Ice Age: I can control plant growth

Chapter 42 Dragon Blood Tree

There must be a demon in the abnormal situation.

Such a good ecosystem, but no other creatures, can only mean that this botanical garden has dangers that are difficult to detect with the naked eye.

Li Mu looked at the garden below and decided to take a look. On the one hand, it was to find more plant seeds, and on the other hand, he believed in his own abilities.

If it were somewhere else, he might have hesitated, but this is the botanical garden, his home ground!

The door of the sedan opened and Li Mu jumped down from the air. When his falling body approached a big tree, he moved his fingers slightly and a branch of the tree quickly grew to Li Mu's feet.

Standing on the thick branches, Li Mu steadied his body and looked at the big tree beneath him.

This is an American redwood. Its straight and tall trunk is more than 20 meters tall and more than 2 meters wide at its thickest point.

This size is considered small among redwoods. It is said that it can grow up to more than 80 meters tall, and the trunk can be more than ten meters wide!
It seems that the redwood is much thicker than the hemlock that Li Mu used to build the city wall. Thinking of this, Li Mu collected the seeds of a redwood.

Li Mu had never been to Lin'an Botanical Garden before, but he had seen many related videos on the Internet.

The total area of ​​this botanical garden is more than 200 hectares, containing more than 3,000 kinds of domestic and foreign plants. The entire park is divided into two parts: exhibition area and experimental area.

Li Mu didn't know what the situation was like in the experimental area, but he remembered that the exhibition was divided into many categories, including a herb garden, which planted many of the medicinal plants he wanted.

If you want to find Baicao Garden, you have to hurry. Otherwise, in such a large place, if you act cautiously, I don’t know how long it will take to find the location of Baicao Garden.

"Then just rush over!"

Thinking of this, Li Mu felt that instead of being timid and cautious, it would be better to just rush forward and solve the problem when encountering trouble.

So he bent his calves slightly and jumped directly to the big tree next to him. While his body was still in the air, several-meter-long vines grew out of his hands and wrapped around another tree. Then, like Spider-Man, he used the vines to glide between the adjacent big trees.

During the gliding process, you will stop from time to time to observe which plant garden you are in.

"Ornamental Botanical Garden", "Plant Classification Garden", "Osmanthus and Crape Myrtle Garden"...

In just ten minutes, Li Mu had slid through several parks. There was no danger in the silent forest, just like before the end of the world.

"arrive!"

“Medicinal Plant Garden!”

Li Mu let go of the vine in his hand and landed on the snow covered with dead leaves.

Although the snow here is not as deep as that outside, the shorter shrubs are still completely covered by the snow.

Li Mu could only tell which family of plants this was from the erected stone tablet.

"Rock medicinal plants", "mountain grass area", "wood"...

Although the effects of these medicinal plants were not yet known, Li Mu was prepared for any eventuality. Whenever he arrived at a place, he would turn over the snow and collect some rhizomes or seeds of the plants.

The rhizomes and seeds of these plants are not big, but there are so many types of medicinal plants that Li Mu collected dozens of them in a short time, forcing him to make a rattan basket on the spot to hold these rhizomes and seeds.

"Hmm? What's that smell?"

Just as Li Mu was concentrating on collecting samples, a strange fragrance wafted into his nose.

This scent, at first it smells like his favorite osmanthus, then it smells like fresh jasmine, and then it turns into a cloying rose.

When he smelled it carefully, the fragrance changed into many varieties in just a moment, and they were all his favorite smells.

"It's weird."

Li Mu thought secretly in his heart.

He followed the strange scent through the dense forest and walked for about half an hour before arriving at a strange place. There was no snow at all within a radius of several dozen meters, and a blood-red tree more than ten meters tall stood in the middle.

And that strange fragrance comes from this big tree.

"Dragon blood tree?"

Li Mu looked at the big tree in front of him and immediately recognized the origin of the tree.

But the dragon blood tree in front of him was a little peculiar. The ordinary dragon blood tree had a gray-brown surface and no stalk, and its overall shape was like a huge umbrella.

However, the dragon blood tree in front of him was very different. It had obviously mutated. Its branches were blood red all over, and there were dragon scale-like bumps on the surface. It looked very strange overall.

As Li Mu continued to approach this strange dragon blood tree, he saw a mountain of corpses under the tree.

These corpses include not only those of various mutant animals, but also those of humans.

On the surface of the corpses, there are dense, filamentous rhizomes that penetrate into the bodies of these mutant animals or humans.

Seeing this, Li Mu had a vague guess in his mind why there were no other creatures in this botanical garden. It turned out that the creatures that entered this botanical garden were attracted here by the fragrance emitted by this dragon blood tree.

And this fragrance must contain ingredients that make ordinary creatures lose their resistance. When those creatures arrive here, they will faint directly under the tree and become nutrients for this dragon blood tree.

Although Li Mu was attracted by the fragrance, there were no other changes in his body.

He secretly guessed in his mind that perhaps it was because of his ability that he was immune to the harmful components of this aroma.

Continuing to walk forward, Li Mu arrived at the branch of the dragon blood tree. He stretched out his hands and gently stroked the scales on the surface of the trunk.

Then a green light appeared, and Li Mu used his ability to invade the body of the tree.

With the injection of source energy, Li Mu felt the consciousness of the dragon blood tree.

Very weak, like a newborn baby, with only basic survival instincts.

Its intelligence is far inferior to the plants transformed by Li Mu.

In Li Mu's opinion, perhaps it releases fragrance to attract prey just to replenish energy to avoid starving to death.

It is not a subjective intention to hunt the creatures that break into this botanical garden.

Thinking of this, Li Mu couldn't help but hesitate whether he should destroy the dragon blood tree. Would its existence be beneficial or harmful to him?

After some thought, Li Mu finally felt that it would be better to keep the dragon blood tree.

This huge botanical garden contains many plants that Li Mu needs. If there is no dragon blood tree that can lure and kill mutant beasts, a large number of mutant beasts will destroy the environment here beyond control in a short period of time.

If he keeps this dragon blood tree, or even strengthens its abilities, this botanical garden will become Li Mu's back garden, and he can come here at any time to collect the plant samples he needs.

And with his own abilities, he can destroy the dragon blood tree at any time.

After some thought, Li Mu slowly placed his hand close to the branches of the dragon blood tree. With the injection of green light, the branches of the dragon blood tree became thicker, and the tempting fragrance became more intense.

With Li Mu's transformation, plus the dragon blood tree's own talent, mutant beasts below level five will have no way to go but death if they enter this botanical garden.

The fragrance emitted by this dragon blood tree is an irresistible temptation for mutant beasts and ordinary humans.

Once you are captivated by this fragrance, there is only one final result: becoming its nutrients!

Therefore, Li Mu specifically gave it orders to only lure and kill mutant beasts and humans who tried to harm it.

If ordinary people break in, just scare them away.

(End of this chapter)