Chapter 70 [VIP]
"This damn weather seems to be getting hotter and hotter."
The armored vehicle's tracks rolled over the broken road. Fu Chun leaned against the car window, his fingertips unconsciously stroking the stuffed tiger in his arms.
The atmosphere in the car was unusually relaxed; Shouhou even started humming an old song out of tune.
"Forget what the boss said, we have been out for 7 days." Ao Lin suddenly spoke, while Yu Li wiped the machete with a rolled blade.
"When we left, the boss had already announced 'extremely hot weather is still seven days away.' Now seven days have passed, and the extreme heat has arrived. Even without a thermometer, I can estimate the temperature now."
"About 36 degrees," He Haiyan said. "That's normal for summer."
"I remember before the end of the world, when we were on a business trip in Hainan, the highest temperature was 45 degrees." Skinny Monkey suddenly said.
"Yeah. It's been four years since the apocalypse," Ao Lin said. "First there were the zombies, then the mutant plants and animals, and then the natural disasters..."
"Oh, sometimes I think about it, it's so hard for humans. But there are still millions of us left now, and we haven't died out. We're so damn lucky."
In the apocalyptic crisis, apart from humans, animals and plants are the lucky ones. Most of them have mutated.
Especially cats.
As if loved by the will of the planet, each cat species can acquire special mutation abilities, either increasing in size but becoming more docile, or shrinking in size and becoming cuter than before. In short, no matter which cat species it is, it can be trained to be a guardian of humans.
oh!
And dog hook!
They are also a race favored by the will of the planet!
Unlike humans, who are forced to be raised by a stepmother instead of being their biological child.
"How far is it before we get back to Taoyuan Base?" Fu Chun suddenly asked with a slight smile on his face.
The driver, Jia Xingguo, took the time to reply, "A new ground fissure has appeared about 10 miles ahead, so we'll have to replan our route. The new route will probably detour from the original route, and will take about half a day longer than the original one."
"Then we'll take a detour," Ao Lin said seriously. "We still have to get back as soon as possible, to avoid the extreme cold weather that's causing the temperature to rise by 10 degrees Celsius a day."
The armored vehicle continued to drive on the deserted road. All around it were nothing but crisscrossing cracks in the ground and scattered, piled-up ruins.
The setting sun dyed the clouds orange, just like the mutated but shrunken stuffed tiger in Fu Chun's arms.
Time flies. When Lao Jia, who was driving, parked the armored vehicle at an abandoned gas station, the setting sun was casting its last touch of blood on the broken road.
In the rearview mirror, Ao Lin had already jumped out of the car with a submachine gun in hand, and his black tactical boots crushed the dried blood stains beside his feet.
"There's a base twenty kilometers away, a fairly small one." He Chunyan checked her magazine, the remaining seven bullets gleaming coldly in her palm. "If we want to rest there, we'll probably be there by nightfall."
The door of the gas station convenience store had been pried open, and the shelves jutted out like hollowed-out ribs. Fu Chun lazily cradled his stuffed tiger as he searched the dilapidated gas station convenience store. When he returned, he spoke in the same languid tone.
"There were several dried corpses lying inside. There were also several rats tearing into a half-eaten bag of moldy potato chips. They were all mutated rats, but in terms of size, they were only twice the size of ordinary rats."
"Make a mark," He Chunyan instructed the skinny monkey, who was carrying a laptop. "Record it at the mutant rat's location..."
"Good boy." Skinny Monkey said with a grin. "The mutant rat X-12."
"Sister Chunyan!" Old Jia, who was guarding the door, suddenly lowered his voice, "Two o'clock."
He Chunyan slid against the wall to the window. Three hundred meters away, a zombie appeared on the highway guardrail. It was a zombie in a hospital gown.
Unlike the common zombies, it was hunching its back like a cheetah, and its rotten fingers were tapping the iron railings rhythmically.
"Evolved form." He Chunyan's breathing gradually slowed down. "It's sending signals."
As if to confirm her words, a series of howling sounds could be heard in the distance. They weren't the roars of zombies, but rather the long howls of some canine species, their voices laced with the sharp sound of metallic friction.
"A pack of mutant wolves." Ao Lin cocked his rifle, his voice strange. "Damn it! We didn't see any mutant wolves on the way here. Where did they come from?"
"Who knows?"
Fu Chun made a quick decision. "Everyone get in the car, now!"
As the people who had gotten off the bus got back on, the first wave of zombies rushed towards the armored vehicle. When Fu Chun turned around, he saw the leading evolved form roaring in protest.
Not to mention, that raised middle finger, that action carries a strange sense of wisdom.
Then, a wolf pack appeared. There were seven huge gray wolves, nearly 5 meters tall at the shoulder. The spines of three of them pierced through their fur and stuck out like a row of saw teeth.
"Oh my god, seven wolves."
"How many fur vests can we get by killing these wolves?"
"Hurry up and drive. We can barely kill one mutant gray wolf. If we kill all seven of them together, I'm afraid we'll be dead by this time next year."
The speed of the armored vehicle can be increased to super, so it won't go very fast at all.
But at this time, who cares about this? When the zombies surrounded us, old man.
"To the east."
He said, "To the east is a swamp."
Before he could finish his words, the seven wolves had already rushed to the armored vehicle, howled a few times, and turned the armored vehicle upside down.
None of the people in the armored vehicle were spared and all had their heads broken and bleeding.
In his blurred vision, Fu Chun discovered that a giant wolf, twice as big as the other wolves, was swooping down, its fangs only half a foot away from his throat.
"Bang!"
Ao Lin's sniper rifle hit the wolf's eye in a state of weightlessness.
The giant wolf howled and changed direction, crashing the armored vehicle directly into the crack in the ground.
"Fuck it!"
While cursing, several people left the armored vehicle very nimbly and ran away quickly with the stuffed tiger they picked up on the road.
Fortunately, the fissure was not deep, otherwise, climbing the steep slope would be a problem.
Other armored vehicles stopped not far away, and several soldiers who were obviously veterans, holding submachine guns, kept firing at the Seven Wolves.
Countless bullets intertwined, forming a unique barrage of death.
"I'm really..." Fu Chun cursed. After escaping from the giant wolf's attack, he began to use his special powers to strangle the giant wolf that attacked him with all his strength.
Unexpectedly, the zombies and seven mutated gray wolves that appeared one after another actually attacked in coordination.
A wolf deliberately knocked down a survivor they had picked up along the way, and the zombies nearby immediately pounced on him and bit him. This violated the iron law of apocalypse survival: different mutant species will always attack each other.
"Skinny monkey." Ao Lin yelled as he changed the magazine. "Send a message to the boss and ask him to save our lives."
"Wait a minute," the skinny guy yelled. "The message is being sent. The boss will be here in about 10 minutes."
Mingzhu, the owner, owns a motorcycle that can reach the speed of light, which is pretty impressive. Residents who are out and about in life-or-death situations often text Mingzhu, asking him to save their dog's life.
Whenever this happened, Mingzhu, who received the message, would immediately put down what he was doing and rush to save people.
Of course, it wasn't free. Mingzhu's help came with an appearance fee. The standard price was around 10,000 Starlight Coins.
It looked cheap, but in reality it wasn't expensive at all. After all, those who could afford to hire him were all residents of Taoyuan Base. As the owner of Taoyuan Base, Mingzhu naturally made a friendly appearance at a bargain price.
Ten minutes later, Mingzhu appeared on a light-speed motorcycle. He was wearing a black windbreaker, tight pants, and black combat boots, showing off his dominance.
"Seven wolves?" Mingzhu was surprised and immediately moved to help deal with the seven mutated gray wolves. "You are so lucky."
"More than that!" Fu Chun, who had finally caught his breath, replied with a wry smile. "The zombies and the Seven Wolves actually worked together and nearly got us killed."
“Emm, it’s hard to imagine.”
Mingzhu killed all the mutated gray wolves with just a few moves, and soon only one was left.
The remaining mutated gray wolf was obviously frightened by Mingzhu's fierce actions. It actually howled, turned around and ran away with its tail between its legs.
Mingzhu thought about it and gave chase. He soon caught up with the fleeing mutant gray wolf and chased it to its lair.
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