Wasteland: I Awakened A Plant System - Chapter 207: Darkness

But as luck would have it, just as he pushed open the heavy iron door of the stairwell, he was astonished to find that a long blade aimed directly at his heart was waiting for him outside the door.

Beside the long blade, a powerful, heavy hammer also swung towards him.

The opponent clearly had no intention of letting Vikram live. At this moment, Vikram could even feel the cold wind brought by the weapons, stinging his cheeks.

In the nick of time, Vikram quickly rolled backward, narrowly escaping the terrifying blow.

But before he could even catch his breath, an arrow, whistling with a fierce wind, shot towards him from an unknown direction.

Vikram, who had just evaded that dangerous attack, could only struggle to cope.

Caught off guard, he drew his long blade and struck the arrow.

Fortunately, the arrow’s force was a little less than he expected, and the blade precisely cut the arrow, which was aimed at his forehead, into two pieces.

In an instant, three attacks from different directions were dangerously resolved by Vikram.

“You stinky rat, let’s see how you dodge this arrow.”

In the darkness, a familiar voice rang out.

Before Vikram could recall who was speaking, another sound of rushing wind echoed through the third floor stairwell.

“What?”

“Thud!” Instantly, the arrow struck. Followed by a burning pain in his shoulder.

Realizing what had happened, Vikram did not panic. He turned his head and fled in another direction.

“Chase him!”

Seeing Vikram slip away, the four had no intention of letting him go. They put all their strength into chasing after him.

However, they completely failed to realize one thing: they were only able to injure Vikram just now because of the element of surprise.

If his focus wasn’t on something else, they wouldn’t even be able to touch him, and their game would be over.

Now, starting to run at the same time, in less than a few seconds, Vikram disappeared into the end of the pitch-black Hospital.

“Damn it, that kid can really run. In the blink of an eye, how did he disappear without a trace?”

“By the way, I didn’t even see his face. Did any of you see what that kid looked like?” Alan, who had shot the first arrow, panted heavily and frowned.

Hearing this, the three shook their heads simultaneously, and Andres’s face turned even more ashen.

“He’s lucky he ran fast, otherwise I would have flayed him alive on the spot,” he said, punching a glass pane, as if that was the only way to vent his anger.

Coming back to their senses, just as the group wanted to continue pursuing Vikram, a strange noise appeared ahead.

“Tap—tap—tap—”

“Footsteps! That stinky rat is still ahead, chase him quickly!!”

Seeing the situation ahead, Andres, who hated Vikram the most, immediately perked up. Without waiting to discuss with his teammates, he rushed directly into the darkness.

Seeing this, the three exchanged glances, about to follow him.

But they were astonished to find that the visibility in the Hospital had significantly decreased again…

“What’s going on?”

“Why has the black fog in this Hospital suddenly gotten so much thicker?” Abel, who noticed something was wrong immediately, asked, puzzled.

At the same time, he extended his hand, holding a torch, forward, and was surprised to find that his vision did not become brighter even as the torch moved closer.

Instead, the torch’s flame seemed to be blown by a gust of wind, dimming considerably.

The other two, who also noticed this, frowned and instinctively took a step back.

“Something seems wrong. This black fog is getting closer and closer to us. Should we still follow Andres?” Alonzo, who always had a hint of disdain in his expression before, spoke.

Looking closely, his eyes had become much more serious, and a cold sweat had broken out on his forehead.

His gaze shifted forward, and as Alonzo said, the range of the black fog was approaching rapidly.

The Hospital, with no lights, was already dark enough, but before, they could still see the path with the torch.

But now, the torch was almost useless, only illuminating about five meters ahead, and that distance was continuously shrinking.

“Speaking… speaking of which, Andres has been in there for so long, why hasn’t he made a sound?”

“Logically, if that kid were caught by Andres, he should have been killed by now. Why hasn’t he returned?”

At this moment, Abel remembered Andres, who had rushed into the darkness.

“Could he have chased him to another floor?”

“How about?”

“We go after him and take a look?” Alan suggested, seeing the two hesitate.

The two shook their heads simultaneously, clearly very hesitant due to the strange situation before them.

Watching the black fog approach step by step, Abel’s eyes were somewhat solemn.

“How about we go around here? It’s too dark ahead. If we go to other floors, the staircase we came from also leads there.”

But Alan seemed unconcerned, apparently not wanting to waste time taking a detour, and then spoke, “When did you two become so timid? What’s so terrifying about this black fog? Three burly men with 40 physiques, what are you afraid of?”

Saying that, he seemed to want to set an example for them. Without waiting for the two to stop him, he walked into the ink-like black fog without looking back.

“See? I told you it’s nothing. Hurry up and follow, lest that kid really takes our supplies home.”

Inside the black fog, Alan’s voice rang out, sounding completely fine.

Seeing this, the two also breathed a sigh of relief, about to enter together.

But just as their left foot stepped into the black fog, Alan’s voice sounded again from ahead, only this time it lacked the previous ease and comfort.

Instead, it was a terrified scream, as if he had seen something horrifying.

“What the hell are you?”

“Damn it, let go of me!”

“My leg!”

“Ah—”

With the last desperate scream echoing through the corridor, Alan’s voice abruptly stopped.

Immediately following was a crisp chewing sound that entered their minds, and the two’s eyes widened instantly.

Seeing this, a chill instantly ran down their spines. Forgetting about Vikram and Andres, they turned and ran away.

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On the other side, on the fourth floor of the hospital.

Vikram, with an arrow still embedded in his shoulder, had fled all the way here.

Compared to the various departments downstairs, this area seemed to be the patient wards.

Holding his wound, Vikram used his Night Vision to casually pick a room and walked in. He then sat down on a hospital bed with relatively clean white sheets.

“Hiss! Damn it, how are these guys even better at being sneaky than me? They ambushed me without making a sound.”

Looking at the injury on his shoulder, Vikram complained.

But those four were still nothing. He didn’t think they had done anything wrong. After all, when it came to resource points, whoever had the ability got the supplies. He was just there to freeload resources, so it was normal to be ambushed by them.

In truth, he shouldn’t have worried about them at all. He could have easily killed all four of them. However, he had run away because, from afar, he had seen a terrifying darkness rapidly approaching them.

The moment he saw that thing, genuine terror gripped his heart. It wasn’t at the same level as the fear he felt toward the Split King, but it was still enough to make him flee without hesitation. Since he was only accompanied by the Phantom Druid at the time, he didn’t want to take any unnecessary risks facing whatever was hidden inside that darkness.

The only thing he was grateful for was that he had remembered to put on his Moonshadow Cloak earlier. Thanks to it, he had become nearly invisible, allowing him to escape while the darkness failed to notice him.

Although his shoulder had been shot by an arrow, the wound wasn’t very deep.

He just glanced at it, and without much hesitation, he reached out and gripped the arrow.

“Hm—” He gritted his teeth and pulled the arrow out of his shoulder in one go.

“System, heal my wound with Plant Essence.”

[Ding! Plant Essence -500. Wound healed.]

“Still as expensive as ever,” Vikram thought to himself. The wound was only a finger-joint deep, but it had cost him 500 Plant Essence.

Fortunately, the system’s healing was still reliable. After spending the Plant Essence, there was no strange feeling left in his shoulder, only a hole in the clothes he was wearing.

He stood up and stretched, thinking to himself, “Alright, since I’ve reached the fourth floor, I can clean up the things here as well.”

By ’clean up,’ he naturally meant transferring useful supplies remotely back to the territory through the trade with his girls.

In reality, the gains from this wave had already filled his pockets, but who would complain about too many free supplies?

Since it was a free meal for him. And it will help him in developing his territory early.

He glanced at the room he was currently in; it was a standard Hospital ward.

The three Hospital beds also indicated that this was just a common ward, so there weren’t many useful things.

But he wasn’t picky. Bed sheets, quilts, and even the iron bed frames were all sent back to the territory with a wave of his hand.

He also didn’t leave behind any tools, it didn’t matter to him whether they were damaged or not.

“I truly am a thrifty and good young man.” Seeing the supplies in the room swept clean, Vikram couldn’t help but admire himself, how quickly he cleaned it, he should be given the award for it.

At the same time, he pushed the door open and walked out without looking back.

Outside the ward, it was quiet. It seemed that the people who had ambushed him earlier were not here.

To be safe, Vikram still glanced at the biological detector.

Unfortunately, affected by the thirty ordinary members downstairs, he couldn’t make any sense of it, which were the four ambushers.

Moreover, in the Hospital, there were not only red dots representing humans but also many flashing light dots.

Those were most likely various Zombies.

Vikram noticed that at this moment, a Zombie’s position on the detector almost overlapped with his, but no living creature appeared before him.

This proved that the Zombie was either downstairs or upstairs.

Having been ambushed once already, Vikram still intended to continue his systematic search for supplies this time. He didn’t want to take even a single risk, the darkness still scared him.

Because of this, his movements were much more cautious than before.

He scanned the overall layout of the Hospital’s fourth floor through his Night Vision.

He found that this floor, apart from a nurse’s station standing in the center of the hall, was entirely composed of patient rooms.

Vikram’s gaze swept over the area and he immediately spotted two monitors quietly lying on the nurse’s station counter.

He naturally wouldn’t let go of such good items, whether they worked or not, and immediately walked towards the nurse’s station.

Just as he was about to reach out and take the monitors, a strange sound came from inside the station, a low, wet gurgling noise, like something viscous moving.

Immediately after, a Zombie suddenly poked its head out.

Vikram, who was already prepared, naturally wasn’t startled.

This Zombie looked unremarkable, but he immediately recognized its origin.

It was the speed type Mutated Zombie that had injured him before, when he was running from that terrifying darkness.

At this moment, this zombie was still wearing a tattered nurse’s uniform, its fabric torn and stained with dark blood. Relying on its incredibly fast speed, it immediately lunged at the approaching Vikram with its claws extended, aiming straight for his throat.

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