Blood-Winged Bats Descended from the Sky
Liu Erlong looked ahead but didn't see Soul Beast.
Where?
Qin Chuan pointed to the ground.
Liu Erlong looked down and saw that the soil on the lawn of the first passage was slightly raised, and a dark line was moving quickly towards the cabin.
It digs underground.
"Burrowing Cave-Toothed Beast, 40,000 years old. It can move five squares underground, directly bypassing the front-line defenses."
Liu Erlong's expression changed.
The Shield Oak can't stop it. The Arrow Vine can't hit it. The Beast-Eating Giant Flower can't bite it. The Eight-Petal Immortal Orchid is useless to it.
All plants on the ground are ineffective against the Soul Beast underground.
"What should we do then?"
Qin Chuan squatted down and planted a Beast-Eating Giant Flower where the cave-toothed beast was about to emerge from the ground.
"It has to burrow out after moving five squares underground. Just calculate where it will emerge, place a [Beast-Eating Giant Flower] there, and wait."
Liu Erlong stared at the moving dark lines on the ground, silently counting the number of squares in his mind.
One square, two squares, three squares, four squares, five squares.
The soil exploded, and the Cave-toothed Beast emerged from the ground. Its body was grayish-brown, its mouth was full of fangs, and its four paws were covered in mud.
As soon as it appeared, the petals of the Beast-Eating Giant Flower closed up.
He swallowed it whole.
Liu Erlong let out a long breath, but before he could finish exhaling, the ground in the second and fourth passages began to bulge.
Two cave-toothed beasts are digging at the same time.
Qin Chuan quickly planted a Beast-Eating Giant Flower along both paths.
The Heaven and Earth Soul Power was pouring down, Liu Erlong quickly ran to collect the light orbs produced by the Golden Sunflower, desperately trying to accumulate numbers on the panel.
"We don't have enough Heaven and Earth Soul Power!" Liu Erlong shouted.
"That's enough, don't panic." Qin Chuan said without turning his head.
Two cave-toothed beasts emerged from the ground one after the other and were swallowed up by two Beast-Eating Giant Flower.
Liu Erlong's legs were trembling, not from fatigue, but from nervousness.
Every time she thought things were about to end, Qin Chuan would always come up with a new plant to defuse the crisis. But every time the crisis was resolved, an even stronger Soul Beast would appear.
This rollercoaster-like experience left her emotions hanging in the air, unable to come down.
The seventh wave.
"Blood-Winged Bat have appeared! Sixty thousand years ago!"
Liu Erlong looked up.
A group of dark figures appeared in the sky.
A dozen or so enormous bats flew down from the forest, their wingspans spanning over two zhang (approximately 6.6 meters), their wing membranes a dark red that gleamed with a blood-red sheen in the sunlight.
They fly very high, far beyond the attack range of ground plants.
The Green-Pod Arrow Vine can't reach it. The Double-Thorn Arrow Vine can't reach it. The Octagonal Mysterious Ice Grass can't reach it either.
All the distant plants on the ground were out of reach of the bats in the sky.
Liu Erlong's face turned pale.
"Flying Soul Beast! Ground plants can't hit them!"
Qin Chuan pulled a silvery-white seed out of the seed bag.
"Full Moon Wearing Autumn Dew for fifty thousand years, I urge the gale to blow away the flying Soul Beast."
He dug a hole in the open space in front of the hut, planted the plant, and watered it.
Liu Erlong ran over with a water glass and poured about half a glass of water.
The Full Moon Wearing Autumn Dew has finally appeared. A silvery-white grass, its leaves slender as silk, with a glistening dewdrop hanging from its tip.
The dewdrops began to tremble.
Buzz.
A powerful gust of wind shot out from the dewdrops and soared into the sky.
A strong wind swept through the swarm of Blood-Winged Bat, blowing them about and making them sway wildly, their wings flapping frantically but unable to steady themselves.
A bat was blown over and fell from the sky, landing right next to the Beast-Eating Giant Flower.
The Beast-Eating Giant Flower opened its mouth and swallowed it whole.
The other bats were kept flying by the strong wind and couldn't get through. They circled in the air for a while before being blown out of the battlefield by the wind.
As Liu Erlong watched the swarm of bats being blown away in the sky, his heart finally settled down.
That's amazing!
But before she could finish speaking, new Soul Beast appeared on the ground.
This time, a large number of Rot-Skinned Wild Wolf, Iron-Armored Giant Bear, and Shield-Faced Tusked Beast surged out from all five passages simultaneously, charging forward in a chaotic mix. Leaping Cloud Leopard and Burrowing Cave-Toothed Beast followed behind them.
Another wave of Blood-Winged Bat flew in from the sky.
Attacks from three directions simultaneously: ground, underground, and air.
Liu Erlong's mind went blank for a moment.
Qin Chuan's hands didn't stop.
He planted wildly along the five paths: Golden Sunflower, Shield Oak, Arrow Vine, Beast-Eating Giant Flower, Mysterious Ice Grass, fairy orchids, and Full Moon Wearing Autumn Dew, stuffing them one after another into the ground.
The number of Heaven and Earth Soul Power on the panel dropped rapidly.
Liu Erlong ran desperately, frantically collecting light orbs and watering the plants.
Her hair was disheveled, her clothes were covered in mud and grass clippings, and her pale white blouse was soaked with sweat and clung to her body.
But she couldn't care less about any of that.
A breach appeared in the defenses of the first passage. Two Iron-Armored Giant Bear attacked from both sides, shattering all the Shield Oak in the front. The Arrow Vine behind them couldn't be killed in time, and the second Giant Bear had already charged to the middle.
"Quickly, the first passage!" Liu Erlong urged.
Qin Chuan ran over and planted a Beast-Eating Giant Flower in front of the giant bear.
The giant bear was swallowed.
But the ground in the third passage is also rising, as the cave-tooth beasts are digging underground.
On the fifth passage, three Leaping Cloud Leopard jumped simultaneously, leaping over the front defenses.
The Blood-Winged Bat in the sky have returned.
Liu Erlong's heart was pounding at its limit.
She ran back and forth on the lawn, collecting the Heaven and Earth Soul Power, watering the plants, and watching the Soul Beast surging in from all directions, feeling like her brain was about to explode.
Qin Chuan's operating speed had also reached its limit.
He calculated as he planted.
Calculate the cooldown time and the amount of Heaven and Heaven and Earth Soul Power consumed for each plant.
The exact location of each plant, the order in which they were planted, was all precise down to the second.
Watching his actions, Liu Erlong had only one thought in her mind: What kind of brain does this person have?
Just then, the defenses of the fourth passage collapsed.
More than a dozen different kinds of Soul Beast broke through all the plant defenses and were less than ten meters away from the hut.
Liu Erlong's heart jumped into his throat.
"It's all over, it...!"
Qin Chuan grabbed a dark red seed from the seed bag and threw it directly onto the fourth passage.
"The Lovesick Heartbreak Red, a love that has lasted for sixty thousand years. One route, an explosion, everything wiped out."
The moment the dark red seed landed, a blood-red flower burst forth from the ground.
The moment the petals unfolded, a crimson light erupted throughout the entire passage.
Boom!
The light swept through the entire passage, engulfing all the Soul Beast from beginning to end.
The Rot-Skinned Wild Wolf, the Iron-Armored Giant Bear, and the Shield-Faced Tusked Beast all turned into specks of light and vanished.
A passageway was cleared in an instant.
Liu Erlong watched as the blood-red flower slowly withered, its petals falling one by one onto the lawn.
Her heart, which had been hanging in suspense, finally relaxed, and she let out a long sigh of relief.
"This plant... is terrifying."
"It's disposable," Qin Chuan said. "Once it's used up, it's gone. So you can't use it carelessly; you have to save it for the most critical moment."
Liu Erlong nodded, memorizing the information.
The battle lasted for nearly an hour.
Liu Erlong had lost count of how many times he had made the trip, how many times he had watered the plants, and how much Heaven and Earth Soul Power he had collected.
Her legs were weak, her breathing was rapid, and sweat dripped from her forehead onto the lawn.
But she couldn't stop.
Because the Soul Beast are still coming. Wave after wave, more and more, stronger and stronger.
The planting speed in Qin Chuan is getting faster and faster, and the variety of plants is becoming more and more abundant.
The formations along the five passages have become extremely complex. The front row Shield Oak, the middle row of Arrow Vine and Beast-Eating Giant Flower, and the back row of Mysterious Ice Grass and fairy orchids. Each passage has three or four layers of three-dimensional defense.
In the sky, there's the Full Moon Wearing Autumn Dew, waiting to deal with flying Soul Beast; underground, there's the Beast-Eating Giant Flower, waiting at the burial site of the Cave Fang Beast.
Liu Erlong felt that he had grasped the basics of the game.
Then the Clown Dwarf's voice rang out.
"The final boss has appeared— the Titan Giant Ape! Ten thousand years old!"