Wasteland: I Awakened A Plant System

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At this moment, Vikram was resting on the sofa, he unhurriedly opened his chat to check messages.

[Abhishek: Vikram Boss, something big has happened. This time you really have to help me, or my life will be in danger.]

Seeing the immediate cry for help, Vikram’s brows furrowed instantly.

Mainly because this guy was usually too dishonest, Vikram’s impression of him was really not good.

If it weren’t too troublesome to develop a new double agent, he would have wanted to kill him and replace him long ago.

[Vikram: Say what you need to say, let out whatever you have to let out.]

He replied impatiently, intending to close the message and leave him hanging for a while.

Unexpectedly, the other party’s typing speed was astonishing, instantly replying.

[Abhishek: My undercover identity is about to be discovered!!!]

[Vikram: Oh.]

Abhishek was a little happy when he saw Vikram reply so quickly.

But when he saw the content of the message, his heart immediately sank.

Now, the only one who could help him solve this problem was basically Vikram.

If even he didn’t care, then he was surely dead.

Thinking of this, he quickly replied.

[Abhishek: Vikram Boss, this time you really can’t ignore me.]

[Abhishek: If I’m discovered, I’ll definitely be controlled by the people of Brown Wood Shelter.]

[Abhishek: At that time, if my chat history and wristband are known by the people in Brown Wood Shelter, you definitely won’t escape unscathed either.]

Vikram raised an eyebrow at this, then scoffed.

“Threatening me with that?”

After the chat ended, he would just order Abhishek to delete the chat history.

As for the wristband, there was no need to worry either.

The enslavement command for that wristband was sent through the system; ordinary people wouldn’t react even if they got it. In their hands, it was at most a piece of iron.

It was even less possible to use it to find out information about himself.

As for whether Abhishek would go down with him?

He didn’t care at all.

After all, on the day he put the wristband on him, Vikram had already ordered him not to reveal his information in any form.

The terrifying thing about the wristband was this: with this command given, the other party would be punished by the wristband even if they silently thought about it.

Vikram, emboldened, casually replied with an “Whatever” and then closed the chat.

He wasn’t actually planning to completely abandon Abhishek as an informant.

Vikram felt that he might be able to get some bargaining chips from Abhishek to negotiate with him.

Rather than helping the other party overcome difficulties for free.

“Ring ring ring!”

When the long-unanswered communication sound rang out.

Vikram grinned; he knew he had guessed correctly.

He didn’t answer Abhishek’s call, but instead went back online to chat.

As he expected, as soon as his avatar lit up, Abhishek immediately apologized.

Then he offered enough sincerity.

[Abhishek: (Coordinates).]

[Vikram: This is?]

[Abhishek: A resource point. Consider it a gift to you, old man.]

[Abhishek: I only ask that Vikram Boss save me this one time.]

Abhishek, on the Brown Wood Shelter side, was almost grinding his yellow teeth to dust.

This resource point was one he had discovered alone while leading a patrol outside.

He had never dared to tell anyone else in Brown Wood Shelter.

To this day, only he and the Survivor who had patrolled with him before knew about it.

It could be said that this was his capital for rising in the Shelter later.

He had originally intended to scare Vikram with the wristband matter.

Unexpectedly, the other party didn’t fall for it at all.

Only then did he reluctantly reveal the only and extremely valuable resource point he had.

[Vikram: What type of resource point is this, and how big is it?]

The coordinates had already been given to the other party, so Abhishek had nothing to hide.

[Abhishek: It’s a factory. I don’t know what it produces specifically, but it’s quite large.]

[Abhishek: Boss, I’ve been fair enough. You can’t still ignore me now, can you?]

[Abhishek: As long as I’m alive, won’t all the resources I find eventually be yours? You can’t just watch me die, Boss.]

The reason he sent the coordinates so readily was also because he was the one in a hurry right now.

He had no choice.

Bargaining at this point was less effective than making Vikram happy; perhaps the other party would then consider helping him out.

Although he didn’t yet know how Brown Wood Shelter was identifying spies.

But he believed that since they could conduct a full-scale, undisguised sweep, it definitely wouldn’t be as simple as the previous Survivor had said.

Vikram simply spread the carpet in his hand across the nearly hundred-square-meter living room of his living area, then looked at the messages in the chat and let out a sinister laugh.

“I knew you weren’t honest, you really were hiding good stuff.”

Rubbing his chin, Vikram nodded smugly.

The supplies collected from the Hospital last time had been mostly used up after reinforcing the territory.

Now, he had actually obtained the coordinates of a new resource from Abhishek again, so he couldn’t be happier.

Especially now that the trading market was half-paralyzed, these resources were even more precious.

If it weren’t for the severe toxicity outside after the Black Mist changed, he would have gone out to find resource points himself long ago.

As for the Hospital that hadn’t been fully explored before, Vikram was waiting for to strengthen him fully, and wants to confirm that’s without him, there will be not any issues with his territory.

Since he knew, this journey can also take much time. He was not so worried about the Super Zombie.

But he was worried about what will come after he entered in the super ruin, he has some type of intuition, that ruin musb be something important for him.

“A factory?”

Looking at the message Abhishek gave him, he didn’t rush to offer Abhishek advice, but instead muttered to himself.

It wasn’t the gas station or oil depot he wanted most, but it was still tempting enough.

Although Abhishek didn’t specify what kind of factory it was, Vikram imagined that the supplies inside wouldn’t be bad.

For him, the worst it could be was a lumber mill.

Even if wood wasn’t of much use to him, the machinery and equipment in the factory, like lathes, forklifts, or some precious metals, would be enough to replenish many of his supplies.

If he was lucky, he might even find an oil depot or similar places in the factory.

Vikram chuckled. Abhishek wasn’t entirely honest, but his ability to get things done was indeed quite good.

He had also reaped many good things from him.

Since he had already gotten what he wanted, Vikram didn’t mind listening to Abhishek’s request.

After a brief exchange, he quickly learned about the peculiarity of the interrogation from Abhishek.

The interrogation was supposed to be handled by the high-level personnel of their Shelter.

But Abhishek, who was also a high-level member, had only just found out that the interrogation would fall to him.

Just this point alone, Vikram could almost 100% confirm that Abhishek had fallen into the list of suspects.

The problem now was how they specifically determined whether the interrogated person was a spy through a few simple questions.

If he couldn’t figure this out, he would have no way to find a countermeasure, let alone keep Abhishek alive to continue working for him.

Thinking of this, Vikram immediately fell into deep thought.

First, he ruled out using clues from inside the Hospital to extract information from these members.

In the Hospital, the only one who truly knew he had broken in and also knew what he looked like was Andres.

Vikram had personally seen that Andres captured by a Legendary-grade zombie.

Although he hadn’t personally seen Andres killed, after such a long time without returning to Brown Wood Shelter, he must be dead.

Moreover, after entering the Hospital, he never acted with Abhishek again, so it was clearly impossible to get information from Abhishek through ordinary means.

“Then it’s only possible that they used some auxiliary tools?”

“Truth serum? Or a lie detector or something?” Vikram didn’t doubt at all that such things would appear in the Wasteland World.

After all, the zombie virus serum had popped out of previous supply boxes, so a small lie detector was nothing.

Thinking of this, Vikram immediately sent a message asking the other party to reconfirm the environment of the interrogation room.

After getting confirmation that there were no actions like making the interrogated person drink water or giving injections, the possibility of truth serum was basically ruled out.

He casually purchased a Dreamveil Bloom Fruit from the Mall and sent it to Abhishek using his only remaining daily trade slot.

This rare small fruit after being consumed, calmed the mind and stabilized emotional fluctuations. More importantly, it created a natural mental harmony that concealed abnormal reactions, making even advanced lie detectors, or abilities designed to sense deception, unable to determine whether the user was lying or telling the truth.

[Abhishek: Boss, what’s the use of this thing you gave me?]

[Vikram: Don’t worry about it so much. When it’s your turn to be interrogated, just eat this, and I guarantee you won’t be discovered.]

After saying that, he was too lazy to explain to the other party and directly closed the chat.

Of course, he was just making that up.

He couldn’t fully determine the other party’s interrogation methods, and this thing was basically the greatest help Vikram could provide.

If it was a heart rate lie detector interrogation, that would be best, as this fruit could keep him calm and maintain his heart rate.

This way, he would most likely survive.

However, all of this was based on the premise that the other party’s method of judging spies was using a lie detector.

If it wasn’t what Vikram thought, then sorry, Abhishek could only die.

If he told the other party his baseless speculation, he might just keep bothering him.

It was better to give him a definite answer to reassure the other party.

The rest was up to Abhishek to pray that Brown Wood Shelter’s interrogation method was a heart rate lie detector.

As for why he didn’t buy more advanced tools to directly interfere with the lie detector?

Because the price was too expensive and he only gain 200 points after creating the Void Purge Vine, and Vikram was reluctant.

Secondly, buying such a thing would still create a big flaw.

He also told him, after the interrogation, he should gives him the details of the Hospital ruin.