Chapter 425 Gu Qi's Official Pairing?
Lu Nange and Shi Xu were sitting in the lead car, a Mercedes-Benz G-Class, taking turns releasing their mental energy to conduct a wide-range probe.
Shi Xu closed his eyes, gently pressing his fingers on his temples. Once they were fully inside the suburban area, he suddenly frowned.
"Nannan, someone ahead is being chased by zombies! And... there are high-level zombies."
Lu Nange immediately sat up straight, her mental energy spreading out like ripples, scanning the area in front of her.
A moment later, she said to Lu Xici, who was driving, "Brother, stop the car!"
Shi Xu simultaneously gripped the walkie-talkie: "All units stop! There's an emergency ahead!"
The Mercedes-Benz G-Class braked suddenly and stopped in the middle of the road, and the four SUVs behind it also stopped at the same time.
Everyone quickly got out of the car, and Lu Nange waved her hand to put all five cars into her spatial storage.
The others tacitly formed a defensive formation—melee fighters in front, ranged fighters in the back, and support fighters in the middle. The group stood calmly in the middle of the road, waiting.
A minute later, the sound of hurried footsteps and heavy breathing came from afar.
A dozen or so survivors were seen running towards them in a disheveled state. Each of them had a face full of fear and exhaustion, and their clothes were tattered, clearly indicating that they had been through a fierce battle.
The woman with a heroic appearance said, "We're almost there. Just hang in there a little longer, we need to get to the high ground..."
A young woman with two braids called out breathlessly, "Shuang, Sister Shuang... there's someone ahead..."
The woman, known as Sister Shuang for her heroic appearance, glanced back at the zombie horde that her teammates were barely holding back, then looked at Lu Nange and her group standing in the middle of the road, and suddenly waved her hand and shouted loudly.
"Hey! Run! There are zombies behind us... a whole bunch of zombies! Don't just stand there!"
A chubby man next to her was stamping his feet anxiously, sweat streaming down his round face.
"Sister Shuang! We finally found a few survivors, why are you letting them run away? Brother Jin and the others are holding them off! Every extra person helps!"
"Didn't you see that the other group had children?" Sister Shuang replied as she continued running, her tone filled with anxiety and helplessness.
"Stop talking nonsense, keep shouting! We need to find a high vantage point to help Ah Jin!"
Hearing the warnings shouted as they ran ahead, Lu Nange and her group raised an eyebrow.
"They seem to be telling us to run? These days, you don't see many survivors with such loyalty."
Gu Wan nodded: "That's what I mean..."
Lu Nange: "The zombies behind us have been stopped by a group of people... I doubt they can hold them off for long, there are two level 5 zombies..."
Chi Yanzhou: "High-level zombie crystal core, shall we go take a look?"
"Go! Go! Go!" everyone shouted in unison, their eyes gleaming with eager anticipation...
At this moment, Sister Shuang and her group had already run to their vicinity.
The fat man looked at the calm and collected Lu Nange and her group, and asked suspiciously, "Sister Shuang, they didn't react, could they also be...zombies?"
Sister Shuang shook her head, panting, and wiped the sweat from her forehead: "How could that be? They're all wearing the same combat suits, and they're clean. They couldn't possibly be zombies!"
The girl with braided pigtails said, "They seem to be discussing something..."
"They're coming!" The fat man instinctively took a half step back.
Lu Nange and her group took the initiative to step forward and bumped into Shuang Jie and her group.
As the distance closed, Sister Shuang said, "Seeing that you have a child, let me warn you, there are zombies behind you. Our people are desperately holding them off. You should find another way! It's too dangerous here!"
Lu Xici politely replied, "Thank you for reminding me..."
Just then, the people behind Shuangjie widened their eyes, pointed at Lu Nange and the others, and exclaimed, "Yan Xin... the Twelve Fiends!"
"It's...it's the Twelve Fiends of Flameheart!"
Lu Nange and her group suddenly stopped in their tracks, their toes gripping the ground: [Another day of thinking about changing nicknames!]
The girl with braided pigtails tugged at the sleeve of a middle-aged woman next to her: "Aunt Chunhua, you said they...they are the Twelve Fiends?"
Aunt Chunhua nodded excitedly, "There's hope! There's hope... It's them, it's them!"
She pointed at Lu Beiye: "I saw them at Flameheart Market, it's definitely them! This child is Young Master Aye from Flameheart, a metal-type ability user!"
Shuang Jie immediately stepped forward, her voice urgent yet hopeful: "Hello, we're from the Starlight Base, my name is Lin Shuang... I'm sorry to bother you, but could you please save my friends! They're being besieged by a horde of zombies while covering our retreat!"
Lu Nange looked at Gu Qi: [Lin Shuang? ...Could she be Qi-ge's official love interest?...]
Seeing that they didn't respond immediately, Lin Shuang hurriedly added, "As long as you're willing to help, we're willing to trade anything—supplies, crystal cores, or anything else. Could you please save them!"
Lu Nange exchanged a glance with her companions, then decisively stated her terms: "We can help, but you take the low-level zombies, we'll take the high-level zombies... and all the crystal cores are ours?"
Lin Shuang nodded without hesitation: "Of course! If you don't help, we might all lose our lives here, let alone the crystal cores! As long as we can save lives, we'll agree to any conditions!"
—[I've heard of the Twelve Fiends of Flameheart; what kind of bad people could be running a market in this world?]
"Deal!" Lu Nange looked at her friends: "Let's go! Let's stretch our muscles!"
Lu Nange and her group immediately rushed forward and, sure enough, saw a fierce battle not far ahead.
About thirty or forty people were engaged in a fierce battle with a huge horde of zombies. Various supernatural powers flashed across the battlefield, and explosions, roars, and shouts rose and fell, with the air filled with the smell of blood.
Lin Shuang: "Brother Jin..."
The boy known as Brother Jin turned around upon hearing the shouts and panicked when he saw Lin Shuang returning with her entourage.
"Ah Shuang, don't come any closer, run... run! We can't hold on any longer!"
He Zhuo's eyes widened: "Holy crap, Jin Xiao! How come it's you?!"
Chi Yanzhou, Gu Qi, Shi Xu, Ji Xian: [Jin Xiao, he really is an old acquaintance!]
Lu Nange: [Jin Xiaofeng is the charismatic type, Lin Shuang is the healing type, they really are... part of the main character group!]
Jin Xiao used his wind-type superpower to blast away the zombies in front of him, and then turned around and shouted, "He Zhuo? Yan Ge? Xu Ge?...No...Guys, can you hurry up? We can't take it anymore!!"
Shi Xu: "Weren't you just showing off? I thought you unleashed that wind-based ultimate move pretty cool."
Lin Shuang looked at them in surprise: "You know each other?"
Gu Qi had already activated his water-based superpower: "Whether we know each other or not, let's save the person first before catching up. If we keep chatting like this, Jin Xiao will really turn into zombie snacks."
Shi Xu: "Brothers and sisters...it seems we absolutely must save this person today!"
Chi Yanzhou: "Let's go!"
Lu Nange: "Gangzi!"
Gangzi let out a 'caw', its body grew larger, and it stopped in front of Wen Qing. Wen Qing flipped over and climbed onto the bird's back: "Be careful!"
Lu Nange and the others exchanged smiles, then charged into the battle...
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