Shen Feng and Yue Hengyi, without stopping, brought two photographers to the edge of the desert and found the place where they had previously encountered mutated plants. First, they had the photographers set up their cameras from a distance. The next step was to lure out the mutated plants.
Yue Hengyi volunteered, saying, "Brother Feng, I'll go lure out the mutated plants. You can provide support from the side. I'll wear a mask, so even if I'm dragged under the sand, I won't suffocate."
Shen Feng, however, shook his head and replied, "Leave this to me. You stand and watch. Although you can protect yourself, you can't capture the mutated plants. I'm different; I can blow away the sand! In the desert, I am stronger!"
Yue Hengyi stood to the side, holding his cleaver, and said, "Brother Feng, be careful. If you need my support, just give the word, and I'll be there immediately! I didn't have a weapon before, so I couldn't cut the vines, but it's different now. I have a knife, and vines are nothing!"
Shen Feng nodded and then walked back and forth on the sand where they had been attacked. The smell of gasoline still lingered in the air. Shen Feng had previously used gasoline to scare away the mutated plants underground, but the gasoline had not burned completely, and gasoline also evaporates. Therefore, the smell of gasoline lingered for a while.
Shen Feng stared at the scorching sun, walking back and forth on the sand. He knew that the mutated plants underground relied on vibrations to find prey. As long as one walked on the sand, vibrations would be produced. Therefore, Shen Feng kept moving, hoping to create enough vibrations to eventually lure the mutated plants underground into appearing. This was the only thing he could do.
Yue Hengyi watched patiently from the side, but he couldn't help but feel puzzled. "Why hasn't this thing appeared after two hours? Could mutated plants also escape? That shouldn't be the case. Mutated plants shouldn't be able to move freely."
Shen Feng had been walking on the sand since noon. Within a radius of several hundred meters, Shen Feng walked in circles, covering an area shaped like a football field. In the scorching summer heat, sweat dripped from Shen Feng's body, but there was still no movement from the ground.
The photographers were also tired. They had expected to capture some remarkable footage, but their cameras had been on for a long time without capturing anything. To save battery power, they had to turn them off and only turn them back on when they could see the monster.
Shen Feng was also finding the heat unbearable, so he asked Yue Hengyi to throw him a bottle of water from a distance. After drinking the water, he felt a bit better.
Shen Feng also began to consider giving up, thinking that his previous idea might have been too naive. He had thought that as long as someone appeared in the desert, the mutated plants would start to act. Now, it seemed that it was completely different from what he had imagined. Mutated plants were also picky eaters.
"Could it be because of the ultraviolet rays? The plants underground are afraid of the sun overhead, so they dare not appear for so long? Yes, that's very likely. The plant heart I encountered before was like this. It's still broad daylight, so it dares not appear!" Shen Feng figured this out.
Afterward, Shen Feng walked towards the sand dunes. The car was parked on the distant sand dunes, where Yue Hengyi and the photographers were also located. Shen Feng planned to tell Yue Hengyi his conclusion and rest for a few hours. In any case, they would continue their actions after dark.
"Little Yue, I've discovered a problem, and that's the sunlight..." Shen Feng said as he walked.
Suddenly, Yue Hengyi saw a bulging part appear on the ground, his expression changed, and he shouted, "Be careful, the mutated plant has appeared!"
Shen Feng was confused for a moment. The mutated plant had appeared? When?
Suddenly, several vines emerged from underground, directly binding Shen Feng's legs and dragging him into the sand. The force was immense. Even as a sixth-tier ability user, Shen Feng could not resist it, indicating that what was underground was a behemoth.
The sun had already shifted westward, it was around five in the afternoon, but the sunlight was still very hot. The sunlight shone on the vines, but the vines showed no reaction, indicating that the plants underground were not afraid of ultraviolet rays.
In an instant, Shen Feng's calves were dragged into the sand. If this continued, Shen Feng himself would be dragged down.
This was exactly the effect Shen Feng wanted. He immediately began to use his ability: "Eye of the Hurricane!"
A whirlwind appeared, and the surrounding sand was constantly blown away. In just a moment, a tornado appeared in the desert. Countless sand particles were swept up, and with Shen Feng at the center, sand continuously floated up. The three people on the distant sand dunes had to hold onto the car, otherwise, their bodies would be blown away by the strong wind.
"You two cowards, why aren't you quickly turning on your cameras to film? Are you just watching the show?" Yue Hengyi was delighted to have found the mutated plants in the desert again, but when he turned around and saw the two photographers cowering in the truck bed, he became angry. He had brought them here to film videos, the more shocking and attractive the better. Now, these two were hiding with their heads covered. Were they that cowardly?
Upon hearing Yue Hengyi's words, the photographers could only reluctantly turn on their cameras and start filming the distant tornado. In their eyes, a giant pillar had appeared out of nowhere in the desert, with countless sand particles being swept up and converging. This was not something that could be caused by human power; only natural disasters could lead to such a situation.
After witnessing Shen Feng's strength with their own eyes, the photographers no longer dared to underestimate Shen Feng. Ability users were indeed incredibly powerful, managing to summon a tornado single-handedly.
Shen Feng kept staring at his feet. He could see the sand beneath him being blown away and swept up. The vines were still pulling him down, and the speed was increasing. Clearly, Shen Feng was about to see the true form of the mutated plant.
"Lu Zhengqi said it looked like a giant octopus, so the tentacles are clearly vines. If it's a giant octopus, there's also a head. This means the mutated plant also has a main body. It would be best if this main body had intelligence, otherwise, future plans will be affected!" Shen Feng thought to himself.
The tornado lasted for half an hour, and a fifty-meter-deep pit appeared in the desert. It was already close to the soil layer, and the surrounding sand had become moist, indicating the presence of groundwater underground.
Finally, Shen Feng saw a hint of green emerging from the ground. This was where the vines were ultimately connected.
"Found you! Let's see where you can run now!" Shen Feng's spirits lifted, and he immediately controlled the whirlwind to move to the side, then summoned countless wind blades to descend directly, attacking the mutated plant that had just revealed its head.
"Swish, swish, swish..." Three thousand wind blades descended, instantly cutting the mutated plant into pieces. The mutated plant swung its vines, trying to block the wind blades from attacking it, but unfortunately, the vines could not block the sharp wind blades at all. As the wind blades descended, no matter how many vines there were, they were all cut off. The vines fell onto the sand, unable to move again.
Yue Hengyi watched from the side, seeing it most clearly. He could see dozens of long vines appearing in the air, waving all around, like an octopus slapping the surface of the water. However, these vines could not block the invisible wind blades and were cut off piece by piece. The vines fell onto the sand, no longer able to move.
Yue Hengyi was also responsible for the temporary commentary. After all, it was a video, and if he didn't say anything, the audience wouldn't understand. So, he directly said, "Everyone, please look. The person in the pit now is my elder brother, Shen Feng. He is the first sixth-tier ability user in the world, with immense power. Dealing with a mutated plant is not a problem. And the huge thing below looks like an onion, layer by layer. This is the mutated plant. If it can only swing its vines, it will ultimately be defeated."
Shen Feng controlled the wind blades to cut off the vines in the air one by one. Finally, only a large green mass remained in the pit. It looked round and was connected to roots below, which were deeply embedded in the soil. In the surrounding sandy ground, the sand had been blown away, leaving behind white bones. It was hard to imagine how many people this thing had eaten.
"If you don't want to die, then cooperate with my actions honestly!" Shen Feng pointed at the round plant and said.
At this moment, the plant trembled and opened. A slit suddenly appeared on the top of the round plant, and then it split to both sides. Upon closer inspection, it was discovered that these were two huge, thick leaves. After the leaves opened, in the center of the leaves, there was a fleshy lump with a slit.
"If you don't want to die, then cooperate with my actions honestly." The slit on the fleshy lump kept opening and closing, and it actually made a sound.
"Damn it, you dare to imitate me?" Shen Feng was somewhat angry, feeling that the thing in front of him was provoking him.
"Damn it, you dare to imitate me?" The fleshy lump continued to imitate Shen Feng's speech.
Shen Feng was helpless in the face of this thing. It seemed that normal communication was impossible. The other party would only imitate him and didn't seem to understand anything. So, Shen Feng waved his hand and condensed three thousand wind blades. With just a thought, these wind blades would descend from the sky.
When the wind blades were condensed, the fleshy lump seemed to sense something, and its two leaves began to tremble, appearing very afraid of the wind blades. After the previous battle, the fleshy lump knew that there was an invisible attack from the sky that could cause it harm.
Shen Feng continued, "If you don't want to die, then be obedient. I won't kill you!"
At this moment, the fleshy lump was shaking up and down, as if nodding in agreement.
Shen Feng waved towards the sand dunes in the distance and shouted, "Success! I've captured this thing. Prepare to take it away!"
The car dared not go down into the deep pit. Yue Hengyi had to slide down from the sand dunes with a photographer, sliding for more than a hundred meters before finally reaching the bottom.
"Brother Feng, are you kidding me? This plant is so big, with a diameter of five meters. The car definitely can't fit it. Taking it away won't be easy!" Yue Hengyi quickly said.
Shen Feng pointed to the fleshy lump in the center of the leaves and said, "Just take this fleshy lump away. The plant heart in my Chongqing is like this."
Yue Hengyi nodded and approached the mutated plant with his cleaver. As a result, the mutated plant suddenly closed its leaves again, forming a huge sphere, refusing to open.
"Can you dodge it? You're too big, and our car can't take you. Just let me cut you once obediently, or I'll have to resort to force!" Yue Hengyi was very displeased. At this point, this mutated plant still wanted to dodge, which was wishful thinking.
Suddenly, the mutated plant changed. Small holes appeared on its thick leaves, and a lot of clear water was discharged from the small holes.
"Ah, this thing is urinating. Do plants also urinate?" Yue Hengyi was immediately confused by this scene. Animals were often scared to urinate, but now he was seeing a plant that was scared to urinate, which was truly absurd.
Shen Feng frowned at this scene and suddenly understood, nodding and saying, "I get it. This thing also has intelligence. It knows we dislike its size, so it deliberately expels the water from its body. This way, it will become thinner."
As Shen Feng predicted, after the plant's leaves discharged a lot of water, its volume also shrank instantly. Its diameter eventually became two meters, its leaves withered considerably, and its size was now manageable for transport.
"This method of weight loss is unique and can be done easily. It would be great if this method could be popularized among humans," Yue Hengyi couldn't help but say as he watched this scene.
For humans, the most painful thing is weight loss. It requires long-term persistence to succeed. Once you slack off, you'll rebound. Moreover, for obese people, they often face disdain from society, as if being overweight is inherently wrong.
Afterward, Yue Hengyi cut the roots of the plant's giant sphere and carried the plant sphere up, tying it to the truck bed to return.