It turned out that two vehicles had accelerated toward them, only to discover that their path was blocked. They anxiously began honking their horns furiously, urging them to move out of the way.
Naturally, the people from the Lei Jia Squad were unhappy, and quite a few of them began cursing.
When Lei Shi went over to take a look, he found both vehicles extremely familiar. After thinking carefully, weren’t they the people from the church who had refused to join any faction?
But their vehicles had followed Xiao Ziran and the others.
So how had they ended up behind them instead?
After furiously honking to no avail, someone inside one of the vehicles finally rolled down the window, stuck his head out, and shouted toward the people outside:
“Run! Hurry up and run! The zombies are coming! It’s a zombie horde!”
His voice even carried a sobbing tone as he shouted.
It was true that they had originally been following closely behind Xiao Ziran.
But after seeing from a distance that Xiao Ziran’s group seemed to have gotten into a conflict with someone, while the sounds of explosions and fighting came from ahead, they had backed up and found a concealed place to hide themselves and their vehicles.
Their original plan had been quite clever: let the snipe and clam fight while the fisherman benefited.
Once those people cleared the road ahead, they could simply follow them afterward.
But after hiding for half an hour and planning to continue waiting a little longer, they suddenly noticed a huge dark mass behind them.
It seemed that a large number of zombies were rushing toward them from the distance.
They had almost been scared into wetting themselves.
They immediately floored the accelerator and raced back toward the original road. Even if they could not break through, they hoped they could at least meet up with the others and seek some protection.
But once they reached the road, they discovered that the path ahead was almost completely blocked.
The vehicles belonging to the Lei Jia Squad had been parked haphazardly all over the place. Combined with the scattered people sitting beside their vehicles and resting, they had practically blocked the entire road.
Originally, they had intended to keep the information to themselves and try to slip past the Lei Jia Squad and escape on their own, conveniently letting the Lei Jia Squad hold back the zombies for a while.
Now, however, they had no choice but to give up that plan.
They rolled down their windows and shouted loudly, hoping everyone would move quickly and clear a path for them to escape.
They had thought that after they shouted, everyone would immediately jump into their vehicles and flee for their lives.
Instead, they received every possible kind of reaction.
“Where? Where are they? How could there be a zombie horde in broad daylight? What are you trying to accomplish?”
Someone shouted with his mouth full of food.
Actually, everyone knew one another. They had lived together in the church for several days, and even if they were not acquainted, they were at least familiar faces.
However, the person who had shouted first clearly did not get along with the people in the vehicle, and his tone was filled with obvious malice.
Soon, others began joining in.
Some were dissatisfied because these people had refused to join any team and thought they were too arrogant and needed to be taught a lesson.
Some genuinely did not believe what they were saying and thought they were simply exaggerating the danger.
And of course, there were also those who were just joining in for the sake of making noise.
There were also people who believed them and were anxiously considering whether they should drive away first.
For a moment, the entire scene became somewhat chaotic.
Lei Shi was already getting a major headache from the commotion.
The original members of the Lei Jia Squad had gotten to know one another while traveling and killing zombies together all the way to the church. Naturally, their bonds and organizational discipline were much stronger.
But most of the people causing trouble now were those who had followed them after the speeches at the church, and the majority were ordinary people.
For a moment, Lei Shi discovered that he was actually having trouble controlling the situation.
The commotion continued.
The people in the vehicles, however, were becoming desperate.
After shouting and repeatedly honking without success, one of the ability users inside could not stand it anymore and threw out an ice arrow.
It landed directly in front of the person shouting the loudest, obviously intending to frighten him into shutting up.
Instead, this only triggered the other side’s anger.
The conflict between the two sides became even more serious, and many people surrounded the vehicles, wanting to drag the people inside out.
“You really don’t want to live anymore! The zombie horde is about to arrive! You bunch of idiots!”
The person who had first stuck his head out of the vehicle began cursing furiously.
His life was about to be ruined by this bunch of idiots.
The pretentious man, Yuan Shaohua, and the six ability users watched from the side, completely dumbfounded.
Everything before them seemed like a farce.
Wasn’t this the team that was supposedly so powerful that even the group ahead had been frightened into fleeing?
Then what was this?
Even the incompetent pretentious man, Yuan Shaohua, was beginning to find it unbearable to watch.
“Something really isn’t right. They may not be lying. Let’s go!”
At this moment, Pei Qianxing, who had remained silent the entire time, suddenly spoke.
His brows were tightly furrowed.
After saying this, he did not even wait for Yuan Shaohua’s order. He turned around and walked straight toward their own vehicles.
He had finally figured it out.
Why had that group of people suddenly fled in such a hurry earlier?
They must have realized the danger much earlier!
Could it be that person who could control others?
Pei Qianxing suddenly became intensely interested in that group of people.
Although Yuan Shaohua was arrogant, he did not dare offend Pei Qianxing too much.
After all, Pei Qianxing was the strongest ability user at their base. Along the way, he had helped Yuan Shaohua avoid countless dangers.
They were still outside the base, and there would be plenty of places where Yuan Shaohua would need to rely on him in the future.
Since Pei Qianxing had moved, the others seemed to realize the danger as well.
Even Yuan Shaohua did not say anything at this moment and hurriedly followed Pei Qianxing.
However, as he walked, he kept looking back at Wen Tong with obvious reluctance to leave.
When the group returned to their vehicles, they could not help cursing.
Those damn people from earlier had damaged two of their tires!
They did have spare tires, but replacing them still took some time.
In the distance, they could already see faint clouds of dust.
“Fuck! Move! Hurry!”
Yuan Shaohua shouted.
This time, even an idiot could tell that something was wrong.
Naturally, the people on the Lei Jia side also realized that danger was approaching.
Only then did they begin organizing an escape.
The moment Yuan Shaohua’s group of seven vehicles started their engines, they immediately sped away, heading in the same direction Chu Tian and the others had taken.
On the Lei Jia Squad’s side, those who reacted quickly and had a strong sense of danger also immediately started their vehicles and followed.
The others hurriedly scrambled into vehicles as well.
At this point, who still had time to worry about the original seating arrangements?
As soon as they saw a vehicle, they rushed inside and took a seat.
The scene descended into chaos once again.
Meanwhile, after the appearance of the mental-type zombie, the first person to cry out in shock was Li Nan.
“Yuning-jiejie!”
His voice was filled with shock and disbelief.
Two months ago, although something terrible had happened, Yuning-jie had still been alive and well inside that building.
She had even awakened an ability.
At the time, she had refused to leave with them.
But two months had passed.
Li Nan had thought that even if she was not doing well, she would not die so easily.
Yet she had actually become what she was now.
What exactly had happened to her after they left?
Li Nan felt a little sad.
The memories he had deliberately buried surged back once again like a tide.
His father’s face appeared before his eyes once more, and tears immediately blurred Li Nan’s vision.
That girl whom his father had once desperately protected had still failed to escape the cruel hands of fate.
Now, she had even become a terrifying zombie.
A zombie that could take everyone’s lives at any moment!
Among those “everyone” were the Xiaoyu-ge he loved most, Xiao Bai-ge and Chu Tian-ge, who had always cared for and looked after him, as well as the other members with whom he had not spent much time but had repeatedly fought alongside through life and death.
Li Nan was still young.
He did not understand cause and effect.
But he was very sad.
That single cry of “Yuning-jie” also awakened Quan Xiaoyu’s memories.
Only then did he remember who this girl was.
“So it was her!”
There was also surprise in Quan Xiaoyu’s voice.
This girl’s ability had not been weak.
He had thought she could survive in the apocalypse for a very long time, provided she could avoid the great destruction of S City.
He had never expected her to have become like this.
Judging from her current appearance, her mutation definitely had not happened only recently.
She might have been mutated for quite some time already.
What exactly had happened to her?
Quan Xiaoyu remembered the fragmented memories Chu Tian had told him about—the chaotic memories filled with hatred toward humanity.
“You know her?”
Chu Tian asked Quan Xiaoyu.
At the same time, everyone around them looked at Quan Xiaoyu and Li Nan, waiting for an answer.
“She used to be Xiao Nan’s neighbor. She was originally a mental-type ability user. I don’t know why she became like this.”
Quan Xiaoyu briefly explained.
“Mental-type?”
Xiao Ziran’s eyes flashed.
For an instant, his gaze became sharp before he asked a question.
“Then what exactly does she want to do now?”
That question came from Ouyang Jing.
The two voices sounded at almost exactly the same time.
Indeed, different people really did focus on different things!
Chu Tian, however, knew what the doctor was thinking.
That guy was filled with an intense desire to investigate every existence stronger than himself.
“I’ll tell you in detail later. If we still have the chance.”
Chu Tian answered the doctor’s question on Quan Xiaoyu’s behalf.
“I don’t know.”
Quan Xiaoyu shook his head, his expression solemn.
“A lot of bad things happened to this girl. She probably harbors a great deal of hatred toward humanity.”
He answered Ouyang Jing’s question.
“She no longer has intelligence, but she’s more advanced than ordinary zombies. She still remembers her hatred toward humans.”
“So she probably wants to wipe out everyone.”
Chu Tian analyzed the situation.
Based on the information he had received that day, that girl was filled with hostility toward humanity.
The other people present gradually relaxed as they listened to the conversation.
It was not because they thought there was hope.
On the contrary, they had truly become powerless.
They could not fight it, and from what they were saying, it seemed that they really could not escape.
Once they reached that point, they instead became calmer.
At this moment, the zombies also remained motionless.
Only the girl continued slowly advancing while riding the large cat.
“I’ll try communicating with her again.”
Chu Tian said this, attempting one final effort.
By now, even Ouyang Jing and the others would have had to be complete idiots not to understand.
Chu Tian was not a fire-type ability user at all.
He was that mysterious person who could manipulate people’s minds!
However, after this battle, most of Ouyang Jing and the others’ wariness toward Chu Tian’s group had already disappeared.
They had fought side by side.
Everyone had been brave and honorable.
Now, they might even die together.
What was the point of continuing to guard against one another?
What Zuo Li was thinking at this moment, however, was:
That kid called Quan Xiaoyu is seriously vicious!
No wonder he had started fighting the moment they disagreed that day.
So he was a dual-type ability user with fire and speed abilities!
Zuo Li almost wanted to cry.
“That… seems to be… Dahua?”
Besides Yuning, Li Nan gradually recognized the large cat she was riding as well.
Author’s Note: Thanks to the little angel fueiji for sending the landmine!!!
Everyone is such a clever little angel. You’ve already guessed who that zombie is. My foreshadowing wasn’t successful enough!
The data was terrible yesterday, and I was feeling fragile, so I stopped updating for a day. I’m sorry to all the little angels who were waiting for the chapter!