Chapter 603 - The bank vaults (1/2)

Ren Xiaosu pulled his hood up and wondered, ‘The stronghold’s on the verge of being destroyed, so why is the AI still working? Since it’s still working, why wasn’t there any warning given?’

A lot of people had mentioned the artificial intelligence to Ren Xiaosu. However, Ren Xiaosu was never really certain about how it worked. As Ren Xiaosu did not have any experience with things like computers in his previous environment, he had always been curious about the artificial intelligence yet somewhat skeptical.

Now that he thought about those who had praised the artificial intelligence, he felt like they might have been sarcastic.

Of course, Ren Xiaosu did not know if the Wang Consortium themselves thought that way.

As he did not understand the artificial intelligence, Ren Xiaosu had no way of judging it.

Ren Xiaosu and Zhou Yingxue walked cautiously along the streets. As they proceeded, Ren Xiaosu suddenly stepped on something. He looked down and saw a human skeleton under a dense growth of creeper vine leaves.

It wasn’t just one. Human skeletal remains were strewn all over the streets with the creeper vines wrapped tightly around them. It was a horrifying and terrifying sight to see.

Ren Xiaosu could imagine how desperate the people were at the moment of the disaster.

If it had been the Experimentals attacking, some of these people might have at least been able to escape by taking refuge at home. The Experimentals’ awareness was not as heightened even though their physical fitness had improved significantly. As such, some people had managed to survive that ordeal.

But it was different when faced with the creeper vines. After walking around for a long time, Ren Xiaosu did not even glimpse any survivors.

Ren Xiaosu tried to remember, ‘What was the name of the hotel that Luo Lan was staying at?’

He took out a copy of yesterday’s newspaper from his storage space. After browsing for a long time, he finally found it in the papers: InterContinental Triumphant West Road.

Ren Xiaosu led Zhou Yingxue to a newspaper stand first and found the map of Stronghold 61 there. Then they identified where Triumphant West Road was located.

They were only about five or six kilometers away from the hotel, and it would take about half an hour to get there by walking.

When they arrived outside the InterContinental Hotel, other than the skeletal remains of humans, there were also the banners the protesters had abandoned.

“It’s here.” When Ren Xiaosu saw the banners, he was sure they were at the right place. “Let’s check out the parking lot first.”

When they arrived at the parking lot, Ren Xiaosu was surprised to find the vehicles with the Qing Consortium’s license plates already covered in vines. The tires of the vehicles looked like they had been punctured.

Ren Xiaosu wondered why all of Luo Lan’s vehicles always met with such unfortunate incidents. Back at the Li Consortium’s stronghold, didn’t Yang Xiaojin destroy his cars one after another?

And at this place, his vehicles’ tires were punctured.

Ren Xiaosu took Zhou Yingxue upstairs and searched through the rooms one by one. However, he could not find Fatty Luo at all. Just searching from room to room alone took Ren Xiaosu and Zhou Yingxue an entire hour to complete.

“There’s no sign of any corpses that might be Luo Lan’s, so that means that he’s already escaped from the hotel. That’s a good thing,” Ren Xiaosu analyzed. “But where’ll he head?”

“He’s so fat, so he definitely can’t run fast enough. Who knows, he might’ve already been caught by the creeper vines,” said Zhou Yingxue, curling her lips.

“No.” Ren Xiaosu shook his head. “He brought his subordinates here. The Qing Consortium soldiers are far more loyal than you can imagine. If he can’t run, they’ll carry him and escape together.”

“Alright.” Zhou Yingxue said, “Then let’s go search the bank vaults?”

Awhile later, a group of people who were hiding in a bank vault suddenly heard knocking come from the outside. The people who had locked themselves in the vault were shocked. Why would someone be knocking on the vault door at a time like this?