Chapter 614: Escape
"I suspect Luo Qi is not one of the people who followed Gu Sheng at the beginning," Zhuang Mingxu said, and without waiting for Zhou He to ask, he said bluntly, "I just haven't guessed what his purpose is."
Zhuang Mingxu once again turned his attention back to Song Huai's diary, hoping to gain the greatest benefit from the limited information.
After marching for a week, the team rested peacefully for a day.
After studying for a whole night, Zhuang Mingxu put the diary back into the box and had the earth-type mutant bury it underground again. After restoring the courtyard to its original state, the group set off again.
This time their target was directly the mutated orchid they saw yesterday.
Qu Zhu kept reminding Tao Tao along the way not to do anything and not to alarm the other party. He looked so serious as if the enemy was already in his pocket.
"If the contract fails, it will be a shame for how attentive you are," Zhou He complained to him.
“Hey, captain, didn’t you teach us not to think about the results without working hard? I’m working hard now, and you actually say that?” Qu Zhu, a grown man, could easily put on an aggrieved expression, which made several familiar people around him laugh.
The tense atmosphere caused by the worry that this trip might yield nothing was suddenly relieved a lot.
"Get lost!" Zhou He cursed at him, looking around alertly at everything around him.
"It's obvious that he deserves to be punished, Captain. I support you. Go ahead and beat him," Yun Bai encouraged with a laugh.
Several people around kept making a fuss.
After leaving the town, everyone stopped talking and laughing, and everyone was on guard again.
"Can you sense where he is?" Zhou He asked Qu Zhu.
"..." Qu Zhu felt that he had a good communication with the mutant orchid yesterday and was somewhat confident about the contract.
"Tsk, are you fucking planning on having so many people follow you to search the mountain?" Zhou He felt that they had been lacking in training recently, and he was considering building a training room when he returned.
Qu Zhu looked embarrassed, and quietly looked at Taotao in his arms. Taotao, who had just been nagged by him, buried her head in Zhou He's chest in a very bad mood, pretending to be asleep.
"Taotao baby, Xiaobao, little ancestor?" Qu Zhu was very shameless and had no embarrassment in asking children for help. He said in an exaggerated tone, "Oh, yesterday there was a very capable child who caught the mutant plant with just one move."
Seeing Taotao move her body, Qu Zhu continued to work hard, "I heard that it had a fierce battle with a very powerful mutant plant a few days ago, and perfectly dug out the opponent's crystal core."
"Yes..." Taotao took off the mask covering her mouth and corrected, "It's one plant, my father said so."
"Yes, a plant. Look how stupid I am. I don't even know this. Taotao is smarter." Qu Zhu climbed up the pole. "Whose Taotao is this, so smart and powerful?"
"My father's" Taotao said with a proud look on her face.
Everyone in the circle tried to hold back their laughter as they listened to him teasing the child. From time to time, they turned back to look at Taotao's cute little face, and their mood improved a lot.
Qu Zhu suppressed his laughter and said, "Does the powerful Tao Tao know where the plant went yesterday?"
Without waiting for Taotao to speak, he covered his mouth pretentiously, "Ah, you don't know, do you? Smart Taotao doesn't even know this?"
"No, Taotao knows it," Taotao shouted at him.
"Where is that..."
"Go underground quickly and hide." Before Qu Zhu finished his question, Zhou He's voice suddenly rang out.
The earth-type ability users acted instantly, and in the blink of an eye, they were submerged in the ground.
Then someone asked in a low voice, "Captain, what's going on..."
The surrounding land began to tremble. After such a tragic experience, everyone tensed up immediately.
"Was it an earthquake?"
"No," Zhou He said in a tense voice, and when he listened carefully, he could hear the trembling of being frightened, "Two mutant animals are fighting."
Indicating to the earth-type mutant that a gap had opened above his head, Zhuang Mingxu adjusted his glasses and looked in the direction of Zhou He's sight.
On the mountain ridge thousands of meters away, the mutant green peacock they had seen before was dancing among the towering trees. Chasing closely behind it was a giant snake several hundred meters long. Its thick and strong tail swept across the trees, cutting off a piece like a knife.
Broken trees were swept into the air and hit the mountain, like a landslide. Earth and rocks fell from the top of the mountain, and even the ground was shaking.
"I remember Xu Yi said they had seen a mutant giant snake in the forest before. He told me at the time that he had a narrow escape and was almost swallowed." Even though they were thousands of meters apart, Zhou He still unconsciously lowered his voice, "Do you think it could be this one?"
"There won't be another one as big as this one, will there?"
"The Laoshan Mountains stretch for thousands of miles and span four provinces. Who can guarantee how many of these things there are?"
"Well? I just want to ask, does anyone know what kind of thing this is? Is it this big naturally or did it mutate?"
“Does it make any difference?”
"Of course there is. It's so big, which proves that it may have a greater risk of mutation..."
After this was said, no one spoke again. After a while, someone timidly asked, "Who will win between the two?"
"I think..."
"Don't think, run!" Zhuang Mingxu interrupted them and ordered decisively, "All earth-type ability users, hurry up and clear the way. Everyone, move forward at full speed, quickly--"
No one asked why. When Zhuang Mingxu finished speaking, the two giant beasts that were originally chasing each other between the mountains suddenly came towards them.
The speed of these huge creatures was much faster than expected, especially one of them had wings.
"Full speed ahead, quick, quick..." Zhou He did not dare to continue watching, and signaled the earth-type psychic to increase the depth, then turned to look at Qu Zhu, "You carry Lao Zhuang on your back, and all psychics will increase their powers on speed, we are going to move forward at full speed!"
"receive!"
"receive!"
Zhuang Mingxu knew that this was not the time to be pretentious. The full speed of a superpower was not something he could achieve through training. He threw the backpack to Yun Bai and said to Qu Zhu who reached out to grab him, "Thank you for your hard work!"
"We are all comrades, why are you so polite?" Qu Zhu had a smile on his face, but his hands were not slow. He pulled Zhuang Mingxu onto his shoulders with great force, and then ran dozens of meters away. The voice seemed to be left behind by him, "Captain Zhuang, remember to regulate your breathing."
"Okay," Zhuang Mingxu responded and said to Zhou He with a serious expression, "They are not coming for us."
"Really?" Zhou He asked.
"Well, they are not fighting, but chasing a mutant plant together." Zhuang Mingxu thought about the scene he saw, wondering if it was bad luck for them. "The mutant plant fled towards our direction."
"..." Zhou He, "Fuck..."
"Could that thing have been done on purpose?"
Zhuang Mingxu was not sure, he didn't even have time to take a closer look at what kind of plant it was.
Under the crushing of such a behemoth, there is no distinction between the levels of superpowers. The difference in size makes their chances of winning very slim. So many superpower users combined can only be food for the other side.
"Lao... Lao Zhuang, what level do you think they are?" Zhou He was panting. The speed he spoke at was too fast due to his supernatural power, making it difficult for him to speak smoothly.
"Li Zhuang said that when they saw the giant snake a few months ago, its level was at least mid-to-high S-level. Xu Yi and Liu Rui could only avoid it." Zhuang Mingxu's voice was not loud, but it sounded even heavier because of the lack of air underground.
"Then...where is the bird?" Qu Zhu asked.
When the mutant peacock appeared before, the energy detector showed its energy ball. When it swallowed a mutant plant, the entire energy ball exploded, and it was so powerful that everyone felt entangled just thinking about it.
Zhuang Mingxu tried his best to slow down his breathing, "Not sure, but definitely not low."
It was the first time for everyone to see this level of mutant animals fighting each other. They were so frightened that they did not stop at all along the way. Except for breathing closely on the ground once in a while, they spent the rest of the time rushing on the road as fast as they could.
After a few hours, people with low levels of superpowers began to be unable to bear it.
"Let's take a break, we should be quite far away now." Zhuang Mingxu looked at Zhou He.
If this is impossible to escape, there is no other possibility.
Zhou He understood what he meant. He estimated the distance in his mind, but still felt uneasy. However, the faces of his teammates beside him were pale. If he persisted, if he encountered other dangers, something might happen sooner.
"Rest close to the ground." Zhou He gave the order, and the earth-type ability user immediately extended the passage upwards, and finally stopped one meter away from the ground.
"Let's go on inspection together?" Zhou He asked Zhuang Mingxu.
The long period of lack of oxygen made him look very bad.
Zhuang Mingxu nodded and followed him to the ground. Taotao was not affected at all. She followed the two of them and looked out cautiously.
When he saw it, he shouted happily, "Dad, Dad, look, there is grass running."
Before Zhou He could react, Zhuang Mingxu's heart skipped a beat. He lifted Taotao up by the clothes on his back and leaned over to take a look.
They fled in such a hurry that they initially headed towards the temporary base, but now they had no idea where they were.
The place where it emerged was a high ground in a city. Only sparse trees and scattered farmhouses could be seen around it. Thousands of meters away, dilapidated high-rise buildings could be seen, and even more were zombies.
Since entering the primeval forest near Laoshan, they have been busy guarding against the natural environment and mutated plants and animals all day long, and have not seen any traces of zombies for a long time.
Amid the aimless wandering of zombies, a moving mutant plant stood out.
The fluttering branches and leaves quickly shuttled through the zombie swarm. The flying branches in the sky were like countless tentacles. Wherever they passed, zombies that blocked the way were thrown out, as if they were throwing a toy.
Seeing it fleeing in a hurry, Zhou He immediately turned his head to look behind it. He didn't see anything chasing it and breathed a sigh of relief.
"fortunately……"
Knowing what he was thinking, Zhuang Mingxu interrupted his hope and said, "That's it."
"and……"
Zhuang Mingxu looked down at the excited Taotao.
"Don't you see—it's coming toward us?"
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