Rise of the Phoenix - Apocalypse Rebirth

Chapter 29 - Energy Cave

May 18, 3031 - Country C, City H

The little fluff ball got very excited, seeing all the white stones similar to the one that Art bought earlier in the market. But this time, there were thousands of them under the large clear lake. It quickly started collecting them into the space.

Little Eros: Master, I have collected all the stones and the water here. It will take 1 day for me to absorb all of the stones to upgrade. Unfortunately, during this time you cannot access the G Space.

Aria: That's okay. Take your time. 

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Aria: S3, were there anything on Edward's records regarding energy stones?

S3: No.

Aria: How about anything regarding this location besides the Xing Plant?

S3: No.

Aria: How about any phenomenon that occurred in these woods after the ZA?

S3: Yes. There were large amounts of plant mutation happening in this forest, giving birth to over 2 dozen zombie plants exceeding level 8, and hundreds above level 3.

Not only did the Z virus mutated people, it mutated animals and plants too.

Z virus effect on plants:
1. Normal plants
2. Zombified carnivorous plants
3. Spirit mutation

Z virus effect on animals:
1. Normal animals
2. Zombified animals
3. Spirit mutation

Spirit mutation basically means the same as having awareness and abilities. Though they cannot be as smart as humans but the plants or animals are aware of the situation and can inspire abilities intuitively to fight and hunt.

Aria: S3, S4, and Art. You guys are smart. Based on S3's historical archive, run a few analysis of how this cave affects the park outside.

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Aria obviously already deduced that this energy source fed the plants above the cave or down into the river. If this cave's water or stones are responsible for creating the Xing Plants, then it just makes sense that there would be more mysterious plants that came from this source that no one knew about.

As for why this magical cave was never found? It's because no human can access it.

Thinking about all the dangerous nature encounters she had experienced or heard of in the previous life, she suspected that those places originally have these types of energy sources. Until the ZA happened, the sources surely got contaminated by the Z virus which mutated the already zombified plants around the mountains.

So does that mean the other well known places will also have these types of energy source?

If that is the case, then she might need to put robbing the Tang's Pharmacies on the backburner and replace it with hunting down these energy sources all over the world.

Not only would the G Space be able to expand, which means ores can be grown for Art to create weapons and upgrades for the mech, but it would also prevent high leveled plant mutations in the future. Thousands of lives could be saved this way.

Aria never had any aspirations to save the world. In her first life, she had a hard enough time to survive by herself before being imprisoned. Killing the Zombie King was a serendipitous moment since she had nothing to lose.

But to save the world? To save everyone? To save every individual person who asks for help?

No.