The people inside had all gathered in the building at the far back of the park.

The five-story building only had the lower three floors as their activity area.

The first floor housed the Venomous Snake Squad, personnel responsible for perimeter security, and twenty-six ability users of various ages.

Nan Muran carefully observed the abilities of these users. Among them, one was in the late stage of Level 1, three were in the mid-stage, and the rest were all at the early stage of Level 1.

The differences between the levels of ability users were overwhelming. Their attack power increased exponentially, especially since mental-type abilities could easily defeat opponents of higher levels.

For Nan Muran now, these twenty-six ability users were nothing more than a group of ants. Moreover, she had Xiao Liu, who was at Level 7, and Xiaobai, who was at Level 3.

The second floor housed some lab managers and researchers, while the third floor was the laboratory.

As for the top two floors, they had been completely abandoned, with a welded door separating the upper and lower levels.

This, however, made it easier for Nan Muran to act. She thought for a moment, then walked directly toward the building and headed to the center of the fourth floor. She continued using her life force to stimulate Xiao Liu and Xiaobai to grow.

She did this until they had covered the entire exterior of the first, second, and third floors of the building.

The first to notice the anomaly were the Venomous Snake Squad on the first floor, along with the ability users and perimeter security personnel in the seven rooms on the sides.

The vines and willow branches writhing on the windows appeared like dark ghostly shadows in the light inside, eerie and terrifying.

“Everyone, get ready,” the leader of the Venomous Snake Squad said, immediately drawing his gun and preparing for an attack.

The other four quickly put on their gear and held their guns in a defensive stance.

The other twenty-six ability users in the rooms also emerged, gathering near the Venomous Snake Squad.

“What’s going on?” A younger boy, looking scared, glanced around.

“Someone’s attacking the park,” an older man responded uncertainly. “Who would be crazy enough to attack this place?”

“Are they suicidal?”

“Can we finally show our abilities?” A boy who had just awakened his wind ability spoke excitedly.

Listening to the chatter of the ability users, the Venomous Snake Squad leader cursed inwardly. “Where did they find these fools?”

Couldn’t they see how powerful the external force was? They were a bunch of weaklings who could be wiped out in seconds.

“Let’s go upstairs to find Mr. Ouyang,” the Venomous Snake Squad leader said as he quickly approached the staircase and motioned for his team to head up.

On the second floor, Ouyang Yun and his daughter Ouyang Feng had also noticed the writhing shadows on the windows. They immediately left their office and retreated into the hallway.

The Venomous Snake Squad’s five members arrived just in time: “Mr. Ouyang, someone’s attacking the park.”

“Just deal with them. Why all the panic?” Ouyang Feng’s tone was displeased. The park had been attacked before. Just a few days ago, there had been several waves of small-scale zombie hordes. Each time, they had quickly dealt with them using firearms. Why was the Venomous Snake Squad so frantic today?

The squad leader spoke in a low, tense voice, “Someone’s controlling mutated plants. Their power is terrifying.”

At that moment, the twenty-six ability users on the first floor were consumed by extreme fear upon seeing the scene.

Snake-like willow branches and vines stretched in a bizarre manner along the walls of the hallway, rapidly extending toward the center where the ability users and security personnel were gathered.

“Ah…”

“What’s that? It’s so disgusting!”

“Get away!”

“Everyone calm down. We are ability users.”

Some of the ability users, reminded by the men, started to use their powers to attack Xiao Liu and Xiaobai.

In the cramped hallway of the first floor, water splashed here, a gust of wind blew there, and small flames flared up. Though there were many different abilities, they were chaotic and lacked coordination.

Unfortunately, the disorganized attacks were more of a hindrance. The water put out the flames, the wind blew the wrong way and drenched their own people.

After the commotion, their attacks were too weak to even scratch Xiao Liu or Xiaobai.

In fact, their provocative attacks only enraged Xiao Liu and Xiaobai. The vines and branches began to extend wildly under the stimulation of life force, wrapping around the three closest ability users.

The trapped ability users screamed in terror, but before they could even cry out for help, the sharp vine tips pierced their necks and severed their carotid arteries.

Blood sprayed in all directions, splattering onto the vines and quickly being absorbed. Soon, only a pile of white bones remained after the vines and leaves covered the bodies.

This terrifying and eerie scene left the remaining twenty-three ability users completely paralyzed with fear.

“The vines are eating people!”

“Run!”

“Help!”

“Wuwuwu, I’m scared, I want to go home.”

“…”

The ability users and security personnel on the first floor were utterly terrified and began scrambling up the stairs in panic.

Xiao Liu and Xiaobai chased after them joyfully.

After absorbing the blood of the three ability users, their power surged significantly. Xiao Bai even thought that with just a little more blood, it could break through to Level 4.

“Don’t go crazy,” Nan Muran said coldly as she sensed their abnormal behavior. At the same time, she withdrew some life force.

The reduction in life force immediately slowed the growth of the vines and branches, preventing them from growing too fast and losing control.

Being plants, they didn’t understand right or wrong; they only knew that they could never anger Nan Muran.

From then on, they only chased after the fleeing people, not daring to kill any more recklessly.

On the second floor, Ouyang Feng looked at the terrified ability users with dissatisfaction. This was the ability army they had worked so hard to train? A bunch of rabble with no combat power.

“What about the vines eating people?”

“They’re drinking blood too…”

“Mr. Ouyang, help us.”

Before he could process the chaos of their panicked voices, he saw the vines and branches growing wildly not far behind them.

The four ability users who were slow to run had already been ensnared and suspended in mid-air.

Thanks to Nan Muran’s orders, Xiao Liu and Xiaobai, though craving blood, could only obediently compress the space around them, confronting the humans rather than directly killing them.

“Everyone, stay alert,” the Venomous Snake Squad leader ordered, his face pale.

Everyone raised their guns, pointing at the writhing vines and branches around them. The small, glowing vines of Xiao Liu and the white glow of Xiao Bai intertwined, and if you didn’t feel afraid, you might even think they were beautiful.