Chapter 67 Wine
"Slap, slap, slap—"
A sudden burst of applause came from the side.
A man in a black trench coat walked out slowly.
More than twenty fully armed superhumans silently surrounded them.
"Brilliant, absolutely brilliant!"
The man stopped ten paces away from the crowd: "My name is Xiao Zhu, a member of the Su family! You all have considerable strength, but our Su family has no intention of becoming your enemy!"
Lu Nange and her group moved subtly, blocking Gu Wan and her group in the middle.
He Zhuo yelled at the top of his lungs, "What have you been doing all day, kicking your head? If you don't want to be enemies, why did you send so many people to ambush us in the middle of the night instead of sleeping!"
The man beside Xiao Zhu, who was clutching his arm, was about to speak when he was frozen in place by a sharp gaze.
The man immediately fell silent, took three steps back, and stood with his head bowed.
"Calm down! We're just testing everyone's strength! After all, a strength test is just the prelude to a deal." Xiao Zhu gently stroked the button on his trench coat with his fingertips, looking at Lu Nange and the others.
In the shadows, Wen Qing's palm was pressed against Gu Qi's back, with a faint green healing aura appearing and disappearing.
Lu Nange endured the stinging pain in her mind and spread her mental energy out again—there was no one around, obviously this area had been cleared out in advance.
She calmly surveyed the encirclement; these newly emerged superhumans were a level above the previous ones.
Chi Yanzhou raised his eyebrows and looked at Xiao Zhu: "Why don't we talk about the deal first?"
Xiao Zhu pointed at Wen Qing: "It's simple, hand over that healing woman, and I guarantee you can leave Quzhou City alive, how about it?"
Wen Qing, who had just finished healing Gu Qi and was absorbing the crystal core, was suddenly jolted.
Chi Yanzhou raised an eyebrow, his eyes flashing with lightning: "Not good!"
Almost simultaneously, Lu Nange and the others stepped in front of Wen Qing.
Xiao Zhu: "Isn't it worth exchanging one person's life for the lives of all of you? Look at us, are you going to resist? What kind of world is this, still so naive?"
While Chi Yanzhou was negotiating, Lu Nange lowered her head under the cover of the crowd.
She pretended to cough, making a breathy sound with her lips barely moving: "In a moment, I'll count to three, two, one, run, and you guys will rush to the end of the street."
"Brother, you hold A-Ye and take the left side; Yan-Zhou and Gu-Qi, take the right side; He-Zhuo, you cover the rear."
Lu Xici glanced at her: "What are you trying to do? I'm not leaving until you explain yourself!"
Lu Nange lightly tapped Lu Xici's wrist with her finger: "Don't look at me, just do as I say, run away and don't look back!"
The 82-2 defensive grenade has a kill radius of 6 meters; they deserve to have it!
These people are all quite strong; we might not be able to beat them in a group fight.
"And you?" Lu Xici asked in a low voice, pretending to touch his neck.
A sly glint flashed in Lu Nange's eyes: "I threw the grenade and ran. I ran fast! Super fast!"
The crowd gave a soft "hmm," and Chi Yanzhou put his hand behind his back and made an OK sign.
Are you ready?
"three!"
"two!"
"one!"
"run!"
Gu Wan and the others took off running towards the end of the street.
Lu Xici and Chi Yanzhou, along with three others, positioned themselves on the left and right, unleashing their full supernatural abilities, and forcefully tore a gap in the encirclement.
Xiao Zhu calmly adjusted her cuffs, a smile playing on her lips: "Run, run faster, it's more fun for a cat to catch a mouse..."
"Fuck you!" Lu Nange unleashed dozens of wind blades with a swift movement of her hands.
At the same time, three grenades traced perfect parabolic trajectories, heading straight for Xiao Zhu's face.
Xiao Zhu hastily defended, and the metal barrier instantly closed.
"You vile woman!" Xiao Zhu roared, "You have no sportsmanship!"
With a light tap of her toes, Lu Nange's speed, thanks to the system's daily sign-in rewards, left a blur of motion amidst the smoke of battle.
Before the flames of the explosion had fully erupted, she had already flashed back to Lu Beiye's side.
"Zhuo-ge, Tu-dun, A-ye, bless."
The group retreated into a double defensive encirclement.
With a deafening roar, shops on both sides collapsed one after another like dominoes, raising clouds of dust that blotted out the sky.
Lu Nange withdrew her psychic abilities: "Now's the time to retreat!"
Everyone held their breath and quickly evacuated under the cover of the ruins.
Only after the aftershocks of the collapse completely subsided did the sound of coughing echo from deep within the ruins be heard.
"Cough...cough cough..." Xiao Zhu's voice pierced through the dust: "Find them even if you have to dig three feet into the ground, kill them on the spot...cough cough...bring that healer back to me!"
...
Under the cover of the inky darkness, Lu Nange and her group sprinted through layers of roadblocks toward the survivor area at the end of the street.
The explosion seemed to have scared away all the guards, and the entrance was deserted.
The group found a corner completely swallowed by shadows and leaned against the mottled brick wall to catch their breath.
Once you get used to the light.
Everyone instinctively gathered around Lu Nange, and voices of concern rose and fell from the darkness.
"Are you alright, Nan Nan?"
"Are you hurt, Nan Nan?"
“Nan Nan…”
Lu Nange shook her head reluctantly: "I'm fine."
Stray strands of hair, damp with cold sweat, clung to his pale cheeks.
Wen Qing grabbed her icy hand, and a healing green glow shone faintly between their fingers.
The green light gradually faded, and Gu Wan helped Wen Qing up. Wen Qing grabbed the crystal core and held it in his hand to restore his superpower.
Once Lu Xici's breathing had calmed down a bit, he picked up his younger sister and carried her horizontally without saying a word.
Lu Nange: "Brother, I'm really fine. Sister Wen Qing has healed me completely. Let's find a place to stay first!"
"Who's there?" Gu Qi, who was standing at the alley entrance, suddenly shouted.
In the corner, a thin figure, barely waist-high, slowly emerged.
Her long, messy hair, like a tangled clump of seaweed, almost completely obscured her face.
All that could be seen were a pair of incredibly bright eyes.
"I can stay at your house." The child's voice held a worldliness beyond his years, yet a touch of childishness lingered at the end: "But you have to exchange food for it."
He instinctively gripped the rusty steel pipe in his hand: "Don't, don't try to fool me... I'm super fierce!"
Lu Nange crouched down and took out two bags of compressed bread from her backpack: "Is this okay?"
The child's eyes lit up instantly, but he forced a calm expression and held up five fingers: "I want, I want five bags!"
"It's not that I'm greedy, but with so many of you, five bags..."
Lu Nange: "Deal."
The group followed the child through a maze of alleyways, eventually stopping in front of an old apartment building with peeling exterior walls.
Before unlocking the door, the child suddenly turned around, glaring at them with what he thought was a fierce look: "Remember, once you're inside, you have to nod to everything I say!"
The key made a crisp clinking sound as it was removed from the dirty neck rope.
The creaking of the door hinges startled the people inside, followed by intermittent coughs: "Jiu Jiu... going out again so late..."
The room was dark and dirty, with little furniture, and the walls were stained from water damage.
"You all wait here!"
"Mom, I'm fine!" Jiu Jiu hurriedly poured a glass of yellowish water.
The rim of the water glass still had suspicious stains: "There's a lot of noise coming from the other end of the street. Uncle He and the others have gone to a meeting. They asked me to bring back a few refugees..."
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