Old Mr. Xi won the argument single-handedly. When he heard that Master Cong was willing to help polish the item for free, he didn't refuse. Instead, he discussed possible ways to make it with him. They still hadn't come up with a suitable plan based on the Sub-class Stone's properties, so Xu Huo didn't take part in the discussion.
After nightfall, the head-capped figures that appeared at random throughout the city became fewer. It was unclear whether the local government had made a major breakthrough, but in any case, things were fairly peaceful at the manor.
But the good times didn't last. After the Night Tour Dungeon, a new B-class instance broke out at Ten Thousand Plant Garden. The plants listed in the Strange Catalog had become genuinely terrifying. It was said that all six research teams sent in to collect samples had been wiped out, even with Player protection. Fortunately, the instance was limited to Ten Thousand Plant Garden, and no Restricted Zone had appeared.
Although Ten Thousand Plant Garden covered a vast area, as long as it didn't spread into a city where people lived, it wasn't too much of a problem once the area was sealed off.
However, early the next morning, the sky above Xia City was filled with green bubbles the size of fingertips. They looked like seeds from some kind of Mutated Plant and were extremely light, drifting a long way with the wind. They were also somewhat poisonous.
A protective barrier had already been raised around the manor, but plenty of green bubbles were still stuck to it, packed together like insects. Some really did contain insect eggs, which could hatch into mutated species in an hour or two. They crawled quickly and bred rapidly, and the unprotected green belts were stripped bare