Liu Nian was able to enter the stairwell without any disturbance, as most people were distracted by the infected person.
After tying the strips of cloth she picked up to the doorknobs on both sides, Liu Nian climbed the steps and went upstairs.
The combatants in the third-floor lobby were fighting the infected at the stairwell.
The power of firearms was fully unleashed in the narrow passage; any infected person in the front row who was hit by an assault rifle bullet would instantly lose limbs and be left with no complete corpse.
The twenty-odd guns prevented the infected from breaking through the third-floor defenses.
After driving the women in the third-floor hall back to their cells, Lin Hu ordered his men to guard the third floor at all costs. He then turned and headed to the fifth floor, wanting to inform his elder brother of this matter as soon as possible.
Lin Hu, the second of three brothers, had older parents and younger children, and was the least favored in his family.
The eldest son was cruel, and the youngest son was domineering, so he developed a cautious personality.
With this caution, he was able to gain influence among this group.
After their parents passed away in the apocalypse, the remaining family connections and assets allowed the three brothers to rule over the land.
Something unusual is going on tonight. There are so many infected people appearing out of nowhere. The boss likes to give orders and has no say in anything. He can only ask his older brother for instructions.
My older brother usually carries a walkie-talkie with him every day, but he was so happy today that he forgot to take it with him and left it on the third floor. I had to walk up to report it.
Moreover, the eldest brother doesn't like to be disturbed when he's doing certain things, and his confidants all know this, so they pushed him out to inform them.
As you walk up to the fifth floor, the usual stairs are in the middle, and the escape route is on the other side. Apart from that, there are no other usable passages.
The elevator? After the power went out, that area was sealed off long ago.
The area along the stair railing has now been partitioned into new rooms by various cabinets or obstacles.
Lin Hu went straight to Lin Long's room after exiting the stairs. It was the only room on the fifth floor, and also the most luxurious one.
As Lin Hu walked into the corridor separated by cabinets, he was still thinking about how to answer his brother.
"How should I put this?" The thought of facing his brother later made Lin Hu's scalp tingle.
After passing through a "room", Lin Hu, distracted, did not notice that the door had quietly opened and a long spear had been thrust out, heading straight for Lin Hu's back.
Lin Hu, caught off guard by Lin Long's sudden attack and preoccupied with how to deal with him, was momentarily distracted and the spear pierced his chest.
Lin Hu was shocked for a moment, and tried hard to turn around to see who had attacked him, but his strength was draining away quickly, and his eyes were heavy, very heavy.
Finally, I don't have to report anything anymore. Perhaps this ending isn't so bad.
I had warned my brother long ago to leave himself some leeway, otherwise one day the hunter would become the hunted, but he wouldn't listen.
This can be considered karma!
Lin Hu spat out a mouthful of blood and gave a self-deprecating laugh.
In a flash, his heavy body seemed to regain its former agility, and Lin Hu threw the walkie-talkie in his hand toward the manager's office.
The walkie-talkie slammed into Lin Long's room door amidst Lin Hu's expectant gaze.
The rhythmic groans inside the room ceased, followed by the sound of a heavy object falling to the ground, and then the door was roughly flung open.
“You’d better have…” an impatient voice rang out.
Then a head popped out the door, looked at the blood-stained walkie-talkie on the ground, a hint of surprise flashing in its eyes, and then turned its head in this direction.
The spear had been retracted. Lin Hu clutched his chest, looked at Lin Long, opened his mouth as if to say something, but ultimately said nothing and collapsed helplessly to the ground.
Lin Long watched helplessly as his younger brother was killed right in front of him; Liu Nian couldn't see his expression because of the backlight.
A figure flashed, and the head by the door disappeared.
Then came the sound of the door closing, followed by the rustling sound of clothes being put on.
A moment later, the door was kicked open with great force, and a burly man dressed in heavy armor and wielding a ring-pommel sword walked out of the room.
"He must be a trusted confidant!"
Moved by the loyalty the corpse had shown in life, Liu Nian did not choose to brutally cut off the arm that was holding him, but instead painstakingly untied it.
When the sound of the large man opening the door rang out, Liu Nian originally planned to rush over and ambush him.
But the corpse on the ground was clinging tightly to his leg in its dying moments, and he couldn't break free for a moment.
When they finally broke free of their restraints, the burly man emerged fully armed.
The big man's eyes were filled with tenderness and sorrow as he looked at the corpse, but when he turned to look at Liu Nian, his gaze was cold and cruel, as if he were looking at a dead man.
Liu Nian had never read so many emotions in a person's eyes before.
Neither of them spoke, and the burly man, carrying a large knife, sped towards Liu Nian.
The sound of running through the air made the torches hanging along the corridor sway precariously.
"Dark Space"
Liu Nian waved his hand, and a magic array was activated in the passage between the giant Han and Liu Nian.
Then Liu Nian's summoned creatures emerged from the magic circle and blocked the path of the Han's attack.
The burly man neither dodged nor avoided the attack, but instead crashed directly into the horde of skeletons.
"Is he so desperate? Is he rushing to his death?" Liu Nian thought to himself, somewhat incredulously, as he looked at the scene before him.
What happened next stunned him instantly.
Just as he was about to crash into the undead wall formed by summoned creatures, the burly man roared, "Cleave!"
Warrior Skill: Cleave (Area of Effect)
The broadsword was swung from the upper left to the lower right, and a red light rose from the tip of the blade, drawing a red line.
In the "Wall of the Dead," ghouls are torn and bleeding where they have been slashed by knives, while skeletons barely manage to stand with the protection of shields.
Fortunately, Liu Nian's summoning skill was high level; otherwise, this attack would have killed all the summoned creatures if he had encountered other necromancers.
The big man also seemed to be in bad shape; this attack had also taken a lot of his strength.
“Skills, that’s what a professional does.” Liu Nian’s expression turned serious.
At this moment, Tiffany's poison magic was completed, and the big man's face instantly turned green.
Despite the unexpected turn of events, the burly man remained completely calm. After forcing back the summoned creatures with a single strike, he took a step back and calmly pulled out a bottle of antidote from his pocket and drank it.
The antidote instantly removes the poison's effects upon ingestion and grants the user immunity to toxins for 2 minutes.
Tiffany, being quite knowledgeable, immediately began casting fatigue magic upon seeing that the poison spell had been dispelled.
Seeing that the summoned creature in front of him had not been dispersed, Liu Nian gave up the idea of casting another summoning spell and began to cast fear magic instead.
"Two mages?" The burly man saw Liu Nian and the skeleton mage beside him chanting spells from afar and was momentarily at a loss.
That spell just now gave me a hard time; if I were to actually take these two spells, I would be crippled if not killed.
Recalling the poisoning he had just suffered, the burly man was still shaken. He gritted his teeth, pulled a prop from his pocket, and threw it toward Liu Nian.
The prop flew through the air in an arc and landed at Liu Nian's feet.
If Liu Nian were knowledgeable, he would definitely recognize it as a flashbang grenade.
But reality doesn't offer so many "what ifs".
Liu Nian, who was focused on casting the spell, was in a dilemma. Should he interrupt the spell to avoid it or grit his teeth and endure it? The pressure was instantly on him.
Need you ask? Of course you should hide. If it's a high-explosive grenade, you'll be dead in no time.
Interrupting the spellcasting, Liu Nian rolled towards the room next door.
With a loud bang, Liu Nian felt a white blur before her eyes, followed by a dizzying sensation similar to that of a car crash.
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