Chapter 481

Chapter 481: Is This the Limit?
Zhang Mu looked at the little girl with big, watery eyes in front of him, paused, and said, “Why aren’t you afraid that I’m a bad person?”
Luo Wanxun lowered her head, smiled simply, and replied to Zhang Mu.
“Although a bit ugly, you don’t seem like a bad person. I don’t sense any malice from you, unlike those big, mean fish in the water.”
After speaking, without hesitation, she added, “Besides, your strength is not as high as Xun’er’s, so I’m not afraid of you.”
A faint fragrance reached Zhang Mu’s nose, and only then did he realize that the young girl in front of him actually had close to peak third-rank strength.
The strength of this little girl actually surpassed his own.
How long have I been unconscious!
Zhang Mu, disregarding everything else, got up and pressed Luo Wanxun’s shoulders with both hands, anxiously asking, “What day is it now?”
Zhang Mu accidentally hurt Luo Wanxun a bit. She wriggled out of his grasp and looked at him with a frown, saying, “You hurt me.”
Zhang Mu felt sorry when he saw Luo Wanxun rubbing her shoulder. He looked serious, being the first living being he had encountered since waking up.
“Xun’er? I’m really sorry for being so hasty. Can you please tell me what kind of world it is now after the apocalypse? I really need to know, can you tell me?”
Luo Wanxun’s guard went down seeing Zhang Mu’s demeanor. She said, “Xun’er shared their name with you, but you haven’t told me yours. That’s not how human manners are supposed to be.”
I learned from humans, but many I’ve met weren’t good. Your manners are not nice either.
“If you don’t even know what day it is, could you be a wild person hiding in the deep mountains?”
Luo Wanxun seemed a bit angry, feeling that it was wrong for Zhang Mu, a human himself, to be impolite.
Zhang Mu was taken aback.
You’re a human?
Is Xun’er not a human?
After reaching third-rank, mutated plants or animals can transform into a human form, but it’s only after fourth-rank that they can fully shape a human body.
Zhang Mu is mentally exhausted now and can’t see Xun’er’s true form, also Xun’er’s rank is higher than Zhang Mu’s current state. He needs to figure out what time it is now to roughly assess his own strength.
He quickly replied, “Xun’er, my name is Zhang Mu Bow, late in the evening. I am sorry for my impatience earlier. You are the first friend I’ve made in a long time. I was too hasty and forgot how to communicate properly with a friend.”
Upon hearing Zhang Mu’s apology, Luo Wanxun’s tense little face relaxed. She was happy to hear Zhang Mu say they were friends and smiled warmly.
“Zhang Mu, alright, Xun’er forgives you and accepts your apology. Let me tell you, it’s the third year of the Dayuan Calendar, May 31st today.”
This playful voice sounded soothing, but in Zhang Mu’s mind, it struck like thunder.
Dayuan Calendar, this is the time on Earth when all living beings were informed by the voice of the approaching apocalypse after the Era Battlefield began.
May 31st, if the timing of the Era Battlefield’s opening is correct, it has been open for three months now.
The race struggle in the Era Battlefield has been going on for three months!
Zhang Mu smiled bitterly, finally understanding why his strength was overshadowed by this little girl.
It’s already the third month since Era Battlefield started!
In other words, he was in a coma for a whole two and a half years!
The once prestigious third-rank revolver is now nothing but commoner in the food chain during this time period.
Only those at the peak of the third rank are forcibly recruited by the Era Battlefield, Zhang Mu didn’t make it because he wasn’t qualified yet.
What Zhang Mu didn’t know was that surviving was already a stroke of luck.
If Blood Lotus’s will was still alive, Zhang Mu’s injuries could have healed quickly. However, at that time, Zhang Mu was on the verge of death. If Blood Lotus didn’t make a decision soon, they would both perish together.
Therefore, The Source of Wood was all locked within Zhang Mu’s body, sustaining his life. It took a whole two and a half years to recover to the third-rank strength.
But this is still good, if they delay further, it will be even harder to find the blood of the second-rank mutant beast, and Zhang Mu will have no chance of waking up at the bottom of the water.
Luo Wanxun didn’t know what Zhang Mu was thinking, but it had been a long time since a human had talked to her, so she happily continued talking to herself.
“Xun’er learned all her knowledge from humans, but I feel like many humans have forgotten.”
Learned from humans, is Xun’er the kind of mutant beast that kills and takes memories?
Zhang Mu looked solemnly at the innocent and carefree smile of Luo Wanxun in front of him, finding it hard to imagine that her true form was a mutant beast that fed on human brain.
Moreover, if she really is the kind that strikes when he’s unconscious, she could still attack now; her strength is a level above his own.
Zhang Mu asked tentatively, “Xun’er, where did you learn your knowledge from?”
Xun’er naturally replied, “It was taught by a human young lady, who used to talk to Xun’er every day before Xun’er could transform into human form, teaching her many things.”
Zhang Mu breathed a sigh of relief in his heart, realizing he had overthought it, but Xun’er’s identity could also be confirmed as a mutant plant, which was good news, as he had the Blood Lotus on him, making sense that the breath of The Source of Wood would be close to most mutant plants.
Oh, Blood Lotus!
Zhang Mu tried to call for Blood Lotus, but didn’t get any response.
He looked at his left arm and sensed that Blood Lotus was there, but wondered why there was no reply. Zhang Mu patted his left arm and said, “Wake up, Blood Lotus!”
As Zhang Mu patted his arm, a delicate vine cautiously emerged from his left arm, seeming to have been startled awake by Zhang Mu.
Seeing Blood Lotus emerge, Zhang Mu felt excited.
If Blood Lotus is still here, then it’s all good!
Now that there’s enough third-rank blood food, let Blood Lotus grow and I’ll be ready for a battle.
Excitedly, he said to the small vine, “Grow, Blood Lotus, let’s go hunting!”
However, this Blood Lotus seemed to not quite understand Zhang Mu, swaying its body.
Zhang Mu didn’t think too much, he made a gesture with his hands apart and a big bite, urging, “Blood Lotus, grow!”
“Blood Lotus, get bigger!”
The small Blood Lotus seemed to finally understand Zhang Mu’s meaning, and its body began to expand.
“Yes, that’s it!”
But the next moment, Zhang Mu’s smile froze on his face.
This Blood Lotus stopped growing when it reached the thickness of his small forearm.
And it seemed to be the limit.
Zhang Mu couldn’t believe the size of the Blood Lotus, he swallowed hard and stared at it, saying, “Can’t you get any bigger?”
The small Blood Lotus, under Zhang Mu’s astonished gaze, nodded heavily, then shrank back into Zhang Mu’s arm to sleep again, having exhausted all its strength in killing the second-rank carnivorous fish just now, it needed to rest.
In that moment, Zhang Mu suddenly felt like the world was collapsing.