Chapter 397 Are you sure Lao Pang isn't in the office?

Bai Nuo, Fang Meng, Jin Zicheng, and Leng Rong dawdled and waited until it got dark. Under the cover of darkness, the four of them sneaked into the military headquarters building.

The military headquarters building has five floors. The fifth floor houses the archives and library. The fourth floor is the office area for the military region leaders, chief of staff, and discipline inspection commission. The regimental headquarters is on the third floor. The second floor is the office area for the battalion commanders. The first floor is the main office area for the logistics department and the political department.

It is only because of the current nationwide spirit of hard work, frugality and thrift that all departments are housed in one office building. When economic conditions improve and the military regions across the country undergo major renovations, it is estimated that new office buildings will be constructed and some departments will be separated.

The four of them carefully bypassed the patrol soldiers and made their way to the back of the military district office building. Jin Zicheng pointed to the last window on the third floor, crouched down behind a big tree, and whispered to Bai Nuo.

"See that? That last window is our commander's office. See if you can find a way to open the window and put this bottle of wine in. Behind the desk, under the bookshelf, the leftmost cabinet is where Old Pang keeps his treasures."

Bai Nuo frowned slightly and took a closer look at the window. Luckily, none of the four of them were ordinary people and their eyesight was good, otherwise they wouldn't have been able to see the third-floor window in the dark.

“There’s something I find strange!” Bai Nuo tilted her head and asked with a puzzled look, “With the skills of the three of you, any one of you could easily jump to the third floor in a few steps. Why go through all this trouble?”

"You don't understand!" Fang Meng covered his little girl's head with his big hand, complaining with a pained expression.

"The brothers have too many past offenses. After Lao Pang lost three bottles of wine, two boxes of tea, and five boxes of pastries, he got angry and called the engineering corps to completely renovate the exterior walls of this building. No one was allowed to stand on any of the windows, and the paint he used was incredibly slippery. Hong Chuangen and Tao Jianhua had just returned from a mission, and it was a bit late. They came back hungry, and since they couldn't find anything to eat, they had to come to Lao Pang's place to steal some snacks, and then..."

"What was the result?" Bai Nuo looked at Fang Meng with a gossipy expression, her fox-like eyes sparkling and sly.

Fang Meng's lips twitched slightly, barely suppressing a smile, and he said in a low voice, "As a result, Hong Chuangen didn't know that the outer wall had been modified. He rushed up to the third floor, couldn't find a handle, and fell down. He was fine, but he wasn't paying attention and landed directly on Tao Jianhua who was waiting below. Both of them... suffered a broken leg and three broken ribs. This result made Lao Pang happy for a whole month. When the division commander found out the next day, he almost fainted from anger."

After listening, Bai Nuo silently raised her hand and gave a thumbs up with great respect.

She said, "What kind of normal organization would set up its headquarters entrance in a mass grave area?"

Bai Nuo took out a seed of an ordinary vine from her pocket. It was a gift from an agricultural senior when she was in school. The senior was very generous and had collected a whole bag of vine seeds from somewhere and given them all to her. For a wood-type ability user who had grown her own natal vine, this gift was exactly what she wanted.

He turned to look at Jin Zicheng, his little face serious.

Are you sure Lao Pang isn't in the office?

“I’m sure. Look, the lights are all off. We don’t have any important people with us lately, so Lao Pang wouldn’t be sleeping in the office.”

"That's good!" Bai Nuo received confirmation, glanced around to make sure no one was there, then quickly darted to the base of the building. She then stretched out her hand, palm up, with a black vine seed tinged with green quietly placed in her palm.

This was the first time that the brothers in the team, apart from Fang Meng and Commander Pang, had seen Bai Nuo, the new member, display his abilities. Jin Zicheng and Leng Rong stared intently at the seed in Bai Nuo's palm, unable to comprehend what this so-called spiritual communication meant.

According to Taoist beliefs, spiritual communication is the ability to communicate with and even control things that are invisible and intangible.

They had never heard of such a spiritual method that could control animals and plants, and even stimulate the growth of plants. If Fang Meng hadn't actually found an old book and recorded this matter in just a few words, they really wouldn't have believed it.

Even so, they remained skeptical until they witnessed it with their own eyes.

But now...

The two of them watched in disbelief as the tiny seed in Bai Nuo's palm sprouted rapidly. In the blink of an eye, slender, bluish-green vines had already climbed the wall, then grew quickly, reaching towards the third-floor window, as if... it had come to life!

When Jin Zicheng and Leng Rong saw it clearly, they both gasped for breath. After reaching a critical point, they stopped breathing and stared in disbelief at the slender, bluish-green vine covered with tiny, emerald-green leaves, which seemed to have consumed tons of growth hormones, growing rapidly upwards.

That's amazing!

It turns out that what was written in that ancient book was true.

There is a tribe in the north, born a thousand years ago, living in seclusion, mysterious and unpredictable!

The clan's great shaman is omniscient, can command beasts for his own use, and can urge plants to grow!

Not to mention others, even Fang Meng found it hard to believe when he first found this ancient book. He even suspected that a superhuman from the apocalypse had accidentally traveled to this timeline thousands of years ago. And coincidentally, that superhuman was also a wood-type, but unlike Bai Nuo's combat-oriented wood-type ability, that one was more focused on healing and promoting the growth of vegetation.

Ancient times, especially the history of thousands of years ago, are the most mysterious to people today, but because they are recorded, they are also more acceptable to people.

In any case, thanks to this ancient book, Bai Nuo was able to openly display his supernatural abilities in 917, and also accumulate more military merits. With the protection of the national military behind him, why not?

Then, an even more amazing scene unfolded.

The vines that had climbed up to the window slid their tiny, pointed tips into the almost invisible gap along the edge of the window. A few seconds later, with a "click," the window, which had been locked from the inside, slowly opened.

In the office, Pang Guowei, who had forgotten to take something, went out and then rushed back. To save electricity, he didn't turn on the lights after entering the office. As a result, he accidentally knocked over a pen on the desk when he got to the office.

Pang Guowei was too lazy to walk a few more steps to turn on the light, so he squatted down in the office and fumbled for a pen in the dark. Just as he found it, he heard the sound of the lock being opened from the window he had locked. He was about to stand up when his body stiffened, and he stood frozen in place.