The apocalypse struck, and I became a druid.

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Han Ning and Xue Bing, each with a lizard, quickly pulled away and decisively retreated.

Han Ning only breathed a slight sigh of relief when he had gotten much further away from the monster and could no longer hear its roars behind him.

He didn't really want to experience that constant tightening of his scalp again.

To prevent them from escaping, or rather, their scent was still being tracked by the black snake.

Han Ning deliberately drove around a place far away from Biyun Resort a few times, waiting for a while.

After confirming that no monsters were chasing them, they returned to Biyun Resort.

When we returned to Biyun Resort, it was completely dark.

"Wipe, rub, rub~"

Before I even reached my suite, I could hear the sound of stir-frying.

A delicious aroma of food wafted over.

"Dad, when is Uncle Han coming back?"

"Almost there, Yinyin. If you're hungry, you can drink some milk first."

"...Yinyin isn't hungry. She'll eat when Uncle Han comes back."

"..."

Hearing the little girl's longing voice, Han Ning couldn't help but smile and pushed the door open to enter.

Inside, a low-wattage energy-saving light bulb barely illuminated the dining area.

Professor Ye, Xu Yinyin, and Yu Na sat around the table.

On the table were a small dish of stir-fried cured pork, dry pot hot pot meatballs, and two opened jars of mushroom and meat sauce.

Xu Ming stood in front of an electric wok not far away, excitedly stir-frying a plate of shredded potatoes.

The aroma of dried chili peppers mixed with potatoes filled the entire room.

"Uncle Han, Xuebing! You're back!" Xu Yinyin exclaimed in surprise when she saw Han Ning and Xuebing walk into the house.

"Yinyin, are you hungry? Let's eat."

Han Ning patted the little girl's head, signaling everyone not to wait any longer.

At this moment, Xu Ming walked over carrying a plate of yellowish-brown stir-fried shredded potatoes with vinegar.

"Dinner's ready! Dinner's ready!"

Han Ning knew that if he didn't eat, his team members wouldn't eat either.

So he first served himself a bowl of rice, picked up a piece of shredded potato and began to eat heartily.

Xu Ming wasn't bragging.

He's really good at cooking.

The shredded potatoes were sour and spicy, and very refreshing.

It's worth mentioning that the potatoes used for stir-frying are a mutated variety of yellow jade potato.

We've been eating these potatoes for two days now.

Xu Ming and his daughter, along with Professor Ye, all ordinary people, have experienced a significant improvement in their physical fitness.

"I have something to tell you all."

Halfway through the meal, Han Ning suddenly spoke up.

"Go ahead." Everyone stopped eating, their expressions instinctively turning serious.

"Ahem, it's nothing serious, don't look at me like that."

Han Ning waved his hand and said,

"Professor Ye, Xu Ming, you've been eating yellow jade potatoes for two days now, and your physical condition has improved a lot. Now that you have guns again... Tomorrow I'd like to find some time to take you out into the wild to try hunting monsters and see if you can get any energy."

Han Ning has been trying to find a solution regarding the capabilities of his team members.

Professor Ye and Xu Ming are ordinary people. According to other awakened individuals, even hunting the weakest crocodile lizard would not yield any energy.

They've been eating potatoes for two days now, and Xu Ming, in particular, is in much better physical condition than the average person.

In addition to the firearms he had seized from Lei Gang and his group of invaders, he decided to try them out himself.

Otherwise, they will always remain ordinary people and gradually fall behind his pace.

"So that's what happened..." Professor Ye and Xu Ming breathed a sigh of relief upon hearing this.

"We've never faced a monster alone before, could there be a problem?" Professor Ye asked nervously.

"Don't worry, I'll be watching over you, nothing will go wrong."

"Good boss."

Xu Ming, on the other hand, remained relatively calm, after all, he and his companions had faced groups of lizards before.

"Dad, Uncle Han, Yinyin wants to go kill monsters too!"

Xu Yinyin, who had been burying her head in her rice, suddenly looked up when she heard that they were going out to kill monsters, her eyes sparkling.

A few grains of rice were still stuck to her rosy cheeks.

"Cough cough cough..." Yu Na couldn't hold it in and almost spat out the food in her mouth.

"Don't talk nonsense. You're just a little kid. What kind of monsters can you kill?" Xu Ming's face changed when he heard that his daughter was going too.

"Yinyin is still young. When Yinyin grows up a bit more, Uncle will take you to kill monsters again." Han Ning laughed.

"...Yinyin is also very capable..." Xu Yinyin sighed in disappointment.

Everyone laughed at Xu Yinyin's serious expression.

The little girl is actually very obedient; she listens to everything they say.

For a moment, the dinner table was filled with a cheerful atmosphere.

"Boss, I've made some progress in my research on that seaweed fruit..." Professor Ye followed up after Han Ning finished speaking.

"Let's eat first, and talk about it afterwards."

……

After the meal, Han Ning and Professor Ye went to the makeshift workbench.

A rechargeable desk lamp emitted a soft white light, illuminating the workbench.

Professor Ye carefully opened a transparent petri dish and used tweezers to pick up a small piece of dark green seaweed tissue that was as thin as a cicada's wing and had slightly curled edges.

Under the light, the seaweed appeared translucent, with fine, net-like veins faintly visible inside, and emitted a faint fishy smell.

"The seaweed that was wrapped around the staff was actually an accessory tissue that grew from the top of this fruit."

Professor Ye gently placed the seaweed tablet on a tissue.

"Based on my initial observations and simple experiments, this seaweed... has a very significant effect on purifying turbid sewage!"

"Purify sewage?" Han Ning's expression shifted upon hearing this. "Isn't this a fruit affected by the Black Tide? It can purify water?"

Professor Ye shook his head, his expression turning serious:

"That's the strangest part."

"I suspect that this fruit itself may not be a product of the Kuroshio Current, but rather a kind of aquatic supernatural plant native to this world!"

"They even repel the influence of the Kuroshio Current."

He took the fruit out of the acrylic box.

Han Ning noticed that the water, which was originally slightly murky, had now become very transparent, with a layer of silt accumulated at the bottom.

The fruit is about the size of an apple, shaped like a plump oval sphere, dark green all over, with a surface covered with fine net-like patterns like a cantaloupe. At the top are several withered short stems, which are where the seaweed had previously attached.

"Those fish-men are very likely native to this world."

"They were affected by the arrival of the Black Tide and became bloodthirsty and crazy. Of course, it cannot be ruled out that they were originally like this."

"Boss, try to inject some energy into it, without using any skills, just the purest energy."

Han Ning nodded, extended his index finger, and a wisp of gentle emerald green energy gathered at his fingertip.

He carefully touched the surface of the fruit with his fingertips.

At the very moment that natural energy comes into contact with the fruit.

The dark green fruit trembled suddenly.

The withered stem at the top swayed slightly.

Then, an amazing scene happened.

Chapter 93 Ask Nature

Countless fine, hair-like seaweed-like roots sprouted wildly from the broken ends of the withered stem at the top of the fruit.

They multiply at a rate visible to the naked eye.

In the blink of an eye, dense, dark green seaweed covered the ground within a meter's radius around the workbench, forming a thick algae blanket.

The entire area was filled with a damp atmosphere.

Upon seeing this scene, Han Ning immediately recalled the battle he had fought with the merman leader.

The opponent also swung their staff, launching seaweed that resembled a fishing net.

It's just unclear how it controls the seaweed to actively shoot it at others.

"it is as expected."

Professor Ye looked at the rapidly growing seaweed in front of him and nodded slightly.

"My previous guess was correct!"

"This fruit...it is very likely not simply purifying sewage."

He pointed to the dark green algae blanket.