The closer they got to City A, the more zombies there were, so the group had to be careful, especially since they needed to find a place to rest tonight, preferably in a relatively large open area.
This is a county town. Xie Qingyuan searched around and finally found a square on a high point. Coincidentally, there were no zombies here, and the surrounding area seemed to have been cleared.
There were no zombie corpses either. Xie Qingyuan drove, puzzled, and asked Ye Shang in the back seat, "Boss, is there anything strange here?"
At some point, everyone started calling Zhu Caining "boss," going from "big brother" to "boss." Except for Xie Qingye, who would call him by his full name, because he had learned that Ye Shang was the oldest person there, he never called him that anymore. But Ye Shang was still the one in charge of all matters.
Ye Shang used his newly cultivated divine sense, which still had a very narrow range, to examine it: "I can't see anything different. Let's be careful."
Her divine sense could not see very far, especially since her cultivation path was completely different from before, and what was stored in her body was no longer spiritual energy, but an energy that she did not know. The only thing she was sure of was that it was at least an attack method.
After driving around for a while, Xie Qingyuan chose a spot to get out. It was already dark, so he needed to check the surrounding area carefully.
Ye Shang's height was originally around 1.7 meters, but now, whether it was due to the changes in her body after the fever or because of her cultivation, her height has increased by a significant amount, reaching almost 1.78 meters.
Zhu Caining always felt incredibly safe whenever she was by her side, for some reason.
After getting out of the car, Ye Shang didn't put the car away, just in case he could make an emergency escape. The square looked much cleaner than before, not like it had ever been overrun by zombies, but more like it looked like it did before the apocalypse.
Just as the group was cautiously looking around, a group of people suddenly appeared and surrounded them.
The leader carried a machine gun, had a cigarette dangling from his mouth, several scars on his face, and a fierce expression.
Everyone was holding sticks or something similar and pointing in this direction. Guns and firearms are not very common even in the apocalypse, since not everyone can have such things. It's clear they are not good people.
"Leave all the supplies, or you'll all die!" the man with a cigarette threatened, pointing a machine gun at them.
They were originally escaped from prison. Now that it's the apocalypse, they have no bottom line. They commit all sorts of crimes, including arson, murder, and looting. This county is now an important checkpoint on the way to City A. Basically, anyone going there will pass through here.
Especially after he awakened his superpowers, he and his brothers have already looted a lot of supplies here. He has a few women, which is enough for him. Having too many would just consume more resources, which is not worthwhile.
Ye Shang and the others were not the first group to leave from here.
The man waved his hand, and a gust of wind flew in, rising higher and higher, slowly forming the shape of a small tornado.
He laughed arrogantly, looking at the group of men, women, and children in front of him.
Zhang Yiyang made Chen stand very close to him; the combination of the two of them was the most lethal.
They surrounded Grandpa Chen and Xie Qingyuan, who were the only two in the group without superpowers.
Almost instantly, Qingying appeared in Ye Shang's hand, exuding an aura of superiority, her clear eyes slightly lowered.
Xie Qingye stood to the side and laughed, "This... big brother? As you can see, we are mostly old and young, we don't have many supplies."
"Pah! Stop trying to fool me. I can tell you're doing well just by looking at your clean clothes. You think you can fool me?" The scarred man spat out the nearly empty cigarette he was holding, and with a flick of his wrist, a miniature tornado swept towards the group.
More than twenty burly men around them also rushed forward.
The sky was dark, and the square, which might have been bustling with activity before the apocalypse, was now almost entirely engulfed in flames.
Chen reacted the fastest. The instant those people rushed over, he condensed a large ball of oil in his small hands and threw it forward with all his might. The entire ball of oil scattered and turned into liquid, spreading all over everyone. Especially after being blown by the wind, some of it became even more scattered.
Zhang Yiyang's eyes lit up, and he made several fireballs in his hands and threw them forward. The fire started burning the moment it touched the oil.
More than twenty strong men rushed forward, and the fastest ones were instantly engulfed in intense flames. Scorched by the flames, they collapsed to the ground in agony, rolling around in a ball, trying to extinguish the flames.
However, the wind blew by their boss, making the fire burn even more fiercely.
The scarred man was so frightened that he retreated instantly, trying to recall the tornado, but unfortunately his superpower wasn't very high, so he could only release it.
Yang Jinxia also instantly condensed a number of ice spikes and shot them out.
The instant Xie Qingye shot out the ice spike, she pointed her five fingers forward and splashed a jet of water, thicker than a small tornado, onto those people.
The moment the ice spike passed by, they froze together, turning the burly men into a series of interconnected human-shaped ice sculptures.
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