Chapter 48 An Unrealized Wish

The rusty, dilapidated car staggered towards them.

One, two, three...

countless zombies appeared, baring their teeth and opening their bloody mouths. They were extremely fast and arrived in the blink of an eye.

The flying dust gradually obscured the rising sun, and Jiang Yunqi and his men immediately took precautions.

Various colored balls of supernatural light smashed into the tide of zombies, and half of the first wave of zombies fell.

The dilapidated car turned off, and a beautiful boy got out of the car. He was holding a rope in his hand, and a... girl was tied to the rope?

Yang Yitong glanced at the girl and said in surprise, "You kidnapped another person?"

Tang Yichao cut off the neck of a zombie with a knife and rolled his eyes, "Look carefully, is that a person?"

The girl's skin was unhealthy and sickly white, her lips were blood red, her hair was black and smooth, her pupils were dark red and her limbs were stiff. This was obviously the ballet zombie that suddenly disappeared last time.

"Oh my god! You keep zombies?!" Yang Yitong jumped and quickly moved away from the boy in fear.

"Li Hui?!"

Ke Fei, who had seen the young man, exclaimed: "It's you?"

Long Yilan leaned sideways and stabbed back with his spear, stringing together a series of zombie heads. Hearing this, he wondered: "Li Hui? Isn't his name Xu Huili?"

"Hey, brothers and sisters? Can we find another time to reminisce? Is now the time for chatting?" Mu Weixi shouted and cursed loudly, "Or are you going to meet underground? It's unlucky to meet you!"

Tang Yichao retorted: "It's really unlucky for us to meet you."

This group of zombies seemed to be the first wave of corpses. There were quite a lot of them, but not too many. The sun was high overhead. Jiang Yunqi slashed with his knife, and the head of the last zombie rolled to the ground.

The others didn't even want to dig for the crystal cores. They sat on the ground gasping for breath. In the later stages, their superpowers were exhausted, so they all used cold weapons to chop off the zombies' heads.

Tang Yichao sat with his legs apart, back to back with Yang Yitong, shook his sore arms, gritted his teeth, frowned, and spoke in a long tone, his tone full of fatigue: "I'm so tired, I can't even lift my arms."

Yang Yitong nodded: "Plus one."

Gu Bingchen slowed down, walked over and gently kicked Tang Yichao's leg, saying: "Get up, work, dig the crystal core for me, don't let others get away with it."

Mu Weixi's eyebrows bulged, and he always felt that there was a thorn in his words, and it was directed at him.

Tang Yichao stood up with dead fish eyes, raised his hand and knife like a robot, pried open the head with force, and without changing his expression, he rummaged around in a thick yellow-white liquid and found a crystal core.

"It's really in yours." Gu Bingchen looked into Xu Huili's eyes with a deep gaze.

His fair and delicate cheeks were covered with blood. Xu Huili raised his hand to wipe away a half-dried bloodstain on his face, and smiled slightly without saying a word.

Jiang Yunqi stepped forward: "Isn't it in the research center?"

"Yes, but there are zombies coming, I must run." Xu Huili looked back at the slightly anxious and growling girl zombie, squatted down to look at the several zombie corpses lying in front of him, cut off a relatively intact piece of meat with a knife and threw it to it.

The act of feeding attracted everyone's attention.

"Is this your...girlfriend?" Yang Yitong asked curiously.

Xu Huili didn't even look at him, let alone reply.

But Yang Yitong didn't feel awkward at all, and asked: "It's a little different from the zombies we saw. It doesn't look like a zombie, but more like..."

"It looks more like a human." Leng Lingfeng took over the conversation, his expression was cold and calm, almost paralyzed.

Xu Huili was a little surprised by the attitude of these people, they were actually quite friendly.

As if seeing the confusion on the boy's face, Lin Jinnan explained: "There are always some people who can't let go of their family members who have become zombies, so they choose to raise zombies."

"There are countless people who capture survivors alive and raise zombies, but there are very few people like you who take zombie meat to feed zombies."

"In comparison, it's not that shocking."

"Well, is that so." Xu Huili touched his chin, his eyebrows curved, "What if I was just pretending?"

The handsome boy had a bright smile with a little malice on his face. Lin Jinnan was silent for a moment and said, "Then I have nothing to say."

"Tsk." Gu Bingchen didn't have the patience to chat, he said with an impatient sound, "You just attracted a tide of zombies to us, tell me, how are you going to compensate?"

"Compensation?" Xu Huili's smile froze, "What compensation?"

"Of course it's labor costs, weapon damage costs..."

Gu Bingchen counted them one by one, and after Chu Wanyue recorded the number of crystal cores, she began to calculate the series of expenses he read out.

Xu Huili could understand the previous ones, but what is mental damage compensation?

"Mental damage compensation, the zombies you attracted scared our little Tangtang, didn't you see he fell to the ground and didn't move?" Gu Bingchen spoke without thinking, and the person who spoke was stunned.

Tang Yizhao, lying on the ground, was so tired that his hands were weak. He didn't want to talk anymore. He opened his eyelids a little and watched their captain's unconventional way of killing people.

He silently lit a candle for Xu Huili, then closed his eyes, and lay on the ground without moving, cooperating with Gu Bingchen tacitly.

Xu Huili pulled the corner of his mouth speechlessly.

Scam...

This must be a scam!

But when he thought about the fact that the first wave of thousands of zombies was indeed dealt with by Gu Bingchen and his team, he nodded helplessly: "You tell me the number."

Gu Bingchen raised his eyebrows: "Oh? I tell you the number? Then I really tell you?"

"..." Xu Huili realized the huge pitfall when he heard it, and waved his hands hurriedly, "Forget it, I'll make my own offer."

"Fifty crystal cores." He stretched out five fingers.

Gu Bingchen leaned slightly against Jiang Yunqi's body, shook his head, and gestured: "One hundred."

Xu Huili glared at him: "One hundred? Why don't you go rob?"

"Isn't that robbing?" Gu Bingchen spread his hands, shrugged, and looked like he deserved a beating.

"..." Xu Huili gritted his teeth and suppressed the anger that was rising in his heart, "I can't give too much, seventy."

"Eighty."

"Seventy-five, no more!"

"Okay, deal!"

Xu Huili opened his mouth to bargain subconsciously, and found that Gu Bingchen had already nodded in agreement.

Damn, damn profiteer!

He looked around and saw people with different expressions, but most of them were used to it. He pulled the zombie girl to the car, carried a schoolbag, took out a small bag from it, and threw it into Gu Bingchen's hand angrily: "Here you go!"

"Boss, you are generous~ Welcome to come next time~" Gu Bingchen smiled and put the small bag back into the space.

A free profit!

The sunlight weakened, and Chu Wanyue checked the time.

It was already approaching dusk.

The land was littered with corpses, and the smell of blood was overwhelming. It was so irritating that the brown soil was stained with blood. It was no longer suitable for a base.

They set out on the road again. Xu Huili had nowhere to go, so he had to drive his broken car behind the main force. The girl's corpse was tied to the passenger seat, and there was a half-barrel of gasoline given by Gu Bingchen in the trunk.

To be honest, Gu Bingchen was good at making people angry.

On the way to Ningcheng, zombies could be seen everywhere, and the number was several times more than usual.

The black off-road vehicle knocked away one or two zombies wandering in the middle of the road.

The moonlight tonight was a little dim and misty, as if covered by a veil.

Their original plan was to follow the trail of the zombies and attack proactively, solving them in batches.

However, plans are always disrupted by accidents.

At first, Gu Bingchen and his team planned to find a relatively safe place to spend the night. After looking around, they found that there were fewer zombies in the old neighborhood next to the central shopping mall.

Get off the car and go upstairs.

The buildings in this neighborhood are called handshake buildings.

"What is a handshake building?"

The narrow and dim stairs can only accommodate two people walking side by side. Jiang Yunqi and Gu Bingchen were walking in front. Hearing Gu Bingchen's mumbling, he couldn't help but ask curiously.

Gu Bingchen turned his head and looked him up and down, his eyes revealing more doubts than Jiang Yunqi's. He tilted his head slightly and whispered, "I found a problem. You seem to know nothing."

"Could it be that you are really like what Yang Yitong, the chatterbox, said?"

"Are you a hidden master?"

Jiang Yunqi hesitated to speak. As for his origins, it was really difficult to explain them in a few words.

He could understand Gu Bingchen's doubts. After all, this man was too smart.

"If you don't want to talk, forget it." Gu Bingchen retracted his gaze and lowered his head slightly. His eyes were dim and deep, and he was not interested.

"A handshake building is a building where the distance between buildings does not meet the relevant national regulations and is too close. This kind of building has lower floors, no elevators, and poor security. Relatively speaking, the rent is cheaper, and it is the first choice for many workers who come to Ningcheng."

While chatting, he went upstairs. When he reached the middle of the second floor, he heard a rustling sound. Tang Yichao stopped and suddenly a black shadow passed by his eyes. He looked up and the black shadow disappeared like a ghost.

Strange? Is it a ghost?

Tang Yichao was scared by himself. He clenched the Tang sword in his hand and held his breath. He was more nervous than usual.

Xie Er, who was standing beside him, noticed his tense body and asked concernedly, "What's wrong with you?"

"You...you don't..." Tang Yichao swallowed his saliva and looked around alertly, with a frightened look, as if he was on guard against something, "Don't you feel that there is something waiting for us behind? And I just saw a ghost!"

"There is only one truth! This building is haunted!"

Tang Yichao is not afraid of anything except ghosts.

Hearing this, everyone cast speechless eyes.

"What are you looking at? I'm telling the truth!"

Before Mu Weixi could start to sarcastically speak, several people interrupted him coldly.

Jiang Yunqi's face darkened: "No, there are other creatures here!"

"I sense that this place is very dangerous! We must leave immediately!" The person who said this was a psychic in Zheng Yunshu's team. His psychic ability was to sense danger, and his intuition was always accurate.

"Oh my god! There are so many rats and cockroaches!!!" Yang Yitong staggered and almost fell. He shouted, "Run!"

The last sentence was like a depth bomb thrown into a calm lake, causing a huge wave of shock.

It turned out that when he opened his clairvoyance, countless corpse rats and mutated cockroaches filled these buildings.

They rushed towards them at a very fast speed.

The densely packed scene was chilling.

When everyone heard this, they immediately turned around and quickly ran out of the door.

After Tang Yichao knew it was not a ghost, his courage was restored a lot. He looked back in surprise, dumbfounded, his scalp tingling, and almost bit off his tongue.

Why did he have to be so shameless as to look!

In short, he regretted it!

Yang Yitong saw Tang Yichao running forward with his eyes closed, and asked loudly: "Why are you closing your eyes? Are you making a wish?!"

"Yes! Make a wish!" Tang Yichao opened his mouth and a strong wind rushed into his throat.

"What do you want to wish for? For the end of the world?"

"No! My wish is harder to achieve than the end of the world!" Tang Yizhao's curly hair stood up as he ran. He raised his voice, full of disgust, "I hope cockroaches will be extinct!"

Yang Yitong responded with the same heartbreaking cry: "I agree!"