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Chapter 666: Chapter 666 Wanting to Perform Well
"The base’s operations have all been assigned to someone in the past few days, so it’s no problem for us to be out for a day,"
Guan Shouzhong was answering questions from his family, even Su Xiangzhe was worried about whether it would be okay for him to be away from the base.
"It’s fine, we used to go out and kill zombies often before, leaving it to Old Wu and the others is completely alright,"
Xiang Sanjin also cheerfully said.
The driver, Tian Yongyi, almost hummed a tune; this was the most pleasant time he had been a driver recently.
Mao Qiqi was still taken out early in the morning by Su Jin as well.
Guan Shouzhong always found the little girl’s existence strange during these days. He could always see her around, but she would disappear by night, guessing that she probably belonged to the type of child who goes to bed and gets up early.
But today, they were undertaking such a dangerous mission--why did Captain Lu bring her along?
Actually, the family didn’t intend to bring Qiqi along either, considering that she had seen Yang Xingye in the side yard when Dragon Ruler had come before. But Mao Qiqi assured that she had only peeked at Yang Xingye from behind the door and he hadn’t seen her. Relenting to the little girl’s earnest pleading, Su Jin brought her out.
Remembering Yang Xingye, who was now tormented to the point of paranoia by the hallucinogen, Lu Hao didn’t oppose the idea. He estimated that no one would believe the crazy things Yang Xingye said anymore, especially since he was still detained in the base’s holding cell.
"Captain Lu, why did you bring a child along today?"
Guan Shouzhong asked in a low voice, wondering if Captain Lu was underestimating the day’s mission.
Lu Hao chuckled lightly and said, "A child? You may not necessarily be able to beat her."
Guan Shouzhong’s eyes widened; he was a Level Five Metal Element Ability User. Was that little girl an Ability User, too?
"You’ll see in due time,"
Lu Hao intentionally brought Qiqi along to inform Guan Shouzhong about the existence of Mental Element Ability Users, a fact they seemed unaware of thus far.
Guan Shouzhong sighed. How weak must Captain Lu think they are, to say that even a child could beat him?
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The reserve warehouse shown on the map was actually located in a suburb. Probably because too many people knew it was a warehouse, many had found it during the early period of the apocalypse, and many of those people turned into the first batch of zombies there.
"There sure are a lot of zombies around here,"
Nie Qing said, looking outside. They had seen many teams of Ability Users killing zombies along the way, but zombies on the sides of the road were still appearing endlessly.
"If we can avoid stopping, we should; we’d better make the round trip within the day,"
Lu Hao told Tian Yongyi.
Su Xiangzhe was constantly using his Thunder Element Ability to knock the zombies around the vehicle away, saving them many forced stops, but when they reached an intersection, layers of zombies seemed to be waiting there just for them, blocking all the routes.
Guan Shouzhong and the other two tensed up and prepared for combat.
"About 3,000 zombies,"
Mao Qiqi said.
"Hmm, give me half an hour; I’ll stay up here,"
Su Jin also said to her family.
"What does that mean? Half an hour?"
Tian Yongyi turned his head to ask, and how did that little girl know there were more than 3,000 zombies?
At that moment, Lu Hao had already charged out, his powerful Special Ability Fire igniting a large group of zombies outside the car door. In just a few seconds, those zombies shrank rapidly and collapsed into ash in front of everyone.
The zombies coming from the other side were also temporarily stopped by several thick vines, giving the family that had just gotten out of the car a chance to catch their breath.
While Guan Shouzhong and the other two were still unable to react to all this, the release of various Special Abilities had already slain hundreds of zombies, and that little girl was single-handedly cutting through the zombies surrounding her.
The most astonishing part was that the zombies that seemed like they were about to pounce on her as if they hit an invisible barrier, and in the next second, their heads were neatly sliced off by the blade in the girl’s hand.
Such strength! Such swift chopping, is she a Power Element Ability User?
Guan Shouzhong couldn’t afford to puzzle over it any longer. He also began to use his Metal Element Ability to kill the zombies coming towards him. Like him, Xiang Sanjin was a Metal Element Ability User, while Tian Yongyi was a Wind Element Ability User. However, both Xiang Sanjin and Tian Yongyi were only Level Four Ability Users, having awakened their abilities after the Red Rain.
"Lin Xiuyuan, you really are a Level Six Ice Element, I thought you were fooling me,"
Xiang Sanjin said while transforming his Metal Element Ability into a longsword, chopping away at the zombies as he spoke.
Indeed, this family’s Special Abilities and skills were too exceptional; it seemed as though each person transformed into a different individual in front of zombies, not pausing for even a moment, so he could only talk to Lin Xiuyuan who was reluctantly protecting them.
Lin Xiuyuan blocked a Stone Spike for Tian Yongyi, and the Ice Shield he used for blocking immediately enveloped the spike, stabbing it back towards the Level Five Earth Element Mutated Zombie!
Bang!
The previously howling Earth Element Zombie fell silent, and Tian Yongyi suppressed the urge to applaud excitedly—this was just too incredible!
"Would fooling you be of any benefit? I’ve always been Level Six,"
Lin Xiuyuan answered.
Seriously, were his brother-in-law’s three subordinates too weak? Why did it feel like even the weakest member of their previous team, Lu Guanhai, seemed much more powerful than them?
In fact, he hadn’t realized their progress over the past month. Not only had they swept through the entire H City, but they had also gone to Z City, which was heavily infested with zombies.
Their daily cycle of killing zombies and resting had significantly increased everyone’s physical and Special Ability endurance, so the zombies now hardly posed any threat in the eyes of the family.
Meanwhile, Guan Shouzhong and the other two were still maintaining a state of high alert, let alone being able to act freely.
At one point, Mao Qiqi had slaughtered her way to the side of Guan Shouzhong and the other two, simply because the largest group of zombies had gathered there. The zombies that had just started to congregate on her family’s side were promptly taken care of, while the movements of these three people seemed like slow-motion to her, with more and more zombies beginning to cluster around them.
Guan Shouzhong watched the little girl in front of him with mixed feelings, noticing she seemed to have a smile at the corner of her mouth the whole time, and a Metal Element Series Zombie that had completely turned metallic had its head chopped off by her knife.
"That’s because Qiqi infused spiritual power into the blade, so no matter how hard the zombies are, she can still cut through them,"
Lin Xiuyuan explained. This was a method Qiqi had invented herself while in Z City, and one could say she had brought her Mental Element Ability to its utmost potential.
"What is spiritual power?"
Guan Shouzhong asked, not understanding. Forgive him for coming from the countryside, but why did he not comprehend eight out of ten sentences spoken by this family?
