly covered the corners of his lips.

Lin Xu picked a cherry with his teeth, put it in his mouth and sent it to Heinrich's lips. The facial film of the isolation suit could blend with each other when they touched, allowing the two sides to touch each other's lips and skin.

Lin Xu leaned on Heinrich's shoulder and pushed the red cherry over. The tip of his tongue and teeth split the flesh of the cherry into two halves, and he deftly rolled back the pit and stem.

The lips and cherry flesh were ice cold.

The sour taste made Heinrich's mind jump.

There was a sweet taste between Lin Xu's lips and teeth, but the cherries were really sour.

The green plums Ryan was tricked into eating by Lin Xu didn't look very good on the outside, but now the cherries in front of him are all red and red, which is very confusing.

Who would have thought it could be so sour?

Heinrich opened his eyes and saw that Lin Xu had indeed retreated to the normal distance, his whole body was shrouded in moonlight, and his expression was indifferent. When he met Heinrich's eyes, he said with a half-smile: "I tasted the cherries too, let's go!" Bar?"

Heinrich has always been inexplicably hostile to Alpha who is close to Lin Xu. Sometimes Heinrich himself doesn't notice it, but Lin Xu's eyes always fall on Heinrich, so it's hard not to notice it.

This is Alpha's biological instinct, which is difficult to change.

Heinrich paused, then suddenly frowned his eyebrows and eyelids, and wrinkled his nose stiffly. His handsome facial features were distorted by this hard-pressed expression, "Sour..."

Lin Xu froze for a moment, then raised his hand to smooth the wrinkles on Heinrich's face, "Don't learn from that silly kid."

Unripe plums are bitter and astringent, but ripe cherries are deliciously sour.

After correcting the expression on Heinrich's face, Lin Xu grabbed Heinrich and continued to walk forward.

"Where do you want to go?" Hein Southwind Rich realized that Lin Xu didn't just take him out to taste the sour fruit.

"Go find that mutated vine."

The serious business he came out was to get back the crystal nucleus of the A-level mutant plant, and by the way, see if there were any more crystal nucleus in this giant vine's house.

Lin Xu can already fully confirm that this is the earth he once lived on. In the forest in the afternoon, the crystal nucleus crushed by Heinrich's foot awakened the A-level mutant vines. Before that, the vines seemed to be just deep sleep.

In the range that the unmanned probe has explored so far, it has only encountered this sleeping mutant plant.

Lin Xu had to think of an assumption in the last days.

Mutated animals, plants, and zombies not only target living people, but also obtain evolutionary upgrades at the same time. So, is it possible that as long as the contact between humans and mutants is cut off, and the mutants are killed by each other, humans can sit back and enjoy the benefits? To regain a peaceful and secure world.

Judging from the current situation, even if the mutants kill each other, the last remaining high-level mutants cannot die completely. Their tenacious vitality and long lifespan are enough to last for thousands of years.

But human beings who are completely isolated from the outside world cannot wait for thousands of years.

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