The Interstellar's Expert Plant Tamer

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Xie Sen and Maine had been going around the 81st floor for a while, but they hadn’t found the entrance and exit, and Xie Sen couldn’t tell the difference between north and south. Maine’s footsteps stopped, and he pulled Xie Sen against the wall.

“We need to find a way to get out. What if the contract beast has gone crazy and needs more medicine? It’s clearly lying there like it’s dead! If you increase the dosage, you won’t need to auction it off at night!”

“There may be some kind of misunderstanding.” Another voice. “Captain Simeon is not someone who jokes around.”

“Well, who knows! Let’s go.” The sound of footsteps was fading away.

Xie Sen let his ebony ears fungi cover the nearby cameras and poked his head out to see that there was an elevator door in the middle of the aisle on Xie Sen’s right. Two people were just leaving from that spot. One of them was wearing a white doctor’s uniform and went down another aisle to his left a short distance ahead of them.

He retracted his head and pulled off the ebony ears. In this action he had become very skilled. Before he was exposed, he would cover the lens, and once he’d passed, he wouldn’t continue to block the camera to minimize the possibility of someone discovering the monitoring wasn’t right.

He moved towards Maine. “They just went to the 82nd floor.” With a twinkle in his eye, he asked, “Can you knock him out immediately if I get him over here?”

Maine nodded, “Yes.”

Xie Sen once again asked the ebony ears to cover the nearby cameras, summoned the watermelon vine and potato, and gave the commands. The next moment, the white man’s waist was suddenly wrapped up in the watermelon vine, followed by a strong force that dragged him backward. He opened his mouth wide to scream, but before he could make a sound, a potato was stuffed into his mouth, just in time to gag him.

The watermelon vine dragged him fast as a gust of wind to Maine. Maine’s hand rose and fell, and the man passed out without ever clearly seeing the person, while Xie Sen withdrew the black fungus.

“Doctor?” The man with him shouted with a horrified expression.

Maine made an immediate decision. “Get that one over here too.”

Xie Sen repeated the commands, the terrified man soon accompanied the doctor, and both of them were laying on the ground.

Maine tied up the doctor, walked to the elevator, swiped the doctor’s bracelet and the elevator doors opened instantly.

In the blink of an eye the elevator stopped on the 82nd floor. Xie Sen skillfully gave the command to the ebony ears to block the cameras, while Maine strode swiftly out with him in his arms.

The two of them walked down the aisle where the elevator was located, then turned right. They were still walking when a muffled grunt, and the sound of something falling to the ground, suddenly came from behind them. Xie Sen quickly turned his head, and saw a security guard lying unconscious on the ground with a long triangular mark on his forehead, and a melon the size of a palm not far in front of him.

The sunflower came up to him. Its straight branches twisted into vertical waves, and at the same time, it sent Xie Sen happy and smug emotions.

He gently squeezed its petals and said in his mind, “That’s great, thanks.” The happy feeling deepened, and the sunflower instantly shrank back to the size of his finger, and stood on his left shoulder, while the flower faced his back.

Xie Sen felt instantly, and extraordinarily, relieved that he didn’t have to worry about anyone who might appear behind him.

Maine took a quick glance and knew what was going on, but given the particular location, he didn’t say anything, just squeezed Xie Sen’s hand. Xie Sen pointed forward. The warmth on his shoulder was growing hotter, which let him know that they were headed in the right direction, and were approaching Little Silver.