Chapter 347: New Threat

Seeing that the two cats were busy catching up and sharing their feelings, Joo Joowon did not disturb them. Instead, he took out the fruit tree and brought it over to Bomi.

"Bomi, look at this. Can you help take care of it?" Joo Joowon wondered whether Bomi should be able to take care of it now, since it had already taken care of the foxtail grass when he brought it over before.

Although, considering the level of the foxtail grass, it could live very well without needing any care at all.

Bomi moved its roots around. It did not say anything, but silently made some space for the fruit tree.

Joo Joowon quickly dug a hole and buried the fruit tree in it. Seeing that Songi had already bloomed, he asked Bomi, "By the way, has Gaemi pollinated you yet?"

Although they had agreed to let Gaemi go and pollinate them, Joo Joowon actually did not have much confidence in his heart. He had only thought of this idea because he had remembered the mushrooms cultivated by the ants he had seen beside the river before leaving the city and had gotten some ideas from them.

Although pollinating flowers and growing mushrooms were completely different things, what if it worked?

What if Gaemi had inherited some of the abilities possessed by the ants under her mother’s command and had some special ability specifically related to plants? If that were the case, perhaps the cacti produced through pollination might develop some kind of special ability.

Although the possibility of that happening was probably very small.

Joo Joowon remembered that mushrooms did not seem to be plants anyway.

In any case, if it did not work, he could always do it himself, so there was no harm in trying.

He still knew how to perform simple pollination.

If that really did not work, Joo Joowon remembered that cacti could also reproduce through cuttings and grafting. By then, there should always be one method that could succeed.

Bomi immediately sent Joo Joowon a feeling of happiness. There was no need to ask. It had obviously already been successfully pollinated and was now waiting for the fruit to grow.

"Good. Then take good care of yourself while you wait for the fruit to grow. If you need anything, just tell me."

Joo Joowon instinctively said this to Bomi, only realizing that something was wrong after he finished speaking.

There was absolutely no connection between a plant flowering and producing fruit and "taking care of yourself while pregnant."

However, the translator seemed to have translated his words into something Bomi could understand, so the other party did not raise any objections to what he had said. Its wriggling tendrils slowly withdrew into the soil, and it quietly basked in the sunlight.

Joo Joowon also went straight back into the house. He looked at the map, which had finally stopped being nothing but a mass of fog. Aside from the red mist he had encountered at the end, he was fairly satisfied with what he had gained today.

Perhaps it was precisely because the red mist existed that there were no other threats nearby. He only needed to focus on dealing with the red mist.

Therefore, his top priority right now was to prevent the number of red mist zombies from increasing any further. Ideally, he wanted to keep their numbers at the level they were now.

He and Byeol could take turns doing this job. It would also be a good opportunity for Byeol to use more of his skills and raise his level.

Moreover, Joo Joowon believed that if Byeol went to help, the results would definitely be better than if he did it himself.

His [Astral Combat] was only a rare-quality skill, so it was still easy for the enemy to notice something was wrong. Byeol’s [Celestial Fiend], on the other hand, was a legendary-quality skill. Not only was it harder to detect, but its power was also much stronger.

Celestial Fiend imitated the kind of bad luck that occurred naturally, so it was difficult for anyone to notice that something was wrong. Joo Joowon’s method, however, was different. The enemy could vaguely sense that something was interfering with them.

If he had not been targeting ordinary zombies at the time, which were themselves in a state where they could not pay attention to anything else, perhaps they really would have noticed that someone was interfering with their transformation.

Although even if they discovered it, they would not have been able to stop him, it would still be troublesome if they reported their discovery to the Zombie Lord.

Although no system notification had been triggered, Joo Joowon could already tell that it should be a Lord Boss, and one that had reached its complete form.

According to the information he had seen on the Player Forum, there were two types of Lord Bosses. One was a "production-type" boss, while the other was a "plunder-type" boss.

A production-type boss was like the spider boss Joo Joowon had encountered before. All of its subordinates were born and raised by the boss itself.

A plunder-type boss was like this red mist boss. They possessed special abilities that allowed them to transform the subordinates they took a liking to into followers who obeyed their commands.

Compared with production-type bosses, the advantage of plunder-type bosses was that their forces could take shape very quickly. The disadvantage was that their subordinates basically had little potential for further growth.

Therefore, every time a plunder-type boss advanced to another stage, it needed to go out and find new subordinates again. Otherwise, its original subordinates could only be used for support and would basically be unable to participate in the battles involving the boss.

Even worse, the boss might instead end up becoming the nanny of its own subordinates.

Because the subordinates were too weak. If the boss did not protect them during battle, they could very easily be killed directly by the aftershocks of the fight.

However, this kind of strange situation was very rare. Unlike production-type bosses, plunder-type bosses rarely developed feelings for their subordinates. They treated them as consumable resources. If they died, then they died. The boss could simply find another batch of subordinates.