Chapter 40
The moonlight was obscured by thick clouds, and the lights in Area E seemed even brighter.
In the open space at the edge of the area, several tents used for surveillance were standing there crookedly, and empty wine bottles and leftover cans were scattered around the campfire. Everything seemed extremely relaxed, as if this place was regarded as a holiday camp. Obviously, they did not expect that someone would dare to attack in the middle of the night.
Jiang Zihan half-crouched behind the cover, while the others had already taken their positions with their weapons, surrounding them and encircling them. The war beasts blocked the retreat route on the east side, not giving them any time to activate the alarm.
Lu Chenyuan approached the crowd and whispered, "They have drones. Be careful not to be discovered."
This kind of thing might cause a lot of noise if done by a human, but it is just right to leave it to a war beast.
In the darkness, a black shadow flashed by, like a flowing shadow, quickly flashing into the camp. Only a few muffled groans were heard from the tent, and then the shadow came out with light cat steps.
The little wolf cub lay at her feet, purring excitedly. Jiang Zihan gently pressed its little head: "Shh, don't alert the snake."
The encirclement quietly closed in. A drunken anchorman, sitting in his car, boasted to the camera, "Area F? There's not even a proper base there. It's just a garbage dump for trash and beasts. We can take it down in no time!"
He thought of the abundant supplies he had seen with the drone, and his throat churned. Soon those supplies would belong to them.
As soon as he finished speaking, he suddenly felt a chill on his back.
The livestream's comments suddenly paused for a moment, and then pairs of eyes lit up in the darkness, like cold will-o'-the-wisp fires rapidly approaching. The comments began to sound a warning, but the host, still drunk, didn't react. He slowly turned around, but froze for a second.
A huge black panther stood silently behind him, baring its sharp white fangs. His hands and feet suddenly became cold, and the air seemed to be stagnant.
When he reacted and wanted to sound the alarm, a voice rang out from the shadows: "Don't move, unless you want to see whether you can run faster or our guns are faster."
The anchor's forehead was covered in sweat, his face pale with fear, and he raised his hands tremblingly: "I... I just came here to broadcast live..."
"Really?" Jiang Zihan sneered, dropping a stone next to the drone. "Then this is also a live broadcast prop?"
The war beasts emerged from the shadows, and the streamer instantly realized they were seeking revenge. He could only crouch down with his head in his hands, watching them slowly march toward the base.
She patted Xiaoyue's neck and said, "Let's get started."
The White Wolf King raised his head and howled, the wolf pack moved, and the ground of the entire E-area base began to tremble.
When the anchor in the base woke up, he was surrounded by a group of war beasts. The anchor who had just rushed out of the tent ran head-on into a huge silver-white wall and screamed: "What the hell!"
Xiaoyue's front paws smashed the gun in his hand, the wolves behind him arched their backs, the tent collapsed in the rush, the campfire was overturned, and the air was filled with the low growls of battle.
Pairs of ghostly animal eyes are particularly creepy in the moonlight.
Jiang Zihan stood quietly on a high place and looked down. Lu Chenyuan and his team led the team around and quickly disarmed them. The group of anchors had no courage to resist in the panic and were gradually forced to the junction with another area.
Their main intention this time was not to massacre but to drive away.
The system panel in my mind detected the need for this action, and a batch of guns were quickly refreshed in the mall. This seemed like another attempt to cheat points.
It seems that the system finally couldn't sit still because she had deliberately not used any points in the past few days. In the past, it would only give her some defective products, but this time it actually gave her brand new ones to tempt her.
She closed the panel without changing her expression, and suddenly caught a glimpse of an anchor trembling as he raised a flare gun. She narrowed her eyes slightly, and her mental power quickly spread over. He stopped moving, and the next second a vine entangled his wrist, and he was pulled to the ground.
Jiang Zihan withdrew his hand, and the roots of the strangler fig broke out of the soil. Those thick roots were wrapped with thin threads of spiritual power, as if they were given new life.
The anchors slumped to the ground, faces etched with horror. Those roots, which should have been rooted in the soil, were actually defying the laws of nature and moving across the ground like humans. The over-ten-meter-tall trees made it nearly impossible for them to breathe, forcing them to retreat frantically.
"Go! Retreat quickly!"
The base manager's roar was quickly drowned out by the rustling of leaves. Under Jiang Zihan's mental control, the strangler fig quickly took up a favorable position. Its branches and vines suddenly grew rapidly, overturning the concrete floor and exposing the soil beneath. Aerial roots on the other side wove into a web, whipping the anchors in another direction.
Jiang Zihan threw the cultivation solution, which spread across the soil. The strangler figs instantly took root, quickly claiming the entire area as their own. Their aerial roots rapidly transformed into wood, and in the blink of an eye, they became a natural barrier.
By the time the gathering members had cleaned up the battlefield, the E-area base was empty.
The silver-haired wolves were patrolling in shifts, and the remaining useless supplies were all burned to ashes by the red flames.
A certain anchor hiding in an armored vehicle suddenly swallowed his saliva. On the screen of the vehicle's radar, the anchor signals representing his side in the entire E zone went out one by one. Those people actually confiscated all of their anchor bracelets!
This raid was more like a carefully planned game of expulsion.
The mountainous area in the south was occupied by war beasts, the strangler figs in the west took root comfortably, and the supplies in the northernmost building complex were cleared out. The entire E area was like a slowly closing spider web, and there was gradually no place for them to set foot.
The anchors huddled together in the narrow street, cursing and swearing, yet not daring to cross the stairs. Without enough food, they would soon find themselves in a difficult situation, forced to either beg for mercy from Area F or move further in.
By the time the military received the news, Area E had already been completely gathered by the gathering place.
When the reconnaissance plane arrived overhead, what came into view was not the bloody scene as expected. The original cement factory area was replaced by a lush and exotic plant ecological area.
The roots of the strangler fig tree are entwined in abandoned buildings, vines are wrapped around broken concrete, and fluorescent flowers are blooming.
Several war beasts were leisurely moving around. Zhuifeng was stretching his body in the sun. Shunying, who was of similar size, was lying not far away, slapping the ground with his tail, and the next second he pounced on it playfully.
"What on earth does she want to do?" Several military staff officers stared at the screen in confusion, and the entire command center fell into a strange silence.
One of the staff officers tentatively suggested, "Perhaps... she wants to transform the ecological zone? This kind of environment is more suitable for the activities of war beasts. If someone outside wants to attack, they will have to face a double attack from war beasts and alien plants as soon as they enter."
They looked at each other and saw the surprise in each other's eyes.
Isn't this a replica of the dense forest before it was burned? Even military aircraft dared not fly high in the area.
The outside world was talking about this expulsion, and everyone was worried that she wanted to follow the example of anchors in other districts to establish her own area of power, but Jiang Zihan picked up the scalpel again.
Suddenly, the reconnaissance plane captured a shocking scene, and all the war beasts looked up in the direction of the camera at the same time.
In a dimension that machines cannot perceive, an invisible net woven by mental power quietly spreads out on the ground, covering the entire area. The branches of the strangler fig suddenly break through the air and grow, and the sharp vines instantly pierce the reconnaissance plane!
The prying eyes disappeared.
Jiang Zihan withdrew his mental strength and turned his attention back to the Moonlight Rabbit.
She was trying hard to imitate the frequency of the mental ripples that emerged from the tips of the Moonlight Rabbit's ears. When she adjusted to complete synchronization, the clinic was suddenly enveloped by a silver light. The running instrument card flickered for a few moments and then went completely dark.
She looked up at the silver spiritual threads suspended in the air. These barrier nets woven from two energies could isolate instruments and had extremely strong interference with electronic signals.
The mechanical sound in my head slowly froze—
[Warning——Failed to obtain spiritual power——]
[Task...stop...issue...release...]
After a few seconds, the system panel turned completely gray.
Jiang Zihan raised an eyebrow. He didn't expect that this mental barrier was so useful. Although it couldn't last for too long, it was a huge improvement to be able to block the system at the right time.
The system, which used to be aloof and pretending to be dead, has been particularly attentive in recent days. The refreshed tasks are quite routine, as if to please her. It even includes the task of combing the fur of war beasts, but she still ignored it.
Jiang Zihan squinted his eyes and stroked the soft fur of Moonlight Rabbit: "You are really my lucky star."
Deep in the sea of consciousness, the completely neglected system emitted intermittent electronic noises and silent wails.
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