"Did you hear me! You're not leaving now! We only want the crystal cores, we don't want to kill anyone, so get out of here!"
Upon hearing this, Lin Ruo's face beneath the mask turned cold. She darted off Afu's back and simultaneously reached for her waist, whereupon a gun appeared in her hand from its holster.
"Bang bang bang!"
As Lin Ruo moved toward these people, he fired three shots in quick succession, all three hitting the head. Three members of the ten-man squad immediately fell.
"Quick! Fire!"
Seeing Lin Ruo kill all three of them so quickly, the other side panicked and recklessly attacked Afu, Ashou, and Lin Ruo with their guns.
Lin Ruo squatted slightly, jumped up quickly, flipped in the air to dodge the bullets fired by those people, and did not forget to put a layer of ice shield in front of Afu and Ashou.
"Clang clang—" The bullets from those people hit Lin Ruo's ice shield, but did not cause any damage to it.
"He's a superhuman! Run!" Upon seeing the giant ice shield that appeared, these people immediately turned around and ran for their lives.
Blue light flashed rapidly in Lin Ruo's eyes, and water molecules in the surrounding air were mobilized, beginning to condense into tiny rhomboid ice crystals, which spun rapidly.
Suddenly, the blue light in his eyes surged, and three rapidly spinning ice crystals shot towards the person at the back of the group.
"Bang bang bang!"
"Ah!" The last three screamed and fell to the ground, lifeless.
Afu and Ashou hid behind the ice shield that Lin Ruo had erected for them. Ashou tried to rush forward, but Afu bit its tail. The owner wanted to take action, not wanting it to cause trouble for him.
"Quick! Run!"
The four men opposite him kept shooting at Lin Ruo as they retreated into the alley they had just appeared in.
"Bang!"
A shot landed where Lin Ruo had just been standing, but Lin Ruo's figure had already disappeared. She kept changing directions, using her extremely fast speed to disrupt their sense of direction.
"Bang bang bang bang!"
Lin Ruo used the last four ice crystals to send them to their deaths. She stopped, her position exactly where the first person on the opposite side had died.
Within two minutes, all ten people on the other side were dead, each with a frozen, bloody hole in their forehead.
The blue light in Lin Ruo's eyes disappeared, and the tiny ice crystals and ice shields in the surrounding air also dissipated. She crouched down and searched the corpse opposite her.
Ah Shou struggled to break free from Ah Fu's grasp and ran quickly over to Lin Ruo's side, watching curiously as Lin Ruo touched and groped these people.
It wagged its big tail, barked twice at Lin Ruo, and sniffed around the corpse on the ground.
Afu slowly walked over and obediently squatted down next to Lin Ruo, tilting his head to watch Lin Ruo's movements.
Lin Ruo searched the backpacks of these ten people and found a lot of food, ten handguns, and ten resident cards.
He examined each pistol in his hand; they were all good guns. Isn't gun control prohibited in China? When did these guns become so common that anyone could have one?
It seems these ten people have a lot of points on their resident cards. Once the insect swarm is over, she'll go back to the B City base to make some more money.
Regardless of her thoughts, she still put all these things into her spatial storage.
"Not bad! This time the harvest is quite fruitful!" Ignoring the ten corpses on the ground, she flipped over, straddled Afu, and quickly left.
Shortly after they left, several mutated animals appeared in front of the ten corpses, each dragging one of the corpses away.
Lin Ruo sat on Afu's back, thinking about the actions of these people today. It seemed that the crystal cores of the B City base were very valuable, which also indirectly showed how much the B City base needed these crystal cores.
These people redeemed points, most of which they intended to use to exchange for supplies. Given the current supply reserves at the B City base, this shouldn't last much longer.
To what extent has the B City base progressed in its research on crystal nuclei?
Just then, Ah Shou ran away quickly, circling a wall and scratching at it with his big claws. Small pieces of lime and bricks kept falling off the wall.
Lin Ruo jumped off Afu and walked to A Shou's side. She also glanced at the thick wall a few times. "Is there something inside?"
"Woof woof!" Ah Shou continued scratching at the wall, and Ah Fu ran over to help him.
How could an ordinary wall withstand the claws of Ah Fu and Ah Shou? After just a few scratches, a huge hole appeared in the wall.
Lin Ruo looked inside and her brows furrowed instantly. This place was filled with skeletons! There were more than a dozen skulls alone!
She went inside, and a blue light flashed in her palm. A thin, long icicle rapidly grew and extended in her hand. She pried open the bones and found that there were even bones of mutated animals inside.
The bone had some small scratches and teeth marks. Lin Ruo examined it carefully for a long time before standing up. "It seems that this was done by a mutated insect."
They continued along the main road, and along the way, Ah Shou scratched open many walls, revealing, unsurprisingly, human bones and animal bones inside...
Lin Ruo realized that so many corpses were buried in this huge city, and these insects even knew how to cover up the truth, dragging the corpses to the nearby buildings to eat them!
Before they knew it, it was noon. Ah Fu and Ah Shou had been with Lin Ruo all morning but hadn't made any progress. Lin Ruo found an empty residential building and started a fire inside.
After preparing lunch for Afu and Ashou, Lin Ruo took out two sealed bread rolls and a thermos from her backpack.
The thermos contained hot milk. Lin Ruo finished her bread in a few bites, took a sip of hot milk, and then said to Afu and Ashou, who had already finished eating, "You two go hunting this afternoon. Take your catch home yourself. I'll just wander around here by myself."
"Awoo!"
After a quick lunch break, Lin Ruo washed their large food bowls and put them into her spatial storage before parting ways with Afu and Ashou.
She extended her mental energy underground, trying to see if these insects, like the mutated rats, also had a nest, but after searching for a long time, she had no clue whatsoever.
They didn't find the insect's lair, but they encountered quite a few people. These people were in small teams of a dozen or so, with some pulling wooden carts and carrying weapons. They went in and out of these buildings, loading all the useful supplies inside onto the wooden carts.
Some people saw that Lin Ruo was alone with a large bag on her back and a thermos hanging from her waist, as if she were a tourist. They could tell she had something good on her, and their eyes were full of malice when they looked at her.
Lin Ruo always ignored those who only dared to watch but not to act. Through her mental exploration, she found that there were at least several hundred kinds of insects, including some that were natural enemies of each other. The possibility of them coming together to create a nest was indeed not high.
"Whoosh—" A bamboo arrow shot quickly toward Lin Ruo's head.
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