After a moment, Zhuo Xing tentatively kicked a nearby root. "Am I crazy, or do I feel like these roots just saved us?"
He looked up at the others.
Lin Yuan tightened his grip on his gun, his gaze sweeping over both vehicles. "Be more confident. Drop the 'feel like'." If these roots hadn't suddenly appeared and wrapped around their cars, they would have already fallen into the abyss and been buried alive.
"Look over there," someone said, pointing into the distance.
The group looked into the distance and discovered that these roots only appeared near their vehicles. Farther away, the roots exposed in the chasm were almost all withered.
—That malevolent plant had devoured the energy of these mutant plants.
But as everyone knew, when a malevolent plant devoured the energy in its surroundings, it would never spare a single mutant plant.
Survival of the fittest in the natural world had always been this cruel—it was kill or be killed.
But the root systems near their cars...
