The sharp thorns of the vines pierced the girl's skin, frantically sucking her blood like straws.
The girl's smooth cheeks visibly sank rapidly, her entire face looking as if it were covered with a layer of yellowish oil paper, and her eye sockets were shriveled and withered.
The originally withered and yellow thorns swelled up quickly after absorbing blood, becoming crystal clear like crystal.
About four or five people in the crowd, who had been hesitating at the edge of the line, immediately turned against the man when they saw that the middle-aged man had already grabbed the girl with the buzz cut by the neck.
The dozen or so people immediately split into two groups and started fighting, each one determined to kill the other.
"Old man..."
The girl's neck was swollen and purple from being strangled, and she managed to squeeze out a hoarse voice through her teeth.
"Don't blame your uncle. It's better to live a miserable life than to die. Your uncle doesn't want to die. I'll repay you in the next life!" The middle-aged man's face was flushed red from the exertion, and his hands were clenched like iron clamps.
Seeing that the girl with the buzz cut was about to faint from suffocation, Lu Sheng beckoned with his finger, and a gas canister accurately shot into the middle-aged man's sweaty neck.
"ah!"
Caught off guard, the middle-aged man let out a piercing scream, and his arms released the girl in an instinctive muscle reaction.
Taking advantage of the brief moment of relaxation, the girl with the buzz cut darted out of the middle-aged man's arms and swung her long knife backhand, fiercely slashing at the man's neck.
A human head flew off with a whoosh, rolling to the ground still with its eyes wide open.
"You beast, you really enjoy being a dog." The girl rubbed her swollen neck and spat fiercely at the severed head on the ground.
The ringleader was beheaded, and the remaining men were quickly subdued by the girl and her companions.
"Qiqi, we've been classmates and roommates since undergraduate to doctoral studies. You won't kill me after all these years, right?"
"We promised to be friends for life!"
"That's right, we're like lab brothers and sisters, you can't kill us!"
Several men knelt on the ground, pleading desperately, completely forgetting that they had just turned their knives on their former comrades.
"Why didn't you say you'd help me out of our friendship when Li Shoucheng killed me?"
The girl with the buzz cut ignored their pleas for mercy and immediately slashed them one by one with her knife.
After the remaining people tossed the body aside, the girl turned around and gave Lu Sheng a bright smile, revealing two cute little tiger teeth. "Thanks, my name is Tong Ziqi, what's your name?"
"Lu Sheng".
After she responded, the remaining friends around Tong Ziqi also took the initiative to greet Lu Sheng one by one.
"My name is Huang Jianbo, and I'm Qiqi's boyfriend." The young man next to Tong Ziqi waved to Lu Sheng and his group.
"My name is Gu Wen, and I'm Qiqi's classmate. We're both doctoral students at T University." The girl, who was searching for supplies on the corpse, looked up, her long, straight black ponytail swinging down to her chest with the movement.
Lu Sheng nodded to them.
The remaining two boys were also searching for supplies. They both seemed very talkative and outgoing, and their enthusiastic attitude made everyone a little uncomfortable.
"My name is Li Kun, Bozi's brother."
"My name is Cheng Mofan, Bozi's father."
He had barely finished speaking when Huang Jianbo kicked him.
Of the dozen or so people, some were dead and some had fled, leaving only these five. Lu Sheng glanced around, taking in their situation.
The five people looked to be quite young, around twenty-four or twenty-five years old. Judging from their introductions, they were all doctoral students at Tsinghua University and must have known each other well at school.
Judging from what they just observed, all of them possess supernatural abilities.
Tong Ziqi is a metal element, Huang Jianbo is a wood element, Gu Wen should be a healing element, Li Kun is a space element, and Cheng Mofan is surprisingly a summoning element.
However, the summoning ability level is a bit low, and the things summoned are quite random. Just now, Lu Sheng saw with his own eyes that he summoned a lame mutant dog, which was kicked away by Li Shoucheng before it could even get close.
"Did you escape from the chemical plant?" Lu Sheng asked directly.
“Yes, I just found a chance to get out of that hellhole.” Tong Ziqi sat exhausted under the tree roots, rubbing the red marks on her hair. “We were tricked into going to a chemical plant right after the apocalypse broke out. They said there was a new research and development project they could take us with them, but we were taken into custody as soon as we arrived at the factory.”
"Damn, even good schools have traitors; there are bad guys among the masses," Zhang Xiaojuan exclaimed on the spot.
"puff."
Cheng Mofan, who had been the most lively just moments before, chuckled and raised an eyebrow with a sly grin. "The bad guy among the crowd is Qiqi's uncle, Li Shoucheng. This old man, relying on his position as a mentor, wanted to treat his students as slaves, but when he brought them here, he realized he'd been tricked."
"Originally, it was only Qiqi and a few others who were tricked. My son is a big romantic. As soon as he heard that his girlfriend was going to work in a chemical plant to do research and development, he insisted on bringing his buddies along. That's how they all got caught."
He spoke quickly and lightly, without any resentment in his tone, as if he were just telling Lu Sheng and the others a joke.
Lu Sheng and his group were infected by his optimism, and the tense atmosphere immediately eased a lot.
“These people seem pretty good.” Shi Nian blinked her big eyes and casually put her hands into Lu Sheng’s pockets.
“How can you say it’s great? My brother receives the national scholarship every year. He’s a model young man with impeccable character.” Cheng Mofan patted his chest and said with a righteous expression when he heard Shi Nian speak.
After resting for a while, Tong Ziqi beckoned to Li Kun, who immediately understood and took out a rough canvas bag.
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