"Is everyone here?"

Qin Yan stood at the front of the convoy, watching the large number of zombies approach, and couldn't help but frown.

"Commander, we're still short about ten men," the soldier reported.

"What?" Qin Yan was astonished. "We're still short about ten people?"

After a pause, Qin Yan calmly gave the order, "Find a few people to go find them. You must be back in fifteen minutes, whether you find them or not."

"Yes, Commander." The young soldier saluted and led his men away quickly.

Min Qiu and Nangong Xuan sat on the ground against the tire, silently eating sunflower seeds.

"Do you think those people got greedy and secretly hid instead of going back to base?" With a crack, Nangong Xuan cracked open a sunflower seed shell. The shell was salty and fragrant, and Nangong Xuan deliberately took a few bites before spitting it out.

"Ugh, what kind of day is this!"

"You only realize how little money you have when you need it; you don't know hunger until you taste the sweetness of food," Nangong Xuan lamented deeply.

Min Qiu ignored Nangong Xuan's feigned groan and said calmly, "Something must have happened. Haven't you noticed that we haven't seen a single zombie since we entered the town?"

"Look, aren't there a huge pile over there!" Nangong Xuan pointed to the town entrance.

At the town's entrance, a dense mass of zombies huddled together, many of their kind trampled into a puddle of mud. The stench was unbearable, and their howls were incredibly disturbing.

"If that's the case, why don't they come in? To zombies that only have the desire to eat, we are incredibly delicious and irresistible fresh meat."

After finishing the last sunflower seed, Min Qiu took out the Tang sword she had been carrying on her back and gripped it tightly in her hand. She was completely focused, paying attention to every sound and movement around her.

Nangong Xuan patted his behind, stood up, and beneath his leisurely expression, a fighting spirit quietly arose.

"Ahhh... Help...!" From the depths of the street, screams rang out like the sound of gunfire in a race, as the zombie army blocking the town's entrance surged in.

Min Qiu gripped her Tang sword tightly; before the zombies could even get close, she delivered herself right to their doorstep.

"Hey, Min Qiu, don't be impulsive."

Nangong Xuan didn't want to lose someone he could talk to, so he hurriedly followed in Min Qiu's footsteps.

"Be careful, there's a level 5 zombie inside, and it's a mental zombie."

"Level 5 Mental Zombie".

No wonder, no wonder those zombies stayed obediently at the town entrance.

Nangong Xuan is a lightning-type ability user, already at the peak of level three, just one step away from level four. His strength is among the top in the Changlin Base. He skillfully uses his ability, not wasting a single bit of power, directly focusing it on the most crucial aspects.

After observing Nangong Xuan several times, Min Qiu couldn't help but sigh that Nangong Xuan's reputation as one of the seven strongest people in the apocalypse was truly well-deserved.

"ah……."

At this point, the entire zombie army was deployed to the battlefield.

With the enemy outnumbering them, Qin Yan, as the leader, faced immense pressure.

"Commander, we can't hold them off any longer."

With one fireball from Qin Yan, seven or eight zombies were reduced to nothing.

"We have to stop them even if we can't, there are still six minutes left of the agreed fifteen minutes."

One should not break one's word.

"Yes, Commander."

As the number of zombies increased, the soldiers, restrained by Qin Yan, fought methodically. However, the recruited superhumans, each adhering to rules and order, retreated temporarily when danger loomed and their lives were at stake, conserving their strength for fear of being abandoned once they were exhausted.

Four minutes later, the soldiers suffered heavy casualties, with only a little over 190 of the original 300 remaining.

"Commander!" someone shouted.

Hesitation will only lead to more trouble; if things drag on any longer, no one will be able to escape.

"Hold on for two more minutes," Qin Yan said through gritted teeth.

Only two minutes left, let's wait a little longer.

"But, Commander..."

"Shut up!" Qin Yan shouted. "Am I the commander or are you the commander? As soldiers, all we need to do is obey orders."

The man muttered a few words, his heart aching as he watched his comrades die one by one in the mouths of zombies.

Over here, Min Qiu and Nangong Xuan got into a large truck and divided the work: Nangong Xuan started the engine, while Min Qiu blocked the zombies.

"All done." The truck sputtered, its black smoke and exhaust fumes polluting the environment.

Min Qiu fired a rocket, and the brains of the zombies clinging to the car window spilled out. "Nangong Xuan, the car window." Nangong Xuan quickly pressed a button, and the transparent glass fell and closed.

Min Qiu slowly exhaled, and her rapidly beating heart gradually calmed down.

"There are more and more zombies, we have to go," Min Qiu said in a deep voice.

Zombies were relentlessly attacking from all directions, completely blocking their path. If they didn't break through the encirclement soon, they feared they would perish here.

"No, Qin Yan hasn't given the order." Qin Yan is the top leader of the army, and ordinary people still have to obey his words.

"Ignore him. If he wants to die, let him die on his own."

Qin Yan wanted to wait for those people, little did he know that they were likely dead, their souls returned home. Just think of those screams; they couldn't have been produced by the pain of a needle pricking a finger.

"Let's go." Min Qiu's voice cracked.

In Min Qiu's consciousness space, Ji Xiaoxiao, who was immersed in cultivation, finally woke up.

---Aside---

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