Chapter 612 - Luo Lan awakens (1/2)

Wang Fugui was sitting in one of the trucks and looking anxiously at the stronghold in front of him. He saw the stronghold was really covered in countless vines just like the rumors had said. Furthermore, anyone that tried to approach it would immediately get attacked by the creeper vines’ feelers.

The Wang Consortium’s troops that had arrived together with Wang Fugui were discussing how to solve the problem before them. But they did not really have any good ideas.

In the end, someone said, “Since there’s unlikely to be any survivors left inside the stronghold, why don’t we just burn the stronghold down? No matter how powerful this creeper vine might be, it should still be afraid of fire.”

This time, it was all thanks to Wang Fugui that the Wang Consortium troops arrived ahead of time.

Before this, the troops had assembled and made a spontaneous decision to set off. However, some of their military vehicles were still outside and unable to return. As such, Wang Fugui volunteered his trucks to transport the soldiers after the goods were unloaded at the military base. This way, the Wang Consortium troops would not have to keep waiting around.

Hence, the officer of Stronghold 62’s garrison troops who were the first to arrive at Stronghold 61 was very grateful to Wang Fugui. He even started addressing Wang Fugui as “bro,” praising him repeatedly for being so understanding and calling him a good man.

Wang Fugui could only laugh wryly. It was not that he was understanding, but that he had a family member who was probably inside Stronghold 61 right now. Therefore, he also hoped the troops could get here as soon as possible so they might be able to save his family.

When Wang Fugui heard the commanding officer of the Wang Consortium troops say they should burn down Stronghold 61, he immediately turned anxious. “Sir, my family’s still inside. Y’all must not set fire to the place.”

The officer, Wang Linlan, said with a wry smile, “Bro, even if your kin is really inside, they couldn’t possibly have survived. I’ve just received new orders from our higher-ups. The satellite photo shows the entire stronghold has already been covered in vines. No one will have survived this disaster.”

“That can’t be!” Wang Fugui could feel his ears ringing. Then he shouted, “He’s different! He definitely survived! He managed to survive even in such difficult situations, so he’s definitely…” Wang Fugui wanted to rush into the stronghold. However, Jiang Wu suddenly pulled him back.

Wang Fugui turned around and asked blankly, “Ms. Jiang, you think that Xiaosu died too?”

“No,” Jiang Wu shook her head. “You stay here. I’ll go and look for him.”

While they were arguing, someone shouted, “Look! Why are the creeper vines at the stronghold gate starting to wither?”

Everyone turned their gaze to the stronghold gate and was surprised to see that it was really the case. The originally lush green creeper vines had really started withering!

“What’s happening?”

“Did someone on the inside manage to kill it?”

Wang Linlan frowned as he watched all this. No one could tell what was exactly going on in there. They were unable to verify if something had happened to the creeper vine itself or if someone inside the stronghold had killed it.

However, he suspected that no one in the world could possibly kill such a terrifying lifeform.

…

One would experience many springs, summers, falls, and winters throughout their lives. All living things blossomed in spring, grew lush in summer, yellowed in fall, and frosted over with snow in winter.

But at this moment, the dense and sinister-looking green vines in Stronghold 61 were withering rapidly and turning into brown twigs.

It was as though time had sped up, going from spring to winter in the blink of an eye. It was like someone had wiped off this oil painting with their hand as the colors started fading away bit by bit.

Ren Xiaosu was shocked when he saw what was happening around him.

As the area covered by the vines was humongous, this huge change was taking place throughout the vast stronghold. This made people feel like it was more the power of nature that was causing it.