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Chapter 559: Chapter 559: Filling the Gap
"Oh..."
Qiqi nodded, her understanding not quite complete, but was there an interesting show about to unfold?
Xu Mingliang had never felt so embarrassed. Surely, the people in the two cars behind him were all watching his blunder. He wanted to use all his strength to deal with the Zombie Tibetan Mastiff and show the SS-rank person behind him that an S-rank special ability user was not weak. However, what came at him was an attack from the sharp claws of the Zombie Tibetan Mastiff!
He reflexively dodged backwards, but then he suddenly remembered the countless sharp teeth and claws lunging at him from behind!
It was over. Xu Mingliang resigned himself and closed his eyes.
But the anticipated pain of being torn apart by zombies didn’t flood over him as he expected. Instead, something cold and snakelike wound around his waist and forcefully pulled him to one side!
When Xu Mingliang opened his eyes and looked down, he realized the snakelike thing wrapped around his waist seemed to be... vines?
Could it be Wood Element Ability?
A mocking male voice came to his ears, "In such a rush to die?"
Right after that, a deep red flame whizzed past his ear and smashed towards the Zombie Tibetan Mastiff in front of him!
Boom!
The powerful impact of the flame instantly knocked the Zombie Tibetan Mastiff off the roof of the car, making Han Yue and the others feel that the heavily burdened vehicle suddenly lifted a bit.
Looking at the fallen zombie animal outside, since the entire body of the zombie animal was engulfed in deep red flames and it was howling, no one could tell what kind of animal it was. However, its massive size and the metal spikes it shot out while struggling made it clear it was a huge Mutated Zombie Animal.
"Mingliang succeeded!"
Fan Decai exclaimed excitedly.
"Take a closer look; that fire isn’t Xu Mingliang’s,"
Han Yue reminded him. The deep red fire, even carrying a trace of black at its core, was clearly Lu Hao’s Special Ability Fire. He had never seen such fire element ability in the apocalypse.
Fan Decai and the others were stunned, "If it’s not Mingliang’s, then who is it?"
By this time, the sounds of combat had started coming from outside, originating from behind the car. The zombies that had surrounded the car instantly swarmed toward the few individuals who had emerged from the rear, and Fan Decai and his companions also got a clear view of the situation outside.
The Heart Talk Team from the last car had actually all come out!
The five of them cooperated seamlessly. Xu Mingliang stood stunned atop the Heart Talk Team’s armored vehicle, as twin ponytails leaped before his eyes, followed by several decapitated zombie heads flying into the air...
After quickly slashing a few zombies, the girl with twin ponytails elegantly continued her blade dance.
Slash, chop, leap - she executed the moves with fluid precision.
Her accuracy was impeccable, without any misjudged or missed strikes.
"Is she really a Space Element Ability User?"
Xu Mingliang murmured.
Looking at the other members of the Heart Talk Team, Lu Hao and Lian Jiyue pretty much handled all the Mutated Zombies that pounced on them, while Su Jin, just standing behind the two, used her special ability to instantly kill more than a dozen zombies.
The powerful wooden vines and spontaneous wooden spikes took down zombies while also protecting the remaining four team members.
Under their assault, circles of zombies in front fell down, and most that hadn’t yet reached them fell backward in unison.
"Do we... really not need to get out of the car?"
In the second car, Zhu Chang asked uncertainly.
"There’s no need. These are like mere snacks to them. You won’t be of much help if you go down. Later, we can just help them collect Crystal Cores,"
Wei Junhao, with his legs crossed leisurely leaning back, spoke casually. It wasn’t that he didn’t want to help, but the thousand or so zombies outside were simply no problem for the Heart Talk Team.
Moreover, the zombie animal had already been burned to ashes by Lu Hao’s fire.
"So you see, I didn’t believe their SS rank was truly deserved before, just like the expressions on your faces right now"
Bai Ying pointed at the faces of Luo Hongyi and Zheng Shu as she spoke.
"..."
Luo Hongyi wanted to say that he had never rebutted or questioned anything, but the battle outside the vehicle was too dazzling for him to look away.
Not to mention that man’s unique fire ability, what was with the incredible lethality of the wood element?
They had seen Han Jiajia’s wood element ability in city B before, and at that time, Han Jiajia was even regarded as the "Light of Wood Element" by the wood element ability users in city B, but compared to the Heart Talk Team outside, it was not comparable at all.
More than a thousand zombies were dealt with before the people in the two vehicles even had time to react.
Wei Junhao opened the car door, stretched lazily, and called out to the stunned people inside, "Come out and move around a bit, help us dig out crystal cores!"
Then he walked over to the people at the back with a smile, "You’ve worked hard; we’ll help you dig out crystal cores."
"Sure, then thank you,"
Su Jin said with a smile. Casually, she took Mao Qiqi’s hand, and two hollow plastic baskets appeared in Mao Qiqi’s hands.
Mao Qiqi naturally handed over one of the baskets to Wei Junhao and his group, "Here, you can use this to collect them."
"Alright, Little Cutie,"
Wei Junhao took the basket and walked towards his people; he knew that Mao Qiqi was a mental element ability user, but had not revealed anything to the likes of Luo Hongyi.
Hearing Wei Junhao’s nickname for her, Mao Qiqi didn’t know what kind of face to make. Could he drop the ’little’ part?
"You can go back now,"
Turning around, Lu Hao gestured to Xu Mingliang, who was still standing on the roof of the vehicle.
Why wasn’t this person leaving?
It was only then that Xu Mingliang scanned the situation and jumped down from the roof. As he walked past Lu Hao, he still couldn’t help but ask, "Why can your fire burn metal?"
Xu Mingliang was referring to the zombie animal that had turned metallic.
"It’s in the junior high school textbook,"
Lu Hao answered while continuing to dig out crystal cores.
???
"The knowledge of ignition points,"
Seeing Xu Mingliang still standing there perplexed, Lu Hao only said these few words before ignoring him.
Even he couldn’t explain the principle behind his special ability fire, and even his fellow fire element ability user, Lu Guanhai, had tried it without being able to achieve the same effect as Lu Hao.
So now, if anyone asked, this was the only answer he could give.
Before the apocalypse, Xu Mingliang had been nothing more than a small butcher in a food market. Not to mention junior high school textbooks, he hadn’t even completed reading elementary school ones, so he found Lu Hao’s explanation completely incomprehensible and felt as though he had been underestimated by this man.
"You just wait. Once I’ve thoroughly researched it, I can be like you too. Today was just... I just encountered that troublesome zombie creature, that’s all!"
After dropping his declaration, Xu Mingliang ran towards the first vehicle.
Junior high school textbooks, could he still find any now? As long as he mastered that trick, he could also produce the metal-burning flames like that man! Xu Mingliang thought more and more excitedly. Next time, he would surely redeem himself!
