Chapter 134 Feng Ye Became a Legend
Josie quickly moved closer to Fu Jinxing's side, and just then, a zombie attacked from behind him without him noticing.
Josie seized the opportunity to stab the zombie in the jaw with a dagger, but more zombies swarmed in from all sides...
The battle lasted from dawn until the sun was high in the sky, and then from noon until sunset.
The open space and streets in front of the stronghold were already covered with thick black blood and broken corpses, and the stench of decay in the air was nauseating.
The superhumans took turns resting several times, but the number of zombies seemed endless. As one wave fell, another surged forward, stepping over the corpses of their own kind.
"Professor Fu! I can't hold on any longer, my power... is depleted!" An earth-type ability user's face turned pale as the earthen wall he had created collapsed instantly. A nimble speed-type zombie seized the opportunity to pounce, its sharp claws tearing open his arm!
"Ah!" Screams mixed with despair spread through the crowd.
Josie gritted her teeth and rushed over, slicing off the zombie's head with a single stroke, and dragged her injured companion back to the rear.
Her superpower reserves are relatively abundant, but the high-intensity battles and constant rescues have pushed her physical strength to the limit.
Every time I swung the weapon, my arm felt as heavy as if it were filled with lead.
Almost everyone's superpowers were exhausted, and despair eroded everyone's mental defenses.
Just when the defense line was about to completely collapse,
"Boom!"
A blinding, pale bolt of lightning, powerful enough to tear the dark sky apart, descended from the heavens without warning.
The bombardment landed precisely in the center of the densest horde of corpses outside the stronghold's gate!
"Crack! Sizzle!"
A terrifying electric current spread instantly, and dozens of zombies were turned into charcoal in the blinding light before they could even scream. The air was filled with the pungent smell of burning flesh!
This sudden lightning strike acted like a shot of adrenaline, injecting into the bodies of all the superhumans on the verge of collapse!
The will to survive was ignited, and their exhausted bodies seemed to surge with new power. The superhumans roared with deafening fury. Those with superpowers continued their ranged attacks, while those without engaged in hand-to-hand combat with the zombies.
"Boom! Boom! Boom!"
Several thicker, more violent bolts of lightning, like silver snakes dancing wildly, struck down one after another!
They did not attack indiscriminately, but rather with precise guidance, forming a devastating lightning barrier around the stronghold. Large swathes of zombies fell like harvested wheat, tearing a huge gap in the surging tide of corpses.
The pressure has suddenly decreased!
The survivors inside the stronghold finally got a precious chance to catch their breath and immediately seized the time to recover their strength and abilities.
Taking advantage of the brief gap and the fleeting flash of lightning, Josie's sharp gaze suddenly shot towards the rooftop of a taller building across the street.
There, a tall, aloof figure was clearly visible against the backdrop of lightning.
He looked down indifferently at the purgatory below, like a god who controlled thunder.
In just a moment, the figure disappeared at the edge of the rooftop.
Josie felt as if something had stabbed her in the chest, and her breath caught in her throat.
It's a closed-off area!
While she was lost in thought, Xie Jue pulled her along, "Sister?"
Josie then came to her senses and continued to kill the few remaining zombies in front of her.
Amidst the chaotic horde of zombies, a figure distinctly different from the others caught everyone's attention.
It no longer roared forward, but instead retreated in terror, trying to hide deeper into the horde of corpses.
Its head was enormous, and its eyes gleamed with a cunning, eerie light—it was the very lurking psychic zombie!
"It's a psychic zombie!" someone shouted hoarsely.
At this moment, although the superhumans in the stronghold had rekindled their hope, they were already at their limit, barely able to stand, let alone rush out to hunt down the cunning manipulator.
A figure wreathed in blinding lightning appeared on the retreating path of the mental zombies.
The psychic zombies emitted sharp, piercing screechs, attempting to disrupt Feng Ye with their mental attacks, but their mental fluctuations were like mud sinking into the sea in the face of the raging thunder.
Feng Ye's eyes were cold, and his movements were swift and decisive.
The lightning bolt, carrying the force of destruction, easily cleaved open the massive head of the mental zombie as if cutting tofu!
Without even glancing at the fallen corpse, he bent down and, with his tactical gloved hand, precisely probed into the filthy brain matter, extracting a crystal core that was larger than ordinary ones and shimmered with a yellow light.
After doing all this, he didn't even glance back at the group of people who had narrowly escaped death and were now watching him with complicated expressions.
He casually wiped the crystal core and stuffed it into his pocket. His figure, wreathed in lightning, rose and fell a few times before disappearing into the shadows of the dilapidated city, as abrupt and resolute as his arrival.
They didn't leave a single word, nor did they give anyone a chance to thank them.
Inside the stronghold, a moment of deathly silence was followed by cheers of relief and excited discussions:
"My God! That lightning... it was so powerful!"
“It’s Feng Ye! I recognize him; I’ve seen him in the safe zone before.”
"Anyway, thank goodness, we owe him a lot!"
"Yes, otherwise we would all be dead here today..."
Josie leaned against the cold wall, still catching her breath.
She stared in the direction where Feng Ye had disappeared, her fingers unconsciously clenching the blood-stained hem of her clothes, her heart churning with indescribable emotions.
Since that harrowing siege by the zombie horde, Feng Ye has vanished without a trace, never again appearing near the stronghold.
His figure, enveloped in lightning, became a legend talked about by the survivors of the stronghold, but it only left a complex and indescribable ripple in Josie's heart.
As news spread that they were continuously hunting the evolved zombies around their base, the "ecology" of the area seemed to have undergone a subtle change.
More and more desperate survivors, like a swarm of migrating ants, began to converge on this stronghold standing amidst the ruins.
Josie would see a new batch of survivors here almost every day or two.
Most of them were emaciated, their eyes filled with a mixture of despair, fear, and a glimmer of hope.
Some people may still retain the basic moral bottom line and spirit of mutual assistance from before the apocalypse, but many more have murky eyes, a fierce glint like that of jackals, and their words and actions are filled with scheming and violence.
Josie directly asked Fu Jinxing for the task of testing these survivors.
"Please, we're all human, please take us in."
"Yes, yes, we'll do anything you ask us to do."
Today, another seven or eight people came together, including old and young, men and women.
Josie paced a couple of steps in front of them, and said calmly, "I have a few questions. If you answer them, I'll consider accepting you."
Upon hearing that they would be accepted after answering just a few questions, everyone's face lit up with excitement.
"Alright, go ahead and ask."
Josie's gaze swept over every face in front of her.
How did you two get together?
How do you usually distribute food?
"What did you do when you encountered other people on the road?"
What kind of question is this?
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