Chapter 277 They're not that poor!
Wen Qing gripped his Tang sword tightly, his knuckles turning white from the force, but his eyes shone with an unprecedented light: [Finally... finally I can fight alongside everyone!]
This thought made her blood boil, and her Tang sword drew several silver trajectories in the light refracted by the ice crystals, each strike aimed at the zombie's neck and head.
Luo Xingyou kept a perfect distance from Wen Qing, her hands flying as golden darts shot out, splashing up dark red ice flowers on the ice surface.
"Old Ji!" He Zhuo's voice rang out clearly amidst the zombies' howls. As he manipulated the earth spikes to pierce the head of a level-one zombie, he shouted, "Let's see who earns the most crystal cores! The loser pays for all the dishes and chopsticks for the entire month. Dare to try?"
Ji Xian deftly dodged a zombie's attack, while several sharp earthen spikes rose from the ground, pinning the zombie in mid-air: "Just don't sneak away and steal the crystal cores I earned like last time."
"Bullshit! Do you think I'm that kind of person?" He Zhuo retorted verbally, but his hands didn't stop moving at all.
Not to mention He Zhuo and Ji Xian, even the usually taciturn Chi Yi was filled with excitement: "[Miss Lu said that their 'Youyou' brand RV is currently most in need of crystal cores...]"
His thorny vines entangled the zombie, his short knife pierced its brow, and with a flick of his wrist, the crystal core fell to the ground.
The movements were fluid and clean...
Gu Wan recalled the special training she had undergone with Lu Xici during this period, and deliberately moved the battlefield a little further away.
The flame in her palm compressed into a blinding crimson beam.
With a deafening boom, the beam pierced through the zombie's forehead and exploded inside, blasting the five surrounding zombies into a cloud of blood mist...
Lu Beiye changed his tactics, and his metal-type superpower transformed into a sky full of golden needles.
With a flick of its chubby little hand, golden needles rained down like a storm, instantly turning any zombie hit into a pincushion...
Lu Xici's flint and steel entangled several zombies, and the scorching flames instantly melted the surrounding ice sculptures into gushing water.
The firelight reflected off the water, making the entire building look like a hellish inferno.
Chi Yanzhou tapped his finger lightly, and with a loud "crack," blinding lightning spread wildly along the accumulated water. The zombies on the entire floor convulsed violently at the same time, and the smell of rotting flesh immediately filled the air.
Gu Qi flew halfway through the water-based attack, but some of the water froze. He had to change his tactics and start controlling the water inside the zombies to drain them dry.
For Lu Nange and her companions, zombies below level three are simply gold coins—they can now kill them before they can even use their special abilities...
As for zombies of level three and above, each battle is a test of their strength.
Half an hour later, amidst the horrific corpses scattered everywhere, the group began to systematically clean up the battlefield.
Lu Nange: "Sister Wenqing, how are you feeling?"
Wen Qing excitedly spread his arms and spun around: "Completely unharmed! It's so great to be able to kill zombies so easily!"
She excitedly grabbed Lu Nange's hand: "Nannan, thanks to your spray, the zombies aren't attacking me anymore. I don't need to focus on defense; I just need to keep swinging my knife."
Luo Xingyou walked over with her arms crossed, her eyes filled with admiration: "I watched the whole thing. Sister Wen Qing is taking them down one by one, so clean and efficient."
Gu Wan affectionately linked her arm with Wen Qing's and nodded vigorously in agreement: "That's right, our Sister Wen Qing is amazing!"
As is customary, the group gathered the zombie corpses and burned them.
The flickering firelight illuminated everyone's faces, preventing the risk of disease outbreaks that might arise from piles of corpses after the snow melted.
As black smoke billowed upwards, the sound of dripping water could be heard all around—the intense heat of the burning caused some of the ice to begin to melt.
Chi Yanzhou raised his hand and waved it lightly. Amidst the spreading cold mist, the melted water droplets re-frozen into ice.
Lu Nange: "Besides this outpatient area, there are still a lot of zombies lurking in other parts of the hospital. Should we continue or go back to the car to rest for a while?"
Lu Xici: "I think making money is the most important thing... People are clear-headed, crystal cores come first, I'm voting for continued success."
Chi Yanzhou nodded: "The consumption of crystal cores is too high right now. Hospitals are major consumers of zombies, so it's best if we save them all up first."
He Zhuo: "Right, right, what's that saying again? Now, even if a beggar shakes his bowl at me, I feel like he's showing off his wealth..."
Gu Qi: "It's not that poor!!!"
He Zhuo: "I was just using an analogy, anyway, we're desperately short of crystal cores. Let's go straight there and collect as many as we can..."
Everyone nodded in agreement...
After all, it's easy to go from frugality to extravagance, but difficult to go from extravagance to frugality—since switching to the "Youyou" brand RV, looking back at the old one, it was simply unbearably cramped.
Therefore, the more crystal nuclei the better.
Lu Nange: "Shall we go find those level four zombies first, and then deal with the rest of the minions?"
The group marched forward in a grand procession.
A menacing team formed on the frozen interior road of the hospital.
The trees along the roadside have long since turned into glistening ice sculptures.
The buildings we passed were all covered in thick ice, and we could vaguely see the densely packed zombie figures inside, like corpses sealed in ice coffins.
Lu Nange and Shi Xu stopped in front of the hospital building at the same time.
The instant they stopped, several pairs of eyes, glowing with a ghostly yellow light, opened from deep within the ice.
"They're here," Lu Nange said softly.
Shi Xu: "Prepare..."
Before the words were finished—
"boom!"
The surrounding ice sculptures shattered simultaneously, sending shards of ice flying like bullets.
Lu Nange raised her arms slightly, and a sudden gust of wind arose from the flat ground.
The howling wind blades, carrying flying ice shards, swirled back.
The ice crystals riddled the attacking zombies with holes...
As soon as the wind subsided, several level-four yellow-eyed zombies broke through the ice of the hospital building and attacked Lu Nange and her group at an alarming speed.
Lu Nange and Shi Xu unleashed their immense spiritual power simultaneously, crushing the zombies.
Two of the level-four zombies stopped in their tracks and roared as they charged toward the horde of zombies pouring out of the hospital building.
One opened its mouth and spat out golden darts, the other opened its mouth and breathed fire...
The vines danced wildly, whipping up several zombies and slamming them down on the oncoming horde.
With a "boom," the fallen zombies instantly formed a temporary roadblock.
"Two people at a time, handle Level 4! Leave the rest to us!" Chi Yanzhou shouted sharply, lightning crackling in his palms.
Gu Qi and Chi Yi stood back to back, quickly approaching the three-meter-tall zombie on the left.
He Zhuo and Ji Xian flanked the level-four zombie with ice covering its head from the left and right, respectively, as earth spikes and cones simultaneously lit up...
Luo Xingyou and Gu Wan exchanged a glance, their metal and fire elemental powers intertwined, and they rushed straight at the last level four zombie whose palm was constantly extending vines.
Three two-on-one battles began simultaneously.
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