After leaving the City R base, they ventured deeper into the jungle in search of the combat squads that had lost contact.
"Their last recorded location seemed to be northwest of the base. Should we head over there and check things out first?"
Bai Shu pulled out his tablet, checked it, and made the suggestion. No one objected.
The mutated plants in City R were truly ridiculous. The farther they went, the denser the growth became, especially in places no one had set foot in. There was no path at all, so they had to make their own.
Up front, Wang Weihu used his earth mutant ability to push the plants aside and clear a path. When he got tired, the women of the Rose Squad took over.
Chen Xiaofei was still scouting ahead, sending updates back from time to time. "The route looks normal! Keep going straight!"
Since Xu Duoduo had given the mutant birds and mutant bird eggs to the City R base, quite a bit of room had opened up in her storage space. She followed Qin Luo along the side, collecting things.
They even came across a few mutant bananas. The bananas were long and slender like loofahs, growing in individual strands rather than bunches. They looked utterly absurd.
At first, Xu Duoduo doubted they were even bananas. Only after peeling one did she discover that they really were!
Even Qin Luo exclaimed at how ridiculous they were. "How much crazier is this world going to get? No wonder the people at the City R base are afraid to eat anything! Who would dare take a bite of this?"
Anyone who didn't know better would have thought they were some new species.
Xu Duoduo happily put them all away. Anything that seemed useful went into her