Rebirth: 100 Days Before Doomsday - Chapter 165

Chapter 165: Mutated Plants (I)

Grace was about to respond to Davian’s praise when 2025 contacted her through the shared mind-link.

“Master, you need to come here immediately.”

The urgency in the little creature’s voice made Grace react first without asking any further question. She looked at Davian and quickly informed him. “Glow needs me for something. I’ll be back later.”

He looked concerned but didn’t delay her by asking any questions and just gave a nod of his head in understanding.

Grace immediately made her way out of the apartment, heading downstairs to her own unit. While everyone in the team had come to know about the secret world inside her jade bracelet, they had never seen her actually entering that world and disappearing from the real one.

And while she trusted everyone around her and knew they would always keep her secrets, there were still some things that she wanted to keep to herself… unless or until she felt otherwise.

Once she was inside her apartment and had locked the metal gate behind her, she immediately stepped into the Infinite Realm.

2025 was waiting for her in the backyard of the Villa where they had set up the three mysterious plants she found in the mountains of the Hillton City.

Grace didn’t even had to ask 2025 about what was going on as she noticed the digital screen that was showing that all three plants were ready for harvest.

“All three of them? At the same time?” She asked, but 2025 was just as lost her. The system hadn’t been able to come up with a fix period of time that any of the three plants needed to produce their harvest. That was why both of them were shocked to see the new system notification.

She also noticed that after being in her space for months, the plants had leveled up and looked way different than their original form.

“Go ahead and harvest them. I want to see what they will produce. Maybe we will finally be able to learn more about these plants.” 2025 spoke excitedly, urging Grace to harvest the three mysterious plants.

Grace took in a deep breath and stepped forward, the digital screen appearing in front of her to offer her its aid. For each plant, it was showing two options – harvest, or to turn them into seeds.

She hesitated as her mind raced, feeling that making the choice wasn’t really easy. She turned her attention toward 2025 and asked, “What if these plants turned out to be real gems and we will have no way left to grow more of them? Shouldn’t I choose option B then?”

If she harvested the plants, there was no telling in what form the harvest world turn out. And if it would be in a form that couldn’t be used to grow a new plant, then they would fail to harvest more of these produces in future, unless… they could find more of these similar plants in the outside world.

Understanding her reason of concern, 2025 flew closer to the digital screen and started looking through the data and options available. After what seemed like forever, it finally spoke.

“I’m not sure if this will work or not, but here’s an option for saving the plants for regrowing while harvesting the peoduce. This option is generally for the normal plants in the realm. So whether it will work on these three or not can’t be said for sure. You need to take a gamble.”

The choice was indeed not easy. If she chose to harvest the plants, they might fail to regrow more of them in future. But if she chose to turn them into seeds or saplings, then they will lost their chance of learning more about these plants for next several days.

And in their current situation, each passing day was very important.

“Let’s do it.” She finally broke the silence, deciding to take on the gamble.

2025 selected the option for ‘regrowing’ before Grace took over and pressed the icon to harvest the first plant – the green one with yellow hue.

Its leaves had turned into the shapes of stars and emerald had become heavier on its yellow hue. Its leaves were shimmering as though they held liquid sunlight.

As soon as Grace selected the ‘harvest’ option, the plant’s glow intensified briefly before dimming and it disappeared from the pot.

The very next moment, a vial filled with golden-green liquid was shown on the screen while the system processed it to find some new information on the mysterious plant.

Both Grace and 2025 were holding their breaths as they waited. Before this, the system never took more than few seconds to process things, but this time, it seemed to be taking forever.

“What if there’s no data within the system related to anything close to these plants? Will it still be able to provide any information?” Grace asked as her intrusive thoughts started running wild.

2025 immediately took over the job to defend its precious system. “Don’t underestimate the system. It might be created by a human but it has been connected with a magical realm for decades. A lot has changed within the system, making it far more powerful than it initially was. There are still some secrets of the system that you haven’t found out yet.”

The bold and confident statement made Grace arch her eyebrows high in question, but before she could have asked about what kind of secrets 2025 was talking about, they heard the digital sound of the system as it finished the processing.

The very next second, a familiar mechanical voice filled the backyard.

“Species confirmed. This plant is Verdant Starleaf with 79% Shadow Rain consumption. Upon full conversion, it can produce Essence of Renewal, a concentrated liquid that accelerates healing by 300% and strengthens immunity against minor infections. Rare but not entirely unique. Should be used sparingly to avoid dependency.”

And then… the backyard was filled with absolute silence as Grace was left completely stunned by the report. Even 2025 seemed taken aback.