"Heh, it seems you really want to go head-to-head with us."
The phantom thief raised his right hand slightly, and his men, who had fought alongside him for months, spontaneously gathered around him when they saw him raise his hand.
They gathered their supernatural powers and glared fiercely at Gu Mingyue.
Others would certainly not dare to make enemies of such a large group of bandits composed of people with superpowers.
However, Gu Mingyue had already used her mental detection to understand the ability levels of these people. There wasn't a single one at level three. Gu Mingyue didn't actually want to fight this group of emaciated ability users.
She had killed too many monsters in the Dark Domain before, and the sight of meat made her feel nauseous. She probably wouldn't be able to touch roasted meat for a week.
Therefore, she was willing to give her fellow misguided individuals more options to survive.
"Two!" she continued counting, seeing that the people had surrounded her in a circle, without even moving their feet.
"You dare count, you bitch? You've really got some nerve," one of the bandits said viciously, and was the first to throw a fireball at her.
Gu Mingyue didn't even glance at the boastful man. The crescent-shaped dart in her hand seemed to have eyes of its own, slipping from her grasp and hurtling towards the man who had been spouting nonsense.
When the man saw the crescent-shaped dart suddenly fly in front of him, he was so frightened that he immediately erected a wall of fire and turned to run away.
The moment the man turned his head, the crescent-shaped dart veered off the wall of fire, its curve slicing the man's neck in half.
The crescent-shaped dart returned to Gu Mingyue's palm, and the man's neck, like a rooster that had just been bled, had his heavy head hanging precariously from his neck, while his entire body slammed heavily onto the ground, kicking up a small cloud of yellow dust.
The whole process took less than a second, and only then did the bandit leader realize just how vast the difference was between them and the woman before him.
However, three seconds later...
When Gu Mingyue counted to three, the bandit leader was horrified to find that his steps, which he wanted to take to escape, had become extremely heavy.
Gu Mingyue was right. She had indeed surrounded them. From the moment she stepped into this place, all the Hope Base members and the bandit gangs were within her mental domain.
During her counting, not a single person stepped outside the mental realm with a radius of forty meters.
"Let me go!" The bandit leader's tone became extremely drawn out. After all, he was a leader who had been in and out of the dark zone for more than a month, and he had realized Gu Mingyue's dual-elemental abilities.
"I just kindly let you leave, why didn't you listen!" Gu Mingyue closed her beautiful eyes, sighed and shook her head, but dozens of crescent-shaped throwing stars suddenly appeared in the air above her palm.
The number of darts corresponded precisely to the number of bandits surrounding Gu Mingyue, spontaneously and accurately severing their throats as if they had eyes.
"This isn't child's play. One wrong step and there's no going back." After saying this, Gu Mingyue looked at the bandit leader who was clutching his neck and trying to use his supernatural abilities to heal his wounds, and slowly walked over.
"Cough, here's everything, put it down...cough..." The bandit leader, who had killed and plundered countless people, had blood gushing from his neck and mouth. He covered his neck with one hand and tried to reach for Gu Mingyue with the other.
Gu Mingyue felt no pity whatsoever. Seeing the human finger bone necklace that was exposed around his neck as he struggled, she felt even less guilty.
"Another healing-type ability user. What a pity, why doesn't such a good crystal core grow on my body!"
After saying that, the dozens of crescent-shaped darts instantly converged into one, quickly piercing into the bandit leader's head and digging out the healing crystal core.
Taking the crystal core and looking at the heads that had been torn open on the ground, Gu Mingyue was not happy at all. She probably wouldn't even be able to eat hot pot for a while!
Before the end times, it was said that if you encountered a lonely elderly person, child, or woman in the end times, you should never approach them. Why don't these people listen?
However, there were still many who disobeyed. Gu Mingyue walked to the camp tent of Hope Base. Before she could even open the tent, several metal blades flew out from inside. With a ripping sound, the tent was cut open by the blades, revealing the bandits inside with terrified expressions and their pants not yet pulled up.
Those blades were originally meant to ambush Gu Mingyue, but they weren't as clever as their leader and hadn't yet discovered Gu Mingyue's mind control over them.
The screams were incessant, and in the end only Wang Xuwen, who was not yet completely tortured to death, two burly men with slightly fair skin, and some female superhumans remained.
"No...don't kill us. You can take anything from outside. I...I'm the son of the person in charge of Hope Base. If you kill me, my father won't...won't let you get away with it."
Wang Xuwen's face still bore traces of tears that hadn't completely dried, and his clothes were a mess, which ironically revealed a kind of fragile beauty in him.
Although Wang Shi was a bit fat, his features were fairly regular. After the apocalypse, he was assigned the position of head of the Hope Base's 23rd branch by currying favor with a superior.
Wang Xuwen perfectly inherited his looks. If some strong men and women with a love for beauty saw his current weak state, they would definitely feel pity for him. Even if they wouldn't save him, they would at least cover him with a coat.
Gu Mingyue, however, acted as if she hadn't seen him, stroking her chin in thought, leaving the man standing there in the vast yellow sand under everyone's watchful eyes.
She could easily kill all the people at Hope Base and then take all these new weapons back to Bright Moon Base.
However, if she uses these weapons at the Bright Moon Base, the Hope Base will notice, and the deaths of Wang Xuwen and the others will definitely be linked to her.
I heard that there are 121 Hope Base headquarters and branches built in the apocalypse. Gu Mingyue doesn't want to have any conflicts with them. She just wants to fight the monsters and obtain crystals to quickly increase her strength.
After thinking for a long time, she guessed that something might have happened at Hope Base. She had entrusted the crystal core to Jiang Huaisheng because she trusted his upright character. She decided to personally go to Hope Base to investigate.
Wang Xuwen was still howling, but the other members of the Hope Base guard team around him were smarter than him.
The woman in front of them, wearing a golden mask, is so powerful that she would have killed them long ago if she wanted to. Why wait until now? She must be after more benefits.
A female superhuman rolled her eyes: "Big sister! Pshaw, boss." The woman originally wanted to address her as "big sister," but remembering that before the apocalypse, the title "big sister" was mostly used to address older women, she quickly changed her address.
She said, "Boss, we hope the people at Hope Base won't kill our saviors. If you just let us go, you can take whatever you want from outside. If you send us back to Hope Base, we'll give you an even bigger gift."
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