Chapter 476 The two groups met face to face on a narrow path.
The sky was already turning a pale white, and the faint light of dawn slowly bathed the eastern horizon, barely outlining the grotesque contours of this ruin.
The charred ruins, the congealed dark red bloodstains, and the scattered weapon fragments revealed the horrific scene of last night's fierce battle...
Lu Nange nodded slightly in response to Lin Shuang and Hu Jiao's greetings.
Her gaze quickly swept over the golden cone marked with Shika Kitano's symbol not far away, and she felt slightly reassured...
"They're here!" Shi Xu exclaimed, closing his eyes and concentrating: "...at least fifty level three or higher ability users, and...level five...and even level six zombie energy fluctuations!"
Shi Xu's face paled: "Nan Nan, it seems there are even higher-level zombies..."
Almost as soon as he finished speaking, a rapid and chaotic buzzing sound came from the walkie-talkies clipped to the waists of Si Sheng, Jin Xiao, Lin Shuang, and others, followed by a weak and intermittent male voice.
"Base...base commander...high-level ability users...and...high-level zombies...lots of them...they're heading in your direction...be careful..."
The sound abruptly stopped, leaving only unsettling electrical noise; clearly, the person on the other end of the communication was in grave danger.
"Hua Zi... A Sheng! It's Hua Zi's voice!" Jin Xiao's expression suddenly changed.
Lu Nange: "Brother Zhuo, seal this entrance completely first... make it indistinguishable from the surrounding area!"
...The rest of you with your abilities, Flameheart, follow me! We're preparing to engage the enemy!
"Sister, leave it to me!" He Zhuo responded and waved his hands, instantly unleashing a surge of powerful earth-elemental energy.
Accompanied by a low rumbling sound, the surrounding soil, gravel, and even some smaller pieces of building debris rose from the ground and quickly gathered at the broken gate.
Layer upon layer, they pressed and merged together, forming a wall of earth and stone in the blink of an eye. This not only sealed off the entrance but also blended perfectly with the surrounding dilapidated environment.
He Zhuo patted the dust off his hands: [As expected of me! I blend in perfectly with the surrounding environment and am not easily noticed.]
Even if something unexpected happens, with A-Ye's strength, breaking out from inside wouldn't be difficult for him!
"Hey! Wait for me!" he shouted as he quickened his pace.
As the Flameheart team members shifted their formation, they followed Lu Nange and Chi Yanzhou, moving quickly and orderly toward the gate of the Rock Base.
Their footsteps trod across scorched earth and rubble, their eyes resolute. Despite the inevitable fatigue after a night of fierce fighting, their fighting spirit only grew stronger.
Si Sheng immediately made a decision: "Follow me!"
The people at Starlight Base quickly adjusted their stance and followed closely behind Flameheart's team, actively facing the approaching enemy together.
Three minutes later, in a relatively open square, surrounded by collapsed houses and crisscrossing cracks...
The two groups met face to face on a narrow path.
Lu Nange and her group's attention was immediately drawn to those extremely conspicuous figures in the enemy's formation.
Those were dozens of zombies that showed no signs of agitation or aggression!
They were not scattered and disorderly, but stood neatly beside or even behind the other superhumans, without the frenzy and roars of ordinary zombies, their posture exuding a sense of "discipline".
This illogical scene was more terrifying than any horde of ferocious zombies.
What's even more chilling are their pupils—yellow, green, and even cyan!
Gu Wan's pupils constricted slightly, and she exclaimed in a low voice, "Nan Nan... Level four, Level five... and even Level six zombies! Good heavens... where did they get so many high-level zombies from?"
Lu Nange's eyes, however, drifted to the very back, to the two ability users with their heads bowed...
From the opposing camp, a muscular man stepped forward.
"Brother Ren! Look at this! It's this bunch of little bastards who popped out of who-knows-where!"
They haven't even grown any hair yet! They've turned our base, which we brothers worked so hard to build with our blood and sweat, into a ruin that even ghosts wouldn't want to see!
"I...I'll tear them all apart alive today, skin them alive, pull out their tendons, crush their bones and feed them to the dogs, or I'm not a real bear!"
The middle-aged man he called "Brother Blade" was short and unremarkable in appearance; he was the type who would disappear instantly into a crowd.
As he slowly raised his eyelids, a cunning and calculating glint flashed in his narrow eyes.
He did not immediately respond to the bear's roar, but instead swept his extremely imposing gaze over Lu Nange and his group.
“…Young man, we at Rock Base have never provoked Flameheart, have we?”
We are all pitiful creatures struggling to survive in this hell, and life is already hard enough... Why do you have to use such a ruthless and annihilating method on us?
Look at this wreckage... look at these brothers who were once alive, but now lie here cold...
They probably have families and loved ones behind them...
How could you be so heartless and cruel at such a young age? Don't you have any conscience?
These hypocritical remarks, which distorted the truth and attempted to occupy the moral high ground, instantly ignited the anger of everyone in the Flameheart community.
Gu Wan was so angry she laughed. Her words were like icy knives, swift and ruthless, thrown at Brother Ren.
"Pah! Conscience? You dare to even mention that word?"
I'm licking your big face that you couldn't sell in the 90th century and ended up being a liability in the 20th century!
With your empty, not only empty but also fucking waterlogged pig brain, how did you manage to survive until today?
Is it all thanks to that thick skin that even eight hundred layers of plaster couldn't match?
He Zhuo immediately took over the conversation, pointing at Ren Ge's nose and cursing loudly.
"Exactly! It's bad enough that he's ugly like a toad that inherited scabies from his ancestors for eighteen generations, but he's also so damn vicious!"
You're still bringing up human lives with us? Now you know how to talk about human lives?
What about those ordinary survivors and low-level superhumans who were beaten, abused, and mistreated by you as slaves?
What about those innocent people you dragged into the lab like livestock?
What about those living people who were dissected, disassembled, and sewn together with mutated beasts like building blocks?
Don't their lives matter too?
When you use living people to conduct those unforgivable grafting experiments, do you ever think that they are also living, breathing human beings born of parents?
"You bunch of beasts in human skin! The entire base is full of livestock, and your Rocky Base is just a garbage dump!"
Lu Nange and her group: [Sure enough, He Zhuo's mind is only truly clear when he's cursing! Look at this little rhythm...]
The bear went completely berserk, its eyes bloodshot, roaring as it charged forward: "Brother Blade! I'm going to kill these two filthy bastards right now!"
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