Chapter 354 - 199: Terrifying Thunderstorm Night! Invading the School! The Bloodthirsty Vine King’s Revenge

Chapter 354: Chapter 199: Terrifying Thunderstorm Night! Invading the School! The Bloodthirsty Vine King’s Revenge

At the same time, the man on the floor, his arm half-eaten, also began to sit up...

Vines were sprouting from his mouth as well.

Zhou Dong was completely stunned.

For a moment, his mind went completely blank.

As a student who had experienced the incident in the square, he naturally knew about the existence of Parasites and Bloodthirsty Vines.

The instant he got a clear look at the scene, he knew what they were...

’The Bloodthirsty Vines... they’ve invaded the school again?’

’The Parasites are back!’

"AHHH!!!"

Zhou Dong let out a scream like a pig being slaughtered, spun around, and bolted.

Only now did he realize that the lumpy texture on the stairs wasn’t trash, but rather the vines that had snaked their way up.

The noises he had heard earlier were also from the Bloodthirsty Vines and the Parasites.

"Captain, Captain..."

Zhou Dong scrambled frantically down the stairs, roaring at the top of his lungs, trying to warn his teammates that the Bloodthirsty Vines had invaded again.

But the sound of the thunderstorm outside drowned out everything.

And how could the Bloodthirsty Vines, whose intelligence was now on par with humans, be willing to let their prey escape so easily?

Their vines had already covered the entire Xingde Building.

Letting Zhou Dong come up unscathed was merely a predator allowing its prey to walk right into a cage.

Now that the prey had wandered in, how could it possibly escape?

Zhou Dong had just set foot on the stairs and hadn’t even taken a second step before the vines on the floor instantly wrapped around him.

Zhou Dong collapsed, and the half-bag of coffee he clutched in his hand spilled across the floor...

The entire Xingde Building... had completely fallen!

Scenes like this were playing out in every corner of the school.

Under the cover of the downpour, countless vines crept silently toward any place with a human presence, including the other academic buildings, the dorms, and even the gymnasium.

The only exception was the faculty apartment building where Chen Chong resided. There wasn’t a single vine within a one-kilometer radius.

It was as if the Bloodthirsty Vine King had done this intentionally, planning to parasitize and devour everyone else in the school before finally dealing with him.

Like savoring a feast, one always saves the most delicious part for last.

This was the Bloodthirsty Vine King’s revenge, and its way of torturing Chen Chong...

...

CREAK—

"Brother Chong, checking on the livestock again?"

Xu Jun, sitting on the sofa, looked over at Chen Chong as he walked out of the bathroom.

Chen Chong nodded. "Yeah. I used the Fence Card while I was at it. It should speed up the wild goats’ growth rate a little more."

The livestock in the bathroom, the fish in the pond, and the crops on the farm were their most important resources at the moment.

Chen Chong checked on them every night before bed, only resting after confirming that everything was in order.

"Wang Biao and Jia Wen have already gone to bed. Why are you still up?"

"I can’t really sleep. We’ve been cooped up on campus these last few days, so I haven’t used much energy. By the way, Brother Chong, there’s something I wanted to tell you."

"What is it?" Chen Chong asked, sitting down on the sofa.

Xu Jun hesitated for a moment before saying, "I don’t know if I’m just imagining things, but I think I just smelled blood."

"Huh?" Chen Chong paused. "Blood?"

Xu Jun nodded. "Yeah. I was on the balcony for a bit, watching the storm. I got curious if I’d smell anything different by activating my Scent Tracking in the rain, so I gave it a shot."

"I smelled the earth, and the grass and trees. But I also caught a very faint scent of blood... though I’m not entirely sure."

"You know how it is. My Scent Tracking can pick up scent molecules in the air, but the ability is much less effective in the rain..."

Of course, Chen Chong knew. If he hadn’t, he would have died during his first encounter with the Blood-tooth Python by the river.

They had been less than two hundred meters apart at the time, and he had only escaped by using the light rain and the river for cover.

Even though it was only drizzling back then, it proved that a snake’s Perception of smells drops sharply in the rain, to say nothing of a downpour like this one.

"I smelled a bit of blood on the air. It was very faint, so faint I’m starting to wonder if I imagined it. Brother Chong, do you think I’m just being paranoid?"

Chen Chong fell silent.

Xu Jun’s Scent Tracking had an enormous range. At full power, he could easily pick up every scent on campus.

With so many teams moving through the jungle every day, it was inevitable that some would get injured and bleed. Smelling blood should have been perfectly normal.

Furthermore, the first floor housed the traditional medicine room, which constantly reeked of blood, making it even more normal. But...

This was a rainy day. For Xu Jun to be able to smell blood through the downpour, it probably meant something was wrong.

"Ah Jun, did you smell the herbs from the medicine room?"

Xu Jun was taken aback. "I did. The rain diluted the scent, but I can still faintly smell it. But... compared to the smell of the herbs, the scent of blood is more intense, yet also very thin. That’s why I’m suspicious."

"Let’s go!" Chen Chong said, picking up his Blood Eye Blade.

"Go?" Xu Jun was stunned. "Go where?"

"To patrol outside."

Xu Jun was surprised. "Go running around outside this late at night? Is it really that serious, Brother Chong? What if I was mistaken?"

Chen Chong’s expression was grim.

If it were just Xu Jun mentioning the smell of blood, he might have hesitated to go check it out.

But Chen Chong remembered a piece of intel from a few days ago...

[The Bloodthirsty Vine is extremely vengeful. It will likely retaliate after its injuries have healed. It will be mostly recovered in three days.]

By his count, it had now been three days since he received that intel.