413 The Willow Tree (1/2)
There was silence in the airplane cabin, except for the continuous whirring of machinery.
Through a small window, the blue sky was visible and there were fluffy white clouds beneath.
”Professor Fang, in another half an hour, we will reach Mountain Ocean City!”
Beside him, there was a scientist, Old Li. He laughed as he spoke. ”That is Professor Fang's hometown, right?”
”That's right... many years have passed since then!”
Fang Yuan was donned in a lab coat, wore glasses and gave off a scholarly vibe. No one would be able to associate him with the team leader of Dragon Team, the God of Thunder.
It was an ancient trick for martial artists with cultivation to make use of their muscles and internal energy to alter their appearances. This was nothing difficult for Fang Yuan.
As for his appointment as a professor? Since the completion of the design for the Demon Restraining Cuffs, Fang Yuan had been approved to be a professor with almost no resistance.
Now, he gazed deeply out of the window and was lost in his thoughts.
'Is Professor Fang thinking about your hometown?'
This colleagues looked at him and gave friendly smiles without interrupting him.
They were clueless that Fang Yuan was actually reading through his stats window:
”Name: Fang Yuan
Essence: 3.5
Spirit: 9.9
Magic: 9.9
Profession: ???
Cultivation: ???
Technique: [Elemental Spiritual Energy Cultivation Spell (Grade 3 (99%))]
Skill: [Medicine (Level 3)], [Botany (Level 5)], [Fiery Golden Eyes (Level 1)]”
'The improvements brought to my body after killing Ma Kunyuan's possessed body and absorbing the spiritual energy from Green Phoenix Mountain is too great...'
Seeing this, he was extremely satisfied.
With his special ability to have fixed stats and his own strong physical body, he almost had no limits in this world, which was something that others could never imagine.
After removing the restrictions on his own body and assimilating into the world, he would be able to increase his cultivation as long as he was given energy to absorb!
'It's a pity... The Green Phoenix Mountain was mainly covered in the strength of the god dao and most of it is being wasted... Hopefully, Mountain Ocean City will not let me down...'
”Whoosh! Whoosh!”
The plane flew through the clouds and descended. On the horizon, a huge airport appeared.
Fang Yuan and his colleagues alighted from the plane and a group of people hurriedly rushed towards them. The one leading the group of people was a middle-aged soldier in military uniform. ”Hello guys, I am the person-in-charge here and my name is Wu Tie. We've waited for quite a while!”
”Hello!”
Fang Yuan stretched his hand out. ”We have brought the best botanist from the base and hope that we will be of help to the situation!”
”You are... Comrade Fang Yuan! This is great!”
Wu Tie was initially suspicious after seeing Fang Yuan's young looks as he led the group of scientist. However, after realising that it was Fang Yuan, he was overjoyed. ”Great... our city is finally saved!”
”Oh? Has it reached such a stage already?”
Fang Yuan raised his glasses. ”Let's get on the car. Tell us about it along the way.”
”Rumble!”
The jeeps roared to life and a line of 10 jeeps drove on the roads.
They were on the outskirts of Mountain Ocean City. After 10 minutes, the silhouette of a city appeared on the horizon and Fang Yuan could see a few familiar looking buildings.
At the same time, the accompanying Zhao Daniu shrieked.
This was because a layer of fog was slowly spreading, engulfing almost half of the city.
”Is this the power of the Thousand Year Willow?”
Closing his eyes, Fang Yuan could feel an immense amount of spiritual droplets gathering around the city, forming a swirl.
In the middle of the white fog, there was the silhouette of a jade-green tree covering half the sky. It was full of energy and life.
”That's right... After the second occurrence, other than the increased appearance of mutants, there are also natural changes and mutated plants...”
Wu Tie had an uneasy look on his face. ”Some animals are even better adapted than us in absorbing spiritual energy... Of course, the biggest winner is nature!”
After the second occurrence, there seemed to be the appearance of a few mysterious plots of land on earth.
Some of these lands were originally dangerous. Together with the increase of spiritual droplets, they became perilous plots of lands which had to be avoided at all costs.
Other plots of lands only became dangerous after the second occurrence. From then on, these lands began to spread far and wide.
It was unfortunate that one of these lands was in the middle of a city.
”Its index number is M-95 and it is a willow tree. It was originally an old tree in the North Park of Mountain Ocean City and it was rumoured to be more than 1,000 years old. After investigations, it was found out that although it had already withered, after the first occurence, the tree started to revive and recover. Therefore, it was not removed from the park and appeared completely normal. Who would've known that after the second occurrence, this willow would start to spread out? Within a short period of time, its roots had already spread throughout the entire North Park. It also began to release a thick fog which was unable to be dispersed. In the fog, there is an intoxicating agent and the fog has already covered half of the city...”
”Before this, we have already sent people in hopes that the willow tree could be destroyed. However, our efforts were futile and even the fire-type mutants could do nothing about it... Until now, we have already evacuated over 300,000 people from their homes. The destruction this willow had caused to our economy and our properties are too much to calculate!”
With an uneasy look, Wu Tie shared everything he knew about the situation. ”We are suspecting that this willow has a simple mind on its own and its branches are like hands which are able to move, making it extremely hard to destroy...”
”I understand!”