Xia Yixin immediately broke down the door of the next room and first saw a group of girls of different ages huddled together. They looked at the person who came in warily and protected one girl in the middle.
The girl was not tall and had a petite and delicate appearance, but her red hair was particularly eye-catching; she truly was a red phoenix.
"Hongfeng." Xia Yixin walked in quickly and frowned when she saw Hongfeng's battered and bruised appearance.
She groggily opened her eyes and saw Xia Yixin. At first, she couldn't believe it, then her eyes welled up with tears. "Captain Xia..."
The door to another room was also kicked open by Captain Wang.
Inside were superhumans and some children and men that the scavengers hadn't had time to "deal with." Among them were six members of Team Three, who were tied up and, like Hong Feng, were covered in wounds and on the verge of death, indicating that they had been abused before.
Everyone was immediately moved out of the house and received treatment. Xia Yixin dissolved the life-saving pills into water and had them drink them one by one before they regained consciousness.
This group of scavengers had actually tied up more than fifty people, half of whom were women and children.
Fortunately, these people were only frightened and did not suffer any real harm. On the contrary, the seven members of the third team were the most seriously injured. If they had arrived an hour later, they probably would not have been able to be saved. Fortunately, they all suffered only superficial injuries.
After the seven team members were rescued, their relatives immediately ran over and hugged their sons (husbands) with heartache. Meanwhile, the relatives of the three teams who did not see their children or husbands sat together, all knowing that the odds were probably against them.
Hongfeng was the least injured of the seven, though she had two scratches on her originally fair face.
There will definitely be scars afterwards.
Despite her small stature, Hongfeng has a strong character and is very mature for her age. She is the vice captain of the third team.
Despite being extremely weak, Hongfeng still insisted on telling Xia Yixin about her experiences over the past half month.
Two weeks ago, when Team Three was searching for supplies in T City, they were attacked because Xia Ru and her daughter Guo Miaomiao kept the information from them. Five members of the fifteen-man team died at the scene. The remaining ten, except for Huang Mao, all came down to the supermarket to rescue Xia Yixin after learning that she had escaped and was trapped.
Unfortunately, Xia Yixin, who happened to run out of the supermarket through the back door, missed it.
After being attacked by a horde of zombies, the nine of them found two private cars with gasoline and sped away. While trying to avoid the zombies, they lost their way and eventually stumbled into a small base where survivors were gathered.
Located atop a mountain, the small base was not crowded, but the lord of the town was very hospitable, and since there was a severe shortage of people with superpowers, they received a warm welcome.
They originally planned to return to K Base to find Xia Yixin after recovering from their injuries, but at this time, when they went to search for supplies to thank the people of this small base, they encountered the K Base search team and learned that all three teams had been wiped out and that Xia Yixin had died.
So the nine of them decided not to go back to K base, because they also felt there was something wrong with it.
Besides, without Xia's K base, it wouldn't be their home, but they were also thinking about how to bring their families over to live with them at this small base.
Unfortunately, just three days ago, the scavengers found this place by following the people who had been searching the small base down the mountain. They held out for two days, but were eventually overrun.
"Captain Xia, I saw them dig out the crystal cores of the superhumans with my own eyes. Bai Yu and Zhao Tuo tried to protect me and the girls from being raped. They resisted on the way, but they were all..." Hong Feng trembled with rage, her eyes filled with anger and hatred. "Captain Xia, I will never let them go. They are demons. They are not human!"
Even though Xia Yixin hadn't witnessed the scene, she could imagine it. She patted Hongfeng reassuringly and said, "Hongfeng, don't worry, I will definitely not let them get away with this. However, your priority now is to rest well and recover your health, otherwise everything else is just empty talk."
Hongfeng opened her mouth as if to say something, but in the end, she succumbed to exhaustion and fell asleep.
Xia Yixin left the car where Hongfeng was temporarily housed and ran into Captain Wang, who was in charge of the follow-up.
Team Leader Wang actually learned what had happened while he was arranging for people to board the vehicles in batches. He felt a surge of anger, but he was also worried about the scavengers' strength.
He reminded Xia, "Captain Xia, let's leave quickly. There are at least two hundred of those people. I heard them say they went to rob the K base. They might be back soon. It's too dangerous to stay here."
Xia Yixin nodded. "It is indeed too dangerous."
Team Leader Wang breathed a slight sigh of relief, assuming that the other party was planning to retreat as he had thought. But what she said next made Hong Meng gasp in shock.
"Team Leader Wang, select ten people and take them to the gas station to rejoin the main force. The rest of you..."
Xia Yixin paused, her gaze meeting pairs of eyes that couldn't hide their anger and eagerness.
She said, enunciating each word clearly, "Who wants to stay here with me and send those scavengers to their deaths?"
Putting aside the fact that these scum killed two people from her team, Xia Yixin absolutely cannot allow this cancerous growth to remain near T City, given what they did.
Even the city lord of P Base, the largest base in the north, wouldn't dare say what Xia Yixin said. That was a team of over two hundred people, all of whom had taken shortcuts to become second- or third-tier ability users, and they even had many modified heavy weapons.
But after witnessing Xia Yixin's formidable strength, they were filled with a sense of pride. These scavengers had been wandering outside the seven bases, slaughtering their own kind and showing no humanity. How could they not be excited to be able to deal with them themselves today?
Because after the apocalypse, most of the convenient communication facilities were paralyzed. It wasn't until a month later that the seven bases, which were far apart from each other, confirmed a piece of news—the scavengers who had been giving them a headache had all disappeared.
That's right, overnight, a team of more than 300 people vanished without a trace.
The last record appeared near Base K, indicating that a large-scale raid had taken place, and it was clearly one-sided, because apart from the remains of the scavengers, they found no other base markings or anything like that.
Upon confirming this news, Bai Jingkong, the city lord of K Base who had just been robbed, felt a sense of relief, but his heart also tightened, because he vaguely guessed who this powerful person was.
Other bases also sensed the threat and tentatively sent out search teams to search the surrounding area, but unfortunately, they all encountered hordes of zombies nearby and returned empty-handed.
Then one day, P Base suddenly produced a special blue vaccine, causing a huge uproar. Of course, that's another story.
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