Originally, Su Daji, who was on the second floor, jogged down with a red head and circled around the two living corpses. “What bad luck today, encountered two of them.”
“I told you to be more conservative with your usage! Look, you ran out of bullets. Where are you going to find more in the future? Tomorrow we have to leave the city, who knows what’s on the road!”
“These things don’t just die when you shoot them in the head, you know? I’m already being conservative enough!” Could he be blamed? These things had to be hacked, chopped, and decapitated. Even if he had more bullets, they wouldn’t be enough! Unless one bullet could blow up a group, but even the military couldn’t make that happen, let alone them. Having a Type 54 pistol was already pretty good.
Yue Zheng observed the two men with a sociable smile for a while. Leaving the city tomorrow? That meant they were probably planning to go to City S. Well, it made sense. They were both superhumans, and the reason they were wandering around the city today was probably the same as his own.
The entrance of the eastern shopping mall opened again, and the father and son walked out with fear on their faces. They trembled when they saw the dismembered limbs on the ground. They had only heard about these things but had never seen them with their own eyes. Even though they knew these things were ferocious, the shock of seeing them with their own eyes was incomparable.
Their eyes were filled with terror when they looked at the corpses on the ground, and when they looked at the three people standing together, who had just joined forces to eliminate the two monsters, their fear intensified.
Yue Zheng noticed the two father and son, nodded slightly towards them, but they reacted as if they had seen terrifying monsters. They trembled with fear, and the father forced out a twisted smile before hurriedly taking his son back into their car.
How Luo Wen’an dealt with the living corpses, they had witnessed it with their own eyes. Although they didn’t see the subsequent battle, they could still imagine it, killing so skillfully. They wondered what these people did before this!
Yue Zheng didn’t care about the attitude of the father and son. As for the other two, it seemed like they didn’t even notice the return of the father and son. They complained to each other for a while, then turned their heads and saw Yue Zheng, calling out to him quickly.
“Forgot to thank you, uh… Yue? Yue, Yue…”
“Yue Zheng.”
“Yes, yes, Yue Zheng. Anyway, thank you, have a cigarette. There’s nowhere to grab a bite to eat now, so let’s use cigarettes as a substitute.”
Yue Zheng didn’t refuse and took the cigarette before returning to the car.
“The other person might also be a superhuman…” Xu Song analyzed as Yue Zheng returned to the car.
“That should not be related to their physical constitution.”
“Yes, that guy surnamed Luo is fast, specializing in close combat. But if that Su Daji has superpowers, it’s likely to be in the long-range aspect.” Xu Song couldn’t remember the names of the two people for a moment and only remembered that the person surnamed Luo was called Daji. Well, that name was easy to remember.
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Yue Zheng nodded silently. “It’s possible. He fired a total of five shots, I saw it just now. All five shots hit the joints, his marksmanship is precise.”
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After the heavy rain, the plants that had been gradually ceasing their growth quietly began to sway their branches. The roots expanded and contracted, growing. In various parts of the city, people who failed to take cover in time lay on the ground, knocked unconscious or killed by the heavy hail.
Dark shadows stealthily approached from the outskirts of the city, sniffing the faint smell of blood in the air.
Hungry, so hungry… It had been several days since they left this seemingly familiar city, and finding food had become increasingly difficult.
And now, that faint smell of blood was like a well-prepared feast, laid out on a table, inviting people to come and dine.
A tall figure stood perplexed beside something that still had half a breath left.
It felt familiar, but why were these creatures different from before? The previous ones were tall, strong, and terrifyingly powerful. The tools in their hands, the mounts they rode, all were existences that could easily threaten their lives and the lives of their companions. But now, that kind of fear was no more…
So it’s because we’ve become even more powerful than before…
The tearing pain left no time to call for help. Their tracheas were severed before they could react, and the colossal creatures carried the prey they had found, dragging them into the dark corners.
Delicious, food, what a tasty feast. Their movements were slow, their killing power weak, but their numbers were vast. There was no need to hide anymore in the future…
The roots buried deep in the ground are crawling and searching, and the bright red blood flowed from the corpses into the ground. The nutrients in this red liquid seem to be more nutritious than the previous soil and rainwater? Absorb it, absorb it quickly…
“It looks like it won’t rain for a while, right?” Xu Song stuck his head out and looked outside. The sky was deep blue, showing no signs of the unexpected hail that had just fallen.
“Seems so.”
Before Yue Zheng could finish speaking, the sound of a car starting suddenly came from nearby. The father with a bandage on his head smiled stiffly and nodded at the two cars. “Well, my wife is waiting for the two of us. We’ll leave first.”
Seeing Luo Wen’an wave at him, the father quickly started the car and escaped from there.
Luo Wen’an sneered and then waved towards Yue Zheng. “Alright, we need to keep searching. If fate allows, we’ll meet again.”
“See you tomorrow.”
Yue Zheng’s voice blended into the roar of the car starting, and Luo Wen’an looked puzzled at the SUV in the rearview mirror. He turned to Su Daji beside him and asked, “Daji, did you hear what Yue Zheng said just now?”
“No… Damn it! The undercarriage got stuck again!” Su Daji, in a bad mood, increased the horsepower. The sports car made two “clunk, clunk” sounds as it barely cleared the vines on the ground. There was no need to ask; the underside must have been scraped quite well.
“Sigh, isn’t this the crappy sports car you bought just to show off? Anyway, we’ll switch to your Jeep when we get back in a while. Just endure it for now, okay?”
“This junk car, these damn trees!” Su Daji continued to complain, but Luo Wen’an stuffed a cigarette into his mouth to shut him up.
“Stop complaining. Shishi is still waiting for us. Let’s keep searching and see if we can find anything.”
“Get down and try.” Seeing that both cars had left, Yue Zheng opened the car door and got out, then opened the back compartment and pulled out a large box.
“Try what?” Xu Song quickly got out of the car as well.
“Fire.”
“Oh, right!” He almost forgot. He had agreed to find a place to see if he could control fire. Xu Song walked a bit further away and said, “Wait a moment!”
Xu Song didn’t look at the box but instead surveyed the surroundings, walking towards a collapsed billboard beneath a western shopping mall.
“What are you looking for?”
“I remember they seemed to have run to this… There it is!” Sure enough, these two dark masses seemed to think they could hide here without being noticed. They were waiting here so blatantly for nightfall, thinking they could find new corpses. But unexpectedly, Xu Song, who had already been keeping an eye on them, caught them.
When the red flames touched them, the two dark masses realized something was wrong but couldn’t escape. A horrifying and sharp shriek echoed as the dark masses twisted in the air, turning into nothingness.
Watching Xu Song’s serious and determined expression, Yue Zheng didn’t call out to him. It wasn’t until he seemed to snap out of his daze that Yue Zheng raised the equipment in his hand.
After burning the dark smoke, Xu Song felt a faint satisfaction in his heart and ran towards Yue Zheng, his eyes gleaming, he then followed Yue Zheng’s instructions to put on the set of equipment on his back.
When using the flamethrower, gloves were needed on the hands, and there was a mask similar to a gas mask for the face, and even corresponding clothing. Xu Song was using a portable flamethrower, which could only be used in emergencies. After all, these things consumed a lot of fuel, so they dared not use them recklessly unless it was absolutely necessary. Therefore, apart from the equipment itself, no other relevant gear was provided to them.
There was a distance between the handhold and the flame nozzle. Xu Song carried the fuel tank on his back, holding up the nozzle to practice manipulating the flame spray while burning the bodies, the scattered corpses that had been touched by the dark masses. After all, if these bodies were left intact, they might trigger some disease. Even if the military saw them, they would collect and cremate them.
The flames released by Xu Song seemed to have an exceptionally high temperature. Not to mention the bodies on the ground, even the ground that was burned showed signs of carbonization. However, even after using his ability until he felt dizzy and his head was pounding, he still couldn’t make the fire burn in specific places away from his body. It seemed that he had to rely on his hands for the flames to spray out.
“Stop practicing, come, take it off.” Yue Zheng had tried to persuade him several times in the middle, but Xu Song had always brushed it off, using the excuse of leaving tomorrow and wanting to practice as much as possible. But now, Xu Song felt dizzy, and it seemed that he couldn’t even hold the flamethrower properly.
“It’s already good enough. Your ability and mine are different. You probably have to use your hand as a medium. If there comes a time when I need your help, you should control the flames with your fingers, enlarging them at the nozzle of the flamethrower. Stand among the crowd when setting fire so that no one notices.”
“For now, that’s all we can do.” Smiling palely, Xu Song slumped in the passenger seat. “I don’t know how to enhance this ability. I feel dizzy just from using it a little. Who can handle that for a long time?”
“Just think of it as a mana bar in a game. But now we don’t know how to get mana potions, so we can only meditate in place.”
Xu Song chuckled and leaned his head against the backrest, looking at Yue Zheng, who had returned to the driver’s seat after putting away the equipment. “You play games too? I didn’t expect that.”
“Why wouldn’t you expect it? I’m only five or six years older than you, not fifty or sixty.” Yue Zheng fastened his seatbelt and started the car.
Xu Song casually shook his head. “You usually have such a serious expression, scarier than my dad…” Speaking of his father, he remembered the urn of his father’s ashes that he had carefully placed in the corner of the trunk. Sometimes, as long as he didn’t think about it, it seemed like the wounds were no longer there. But once inadvertently stirred, the longing and grief in his heart would quietly resurface.
He sighed softly and closed his eyes.
Yue Zheng heard him fall silent and glanced at him. He could tell from his expression that Xu Song had thought of something, but these things couldn’t be persuaded by others. He could only adapt and change slowly on his own.
After a while, a long breath sounded from the person next to him. Yue Zheng looked at him curiously, and he… fell asleep?
Considering the frequency at which he had just used his ability, it made sense. Using the ability to such a large extent must have exhausted him mentally.
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Out of sight out of mind, a tactic that’s causes pain the more you remember you forgot someone.
After being locked up for who knows how long, they’re starving. So the question is will they ever get full