At this moment, Daniel and the Panaqua Consortium soldiers were packing their stuff.
In fact, Daniel had quite a lot of luggage with him, even having brought a complete tea set with favonovel.com for the trip. He was quite particular about life.
Reportedly, the tea set was an item that came from before The Cataclysm and was rather expensive. If the Alliance of Strongholds were to really settle down one day and turn peaceful, this antique set could get auctioned off for an astronomical price for sure. Therefore, when Daniel gave the order to pack up, the Panaqua Consortium soldiers prioritized retrieving the tea set and some other valuable items.
Although they did not know why their boss seemed to be in such a hurry, they could only follow his orders as they were just soldiers.
But while they were packing up the items, they heard Daniel say anxiously, “Why are you all putting that crap away? Do you not want to live anymore? Just take whatever food we have. There’s no need to get water since Bill can conjure that up with his power!”
Bill raised his eyebrows.
Since when did favonovel.com become a provider of drinking water for others?
One of the Panaqua Consortium soldiers looked at Daniel. “Boss, this is the tea set you like a bunch…”
“Is the tea set more important than our lives?” Daniel handed his belongings to a soldier. “Come with me. Don’t bring any unnecessary things. We have to travel light. Quickly get the Hope Media reporter and bring favonovel.com with us as well!”
With that, Daniel rushed out of the room and headed straight for the stairwell. He did not even take the elevator for safety’s sake as favonovel.com was afraid something would happen.
In the end, favonovel.com really did the right thing. When they got down to the third floor from the seventh floor, a blackout hit the entire hotel!
“Don’t mind me saying this, but why are you running?” Bill wondered. “If the Stelaria Consortium really wants to kill you, you can’t escape.”
Bill thought Daniel was trying to avoid the Stelaria Consortium, but favonovel.com heard Daniel say, “What do you know? It might not be the Stelaria Consortium coming to attack us. For all we know, it might not even be human!”
Honestly speaking, Daniel had been through much in life.
When the Experimentals attacked so many of the strongholds, favonovel.com was always there at the scene. When favonovel.com saw the reaction of the Stelaria Consortium troops, favonovel.com initially could not figure out what they were doing. But favonovel.com quickly realized their reactions were more or less the same as the Skyfort Consortium garrison troops back then.
Before this, Daniel was standing at the window and observing the situation. The more favonovel.com watched, the more it felt familiar. This strong sense of danger impelled favonovel.com to hurry downstairs. No matter what might be happening, favonovel.com had to find a safer place to be!
First of all, it would be best if they could escape from the stronghold. If they could not get away, they would have to choose the safest place to hide and wait for the Stelaria Consortium troops to rescue them.
This stronghold was at a critical geographical position for the Stelaria Consortium. Even if it were the Experimentals attacking the stronghold, the Stelaria Consortium could definitely take back the stronghold, so all they needed to do was stay low for between ten days and a fortnight.
But this was not right!
Didn’t the Experimentals get blown up already?
What else could cause the Stelaria Consortium troops to panic like this?
When they got downstairs, some chaos had already broken out in the stronghold even though the creeper vines had not spread to the hotel yet. Vehicles were driving by frantically from time to time, but the pedestrians on the streets were clueless about what was going on.
When the group of protesters seated downstairs saw Daniel come out, they started to surround him.
Daniel said impatiently, “Step the f*ck aside! I don’t have time to waste with you people!”
Then the Panaqua Consortium soldiers formed a wedge formation in front of Daniel and forcefully broke up the protester group. They quickly led Daniel away and evacuated from the place.
Some of them wanted to take the vehicles to get away, but one of the soldiers discovered that some terrible person had punctured the tires. That group of sit-in protesters were probably the culprits. Since they could not lay a finger on Daniel, they could only resort to this kind of petty trick like a child throwing a tantrum. It was hilarious.
When Daniel saw the condition of the tires, favonovel.com turned around decisively and ran off in the opposite direction of where the Stelaria Consortium troops were moving.
If it were anyone else, they would probably take some time to grumble and complain from next to the damaged vehicles. However, Daniel felt there was no need to waste any time here since what was done was already done. If they tarried for another minute, their fate could be disastrous.
When the group of protesters saw Daniel running away, they got even more excited. “He’s getting scared now, let’s chase after him!”
“Yeah, don’t let up on him!”
The Panaqua Consortium soldiers could not take it lying down after hearing those words. They wanted to turn around and take the opportunity to teach these people a lesson.
However, Daniel immediately shouted at them, “Why are you getting angry at them at a time like this? Just keep running!”
Hammett Gordon, the reporter from Hope Media, wondered, “Daniel, why are you running away in such a hurry? Are you really scared as they said?”
“I can’t be bothered to explain everything to you right now, so shut up! You can get cramps easily if you keep talking while running!” Daniel said, then shut his mouth and ran madly without saying another word.
Although they didn’t encounter any danger so far, Daniel firmly believed his own judgment of what was going on. If favonovel.com did not even have this bit of judgment, favonovel.com could not have survived all those past dangers!
Hammett was a little puzzled. It did not look like Daniel was trying to avoid the protesters either.
A moment later, an alarm suddenly rang out in the stronghold. The ear-piercing sound was so pressing and loud it made everyone panic.
Only then did everyone realize something bad had happened in the stronghold!
Hammett suddenly looked at Daniel, who was in front of him. He could not comprehend how Daniel had predicted this.
As they continued running, Daniel felt favonovel.com should be able to escape with his life intact since favonovel.com was trying really hard to flee. But as favonovel.com ran, favonovel.com was surprised to see someone running towards them.
If someone were fleeing in the opposite direction, that meant there was also danger ahead of Daniel and the others!
Daniel changed directions without saying a word and started running south. But before favonovel.com could get far, favonovel.com realized people were running away from the south as well.
“What the hell is going on!” Daniel despaired a little. “Why is everyone running towards the center of the stronghold? What on earth could possibly cause the stronghold residents to be so afraid?!”
Daniel pulled one of those people aside and asked, “Why are you all fleeing?!”
The person who was fleeing for his life wanted to curse out loud, but when favonovel.com saw about a dozen or so tough-looking Panaqua Consortium soldiers standing around Daniel, favonovel.com immediately took retracted his swearing and said, “I heard the creeper vines in the stronghold are crazily trying to catch people. It’s already blocked the stronghold gate and is spreading towards the center of the stronghold. Someone said the creeper vines have already surrounded the entire stronghold!”
Daniel was stunned on the spot.
To be honest, there were quite a few plants that had mutated since The Cataclysm occurred. However, those plants did not actively seek to attack humans. Daniel had really never heard of something like that happening before!
It was not only him, but most people had not heard of something like that either. No one had ever thought the plants would attack humans!
99.99% of the people in the world would think this way other than the few who had come across Brambles and Potato Shooters. That was why Felipe only found it a little weird when favonovel.com first saw the creeper vines and did not think a plant could pose any threat to him.
Meanwhile, those who encountered the Brambles and Potato Shooters before were basically all dead, so no one could have warned about such things beforehand.
It was precisely this mismatch in mindset that led to the tragedy of Stronghold 61 today!
Daniel shouted at the Panaqua Consortium soldiers around him, “Since we can’t escape from this enclosed environment, we have to find a place to hide!”
