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Chapter 694: Chapter 694: Current Situation
Su Jin hadn’t gathered all the Man-eating Flowers and had left half of them below. The survivors who had never seen Mutated Plants eat zombies were instantly shocked, and many stayed to watch.
"Where did these Mutated Plants come from?"
"I just saw it, it was a pretty young girl among the people brought by Lian Jiyue who controlled them!"
"Controlled by a young girl? How is that possible? You must be seeing things."
"Indeed, I also saw it. She gathered many Mutated Plants, and after they slowly shrank, they disappeared in her hands!"
"I saw it too; it was her!"
"Then, if they are so useful, why would she gather them up? Why not leave them to eat the zombies?"
In the midst of the crowd’s discussion, someone asked perplexedly. If all those Mutated Plants ate the zombies, what would they have to fear?
Su Jin had heard everything, but she didn’t plan to explain. Although the Man-eating Flowers eating the zombies was a great help, if the zombies were all eaten by the Man-eating Flowers, it would also be a big loss of Crystal Cores. Besides, if Xiao Cui ate so many zombies, she wasn’t certain her Special Ability would be able to withstand it.
Her family also realized that there were hardly any Special Ability Users left who could continue fighting. An individual named Zhao Yuanzhong mentioned that everyone had been fighting continuously over the afternoon, and it was exactly the time when most people had depleted their Special Abilities.
"I see that previously, most of your attacks lacked any strategy. Where is your base’s Base Leader now? Isn’t anyone coming out to organize?"
Su Xiangzhe frowned.
They had noticed it even while they were on the Man-eating Flower earlier; the Special Ability Users on the city walls were randomly attacking the zombies closest to themselves, often with bunches of abilities hitting a single zombie, which was indeed a significant waste of Special Abilities.
Also... why hadn’t they seen any weapon-based attacks? Didn’t this base have any large attack weapons?
"The base doesn’t have a Base Leader anymore. Since Commander Lian turned into a zombie, oh no, left, the Base Leader has been Han Yizhou. Now, let’s not even mention Han Yizhou; even Han Wan has run off to City B,"
explained Zhao Yuanzhong, meaning the current base was leaderless.
"There should still be someone else taking charge, right? It’s not just those two people in the base,"
Lin Xiuyuan then turned a freshly formed zombie ladder into a long icicle, which he controlled to fall backward, instantly killing another row of zombies.
"Ah, who would he command, if he spent all his time cooped up in the research institute? That would just be senseless meddling,"
said another man beside Zhao Yuanzhong.
All of the administrative layers in the base were those so-called scholars from the research institute, and the majority were ordinary people. Getting some who had never killed a zombie to direct battle-hardened Special Ability Users was impractical; even if they had the audacity to command, no one would be willing to listen.
Lu Hao looked at Lian Jiyue, who remained silent. It seemed like their plan to destroy the research institute wouldn’t require any effort at all. However, the prerequisite was that they first had to defend this base.
Crack!
On one side of the city wall, a stone wall had been struck down by a Level Seven Fire Element Zombie. 𝚗o𝚟pub.𝚌𝚘𝚖
"This won’t do; although our Special Abilities can reach down there, high-level zombies are avoiding them, causing no damage whatsoever,"
Su Jin frowned and said.
"But there’s nowhere down there for anyone to stand either,"
Lu Guanhai poked his head out to look, while Lin Cheng had already gone to repair the damaged city wall.
"Actually, the number of zombies is manageable, the biggest issue right now is the durability of the city walls,"
Lu Hao said to Lian Jiyue.
People around them were suddenly stunned: What did this man just say? The number of zombies is manageable?!
There were two million zombies out there, and their entire E City base had only about ten to twenty thousand people!
Actually, Lu Hao didn’t feel that the number of zombies in the Zombie Tide was small, but compared to the previous Zombie Tide at S City Base, he found the number here somewhat acceptable.
"If there’s no place, we’ll build our own,"
Lian Jiyue answered.
Lu Hao smiled as well, thinking the same; since there was no place, they just needed to build one.
"Earth Element Ability User? I understand,"
Though Lian Zongren didn’t know why Lin Cheng had suddenly come to find him, nor why he asked him to gather Earth Element Ability Users, he still acted immediately.
"Earth Element Ability Users who want to defend the base, please come with me now, we need your help!"
Lin Cheng also shouted, although he initially didn’t hold much hope, he was surprised to find that many Earth Element Ability Users responded.
"Big brother, I’m just a Level Three in Earth Element, is that useful?"
A short woman asked tentatively.
"Yes, it’s useful! We’re not pulling you in to fight zombies but to start building a platform now to reduce the pressure on the walls,"
Lin Cheng explained.
Building a platform? Now?
And what was the platform for?
Thus, a group of Earth Element Ability Users were somewhat confusedly led by Lin Cheng to a part of the city wall, and looking down, they saw Man-eating Flowers automatically forming a large circle, even as two of the flowers shifted position while not forgetting to bend down to devour a zombie...
But why were they placing a stone platform in the middle of that circle of Man-eating Flowers?
Ice-Element Ability Users, whom Lin Xiuyuan needed, were also brought over by the proactive Zhao Yuanzhong.
"Three?"
Lin Xiuyuan was stunned. Why were there only three Ice-Element Ability Users?
"It’s like this, Ice-Element Ability Users are rare, and their abilities consume a lot, most have gone to rest,"
one of the Ice-Element Ability Users explained, mentioning that he himself had only half of his Special Ability left.
"Ah, well, since our Ice Element clan isn’t thriving, come with me,"
Lin Xiuyuan sighed, knowing he would have to rely on Su Jin to replenish his Special Ability if he wanted to complete his plan.
"I’ll follow you,"
Su Jin knew Lin Xiuyuan’s intention and the Special Ability-intensive task he was about to undertake, so she positioned herself next to him.
"Hehe, with you by my side, I won’t have to worry,"
Lin Xiuyuan said and then immediately began to take action.
Lin Xiuyuan had planned to coat the entire wall of Base E with ice, so zombies wouldn’t continuously climb up. However, when the other three Ice-Element Ability Users heard this proposal, each of them thought it was an impossible task.
"Brother, do you know how much Special Ability this will consume?"
An Ice-Element Ability User named Liu Bin said.
"Don’t know; let’s try,"
Lin Xiuyuan responded, placing his hand on an area below where the most zombies were, and then began to deploy his "Thousand Miles of Ice."
He wasn’t worried at all. See those Man-eating Flowers eating joyously? Those were their Special Ability production machines!
