Chapter 306 Group Upgrade
The group's eyes wandered over several people, and they found that compared to the simple waterproof coats worn by the military, these people had more comprehensive protection, but... they looked a bit like a gang of dark-night murderers.
The man forced a smile and stammered that he was sorry. After taking a few steps back, he turned around and ran towards the temporary fence. Seeing him, the others immediately followed him.
The speed was so fast that it felt like the god of death was chasing him from behind.
"He thinks you are a pervert," Xu Sa chuckled, and turned his head to see a zombie jumping out of the window on the building next to him and rushing towards them.
As if following a signal, zombies continued to run down from the buildings on both sides and gathered towards the few people.
"On the fourth floor, they are not hurt at all." Ning Yuan compressed the raindrops into thousands of extremely fast water droplets that attacked the zombies and exclaimed.
More than half a year ago, when they were collecting crystal cores, they lured zombies to fall from the building, but many of the zombies broke their legs after falling and could only crawl forward.
Now they also jumped down, but were not affected at all.
"The zombies have become stronger?" Li Zhuang wondered as he swung his triangular knife and quickly stepped into the zombie encirclement, chopping at the zombies with neat movements.
The triangular knife, which had been strengthened by Antonio's supernatural powers, could cut through iron like mud, but now it obviously required more strength.
Liu Rui's fire ability was suppressed in the rain, and he was knocked to the ground by a falling zombie without paying attention. Xu Sa hurriedly released all his abilities and quickly killed the zombie. He pulled Liu Rui up and checked if he was injured, while speaking to the others breathlessly.
"We can't do this. We can't go far. Besides, there are invisible zombies in the houses on both sides that may attack at any time. We are hard to guard against."
"Same as always, lure the zombies over here." Li Zhuang kept throwing the supernatural power in his hand towards the surroundings, beyond the range of the spotlight, making it difficult for him to see the surrounding situation clearly. He needed to focus his supernatural power on his eyes from time to time, which consumed a lot of supernatural power.
Lu Weiyi looked around, trying to see what to lure him with. Antonio, who was not far away, picked up a corpse that was obviously trampled to death in the chaos and looked towards him.
“Make the best use of everything,” he said.
Lu Weiyi avoided the corpse in his hand and nodded.
"This way," Li Zhuang finished speaking, and countless earth spikes attacked towards the front right, killing all the zombies rushing over and forming a temporary passage.
Several people quickly stepped forward. Li Zhuang took the crystal core handed over by Lu Weiyi and absorbed it while closing the road ahead, forming a dead end.
Antonio, who followed, pulled up several bodies of people who died accidentally. As his dagger slipped, blood spilled all the way, forming a river of blood on the ground with the rain. The fishy smell spread everywhere, attracting the attention of the surrounding zombies.
Lu Weiyi and a few others climbed to a high place, standing back to back, breathing heavily and absorbing the crystal cores. After they recovered, they began to kill the zombies that were attracted by the blood.
Compared to their hunting method of luring zombies into their trap, more teams of psychics directly sweep the buildings, with one team responsible for one street. They constantly shout into the corridors through loudspeakers, asking survivors to hide and use sound to attract zombies.
At this moment, they are not a separate team, they have no division of power, and everyone has only one belief - to drive the zombies out of their safe fortress.
Zombies were constantly being killed and people were constantly mutating, until later there was no sign of a living person in the entire East District.
At dawn, the rain that had been falling for several days finally stopped.
The air in the summer morning was chilly, and the smell of blood and corpses filled the air.
The zombies downstairs were piled up several meters high. The surrounding safe place, which had been reinforced by Li Zhuang, collapsed due to being surrounded by several earth-type zombies. It no longer had its original solid appearance.
From time to time, the mutated zombies used various superpowers, but were blocked by Lu Weiyi's mental barrier, so that their group only suffered serious consumption of superpowers but no obvious injuries.
When the morning light shone on the earth, several hours of fierce fighting finally ended.
After killing the last zombie that was trembling as it climbed up, Xu Sa sat down on the ground, gasping for breath. Liu Rui stood back to back with him, his young face and eyes filled with a fierce aura.
Li Zhuang leaned against the wall, his eyes constantly scanning the surroundings, and his hand holding the triangular knife was shaking.
Antonio's powers were exhausted, and he kept holding the crystal core in his hand, ensuring that he could always get a replenishment even if he didn't absorb it.
Ning Yuan looked sadly at the pile of zombie corpses below. Some of them were still wearing neat clothes and their skin and flesh were fresh. They were obviously the victims of this martyrdom.
Gu Qingji silently looked back in the direction of the shelter. Gu Qingyue was there protecting the two healing psychics in the team.
The only one who was not affected at all, Lu Weiyi, held a crystal core and absorbed it slowly, looking around, while controlling the small green branch to collect the crystal cores of the zombies below.
There are ordinary people below who come to clean up the battlefield. They shuttle between the buildings, killing lone zombies and rescuing people who may survive.
Seeing the pile of zombies here, the leader shouted upwards, "Young Master Lu, Master Xiao asked you to go back and rest."
Lu Weiyi gestured to him, "Can you move?"
"Take a break." Xu Sa felt exhausted at the moment and wanted to wave his hands, but in the end he only raised his fingers.
"I seem..." Li Zhuang said with a rather bad look on his face. When Lu Weiyi looked over at him, he said, "It's time to upgrade."
The surprise on Lu Weiyi's face disappeared in an instant. Thinking about it, Li Zhuang was the first one among them to enter Class A, and now it has been nearly half a year, it is indeed time for him to upgrade.
He nodded, took out the earth crystal core that he had prepared in advance from the space and handed it to Li Zhuang.
Then Li Zhuang said in a relaxed tone, "I can't control the leakage of energy yet."
At the last moment of upgrading, the energy in the crystal core will break through the body and leak out, and then be taken back into the upgraded crystal core. The higher the level, the stronger the energy.
In order to prevent people around them from knowing the level of their superpowers, skilled people will control the range of energy leakage, but the people in the team have not stayed in the base for a long time and have no concerns in this regard, so they didn't pay much attention to this.
"fine"
As soon as Lu Weiyi finished speaking, Xu Sa beside him stood up by grabbing the ground and said, "It's okay, the upgraded energy can blow us away."
“Run quickly!” He stretched out his hand to pull Liu Rui, and saw Liu Rui, who was absorbing the crystal core, looking at him helplessly, “Sa… Sa brother, I…”
"I think I should upgrade too." Before he could finish his words, Ning Yuan spoke first.
Liu Rui nodded and pointed at himself.
"Are you going to upgrade too?" Xu Sa asked.
Liu Rui nodded.
"God, what a coincidence," Antonio said, holding the crystal core in his hand and shrugged towards Lu Weiyi, "Lu, I need the crystal core."
"No way?" Xu Sa looked at the few people who had already started absorbing the crystal cores, and finally turned his gaze to Gu Qingji.
"I didn't." Gu Qingji stood up embarrassedly and stood aside.
The four people were either standing or sitting, less than two meters apart, looking at Lu Weiyi helplessly.
"It should have started accumulating energy for upgrades when I was killing zombies and absorbing crystal cores before, but I was so focused on the zombies that I didn't pay attention to it. Now..." Ning Yuan explained embarrassedly, "It feels like it's entering the final stage."
The time for several people to reach A-level was about the same. They had not neglected the training of their supernatural powers along the way, so it was not surprising that they reached the A-level level.
that is……
Lu Weiyi looked around. This environment was indeed a bit dangerous. He didn't know if there were any remaining zombies around. What made him even more uneasy was the mental zombie they were talking about.
"If I take you back, will you be affected?" Lu Weiyi asked.
"No way, what if something happens in the middle..." Before the four people could speak, Xu Sa spoke first.
If the upgrade of superpowers is interrupted, it is likely to fail, which has serious consequences for everyone.
No one was willing to take this risk, so Li Zhuang was the first to express his opinion, "I will try my best to restrain my energy."
"Me too," Antonio said.
The other two nodded, promising to try not to hurt each other.
Lu Weiyi looked around at the ruins and zombie corpses everywhere, and saw that the crystal cores of several people had been consumed in large quantities. He had no choice but to accept it.
He waved towards the distance and called the person who had greeted him before. He gave the other person a debugged walkie-talkie and asked him to give it to Lu Xiao immediately.
"Lu Xiaoyi, do you have anything to eat? Give me something to replenish my strength." Xu Sa sat on the ground leaning against the wall. The blood and body parts on his clothes occasionally scratched the waterproof fabric, leaving a trace of expression.
"Can you eat it?" Gu Qingji was also a little hungry, but the pungent smell could make him vomit at any time. He felt that no matter how good the food was, he couldn't swallow it at this moment.
"You have to eat even if you can't. Who knows what will happen later," Xu Sa said in a flat tone. After that, he asked Ning Yuan in a frivolous manner, "Brother Ning, give me some water so I can take a bath."
"You little rascal, wait until I flush you so hard that you won't dare to ask for water again." Ning Yuan rolled his eyes at him and said in a relaxed tone.
Instead, Lu Weiyi took out several buckets of water from the space. The three of them simply washed their hands, and one of them grabbed an egg pancake and forced it into his mouth.
From time to time, there were people holding loudspeakers asking survivors around, and zombies suddenly appeared, catching people off guard. Gunshots were heard from a distance, and noisy crying was endless.
A few minutes later, Lu Weiyi's intercom was connected to his body and Lu Xiao's voice rang out, "Hello? Xiaoyi?"
"Uncle," Lu Weiyi swallowed the last piece of bread and asked, "Have all the zombies inside been cleared?"
"No, most of our area has been attracted by you, so the situation is not so bad. Other areas are still struggling. Zheng Yi just sent me a message that ordinary people in the escort team have already taken up firearms. Is your side okay?"
"..." Lu Weiyi looked at the people around him and said speechlessly, "Four people in our team are suddenly going to be upgraded, and the situation has changed suddenly, so it's too late to move now."
"...How many?" Lu Xiao asked after a long while.
"Four!"
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