Just three minutes after everyone left the botanical garden, the cab of the oil tanker was ignited.
It's also possible that Huang Zhao threw too many magnifying glasses and lighters into the driver's compartment when he jumped out of the car.
"It's really on fire!"
"City Lord Niu Wow!"
Seeing that Huang Zhao seemed to have known this would happen all along, Huang Mao and the others showered him with praise.
Thick smoke was already billowing from the plant pavilion, and the tanker truck could explode at any moment.
Although the extent of the oil tanker explosion was unknown, Huang Zhao ordered everyone to retreat again.
It seems that the 500-meter distance between the oil tanker carrying over 30 tons of fuel and the explosion was far too dangerous.
The group then retreated about 500 meters to a distance of one kilometer.
As soon as I stood still, I saw a blinding white light suddenly appear at the location of the rare plant garden in the distance.
A mushroom cloud shot into the sky!
Flames soared dozens of meters into the air, and the fire was still exceptionally dazzling even in the daytime.
Then everyone felt a slight tremor in the ground, and some large and small pieces of oil tanker debris flew out from inside the plant pavilion.
The oil tanker exploded!
"BOOM!"
Only then did the sound of the tanker truck explosion reach everyone's ears.
The sound of the explosion traveled for tens of kilometers.
The loud bang of the explosion could be heard throughout the city of Shuguang and even most of the Linjiang District.
Jie and his team, who were rescuing survivors on the campus of East China University of Political Science and Law, 10 kilometers away, turned to look north after hearing the loud noise.
Did the city lord just launch a missile into the botanical garden?
Given the city lord's wealth before the apocalypse, it's possible that he might actually be able to obtain such a weapon through some means.
It took a lot to save the blond guy.
Brother Jie wanted to catch the blond-haired guy and give him a good dressing down; he was such a troublemaker.
They then urged the group from East China University of Political Science and Law to speed up their efforts, hoping to achieve better results and restore Huang Zhao's impression of the Wild Horse Club.
Centered on the botanical garden, within a radius of tens of kilometers.
All the human survivors were curious about what had happened in the area where the explosion came from.
All the zombies within range that heard the noise went berserk, causing great suffering to many survivors who were searching for supplies outside.
They hurriedly hid to avoid the rampaging zombies.
Fortunately, the explosions didn't last long, and the zombies that hadn't found their targets gradually calmed down.
Inside the botanical garden, Huang Zhao hadn't expected the tanker explosion to be so powerful.
He quickly urged everyone to continue their escape.
"Holy crap, get even further away!"
To avoid being hit by debris or injured by subsequent secondary or tertiary explosions.
A wave of heat swept over them from behind, causing them to stagger and fall.
Huang Mao was even blown off King Kong's shoulder and fell flat on his backside.
"Lord, is this what you were planning to use to save us?"
The six members of the blond-haired squad stared in disbelief at the mushroom cloud that had not yet dissipated.
He swallowed hard and asked Huang Zhao.
If the oil tanker had exploded while they were still in the botanical garden, they would definitely be blown to bits by now.
Huang Zhao himself underestimated the power of the oil tanker explosion.
I'm only a level three ability user; if I were blown up like that, I'd probably be dead.
This thing is really powerful!
So I was carrying a lot of bombs!
But he still tried to remain calm and said:
"Basic operation, don't be silly!"
King Kong was so frightened that he screamed and jumped around in circles with the blond-haired man.
He almost trampled the other team members to death.
Huang Mao hurriedly stepped forward to comfort Jingang.
"Don't act crazy here!"
After a long while, only a still-burning sea of fire remained in the botanical garden, and no more explosions were heard.
'That mutated vine should be dead for good now!'
Huang Zhao watched as the once lush vegetation was completely burned away by the flames of the explosion, leaving a barren landscape hundreds of meters outward from the explosion's epicenter.
He addressed the still somewhat shaken crowd:
"Let's go check if that mutated vine is dead."
"And while you're at it, pick up a level 2 energy crystal!"
The level 2 crystal, when converted into Dawn City points, is 144 points.
This made Huang Mao and the others quite envious, as they didn't even have a single level-two crystal.
Unfortunately, the rewards from killing level 2 creatures are far more valuable than the brain-teaser of killing over a hundred level 0 zombies.
Avoiding the still-burning area, the group returned to the site of the tanker explosion.
There was no trace of the tanker truck at the scene; it was instantly blasted into fragments that flew in all directions.
There is a pit on the ground that is about ten meters deep and more than twenty meters in diameter.
This demonstrated the immense power of the explosion to everyone.
All the surrounding trees and vegetation were burned to ashes immediately after the explosion.
The original tree where the vines were located is now just a stump on the ground.
The tree stump was still burning, and a section of vine about half a meter thick and more than ten meters long lay on the ground next to it.
This must be the mutated vine that attacked the six blond-haired men.
The mutated vines lying on the ground, apart from some burn marks, still maintained basic integrity, but they looked quite listless.
Even when they noticed Huang Zhao and the others approaching, they showed no reaction whatsoever.
Huang Zhao headed straight for the mutated vine, a spatial blade materializing in his hand.
Even when the mutated vines resisted, Huang Zhao was not afraid at all.
It seemed that the explosion had exhausted the energy of the mutated vines until Huang Zhao cut them off at the root.
Even when the vine itself was grasped in hand, there was no resistance.
"Unexpectedly, even the most resilient mutant plants couldn't withstand a tanker truck explosion at close range."
I'll have to go back and look through the documents to see how I can utilize all these tanker trucks.
He was just about to put the mutated vines into his special ability space.
Huang Zhao suddenly remembered that Huang Mao and the others were still watching him, so he stopped what he was doing.
"Do you still want to continue the mission?"
Huang Zhao turned to look at the six people and one beast and asked.
"We'd like to go back to the city to rest first, so let's call it a day."
"Me too, that's so damn exciting."
"Let's go back...it's too dangerous outside."
He overheard his teammate, who had been severely beaten by the blond-haired man while escaping from the botanical garden, speaking.
The other five people inwardly grumbled:
You're the most dangerous one!
Brother Mao almost sent you to your death twice already.
"Then you should go back first. I have something to do, so I won't see you off."
"Yes, Lord City Lord."
After hesitating for a moment, the blond-haired man asked Huang Zhao:
"Lord, what should we do with this Vajra?"
Thinking that if the city lord was unwilling to take it in, he would have no choice but to kill it with a heavy heart.
As for leaving Dawn City and wandering the world with King Kong and his beast?
Who would want to live without a cell phone and utilities? Huang Mao certainly didn't want to endure it for another day.
He waited expectantly for Huang Zhao's reply.
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