CHAPTER 554: 458, STARTING TODAY, LITTLE SISTER, YOU NEED TO CONTROL YOUR PLANTS AND FLOWERS.

Qin Jianqiang gave an "Oh" and turned around to continue playing soccer, and his playmates on the court also noticed the commotion.

It was because those older boys were shouting so loudly, but Qin Jianqiang stopped them,

"Boss Gong said not to interfere; as long as there’s no blood, it’s fine."

When the bell rang for class, Hua Xiuning stood up from the ground, dusting the dirt off her skirt. She gathered her messy hair and, holding a torn hair elastic, found Boss Gong, who was hugging a soccer ball and running towards the school building,

"Brother, braid my hair."

The little girl reached out her hand and blinked her pitiful, innocent big eyes, looking at her brother.

Not far from her, the older boys who had just bullied her were lying on the ground, and it was unclear if they were dead or alive.

Boss Gong glanced at the older boys; they were obscured by a clump of lush trees, revealing only a few feet.

He didn’t speak but pulled Hua Xiuning aside to straighten and braid her messy hair, then took her hand and ran toward the classroom.

Soon, the incident of the children bleeding excessively caught the attention of the school officials.

When Hua Mi came to pick up her brother and sister, she saw Qin Zhen leading a group of managerial secretaries into the school.

She didn’t know what had happened and hurriedly went up to ask.

"There are mutant plants in the school," Shi Caixia whispered.

Hua Mi’s frown deepened as she turned and hurried toward her brother’s and sister’s office, while Qin Zhen, also worried, left the group of managers and rushed to his son’s classroom.

Ahead, Hua Mi said, "If mutant plants can appear on the surface, the roots underground must have mutated too."

They still didn’t know how severe the problem was—why were there mutant plants in Xiang City Base?

There had been no prior warning at all.

If mutant plants could appear in such a safe place as Xiang City Base, one could only imagine how rampant they were outside.

Just as Hua Mi and Qin Zhen reached their children’s classroom, Boss Gong was standing there, holding Hua Xiuning’s hand with a group of younger boys around him, obediently waiting for their parents.

Hua Mi immediately instructed Boss Gong, "I’ve already informed your dad. Take your brothers and sister and hurry out of the school; we can’t stay here."

Boss Gong nodded and followed his mother’s instructions. Hua Mi turned and walked toward the flowerbed where the attack had occurred.

Qin Zhen followed closely behind. Despite her fear, she felt somewhat reassured behind Hua Mi.

"Everyone near the school must be evacuated quickly. Have the children not been evacuated yet? Search everyone currently in the school, especially the children who commute to and from Xiang City Base daily, to see if they’re hiding any seeds of mutant plants. Then have their parents take them home."

"Otherwise, if something happens in the school, we can’t take the responsibility."

Qin Zhen nodded and followed Hua Mi, calling and instructing the management to immediately evacuate the survivors near the school.

Hua Mi had inspected the area where the children were attacked, "Strange, these plants are just normal, not mutants."

Hua Mi pointed to some dark red vines on the ground, if they were mutant plants, they would have attacked her as she passed by.

It was known that compared to animals and zombies, plants were more insidious in spreading, even in the eyes of mutant plants, everything was their soil.

They could continuously absorb nutrients day and night, strengthening themselves, whether it was animals, humans, or dirt, there was no difference to mutant plants.

This was what truly made mutant plants terrifying.

They might not be hard to kill, but they were impossibly unpredictable for survivors, and no one knew if their own garden might produce mutants one day.

Hua Mi returned home with a headache, looking at the unusually robust plants in her garden.

As Qin Zhen was busy, Qin Jianqiang had also gone back with Boss Gong, now her brother, sister, and Qin Jianqiang were playing cat and mouse in the garden.

Hua Mi, massaging her forehead, went upstairs and called Qin Zhen to inquire about the children at school and whether they had pockets full of mutant plant seeds.

Qin Zhen replied angrily, "There were no seeds of mutant plants found, but it’s getting chaotic here. The parents outside don’t want to take their children back, they barely managed to get their children into the Xiang City Base, why would they let them suffer again?"

Before he had finished speaking, Hua Mi heard intermittent noises and loud shouting coming through from Qin Zhen’s side.

She knew that Qin Zhen might not be able to handle the situation, so she grabbed her long knife and headed downstairs.

Just as she reached the ground floor, her brother ran up to her, his beautiful face beaming,

"Mom, what will happen to the child who brought mutant plant seeds into the school if they catch them?"

Without thinking, Hua Mi scoffed coldly to scare the child, "Obviously, they’ll be hung up and beaten to death."

Boss Gong’s face turned pale in an instant, but Hua Mi just carelessly ruffled Boss Gong’s hair,

"Take good care of your sister at home, don’t run around everywhere. It’s a mess in the Xiang City Base right now, be careful."

"Also, when your dad comes back later, have him dig up all the plants in the yard. If they mutate, we could become their nutrients while we sleep and not even know it."

Boss Gong hesitated for a while before nodding, he waited until Hua Mi’s figure had left the villa, then quietly pulled Hua Xiuning’s hand, with Qin Jianqiang following, the three children hid in the closet to discuss.

"This seems to be a big issue, Mom won’t allow your plants to move around, starting today you have to control your plants,"

Hua Xiuning blinked her moist eyes, unable to hold back tears that dripped down.

Next to her, Qin Jianqiang patted his sister’s back, "It’s okay, we just can’t let the plants inside Xiang City Base move around, but if we leave the base in the future, we can let the plants outside move, right?"

"Don’t cry now, be good."

Qin Jianqiang comforted Hua Xiuning like an adult, while Boss Gong seriously said with a stern face,

"I’m not joking, if Mom finds out that your plants can move, she said she would hang you up and beat you to death."