Apocalypse: I Can See the HP Bar, Killing Monsters Drops Loot-Chapter 1490 - 621: Mutated Plants Tools

Wang Tao tried the tendril elevator, and all he could say was that it indeed could carry people, albeit with little regard for the passengers’ life and death. It was fortunate that everyone seated was powerful, otherwise riding this elevator would really be deadly.

Of course, in addition to the nature of the tendrils themselves, the height of the ascent and descent was also a factor. After all, the mountain was very high, and each time the range of the ascent and descent was not small, it took several rides on the elevator to reach the ground. To expect any kind of riding experience under these conditions was naturally impossible.

However, regardless of the experience, Wang Tao was very interested in these tendrils.

These tendrils were not biological weapons, but Level 3 mutated plants.

Getting mutated plants to obey, and even help humans with work? Wang Tao couldn’t do that! Because he couldn’t communicate, mutated plants had no brains, completely different from animals, even if he tried to communicate with them using his spiritual power, it wouldn’t work.

Thus, Wang Tao was very curious about how the people of Red Maple Base managed to control these mutated plants.

Perhaps seeing Wang Tao’s gaze constantly on the tendrils, Xiang Bo, still feeling dizzy, explained while rubbing his temple:

"These are plants that mutated after the apocalypse, as you may have guessed. As for how to control them, I don’t really understand either, these mutated plants all obey the military’s commands. Anyway, they’re not aggressive and will help with work. All we need to do is provide them with land and supply them with nutrients regularly..."

"I see."

Wang Tao nodded, not asking further. It was clearly some special method not meant to be disclosed to outsiders, and whether Xiang Bo knew or not, he definitely couldn’t just tell a stranger.

At this point, everyone had already reached the ground.

From above, one could see many buildings here, all multi-structured, but the specifics were unclear. Now on the ground and observing these buildings up close, Wang Tao and the others were quite amazed—many buildings did not look man-made, or rather, they were built on some plants as their foundation.

Not far away was a giant tree, but only half of the root part. This half had been hollowed out with several floors, and more than ten households lived inside. The top of the giant tree was an open-air terrace, with clothes, chunks of meat, and other things hanging.

Near this tree-house, there was another house built from bamboo, but these bamboos had a blood bar, indicating they were alive, still mutated bamboos. It’s just that their level was too low, not even Level 1 yet, so they only had blood bars, no levels. These mutated bamboos seemed to grow in the shape of a house, with doors, windows, staircases, and all...

Near the bamboo house, there was also a large warm-yellow mushroom. This mushroom was already dead, but with its size, it must have been at least an Elite Monster in its lifetime. Now it had been transformed into housing, with someone standing guard at the entrance.

Aside from these peculiar houses, what attracted the most attention were the mutated plants.

Not to mention the ascendable tendrils, there were also several giant leaves that had grown eight legs. There were a few seats fixed on the leaves, and people sat on them, apparently using these mutated leaves as vehicles. Compared to these leaves, the modified off-road vehicles of Chen Haolin and his group seemed rather alien.

And on both sides of the road where the leaf-vehicles passed by, there were some slender and curved trees with round fruits. Whenever a mutated leaf passed beneath them, these round fruits would briefly glow.

"These are our Lantern Trees, which absorb sunlight during the day and release light at night. The road lighting of our Red Maple Base relies on them... Besides the Lantern Trees, we also have Lantern Grass here, which is mostly used for household purposes..."

Xiang Bo explained proudly to everyone.

Although his strength was not strong and completely incomparable to Wang Tao and the others, he felt that they certainly couldn’t match up to their base environment.

After all, there were many similarities between their place and the world before the apocalypse, even though these were all substitutes made from mutated plants, which was better than having nothing.

Xiang Bo guessed that Wang Tao’s base certainly did not have such "courtesy of biology"; despite Wang Tao’s strength, his living conditions might not be as good as theirs. After all, all electronic devices were now unusable, and human survivors were abruptly thrown back from a technological society to a primitive one, so Wang Tao and others must be suffering.

"Impressive! A harmonious coexistence of humans and nature!"

Wang Tao sincerely expressed his admiration.

Red Maple Base and Changhe Base clearly followed two different evolutionary paths.

Changhe Base’s main energy source now is Crystal Core Energy, and devices powered by Crystal Cores are not damaged by this mysterious energy. Changhe Base uses Crystal Core Energy for many things, such as vehicles, Powered Armor, some factory machinery, etc. Although because of the Barrier, electrical appliances, ordinary vehicles are also usable, Crystal Cores are clearly the future, so Changhe Base has invested a lot of funds into research on Crystal Cores. The results so far have been very good.

Red Maple Base is different, they not only lacked electric facilities but it seemed that they didn’t even have Crystal Core technology, what has been presented to Wang Tao so far was "plant technology"—survivors coexisting harmoniously with mutated plants.

It is impossible to judge which is superior between Crystal Core technology and plant technology, Wang Tao is not very familiar with plant technology, but from what has been shown so far, plant technology is definitely not weaker than Crystal Core technology.