After growing a national treasure, I renovated an unfinished building in the end times

Chapter 16 Evolution and Upgrade
Something went wrong in Big Fatty's domain?!

Chen Ru immediately lowered his head to look at the panda following at his feet.

A line of golden subtitles appeared above the fat man's head:
[Overload defense...]

At the same time, Big Fatty reached into the bag hanging around his neck with his claws, grabbed out the crystal cores, and threw handfuls of them into his mouth.

As the crystal core entered its stomach, the cracked area recovered visibly, successfully sending several tree monsters flying.

While Big Fatty was defending, the others were not idle either. Rong Shu and his companions had already faced off against the new attacking tree monster.

“There’s something wrong with the bark of these trees!”

Xia Jinzhi's invincible silver needle failed to penetrate the bark and bounced off, falling to the ground.

"Look, there's light under the bark!" Sun Binbin exclaimed.

Under the grooves on the bark, there was a faint metallic luster.

"This is...metallization!" Lin Jue looked incredulous.

"Metallized?!" Everyone was shocked.

"No wonder Big Fatty's domain is overloaded!" Chen Er suddenly realized, "These alien plants have evolved!"

Sun Binbin wailed: "Even plants have evolved superpowers? There's no way we can survive this!"

Several people found it hard to accept.

Plants have evolved, but what about zombies and strange beasts?
I can’t even think about it!

At this moment, a strong wave of supernatural power suddenly emanated from Rong Shu.

Immediately afterwards, the tree monsters that had rushed towards the few people madly fell down almost at the same time. A big hole appeared on the main root, and several blood-red crystal cores flew into the air. The next second, they suddenly flew towards Rong Shu.

"Brother Rong, your special abilities..." Lin Jue and the others were stunned.

The tree demon that was difficult to deal with just now was killed by Rong Shu in the blink of an eye!

"A qualitative change has occurred." Rong Shu played with the blood-red crystal core in his hand and carefully felt the energy on it.

The originally blood-red crystal core faded visibly between his fingers, turned transparent, and turned into powder in the blink of an eye.

"This blood-colored crystal core has at least twice the energy of the transparent crystal core." Rong Shu said, "If the previous one was level one, the current one is level two."

"Brother Rong, your ability has also been upgraded to level two, right?!" Chen Er and others looked at him excitedly.

"You can say that."

Rong Shu released his mental power and killed a few more attacking tree monsters. He had a dozen blood-red crystal cores in his hand, and gave one to each of Chen Ru and several people with superpowers, even Big Fatty.

"Try and see if you can absorb it."

Several people tried it, but found that they could not absorb it. Even Big Fatty just held the crystal core with a greedy look on his face and gnashed his teeth, but did not swallow it.

"It seems that I have to wait until I advance to absorb it."

Several people put away the crystal core.

The tree monster was almost dealt with, and the group just breathed a sigh of relief, but then there appeared zombies that could spit ice spikes and mutant rats that controlled the ground sinkholes...

As expected, zombies and monsters have also evolved!
"Luckily we have Brother Rong and Dapang, it's so scary!"

Sun Binbin patted his chest with a look of fear, looked at Rong Shu with admiration, and stared at Dapang with envy.

Although Big Fatty is a little overloaded, he is still pretty good after taking a few crystal cores.

There were too many zombies and strange beasts and plants around, and it was impossible to kill them all. When they rushed over in groups, the importance of Big Fatty was revealed.

"Sister, how about you grow another big fat one and give me one too?"

While killing monsters and collecting crystal cores, Sun Binbin took the time to get close to Chen Er, smiling at him in a fawning manner.

"I can't grow it either. Big Fatty is one of a kind."

After growing Big Fat, Chen Er had a feeling that there was only one Big Fat and he couldn’t grow a second one.

"Ah?" Sun Binbin looked dejected, then cheered up, "What about the game console?" Chen Er was speechless, this guy really loves game consoles!

"Sun Binbin, do you want to live or play games?"

Lin Jue rolled his eyes in annoyance.

"You're already short of food and you're still craving for game consoles. If you want to grow something, you should grow more food, not game consoles!"

Lin Jue had just successfully defeated a level 2 zombie. His energy was almost exhausted and he was currently absorbing crystal cores to take a short rest and recover.

"If sweet potatoes can be grown into flower pots, maybe we can also grow an edible game console. Wouldn't that be the best of both worlds?" Sun Binbin said unconvinced.

Lin Jue was stunned and touched his chin: "It seems to make sense?"

"That's right!" Sun Binbin raised his head, somewhat proud.

Lin Jue looked at Chen Er: "Youyou, how about you grow a game console? To be honest, I haven't touched the keyboard for several days, and my hands are itchy!"

Chen Ru was holding a lucky bag of fish roe to dig crystal nuclei from a first-level mutant mouse, and paused when he heard this.

Could it be that this person is also as craving for game consoles as Sun Binbin?!

Chen Er didn't know what to say.

She is really not interested in game consoles, and she heard that boys use high-end machines to play games, which she is not familiar with. What should she do?
She was a little embarrassed: "How about you look for scrapped game consoles first?"

"My impression of game consoles is only the ones I played Tetris on when I was a kid. I don't know what the game console you are talking about looks like, and I definitely can't grow one."

Lin Jue and Sun Binbin were dumbfounded.

"Don't pay attention to them, just plant whatever you want." Rong Shu dealt with a few zombies that were spitting ice thorns, and took the time to warn the two with his eyes.

Lin Jue and Sun Binbin suddenly didn't dare to think about anything and focused on killing monsters.

Chen Ru was no longer embarrassed and responded happily: "Okay, Brother Rong." The boss has spoken, so of course he has to listen to him!

Relying on Dapang's territory and Rong Shu's crushing, the few of them plundered along the way without leaving a single blade of grass.

Even so, there were not many edible and usable items among the supplies received.

Even the charcoal that had never been a problem showed signs of turning into ash. Fortunately, I found a few sealed packages of charcoal that were not damaged in the warehouse of a barbecue restaurant.

After a whole day out, when we returned, all the supplies were only enough to fill 20 fish roe bags, plus a backpack for each person.

A total of 24 lucky bags were brought out, four of which contained crystal cores.

This time everyone only had a heavy backpack, so it should have been a relaxing and happy occasion, but no one was able to laugh.

On the way back, Rong Shu suddenly said, "Lin Jue, reinforce everyone's mobile phones and power banks."

A group of people were stunned and quickly took out their mobile phones and power banks.

Upon first glance, I discovered that the metallic luster on it had dimmed to the point that it seemed like it would disappear in the next second!

Several people's hearts skipped a beat at the same time.

During the lunch break, Lin Juegang reinforced everyone’s mobile phones and power banks!
It's only been an afternoon, and it's already ineffective?!
You know, Lin Jue’s metalization could last at least twelve hours before!
Lin Jue quickly reinforced his phone and power bank with metal.

Uncle Zhou frowned and looked at Rong Shu inquiringly: "Has the metallization time been shortened?"

"No, it's the red mist that's attacking."

"Where is it? Don't you see any red fog?" Sun Binbin looked left and right, looking confused.

"The red mist appeared when we were fighting the tree demon before."

As soon as Rong Shu finished speaking, Chen Ru immediately became nervous: "Then my sister, Grandpa Rong and Uncle Zhou..."

"Don't worry, the red mist bypassed the three of them."

"Bypassed?!" Several people were surprised and shocked.

"Not only did we bypass them, we also bypassed Big Fatty. The plants that we planted seem to be able to drive away the red fog."

(End of this chapter)