Hearing those familiar words, Lin Ruo felt as if she had been transported back to a military camp before the apocalypse. She couldn't help but raise her eyebrows slightly. "Instructions? Does that mean you all listen to me? Is that what your base commander told you?"
Although she has a cooperative relationship with the B City base, Ye Lin and the others are clearly not yet completely obedient to her. What does it mean that this person said this right off the bat?
Jiang Chao chuckled and scratched the back of his head. "Although the base commander didn't say it directly, the meaning was similar. If Sister Ruo is so powerful, and in the post-apocalyptic world where the strong are respected, we will definitely follow your command."
If Ye Lin heard Jiang Chao's words, he would definitely ask, "Is that what he meant? He just told them not to get into a conflict with Lin Ruo."
Lin Ruo lowered her head, a silent smile playing on her lips. She understood; this person had probably misunderstood.
Huang Changqi gritted his teeth and endured the excruciating pain that was constantly being eroded in his limbs. He also saw Lin Ruo's expression. At this moment, she looked like an ordinary person. You couldn't tell at all that she had looked like a demon descending upon the world and killing anyone she saw just half an hour ago.
In comparison, Lin Ruo's current temper towards these people is so good that it makes people jealous!
Lin Ruo felt a gaze filled with intense resentment behind her. She raised her finger and pointed at Huang Changqi in mid-air. Jiang Chao then looked to the side. They had naturally noticed the person hanging in mid-air, but Lin Ruo hadn't said anything, and they didn't dare to ask.
Only when Lin Ruo shifted her attention to this person did Jiang Chao raise his head.
I knew this person was in a terrible state, but I only caught a glimpse of him out of the corner of my eye. Now, looking closely, I couldn't help but gasp. All four of his limbs were frozen solid, and the ice was slowly spreading towards his torso. His body was trembling slightly, his face and lips were deathly pale, and his expression was one of extreme pain.
"What is this?" Jiang Chao glanced at it again discreetly before turning to look at Lin Ruo.
Lin Ruo did not stand up. Although she was sitting and much shorter than Jiang Chao in front of her, she had an imposing presence that made no one dare to underestimate her.
"The base chief of this Misty Hidden Base."
Upon hearing this, the superhumans widened their eyes, then quickly looked at the quiet base not far away. Judging from the speed and length of the ice's spread, the person had definitely been captured for quite some time. There was no movement at all in the base. Had they not yet discovered that the base commander was missing?
Jiang Chao didn't think so. He had spoken with Zheng Yanfei before and knew about Lin Ruo's feats at the previous base. Now that there was no movement at the base, could it be because everything was frozen?
Huang Changqi clenched his teeth so tightly that blood trickled from the corner of his mouth, but he remained silent, his lifeless eyes fixed on Lin Ruo.
"Curious? Go inside and see for yourself."
Lin Ruo's anger had mostly dissipated, and she didn't want to waste any more words explaining. She'd rather let them see for themselves.
Jiang Chao nodded, "In that case, I'll take my men to take over the base first. Sister Ruo, you can rest here for a while."
After saying this, he looked at Huang Changqi with some difficulty. Their mission objective included capturing this person alive, but looking at the ice that was spreading towards his torso, he was worried that the person might be frozen solid before they even got out, and then he wouldn't be able to explain it to the base.
But he had just said he would listen to Lin Ruo in everything, and now that he was raising objections, it would be a contradiction to his own words. It wouldn't be good if Lin Ruo thought he was deceiving her.
Lin Ruo noticed Jiang Chao's hesitation and understood what he meant. She had frozen Huang Changqi only to torture him, and had not originally intended to kill him. There were still things she wanted to know about Huang Changqi.
With a flick of her finger, the ice that was extending inward stopped.
This action relieved everyone present, and Huang Changqi also relaxed. As long as he was alive, that was all that mattered. As for his limbs, which were completely frozen, he could recover as long as there was a healing ability user present.
Sensing that his life was no longer threatened, his vision began to go black, his head lolled to the side, and he passed out.
"Thank you, Sister Ruo."
Jiang Chao nodded his thanks to Lin Ruo, then made a gesture to the superhumans behind him, and the group quickly headed towards the silent base.
Lin Ruo sat on the rock, waiting quietly.
When these superhumans entered the base, all 200 of them were shocked. They had expected to see ice sculptures everywhere, but what they saw were corpses lying haphazardly, blood flowing like a river on the ground, and snowflakes falling from the sky melting into the blood and becoming part of it.
Seeing this scene, Jiang Chao had a bad feeling. The base was so quiet; could it be because everyone was dead?
"Go! See if there are any survivors left in this base."
One by one, the superhumans gritted their teeth, their blood running cold from head to toe. Although they usually killed people and mutated beasts, they had never seen so many corpses appear at the same time.
Upon hearing Jiang Chao's order, they all scattered and each went in a different direction to investigate.
Jiang Chao stood there, squatted down and looked at the corpses on the ground. The way these people died was clean and tidy. They were all slit in the throat with a single cut. The flesh at the wound was even slightly frozen and curled. Considering Lin Ruo's superpower, Jiang Chao was almost certain that these people died at Lin Ruo's hands.
Squatting on the ground, he looked up at the corpses lying under the streetlights. Although these people no longer had their crystal cores, he could easily determine their ability levels from their bodies, and these people's ability levels were not low.
He stood up, gasped, and realized for the first time how dangerous Lin Ruo was. Previously, as an ability user at the B City base, he mostly admired Lin Ruo because she and the B City base were never in conflict, and they even occasionally traded with each other, indirectly helping their base. So, when they looked at her, they were actually viewing her through a lens of admiration.
But now, with the corpse lying there so conspicuously, he finally realized why those bases outside were so afraid of her.
She is truly dangerous, and she can kill so many superhumans in an instant, preventing them from even drawing their crystal energy guns. With such strength, it's likely that no one but herself can restrain her now.
On the other hand, it is quite remarkable that someone like her can maintain such self-control.
It's already the apocalypse, and there are no rules to restrain the world. The more powerful a person is, the fewer constraints they face. For someone like Lin Ruo, there are no threats in the world anymore. It's like a treasure trove without a dragon to guard it. She can take whatever she wants as she pleases, but she doesn't.
She secluded herself on her own mountain peak, living a quiet life as long as others didn't bother her, which was already quite remarkable.
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