Outside a small town in the north, a small team of a dozen people was being chased by a group of people.

A middle-aged man with a face covered in blood said, "You all hurry back to the base and tell the base commander about the situation here, so he can be ready to evacuate everyone at any time!"

Another person, who also looked seriously injured, chimed in, "Lei Zi, you take your men and get out of here quickly! Your Uncle Zhao and I are too badly injured to outrun those people."

We two will simply stay behind to cover your retreat.

"Uncle Zhao, Uncle Li, let me help you walk slowly."

As he spoke, the boy bent down to help the two of them up.

The middle-aged man shoved the boy aside and cursed, "I told you to get out of here! What are you talking nonsense for? Your injuries don't affect your movement at all, but your Uncle Zhao and I both have leg injuries and can't run fast at all!"

If you dawdle any longer, those guys will catch up. Get moving!

A girl tugged at the boy and said, "Since Uncle Zhao and the others have already made their choice, if you keep delaying like this, their sacrifice will be in vain."

The boy gave the two of them a deep look, then turned to the other boys and said, "Let's hurry back to the base, let's go!"

After watching the boys walk away, Zhao Qiang asked, "Brother Li, do you remember the time we encountered Black Bear when we went up the mountain more than ten years ago?"

Li Hai handed Zhao Qiang a crumpled cigarette and said, "Of course I remember. If we hadn't worked together and risked getting injured to stab Hei Xiazi a few times, we probably would have both died on the mountain."

Zhao Qiang took a deep drag on his cigarette, then pulled two dark, lumpy iron objects from his pocket and handed them to Li Hai.

Upon seeing this, Li Hai asked, "Is this a soil mine?"

Zhao Qiang nodded and said, "I found it among the old man's belongings."

You know what the old man did when he was young, so it's not surprising that he left behind some of this stuff.

Li Hai looked at Tu Lei and said, "I think those people are very strange. My superpower clearly hit them, so why are they completely unharmed?"

Zhao Qiang looked at the group of people chasing after him in the distance and said, "This time I'll shoot them in the head, just like I'm killing zombies."

As a group of people entered the alley, Li Hai struck one of them in the head with a spiked dung.

He looked at the man lying on the ground and said, "Hitting the head really works."

"There's an ambush, everyone be careful! Damn it, all of you charge in!"

Seeing the dozen or so people rushing towards him, Li Hai put the earth mine into his clothes and said, "Old Zhao, let's see who kills the most before we die."

“They’re over there!” someone shouted, pointing to an abandoned building.

Just as the two were preparing to rush out and fight these people to the death.

A phoenix cry rang out from the sky, followed by a huge fireball exploding above the heads of the people charging in from outside.

In the blink of an eye, when Zhao Qiang and Li Hai limped out, all they saw were fragments of corpses scattered all over the ground.

Just as Tang Yan's gaze fell upon the few people trembling behind her, a man spoke.

Tang Yan interrupted him, saying, "Shut up. You will pay the price for what you did today."

With a wave of his hand, several bolts of purple lightning, as thick as an arm, struck the heads of the group.

Yuan Chuyi looked at the furious Tang Yan and asked, "What did you find?"

"It seems that the island nation still harbors the ambition to destroy China and wants to take advantage of the apocalypse to occupy our north."

"Thank you both for saving us!" Zhao Qiang and Li Hai said gratefully.

Yuan Chuyi looked at the injuries on their legs, then casually cast a healing spell on them and said, "Try to forget about Ice City when you have the chance."

The two nodded and said, "We'll go back and discuss this with the base commander."

Watching the two figures disappear into the distance, Yuan Chu asked, "Tell me what happened."

"The island nation's main purpose in coming this time is to plunder the northern supply reserves. They brought several hundred spatial ability users, as well as assassins."

These assassins were injected with a mysterious drug that gave them the same regenerative abilities as zombies, as well as the same weakness: their heads.

Only a small portion of their members were recently wiped out; the majority remained in Jiangcheng.

Just as Yuan Chuyi and Tang Yan were on their way to Jiangcheng, in a small courtyard in Kyoto.

A man in his thirties looked at Bai Ling excitedly and said, "Little sister, is what you said true? That person looks a lot like you, and he even has a mole the size of a grain of rice on his chin."

"Brother, why are you so agitated? It's like that person is your long-lost brother."

The man calmed himself down and said, "Little sister, please sit down. I need to talk to you about something."

Looking at her solemn older brother, Bai Ling nodded and said, "Brother, you go ahead and say it. I'm listening."

"Actually, my parents had three children in total, but when I was 7 years old, my parents went to the north and lost my second brother, who was a little over one year old at the time."

After that, Mom and Dad searched frantically for many years, and only after you came into our lives did they gradually accept their fate…

The brother and sister chatted all morning, and when they saw the usually carefree and strong older brother with a hint of sadness on his face...

Bai Ling asked, "Big brother, do you mean the person I met might be my second brother?"

The man nodded and said, "It's possible, but since they've come to Kyoto, we'll find out by meeting them. Even though it's the apocalypse now, given the conditions in Kyoto, doing a DNA comparison shouldn't be a problem."

At the Lungmen recruitment office outside the Kyoto base, Bai Ling brought a tall man to Wan'er's side and asked, "Wan'er, could you please call for Sect Master Yuan?"

Looking at Bai Ling's cautious manner as she fidgeted with the hem of her clothes, Wan'er thought to herself, "Could it be that Bai Ling has also taken a liking to the sect leader?"

"What do you want with the sect leader? If you have something to say, just tell me. The sect leader isn't in the capital."

Seeing Wan'er's wariness, the man stepped forward and said, "Hello, young lady. Let me introduce myself first. My name is Bai Yuxuan, and I am also Bai Ling's older brother."

I came here to thank Master Yuan for taking care of my sister along the way. I am also the commander-in-chief of the Second Field Army of Kyoto. My sister told me that Master Yuan's purpose in coming here is to recruit more members of the Dragon Gate.

Perhaps I can help in this regard. That's why I've come uninvited to discuss this matter with Sect Master Yuan.

After Wan'er heard Bai Yuxuan's purpose, her wary face softened and she said, "Oh, I see. But you've come at a really bad time. The sect leader is indeed out."

Bai Yuxuan looked at Wan'er and said, "Then please convey to Sect Master Yuan the purpose of my visit."

Jiangcheng

Yuan Chuyi quickly stopped Tang Yan, who was planning to kill her completely.

Yuan Chuyi looked at Tang Yan and said, "It's fine if others die, but it feels a bit wasteful to kill these hundreds of space ability users like this."

"Then what do you mean? Are you suggesting we're still supporting these islanders? If you could see what they've done in China over the past month, I think you'd kill them right away too," Tang Yan complained indignantly.