Old Chen is a very steady person, and he has many capable subordinates. He would not be in such a hurry to call Cheng Zhen unless absolutely necessary.
Cheng Zhen hung up the phone and prepared to leave immediately, but he was worried about Jiang Wan being alone there.
"Why don't you... come back to the camp with me?"
Jiang Wan was unwilling to work with Li Siming, but the metasequoia trees on her side were taking root well and it was indeed time to transplant them into the soil.
She said, "Leave the RV here. I'll come back after I finish planting the dawn redwood trees."
Cheng Zhen remained silent, thinking to himself: We'll deal with the future later!
Both of them had their own plans, but reality took an unexpected turn.
As soon as Cheng Zhen opened the portal, Jiang Xiaoxin suddenly covered her ears, her eyes filled with pain: "Mommy, it hurts so much! Ah! It hurts so much!"
"What's wrong?" Jiang Wan immediately pulled her away from the portal as if by reflex.
Cheng Zhen looked suspicious and puzzled, and immediately closed the portal.
Jiang Xiaoxin finally felt her ears were clear and her head was no longer sore, so she said, "I heard a really strange sound, it was..."
She bit her little finger and thought for a moment: "It felt like something was drilling directly into my brain!"
Jiang Wan and Cheng Zhen were completely confused, while Jiang Xiaoshu said, "I didn't hear anything."
That's right, Jiang Wan and the others didn't hear anything either.
But they all believed in Jiang Xiaoxin, who had special sensory abilities. In addition, Old Chen said that the camp was in danger, so the sound waves she just heard were very likely made by the attackers in the camp!
What exactly is it?
Jiang Wan originally thought that the troops working in the field had encountered danger and needed to call Cheng Zhen back, so the outer city camp must be safe. But she didn't expect that the danger would appear inside the camp!
She didn't really want to go back, and there was no need to rush the transplantation of the metasequoia trees.
With the attackers' identities and targets unclear, Cheng Zhen was even more worried about leaving her alone there.
Both publicly and privately, her safety is his responsibility.
Jiang Xiaoshu noticed his scrutinizing gaze, and puffed out her chest confidently, saying, "I can protect Mom and my sister."
Although he's not very capable right now, he's absolutely capable of protecting his mother and sister!
"Xiao Shu?"
Jiang Wan didn't quite agree, but the father and son somehow developed a tacit understanding. Jiang Xiaoshu held his mother and sister's hands on either side, then focused and released his purification ability. An invisible protective shield enveloped the three of them completely.
Cheng Zhen possesses the same superpower as him, and can tell whether he is ready or not. Then, he opens a portal and sends them directly there.
Without stopping for a second, he locked the house for Jiang Wan, then activated his speed-enhancing ability and headed straight for the camp.
With Jiang Xiaoshu's purification ability protecting her, Jiang Xiaoxin was no longer disturbed by the sound that could pierce her cochlea, but what the three of them saw was truly terrifying.
It turns out that a group of city guards, for some unknown reason, suddenly started attacking the entire camp like mutated zombies!
They are delirious, blind, have festering skin, and attack people indiscriminately; many of them are superhumans!
The entire camp was caught off guard, and many people were bitten before they could even react!
When they realized that their enemies were their former brothers, some of whom had been laughing and joking with them just a second before, the shock was immense!
Unbelievable, but they couldn't just sit and wait to die, so they fought back. The two sides were evenly matched, and for a time it was hard to determine the winner.
When Jiang Wan and the others arrived, they saw a physical ability user lift up a city guard soldier and tear him to pieces like a bear tearing its prey apart!
"Help!"
The man closed his eyes in despair, never expecting that he would live to see the apocalypse without oxygen, and that he would die not at the hands of mutated plants and zombies, but at the hands of his former friend!
But the imagined fatal tear did not occur.
Jiang Xiaoshu's purification ability saved him, and the mutant with the ability quickly changed his target.
Jiang Wan then realized that the person who had been rescued was one of Cheng Zhen's subordinates.
"What happened?" Cheng Zhen appeared quickly and saw Jiang Xiaoshu save Tian Dong. He nodded approvingly at Jiang Xiaoshu and then pushed aside another mutated brother who was approaching.
Still shaken, Tian Dong saw the captain and assumed he was the one who had saved him. He quickly explained, "I don't know what happened, they suddenly went berserk! No matter how much we shouted, they wouldn't listen, it's like... they've mutated!"
Indeed, their current state is very similar to that of the mutants in the wild!
The only difference is that those in the wild are all dead, while they are still alive!
Cheng Zhen solemnly surveyed the area, then leaped to a high place and activated his purification ability, centering on himself.
Within the range of his supernatural control, all the mutated brothers seemed to have lost their ability to attack and were powerless to move.
"Quick! Tie them all up!"
Yu Fen and Cheng Zhen's subordinates obeyed the order and quickly found sturdy ropes to tie them all up.
Someone warned, "Use a spreader! They'll bite!"
Cheng Zhen nodded, and Yu Fen did as he was told!
The danger on their side was quickly eliminated, but it only covered one-third of the entire camp!
After Cheng Zhen repeated the operation and resolved all the crises, Old Chen informed him, "There's trouble at the Second Battalion too! Go there!"
He mistakenly believed that Cheng Zhen was a replica of Jiang Wan because of his purification ability. Therefore, leaving Jiang Wan in the camp and sending Cheng Zhen to rescue the brother units was the wisest choice.
Cheng Zhen had no objection, nor did Jiang Wan; she couldn't possibly let Xiao Shu go to an unfamiliar place to take risks.
Although the crisis in the two outer city camps was quickly resolved, everyone's mood remained unsettled for a long time, especially Old Chen, as all the mutated and wounded were his soldiers!
He loves his soldiers like his own sons; it wouldn't be an exaggeration to say that he's watching his own sons kill each other right now!
Old Chen stood there for a while, his voice heavy with grief, before sending someone to call Huang Ying, Sun Sanhai, and Wu Xuan.
Although Huang Ying's restrictions were lifted, she was considered a dead person by the people in the inner city. If she were to suddenly appear in front of people, it would definitely cause turmoil. She was well aware of this, so she did not wander around outside. Apart from helping Jiang Wan take care of the moss and broad-leaved golden privet she planted, she basically did not go out. When she did go out, she would wrap herself up tightly with a scarf and hat.
So when the camp was attacked, she was in her room and was not in danger.
But Sun Sanhai and Wu Xuan weren't so lucky. Li Siming had brought back a lot of wild grass from the fields, and they were outside comparing it with medical books to identify the plants and see if there were any usable herbs.
By the time he realized the danger, a mutant was only an arm's length away from Sun Sanhai!
Sun Sanhai was so terrified when he turned around that he wet himself. He didn't even have time to run and was bitten by the mutant. Facing death, the only thing he could think of was to say, "Wu Xuan! Run! Protect the medical book! Carry forward the medical skills of my Sun family!"
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