My Doomsday Farming Truck - Chapter 81

He first unloaded and then reloaded the ballista with a new Javelin. He then handed over the control to his father.

Going down the barrels of fuel were already placed in the kitchen by the ladies. When the MCV was handed over to Arther he has requested these ten barrels of fuel from Robert, buying soo much fuel at a time is not possible at any place but with the help of Jack from the black market, they were able to acquire it. In their previous journey, they had used up three barrels for the MCV with six more remainings.

Arther checked the barrels and then went to the driver’s cabin, at this time the MCV was driving through the forest around the warehouse, there was an obvious growth of tree and plants. According to the distance Rose has told them they must have been able to reach there till now, but due to taking a detour and the bad road condition, it was taking more time.

After 10 minutes of driving they exited the forest and in front of them was a vast open area. The scenery in front of them shocked all of them since this must be the place where the swamp was located but now there was obvious land in front of them, with tall grass growing over the area. There were even a few tree-like things growing in between the grass.

“Where is the swamp?”, Arther looked at the shocked look of Rose and asked her with a heavy tone..

Hearing his voice she looked at him with pitiful eyes full of disbelief, she was the most confused one as according to the previous records they have received this swap was so big and dangerous that it has can be used as a natural barrier against the modern soldiers, along with this it was also treasured by those animal enthusiasts since this swamp treasured many rare species of alligators. Such a vast swap has vanished out of thin air, this can only be considered a joke if told to anyone. Rose didn’t know what to say.

Before she could speak anything there was a knock on the cabin door, Arther gave a stare to Rose before opening the door, outside the door Nanny was standing with a pretty serious face.

“Nanny? Why are you here?”, seeing her here Arther was confused.

“Brother Arther, uncle send me here. From above we have seen something you might need to know.”, seeing that Arther seemed to be in an angry mood Nanny bowed her head down and spoke hurriedly.

“Hmm, what is it?”, Arther impatiently asked her to speak.

“The land in front of us is not real.”

“What does this mean??”, hearing Arther was shocked and confused. It was real? but we can see it clearly, it seems to be real.

“You better come and have a look yourself.”

Arther hurriedly ran to the roof where his father was observing something through the binoculars, seeing Arther hurrying up he passed the binoculars to him. Even without the binoculars, Arther was able to find out the shocking truth, the grass field which obscured their way stretches out for a few meters, inside this field the surface is covered by intervened vines and when observed carefully from the binoculars Arther was surprised to find that theses vines were growing on the surface of the swamp while the grass field has actually grown above this vines as camouflage, the vines are intervened on the surface like a green carpet for a distance when he observed the distance he found that in the distance there was a huge purplish-white flower growing above the vines, the petals are opened widely and laid around as if a carpet welcoming the guests.

Even Arther was a bit tempted by the beauty of this flower, but he hurriedly removed this thought from his mind.

After coming out of his stupor he was surprised by the fact of how well this thing has camouflaged itself. After confirming the condition below he went to the driver’s room and asked John to drive a little bit nearer the grass patch, know that he knew what his enemy was as he wasn’t much worried.

After their struggle at the beginning of the apocalypse, humans have learned to survive and had found out ways to defeat this type of monster. There are many types of vine monsters such as blood-sucking vines, thorny vines, elemental vines, soul devourers, etc. discovered by humans in the apocalypse. Compared to those monstrous things the one in front of them can be considered as an infant, this vine has mutated and evolved so early must be due to the resources from the swamp.

Until the vines feel their presence they are completely safe so they will have only one chance to attack the main body that is the huge flower before they will be discovered. To kill this thing Arther is going to use the most common and crude way of burning it, flames are the natural enemies of plants. He didn’t worry about starting a forest fire since below these vines is water which will reduce the effect of fire after burning the vines and even if the surrounding trees do get on fire he isn’t much affected.

Soon a plan was ready in his mind. Just a few small changes were needed to be done.

He came to the outside of the MCV and came to the fuel cap and with a thought from his the metal cap covering the fuel tank was melted and with the addition of new metal from the storage, a metal pie was extended both inside the tank and outside after the pipe was extended enough he removed the water pump attached to the water tank and attached it to the outer end of the pipe.

He then went to the inside of the MCV and directly opened an opening in the fuel tank from inside wide enough to pour the fuel from the barrels, this might seem crude but was definitely useful. Then he gestured towards the ladies sitting in the living to come and get on work, whenever the fuel in the tank is reduced they had to fill it from the barrels. Of course, the weapons were left in the living room. He then took out the rubber pipe used for pumping water and passed it to Nanny on the roof, while holding on end the other end was attached to the pump.

After securing every joint with a little bit of metal he prepare an ordinary metal pressure booster. After connecting it with the end of the pipe on the roof everything was ready. With a countdown of three, the pump was turned on, and in a few seconds with the help of the pressure booster the fuel was pushed forward out of the pipe at a long distance, the fuel fell from the sky on the vines like rain, not feeling and life activity from this rain the vines remained stationary which helped Arther a lot. After a full half, an hour of raining the fuel on the vines and emptying all the barrels leaving only a small amount of fuel for the MCV in the tank the land in front was completely layered with the fuel, the fuel has successfully reached the white flower too and Arther has even dumped almost half-barrel there.

After finishing this he changed everything to normal, of course, the water pump and pipe needed to be changed to new ones but for now, it was not needed. Arther has dared to use up all this fuel because Rose told him there was an ample amount of fuel in the warehouse.

Then the MCV slowly retreated to a safe range. On the roof, Arther was holding the HK416 aiming at the flower swaying in the distance after getting wet by the fuel rain.

Bam!

Bam!

Bam!

Three single shots from the assault rifle, the first shot punched a hole in the flower body in the upper part and passed through. While the second one hit the root of the flower and also successfully ignited the fuel on the ground, and the third shot followed the second one grazing past the stalk of the flower tearing half of it.

Immediately the ire spread on the entire area wet by fuel vigorously burning down the vines.