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Her face was covered in dust and sweat, her clothes were torn in several places by the vines, and there was a bleeding wound on her arm... it was from being scratched by the vine thorns, not deep, but very painful. She looked up and gave Su Mu an OK sign.

Su Mu breathed a sigh of relief.

He was preparing to check the securing of the water hose when a violent tremor suddenly came from the rooftop beneath his feet.

It wasn't an earthquake; something was frantically climbing, crashing, and tearing inside the building. He looked down sharply and saw a crack in the ground at the edge of the roof. A blood-red vine emerged from the crack, wrapped around a fire hose, and quickly climbed towards him along the hose.

Su Mu's pupils suddenly contracted.

This thing has intelligence.

It wasn't just passively defending itself; it actively found both ends of their rope and climbed up it. It planned to attack from both ends simultaneously, trapping them on those two buildings.

"Run!" Su Mu gestured in Lin Xiaohe's direction, then turned and ran.

Without hesitation, he jumped off the edge of the roof.

He didn't jump off the building, but rather onto the roof of a slightly lower building next door... This was an escape route he had already planned out.

In extreme situations, jump from one building to another, then from that building to the next, descending floor by floor until you return to the ground.

This was an escape route he had planned in advance, and he had repeatedly checked the height, distance, and foothold of each building.

He didn't expect that this backup route would come in handy so quickly.

Su Mu's body traced an arc in the air, landing steadily on the roof of the adjacent building. He didn't stop, continuing to run forward and jumping to the next building.

Behind them, the eighteen-story hotel was being devoured by vines... The entire exterior wall of the building was covered with blood-red vines, the windows were smashed, the walls were cracked, the fire hydrants on the roof were uprooted, and the hoses were shredded.

Su Mu jumped down, twisting and turning, until he finally reached the ground. He glanced back... the hotel was completely entangled in vines, like prey wrapped in a spider web.

The vines continued to spread in all directions, beginning to climb the adjacent building at an extremely fast pace, reaching several floors in less than half a minute.

He quickly ran away from the vines.

Meanwhile, on the other side...

Lin Xiaohe reacted quickly as well.

When she heard Su Mu shout "Run!", she had already climbed up from the edge of the roof. She saw the other end of the hose shaking violently, and saw vines sprouting from the roof of the hotel and climbing towards her along the hose.

Without hesitation, she turned and ran towards the stairwell.

She ran slower than Su Mu, but her route was simpler... she ran down the stairwell, rushing down floor by floor. The vines climbed up the exterior wall quickly, but the stairwell was inside the building, and the vines hadn't yet seeped in. She ran fast, jumping down in twos and threes at a time, almost slipping several times, but managing to stay steady each time.

When she reached the ground, the exterior walls of the office building were already mostly covered by vines.

The moment she ran out of the building, she heard a loud crash of shattering glass behind her... Vines squeezed through the window, and the glass curtain wall of the entire building shattered from bottom to top, with broken glass cascading down like a waterfall.

Lin Xiaohe ran into the alley across the street without looking back.

She ran a long way until she was sure the vines weren't chasing her, then stopped, bent over, panting heavily. Her legs were trembling, not from fear, but from running too fast.

She slid down to the floor against the wall, took out the recovery potion Su Mu had given her from her backpack, took a small sip, and watched the wound on her arm heal at a visible speed.

She opened her chat window with Su Mu and typed, "How are you doing? Are you hurt?"

The message was sent and a reply was received in less than ten seconds.

"nothing and you?"

"I'm fine. I'm just a little tired from running."

There was a few seconds of silence on the other end, then a message appeared: "Go find Zhou Zhenguo. I'll give you his contact information."

Lin Xiaohe paused for a moment. She stared at the words for a few seconds, her lips moved as if she wanted to say something, but in the end she only replied with one word: "Okay."

She didn't ask why.

She knew she couldn't help. Her flying skill would take more than an hour to cool down, and even when it did, she didn't dare to fly again... The vines had already learned to climb the rope, and next time she might not even have a chance to land.

If she stays, she will only become a burden to Su Mu.

Su Mu sent another message with Zhou Zhenguo's contact information, along with the message: "Just say I sent you. The army is safe for now, go there first."

Lin Xiaohe saved the contact information, stood up, and walked north.

As she walked out of the alley, she glanced back at the two buildings entwined with vines. The hotel had been transformed into a giant green cocoon, and the vines on the office building's exterior walls were still climbing, almost reaching the rooftop.

She looked away and quickened her pace.

Su Mu stood on the rooftop of a low building, watching Lin Xiaohe's figure disappear at the end of the street to the north. He sent Zhou Zhenguo a message: "A friend of mine might need to go to the military. I've given her the contact information; could you please keep an eye on things for her?"

Zhou Zhenguo replied quickly: "No problem. What's your name?"

"Lin Xiaohe".

"Okay. I'll arrange for someone to meet her."

Su Mu closed the chat window and leaned against the wall.

He had already decided from the beginning that he couldn't keep this woman with him forever.

We were originally planning to part ways when we went to the zoo, and now it's just as well.

However, Su Mu also hoped she could go further. Since he didn't feel the army there posed a threat for the time being, he decided to let her go first.