Chapter 69
After hearing what was said, Zhou Yu and the others ran in the direction Xiya pointed without hesitation.
There were two mutant zombies chasing closely behind him.
One of them was particularly swift. If it weren't for the low temperature of the snow that made their limbs a little stiff, Zhou Yu, Song Yan and the others would not have been able to run so far.
There is still a difference in physical fitness between humans and zombies. Zombies do not know fatigue, but humans do not.
A rope appeared under the feet of the people in front. This was the supernatural power of the wood-type zombie behind him. Zhu Liang looked at the rope and raised his foot. The rope seemed to have eyes and moved up another inch.
Under normal circumstances, Zhu Liang would definitely be able to react and dodge, but he had been running all night, and when his brain reacted, his legs did not rise up quickly enough. The rope wrapped around his ankles, and his body involuntarily fell forward.
He rolled violently in the snow.
It only took two seconds of delay before the mutant zombie behind him ran in front of him.
"Brother Liang!" Zhou Yu and the others stopped.
Zhu Liang looked at the zombies and knew he couldn't escape. He pulled out the pistol from his waist and shot at the zombies' eyes. Without even turning his head, he shouted, "Hurry up and leave!"
But no one left.
They couldn't abandon their comrades.
Xiya got off the ground on her own accord. Her superpowers had improved significantly, but her bones and muscles were too weak, and the energy stored in her superpowers could not keep up in time. She could still deal with some low-level zombies, but once she encountered a zombie with superpowers, her superpowers were no longer enough.
Zhou Yu, Song Yan and Lu Jia are the main forces fighting against the zombies with special abilities. Wen Xia Xia's water-based abilities can also provide very good auxiliary effects in low-temperature environments.
Having said that, it was still a bit of a stretch for them to fight against the mutant zombies, especially when everyone had very little strength left.
"Bang!" Wen Xia Xia was swept to the ground by the wooden stick of the mutant zombie.
Zhou Yu threw an iron chain in Wen Xia Xia's direction, wrapped it around her waist and pulled her away from the original place, narrowly avoiding the zombies' second attack.
In the moment he was distracted, another zombie's iron rod hit Zhou Yu's arm, and everyone clearly heard the sound of Zhou Yu's arm bones breaking.
Zhou Yu also groaned and forcibly pulled Wen Xia Xia back.
A few steps away, Lu Jia was tied up by a net and couldn't move. The agile wood-type zombie took a few steps forward and stretched out its claws. Seeing this, Song Yan didn't have time to think and swung his fist to meet the zombie's claws.
Her fist was wrapped in gravel, with light reflected by the gravel, and it collided with the fist of the mutant zombie. Both the man and the zombie were pushed back two steps by the impact of each other's energy, and the mutant zombie's claws were scratched by the sharp edges of the gravel.
The zombie seemed to be annoyed by Song Yan's actions. It howled. On the other side, which Song Yan didn't notice, a zombie with metal superpowers attacked her from behind.
"Sister Yan! Be careful behind you!" several people shouted.
Song Yan tilted her head and saw the sharp claws of the zombie behind her out of the corner of her eye. She kicked the wood-type zombie in front of her in the chest, then stepped on the wood zombie's shoulder a second time. She jumped into the air and narrowly avoided the claws of the metal-type zombie behind her.
Before everyone could breathe a sigh of relief, an iron rod appeared out of nowhere and hit Song Yan on the back.
Song Yan fell straight to the ground like a bird with broken wings.
On the ground, the wood-type mutant zombie had been waiting for a long time. When its dark eyes looked at the falling Song Yan, one could actually see a hint of madness and desire.
They know that the flesh and blood of these superpowers can give them greater power!
It couldn't wait to stretch out its claws towards the falling Song Goose, but when its claws grabbed Song Goose, Song Goose's body turned into quicksand and slipped through the gaps between its claws.
When he was far away from the zombie's claws, Song Yan quickly solidified into a solid body. He supported himself on the ground with one hand, exposed steel spikes on the soles of his combat boots, and kicked the zombie's knee hard.
This kick was delivered with great force. If it were an ordinary person, his kneecap would have been broken, but the mutant zombies were not human.
They are even more resilient than ordinary zombies. Song Yan's kick only made it take a few steps back. The steel spikes pierced its knees, but it felt no pain at all.
The zombie that missed its target made a louder roaring sound in its throat. It looked at Song Yan on the ground and pounced on him again.
Song Yan injured his back and couldn't get up quickly.
In her pupils, the zombies were getting closer and closer. Suddenly, a small figure stood in front of her.
Song Yan's pupils shrank, and he shouted in pain, "Xi Ya, go!"
But Xiya didn't leave. She stretched out her tender little hands and imitated the moves that Lou Tiannan had used before. She tensed the energy in her body and actually released a fierce wall of fire.
The raging fire hindered the progress of the wood zombies.
Before Xiya could be happy, she was thrown to the ground and heard someone calling someone's name.
It’s Uncle Zhu Liang.
Zhu Liang pushed Xiya in his arms to Song Yan who was not far away, and said in a hoarse voice: "You guys go! Don't waste time! The mission must be completed!" After that, he quickly stood up and pressed the gun in his hand into the mouth of the zombie coming towards him, bang bang bang -
The gunfire exploded in the zombie's mouth, and the extremely close recoil caused Zhu Liang's palm to crack.
Xiya was picked up by Song Yan, but strangely, she ran away immediately after being carried. Everyone was silently speeding up to leave. Xiya wanted to ask if Uncle Zhu Liang was no longer in care?
She opened her mouth and saw that Zhu Liang's combat uniform had been torn on his back. There were three purple and swollen zombie claw marks on his exposed back.
She closed her mouth in a daze. Uncle Zhu Liang, have you been infected?
Is it because of saving her...
Water drops fell on Xiya's hands.
Some are hers, and some are Song Yan’s who is holding her.
Seeing the human exuding a charming aura was about to leave, the metal-powered zombies and the wood-powered zombies, whose mouths were broken by four bullets, still refused to give up and chased after them.
But they were all pressed back by the man in front of them.
Zhu Liang stopped the two zombies in front of him with his bare hands. His usually gentle appearance became extremely ferocious at this moment. He wanted to buy time for his comrades to survive.
But he was soon knocked to the ground by the mutant zombies.
The zombies didn't even look at him. This prey didn't have the scent they liked. They growled and tried to chase Zhou Yu and the others who had left.
Zhu Liang turned over and grabbed the zombie's feet with both hands. He was trying with his life to grab it. The veins in his arms were bulging and his finger joints were so strong that they almost sank into the zombie's rotten flesh.
Sizzle!
There was the sound of metal blades cutting through the air as a metal-type mutant zombie launched a blade attack towards his neck. He grabbed the zombie's leg and barely avoided the attack, but the next second another blade mercilessly cut off one of his hands. The severe pain made him scream out. Even without his palm, he still struggled to raise his elbow to hug the zombie's leg.
An iron rod was stabbing straight at his head, but Zhu Liang did not let go of his hand nor dodge. His eyes showed the determination and will to die. The federal army will never retreat!
Clang!
When the iron rod was only one centimeter away from Zhu Liang's forehead, it was deflected by the swirling black shadow and pierced diagonally into the ground beside Zhu Liang's ear.
Zhu Liang's eyes, which had excellent vision, saw that the black shadow was a black blade.
He recognized the black blade.
Buzz buzz buzz——
The last thing he saw before he lost consciousness was a woman riding a heavily armed motorcycle towards him.
…
When Lin Bai used his conscious awareness to sense Xiya's location, he knew that the situation on their side was not good.
There was no wasted words with Lou Tiannan. The two of them found a motorcycle. After Lin Bai made some simple modifications, the two of them headed towards the group together.
Lin Bai rode the bike, and Lou Tiannan sat on the back seat to clear the way for her with flames. Lin Bai's motorcycle riding skills were also very good. She turned corners and went uphill to avoid obstacles without any pause. It was incredibly smooth, even smoother than those smart driving vehicles before the apocalypse.
The North District is not far from the East District, but it is not far either. Generally speaking, it takes at least fifty minutes to drive there. However, Lin Bai did not take the usual route on her motorcycle. She just lifted the front wheel of the motorcycle and drove over the roof of the crooked car, the roof of the bungalow, and the shortest route in her mind... With Lou Tiannan's full cooperation in clearing the obstacles and Xiya leading the way, they only drove for twenty minutes before they met Zhou Yu and others who were fleeing.
Zhou Yu pointed behind him with tears in his eyes and said, "Brother Liang——"
Lin Bai didn't even turn the brakes, and whizzed past Zhou Yu and others. The motorcycle brought up a gust of wind in an instant.
In less than thirty seconds, they saw Zhu Liang delaying two mutant zombies. Lin Bai held the front of the car with one hand and threw the black blade from the side of his leg with the other, while Lou Tiannan behind him fired two fireballs directly at the two mutant zombies.
Bang!
Five minutes later, they found a respite in a house at the junction of North District 1 and East District 1.
When Zhou Yu and others saw Zhu Liang brought back by Lou Tiannan, their eyes were red.
His left hand was gone and his body was covered with scars, the most lethal of which were the zombie scratches on his back. The purple-black blood vessels spread visibly across his entire back.
Zhu Liang was infected.
"Ugh—" Just as Zhu Liang was laid flat, he sat up straight, his eyes wide open with pain. His body was changing, his pupils were bulging, the fingernails on his right hand were growing longer, and the teeth in his mouth were becoming sharper...
Zhu Liang hadn't yet been completely robbed of his consciousness by the zombie virus. He clutched the wooden board beneath him with his right hand and said in agony, "Captain Lou, please give me a quick death!"
Lou Tiannan didn't say anything. He took out the box placed close to his chest - the raw blood vaccine he brought back from the 621 Biomedicine Research Institute.
He scanned the paper on the box. It said the original blood vaccine came in one and two doses, and the box contained five sets of vaccine. He'd get one dose first, followed by the second dose half an hour later to immunize himself against the zombie virus.
It is clearly stated above that this is a vaccine to prevent viruses, not a drug to treat viruses. Due to time constraints, it is impossible to conduct experiments on the therapeutic efficacy of the vaccine on infected organisms, and it is impossible to confirm the effect of the vaccine on infected organisms.
But Lou Tiannan didn't care about that. After reading the instructions carefully, he opened the iron box of medicine. After opening it, he stood there in a daze, his heart pounding. Seeing that his face was not right, the others leaned over to take a look at the box, and everyone's face turned bad.
The paper said there were five sets of medicine in the box, but after opening the box, there were only five medicines. The other half of the medicine box, where the five second-dose medicines should have been stored, was empty.
"Why is the quantity of medicine wrong?" Wen Xia Xia was born a medical soldier. The note was written in such detail that she didn't believe that the dean had made a mistake.
"Someone took the second dose." Lou Tiannan said in a serious tone. He thought of the Aurora people he saw on the 17th floor.
"Ahhh——" Zhu Liang's throat let out another painful and hoarse cry. Without time to think, Lou Tiannan took out a dose and injected it into Zhu Liang's arm muscles.
Under everyone's worried gaze, Zhu Liang's changes were slowing down, and even his fangs were gradually returning to their original appearance.
But they didn't dare to rest assured easily because one potion was missing.
No one knows what role the first and second doses play respectively. They can only pray silently that the vaccine can work and save Zhu Liang.
Lin Bai leaned against the wall, his gaze shifting from Lou Tiannan's medicine box to Zhu Liang's face.
Zhu Liang was so quiet at this moment that he seemed to be asleep. Wen Xia Xia was helping him treat his wounds while holding back tears.
Zhou Yu hadn't forgotten why they were desperately trying to find Lou Tiannan. He stood up and said to Lou Tiannan, "Captain Lou, there's something you must know. We found the combat log left behind by Team 1 in the military defense building in Area 1."
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