Finding food in the winter was difficult, especially after a heavy snowfall, which made life equally tough for the mutant creatures.
The human inhabitants of the base had stayed indoors for the past few days. Even the weaker animals that had occupied the city’s buildings had vanished due to the snow covering their tracks. So, the big tiger decided to lead its gang of mutants to scavenge for food.
The convoy had a large number of people and couldn’t tolerate the hungry mutant creatures any longer. They decided to attack the scattered human convoy, enticed by the scent of meat.
Gunfire erupted as a giant gorilla leaped onto a building, causing it to collapse with a deafening crash. Due to its unstable landing, the gorilla tumbled inside the ruined building.
The young man with the mutated arms and a wristwatch around his neck jumped forward and engaged the giant gorilla in combat. Worried for his safety, one of his teammates hurried to join the fray.
“Crackling” sounds of lightning filled the air as Li Wenkai, the second-in-command, released brilliant purple electric bolts, hitting one of the mutant birds flying in the sky.
Xu Song tugged on Yue Zheng’s arm and pointed in a direction. They spotted a mutant baboon leaping around on top of an abandoned van, hurling fireballs at the crowd.
Mutant creatures with unique abilities!
The two of them lit up with anticipation and headed toward the source. Yue Zheng swiftly dodged the fireballs’ attacks and swung his sword at the baboon. Following closely behind was Xu Song’s orange fire dragon, illuminating large patches of the pristine white snow, which melted instantly as the dragon passed.
When Yue Zheng felt the fire dragon approaching not far behind him, he swiftly moved aside, allowing the dragon to entangle the baboon effortlessly.
The baboon screamed in agony as it suffered, and the other fire-using baboon, a fellow fire abilities user, was in pain as well. Yue Zheng followed up with a swift strike, decapitating the baboon. He then bent down, cut open the baboon’s head at the spot where the other creatures’ luminous red sacs were typically found, and retrieved the shining red sac, stowing it in his pocket.
The coordination between the two was incredibly swift. In just one minute, they had easily dispatched one mutant baboon with unique abilities.
When they turned around, they realized the remaining battles were exceptionally challenging. The main reason for this was that many of the attacking animals this time were endowed with abilities!
Mutant creatures with increased strength, mutants that could spit out water balls or shoot earth spikes, ones that could summon whirlwinds and create snowstorms, and mutants that had larger lightning abilities than the only lightning abilities user in the team!
Perhaps these mutant creatures had only recently developed their abilities, which is why they hadn’t been known before. However, it was also possible that they had possessed these abilities for a while, but previous survivors who encountered them had become their prey, resulting in the base’s residents being unaware of their existence.
Regardless of the reason, no one in the group wanted to find out right now. They only knew that if they made one mistake today, they might all die here!
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Yue Zheng became more proficient and efficient with each strike, and his ability to extract the sacs improved rapidly. He often decapitated a creature and smashed its skull to retrieve the sac before moving on to the next target. Xu Song, on the other hand, stood his ground, using his Tai Chi-like movements to control the fire dragon, which obediently coiled around one creature after another.
As the battle neared its end, the two of them, their eyes shining with excitement, charged toward the tiger that was hovering in the air. They saw that their leader, who had lost most of his underlings to these two freaks, had raised his tail in mid-air and, with a powerful flap of his massive wings, turned and flew away in the direction he had come.
Xu Song’s fire dragon had just been extinguished, but upon seeing this, he quickly fired three ping pong ball-sized fireballs in a triangular pattern, resembling a machine gun, towards the retreating tiger. One of the fireballs directly hit the tiger’s remaining wing, causing it to catch fire.
On the other side, Yue Zheng sprinted forward, leaping onto rooftops, and with a burst of strength, he soared high into the air, landing directly on top of the tiger! With a firm swing of his military knife, his body seemed to pause briefly in mid-air, and then, with a graceful curve, he brought forth a gust of wind that announced death as he struck down on the tiger’s neck.
With one wing missing and a careless loss of one head, the weightless tiger plummeted to the ground. Yue Zheng’s legs pushed off one more time, and a few seconds before the tiger hit the ground, he leaped to the side. Of course, before leaping, he casually flung the peculiar sac flowing with deep purple electric light.
Xu Song looked at Yue Zheng, his eyes shining brightly, and said, “That last move of yours was so cool!” The movements in mid-air, that incredibly graceful swing… he seemed to be falling for him all over again.
Yue Zheng saw the gleam in Xu Song’s eyes, smiled at him, walked over, and habitually bent down to kiss him on the cheek.
“Clang!”
“Snap!”
The surrounding people, who had been inexplicably petrified due to the battle, suddenly snapped back to reality. They couldn’t tell how someone’s weapon had fallen to the ground.
“Lea… Leader, how many did you take down?” asked Fan Wenbiao, his eyes filled with astonishment, as he looked at the two individuals who were seriously affecting public decency by displaying their affection.
“Three baboons, none of them had abilities,” replied the leader.
The other abilities users who had struggled to take down one or two ordinary mutant creatures shivered and tightened their necks. It was so cold out here… they wished they had worn a few more layers of clothes…
Upon realizing that they were once again being observed, Xu Song subconsciously blushed and lowered his head. He thought these people were watching him because Yue Zheng had kissed him.
He couldn’t help but silently complain in his heart: Didn’t the women from the Widow’s Legion say that the gender ratio in the base had become imbalanced due to the apocalypse, and since most of the adventurers were men, the proportion of homosexual relationships in the base had increased significantly? Did they deceive him again?
Yes! They must have tricked him again!
Yue Zheng reached out to pat Xu Song’s head, pulled his hat down a little tighter, and looked around with a blank expression. He spotted the military officer, Ding Jianhua, on his car waiting alongside the convoy.
“Now, can we get in the car?” It had started snowing again, and after the exercise, they couldn’t afford to expose themselves to the cold air. Xu Song might catch a cold.
“Ah, yes, yes, yes! Get on, get on!” Ding Jianhua quickly stepped aside, inviting the two “freaks” onto the vehicle.
Yue Zheng helped Xu Song climb into the car, and the rest of the group, including the soldiers and the other abilities users, continued to brave the cold wind, still stunned by the spectacle.
Soon, everyone gathered together, regardless of any past grudges or resentments they might have had.
“Are they… still human?”
“I think so.”
“They cast shadows.”
“Bang!” Someone’s head was hit. “Stop talking nonsense! Of course, they’re human!”
The group had been rendered speechless by the surreal scene they had just witnessed.
“But they… their combat abilities are inhuman!”
“That short one, the fair-skinned one, looks like the submissive type, definitely a level-two fire-type ability user!”
“Nonsense, just look at the color, we’re not colorblind. No need for you to tell us!”
“His ability duration is longer than mine… I reckon he reached level two earlier than I did.” — This must be Fan Wenbiao speaking.
“But what about the other one? What kind of ability does he have? I can’t tell.”
“Speed? Strength? Speed and strength-type ability users are common in the base; none of them are this extreme, right? Weren’t they usually categorized as second-rate ability users?”
“Also, he seems to be quite agile. Could he be a martial artist?”
“His movements are from the military. Many of them have common combat techniques from the military.” — This person sneaked into the group from the military.
“Could it be that after reaching level two, speed and strength can become this extreme?”
“Boss Fan, can you tell us how abilities can be upgraded to level two?”
Fan Wenbiao furrowed his brows, not expecting to be put on the spot like this. “I’ll tell you the truth, but you may not believe it.”
“Tell us, we believe you!”
“Go ahead, it’s about time. If we don’t improve our abilities soon, with freaks like them around, we won’t have a future.”
“What if… abilities are like online games, where you have to defeat monsters to level up?”
Yue Zheng suppressed a smile and edited the information he had heard into a message sent to Xu Song’s wristband.
Xu Song, who was secretly recharging the crystal in his necklace, smiled while resting against Yue Zheng’s chest.
When the third sac was about halfway filled, the radiance inside the sac stopped flowing into the crystal. However, the sac itself did not disappear, and the liquid inside it had decreased by about half.
After recharging his own sac, Xu Song took Yue Zheng’s necklace and began recharging the crystal inside.
Sixteen sacs in total, and the two of them had only consumed five. They stored the remaining eleven for now and planned to recharge them into Mo Tiancheng and Mo Tianyou’s crystals when they returned to the base. As for the little tree, they would recharge its tree hole’s crystal when they had the opportunity.
Leveling and pda in full view…ahem. Thanks for the sweet update 🤣❤️🤣❤️🌳
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