"Whew-"
Although Wen Ya had made it all look effortless and fluid, she still let out a deep breath of relief when she saw the Mutant Plant obediently reabsorb the water mixed with coffee.
"That was much more trouble than just splashing the water out." Wen Ya tucked a strand of hair behind her ear, a trace of weariness in her voice. "If I hadn't been worried these things wouldn't like clean water, I wouldn't have had to go to all that effort."
After saying that, she instinctively looked over at Su Bai. "Su Bai, everything should be fine now, right?"
Su Bai did not answer immediately. Instead, he half closed his eyes and carefully sensed the fluctuations of power around him. He could feel that the previously restless power inside the Vines Skeleton had fallen completely still. Like the other Mutant Plants around it, it had entered something close to a frozen state.
The Mutant Plant, which had been mumbling angry words moments earlier, swayed a few times in a rather dazed fashion, then turned its skeleton around and returned to its office.
It was a shame Wen Ya had acted too quickly for him to coax any more information out of the talking Mutant Plant, but it did not seem particularly intelligent anyway. To it, humans were merely edible "flesh and blood," so it probably would not have been able to say anything clear or coherent.
Besides, after what had just happened, Su Bai and Wen Ya could both more or less guess what was happening in this sixty-six-story building-or what might happen later.
"It should be fine now." Su Bai opened his eyes and nodded with a smile. "There shouldn't be any more trouble on the 46th Floor for a while."
"That's good." A faint smile finally