The search lasted for three days. By noon of the fourth day after entering the greenhouse, no one had found any trace of the woman in sportswear, let alone snatch the number tag.
There was still half of the time left before the end of the maturation stage. However, when everyone gathered together, Lin Sanjiu could already feel the tension in the air. The most restless cluster was, of course, cluster 4.
Just in case, from that day onwards, the members of Group Five had been sitting near the edge of the leaf, facing Group Four. This way, they would be able to monitor Group Four's every move.
"I still don't understand how maintaining this situation benefits that person." Number 46 sighed in distress. His eyebrows furrowed together under his fringe. "… We pushed the fourth group to the last place, but we still can't find the sportswear. This means that the traitor isn't in the fourth group."
Lin Sanjiu could only look at the people from cluster 2 and 3. When Lin Sanjiu thought of this, she slowly swept her gaze across them.
Other than the lanky man and the girl with glasses, the remaining two people in the third group were a brawny man with a warm-hearted personality. The other was a young girl who looked no older than 16 even though she had been through two apocalyptic worlds.
The second group had the largest number of people. It had been a few days, but Lin Sanjiu couldn't remember their names. She only knew that aside from the three people she had met before, there were a pair of fraternal twins, an elementary school teacher who seemed to want to educate others, and a young girl who still wore thick black eyeliner even though she was in the pocket dimension.
To be honest, no matter who it was, Lin Sanjiu didn't feel like a traitor.
While she was lost in thought, the bald man clapped his hands twice, which drew her attention back. Not only her, but everyone on the leaf also looked at the bald man in the center.
"Everyone, listen to me." Seeing that everyone had gradually quietened down, he rubbed his shiny scalp. Raising his voice, he said, "… Just now, Team Five and I discussed a plan. I think it's pretty good. You guys should listen to it. We'll start in a while. "
Lin Sanjiu shot a glance at Number 46, who was standing beside her. The latter rested his chin on one hand and looked at Baldhead expressionlessly, as if he wasn't the one who came up with the idea.
For this moment, Baldy came prepared. He took out a few crumpled pieces of paper from his backpack and pieced them together. After calling everyone over, he took out a pen and passed it to Number 46. "Brother, you do it," he said.
"… Here's the plan. We'll split up and look for the first group. Although we didn't find them after a few days, we've almost cleared out the greenhouse. So this big brother told me that we can draw a rough map of the entire greenhouse, divide it into areas, and search one area by one. "
While Baldhead was talking, Number 46's hand had already formed a bird's-eye view of the greenhouse. Lin Sanjiu looked at it carefully. When she compared the map with the places she had been to, she realized that the map was quite accurate. She wondered when Number 46 had scouted out the topography of the greenhouse.
"For example, this area is the first area," Baldhead said as he drew a circle on the paper, "… All of us will search in the first area. After all, it's quite a big area. However, that's not the most important thing. The most important thing is that we have to destroy every area after we've searched. "
"Destroy? Destroy?" someone repeated in shock.
"If you've searched all the leaves, you have to cut them off. If you've searched all the plants, you have to chop off the plants," Number 46 said coldly without raising his head, "You have to let us pass through the area. There's only a piece of bare land, there's no place to hide. "
"Yeah, you're right. Brother, you're clearer than me. In short, after we chop off the plants, we'll come back through the second area. If we chop off all the plants, we'll walk back through the flower pots. "
"Can Harry do that?"
Number 46 looked up at Lin Sanjiu when he heard that. Then, he turned to the person who questioned him and smiled, "Of course, she did that before."
Lin Sanjiu nodded at the group. The faces of the people from cluster 4 instantly darkened when they thought of that.
"What about the indigo flowers?" the elementary school teacher with a low ponytail asked.
"Flowers grow in the soil," Baldhead explained. Baldy, who was in the same group as her, explained, "… Even if the plants are cut down, the growth of the flowers will not be affected."
When the group heard that, they nodded as if they were relieved. Now that all the groups were working together, it didn't really matter if they had the indigo flowers or not. As a matter of fact, if someone had a purple flower with them, it would make the others feel uneasy. Therefore, whenever everyone gathered together, the purple flower of each group would be placed on another leaf at the bottom of the meeting point.
That leaf was very close to the gathering point. If someone approached from afar, they would immediately be in everyone's line of sight. From a certain perspective, this was also a trap to lure the woman in sportswear out.
Not long after they finished their discussion, the topographic map of the greenhouse was completed.
As previously agreed, the greenhouse was divided into ten sections. With the ability and number of posthumans, it wasn't difficult to raze the entire greenhouse to the ground before the tenth day.
This time, other than Lin Sanjiu, whose wounds had just formed scabs, Sunny from cluster 2 and the young kid from cluster 3 were left behind. The person from cluster 4 was no longer the bulge-eyed man with the wound. Instead, it was a middle-aged man with a somewhat familiar face.
Lin Sanjiu thought for a moment and realized that he was the only person who escaped with the help of the [Extendable Rope] when she cut off the leaf.
The four of them sat for a while. Very soon, a loud rumbling sound came from the other end of the greenhouse. As the posthumans cast all kinds of spells, the huge green plants shook violently amidst the fire, smoke, and explosions. One by one, the plants fell to the ground and fell into the endless darkness of the greenhouse, one after another, as if they were wailing in pain.
None of them expected that the speed of clearing a section was much faster than they had expected.
If this continued, it wouldn't take more than two hours for the first section to be completely cleared. Not long after the operation began, Harry began to sigh anxiously. He kept saying, "Please stop!" and "Please," but to be honest, his pleas were strangely satisfying. Instead, it made the posthumans' speed of clearing the plants even faster.
The four people who remained on the leaf at the rendezvous point became more cheerful as Harry sobbed. Lin Sanjiu looked at the fallen plants in the distance for a while before she turned to the man from cluster 4 and laughed, "It seems like we have cleared two to three zones today. There's no problem at all. "
The man, whose hairline was starting to recede, didn't expect Lin Sanjiu to suddenly talk to him. "Ah," he replied.
"Where did you get the [Extendable Rope] from?" Lin Sanjiu asked with interest, "It's really convenient and useful. You guys even found so many of them."
"Ah," the man replied again. After a few seconds, he replied, "It's from Li — Oh, the guy in the singlet gave it to me. I don't know where he got it."
Lin Sanjiu nodded noncommittally. Then, she sat up straight and pointed at the control valve on her waist. "What's this button for? I don't think it's very sensitive. Can you show it to me? "
"Ah?" The man was taken aback. He didn't expect Lin Sanjiu to make such a request. He moved his body away from her unwillingly, "I gave my rope to another member. After all, they might need it when they go out. Didn't you snatch a few of them? Why don't you compare them yourself? "
His tone was filled with resentment and indignation. Lin Sanjiu looked at him but didn't say anything. She changed the [Extendable Rope] on her waist to another one.
Lin Sanjiu looked at him but did not say anything. She just followed his instructions and changed the [Extendable Rope] around her waist.
"Why don't you let us have a look?" the girl sitting opposite Lin Sanjiu suddenly said with a smile. Both she and Sunny seemed to be interested in the rope. They walked a few steps closer to Lin Sanjiu and knelt on the leaf. Then, they looked at Lin Sanjiu's waist, "I have never seen such a device before. It's really —"
Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation Before Sunny could finish her sentence, a shadow loomed over them. When she heard the familiar whirring sound of the wheels, she immediately realized what was going on. When the shadow swooped down on them, Lin Sanjiu also leaped into the air.
Lin Sanjiu had to admit that the woman in sportswear had quick reflexes. Even though she was suspended in midair, she still managed to twist her body. Lin Sanjiu missed her target. Before Lin Sanjiu could land on the ground, she swiped her hand on the rope. The [Extendable Rope] instantly split into two halves. The woman in sportswear fell on the leaf. She landed right next to the middle-aged man.
The middle-aged man was startled. He turned around and tried to run. The woman in sportswear followed closely behind him. Lin Sanjiu followed closely behind her. If they were to compete in speed, none of the people present could match Lin Sanjiu, even if she was injured. Sure enough, in the blink of an eye, Lin Sanjiu had already closed in on the woman in sportswear. She had already approached the woman in sportswear and was about to reach out and pin her down.
However, at this moment, the woman in sportswear's right arm broke again. It fell from her shoulder. However, this time, the arm did not fall to the ground. Instead, it flew straight toward the young woman. When Lin Sanjiu's hand landed on the woman's neck, the young woman was thrown to the ground by the broken arm. The stack of number tags in the young woman's hand fell to the ground. All of them were swept away by the broken arm.
Everything happened in a short span of two seconds. Sunny was still in a daze. Lin Sanjiu was shocked. She exerted more strength in her hand and smashed the woman into the leaf. However, in the next second, Lin Sanjiu was flung backward by a strange force.
Harry said listlessly, "… You can't use force."
Even though she was only stopped for a short moment, it was enough for the woman in sportswear to escape. She leaped down from the leaf and disappeared into the green leaves. When Lin Sanjiu turned around, the arm was gone as well.
"Damn it!" Lin Sanjiu cursed. She turned around and glared at the middle-aged man, her eyes almost spitting fire. Just as she strode toward the man, the man seemed to realize that he was going to be in trouble. He shouted in a panic, "Don't hit me! That rope was given to her before we joined this project! "
Lin Sanjiu was taken aback. She narrowed her eyes.
"It's true, believe me. At that time, we wanted to kill that guy with the surname Li, but the two purple flowers were with him … He was wary of us and kept the flowers in his necklace. He didn't even want to let us see them." The middle-aged man was sweating profusely, "Then, we met the woman from cluster 1. She said that she could trade the indigo flowers for the rope … So, we did."
"So, you guys knew where she was all along?" Lin Sanjiu asked coldly.
"Of course not!" The middle-aged man explained, "We want to catch her more than anyone else. So, we went to the place where we met her last time. But, we didn't see that woman again. I swear."
It took Lin Sanjiu a lot of effort to restrain herself from kicking him to vent her anger. Sighing, she turned around and sat back on her seat.
The members sent out by the various teams had all returned by nightfall. Initially, they were happy that they had cleared two zones in one go. However, when they heard that the woman in sportswear had taken advantage of the situation, their expressions turned sour.
"Anyway, that's what happened," Lin Sanjiu sighed. Lin Sanjiu sighed as she explained, "We have checked. Other than cluster 3, all the other clusters have lost their number tags. Cluster 2 lost two, cluster 4 lost one, and cluster 5 lost one."
Among the people who lost their number tags, Number 45 was the only one who could rely on human flesh to recover her stamina. Hence, she looked the most relaxed. Baldhead was different when he found out that his number tag had been snatched. He was so angry that his face turned red. He cursed cluster 4 for 10 minutes before he was finally persuaded by Sunny to go back.
Even though Lin Sanjiu had snatched a number tag from the woman's neck, to be honest, she didn't expect that it was her own number tag. If Number 46 didn't urge her, she wouldn't even have the interest to ask Harry about it.
However, Harry's answer surprised everyone, "Currently, cluster 1's average absorption rate is 0. They are ranked last."
Lin Sanjiu blinked blankly. Amidst the cheers from the crowd, she looked at Number 46.
It had been half a day since the woman in sportswear escaped. Logically speaking, she should have changed her number tag by now. However, cluster 1's absorption rate was still 0.
Could it be that the number tag in my hand really belongs to her? (To be continued.)
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