The doll-faced girl thought that telling them all this would make them feel deceived, and that they would be taken out. Seeing the flying knife gleaming coldly, she went crazy with fear and screamed, "Ah, it's over." The others also looked nervously at Shen Hegui, and some even took a step aside, ready to flee at any moment. The doll-faced girl suddenly closed her eyes, waiting for the pain to hit, but felt no pain at all. It should have been a very funny scene, but none of the four—Jiang Yuntan, Shen Hegui, Yu Ke, and Xue Zhao—could laugh. Because they saw a green vine stretching toward the back of the doll-faced girl's head. Yu Ke shouted, "That pothos is right behind you! Run!" Instantly, the group reacted and scattered in all directions. At that moment, several pothos vines extended toward them. Shen Hegui quickly used his ability to condense a sharp knife. Jiang Yuntan looked at the spreading green not far away and felt a headache coming on, because even if Shen Hegui cut off its branches, it didn't seem to stop it. Instead, the pothos attacked them even faster. She pretended to pull several lighters from her pocket, handed one to Xue Zhao and one to Yu Ke, then tore two pieces of clothing from a nearby store, wrapped them around an iron rod, lit them, and made a simple torch. Then she swung the torch at the vine reaching for her. Sure enough, the pothos retreated from the fire. Seeing this, Yu Ke and Xue Zhao immediately understood and imitated her to make their own torches. The people who had run away saw this; the doll-faced girl and a crew-cut guy came out to help. Jiang Yuntan tossed a lighter to them while keeping an eye on the pothos, making sure she didn't get hurt. As long as there was fire, the pothos avoided it—it seemed afraid of fire. Indeed, how could a pothos not be afraid of fire? Yu Ke and Xue Zhao approached with a torch in each hand. Shen Hegui, now having a moment to breathe, also made two torches. They headed toward the stairwell and found it tightly blocked by a net woven by the pothos. Shen Hegui grabbed two pieces of clothing, lit them, and threw them at the stairwell. Soon the pothos there caught fire. But two pieces of clothing were too few; even though some was burned away, new vines immediately filled the gaps. Seeing this, Jiang Yuntan pulled the doll-faced girl and asked, "Where are the roots of this pothos? You've worked here for so long, you must know which store has a pothos." The doll-faced girl thought frantically, sweating with anxiety, and suddenly said, "I know where it is. Follow me." So Jiang Yuntan and the others raised their torches and followed. The pothos, afraid of the fire in their hands, could only keep a distance and follow them. The purple-clad woman and the others were still hesitating whether to help, when suddenly one of them let out a desperate scream. Jiang Yuntan and the others looked toward the sound and only saw a person being drained of blood by the pothos. The pothos's emerald green branches turned blood red, like blood slowly flowing through human veins. In a moment, the struggling person stopped moving and fell to the ground. The remaining three, seeing this, immediately sprinted toward Jiang Yuntan's group, afraid that if they were alone, they would be drained dry. "Let's go," Jiang Yuntan said to the doll-faced girl. "If we wait any longer, someone else might get hurt." The doll-faced girl knew the seriousness of the situation. They carefully raised their torches and went around to the side of the stairwell, where they found a store filled with pothos, its vines climbing all over the store's walls. And the pot of pothos sat on the checkout counter. "What do we do?" Yu Ke looked at the overwhelming pothos and felt a headache. "Burn it," Shen Hegui said, already throwing his torch into the store occupied by the pothos. The store had clothes inside, and he threw accurately, right onto the clothes. The fire quickly spread inside, and the pothos avoided that area. But the mutant pothos, angered by them, wildly lashed its vines at them. It even grabbed the purple-clad woman's arm and was about to pierce its vine into her flesh. Shen Hegui slashed it off with a single cut and said quickly, "You should know where the fire extinguishers are in this building. If you don't want to die here, go get them." The doll-faced girl helped the purple-clad woman, who had collapsed to the ground, and said, "We'll go now." After they left, Shen Hegui, Yu Ke, and the others grabbed nearby clothes, lit them, and threw them into the store. Jiang Yuntan remembered that when she collected supplies in the supermarket, she had stored some liquor in boxes inside the showcase. Fortunately, the boxes had labels. She found a box of white liquor and placed it in the warehouse. The next second, ten jugs of white liquor, each the size of two palms, appeared on the ground. Shen Hegui and the others immediately understood and poured the liquor into the store. The store erupted in blazing flames, and the pothos could no longer bother them, crawling all over the store in agony. But its roots were in the pot, so it could only struggle without escape. Taking advantage of this time, Jiang Yuntan slipped into the next store and collected a few dozen more boxes, stopping only when she had reached five hundred. The pothos stopped attacking, but Shen Hegui and the others didn't relax; they kept an eye on the fire to prevent it from spreading to other stores and burning down the entire fifth floor. If the fifth floor burned down, the floors below wouldn't survive either. When the pothos was almost burnt out, the doll-faced girl and four others returned, each carrying a fire extinguisher. The pothos had gone still, and even the pot that held it was blackened. Jiang Yuntan didn't know how to use a fire extinguisher, so she could only watch as Shen Hegui and the others sprayed the fire out. After the fire was extinguished, the store was covered in layers of ash. Seeing this, the purple-clad woman relaxed and said, "It's dead. Let's leave now." No one moved, so she had to pull the doll-faced girl. The doll-faced girl asked, "Aren't you coming?" "You go down first. We'll check if it might flare up again," Jiang Yuntan said, then added, seeing their worried expressions, "There are other people downstairs." The doll-faced girl realized that Jiang Yuntan didn't want to interact with them much, so she followed the purple-clad woman and left. After they left, Jiang Yuntan pinched her nose and walked into the store. Shen Hegui and Yu Ke exchanged glances, thinking of the crystal core in the head of the strong zombie. Jiang Yuntan took a dagger from her space and dug around in the pot that held the pothos. Finally, she cut open its roots and found them still green. It seemed that the fire hadn't completely killed the pothos.