My Doomsday Farming Truck - Chapter 80

From a distance, Arther was able to make out the structure of the building, it was vast in the area but from all sides was camouflaged with high trees, even the road and checkpost were similarly camouflaged. According to Rose, these trees were planted by the military itself for avoiding the satellites, but now these things have grown to such an extent that almost the entire building of the warehouse is covered in green. If not for its special reinforced structure the damage from these vines and roots would have worn out the building.

Arther gestured John to slowly drive forward, as they got nearer Arther was able to clearly see many details. What caught his attention was the vast greenery of vines covering the entire building forming a net-like structure. On the vines, there are beautiful blooming purple flowers creating fascinating scenery.

But seeing this scenery Arther was not happy instead he was more tensed, in the apocalypse there is a rule among the explorers that is the more something is beautiful the more dangerous it will be.

And same does for these vines, Rose and her team were attacked by this same thing. This is a type of vine monster that uses its flowers to attract prey and then uses the hidden thorny vines to attack. If they want to enter the warehouse they will have to find some way to get rid of this thing.

According to Rose, the maintenance team was attacked by this thing in the night time indicating that it might be nocturnal, and it didn’t harm anything or anyone inside the warehouse building.. Arther didn’t quite understand the reason behind this.

Rose and her team were attacked when returning from their patrol, their team was comprised of one forest guard, three army men, and the vice-captain(Rose), they uses the humvee with a heavy machinegun on top for patrol. From this, he knew one thing that it was very strong to be able to defeat a team of six fully equipped people.

After he was able to observe the details properly he asked John to drive a bit further away from the building and then he went to the medical room to ask few things, Rose.

In the Medical room, when Arther entered Rose was sitting on the stool with her legs on the medical table barefooted, looking at the scenery outside the small window, from her complicated looks anyone can discern that she had some shadow of this place where she used to work before, might be a bit scared, pitying herself for not having any other choice and also mocking Arther and his team for their suicidal behavior of coming here even after her waring.

Arther didn’t seem to notice this as he went in front of her, seeing him she turned her attention towards him with a mocking smile on her face,

“Why are you here? I have told you everything I knew about.”, Rose spoke and then moved her attention away again.

“You surely underestimate your knowledge, looking at you I can tell you are very scared of those vines.”

“I’m, so what? Try fighting them yourself and you will have the nightmares too.”

“I am not a fool to do so. I have a way to defeat that thing but I will need your help.”

Hearing this piqued her interest, even though scared she would definitely not give up the chance to avenge her fallen teammates. And if they really can defeat this thing then those insides can also be rescued.

“What do you want me to do?”, she looked at Arther with a bit of caution and hope.

Seeing that she agreed he gestured her to follow,

From the day she was caught by Arther, this was the first time for her to exit the medical room, and she was truly surprised seeing how luxurious this bus was. Arther led her directly to the driver’s cabin and gestured her to sit in the co-passenger seat under the puzzled eyes of John.

Then under her shocked eyes, he took out his gun from beneath the passenger seat and opened the insurance, and hung it over the shoulder. Ignoring the inquiring and shocked gaze of Rose he started talking, “For how long have you been stationed here?”

Seeing that Arther was not going to explain to her the origin of these weapons she was a bit tensed but still decided to answer, “For more than a month.”

“So you must know the details about the surrounding forest right?”

“Yes.”

“Then is there any source of water nearby?”

Hearing this Rose thought for a few seconds before answering, “There is a small river in the west from where the warehouse gets its water supply, but it is at a considerably long distance.”

“Other than that? anything that can be considered a water source such as a lake, pond, accumulated rainwater?”

“There is a swamp at around 500m on the opposite side of the warehouse, the surface of this swamp is filled with stagnant water around the year, and it is filled with alligators”

Hearing this a faint glint passed through Arther’s eyes, “Have you found anything unusual in the swamp in the past few days?”

“Usually we don’t patrol in that direction since it is a natural barrier, the last time it was inspected by the previous maintenance team 3month ago.”

Hearing this Arther went into deep thoughts when he opened his eyes he was determined, “Lead us there and drive around. Try avoiding those vines as much as possible”

After being given his orders he hurriedly went to the upper deck where his mother has moved out three barrels of fuel. When he arrived his mother just came out of the greenhouse.

“Hey Arther, what happened is everything ok?”

“Yes, everything seems to be ok. I think we will need more fuel. How much extra fuel do we have in storage?”

“There are 4 more barrels of diesel.”

“OK, can you help me take them out of the storage? Take out all the fuel and place it in the kitchen, ask Aunt Mey and Sis for help.”

Without waiting for his mother to ask further questions he hurried towards the bunker. When they reach the swamp there might be a battle. He doesn’t know what are the current conditions of the swamp, but he has some basic idea of it. If not for those vines he would have never tried to come to this type of place.

On the roof, he first asked his father and Nanny to be on alert for any danger and then went to check on the ballista.