Chapter 366: Selene and Rhys
The woman on stilts continued to stare at me as if wanting to witness my death with her own eyes. It really was too bad for her that she stood a better chance of dying if she continued to stare at my crown than I did.
"You seem to like my flowers," I smiled at her, blinking innocently as Chang Xuefeng reached down and picked me up. Holding me on his forearm, he stared down the woman.
"Sorry," smiled the woman, her smile tight as she tried to make a good impression on Daddy. Too bad he was a one-woman man; otherwise, I might actually be worried. "She is just so cute. I haven’t seen a child in almost four years. They were the first ones to be taken out. I am just really surprised that you managed to keep her alive for so long."
Daddy raised an eyebrow and hummed while Tank scoffed at her. "That might say more about your incompetence than our competence," he snapped, rubbing my back gently. "I wouldn’t exactly be bragging about not keeping children alive if I were you."
"You don’t understand," sighed the woman, a look of pain on her face. "We couldn’t stop them." Her voice wavered a bit, trying to draw our sympathy, but she was really acting for the wrong audience.
"Stop who?" demanded Dimitri.
"The plants," shrugged the woman, wiping an invisible tear from her eyes. "Never had I ever thought that plants could be so dangerous. We couldn’t see the vines as they slipped into the tents. It only too less than a minute for them to wrap around a child and pull them out of their shelter. We tried to stop them, but the plants were relentless."
Stroking the vine that was wrapped around my wrist, I couldn’t help but applaud their ability to find prey.
"Eventually, after we understood just what was happening, we moved to some of the abandoned buildings, but it still didn’t stop the plants. And once the plants had consumed all the children..."