Wasteland: I Awakened A Plant System

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In the early morning, Vikram pushed open his bedroom door and emerged.

Although he was busy with the natural disaster until late yesterday, there were still many things he needed to do for the territory.

Sitting on the sofa, Vikram yawned and began to organize his thoughts from last night.

“That’s right, the natural disaster!”

Mid-sentence, Vikram immediately stood up and turned to walk out of the territory.

Passing through the disinfection corridor, he instinctively stepped outside.

The situation of the natural disaster was a bit more complex than Vikram had initially imagined.

In Vikram’s line of sight, the territory was now enveloped in thick black mist.

No, it wasn’t just the territory covered in black mist.

Previously, with Vikram’s physique, he could clearly see mountains a thousand meters away when looking into the distance.

Now, the black mist brought by the natural disaster completely obscured everything.

Even if he squinted, trying to see trees a hundred meters away seemed difficult.

The light intensity outside in the early morning was not much different from the evening before the natural disaster began.

This natural disaster could be described as truly ’covering the sky and obscuring the sun’.

“Wait! Covering the sky and obscuring the sun?”

Thinking of this, Vikram couldn’t help but gasp.

This was just the early stage of the natural disaster, yet the impact was much more severe than the last extreme cold.

Before he could lament, at that moment, a growl diverted his attention elsewhere.

In the black mist, a familiar sound entered his mind. Before he could clearly see the figure, a putrid, sharp claw emerged from the mist.

Before he could pull out his weapon to kill the suddenly appearing common zombie, more and more figures appeared in the black mist.

It wasn’t until seven or eight swaying zombies appeared before him that Vikram slowly retreated with a solemn expression.

“This is just two steps from the territory, how did so many zombies appear overnight?”

While marveling at the number of zombies, a slightly harsh alarm sounded inside the territory.

The sound immediately attracted the zombies’ attention, and seven or eight heads uniformly looked towards another mountain foot.

After a brief recollection, he remembered that it was the observation room that had just been built yesterday.

Now, the zombies approaching within a hundred meters of the territory had triggered the alarm.

While thinking the observation room was reliable, Vikram didn’t hesitate, summoning his long blade and leaping towards the zombie horde.

Facing the snarling zombies before him, he didn’t say a word, raising his blade and striking.

The two zombies at the very front hadn’t even reacted before their heads were gone, and their uncontrolled bodies fell to the ground due to inertia.

After cleanly dispatching the two zombies, Vikram did not remain in the zombie horde but retreated a few meters.

It was not difficult to see that his gaze had become even more solemn at this moment.

The previous attack seemed fluid, but only he knew the true situation.

“This black mist is too discriminatory; zombies don’t have to do anything, just standing still makes them much harder to kill than before.”

Vikram, who already knew that the black mist buffed zombies, held nothing back; the previous attack was a full-power strike.

If it were before, killing them would have felt no resistance at all.

But Vikram now clearly felt a slight delay when cutting the second zombie’s neck.

It wasn’t that his strength was insufficient, but rather that the alloy weapon in his hand was struggling against zombies with enhanced physiques.

While he was still surprised by the zombies’ strength, the remaining few zombies wouldn’t give him time to catch his breath.

The black mist’s visual obstruction had no effect on zombies, whose eyesight was already poor.

Now, they almost swarmed him while he was in a daze.

Facing the five enhanced zombies surging towards him, Vikram’s eyes narrowed slightly, and his alloy long blade had, at some point, been replaced by an Epic-level great hammer.

He hadn’t properly used this great hammer since acquiring it from the zombie ruins.

Now was a good time to practice with these small fries.

“Hoo!” The zombies’ unique muffled growl sounded, accompanied by five or six black-glowing claws.

This time, Vikram chose not to dodge but stood his ground, stepping back half a pace with his right foot, his calf muscles bulging suddenly.

Just as the zombies were about to touch his clothes, he swept the hammer horizontally.

“Bang!!” The dull thud of the giant hammer hitting something, accompanied by the sound of flesh tearing, echoed outside the territory.

Looking at the previous battle scene.

The five zombies were gone, only Vikram still stood in place, a surprised expression on his face.

“What happened, what’s going on? Vikram, are you okay?” The three female members of the territory had just been startled awake by the alarm and had followed him out.

Seeing the mess on the ground, they frowned and asked Vikram, their tone filled with deep concern.

Not only was Vikram fine, but the upward curve of his lips was almost uncontrollable.

This giant hammer looked incredibly cumbersome, but it was not light at all.

However, the destructive power and damage it brought due to its weight were simply incomparable to the previous Epic-level long blade.

The previous zombies, after just one hit from his hammer, immediately turned into a pile of minced meat.

Even without headshotting these abominations, it directly destroyed their combat capability.

“I’m fine, just dealt with some small fries near home.”

Casually putting away the great hammer, Vikram instinctively squatted down, still wanting to collect the supply boxes dropped by the killed creatures.

Evidently, Vikram came up empty-handed.

That voice wasn’t kidding; if it said no drops, there were no drops.

Shaking his head, while feeling regret, another question arose in his mind.

If these supplies didn’t drop but had new resource replacements, what about the body-enhancing fruits?

Surely those couldn’t also be obtained from new resources, could they?

Shrugging, unable to figure it out, Vikram opened his biological detection.

He found that the nearby zombies had almost reached a density of one group every two or three hundred meters.

Even with prior warning, seeing the dense groups of zombies in the detection made Vikram’s scalp tingle.

Just around the mountain where the territory was located, it was surrounded by zombies.

“After this, traveling, relying solely on vehicles like RV wrapped in a layer of iron, doesn’t seem reliable enough.”

As for taking detours, with this distribution of zombies, it was even more impossible.

Scratching his head, the successive troubles gave him a headache.

“Damn it, who cares about all that, you go, bring Archy and Ranzy here, tell them to stay in the observation room, and if any Zombies come near our territory, kill them as soon as possible.”

“Ok,” Sophia nodded and quickly headed out.

Without wasting time, she moved across the territory, her pace swift despite the cold air. It didn’t take long for her to locate them.

Archy and Ranzy were inside the Territory 1 Vine Sniper Tower, stationed near the perimeter, quietly observing the surroundings. The moment Sophia approached, both Archer Sprouts turned toward her.

“Come with me,” she said directly. “Vikram wants you in the observation room.”

The two Sprouts nodded in unison. Within moments, Sophia returned with them.

After they came here, Vikram explained to them what they both needed to do.

Archy and Ranzy moved into position without hesitation, taking their places in the observation room. Their sharp gaze immediately focused outward, scanning the dark surroundings beyond the territory.

Seeing that, Vikram became satisfied, after this. They all went inside the treehouse.

As long as his territory could withstand various natural disasters in the future, no matter how chaotic the outside world became, it would have nothing to do with him.

While he was inside the treehouse, he thought, “Although I have sent Archy and Ranzy there, but still they were not enough.”

“And when I need to bring them on some important mission, my territory will need some help.”

“It’s a pity that a group of people didn’t choose to accept my invitation, otherwise I didn’t have to worry about this.”

Sighing deeply, Vikram pouted.

“Hmm?”

Suddenly, Vikram seemed to remember something and immediately stood up from the sofa.

He slapped his forehead, “Look at my memory, weren’t there so many members left in the Savage Wolf territory before?”

“Till now, many of the loyal people should have appeared.”

Thinking this, Vikram, having made up his mind, decided to take a long trip tomorrow and immediately notified Shalini.

He planned to bring back ten to twenty people from the Savage Wolf territory.

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Early the next morning, Vikram drove his RV away from the territory.

Considering that he was going to bring back a carload of people this time, he still went out alone.

The sound of the RV driving across the Wasteland World grew from near to far, quickly disappearing into the black fog in the direction of the Savage Wolf territory.

Just as Vikram was happy that he could bring back a dozen people. He didn’t notice that the sound of the van immediately attracted the attention of some people…

“Boss, that Survivor seems to have gone out by himself. His territory most likely only has three women and a child left.”

“How about… we go into his territory and take a look?” A survivor hiding in a tree whispered into his wrist.

It seemed he had been waiting in this vicinity for a long time.

What was even more cunning was that from beginning to end, he maintained a great distance from Vikram’s Territory.

Even though the black fog obscured his vision, he showed no intention of approaching, seemingly out of apprehension.

“Alright, you take a few brothers and go check out the situation, but don’t sneak into his territory for now, so as not to alert him.”

The voice on the other end of the call sounded like a tearing sound from fat pressing on his vocal cords, but it didn’t prevent him from giving orders to the man in front of him.

“Yes! Boss!”

The call ended, and his accomplice, also hidden in a tree beside him, spoke up, “What exactly does Boss mean? He wants us to scout for information, but he won’t let us sneak into their territory. What’s the point of scouting then?”

“Are you an idiot? Who said scouting for information requires entering the territory? We’ll find a place close to his territory and hide.”

“If we observe for a few more days, isn’t it easy to find out their situation?”

“Even if we only know the location of their territory’s entrance, we can still wait for them to come out and surround them.”

It turned out that these people had been observing from outside for so many days, never getting close, and didn’t even know how to enter Vikram’s territory.

“This survivor is really the fattest one I’ve observed. As long as we get this benefit, I estimate I can at least get a good position with Boss Snape.”

The man rubbed his hands, extended his tongue to lick around his lips, then immediately jumped down from the tree and headed towards Vikram’s Territory.

The Survivor beside him seemed to ponder, then followed closely.

But they never expected that an observation deck had already been built in Vikram’s Territory.

Before, when they were trailing far behind, it wouldn’t trigger the alarm, but when they truly got within a hundred meters.

The alarm immediately sounded in the territory. Archy and Ranzy quickly looked towards the intruder.

Sophia, Divya and Anjali, who were still in the territory, also knew what was happening and immediately ran to the observation room to check the situation.

Speaking of which, the alarm sound was indeed a bit loud so that it could be heard from anywhere in the territory.

Even outside the territory, some movement could be heard.

The few people who were secretly approaching the territory realized something was wrong and immediately took off running…