Wasteland: I Awakened A Plant System

Chapter 173: Small Trouble

“Ah, the Savage Wolf Shelter is gone. That reduces a lot of trouble.”

“From now on, I only need to worry about food and territory construction.”

Feeling that the injury on his back had healed, he thought about going out to bring back the loot boxes.

Seeing this, Sophia, Divya, and Anjali stopped him.

“You should rest. You’re already tired—we’ll bring them back,” they said.

Vikram thought for a few seconds and then nodded.

The three of them went outside to retrieve the boxes, while he walked over to his goat and sat beside it, gently rubbing its head.

Murmuring, he said, “The hen has started giving eggs, Pinku gives treasure boxes… so when are you going to give milk?”

“Mayyyy,” the goat bleated.

“You stupid goat, it’s January right now, and you’re talking about May?” Vikram said jokingly while continuing to pat its head.

The goat kept bleating, “May, May.”

Vikram knew the goat could only make that sound, which is why it was often used in jokes.

He also noticed that the temperature had started rising slowly.

In his opinion, during this safe, disaster-free period, the focus should remain on gathering resources.

After all, no one knew what the next disaster would be like, and collecting supplies was always the right choice.

He decided that tomorrow he would complete the farmland using the Earth Mage and Water Mage.

At the same time, he planned to build a few houses. After a few days, he would bring in those from the Savage Wolf Shelter who had good character.

With a rare moment of leisure in his busy schedule, his mind began to plan various ways to expand his territory.

It wasn’t until half an hour later that he noticed something was off.

“Why haven’t they come back after so long?” Vikram only then realized that they had been out for too long.

He had just lent his motorcycle to Anjali, and logically, for such a short distance, they should have been back long ago.

“Could they have encountered some danger again?” Having just sustained a serious injury himself, he unconsciously started to think in that direction.

If they really encountered zombies of that level again, the two of them would definitely be unable to cope, and might even die outside.

Thinking of this, he quickly sent a message, asking about their whereabouts.

[Vikram: Where are you guys? Where did you run off to? You haven’t come back after so long?]

Fortunately, the bad situation he imagined did not happen, and he soon received a reply from Divya.

However, their prolonged absence, although not as dangerous, was still a bit troublesome.

The supplies that had just dropped outside, they had only gone home to store some items, and someone was already trying to snatch them up.

Even though he had already taken the most valuable blue-purple box, he couldn’t tolerate being taken advantage of like this.

[Vikram: Give them a verbal warning. Tell the people who picked up the items to return them. If they don’t, just shoot them directly.]

This minor issue, for Vikram and others who now possessed firearms, shouldn’t have been a problem at all.

He didn’t even have the thought of going out to take a look.

If he had to personally go out every time to pick up supplies, what would be the difference from before when he did everything himself?

[Divya: We tried, but the other party said they didn’t mean any harm.]

[Divya: They said they were survivors from a nearby shelter, wanting to meet their new neighbor. As long as they met the shelter owner, they would consider returning the items to us.]

“New neighbors?”

“Survivors who just moved to this vicinity?”

“No, it should be that the land area shrunk, and all the surrounding shelters were squeezed into one area.”

He quickly sorted out his thoughts, but he had no idea what these new neighbors wanted with him. After much thought, he finally decided to go out.

[Vikram: I’m coming over now. Don’t move for now, and don’t let them run away.]

Vikram put on a piece of clothing and looked at the sky. Ever since the extreme cold ended, the sky had been foggy, and he didn’t know if it was the upcoming Black Fog disaster causing it.

At this moment, he moved with agile steps and, in a very short time, arrived at the location where he had just killed the zombies.

At this time, the ground was still covered with zombie corpses, but the nearly three boxes of various qualities that had dropped earlier had all disappeared.

Meanwhile, Sophia, Divya and Anjali were standing there, confronting a group of people.

The atmosphere didn’t seem too harmonious; both of them frowned, their eyes unfriendly, but they didn’t act rashly for the time being.

Fortunately, Vikram finally arrived, and the three of them, as if finding their backbone, stood beside him.

“You should go back first. If it’s really not possible, we’ll just pull out our guns and kill them all.”

Divya hadn’t expected him to arrive so quickly; she had only just noticed Vikram’s message. He had arrived before she could even send a message telling him not to come.

“Exactly, these unreasonable guys stole our things and still refuse to admit it.” Sophia also complaint.

“We must teach them a lesson.” Anjali looked at the six people in front of her, calling out without hesitation.

“What do you mean ’stole your things’? These supply boxes were just lying on the ground, and your name wasn’t written on them. Of course, whoever gets them first owns them.”

“I could even say you’re trying to snatch them from us!” One of the Survivors on the opposite side, facing Anjali’s threat, didn’t care at all and even bit back.

Feeling that scolding wasn’t enough, he continued, “Three pretty little girls, but it turns out you’re just sluts who like to take advantage.”

Even the people beside him chimed in, “Want these supplies? It’s not hard. Make us brothers comfortable, and you won’t lack anything.”

“You…” Saying this, Anjali, unable to bear it, wanted to pull out her gun.

However, Vikram stopped her with a look.

“So this is why you came to find me?” Vikram suppressed the urge to act, calming himself down and speaking calmly.

No one noticed that the veins on his forehead were already bulging, clearly indicating he had little patience left.

In his eyes, no matter what these people said, they would not escape death today.

However, he still wanted to see what these people, making such a big show, actually wanted to do.

As soon as his question fell, the leader of the group finally spoke.

The few subordinates who had been shouting earlier also fell silent.

“It’s simple. You’re our shelter’s new neighbor. As a powerful shelter, of course, we’re here to collect some protection fees.”

“It’s not much, just a kg of food per person per day is enough. If you don’t have it, then your pretty female members can substitute.” The slightly plump man leading the group said with a chuckle.

“Finished talking?”

“Then you can go to hell.”

As soon as the words fell, one of them sneered disdainfully, wanting to open his mouth to say something.

However, he was shocked to find that the man who had been standing in front of him was already gone.

At this moment, his mouth was still slightly agape, and in the blink of an eye, a fist smashed over.

“Bang!!”

A loud noise came from behind the six people.

Looking back, their eyes widened, and their faces changed.

They saw that the accomplice who had just wanted to mock Vikram had already lost half of his face.

The uneven wound on his face, and the scattered blood and muscle tissue on the ground, made him utterly terrified.

That’s right, he wasn’t dead yet, but half of his face had been brutally smashed by Vikram.

Of course, he didn’t plan to let this person go. Vikram reappeared behind him.

Grabbing his shoulder, he forcibly twisted him backward in a strange posture. After his upper body bent backward to a certain extent, a knee strike followed.

“Puff!” A muffled sound came from the Survivor’s mouth; his heart was directly ruptured by Vikram through his clothing and muscles.

Others couldn’t see it clearly, but Vikram himself could feel a crisp snap.

These actions seemed long, but in reality, they all happened in an instant, so much so that the other few people couldn’t react at all.

This Survivor also naturally lost his life.

Shaking his blood-stained fist, after dealing with one, he turned his gaze to the rest of the people.

Upon truly realizing they had provoked someone they shouldn’t have, their first reaction was to flee.

But how could Vikram let them have their way?

Looking at the five people scattering and fleeing, he first grabbed the two who had been spouting vulgarities.

He lifted them like two chicks.

Then, the two only felt themselves being thrown into the air, hearing the sound of a metal weapon being wielded, cutting through the air.

“Swish swish swish!” Eight severed limbs scattered.

It was Vikram who had cut off both their hands and feet with a knife.

Finally, their bodies, with only heads and torsos remaining, fell heavily onto the snowy ground.

However, he did not deliver a final blow; without limbs, they could do nothing. It was better to let them endure the torment of the cold wind in the snow.

Subsequently, the other three fleeing Survivors were also caught one by one by him.

He dealt with them in the same manner as the previous two, finally throwing them onto the snowy ground, leaving them to their own devices.

Although the extreme cold had ended, the outdoor temperature was still -20 degrees Celsius. In their condition, they wouldn’t last long before freezing to death.

After doing all this, he finally let out a sigh of relief.

He had thought someone might have something important to discuss with him, but it turned out to be just a bunch of idiots, purely coming to their deaths.