Seeing that the mutated black bear had been defeated, Jiang Nian'an was too lazy to give the man opposite her another chance to ramble on.
These two aren't very strong, only at level two.
What might be a powerful force to others is nothing compared to Jiang Nian'an's strength.
The vines sprang up and, before the man could react, bound him tightly and pulled him to his front.
"Tell me, who sent you?"
Jiang Nian'an stepped on the man's chest, bent over, and questioned him coldly.
"snort!"
The man glared at Jiang Nian'an, then turned his face away, refusing to answer her question.
"Tsk, it's good to have backbone, but you're using it in the wrong place!"
Jiang Nian'an waved her hand, and inch-long thorns grew from the vines, deeply piercing the man's body.
"ah--"
The pain emanating from all parts of his body caused the man to cry out involuntarily, and his whole body trembled violently.
Jiang Nian'an narrowed her eyes and asked him again in a cold voice, "Now can you tell me who sent you?"
"You...you're dreaming!"
The man's face was deathly pale, cold sweat pouring down his face, but he forced a sarcastic smile, "I'd rather die than tell you."
OK!
Jiang Nian'an took a step back, snapped her fingers, and said, "Fine, I'll grant your wish!"
The vines grew wildly, burying the man in an instant, and the increasingly thin air made it harder and harder for him to breathe.
He struggled desperately to escape, but to no avail; instead, the thorns on the vines pierced him even deeper.
Fresh blood dripped down the vines.
My heart was pounding, yet a chilling sensation spread through my body.
The man's consciousness began to blur, but the feeling of being enveloped by death made him clearly feel the fear of impending death.
"I...said, don't kill me—"
His thirst for life finally made him yield, and he laboriously uttered words of pleading for mercy.
Hearing this, Jiang Nian'an smiled with satisfaction, withdrew her supernatural power, and the vines slowly dissipated.
The man, his flesh mangled and bloody, was then exposed to the air, looking rather gruesome.
But for Jiang Nian'an and his group, this scene was nothing out of the ordinary.
"Brother Chen, hand that black bear over to Da Wang and the others. Come here for a moment."
Jiang Nian'an turned around and called out to Shen Nanxing, who was preparing to completely eliminate the mutated black bear.
"Then I'll go help!"
Xiao Longzhan shouldered the large iron hammer and walked towards the mutated black bear.
The mutated black bear was already at its limit, so Jiang Nian'an didn't stop it.
Shen Nanxing abandoned the mutated black bear and strode over to Jiang Nian'an's side.
He lowered his gaze to the man lying on the ground groaning in pain, and after observing him carefully, he suddenly asked, "Are you from the Lin family?"
The man's pupils twitched suddenly.
Although he quickly returned to normal, Jiang Nian'an and Shen Nanxing, who had been watching him closely, still caught that momentary change in him.
The answer seems self-evident.
However, their expressions remained as calm as before, and they did not change because the man had revealed a flaw.
Jiang Nian'an looked down at the man, wanting to ask more questions, since she had finally found a survivor.
Just as she crouched down, preparing to ask about the experiment in detail, a sharp whistling sound came from the front.
A dazzling fireball hurtled straight toward them.
Shen Nanxing grabbed Jiang Nian'an and quickly retreated, while simultaneously throwing out a bolt of lightning.
With a loud 'boom,' the two forces collided, the fireball dissipated, and some black powder scattered from the fireball, emitting a strange sweet and fishy smell.
Jiang Nian'an instantly activated her wood-type supernatural power, and a hemispherical green light shield instantly protected the two of them and Xiao Longzhan and the others behind them.
Including the man on the ground who hadn't finished answering the question.
The black powder fell onto the light shield and gradually dissipated with the wind in the fields, but the man on the ground began to vomit blood.
"What happened?"
Jiang Nian'an and Shen Nanxing exchanged a glance and strode forward, but just as they reached the man, he breathed his last.
The corpse shrank at a visible speed, and in the blink of an eye, it became a level one zombie.
Then it staged a zombie apocalypse for Jiang Nian'an and the other person, suddenly opening its eyes and then reaching out with stiff claws to grab them.
The little zombie rushed up to the zombie at top speed, raised its foot, and kicked it away.
The zombie crashed heavily into the light shield, then fell to the ground. After struggling to its feet, it automatically submitted to the smaller zombie, just like the other level-one zombies.
It staggered to the little zombie and stopped moving.
The little zombie turned around and grinned at Xiao Longzhan, as if it were asking for credit.
Little Dragon didn't disappoint, giving it a thumbs up and praising it earnestly, "Great!"
The little zombie immediately ran back to Xiao Longzhan's side, and together they chopped off the black bear's head to retrieve the crystal core hidden deep inside its skull.
The man who had just become a zombie also followed the little zombie with stiff steps.
Jiang Nian'an and Shen Nanxing glanced at the level one zombie, their eyes flashing with an unreadable expression.
"Cough cough—"
The man lying outside the light barrier coughed twice and slowly opened his eyes.
But the excruciating pain emanating from his left arm made him wish he could faint again immediately.
"That's strange..."
Jiang Nian'an looked at the man outside the light barrier, her eyes growing increasingly unfathomable. "The one we were protecting became a zombie, while this one, who was left unattended, is fine?"
Shen Nanxing frowned and speculated in a deep voice, "Could it be that the powder from earlier was only effective on people who were about to die?"
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