Harvest

Boom!

The familiar explosion came from nearby. Lu PingAn sensed massive energy fluctuations.

"About seventeen meters underground, diagonally downward. Is it a basement? My little darlings, your hunger has really been a huge help."

He knew about them. He had found them.

So, he came.

Over on Ke Ya's side, it was like a scene from a horror movie.

She was resting in her private basement, bandaging her wounds.

Suddenly, the ground shook violently, leaving her deeply unsettled.

Before she could make up her mind to go out and see what had happened—

Boom!

The doors and windows embedded in the ground were torn apart in an instant, and countless tentacles reached inside.

Traces of living creatures still clung to the blood-red tendrils. Tough steel and rock were as fragile as paper before them. Ke Ya, lying in bed and receiving an IV, had no time to react before countless tentacles were about to devour her.

Boom!

The Spin Force Stone's thunderstorm activated instantly. Even though it was too close, this was no time to worry about being injured again.

The explosion took effect swiftly. Ke Ya, at ground zero, lost her IV bottle and every piece of medical equipment around her. The bandages she had just put on also burst apart.

But it was meaningless.

The attacked tendrils did not hesitate in the slightest. Instead, having confirmed their target through the attack, they moved even faster.

Hungry. They were far too hungry.

This world did not have the "pollution" necessary for magical plants to survive, yet in the Blood Vine's eyes, the humanoid creature before it was an aggregate of countless sources of "pollution."

"Ahhh! Get away from me!"

The scream from underground was meaningless. No one wanted to hear a middle-aged woman let out a magical-girl-like shriek, so—