"Meilan!!!"
Lin Cheng's voice cracked through the yard causing everything to grind to a halt for just a second. It was louder than the screaming, it was louder than the chaos... but it wasn't louder than what came next.
He was staring at the ground, screaming her name for a second time, and for half a second, I thought he had spotted another flower.
That would have been reasonable, considering the yard was currently producing them like the apocalypse had decided to become a nightmare garden. Then I followed his gaze and saw the vine wrapped around his ankle.
The vine wasn't thick enough to do much damage to him. It was just a thin green thing that had crept out from beneath a layer of ash and curled around him while he was busy watching Guo Renwang rip apart everything that came near him.
But Lin Cheng reacted immediately.
The ground under his foot rose and crushed the vine before it could tighten around him. That should have been enough to ended it. But it wasn't.
