Starting from the eighth stop, they get on and off the expressway, and in two hours they arrive in the center of Quanshi.
It was only five in the afternoon when they arrived, and it was still a long time before nightfall. Hou Ying jumped out of the car and slapped the zombie banging on the door. Li Xuanyuan in the driver’s seat frowned. Seeing that he passed through the zombies unharmed, he didn’t say anything and got out of the car.
Jiang Tao had already jumped out of the lounge on the second floor, “Hurry up and get to work!”
The two groups of people who didn’t drive today and Qiao Daye got out of the car one after another to clean up the zombies, without any delay. Wang Hehe climbed up to the second floor and took the hot water that Meng Hanghai handed over. Before he drank it, he began to scold his old uncle, “Can’t you wait for Brother Tao and the others to drive away the zombie before getting out of the car? The zombies won’t bite you but they don’t necessarily won’t grab you. If you get scratched, would you just take some anti-inflammatory drugs for tetanus, ah?”
He can’t take care of himself but is very worried, especially for his uncle’s safety.
Hou Ying was stunned for a moment, then realized that his behavior was inappropriate, and quickly said, “Uncle is wrong, I won’t do it next time.”
Wang Hehe snorted, finished the hot water, closed his eyes, climbed into bed, and rolled a few times. He fell asleep on Hou Ying’s pillow. Lying on his and Hou Ying’s bed, he childishly lost his temper, grunting two times, he fell asleep within a short while. Hou Ying couldn’t laugh or cry. Then Li Xuanyuan and Ji Yao packed up and went to rest. At 9 p.m, Hou Ying was informed of particularly good news as soon as he woke up: Qiao Daye heard the sound of the survivors!
Qiao Daye himself is not so surprised. He said, “Those people have guns in their hands. They seem to be a fixed team. We shouldn’t need to intervene.”
In the evening, they cleaned up the zombies near the heavy truck, leaving Jiang Tao and Liu Zhan in the driver’s cab of the first and second trucks for defense. The other two stopped work on the spot, and other things waited for Hou Ying and the others to wake up and act together. Unexpectedly, at this time, Qiao Daye heard the gunshot coming from afar. This was an unexpected joy!
He immediately rushed to the gunfire to see what happened, and then he saw the second group of survivors after the end of the world except for Hou Ying and Meng Hanghai.
But it turns out that he was too happy too early. The team that collects materials has a very clear division of labor. In addition to ability users and gunmen, there are ordinary people who are used as bait. These people’s abilities should all be around level 1. When they encounter a zombie that they can’t deal with, they will launch a weak ordinary person with no ability to lead the zombies away! The ordinary person rolled out of the rear compartment, and the zombies who were chasing the truck quickly caught the smell of fresh meat. The people in the truck took this opportunity to accelerate and escape from the zombies’ encirclement.
When Qiao Daye wanted to stop it, that ordinary person’s neck had been bitten by a zombie.
It was a level 2 speed zombie. Seeing that their abilities weren’t its opponent and bullets couldn’t hit it, the team left the bait and fled. Qiao Daye was disgusted and did not show up. Instead, he followed all the way and saw that the place where they were returning was a Public Security Bureau, which should be these people’s fixed stronghold. There were about a hundred people inside.
“…The ordinary person who was used as bait looked numb as if he wouldn’t resist. After those people returned to the Public Security Bureau, there was no panic among the survivors. They didn’t even ask about the bait. I’m afraid the identity of the bait wasn’t set temporarily, but before they set off, they had already selected this person, and no one opposed it.”
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He told everyone what he saw and heard, and everyone frowned. But they also knew that this wasn’t the first time those people did this kind of thing, and certainly won’t be the last. They had no position to attack them.
In the apocalypse, the most worthless things are human life, conscience, morality, law, and order. Here, the social system all collapses. Their actions are inhumane, bloody, and frightening, but there is no standard to judge them right or wrong. The values before the end of the world, even if many people do not abandon them, do not have much meaning for many people.
But, that ordinary person didn’t resist?
This is abnormal!
To be able to live to the present, whether it’s an ordinary person or an ability user, they all have one thing in common, that is, a strong enough sense of survival. It’s impossible for an ordinary person to volunteer to be thrown into the zombies, but Qiao Daye could clearly see that the bait was sober. So, what method did those people use to make these ordinary people die for them? It’s very necessary to check this out, otherwise, they wouldn’t rashly dare to intervene in the affairs of these survivors.
Gongsun Jing said, “Brother Hou, what should we do?”
Take them away or what? Their original goal was to rescue the survivors who were alone, but now it’s quite different from what they expected.
Seeing everyone looking at him, Hou Ying said, “Tomorrow, I’ll go to see the situation with Lao Er, and then make plans after finding out their current situation.” He’s not hot-headed and says who to save. According to Qiao Daye, those people have separated the decoy, ordinary people, and ability users very clearly, which in itself is a big problem.
They didn’t set off fireworks signals that night but tried their best to lure and kill five-element zombies.
Ho-ho!
The five-element zombies who sensed the energy of the crystal nucleus were excited. They yelled and rushed towards the place where the nucleus was.
The movement of the zombies alarmed the survivors living in the Public Security Bureau, as well as the person hiding in the dark. He was scared awake by the roar of the zombies and found that the weather hadn’t changed like the last zombie riot, so he was relieved. Here is the roof of a building, under the hot and dreary temperature, because of its high position, it’s still cool at night. No one knows how he did it, but he was able to settle down on the top of the Trade Building, the tallest building in Quanshi, where the zombies gathered.
At this time, he looked down from a height, and suddenly saw a light on the downtown square not far away—it was a searchlight, bright and dazzling.
Are those bastards trying to die? Or did someone finally get out?
He hurriedly went back to his tent and found a telescope, but because of the obstruction of the building, he couldn’t see what was going on in the square. In other places, because it was too dark, he couldn’t really see it. He could only hear the roar of the zombies, far away from himself, and converged in the direction of the luminous square. He put down his telescope and walked restlessly back and forth for a long time. Finally, defeated by his conscience, he ventured to the light.
If someone witnessed it at this time, they would be scared by what they saw.
When the man took off his coat, his butterfly bone slowly protruded, and something came out of his body. Soon, several bones came out of the butterfly bone, one by one stretching into bone wings. In a flash, feathers grew from the bones, forming a pair of huge wings.
The white wings spread out under the moonlight, and starlight flowed over the holy wings. He spread his hands and stepped forward—spreading his wings and flying.
Soon after, high in the air, he saw a scene that shocked him.
The zombies continued to gather in the square. The metal continued to break away from the building, steel bars, soil, raging fire, and water rising from the ground. He had never seen so many ability zombies, let alone such terrifying and powerful zombies. If it were him, he’s afraid that he could only fly away—no, no, look at the metal flying all over the sky and the steel bars that can penetrate a wall, it’s as if he’s on the scene, touched his wings, and said in shock: If he encounters such a monster, no matter how many wings he has, he can’t escape.
In the center of the attack, several people stood in the air.
He can see it really in the telescope now. There aren’t ten people, are there? They didn’t even escape for their lives! They’re attacking!
There were obviously only a few people, but they didn’t retreat in the face of hundreds of zombies. What made him even more astonished was that as many zombies as ants fell one after another.
From his perspective, he could only see the flying green vines, and he couldn’t even see how they did it.
Are these people… all ability users? Terrifying combat power!
Fooling!!
The zombies seemed to be enraged and fell into a frenzy, roaring louder and louder.
He quietly settled on the air conditioner outside the wall of a certain building, and at a closer distance, he clearly saw—what did these people dig out of the zombies’ heads!
And on the top of the green shed, there is an iron box. And like a shooting game, the things dug out of the zombie’s brain are accurately thrown into the iron box, more and more, more and more.
What… What are they doing?!
The people who didn’t know that someone was “spying” were still harvesting the zombies’ crystal nuclei. Wang Hehe, who was lying on the top of the vine shed, used a sniper rifle to continuously hit the zombie’s head. After an hour, his physical strength reached the limit, his hands were sore, so he had to stop to rest. He frantically drank a glass of water, while rubbing his shoulder hurt by the recoil of the sniper rifle, he looked at his teammates who were working below. After scanning, he did not see Meng Hanghai and Qiao Daye. He stood up and looked into the distance, and as expected, he saw Qiao Daye “hunting” with Meng Hanghai 500 meters away. But he didn’t see them at the right time. Under the light, he saw the zombie that was locked by Meng Hanghai suddenly explode, flesh and blood flew!
“Fuck!”
Wang Hehe quickly withdrew his gaze, thinking and knowing that the zombie whose crystal nucleus hasn’t had time to dig out will definitely attract nearby zombies and will become Meng Hanghai’s next target.
He glanced around. In a tall building, he seemed to see a black shadow lying on the glass wall, like a big bird. He quickly moved his gaze back to look at it, but this time he saw nothing. He didn’t take the “illusion” to heart just now. After a rest, he soon regained his spirits and joined the zombie hunting team in the sniper position.
The person no one knows put down the binoculars and patted his chest wildly on the back of the building—it’s dangerous!
A group of people forgot themselves in the killings that Li Xuanyuan called to stop first. He buckled down the iron box, and the vines grabbed everyone in the air. None of the crystal nuclei that just flew out of the zombie’s head were dropped. One after another, they’re wrapped in vines, and soon everyone was sent back to the truck’s lounge area in the distance.
Su Fenghe moved the iron box to the place where the crystal nuclei were placed, and Gongsun Jing quickly sorted and stored the crystal nuclei harvested today.
Hou Ying looked at the crystal nucleus, which was obviously twice as many as before, and sighed, “Quanshi is a populous city. It seems that we may have to stay two more days here.” This batch attracted only five-element zombies. It’s early in the morning, and an endless stream of zombies have gathered here after killing for nearly four hours. The number of other zombies is definitely more than their previous stops.
The plan for tomorrow was determined. It took some time for the excited people to fall asleep after lying down.
Early the next morning, Gongsun Jing, who was on guard for the second half of the night, went to rest. The others were divided into two teams. Hou Ying and Qiao Daye went to explore the survivors’ stronghold at the Public Security Bureau, and the other seven continued to hunt for zombies.
Someone peeking through a telescope in a high place swallowed with difficulty—is he correct, those people were eating white! Rice! Rice!!
I thought it was Hou Ying who’s driving? How come it’s Li XuanYuan now? So when the car swerved because Ji Yao said he loves Hou Ying, it was Li XuanYuan who’s driving? 😍
That group of survivors are disgusting how come they do that kind of stuff are they not afraid that they’ll be more zombies the humanity is so fall in this situation 😔 am sad to think many humans are just like them😑😑
Thanks for the chapter ❤️❤️
Short term gains vs long term riches.
Ohoo~ another prospected team member spotted.