After Lin Yun explained everything, Ivy said that it didn’t mind. As long as Lin Yun was willing to take it with her, it didn’t care when it was registered.

It had water, fertilizer, and companions to talk to here. It was already very satisfied.

Lin Yun moved Ivy back into the shelter. She felt that this was something that needed to be made clear. Since she had already promised to take Ivy with her, she had to make sure everyone was treated equally.

After tidying everything up, Lin Yun lay down and immediately went to sleep.

Although she had rested during the past two days, she had been in an unfamiliar place and hadn’t slept well at night. Now that she was back in a familiar environment, she fell asleep within two minutes of lying down.

It wasn’t until early morning that Lin Yun groggily opened her eyes.

She glanced at the time on the panel before turning over and closing her eyes again.

It wasn’t time to meet Lu Jingnian yet. She could sleep a little longer.

An hour later, Lin Yun woke up again. She slowly got out of bed, washed up, and headed down the mountain.

"Good morning."

Lu Jingnian looked up and saw Lin Yun riding over on a bicycle.

Lin Yun rode with one hand while eating an ear of corn with the other.

"Good morning."

"Let’s start after you finish eating."

"Okay."

Lin Yun took two more bites before casually putting the corn into a plastic bag and stuffing it into her backpack.

Lu Jingnian first taught her some simple movements so that she could get used to them before gradually teaching her more advanced techniques.

Over the following days, Lin Yun came down the mountain to their agreed-upon location every day to train with Lu Jingnian.

She could clearly feel that her strength had become much more stable and controlled.

The techniques Lu Jingnian taught her were all practical—fast, precise, and ruthless.

After all, this world was no longer peaceful, and there were far too many dangers lurking outside.

Lin Yun wasn’t picky. She learned whatever Lu Jingnian taught her, which was much better than trying to figure everything out on her own.

With only five days remaining, Lin Yun decided to stop training with Lu Jingnian.

She still hadn’t finished exploring the flower market, and she planned to finish that first.

"This corn..."

Lu Jingnian had never actually intended to take anything from Lin Yun, but the corn and tomatoes were simply too large. They looked fresh, sweet, and tempting, and he couldn’t help wondering where Lin Yun had gotten them.

"Take them."

Lin Yun looked at him.

"Did I really make you work this hard for nothing all these days? You did nothing but come here and teach me. And whenever you couldn’t come yourself, you still sent Xiao Fei and Li Ping over."

"I’ve prepared enough for both of them, so don’t worry. You can take these back."

Lin Yun pointed at the things on the table and handed the two smaller bags to Xiao Fei and Li Ping.

Since neither of them was here today, Lu Jingnian couldn’t refuse on their behalf.

He could refuse for himself, but he couldn’t make that decision for them.

"Then I’ll accept them. Thank you."

"No need. Think of it as my tuition fee."

Lin Yun waved her hand.

"That concludes today’s lesson. Thank you, Brother Lu! I’ll be going now!"

Lu Jingnian nodded and watched as Lin Yun rode away.

After leaving, Lin Yun rode her bicycle straight toward the flower market.

Mutants! I’m here to take you all home!

The mutated plants, still competing for sunlight, were completely unaware of what was coming. They continued swaying their leaves leisurely.

[I, Oni-ten, am back!]

As soon as the bicycle stopped, Ghost Vine jumped off the handlebars, rapidly grew to a gigantic size, and charged straight into the flower market.

It seemed determined to let every plant know that it had returned.

The effect was surprisingly impressive.

The surrounding plants immediately became much more obedient.

During this period, because Lin Yun had been busy training with Lu Jingnian, she had also spoken to Tuantuan again and asked it to either stay on the mountain or go play somewhere else.

She was worried that people in town might easily discover such a gigantic mutated tiger.

With Ghost Vine protecting her, Lin Yun could safely explore the areas it had cleared.

She first dealt with all the mutated plants she had previously encountered before moving toward the area behind the old Weeping Bottlebrush.

She hadn’t explored that area yet.

"Meow! Human! Human! Wait for the cat!"

The tabby cat hurriedly rushed in from outside.

This human was always running around everywhere. She had practically stripped the entire town bare.

"The big cat is here."

Lin Yun patted the tabby cat, which had suddenly stopped in front of her.

"Meow." Here I am! I was almost going crazy waiting for you!

"No rush, no rush."

Lin Yun continued walking forward, with the tabby cat following closely behind.

Ghost Vine had already run off the moment the tabby cat arrived. It wanted to have some fun and turn the flower market upside down.

Lin Yun didn’t bother stopping it.

Ghost Vine knew its limits. Once it had finished playing, it would come back on its own, so there was no need to worry about it getting lost.

Lin Yun therefore took the tabby cat and went from one place to another, searching for mutated plants.

Whenever she found one, she registered it in the Contract Directory, regardless of whether it was useful.

She would collect them first.

Who knew when one of them might come in handy?

[Again! Again! Hurry up! There’s a mutated plant over there, and it’s so fierce! Come help me beat it up!]

Ghost Vine suddenly rushed back.

Its vines were covered in scratches, and it looked extremely aggrieved.

That mutated plant had pulled its vines!

"...Let’s go take a look. We’ll pull out its hair too."

[Good!]

"Meow." Who had the nerve to pull your hair? That’s going too far!

After walking for a while, the shrunken Ghost Vine, which had climbed onto Lin Yun’s shoulder, suddenly stretched out a vine and pointed in a certain direction.

[That’s it!]

Mutated Plant: [...]

Is this vine crazy?

It calls for backup whenever it can’t win? How shameless!

[Leave me alone! I didn’t do anything to you! You’re the one who pulled my vines, so of course I called for backup!]

Mutated Plant: [...]

So annoying.

I really want to kill it. I should have done it earlier.

Lin Yun took another look.

It was a mutated rose that had grown all over a wall.

There were countless roses covering the vines, but upon closer inspection, the shapes of the flowers were slightly different from one another.

Just like the Hundred-Color Pepper, the flowers produced by this mutated rose seemed to have different characteristics.

Lin Yun inspected it.

[Mutant Plant: Rose]

[Grade: B-level Heterotrophic Plant]

[Characteristics: The King of Slacking Off — it loves doing absolutely nothing.]

[It is either already slacking off or preparing to slack off. No one can stop it. If anyone tries, it will go completely berserk.]

[Each flower seems to have a different function. Hmm... some of them appear to be edible?]

[Status: Hungry and dehydrated.]

After reading the detailed information, Lin Yun fell silent.

She was somewhat confused.

Is that really what it means?

"So why did you pull my little vine?"

Lin Yun asked directly.

The rose was somewhat surprised.

Is this human talking to me?

But what’s the point? Humans can’t understand what I say anyway.

So it ignored her.

[I’m asking you a question! Why did you pull me around?!]

Ghost Vine was extremely arrogant now that it had someone backing it up.

Lin Yun glanced helplessly at Ghost Vine.

This thing was clearly a higher grade than the mutated rose, yet somehow its vines had still been pulled off.

Wasn’t that ridiculous?

[What are you yelling about? I was just curious, so I pulled on it a little.]

[You were the one who started struggling, so don’t blame me.]

The rose explained helplessly.

It had simply never seen a plant that could move around on its own like Ghost Vine before.

It had been curious, so it had pulled Ghost Vine closer to take a look.

It hadn’t expected to accidentally tear off several of its vines.

Then Ghost Vine had suddenly run away.

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