Capítulo 22: The Human Being who Blocked the Way
Editor: Hitesh_
Xie Dong frowned, unsure about the level of this zombie that Huang Xiao had seen. If it were level-four, then that would be a serious problem.
Level-four superpowered zombies were quite rare, and level-five ones were seen even less. In the recent two years, only two or three level-five zombie leaders had shown up. They were all exceptionally powerful, and the people who had unfortunately encountered them were mostly dead.
Currently, level four was the highest level of the zombies that people could find frequently. Level-three intelligent zombies were more often seen than level-four ones of course. With the strength of Xie Dong's squad, they might truly face a troublesome situation if it were a level-four superpowered zombie.
...
While running, Lin Qiao suddenly sensed the scent of human beings from behind.
She knew that a human squad was there when she ran past that area earlier as she had sensed the human aroma from a long distance. She just didn't take it seriously, as she felt that if she left them alone, they would do the same to her.
At no point had she expected that these people would want to provoke her even when she caused no offense to them!
She stopped, then turned around and quietly stared at the human being who had almost caught up with her.
The man was very fast. Lin Qiao could sense the waves of superpower emanating from him. She had guessed that he was gifted with wind power, because she could see how fast and swift his steps were.
Seeing that the zombie had suddenly stopped, Huang Xiao's heart immediately flipped with joy. He rushed and stopped twenty meters away from Lin Qiao, his eyes fixed on this female zombie while looking at her from head to toe.
This zombie's hair hung loosely but seemed quite clean. Her face had been destroyed, entirely covered by large tearing wounds, such that it was impossible to see how she originally looked. She had a pair of dark eyes that only high-level zombies had, and her pale lips were pressed tightly together.
She stood there straight in a long baggy dress which blurred her body shape, looking at him with composure in her eyes,
The fact that this female zombie didn't fiercely pounce on him or show any other sign of aggression made Huang Xiao feel strange. She hadn't even extended her claws to overtly get ready for attack.
It was worth mentioning that when human beings were hunting high-level zombies, the latter had also been hunting superpowered human beings. The same as human beings, zombies always acted in teams, because in a fight between one level-three zombie and a couple of superpowered human beings, the zombie's chance of winning was incredibly low.
At the moment, Huang Xiao was all alone as his teammates hadn't caught up yet. Thanks to his superpower, he had left the rest of the squad far behind. For the high-level zombie standing in front of him, now was the best time to attack.
If she were a regular zombie, she would have pounced on him right away. Therefore, Huang Xiao had left himself a space with a radius of nearly twenty meters to give himself the time and freedom for reaction.
However, this zombie before his eyes didn't attack him thirstily as he expected. Instead it just calmly stood there, quietly watching him.
They had not begun fighting, so he couldn't tell if this female zombie was at level three or four. He just guessed level-three based on her speed.
Lin Qiao quietly looked at this man for a while. She clearly knew that he was waiting for his teammates and didn't want to start the fight right now, because she could sense some of this man's thoughts. The distance between them was significant and his thoughts weren't clear, yet she still sensed them.
After knowing his thoughts, she was unwilling to wait with him and fall in a disadvantage. Hence, she turned back and darted away in her original direction.
"Stop!" Seeing this female zombie turn back and run away, Huang Xiao inadvertently burst into a growl and lunged at her. He supported his legs with his wind power while wielding both arms to release a rapid wave of wind blades.
Lin Qiao sharply sensed Huang Xiao's attack. She nimbly dodged as the wind blades cut at her, then leaped up high in the air. Twisting her body for a few times midair, she flipped once before landing agilely back on the ground.
She dodged more than ten of Huang Xiao's wind blades which failed to even touch a corner of her clothing. Nevertheless, she was infuriated by this sudden attack.
'Damn! Do you think zombies are all pushovers? Watch now as I kick your a*s! You think you're the only bully, huh?'
She popped out her claws while bending at the waist, then thrust her feet against the ground and pounced on Huang Xiao. She was so fast that she had rushed up to Huang Xiao with one swift move.
By that point, Huang Xiao had inadvertently shortened the distance between Lin Qiao and himself while pursuing and attacking. As he was still feeling a little surprised about how this female zombie agilely moved her body and easily dodge all his wind blades, he saw her land back on the ground and suddenly charge at him. She was so fast that she even looked like a shred of a shadow. In a blink, she was right before his eyes.
'Not good!' Huang Xiao immediately realized that he had made a grave error as the sense of danger in his heart rose sharply and he hurriedly attempted to draw back.
However, in his haste, he actually forgot to increase his speed with his wind power, managing to do nothing more than building a wind wall around his body. The wind wall lasted only about two seconds before Lin Qiao tore it down with her claws.
Then, before Huang Xiao could figure out what was happening, he realized that he had suffered a few hits. In the next instant, he was flying in the air because Lin Qiao had kicked him away.
After that, Huang Xiao rolled on the ground for a few times, then sat up and instinctively rubbed his arms in panic, checking his body for wounds.
If he were wounded, he wouldn't be able to escape his fate of becoming a zombie!
He checked his entire body and found no scratch wound on his skin. The greatest pain came from his abdomen where he had suffered a heavy kick.
'No? No... No wound! Thank god!'
Huang Xiao leaped up, scarcely able to believe his luck. As he prepared to recheck himself to see if he really hadn't been wounded by the zombie, he suddenly felt cold and then saw some ragged clothes falling onto the ground around his feet.
Then, he looked down at himself, only to see his exposed skin!
Huang Xiao was stunned into silence.
'Damn!!!'
He instinctively squeezed his legs together and covered the area below his lower abdomen with both hands as quickly as he could. Then, he lifted his head and looked around him in confusion.
He saw no zombie, and only his late-arriving teammates.
"Whoa! What the hell? Huang Xiao, what happened to you?"
The rest of the squad was dumbfounded as the first thing they saw after arriving was Huang Xiao standing there naked! One of them couldn't help but laugh out loud, then blurted out this question.
'Damn it! I really want a hole to crawl into!' Huang Xiao thought.
The expression on Xie Dong's face was hard to read as he gently made a fist and held it to his mouth, then coughed and said, "Eh-hem… You, lend some clothes to Huang Xiao for him to cover his body. Don't just laugh!"
He turned his face away while speaking, filled with embarrassment.
Hearing him, the others finally came to their senses. One of them took off his jacket and threw it to Huang Xiao while still laughing.
"Huang Xiao, have you been molested by someone?"
Capítulo 23: A Foreboding of Danger
Editor: Hitesh_
Huang Xiao's face was flushed as he caught the jacket with one hand, then slightly turned and quickly wrapped it around his waist. His already red face darkened as he hissed through gritted teeth, "Not 'some one'!"
While speaking, he scanned the area but failed to find even a trace of that high-level female zombie. The others were shocked by his words, and one of them asked, "Not some one? It couldn't have been some zombie, could it?"
Huang Xiao didn't know how to respond.
Xie Dong finally threw out the question, "So then, where is this high-level zombie that you mentioned? There seems to be not a single zombie in this area, eh?"
He looked around and found that this area was strangely empty. Leave alone high-level zombies, not even a regular zombie could be found here. The figures of zombies could only be seen hundreds of meters away from here.
Huang Xiao did not concern himself with this. He moved suddenly and swiftly toward the regular zombies some distance away. He selected a relatively clean-looking male zombie and sliced off its head with a wind blade, then rushed up and ripped off its pants.
Instead of being grateful toward Lin Qiao for not killing him, his teeth were clenched with hatred.
She was just an intelligent zombie, but she had humiliated him so badly. How could he possibly let it go after being humiliated by a zombie like that? Next time he saw her, he would slice off her flesh, turn her into a skeleton, and then cut open her head to take out her nucleus.
...
Not far away from this squad of people, a lone figure stood in a corner on top of a dozen-story building, staring down at them. Its cold eyes sparkled with a desire to kill and a greed to feed.
On the ground, Xie Dong's heart skipped a beat as a strange sensation washed over him. He didn't recognize this feeling, so he looked around in confusion but found nothing abnormal.
On the other side of the road, Lin Qiao was hiding in another building, leaning against the wall next to a window with her back to Xie Dong and his teammates. Her eyes sparkled dimly as she glanced upward from the window.
She sensed a strong vibe from the sixteenth floor of the building opposite, but she wasn't the target of its owner. Clearly, this creature was coming for this group of living human beings.
Although she knew that the vibe wasn't meant for her, she still felt a strong sense of danger. It seemed that this creature was especially powerful. However, she couldn't tell what it was based merely on the vibe. Was it a high-level zombie? A zombie beast? Or a mutant animal?
Whatever it was, she felt that these people were in danger, because she knew that they were no match for that creature.
As Lin Qiao was wondering what that creature would do next, she suddenly lost track of its vibe. She hurriedly fixed her eyes in that direction, but that dark silhouette was gone now, and so was its vibe, without leaving a trace. Her feeling of danger had faded, but it hadn't disappeared entirely.
While puzzling over this, she suddenly sensed a few other vibes and smells of human beings. No, not just a few... These smells belonged to many people and were all tangled up together.
However, only a few among all the human vibes she sensed were powerful. Although, one of them even made her feel suppressed.
No wonder that creature had hidden its own vibe or left temporarily. It couldn't defeat this group of people who were now approaching this area. That was it, a group of people was coming in this direction.
Lin Qiao took the opportunity to leave as well while the group was still some distance away. She quietly sneaked away from the area where nobody was present.
Not long after she left, a group of people showed up from afar.
"Look! That looks like a zombie-hunting army from the base." Xie Dong's people had spotted the gradually emerging army as well.
"Looks like it."
"Yeah! The army out here for hunting zombies and collecting resources is led by Wu Chengyue this time. That should be them."
"Let's go. No high-level zombie is in this area anymore. Even if there is one, we won't get a chance to kill it now that they're here." Wearing a pair of pants snatched off a zombie, Huang Xiao looked at the army which was coming this way, his face filled with fear and jealousy.
Xie Dong shook his head and said, "No, we should follow them. It'll be safer that way."
He now knew what had made his heart flip earlier on and had given him such a strange sensation. It was the kind of feeling of danger that people would experience when they were targeted by fierce beasts. He felt that his squad had already been targeted by a powerful zombie, which could well be the one that had led them here.
Therefore, as the zombie-hunting army from the base was passing by, the squad could follow them for a while. There were some powerful members in that army—many of them were at level-four, and a couple of them were even at level-five. Furthermore, as one of the leaders of the base, Wu Chengyue surely possessed a high-level superpower. In the Sea City Base, only three level-seven superpowered human beings existed after all.
Together, these three level-seven powerful beings controlled the entire Sea City Base.
Because of the characteristic wisdom, as well as learning and adaptive abilities of human beings, the human survivors had been growing stronger at quite a steady rate since the apocalyptic era began.
Not only had the strongest superpowered human beings from the Sea City Base achieved level-seven, but the leaders of many other bases were also mostly at level-seven or above. This post-apocalyptic world was dominated by zombies. Therefore, a primitive hierarchy was naturally formed, according to which, the powerful ones commanded respect.
Hearing Xie Dong, Huang Xiao immediately knitted his brows and said, "Follow them? What can we possibly get by following them? They might even use us as cannon fodder and make us defend against zombies for them."
He surely didn't want to go with the powerful ones in the army, because he knew that those people would claim all high-level zombies which could be found. In that case, what would be left for them? At the very most, they would end up helping the army in dealing with some average level one to two zombies. However, the nuclei of those zombies were hardly valuable.
He came out of the base for an adventure to win riches and honor. How could one make a harvest without taking the risk? If so, they didn't need to form a zombie-hunting squad to hunt zombies outside then.
Besides, if they joined this army, they would be required to hand over all the resources they had gained in the action except for zombies nuclei.
Xie Dong felt that Huang Xiao's words did make sense, but he also knew that the situation had changed. Earlier on, he had felt that his squad had been targeted, and he believed that to be true. After all, he was always exceptionally alert toward danger.
Moreover, the enemy's power was so mysterious that he couldn't sense it at all. Without the feeling of danger in his heart, he wouldn't have even known that his squad had already been targeted.
Therefore, at this point, saving their own lives should be the top priority. If they were dead, all that they wanted would become meaningless.
With a somber face, he said seriously, "I feel that we've been targeted. If we insist on acting by ourselves, we might encounter danger which won't be easily overcome."
Huang Xiao tittered, mocking Xie Dong's words, "You always say that you have sharp feelings. But look, we've been out here for so many days following you, yet have found nothing. Except for the great number of low-level zombies that we dealt with every day, we haven't seen even a trace of any high-level zombie. Finally, I spotted one today, but we lost her because of your slow movements."
Presentes
-- Presente
recebido Status de energia semanal
200+ Ranking de
Poder 
31 Pedra de
Poder Você também pode gostar
Comentário de parágrafo