Chapter Twenty-Seven: Then He'll Be Killed

Before she could finish speaking, a flash of blue-purple lightning struck, and she collapsed to the ground like a lump of mud, her body convulsing.

Feng Ye didn't even spare a glance. He and Lu Yuyang pushed open the rusty iron gate on either side and stepped into the misty wilderness.

Xing Jiao rested on the ground for a while, then struggled to get up and stumbled towards Xing Wu's room.

"Brother! Wake up!"

Inside the room, Xing Wu was fast asleep with two disheveled women in his arms when the scream startled him awake. He flew into a rage: "Xing Jiao! What the hell are you doing now?!"

Xing Jiao rushed forward, "Brother, I just saw Feng Ye leave with Chen Qiurong and Zhao Wenjing carrying bundles."

Xing Wu's drowsiness vanished instantly. He shoved the woman next to him aside and yelled, "Damn it! Go get someone right now!"

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As the gray sky began to lighten with the first hint of dawn, the zombies lost the sharpness that the darkness had given them, and their movements became sluggish and dull.

Josie and her group moved forward silently, avoiding the zombies.

When the apocalypse first broke out, Chen Qiurong was escorted to this shelter by Feng Ye and did not step out of the door for three whole months.

Her back was hunched, her cloudy eyes staring in terror at the monster roaming the street. Her legs trembled uncontrollably, and her withered fingers gripped the hem of her clothes tightly.

Zhao Wenjing supported her, not daring to look to the side at all.

Feng Ye walked at the front, his tall and slender figure outlined sharply by the morning light. Lu Yuyang brought up the rear, his eyes scanning for any potential danger.

Josie, holding a dagger, moved along the edge of the group.

With the elderly Chen Qiurong with them, they abandoned the shortcut and could only try to avoid the zombies as they went.

They moved very slowly to match the pace of the elderly.

I had only walked one block when I heard hurried footsteps behind me.

"Brother, I've been looking everywhere for you!"

Xing Wu strode over with five or six superhumans, an exaggerated smile plastered on his face. He reached out to put his hand on Feng Ye's shoulder, "Come on, come on, let's go back and have a drink. I just got a bottle of Moutai..."

Before her hand could even touch Feng Ye, he dodged to the side.

Xing Wu's smile froze for a moment, then he forced himself to continue, "Who upset you? I'll go back and beat them up right now..."

Feng Ye showed no hesitation or difficulty. "No one provoked me. I have my own plans. I don't intend to stay here forever."

Xing Wu's smile almost vanished. He suppressed his anger and continued, "Then could you stay for my sake? Look... when the apocalypse came, I was the one who took you in and gave Granny Chen and Wenjing a safe place to stay, right?"

He sighed, his eyes pleading, "Brother, now is the time when I need you most. How can you bear to leave me behind?"

Qiao Xi listened from the side and kept clicking her tongue. Although Xing Wu didn't have much real skill, he was quite adept at being thick-skinned and winning people over.

Feng Ye glanced at him and said without any mercy, "Back then, there were only a dozen people in the shelter, no supplies, and no place to live. I found this place, and I led people to carry the supplies back. Xing Wu, I don't owe you anything. If I want to leave, no one can stop me."

Suppressed anger flickered between Xing Wu's brows and eyes.

Although he didn't want to admit it, without the closure of the wilderness, the shelter wouldn't be the size it is today.

Feng Ye had lost his patience. "If you insist on making me stay, then let's do it."

Xing Wu gritted his teeth. How could he stop him?

He knew Feng Ye's strength better than anyone else, which is why he still tried every means to keep him here.

They probably couldn't stop him, especially since he had an ice-type ability user by his side.

Losing two powerful superhumans at once was like a knife to Xing Wu's heart.

Before he could say anything more, the blue electric sparks in Feng Ye's hand began to flicker.

"Feng Ye! Are you really going to do this to me?"

"If you hadn't stopped me, I might have let you off the hook, considering we've known each other for a few months. But now... get out of my way!"

A hint of frost lingered between Feng Ye's brows.

Xing Wu felt that his dignity as the leader had been trampled on and rubbed into the ground.

But looking at the sparks in his palm, he was helpless.

He swallowed his anger, stepped aside, and even put on a smile, saying, "Alright, brother, go out for a stroll. If things aren't going well outside, my door will always be open for you."

Feng Ye glanced at him indifferently and strode over to him.

As Josie passed by him, she waved and smiled, "See you again sometime!"

Only after Feng Ye and the others left did the sinister look in his eyes fully emerge.

"Boss, are we really going to let Feng Ye just leave like that?"

"I won't let you go...can you stop me?" Xing Wu glared angrily at the person who spoke.

The other person realized they had asked a stupid question and quickly shut up.

Xing Wu watched their backs disappear before speaking with a sinister tone, "Find a way to spread the word that there is an ability user named Feng Ye who knows a way to level up ability users quickly."

The other superhumans around him didn't understand his intentions.

Xing Wu chuckled sinisterly, "Isn't Feng Ye very powerful? There are always more powerful superhumans than him. If he can't work for me, I'll make sure he doesn't live!"

The other ability users immediately gave him a thumbs up. "Brother Wu, you're amazing! You should teach Feng Ye a lesson. You've been so good to him, Brother Wu, and he doesn't even respect us. He doesn't even give you face."

"Hmph!" Xing Wu snorted coldly. "It's alright, he'll pay the price!"

Josie and her group made an exceptionally smooth progress.

She used her shapeshifting ability to lure away the zombies, while Feng Ye and Lu Yuyang worked together seamlessly to finish off the remaining zombies. Their abilities complemented each other perfectly.

In just two days, they successfully crossed this city of death.

"Sister Xixi, is the safe zone really as good as you say?"

Zhao Wenjing gradually adapted to the outside environment and was no longer as afraid as she had been at the beginning; her eyes sparkled with hope.

Josie gently ruffled the girl's dry, yellow hair.

The safe zone was definitely a hundred times better than that cramped shelter, but she had never actually lived there.

"At least there is a stable supply of water and electricity there, and the fortifications are more complete."

Feng Ye, who was walking ahead, suddenly stopped, his military boots crushing a dead branch.

"You came from the safe zone?" He turned around, his deep gaze revealing no particular emotion.

Josie's eyes darted around as she pondered how to answer this tricky question.

Suddenly, the sound of a car engine came from the road ahead, breaking the silence of the early morning.

A modified RV was driving towards them, and the dust kicked up by its wheels startled the zombies wandering by the roadside.

"Watch out!" Feng Ye shouted, blue lightning crackling in his palm.

Lu Yuyang stood in his position with perfect understanding, frost gathering at his fingertips.

The RV roared past them, the gust of air it created lifting Josie's clothes.

Feng Ye's lightning and Lu Yuyang's ice spikes attacked the approaching zombies simultaneously.

After they dealt with all the zombies.

The RV that had left returned.

Feng Ye and Lu Yuyang stepped aside, shielding Qiao Xi and the other two behind them.

The moment the car door opened, a girl was the first to get out of the car.

Her features were exquisitely beautiful, and her chestnut-brown curly hair shimmered with a honey-like luster in the sunlight…