Chapter 45 045. Dying Green

   "Hey, are you okay?"

  When Lu Jian saw the new green on the hand of "Hound Dog", his heart skipped a beat subconsciously.

  "Hound" looked at Lu Jian blankly, as if he didn't know what happened.

  The two of them had just emerged from the maze of weeds and came to the side of the bus.

  The weeds that had been crushed by the wheels had all stood up straight at this time, trying to wrap the bus.

   Stone and Mary got back in the bus, with only the doors open, waiting for the landing stumbling and "hound".

  The two got into the car one after the other and closed the door tightly.

   "Damn."

   "Hound" looked at his left hand.

   That hand is no longer human.

  Bones, blood vessels, muscles, no longer exist.

   Only hard wood, green grass, and twisted vines remain.

  His arm is gradually changing towards the plant.

  In the blink of an eye, the entire left hand of "Hound Dog" has turned into wood, and it spreads rapidly towards the shoulder.

   "Cut it off, cut it off!"

   "Hound" barked in a hurry.

  Compared to turning the whole person into a tree, it is obviously more acceptable to cut off a hand.

  Lu Jian didn't hesitate, he directly picked up the knife that was used to deal with rat meat, and slashed at the upper arm of the "hound".

   "!!!"

  The knife sank into the flesh and blood, and cut to the bone joint connecting the shoulder and upper arm, but it was difficult to continue to penetrate.

  "Hound"'s face was ashen, biting the cloth ball wrapped in torn clothes, only a thin whimper sounded from his throat.

  Lu Ju pulled out the knife, picked up the crowbar, and smashed hard before the bark-like plant structure spread up.

  Without any aiming, the hook of the crowbar was inserted precisely into the wound of "Hound Dog", and the sharp end smashed the joint, making "Hound Dog"'s left hand go limp.

  Lu Jian continued to use the knife, and quickly cut off the arm of "Hound Dog".

   rattling——

  The arm that had hardened into wood fell to the ground, and the little flesh and blood left gradually dimmed, and even the blood that flowed out quickly dried up, turning into green grass.

  Lu Jian now knows how this grassland was formed.

  I'm afraid that as long as those creatures stay here for a while, they will be eroded and infected by the green plants, and eventually become part of the grass.

  And some of those creatures will be kept and used as bait to attract other prey. This grassland is like a skilled hunter, quietly waiting for the prey to come to the door automatically.

   These weeds, the land, and even the air, are part of the hunt.

   That's why there is no sound at all in this meadow.

   "We need to leave as soon as possible."

   Lu Jian said, he came to the driver's seat and checked the condition of the vehicle.

  Before checking whether the engine can still start, Lu Jian found that green shoots were beginning to emerge on the broken glass gap next to the driver's seat.

   "Can even inanimate machines be infected by this grass?"

  Lu Jian really realized the seriousness of the matter.

  He put his foot down and the engine roared.

  Lu Jian put his hands on the steering wheel, ready to break through the confinement of the grass.

   There was an itching on the arm, and Lu Jian scratched it, but it still couldn't be relieved.

  He looked over, and suddenly found that something was growing on the inside of his arm, where the veins should have been.

  That thing is like a long and thin worm, crawling and crawling between blood vessels and muscles.

  Through the skin, you can clearly see that the green thing is trying to break through the barrier of the skin to get out. Lu Jian only feels the incomparable itching, wants to scratch, wants to cut open his own flesh and blood, and dig out the things inside.

   As he stepped on the accelerator and turned his head, he could see that the blood on the shoulder of the "hound" who had lost a hand had stopped.

   But no one helped him stop the bleeding.

"Oh shit!"

   "Hound" looked over his shoulder.

  The cross-section of the wound has been covered by green plants, and those plants exuding vitality are now clinging to the shoulders of the "hound", forming a strange picture.

He could see something protruding and sinking on his chest and stomach. The "hound" opened his clothes. It was originally a muscular abdomen. At this moment, it seemed that there were countless bugs stirring inside, one after another. A greenish unknown thing bulged out, even spreading out on his neck and face.

   "Damn, damn, damn."

   "Hound" scratched his neck and his face with his right hand, trying to relieve the uncontrollable itching, but his nails left bright red bloodstains, but he couldn't get any relief.

  He kept scratching, scratching, his nails were stained with blood foam, his skin was festering, and the protruding worm-like thing was always hidden below.

  The wheels of the bus are covered with green grass, and they are almost leaking, but they finally spin.

  The raised mud drove the bus forward, and Lu Jian held the steering wheel tightly and turned towards the direction the bus rolled over.

  "."

  Lu Jian glanced back again.

  Stone and Mary were at a loss, and those "bugs" seemed to appear on their bodies, and the most serious "hound" had already started to twitch.

  The bulge on his face seemed to have finally found a breakthrough, and the eyes of "Hound Dog" became cloudy, and in the fundus of the eyes, some kind of green spread.

   Puchi——

  With a slight sound, a new sprout grew out of the "hound"'s eyes.

   Immediately afterwards, a little blood oozed from his nostrils, and another bud sprouted.

  From his eyes, nose, mouth, and ears, more sprouts finally found a place to vent, and the bumps under the disordered skin just squirmed in one places, and finally burst out.

   Puchi——

  Hearing the sound, Lu Jian turned his head and saw that "Hound" had lost his agility. Several weeds grew out of his belly with his clothes removed, as if it was the most perfect soil.

   "Throw him down."

  Lu Ju screamed and turned towards Stone and Mary.

  The symptoms of the two people were not serious yet. After hearing what Lu Jian said, they looked at each other, and finally made up their minds and opened the door of the bus.

  The wild grass outside suddenly seemed to have real life, and began to shake and grow wildly. The grass and trees in front of the bus were even higher than the roof of the bus.

  The two threw the body of "Hound Dog", which had become a bonsai, out of the car. In an instant, the body was swallowed by the shaking weeds and could never be seen again.

  Lu Jian felt that the restless plants in his body seemed to calm down for a moment.

   "These plants, they are not just the parts we can see. The air here is also a part of it."

  Lu Jian probably guessed why they became like this, why the "hound" was only injured, and then fell to that level.

In the air of this meadow, the seeds have already spread all over. As long as the air is inhaled, those seeds can enter the human body, and continue to grow wildly, and the wounded people, these seeds will fuse with the blood faster, so it will also be faster grow into a monster capable of taking human life.

   Even Lu Jian guessed that the land is a mimicry of plants, and the entire area exists entirely for hunting.

   In this grassland, the plants are the real masters.

   "It's almost there."

   Lu Jian saw the road beyond the high beam, he said, and his hanging heart finally fell to the ground.

   At this moment, a white hand with sharp claws stretched out from the broken front windshield.

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  (end of this chapter)