Rebirth: Leading Families to Survive in the Apocalypse novel Chapter 258

Chapter 258: Chapter 258 Si Tian Ruyue

At dawn, after a heavy rain, North Mountain looked even more luxuriously green.

However, the rain didn’t make the air feel fresher for Si Tian and Zhong Ruyue; instead, there was an omnipresent scent of rust.

Zhong Ruyue’s belly had grown bigger by the day, and Si Tian would go up the mountain daily to pick fresh fruits for her, believing that these purely natural fruits would contain abundant vitamins and could make up for the lack of vegetables in her diet.

When he was about to leave, he noticed that the sedum plants outside the stone house had grown much larger, transforming from the size of a palm-sized potted plant to the size of a full-grown cabbage?!

The previously delicate and tender tendrils had also become much fatter. Si Tian squatted down and observed them for a while, remembering what the hunters who came to the mountain had said, he decided to uproot these plants when he returned today. They had grown so much overnight, and they looked quite unsettling. Although the plants inside the house were still relatively small, if they too grew larger, they might even affect the indoor air quality.

After greeting Ruyue, Si Tian headed down the mountain.

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The mountain path was difficult to navigate after the rain. The two had already made a frequently traveled path for descending the mountain. Si Tian intended to follow that path, but to his surprise, he found that the path was gone!

No, it wasn’t that the path was gone, but the narrow earthen trail they had made was now completely covered with densely packed plants.

It hadn’t been like this when he went down the mountain yesterday. How could so many leaves have sprouted after just one rain—and in a single night at that?

Luckily, he was wearing a set of waterproof gear today, so he wasn’t worried even if the leaves were wet and dripping with water. He pushed aside one plant after another, heading towards the forest where the fruit trees were.

As he walked, Si Tian began to feel that something was amiss. The routes he had become familiar with were gradually becoming unrecognizable, and the plants and trees he knew had also changed compared to the previous day.

Especially the bracken, which was the most common fern on the mountain before. Most of them were under one meter tall, but now many had grown as tall as small trees!

The edges of these plants had some irregular lacerations before, but they weren’t enough to cut the skin. However, now those parts had turned into dark-green spikes.

Si Tian touched one with his hand, and it pierced his finger, drawing blood!

What on earth was happening?

Driven by intense curiosity, he continued walking and observing. Although there were countless species of plants on North Mountain, and he had always been confident in recognizing almost all of them, he was now feeling lost. Were these really the same plants he knew before?

Finally, he reached the area with the fruit-bearing trees. Thankfully, these trees didn’t seem to have changed much, and the fruits hanging from them were as delightful as ever.

He picked up the homemade bamboo pruning pole he had left there for convenience, as he used it every time he went down to pick fruit, and no one else would take it anyway.

The bamboo pruning pole successfully snipped off a branch full of fruit. Just as he bent down to pick up the branch, he felt a sudden pain on his back and then saw a fruit roll to a stop beside him.

He sighed with relief; it turned out a fruit had fallen from the tree and hit him, but such a small fruit could still hurt quite a bit when it fell.

As the second and third fruits started falling and hitting him, he realized something was not right. He noticed that the fruits seemed to target wherever he went. It wasn’t until he stepped back a few meters, out of the tree’s range, that the falling fruits stopped. As soon as he took a step forward, the fruit attacks resumed.

This made him laugh a little. Could it be that the tree had become sentient?

Sentient, sentient?

He repeated the word to himself a few times, and suddenly it was as if he had remembered something—he started running back in the direction he had come from like mad!