Plants in a Coma (Two Chapters Combined)

"Tap, tap, tap..."

After Su Yue left, a series of hurried footsteps rang out from deep within a cobblestone path in the park.

At night, a middle-aged man patrolling the park had just finished relieving himself in the restroom when he suddenly heard a loud commotion outside, startling him badly.

He hurried out of the restroom and ran quickly toward the source of the noise.

"What happened? Why have these two stone artificial mountains collapsed?"

The middle-aged man held a flashlight in his hand. Its beam fell upon the two collapsed stone artificial mountains, while his face was filled with bewilderment.

As the park's manager, he would have to bear responsibility if the two stone artificial mountains collapsed. He had to find out what had happened at once.

The middle-aged man looked up at the cameras around him, then reached into his pocket, took out his phone, and called his colleague in the office.

"Hello."

"It's me."

"Why are you calling me?"

"The two stone artificial mountains by the entrance have collapsed. Go to the monitoring room and pull up the surveillance footage. Find out what happened."

"What did you say? The two artificial mountains at the entrance collapsed? How is that possible?

"They were only finished last month, and their quality was excellent. It's impossible for them to have failed so quickly."

"But that's what happened! I'm at the scene right now. Those two stone artificial mountains really have collapsed..."

"This... All right. I'll go to the monitoring room and pull up the footage now."

After ending the call, the middle-aged man waited with his flashlight in hand. Before long, his colleague called back.

"Well?"

"The surveillance system is broken. It didn't record anything..."

"No way. The cameras around here look perfectly fine from my end. They don't seem