ambush
The intermittent sound of the loudspeaker played back and forth in the mall.
The fire upstairs was put out, and some people came down from the corner of the mall. Some people were trapped by bricks or zombie corpses, but they were all safely taken to the pickup truck by Lu Jiazhou and Yu Yu using their special powers.
Including the mother and daughter.
When Zhou Yu brought the mother and daughter to the car, Lou Tiannan was talking to a family member of a rescued military district. "East Third District is currently one of the safe areas. If conditions permit, we will send you there."
"Thank you, thank you! Thank you very much!" The soldier's family member burst into tears of gratitude.
"You're welcome." Lou Tiannan responded casually, glancing at the mother and daughter beside him. He happened to see the woman turn her face to the side. The moment he saw the woman's face, he felt an indescribable disobedience. He subconsciously disliked it, and now--
Lou Tiannan lowered his eyes and glanced at the hand stretched out in front of him.
The woman stretched out her hand in front of him and said, "Hello, my name is Lin Bai." When Xiya heard this, she looked up at the tall man in front of her and felt a little nervous. She knew that this man had fire-type abilities, and they were much more powerful than hers. She was very likely to be abandoned by Lin Bai.
Xiya was uneasy.
In the smoke-filled shopping mall, the smell of cheap powder appeared abruptly.
Lou Tiannan tilted his face slightly, glancing at the woman with his blue-gray eyes. His clear eyes caught a glimpse of the black eyeliner at the corners of her eyes, the brown-gray matte eyeshadow and the lipstick on her lips. It was a very ordinary makeup, not actually very obvious.
However, those who still care about makeup in the end times...
Lou Tiannan frowned, suppressed his emotions, reached out and held the woman's fingertips. The moment their fingers touched, he was startled and felt a chill in his heart.
It wasn't until the cold fingertips were pulled out of his palm that Lou Tiannan came back to his senses and said, "Lou Tiannan."
As soon as the two men's hands loosened, a pair of warm, sweaty hands grasped Lou Tiannan's. The young man with yellow curly hair had a flattering look on his face: "Captain Lou, hello! My name is Peter, you must protect my safety. My mother is a famous jeweler in the South Third District. As long as you take me to the safe zone, I will make my mother-"
Lou Tiannan pulled his hand out of Peter's and said in a deep voice: "I will try my best to send everyone to the safe zone, no matter who you are."
Other survivors nearby breathed a sigh of relief when they heard this.
Lin Bai turned around expressionlessly after hearing that.
Lou Tiannan turned around and saw Lin Bai turned his head away and didn't see her expression. His eyes paused for a moment when they fell on the scabbard tied to the side of the woman's leg.
The scabbard was about thirty-five centimeters long, and the handle was wrapped with a bandage. The bandage on the side of the handle had fallen apart, revealing a burnt black spot inside, which was the mark left by a bullet.
The bullet didn't penetrate her knife?
"Captain Lou?" Zhu Liang followed Lou Tiannan's gaze and thought he was looking at the little girl. Children were rare in the apocalypse, so he didn't find it strange.
Lou Tiannan came back to his senses, "Huh?"
"I've seen them all."
After Zhou Yu and his team cleaned up the mall, unfortunately, but also luckily, seven people survived, both men and women, mostly alphas, except Xiya who had not yet differentiated. There were two betas, and Lin Bai was one of them.
There were supposed to be more than forty survivors in the mall, but they told Song Yan and others that the rest were taken away by the Blood and Bone people to feed the zombies.
"Those beasts!" Song Yan said angrily.
The survivors were also filled with righteous indignation and were extremely grateful to the federal guards who arrived in time.
Others clutched their chests and said thankfully, "Aurora bless you!"
Hearing this prayer, Zhou Yu curled his lips and whispered to Song Yan, "Why is the man we rescued talking about Aurora?! We didn't see Aurora come to save him..."
Song Yan elbowed him to shut him up.
Auroraism is a religion that emerged in the last days. Bishop Monde Clare claimed to be a servant of God and conveyed the will of God, so he was believed by everyone and had a considerable number of followers in the last days.
But in the Federal Guard, headed by Lou Tiannan, no one believes in religion. Instead of wasting time on religion, they might as well eat more and save some energy to believe in themselves!
…
After preliminarily confirming that the seven people were not infected, they cleaned up the battlefield, and Lou Tiannan and his team drove away from the mall with the seven survivors and some supplies.
Perhaps the mall attracted enough zombies nearby, so the black pickup truck drove out without encountering any zombies along the way.
"It will take about twenty minutes to reach the temporary base." Zhu Liang said after looking at the route.
Just when everyone was feeling relieved, Song Yan looked out the car window and said, "Team Leader, something's not right at ten o'clock in the northwest corner."
Everyone looked in the direction she mentioned. At first, they couldn't make out anything, but after a few seconds, someone screamed, "Zombies! It's zombies! Lots of zombies!"
Lou Tiannan swung the steering wheel with one hand, turning the car 180 degrees and changing lanes. His sharp eyes were filled with coldness, and his thin lips parted slightly: "Prepare to meet the enemy!"
"Damn it! Where did these zombies come from?!" Zhou Yu yelled and raised his submachine gun and started firing.
"Zhu Liang and Song Yan keep an eye on the zombies, Xiao Lu protects the people, and Zhou Yu is on guard against enemy sneak attacks." Lou Tiannan quickly made the division of labor and deployment.
"A sneak attack?" Zhou Yu was stunned at first.
Song Yan glanced at the zombies and said, "Does the leading zombie look like the bloody bone dog we saw in the mall just now?"
Zhou Yu took a look from a distance and was shocked. Oh my god, it’s true!
"Those Blood Bone dogs are really haunting us! How dare they ambush us!"
Song Yan and Zhou Yu held up their guns and used bullets to block the zombies' steps, but the smell of human flesh and blood made the zombies rush towards the pickup truck even with broken limbs.
"There's too much dust! I can't see clearly!" Zhou Yu shouted.
The flying dust on the road greatly affects the shooting vision.
Lou Tiannan controlled the distance by steering the car, but when he drove onto the side road, the wheels got stuck and kept spinning. Then a wall of earth emerged from the ground and pried up the front of the car.
The car was lifted to an angle, and the people in the back of the car huddled together uncontrollably, with panicked screams ringing out in the car.
Xiya was also very scared and tried her best to move closer to Lin Bai.
The next moment, countless metal arrows shot towards the rear compartment.
"ah!!!"
Panic screams echoed throughout the carriage. Lu Jia quickly stretched out a wooden board to block the arrow, and the sharp arrowhead almost pierced through the board.
Lou Tiannan decisively stepped on the accelerator to the bottom, swung the steering wheel, and reversed rapidly before the high wall was completely built to avoid the risk of the car being overturned.
After breaking away from the earth wall, he kicked open the car door and jumped to the ground!
Swish!
Black flames rose up, and the surrounding temperature suddenly increased. The black flames burned nearby with the vehicle as the center, blocking the zombies' progress.
Seeing Lou Tiannan making his move, Taike said to his men, "Go ahead. Lou Tiannan, Chang Qi, Chang Ping and I will deal with him. Whoever grabs the two third-level crystal cores gets one!"
Upon hearing this, Xue Gu and the others rushed towards Song Yan and the others with greed in their eyes.
If Lou Tiannan can't deal with it, can't those subordinates deal with it too?
The arrows shot by Tek attacked the pickup truck in a net-like pattern, but the target was not Lou Tiannan, but the people behind the car.
There was sarcasm in Taik's eyes: People always have to pay the price for their unnecessary kindness.
He wanted to use those powerless losers in the back car to hinder Black Flame's actions.
Facts have proved that the effect is significant.
"Get out of the way!"
But where to hide? There was a blood-bone attack in front of him, and zombies with outstretched hands beside him. Lu Jia was kicked to the ground by the blood-bone and almost fell into the hands of the zombies. He was pulled back by Zhou Yu with a chain.
The five people except Lin Bai and Xiya screamed and ran away.
Peter looked at the arrows in front of him, his soul flying away. Suddenly, he felt his collar tighten, as if being clamped by an iron clamp. Lou Tiannan picked up his 150-pound body and threw him back into the carriage. The others were also thrown back into the carriage by Lou Tiannan like chickens. Lou Tiannan said coldly: "If you don't want to die, stay in the carriage!"
Just as he finished speaking, he saw someone jumping out of the car.
It’s Lin Bai.
Lou Tiannan's eyebrows were tightly knitted, but the next second, he saw Lin Bai pull out a gun from his waist and point it at him.
Lou Tiannan's eyes flashed.
Without taking any further aim, Lin Bai raised his hand and pulled the trigger.
Bang!
A zombie beside him fell to the ground.
"Maybe it would be more appropriate for you to look at someone else." Lin Bai fired another shot as he spoke, and this time he hit the blood and bone mutant who was trying to sneak attack Zhu Liang.
Zhu Liang raised his head and took a step back, avoiding the fatal blow.
Lou Tiannan glanced at the blood and bone mutant who fell into the zombie group after being shot, and no longer looked at Lin Bai. The black flame went straight towards Tek.
This place was empty, unlike the shopping mall where there were many corner stores to hide in. Hundreds of zombies smelled the scent of living people and wanted to pounce on them, causing everyone to scream.
But the zombies could not get past the black flames ignited by Lou Tiannan, and could only roar hoarsely outside the circle of fire.
The three of Tek fought against Lou Tiannan. Chang Pingqi's methods were dirty and difficult to deal with, while Tek's superpowers were brutal and domineering, and for a while they were evenly matched.
The wind suddenly picked up, and the flames grew more intense with the wind.
The high temperature makes many people feel uncomfortable and sweat profusely.
No one knew that Lin Bai's body, which had been cold for several months, had finally warmed up in the black flames.
Soon, as the wind grew stronger, the sky became overcast again.
Lin Bai glanced at the dark clouds gathering in the sky. It was so worrying. She had been warm for less than five minutes!
Perhaps because the noise was too loud, the zombies nearby came in waves like a tide.
"If we keep shooting like this, we won't have enough bullets!" Song Yan said.
If you keep fighting like this, I'll die here!
Lin Bai made a quick decision and said, "Get in the car, let's go!"
"How do we get out of this?!" Zhou Yu glanced at the zombies around him, breathing heavily. As soon as he finished speaking, he was pushed into the passenger seat by Lin Bai.
Lin Bai also stepped into the driver's seat in a few steps, shifted gears, stepped on the accelerator, and turned the steering wheel. The tires made a sharp sound as they rubbed against the ground.
"Hold on tight! Wait for the right moment to pull your people back!" Lin Bai shouted briefly, steering with one hand and taking something out of his pocket with the other.
When Zhou Yu saw the grenade in her hand, his heart almost stopped. Where did she get the grenade?
He watched as Lin Bai bit the handle with his teeth and turned the steering wheel to the limit. One second, two seconds...
What does she want to do?
Just after two seconds, she spit out the pull ring and quickly threw the grenade out of the car window. I didn't see how she aimed, but the grenade was thrown accurately into the pile of zombies at the five o'clock direction. No one had time to react. The fist-sized grenade exploded as soon as it entered the zombie group.
A mushroom cloud rose and a heat wave hit us.
The 180-decibel sound of the grenade exploding made everyone present stand there in a daze with a brief tinnitus.
Lou Tiannan was the first to react. He turned around quickly and kicked Taike in the chest, kicking him a meter away.
Song Yan, Zhu Liang and others also shot down the Blood and Bone members around them with a few shots and jumped into the pickup truck.
The black pickup truck drove rapidly towards the gap in the zombie tide that had just been opened by the grenade.
"Damn it, we can't let them run away!" Taike shouted. He quickly stepped forward and tried to restrain Lou Tiannan.
"Bang!" A gunshot rang out. Tek watched the woman in the driver's seat shoot him. Looking at the bullet, his pupils constricted.
He stopped abruptly and dodged the gunshot quickly, but another "bang!" rang in his ears.
The next second, "bang!" The bullet hit the iron plate on his arm, making a groove and stuck in the iron plate. The huge impact force of the bullet made Tek take a half step back.
"Team Lou!"
When the heavy rain fell, Zhou Yu threw the iron chain to Lou Tiannan. Lou Tiannan reached out and grabbed it, then leaped into the air towards the black pickup truck and stepped on the side of the pickup truck.
A zombie howled and pounced towards Lou Tiannan, but Lin Bai did not give it a chance. He stepped on the accelerator to the bottom. With a loud roar, the black pickup truck broke through the rain curtain like a sharp black blade and rushed into the distance!
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