When the duo entered the shelter, it was as if there was a botanical garden in front of them.Shelters in this city were usually built in an unused metro stations that is next to the sewers.Instead of seeing collapsed cardboard tents in front of him as he expected, Strath saw a lot of shredded lab equipment and plants sprouting between them.

“These guys were hope of this fucking city,you know? It was the only place in the city that provided health care to the wandering people.Then all of a sudden,not a single news was heard from here anymore. It was thought to have been destroyed by a large monster horde. And because of the danger that monster horde caused, no one wanted to approach here. But I always had a feeling that the monster horde wasn't the cause.” Century girl said while searching around.

“Maybe it was cause of a mutated plant? like the one we saw at the entrance?” Strath guessed.

“We will learn why soon.” Century girl started to walk towards upstairs,she had a nostalgic expression on her face.

The upper floor of Shetler consisted of various rooms. They were probably used as warehouses before. But after the apocalypse, the doors in front of the rooms were long gone.When they came to a certain room, they saw that the entrance was covered with green ivy.When Strath smashed the vines with his claws, they saw a large plant in front of them in the middle of the room.The plant was buried in green toxic water on the ground. Its upper trunk was 3 meters high, touching the ceiling, it had 15 thick branches.When the two entered the room, the plant twitched as if it had a consciousness. It moved one of its thick branches towards the pair, and a woman was stuck at the end of its branch,fully naked.The woman was too malnourished. Duo could count her ribs from looking at her from far away.When Century girl saw the woman, fury appeared on her face.

“Strat, kill that thing!” She yelled.

He was startled by the rage of Century girl showed.Strath was never one to make hasty decisions.When he turned his head again to examine the plant, the hanging woman at the end of the branch suddenly began to speak.

“G…Gree…tings….”

He was amazed again.He was kinda expecting something like that when the plant moved its branch, but this kind of thing was the first time he actually saw in real life.

The plant started to talk again,this time it spoke more fluently.

“Why did you come here strangers and why did you kill my child back there?”

“It is trying to scare us, Strath. don't be fooled by its tricks. What did you to the people who lived in shelter you fucking bastard?” Century girl yelled.

“They persecuted me for decades. Is it my fault to save my own life?” The plant refuted.

Century girl was trying hard to contain her anger.

“The woman who you used to talk with us…She was my friend,you know...lf a fuking plant can go to hell,I wish you burn in hell.”

The Century girl went berserk and took a bottle of liquid from her bag While Strath was trying to grasp what the girl was trying to do, she suddenly threw the bottle into the plant.

*boom*

It was an explosive liquid,very flammable.In a second the whole place became a living hell.The woman at the end of the rope started to scream,She was probably still connected to a psychic link with the plant. After the plant’s scream a lot of plant type zombies start to burst out of other storage rooms and ran towards the main room.Strath was stunned at unexpected turn events. But when he saw the plant zombies coming from the opposite side of the room, he counterattacked, stretching out his arms for 2 meters and pulled out sharp-tooth-like bones around his arms, he swung his arms at the incoming plant zombies.With the power of physical transformation, he began to smash the plant zombies into pieces.Just then, he heard Century girl’s scream.The big plant caught Century girl with its a few surviving arms and began to squeeze her tightly.The plant also released a green gas into the room.When Strath tried to breathe, the gas burned his lungs.Thinking that his situation,he thought Century girl was probably fighting for her life now.After last sweep attack at the plan type zombies ,He attacked the remaining branches of the big plant.It was after all already had regained its intelligence so even if it was dying the big plant was determined to take the girl to the grave with it.The plant moved its branches as fast as to run away his attack so he couldn't get clear hit on them.

While Strath was contemplating what he could do in a crisis, he suddenly focused on the lump under the trunk of the plant. His all-clear eye showed him that the lump at the root of the plant contained a very powerful life force.The so-called magical rinse fluid maybe? From looked of things only way to stop plant was going for its life force.

Without further thought, he dived into the green toxic water and began swimming towards the root of the plant.The green toxic water was burning his eyes and skin, just like the gas the plant released.But that kind of pain wasn't such a big deal to Strath anymore. He tried something new for the first time.After getting to the root of the plant,he transformed his mouth, this time along with both his arms.His giant mouth that is filled with gigantic incisors, took one big bite.

*crunch*

A violent tremor came from the body of the big plant.Now it went berserk too.Throwing Century girl aside, the plant attacked Strath with all its surviving branches.With every attack of plant’s branches,deep cuts formed on Strath's body, but he continued to eat the root of that plant.The life force from the plant's tuber spread throughout Strath's body. With each bite he took, his entire body was filled with life. As the plant butchered his body, new energy pathways were opened in his body with his new regenerated tissues. In a way, the plant was helping in Strah unintentionally. New gray lines began to form in Strath's transparent energy core. 6 gray lines....7 gray lines....it stopped at 8 gray line. At the same time, the energy pathways in Strath's entire body were completely opened.

When he lifted his head, he realized that the plant was no longer moving. Using the all-clear eye, Strath instantly found Century girl.After grabbing her,he started to flee from the destroyed shelter with the girl in his arms. When the remaining plant type zombies lost their connection with their main host, they went into an inactive vegatetive state.

Dark filthy sewer,dirty greenish toxic water splattered around him as Strath ran fast, but he didn't care.Nearly all the ribs of Century girl were broken. Her entire skin was sore from the green poison gas. But she was still breathing.The more he looked at Century Girl, the more he realized how important having regenerative powers was for living in the post-apocalyptic world.Now all he had to do was take the century girl to the shelter quickly. If there was someone who could save the girl's life, he could only find them in the shelter.He owed that much to Century girl, and he always paid his debt.