Chapter 624: Capture the King First
Fortunately, with the help of ability users, they managed to dig through the tunnel.
The flesh flower slid down from the destroyed second floor of the villa. Its raised petals shrank pitifully. Each petal was about as wide as a floor-to-ceiling window. Its stem and tentacles curled as it dragged its flower head, swaying as it came down from the second floor.
That underground ice layer was once a luxury villa. While most luxury villas have private garages, the developer—mindful of visitors and the need for civil air defense—built a two-level underground garage beneath the complex.
So, by this calculation, the lowest level of the underground garage lay very far below the surface.
The flesh flower’s goal was to move its flower bulb to the second basement level. The process was complicated, because when they dug the ice tunnel, Fatty and the others never expected they would one day need the underground garage. The garage entrance lay sealed under thick ice and snow, and no one ever explored it.
But the dense network of the flesh flower’s roots would definitely find it. That wasn’t something anyone needed to worry about.
Zhan Lian jumped down through the hole, discarding the empty rockets in his hand. He looked at the devastated, empty space.
An Ran, with Little Mint and Doll, still stood there waiting for him.
He smiled and said, “Took down three fighter jets. The rest of the rockets are useless—too damp. When I have time, I’ll make some shells myself. Looks like in the apocalypse, hot weapons are still necessary. I’m going to find Luo Feifan now.”
"Why are you going to find him?" An Ran asked, looking at Zhan Lian curiously.
“Catch the leader first to catch the thief.” Zhan Lian lowered his head, leaned close to her cheek, and gave her a kiss.
An Ran smiled. "I've already ordered them to dig a tunnel from here to the east of the river."
They were growing increasingly in sync. Both believed that to stop the bombardment from the sky they must start with the Grand Fortune Hotel, since someone inside the Grand Fortune Hotel's circle ordered the attacks.
"They're digging too slowly. Let's just drive over there."
Zhan Lian was annoyed at how slowly the Strength-Type Ability Users were digging. It would take who knew how many days and nights to finish. The Grand Fortune Hotel's leaders had to be dealt with now—otherwise, if they felt like it, they'd bomb them again.
Zhan Lian put two fingers to his lips and let out a sharp series of whistles.
"I want to go too!"
Amid the whistles, An Ran took the Doll from Little Mint's hands. In her hand she held the Fat Thorn Ball's crystal core. She wanted to avenge the Fat Thorn Ball.
Zhan Lian didn't object—he thought it would be good to let his wife and daughter see the world instead of being trapped in this ice layer all day. It was the end of the world, and everyone was growing weary.
Soon Luo Feifan, who led the Strength-Type Ability Users digging the tunnel, heard Zhan Lian's whistle and left the tunnel crew, hastily turning back.
By his side, Zhou Zheng and several strength-type ability users who had been protecting the elderly, weak, women, and children stopped Luo Feifan and asked, “Brother Luo, where are you going?”
"To kill those culprits in the hotel who ordered the bombing!" Luo Feifan threw down the sentence and ran in the direction of Zhan Lian.
As for how he knew Zhan Lian’s plan—since they both belonged to the same mysterious military unit, of course they had their own communication codes. When a few whistles could convey everything, there was no need to say it out loud.