On a dark and cold night in a desolate wasteland, with almost no moonlight, the only source of light in the darkness were the headlights of three vehicles.
The jeep's wheels screeched against the road, and the women inside screamed in terror, some even uttering the cries of a baby. But the jeep stubbornly evaded their second impact, one tire belching black smoke as it continued speeding forward.
Their actions were undoubtedly seen by the people in the other two cars as adding to the "hunting" fun.
The scarred man laughed arrogantly, regardless of how many zombies their actions attracted to the wilderness.
He had no idea that death was about to come knocking.
After traveling more than 100 meters, the jeep finally gave out. The front wheels slipped, and with a screeching sound of brakes, the jeep crashed into the guardrail and came to a stop.
The girls, who had been tormented by fear all the way, pushed open the car door and ran away, ignoring the cuts their bare feet made by the glass on the ground. One of the women, who was holding a child, was the slowest to run and was grabbed by the hair by the scarred man who jumped out of the car later.
"Damn it, you dare to run? I'll kill you, hahahaha!" The man grinned maliciously and threw the child out of her arms.
"No, no, my child!!" The woman looked at the baby being tossed in mid-air in horror, struggling desperately.
The other girls were also blocked off, leaving them only with torture and death.
The moment the baby hit the ground, something incredible happened. A gust of wind suddenly rose from the ground, blowing the baby up and then into the arms of a girl who seemed to have appeared out of thin air.
The baby's mother breathed a sigh of relief when she saw her child had been rescued, while the scarred man and his companion stopped what they were doing and looked at the girl who had suddenly appeared.
She had neat short hair, a pretty face, and a slender figure. The snow suit she wore was clearly professional-grade, without a trace of blood. Her clean face had cold, phoenix eyes that looked at them with a chilling gaze that instilled fear deep in their hearts.
The scarred man immediately sensed the danger, abandoned the baby's mother, and pointed his gun at her, yelling, "Who are you? Put the child down!"
The other seven men quickly raised their guns and pointed them at her, but the short-haired girl showed no fear. Instead, she skillfully coaxed the baby in her arms, and soon the crying infant stopped crying.
In the wilderness, the zombies that had gathered there for the birth of children had all disappeared, and the scarred man felt something was amiss.
The headlights of the three cars could only illuminate a small area around them. Just as the scarred man was about to shoot the strange short-haired girl, suddenly, his teammate next to him screamed and was pulled into the darkness by something.
In a panic, the scarred man pulled the trigger.
Bang!
A gunshot rang out, and the bullet flew toward the short-haired girl amidst the baby's mother's shriek of "Watch out!" However, just three steps away from her, an ice spike shot through the air first, sparks flying, and the bullet collided with the ice spike.
Before the scarred man could fire a second shot, he was horrified to find that he could no longer feel his gun in his hand. He watched helplessly as his hands, still holding the gun, fell off his wrists and were completely frozen solid. A sharp pain shot through his wound.
"Ah! My hands, my hands!!" As the scarred man fell to the ground, there was a crisp cracking sound. His legs, which had been frozen into ice, were also broken. His whole body was quickly frozen and turned into powder when the wind blew.
The other six surviving men, witnessing this, were so frightened that they grabbed their guns and ran, but they were shot down by the P base members in the darkness after only a few steps.
In the blink of an eye, in less than a minute, all the perpetrators were on the ground, killed except for one who was left to interrogate them.
The baby's mother, Liu Lan, was initially relieved when she saw the girl who suddenly appeared save her child. However, when she saw that several men around her had died in the blink of an eye, and that seven or eight fully armed men had emerged from the darkness, she was filled with terror.
The other girls who had fallen to the ground were in the same situation. They scrambled together, looking at the newcomers with terror, afraid of being thrown back into the den of demons.
Xia Yixin knew they were frightened, so she gestured for Chen Zhe and his men to step back, returned the child to Liu Lan's arms, took off her snow mask, and comforted her, "Sister, don't be afraid. We are from P Base. We heard your screams when we passed by this area. Which base are you from? What happened?"
After all, Chen Zhe has a lot of people now, so it's more convenient for her to call it P base.
"P Base?" Liu Lan hugged her reunited child tightly, her eyes shining as she confirmed, "You really are from P Base?! The largest base in the north, P Base?"
Chen Zhe stepped out, removed his snow mask, revealing his cold and stern face, and also displayed the P Base uniform armband: "I am Chen Zhe, the city lord of P Base."
Although the girls didn't recognize Chen Zhe's face, his upright and incorruptible demeanor did work, and the women's tense emotions finally eased a bit.
Only Chen Lan breathed a sigh of relief, but then a pleading look appeared in her eyes. She knelt down with a thud and cried out urgently, "Please, please save my daughter! I beg you! She's been taken away by people from the Dawn Base! I beg you, she's only thirteen years old!"
Wait, Dawn Base!?
Chen Zhe and the others from P Base subconsciously looked at Xia Yixin. Xia Yixin was also a little confused and asked, "Sister Liu, don't worry, let's leave here first and then talk slowly."
After taking the four girls, Chen Lan, and the child back to the villa where they had previously stayed, they destroyed the bodies and car of the perpetrators and wiped away all traces.
After being taken back to the villa, they took a shower and had a hearty meal. The four girls then hugged each other and sobbed softly, releasing their emotions after surviving the ordeal.
The oldest of these girls was only sixteen and the youngest was only thirteen. They were still in school before the apocalypse. If they hadn't arrived, these girls would have either been tortured to death or frozen to death. The outside temperature had dropped to minus thirty degrees Celsius, and their thin down jackets were useless, especially since they were all barefoot.
Liu Lan was in her forties. The child she was holding was not hers, but the child of another woman who had suffered a difficult childbirth. That woman died after giving birth, and if Liu Lan hadn't been feeding the child rice cereal, he probably would have died long ago.
Because these girls were resistant to men, the task of comforting and taking care of them fell to Xia Yixin. Through spending time together, they gradually lowered their guard and told her about the "Dawn Base".
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