Author’s Note:
Here is yesterday’s chapter to make up for it. I was too tired yesterday. So, barring any unexpected circumstances, there will be another update tonight.
At this moment, Chu Tian gave Bai Mingxi a look, and Bai Mingxi immediately understood.
He stepped forward several paces, stood in the most conspicuous position in the group, and said coldly, “Hey, stop fighting already. That rocket is about to blow a hole through your master’s face.”
Naturally, he was speaking to the plant-type ability user who was locked in fierce combat with the Doctor.
Chu Tian understood that the current deadlock between Xiao Ziran and the other side was merely an illusion created by the enhancement from the crystal cores.
Ever since he had reached Level Three, he understood the gap between Level Two and Level Three better than anyone.
If this continued endlessly, Xiao Ziran would definitely be the one to lose.
Therefore, he had Bai Mingxi speak up precisely to confuse their line of sight and make it impossible for the enemy to figure out their true strength.
Sure enough, the other side immediately became suspicious and uncertain upon hearing this.
They had just been wondering whether Xie Jin had been controlled by someone from the opposing side, and someone from that very side immediately came forward and said something like this, seemingly confirming their suspicion.
Everyone’s eyes focused on Bai Mingxi.
Was this young man the ability user who could control other people?
As Bai Mingxi’s voice fell, Xie Jin suddenly moved slightly, and the glaring muzzle of the rocket launcher shifted toward the pretentious man’s face again.
“Young Master Yuan, a wise man knows when to yield. There’s no need to clash with them. Our mission…” Someone finally quietly tried to persuade him from behind.
If anyone was to blame, it was this Young Master Yuan himself. He had simply become too arrogant.
After the apocalypse, his father had gathered troops and established a safe base. Later, he had gradually recruited quite a few ability users as well. The plant-type ability user Xiao Mohang was the strongest among them.
His father was also extremely doting toward his son. He kept assigning soldiers and sending experts to this ancestor to use as he pleased.
The result was that this ancestor could practically walk sideways throughout the entire base.
With a bunch of ability users around him, combined with his father’s position, there really was no one who dared provoke him.
Thus, he ran around the base stirring up trouble.
At first, he had been enthusiastic about collecting all kinds of beautiful young women. Later, he felt that wasn’t enough and turned his attention to handsome young men as well.
Eventually, he caused such an uproar in the base that his father finally sent him out on this mission.
He only needed to go to S City to find someone. S City was not far from the base and was not considered particularly dangerous.
Thus, his father had given him three vehicles full of ability users.
Almost all of the ability users in the entire base had been sent out by his father to protect this useless son of his.
Having grown accustomed to acting arrogantly inside the base, he brought that arrogance outside as well.
He caused trouble all along the way and never stopped.
Three vehicles had set out together, but after being tossed around by him, only the six people in this vehicle remained.
Fortunately, these six were the strongest among the ability users who had been selected.
Otherwise, they really had no idea how they would ever make it back.
While that ability user was thinking about this, the pretentious man had already started shouting.
“Pei Qianxing! Aren’t you going to stop already?! Can’t you see someone has a gun pointed at my face?!”
He had become submissive in an instant.
Even Bai Mingxi, who was often the first to back down, was stunned for several seconds. He nearly burst out laughing.
But he had not forgotten the role he was currently playing, so he forcibly held it in.
Upon hearing the shout, Pei Qianxing immediately stopped.
Xiao Ziran did not take the opportunity to pursue him either and also withdrew his ability.
He wore a calm, unconcerned expression, as though he could control his ability perfectly at will.
At this moment, only Quan Xiaoyu, who was standing close behind the Doctor, knew that Xiao Ziran’s body was trembling almost imperceptibly.
It was obvious that he had already exhausted his strength, yet he was desperately controlling himself and enduring it.
This was why, in the end, Xiao Ziran could become a regional warlord.
It was not merely because of his strength and abnormal abilities.
People with powerful self-control were always more likely to succeed than others.
Quan Xiaoyu carefully guarded the Doctor without saying a word.
Naturally, the Doctor and Chu Tian were responsible for handling a situation like this.
All he needed to do was fight when he was needed.
After Pei Qianxing stopped, he glanced coldly at Xiao Ziran and said, “Not bad.”
Then he closed his mouth and said nothing else.
He did not even look at the pretentious man again.
Clearly, he could still tell that Xiao Ziran’s ability was inferior to his own.
Given a little more time, Xiao Ziran’s defeat would have been only a matter of minutes.
Hearing this, Xiao Ziran was furious.
He was not angry because of what the other man had said.
He was angry because he was not strong enough.
The pretentious man did not care about any of this.
Seeing Pei Qianxing stop, he immediately started shouting again.
“Hey! Hurry up and have him put the gun down! We’ve already stopped fighting! You were clearly the ones who were in the wrong first. Now we’re even. Can’t we just stop fighting?!”
Ouyang Jing indeed did not want to have too much conflict with them or waste their strength and time here.
Thus, he tried saying to Bai Mingxi, “Little brother, how about we leave things here? Getting on the road is more important. The most important thing for us right now is to get out of the city.”
He had not forgotten the highly organized zombie tide that Zuo Li had mentioned to him.
In fact, he was also suspicious.
He knew very clearly that the people in his own team definitely had not fired the first shot.
Therefore, there was also a probing intention behind these words.
He wanted to know whether Bai Mingxi really had controlled the other man’s people.
If there really was someone in Xiao Ziran’s team who could control other people, then just thinking about the possibility made his scalp tingle.
He and his people were cooperating with Xiao Ziran.
Would they be the first ones to suffer if something happened?
“Oh.”
Bai Mingxi turned his head and glanced at Ouyang Jing before simply turning around and returning to Chu Tian’s side.
Everyone was confused by this.
But as Bai Mingxi returned to the group, the eyes of the man called Xie Jin suddenly regained their clarity.
When he realized that he was actually holding a rocket launcher aimed at Young Master Yuan’s face, he staggered backward several steps in fright.
The people on that side panicked again.
Xie Jin’s finger was still hooked around the trigger!
The others on this side watched the show with great amusement.
Ouyang Jing, however, was distracted by his own thoughts.
“Captain Ouyang.”
Chu Tian’s gentle and warm voice sounded at just the right moment as he walked toward Ouyang Jing.
“Oh, oh.”
Ouyang Jing was startled and came back to his senses.
By then, Chu Tian had already walked up to him.
He knew Chu Tian.
He was the second-in-command of Xiao Ziran’s team, and Zuo Li had told him that he was a powerful fire-type ability user.
To be honest, Ouyang Jing was extremely impressed by Xiao Ziran’s team.
From the very beginning, Xiao Ziran’s team had displayed excellent discipline.
This was something none of the self-organized civilian teams he knew of so far possessed.
This alone made him feel that he had chosen the right allies.
Then he had seen the healing-type ability user from Lei Jia’s team join Xiao Ziran.
He had also learned the circumstances behind it from Zuo Li.
And then there was the powerful plant-type ability user and the powerful fire-type ability user.
Most frightening of all was that there was actually someone who could control other people.
This left Ouyang Jing excited, but also deeply wary.
He was excited because such a strange and powerful ability was practically unbeatable when dealing with human beings.
He was wary because the person capable of controlling such an ability was not one of his people.
Right now, they were allies, standing on the same side.
But what if one day the situation were to reverse?
“Captain Ouyang doesn’t need to think too much about it. We have principles and bottom lines when we do things. We won’t act against our friends. Captain Ouyang can rest assured.”
Chu Tian smiled.
His pair of dark eyes looked directly into Ouyang Jing’s, so deep that they seemed to see straight through to his heart.
Ouyang Jing immediately felt as though his little thoughts had been completely exposed.
He gave an awkward laugh.
“Of course, of course. We’re allies, after all.”
He was actually not very good at dealing with situations like this.
Awkwardly, he did not even know what nonsense he had just said.
Chu Tian smiled lightly and did not say anything more.
He simply returned to Xiao Ziran’s side and said, “Let’s go. Don’t waste time.”
If they delayed any longer, nightfall would make things troublesome.
The people on the other side were still in a complete mess.
The pretentious man was still shouting indignantly about something.
The ability users, however, now knew to persuade him.
Previously, he had been making a mess of things, but they could handle it, so they had simply let him do as he pleased.
Now that he had finally encountered someone who could put him in his place, they knew that the other group was not easy to provoke.
They finally remembered that they needed to restrain their young master.
Otherwise, there would be only six people left, and he might eventually get all six of them killed.
Xiao Ziran nodded and was just about to order everyone into the vehicles to set off when another commotion suddenly came from the rear.
Xiao Ziran and Ouyang Jing exchanged a glance and frowned at the same time.
Before long, Old Wu came running back.
“It’s the people from the church. We’ve been delayed for so long that they’ve already caught up. A bunch of them are shouting that we’re blocking the road and insisting on squeezing their way to the front.
“We were afraid that things would become chaotic in the rear and cause trouble up front, so we’ve been blocking them. As a result, they started making an even bigger fuss. They almost got into a fight.
“Zuo Li is still holding them back!”
Old Wu reported the situation.
Those people in the rear had simply noticed that the convoy had been stopped here for a long time without moving.
They assumed there must be some benefit up ahead and insisted on coming forward to take a look.
The more they were stopped, the more they made a fuss.
Seeing that they were about to be unable to hold them back, Zuo Li had quickly sent Old Wu back to report.
“Let’s go. We’ll take a look.”
Ouyang Jing spoke with anger in his eyes.
Those people really never stopped causing trouble.
Even back at the church, Ouyang Jing had been extremely displeased with them.
“No need.”
Xiao Ziran waved a hand to stop Ouyang Jing.
Then he said to Old Wu, “Let them come. Let as many as want to come.
“Have all our people get into the vehicles. Prepare to set off.”
The matter in front had already been resolved.
Why bother with those idiots in the rear?
And why lower himself enough to go see them?
If they wanted to come, then fine. They were welcome to leave them behind.
Ouyang Jing was clearly inferior to Xiao Ziran when it came to handling this kind of situation.
After hearing this, he immediately felt that he lacked a little of the bearing of a leader.
Thus, he followed the order and waved for all his people to get into the vehicles.
Old Wu also turned around and ran off to relay the order.
Just then, Chu Tian suddenly said,
“Not good! It’s here!”