Spirit Plant

Late at night, the wind outside swept through the maple branches. The leaves, shaped like palms, rubbed against one another with a rustling sound. The sky was clear for thousands of miles, and the bright moonlight shone over the earth, making the layers of shadows overlap even more heavily.

Lin Shu slowly climbed up from the hospital bed. The instant she stepped down, she fell straight to the floor!

"Mmnh~"

Lin Shu groaned in pain. Once again, she felt just how incompatible this body was with her own movements, as if she were not the one controlling it. Raising her leg or reaching out her hand was filled with an awkwardness that did not belong to her.

She slowly pulled herself upright with the table and wall beside her. Only after she had completely straightened did she realize that her body was truly utterly different from before.

"Is this me? How is that possible? How did I become so tall?"

With her eye level raised by more than ten centimeters, Lin Shu felt as if she were walking on stilts. Even when she had worn high heels before, she had never felt this way. Yet now, she was standing flat-footed.

Lin Shu had originally been a little over 1.6 meters tall. Now, she should have been over 1.8 meters—a height that exceeded that of many ordinary foreign models.

Supporting herself against the wall, she staggered into the bathroom of the single-occupancy ward. At last, she saw herself in the mirror, dressed in a loose white patient's gown, with bandages wrapped all over her body.

During the day, she had not dared to ask or say anything. In front of her colleagues and superiors, she had tried her best to show a positive side, acting as if she did not care at all about the injuries on her body and making everyone feel that she was fine.

But for a girl, seeing herself wrapped in bandages from head to toe and recalling the moment before she lost consciousness, when she had faced the explosion head-on, it was easy to know that her appearance had probably been ruined.

No one could possibly not care about their appearance, much less a girl in her early twenties.

She stood awkwardly before the bathroom mirror, moving her hands and feet with care. Slowly, she raised her eyes and looked at herself in the mirror. Moonlight streamed in through the window and fell upon Lin Shu. As she looked at the figure whose entire body was bound like a zombie, despair filled her eyes.

"What have I become? A monster?"

She turned around, slowly stripped off her patient's gown, and gradually unwound the bandages wrapped around her entire body. She stood naked in the bathroom, then hugged her upper body and slowly turned around.

Only after she had stopped did her tightly shut eyes slowly open. She looked at herself in the mirror once more.

"Ah!"

The sound held no panic or fear. It was filled with astonishment, shock, disbelief, and wild joy. Lin Shu stared at the figure in the mirror in disbelief. The bright moonlight outlined her shape, casting the beautiful reflection and graceful figure within the mirror into relief.

A tall, slender girl stood before the mirror, hugging her chest. Not a single flaw could be seen anywhere on her body. Her skin was fair and delicate, like an egg freshly peeled from its shell. Her features were exquisite and elegant, and thick, smooth, beautiful black hair fell over both shoulders.

Her long, slender thighs were pressed tightly together. Smooth lines extended from her toes all the way upward, gliding over the beautiful curve of her hips, rising over her twin peaks, and finally reaching her swanlike, elegant neck.

Her features were so exquisite that they seemed to have been carefully sculpted. Only the faintest trace of Lin Shu's original appearance could be made out.

If the original Lin Shu could only be considered a beauty, then at this moment, she looked like a fairy, an elf, or an enchantress from legend. Her entire body was filled with an otherworldly air that did not belong to the mortal world, like a porcelain doll crafted with meticulous care—so delicate and perfect that it seemed it would shatter at the slightest touch.

"What is this?"

"Me?"

The perfect face in the mirror parted its moist, sexy lips. She unconsciously cupped her own cheeks, and the hands that had been tightly hugging her chest suddenly loosened, making everything tremble.

The next day, when her male and female colleagues came to visit her, every single one of them dropped their gifts on the floor in shock the moment they entered the ward and saw Lin Shu.

Everyone stared in disbelief at Lin Shu lying on the hospital bed. Some of them stood inside for a long while, convinced they had entered the wrong room.

Even Lin Shu's younger sister, Lin Yu, failed to recognize her at first when she entered the ward. No matter how she looked at her, she could not believe that the person before her was actually her older sister.

"Sis! Weren't you injured? I was worried sick! I kept wanting to come visit you, but they wouldn't let me in. And after all that, it turns out you ran off to get plastic surgery!" Lin Yu angrily threw down the food she had brought and glared fiercely at her older sister, Lin Shu.

Lin Yu remained angry for quite a while, but in the end, she could not resist reaching out to touch Lin Shu's face. "This surgery was way too successful. The results are incredible! How much did it cost? Can I get it done too?"

"..."

Meanwhile, at the Biosafety Testing Research Institute jointly established by Yu Bei 162 Army Hospital and Yu Bei Fourth Military Medical University, various cutting-edge instruments continuously tested and scanned a green pill that resembled jade.

Everyone was utterly baffled as they used every possible method to observe and test the experimental target. In the end, they determined that it was merely an ordinary lump of natural tree resin.

"Should we separate out a small portion and conduct experiments on animals, then collect the experimental data?"

"I think that's feasible!"

However, they immediately discovered that once they cut into the pill, it instantly evaporated and vanished without a trace, as if it had never existed at all.

Every researcher in the laboratory was dumbfounded in an instant.

At that moment, the courtyard before Fang Xiu's house was filled with a brown climbing plant. It had not only occupied Fang Xiu's yard but was also constantly spreading outward in every direction.

Dense, slender brown vines covered the courtyard walls. At the same time, they climbed along Fang Xiu's house toward the roof. They covered all four sides of the house, and strange green leaves grew among them. The leaves looked like thick little hands.

The house was lush with greenery. Green leaves and vines adorned the entire world. At this moment, Fang Xiu's already Western-style house was filled with the atmosphere of a fairytale cottage, like a green castle from an ancient fairy tale.

"Come back!"

However, at Fang Xiu's command, all the vines moved like living animals. Tens of thousands of vines, like tens of thousands of tentacles, instantly withdrew from the surroundings.

The vines pulled away from the courtyard walls and retreated from the rooftop. They writhed and twisted continuously, gathering into a huge green ball before Fang Xiu.

This was the result of Fang Xiu's work over the recent period. He had finally followed the cultivation method for demonic plants, drawing on the structure of the Necro Tree, and attempted to create the first Spirit Plant.