Cloud Raising Little Zombies: Chapter 6

6. Mutant Plant—-Morning Glory

ZOMBIE EMPEROR CULTIVATION

The black car sped along the road.

It wasn’t until they had left the city and encountered other fleeing groups that the man’s tense nerves finally relaxed.

He gradually slowed the car and found a spot not too close or too far from the group to park.

“Daddy, weird flower!” The little boy peered over the back of the passenger seat, looking timidly yet curiously at the rose in the back seat.

The man turned around and saw the blood-red rose lying across the back seat, his heart nearly leaping out of his chest in fright.

The woman hugged the child closer and said nervously, “Is that… left by that person?”

Both of them had seen the rose prey on humans and had a significant psychological trauma related to it.

They had even seen the boy cutting the rose vines with the zombies and searching inside the head of the water-control zombie.

No one was sure if that boy was truly human.

The man said, “Don’t touch that flower. I’ll cover it with some clothes and throw it out later.”

The woman nodded.

At that moment, the driver’s side window was knocked on.

The man turned warily and saw a muscular man in a black uniform.

He exchanged a glance with the woman and rolled down the window halfway.

“Hey, are you from the South District?” the big man asked directly.

The South District was the area they were currently in.

The man shook his head, “We live in the North District. Since the northern exit was completely blocked, we had to come out through the south.”

The big man showed a surprised expression, his eyes scanning the man and the woman in the passenger seat. “Are there any ability users among you?”

“We wish we had abilities. We can’t produce any fire or water,” the man sighed.

Seeing their expressions didn’t seem to be fake, the big man was even more surprised. “With so many ability zombies and mutated plants, and you don’t have any abilities, yet your car looks clean. How did you manage to cross most of the city?”

“Many ability zombies?” The man asked cautiously.

“Many. On the national highway out of the South District, there are at least five,” the big man said through gritted teeth. “These things really know where to block people.”

The man exchanged a glance with his wife, then said, “We must have been lucky. We only encountered one ability zombie, one that could control water, on the Jiang Bridge, and we were saved by a passing ability user.”

The big man asked curiously, “What was that ability user like?”

“How would we know? We didn’t dare to get out of the car; all we saw were water columns flying everywhere,” the man replied.

“I see…” The big man looked slightly disappointed but quickly perked up, saying that they planned to go to City A, the military research center in the south, and asked the man’s family where they were heading. If they were going in the same direction, they could travel together.

The man replied, “We haven’t decided yet. We’ll think it over.”

“Alright,” the big man said cheerfully. “This convoy is planning to rest until evening before setting off. I’ll come back and check with you then.”

After learning a bit more from the big man, the man and his wife looked at the rose in the back seat as he left.

According to the big man, zombies hide during the day because sunlight greatly slows their movements, making it hard for them to catch up with humans or other animals. That’s why they only move at night.

Ability zombies are slightly less sensitive in sunlight compared to ordinary people, but they can still use their abilities to capture humans, making them active at all times.

If there really are as many ability zombies as the big man said, and they hadn’t encountered any after leaving the bridge, was it really just luck?

If the boy had been in the car at first, maybe that’s why they weren’t attacked by zombies. Later, it was probably because of the rose left by the boy.

“I think we should keep this flower,” the woman said.

The man nodded with a complicated expression.

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Meanwhile, Ye You had entered the school through the screen.

To the naked eye, Ye You seemed to have entered a mountain wall, but on the screen, he walked into the school gate.

Once inside the “mountain wall,” the scene before Ye You changed instantly.

He saw blue skies, white clouds, and endless grasslands.

There were no people, only the gentle scent of grass and wildflowers carried by the wind.

Ye You kept an eye on the screen.

On the screen, it was a completely different world.

A black slope extended upwards.

On the slope stood many students and teachers, seemingly wandering in place as if in a trance.

On one side of the slope was a large flowerbed, with blue morning glories blooming profusely.

The flowers almost covered the leaves, but Ye You could still see that beneath the flourishing morning glories, humans, zombies, birds, cats, and dogs were all lying asleep…

Some had already fallen silent, while others seemed to be trapped in sleep, completely unaware that they had been turned into highly nutritious soil.

【Wow, this flower is so beautiful. What’s it called? I want to grow it too.】

【It looks like Morning Glory, a type of Convolvulus. The flowers are particularly large, and one plant can produce dozens or even hundreds of blooms.】

【For those who want to grow flowers, I suggest zooming in to see what these flowers are growing on.】

【…Sorry to interrupt, it’s another mutant plant boss. It’s clear that a plant thriving like this in the apocalypse is definitely extraordinary.】

Mutant plant…

But which one?

Ye You didn’t rashly release his spiritual power to search.

After encountering the Water Zombie, Ye You realized that those with crystals in their brains could sense his spiritual power.

This Morning Glory was different from the blood roses; its ability was spiritual control.

There were too many entities in the school that could be manipulated.

Once the mutant Morning Glory sensed danger, it could use illusions to lead the zombies within the school to attack him.

Ye You preferred a direct approach, but that didn’t mean he wanted to take on the whole school by himself.

He needed a different method.

Ye You walked slowly towards the flowerbed.

Through the screen, he saw that the Morning Glories close to him were beginning to stir.

They sprouted and became more lush, with blue flowers blooming brightly under the sunlight.

【Is Zai Zai going to ruin the greenery again?】

【The people in this school are all so strange; I’m a bit worried. Look to the right, those zombies and students are just a few steps away from each other, yet they seem to ignore each other completely.】

【Definitely strange, be careful, streamer.】

Ye You stopped a few steps away from the flowerbed, moving first to the right, then to the left.

Like those humans confused by illusions, he began to spin in place.

Several Morning Glory vines reached out from the flowerbed.

Their growth rate was much faster than that of the blood roses, and within seconds, they were in front of Ye You.

The Morning Glory vines wrapped around Ye You’s wrist, pulling him toward the flowerbed.

【Zai Zai, what’s happening?!】

【Zai Zai, if you’re being kidnapped, blink your eyes!】

【It’s over, the mutant Morning Glory must have used its skill; the streamer is caught.】

【Do we have to reload the save?】

Ye You followed the pull of the Morning Glory step by step.

He craved the crystal nucleus; only the core could alleviate the hunger in his mind.

When Ye You dug out the crystal nucleus from the blood roses, he found that it wasn’t just him who craved the core—other zombies were also irresistibly attracted to it.

Perhaps… this kind of attraction also existed for mutant plants.

Ye You wasn’t sure if the Morning Glory could sense the core in his mind.

But the Water Zombie’s crystal nucleus in his pocket, surely it could be sensed.

Ye You was gambling.

He was betting that the crystal nucleus had an extremely strong attraction for the mutant Morning Glory.

He was betting that the mutant Morning Glory wouldn’t let other plants touch the core, just as he wouldn’t let other zombies touch the core, even under his control.

If so, he would be guided to the core of the mutant Morning Glory.

Guided by the Morning Glory, Ye You stepped onto the steps between the flowerbeds.

The Morning Glories in the flowerbed were so lush that the steps were hidden by the flowers and were invisible from a distance.

But as Ye You approached, all the Morning Glories automatically moved aside.

One Morning Glory released Ye You’s hand, and another immediately coiled around him.

Ye You was passed along like a relay baton by the Morning Glories.

Finally, he was guided to the front of a teaching building.

In the crack of the building’s corner, a small Morning Glory was happily dancing its leaves.

The surrounding Morning Glory vines automatically moved aside, including the one wrapped around Ye You’s wrist.

The small Morning Glory vine reached out to Ye You, coiling around his hand and trying to hook the crystal nucleus out of his pocket.

Ye You’s blood-red eyes watched the Morning Glory.

As it was about to reach his pocket, Ye You suddenly grasped the Morning Glory and gently pulled it out of the crack.

His spiritual power spread out, and Ye You found the location of the core.

His fingers quickly pinched the Morning Glory vine and tore it apart, revealing a crystal nucleus the size of a red bean.

【？？？】

【？？？？？？】

【Put question marks on the screen.】

【So what happened?】

【I don’t know, but Zai Zai found food again. Zai Zai is really capable!】

The illusion ended instantly, and the school became noisy.

Human screams mixed with zombie roars; some ran into classrooms to hide, while more surged towards the school gate.

The school was in chaos, and no one paid attention to the boy standing at the corner of the teaching building, nor did any zombies dare to approach his direction.

Ye You ripped the Morning Glory vine off his arm, and he faintly heard a “wailing” sound.

The crying came from the Morning Glory.

Ye You’s fingers pinched the Morning Glory and twisted it, splitting it into two halves.

The crying stopped abruptly.

Ye You found a small flowerbed nearby, threw the lower half of the Morning Glory into it, then coiled the upper half around his left wrist and tied a knot.

【Morning Glory: My mutant plant prestige is gone.】

【Blood Rose: Ying ¹, Zai Zai has a new flame ², I’m no longer Zai Zai’s most beloved.】

【I think I understand now. The mutant Morning Glory’s ability is probably illusion-based. The streamer pretended to be trapped in an illusion, was led to the core by the mutant Morning Glory, and then… the Morning Glory became reserve food.】

【Got it! Entrapment ³!】

【That’s about the idea.】

【I have a question. Does Zai Zai still remember he came to find his younger brother?】

【Forgot.】

【Forgot.】

【Forgot.】

【What the hell is a younger brother? Is there a tasty crystal nucleus?】

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Translator Notes

1. Cry of birds[↩]
2. New lover[↩]
3. The act of causing someone to do something they would not usually do by tricking them.[↩]