Wasteland: I Awakened A Plant System

Chapter 134: Run Or Die

Inside the house.

After Divya and Anjali blocked the door, they didn’t just sit there waiting. They squatted on the ground, their iron picks continuously swinging, following the rhythm of the door being rammed from outside, digging into the ground with each strike.

The sound of the iron door being hammered perfectly covered the noise of their digging.

Like most Survivors, the floor of this Shelter had not been upgraded to iron due to saving iron.

Under the assault of their two iron picks, the stone floor was quickly chiseled open, revealing the soft earth beneath.

At this point, they no longer needed to worry about the noise their digging might make.

The instinct to survive made them not dare to hesitate in the slightest, and as they wished, a large pit was soon dug in the ground.

Without hesitation, the two jumped into the pit, and following this pit, they quickly dug through to the outside.

Feeling the wind and snow outside again, they both shivered simultaneously, their clothes flapping loudly. The iron door behind them did not stop being rammed despite their escape.

Divya glanced behind her. This iron Shelter was quite spacious, and the people in front hadn’t noticed that she and Anjali had already slipped out.

At this moment, she and Anjali didn’t care if they would be discovered. Braving the cold wind, they ran off, fleeing this place of trouble hand in hand.

The wind and snow ahead grew more fierce, but they couldn’t stop. Fortunately, they had rested for a while in that Shelter.

Now, both of them still had ample stamina, but she knew that the iron door wouldn’t hold out for too long. She estimated it would be completely broken open in at most ten to twenty minutes.

While running, Divya didn’t forget to open the chat channel and take a look.

Exactly two and half hours had passed since Vikram’s last chat. This meant that if she and Anjali could hold out for the last half hours, they might very well be rescued…

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On the other side, Vikram sped along. He checked his current location; he was less than sixty kilometers from the coordinates Divya had given him.

If Divya had followed the direction he provided, they would meet in less than an hour.

He wasn’t worried about missing her location; the biological detector had been active continuously since he set off.

Next, he would try to get as close as possible to the red dot in the biological detector to ensure there was no mistake.

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“Bang—Boom!”

After a loud crash, the shelter’s iron door lock was finally forced open by four people wielding a tree trunk.

As soon as a gap appeared in the door, Kuldeep, who had been standing by, stepped forward.

He pressed both hands against it, exerting all his strength. Even through his thick cotton clothing, his sheer power was evident as the door was pushed fully open in an instant.

Soon, the sound of heavy objects falling echoed from behind the door; all the furniture Divya and Anjali had used to barricade it was scattered across the floor.

Seeing this, Kuldeep entered the room first, his eyes filled with an indescribable joy.

He had already planned how he would deal with the two women.

However, when he raised the torch in his hand and lit up the dim room, the sudden illumination of the interior struck him like a blow.

The nosy Survivor he had threatened to kill lay dead on the floor, the arrow still lodged in his eyeball clearly indicating the cause of death.

Apart from the scattered furniture and a dirt pit, there was no sign of the two women in the room.

“Hiss, Big Brother, these two women are quite ruthless. They just killed their savior like that?” The men behind him gasped, seeing the gruesome state of the fallen man.

“Don’t be a damn fool. What savior? The owner of this Shelter is no pushover either,” Kuldeep said calmly, unconcerned by their surprise.

He slowly walked to a corner where a pile of what looked like rubbish was accumulated. Kuldeep kicked away the black cloth covering it.

What was revealed beneath was a pile of human bones, some still with flesh attached.

They were no strangers to killing, so a few bones were nothing. But not disposing of the bodies after killing them, they could only think of one possibility.

“Holy crap, this beast eats people.” It wasn’t the pile of white bones that scared them, but the disgust at the act of cannibalism.

Food in the Wasteland World was indeed scarce, but wild vegetables and fruits by the roadside were plentiful.

At worst, they could do as they did, robbing and plundering. But to directly eat their own kind, this was truly the first time they had seen such a thing.

Witnessing this scene, the subordinates were all filled with sighs.

“Boss, if we run out of food in the future, will we also end up like him?” One subordinate was so stunned he completely forgot they were still chasing two women.

As expected, his only response was a sharp rap on the head from Kuldeep. “What nonsense are you spouting? The two women have run off, and you’re still thinking about useless things.”

“Exactly. With your intelligence, if it ever comes to eating people, you’ll be the first one eaten,” a companion beside him joked.

Kuldeep glared at them, and they quickly fell silent before hurrying to catch up.

The Savage Wolf Shelter was known as one of the three major shelters in the region for a reason. Just Kuldeep’s subordinates had, more or less, consumed some Physique Fruits and Vitality Fruits. The energy they spent breaking down the door was mostly recovered after standing inside for only a short while.

However, as their leader, Kuldeep’s physique was clearly on another level.

He quickly widened the distance from his four subordinates, “You guys just follow the footprints. I’ll go on ahead, lest they actually get rescued.”

With that, he quickened his pace again, and soon disappeared ahead.

By now, Kuldeep was thoroughly impatient. Repeated failures not only annoyed him but also gradually bred a sense of tension within him; the two women escaping repeatedly gave him an ominous premonition.

Fortunately, no matter how fast those two women could run, they still couldn’t outrun him, who had consumed several vitality fruits.

Barely ten minutes later, two slender figures appeared in the distance in the snow.

This time, there were no woods nearby, nor any nosy Survivors, and Kuldeep finally breathed a sigh of relief.

Looking at the two fleeing figures ahead, the strained expression on his face finally broke into a smile.

Then, this smile began to turn somewhat sinister.

“At this distance, it won’t even take ten minutes for me to catch up. I’d like to see where you two can run today,” he said, not forgetting to excitedly lick his dry, peeling lips.

“So beautiful,” just by staring at their retreating figures, Kuldeep could almost imagine their faces.

Comparing them to the women brought back to the Savage Wolf Shelter, he found none could rival these two.

If not for the current power dynamics at the Savage Wolf Shelter, he would have claimed the two best friends for himself.

Just as he was gloating, Divya, not far ahead, turned her head and instantly spotted Kuldeep.

“Run, someone is catching up!” She patted the pale-faced Anjali beside her, shouting in alarm, sensing trouble.

Hearing this, Anjali instinctively turned her head to look back, and there, in her sight, was Kuldeep charging towards them.

She could even make out the vicious and covetous expression on his face.

Divya was still relieved that they had rested long enough in the iron house; though their speed wasn’t fast, their stamina was enough to sustain them for a while longer.

However, looking back again, Kuldeep’s pursuit speed made her turn pale with fright.

In just two short minutes, the distance between them had closed further.

Behind Kuldeep, white snow was kicked up by his speed, and his mouth was constantly moving, as if he was shouting something.

“Divya, it seems like he’s alone. We have a compound bow, should we try to take care of this bastard first?” Anjali, weary from the journey, felt like she couldn’t run anymore.

“Don’t even think about it. That Sam earlier was overconfident and showed us his back, which is why we succeeded so easily.”

“This Survivor daring to chase alone must be prepared. Besides, judging by his speed, his strength is definitely beyond what we two can handle.”

As they spoke, their voices were intermittent, but their feet did not dare to stop for a moment. Because their situation was run or die.

“Then when will your little lover arrive? If we delay any longer, we’ll really be caught and taken to the Savage Wolf Shelter.”

“At that point, I’d rather just kill myself now.” Recalling the conversation of the five men in the woods, Anjali was again filled with dread.

“Boo hoo~ We’ve escaped for so long, and still can’t be saved?” She actually started crying.

Divya looked at the sobbing Anjali, having no mood to comfort her. Just as she was about to grab her hand to accelerate again, the path ahead brought her to a complete halt.

The previously flat ground before them had disappeared, replaced by a massive snow slope.

The slope also had many protruding rocks, presenting an extremely dangerous sight.

(Who Have Bought Privlege and reading here. In Chapter 114, I have put an option to name the druid.)