Chapter 633: Parasitic Plants

Chapter 626 – Parasitic Plants
This void area was sealed by a plant-based Ancient God, and its contamination created all kinds of strange plants that could parasitize onto living organisms, and this brain-eating dandelion was just one of them, which was the most massive in number because of the most convenient and fast spreading.

However, the parasitization of the brain-eating dandelion has a condition, that is, it can only be parasitized on the top of the creature’s head, theoretically, if you don’t have a head or are wearing a helmet, you won’t be parasitized.

Although it was difficult to understand this parasitization condition, it qualified ordinary people to participate in the war, so the Empire sent the Star Realm Army on a cleanup mission.

As the wave of mindless zombies continued to approach, the artillery positions on standby resounded with dull gunfire, a large-caliber artillery shell was like a drop of water falling on dust, each shot caused a circle of visible signs of destruction, tearing the zombies’ empty brains to shreds, but more and more dandelions drifted into the air and drifted down towards the Star Realm Army’s positions as if they had self-awareness.

“Everyone check their helmets again, make sure you don’t take them off, even if you’re dead, otherwise your comrades will blow your head off again with bullets!” The officer’s stern reprimand made all the soldiers couldn’t help but touch their helmets again, even if their chins were strangled a bit, but looking at those brainless zombies with grass growing on their heads in the distance, they felt that it would be better to tie it up a bit tighter, and it would be even better if they were to hand out some glue, they’d rather stick their helmets on their heads.

When the wave of brainless zombies broke through the blockade of artillery fire, the minefield became a roadblock, blowing up these top grass zombies, but more and more dandelion seeds drifted towards the direction of the Star Realm Army in the airwaves set off by the explosions, and had already begun to block the line of sight.

“Spitfires clear the view!” The officer at the frontline keenly realized that these dandelion seeds couldn’t fly high at all, and could only float at a height of two or three meters, so he immediately gave the order.

As the order was given, the flamethrowers carrying fuel canisters with gas masks rushed to the front and pulled the trigger, under the huge reaction force, the huge tongue of fire licked the white flotsam floating in the air, the effect was very remarkable, a large number of white flotsam turned into flying ash, eliminating the worries of the frontline soldiers.

“Shoot immediately, don’t let these monsters get close!” Because of the limited intelligence, the officers would not let the enemy get too close, not to mention that the greatest advantage of the imperial army was long range firepower.

For a while the position was filled with gunfire, countless bullets shot out from the muzzle, smashing the brainless zombies to pieces, apparently the parasitism of the bizarre plant squeezed out a lot of material from the organism, causing the strength of the body to be drastically weakened and become very fragile, which is why it appeared to have been smashed to pieces.

This was a good thing, but it also unleashed some even weirder parasitic plants, as no one had stipulated that a human body could only parasitize one type of plant.

“There’s something crawling over the ground, there’s a lot of it!” The veteran who had issued the warning picked up the grenade that had been placed in front of him ahead of time and immediately threw it out with a pull of the fuse.

But this also stimulated these weird roots to stop crawling slowly against the ground, and instead support their bodies to crawl fast in a way similar to a multi-legged centipede that makes people feel sick and horrible.

The imperial army is equipped with more loaded long handled grenades, in addition to a little heavier, the logistical pressure on the big point, there are no shortcomings, just a grenade will be a few meters in a circle of weird roots will be blown to pieces.

From the scattered remnants of the carcasses, slender special plants like nerves of blood vessels had drawn off the dense roots from the near-rotting flesh and blood, and then moved against the ground towards the position in a writhing, crawling manner, which was slow, but hard to see and wouldn’t trigger the mines, and wasn’t spotted until it was close to the trench by a vigilant veteran soldier.

People are naturally disgusted and fearful of things with many legs and long slender legs, because usually those with such characteristics are either worms or snakes, and both of them are often poisonous, so this instinctive reaction has evolved over a long period of time.

Now, it was because the bullets were useless.

It was obviously not easy to destroy a mass of roots with bullets, even with machine gun fire, especially if you didn’t even know where the other party’s vitals were, so you had to rely on grenades and flamethrowers. Smoking grenades were constantly being thrown out, but although the explosions tore apart many of the weird roots, they blew up the parasitic dandelions that were floating in the air, causing the dandelions that had originally gathered into a ball to spread out in all directions, making the flamethrower soldiers unable to take care of them at all.

Just encountering two kinds of parasitic plants made the position fall into passive, this is still the case that the Star World Army built the position and has a large number of guns and cannons, if it is a cold weapon army, I’m afraid that it would have long become a flower fertilizer.

The parasitic dandelions falling from the air made the soldiers like a big enemy, constantly waving their hands to drive away the falling parasitic dandelions, but not much effect not to mention that, but also ignored the parasitic roots crawling on the ground.

A panicked recruit was the first victim, he desperately hugged his helmet, but ignored his feet, a web of plant roots in the trench he was rubbing on the ground is, silently wrapped around his calves, because the weight is too light, the recruit did not notice, even if the fine roots into the trouser leg to pierce the skin, but also because of a certain kind of secretion of sap has the effect of paralysis did not notice.

This special parasitic root has a very strong aggressiveness, after rooting in the flesh and blood, flying to find blood vessels and nerves, and then extract nutrients from the blood vessels, winding the nerves to control the human body, so that just now the new recruit was still holding his head to cause dissatisfaction of the veteran soldiers in the blink of an eye, just like a seizure of sheep’s heart to fall to the ground and convulse.

The terror of parasitic plants is that most medical treatments are ineffective.

Even the best surgeon could not strip off the fine roots that were tightly entangled with the blood vessels and nerves, not to mention that these roots were still alive.

Before the parasitized soldier could rise up and cause more chaos, the Imperial veteran gave the other soldier merciful relief and pulled the trigger on his head.

The large caliber rifle rounds destroyed the brain and cerebellum directly, causing the other to lose his life before he could feel the pain, and freeing him from the torture of parasitism.

With a single shot, the soldier whose head was blown off was unable to stand up even if his body convulsed, the parasitic roots alone were completely irreparable after the loss of the brain.

But the act of an Imperial veteran decisively shooting his comrade was hard for those new recruits to accept.

“If I’m parasitized, shoot me in the head, be decisive, don’t shake your hand, aim here.” The veteran pulled the bolt once, then pointed to the center of his eyebrow and said flatly to the surrounding recruits.

This look of looking down on life and death made the new recruits worship their hearts, and at the same time, they didn’t have the mind of a rabbit dying, because it was fair, no one was being special, and on the battlefield this was enough.

Now the recruits had realized that there was no way back for them at all, they had no choice but to die fighting.

(End of chapter)