Chapter 61: The Counterattack of the Good Luck Base...
"But you ruined Wendy's life!"
"So what?" Aaron's mother unconsciously raised her voice. "Look how she treats you now, how she treats me! All she asked was to mention changing rooms to her boss, and she wouldn't even do that. Our family has contributed so much to this base, what's wrong with making a few requests?"
Aaron looked pained. “Mom, we’re better off than many people now. Wendy earned all of this for us. Why are you blaming her?”
Aaron's mother scoffed, "So what? Before the apocalypse, I let that brother-supporting demon live in such a big house of ours and live such a good life. She's thirty years old and still hasn't had a child. I've been more than kind to her! Now that the apocalypse has come, she's turning her back on us. I can't stand her!"
"My son, don't worry, come with me. I'll take you to a better place. The people there promised me we'd have a better life!"
Aaron ignored his mother and instead frantically patted Wendy, trying to wake her up.
"Mom, what did you feed Wendy?"
Aaron's mother stiffened her neck and said, "It's nothing, just some sleeping pills. I've already been more than kind by not poisoning them."
"Them?" Aaron realized something was wrong. All around was quiet. His argument with his mother was very clear in the silent night, yet no one had been disturbed.
"You drugged the others in the base too? You're insane! You'll kill them!"
"Hey, what nonsense are you talking about? I just want to knock them unconscious so that the Scorpion Base can come in and steal some supplies. Don't worry, they won't hurt these people. You and Mom should hurry up and go. There are big houses to live in at the Scorpion Base."
"The Scorpion Base?" Aaron had vaguely heard of this base, but didn't know much about it. However, just from the name, he felt that it was not a base to be trifled with.
"No! I need to find Mr. Rhine and Mr. Meng!"
Aaron dashed out the door in a flash, so fast that his mother didn't even have time to react.
"Hey, son, don't run around!"
Just as Aaron's mother was about to chase after them, she suddenly heard a painful scream and a dull thud.
She recognized the voice—it was her son's!
She rushed out and saw Aaron lying on the ground, bleeding from a fresh wound on his arm. Two people were kicking him like they were playing with a monkey. Without any superpowers, Aaron could only cover his head and try to avoid the deadly attacks.
"Son! Son! Stop!"
Aaron's mother quickly ran to her son's side, trying to stop the people around them.
"Robert and I are in cahoots! He's the one who told me to drug him. I'm one of your people, I'm the inside man!"
Another man, who looked like a minor leader, scoffed, "Then go find that person you're talking about. I don't know anything about this. My orders are to leave no survivors."
"What?" Aaron's mother was extremely shocked. Although she disliked Wendy and some people in the base, she didn't want them to die.
"No, no survivors? But Robert said he just wants to steal a few things!"
The leader, impatient, unleashed a wind-based ability that sliced off one of the opponent's ears.
"Ahhh..." Aaron's mother collapsed to the ground screaming.
"What are you talking about, you old hag? Stealing something? Do you call this stealing? We're taking over this place openly and honestly! From now on, no more Good Luck Base will come to us, only Poison Scorpion Base!"
Aaron's mother screamed in agony, and in her despair, she suddenly saw a familiar figure.
Ignoring her bleeding ear, she hurriedly got up and staggered over to grab Robert's clothes.
"Robert! You, you tell them right now that I'm in cahoots with you, and that they shouldn't hurt me or my son!"
Aaron's mother now understands that anyone who comes to the Scorpion Base here is doomed. She can't care about others; now she just hopes that she and her son can be safe.
Before Robert could speak, a man next to him stepped forward, looking at the woman with disdain.
Just one glance sent chills down Aaron's mother's spine. The man was bald, had tattoos on his face, and had a sinister look in his eyes; he terrified her.
"This is your helper this time?"
Robert nodded, his obsequious manner extremely servile. "Yes, Lord Spider, this person is from the logistics department and has access to their food, so I had her help me drug her."
"It's a pity. One of them is a powerful poison user, capable of detecting other poisons; otherwise, it would have been easier to directly poison them. This woman has a voice ability, while her son is an ordinary person."
The man known as the Poison Spider looked impatient. "Get rid of them when they're no longer useful. Our base can't have people wasting rations."
Aaron's mother quickly pleaded, "Sir, sir, my voice is aggressive, and I can do logistics and a lot of work. Although my son doesn't have any superpowers, he is very smart and hardworking, and he can do a lot of things too!"
"Logistics? I wouldn't dare put someone who would drug their own people in logistics."
Upon hearing this, both Aaron's mother and Robert shuddered.
Hearing the venomous spider's voice, the leader's men on the other side struck even harder, and it looked like Aaron was about to fall silent.
The sight of her son being beaten to death enraged Aaron's mother, causing her to lose all judgment and only want to kill the person in front of her to save her son.
She suddenly unleashed an extremely powerful sonic wave, attacking the poisonous spider. The volume and frequency were so high that it caused temporary ear discomfort to those nearby.
The venomous spider gave a sinister sneer, remaining completely unmoved by the sonic attack, and waved its hand in the direction of the woman opposite it.
A green mist of gas appeared before Aaron's mother in the blink of an eye, covering her body, with a small portion being inhaled into her nose.
Before Aaron's mother could even scream in pain, she collapsed to the ground, clutching her neck tightly and only managing to let out a weak "hoarse" sound.
Her face slowly turned bluish-purple, her face swelled up, and her eyes were gradually squeezed out of sight.
The woman on the ground suddenly vomited a mouthful of black blood, which startled Robert so much that he sat down on the ground and scrambled backward in a panic, afraid of touching the venom.
He stared in horror at Aaron's mother's horrific state, then slowly turned to look at the venomous spider, fearing that it might do the same to him.
"Heh, don't worry, you're not going to do logistics, you're going to do the work on the front lines, and you're more useful than this woman, so we can keep you."
Robert was nearly scared to death, but he calmed down a bit after hearing this, though he still dared not let his guard down.
These people are devils, so cruel! He was already vaguely regretting it, but there was no way to turn back.
Suddenly, gunshots rang out in the distance, startling everyone.
The venomous spider frowned. "What's going on over there? Let's go check it out."
"Yes, Lord Poison Spider!" They stopped beating Aaron.
Just then, several figures suddenly fell from the balcony on the third floor of the villa and landed heavily on the ground.
When the Poison Spiders looked over, they discovered that it was actually one of their own people from the base.
He sensed something was wrong and immediately alerted everyone.
Immediately afterwards, unusual noises were also heard from the other villas.
The venomous spider narrowed its eyes as it saw people emerging from the various rooms.
"We've fallen for their trap, damn it!"
Without saying a word, he first used poison to attack Robert and get rid of this most deserving person.
"No, I'm from friendly forces..."
Robert was still in shock when he was poisoned before he could finish a sentence, dying in the same gruesome manner as Aaron's mother.
Wendy came out of the bedroom, her face a mixture of emotions as she looked at Aaron's mother's body in the distance. She walked over to Aaron and helped him up.
Aaron was beaten beyond recognition, his face covered in blood, and his expression was completely obscured.
He kept his eyes tightly shut, unable to look at his mother's body, and even more unable to face Wendy.
Wendy picked him up and put him back in the room.
Wu Chuyu sneered, "Dare to mess with our Lucky Journey base? None of you will leave here alive today! Brothers, charge!"
Wu Chuci: "...Little sister, tone it down a bit. Your tone sounds like a female bandit from a mountain stronghold in a TV drama."
Wu Chuyu rolled her eyes at her older brother, shouted "Charge!" and rushed towards the people at the Poison Scorpion Base.
A fireball flew into the crowd, and a mound of earth instantly sprang up to block the attack.
The leader of the Poison Scorpion Base calls himself Poison Scorpion, and his younger brother calls himself Poison Spider. Both of them are poison-type ability users. Today, Poison Scorpion is in charge of the base, while Poison Spider is leading half of his forces to attack Good Luck Base.
Seeing that the other party had not been drugged at all and was actually prepared, the venomous spider did not linger in the fight. It fought and retreated, and soon arrived at the entrance of the residential area, ready to escape.
Just then, he heard a noise behind him. He instinctively tried to turn around, but his body rolled to the side.
The venomous spider keenly sensed that the air where he had just stood had strange patterns, like ripples on water, with a trace of undulation in the air.
He then flipped over several times, dodging several surprise attacks, until he misjudged the distance on the last occasion and had one of his hands cut off.
A group of people surrounded them from behind, and the tall, masked man standing at the front made the venomous spider's pupils shrink.
This man has become very popular on the forum recently, so of course he knows him.
"Kunwu's legacy continues!"
The venomous spider gritted its teeth and uttered the name with a ferocious grin.
Kunwu Yecheng frowned as he looked at the venomous spider gritting its teeth and enduring the pain. He couldn't help but sigh inwardly, "As expected of a deputy commander of a large base, he was able to sense the fluctuations in space and dodge his spatial cuts several times."
He rarely used this move, and most enemies were unaware of his killing technique, often having parts of their bodies severed before they could react. Even though the venomous spider was alert enough, it was still seriously injured.
Two small teams, each composed of elites, accompanied Kunwu Yecheng.
Seeing that the official strongest squad was flanking him from behind, Poison Spider knew that he was likely doomed tonight.
This guy was also someone who would never back down with his words. He looked at Kunwu Yecheng and revealed a sly smile.
"Kunwu Yecheng, it's a pity that your scheme was discovered by you. Otherwise, after our base took over the Good Luck Base, we could have found a way to recruit the Shanran Base Director."
I like her a lot too, you........”
Before he could finish speaking, the man not far away suddenly disappeared and reappeared in front of him in the next instant.
The spider blocked the man's slash with its knife, but the man, with a cold face, continued to stab, chop, slice, and thrust... The attack was swift and fierce, and the spider, with one arm missing, could not defend itself at all.
Soon, after the poisonous spider revealed an opening, it was stabbed in the shoulder.
Kunwu Yecheng continued his actions, stabbing the poisonous spider several more times, piercing it through.
He stepped on the dying spider's shoulder, pried open its mouth with a knife, and then used his supernatural ability to teleport a tongue into the soil not far away.
The tongue, covered in mud, was filthy. Kunwu Yecheng glanced at it briefly before looking away, coldly staring at the poisonous spider.
"Filthy mouth."
Instead of using his spatial abilities, he manually removed several parts from the poisonous spider's body and waited until the spider was in excruciating pain before finally ending the fight with a single blow.
Tonight, Scorpion hasn't slept, waiting for news from his younger brother.
Logically, they should have an inside agent who poisoned the enemy base, the enemy's base commander was unconscious, and their strongest fighter was still in the hospital taking care of him. The number of people that Poison Spider brought should be sufficient.
There shouldn't be any news so soon.
"You, you come here, go find Zhang Congzhi, and ask him if his [Fatal Premonition] has sensed anything?"
Scorpion called his younger brother, but no one answered. He had a strange, ominous feeling, so he summoned one of his men and ordered him to find Zhang Congzhi.
Tonight it's Zhang Congzhi's turn to be with that woman; if we need to find her, we'll have to go to her room.
Thinking about this, the scorpion became a little distracted.
A little over a month ago, when Poison Scorpion was leading a group out to search for supplies, they encountered a small team.
The team consisted of a dozen or so people, but only one of them was a woman.
She was an exceptionally beautiful woman. In the post-apocalyptic world, most people were filthy, but this woman was remarkably clean, like a pristine white flower. She looked pitiful, with affectionate eyes, and with just one glance, Scorpion was deeply captivated.
Later, the team followed the Scorpion and arrived at the Scorpion Base.
She said her name was Rong Shuyao, and her special ability was that she could not only heal but also purify the pollution caused by an excess of crystal cores.
This was an unexpected bonus for the base.
Everyone knows that the Nightmare Beast Core is a good thing, but no one dares to use it too much because excessive use will make a person become increasingly strange.
An anonymous post on the internet claimed that this situation is pollution, and if the pollution becomes excessive, people will cease to be human and turn into monsters like beasts.
But this beautiful woman's special ability is actually to purify pollution.
Scorpion had seen other light-type ability users before, but none of them had the ability to purify.
As a result, the overall combat strength of the Scorpion Base has been greatly improved.
If it weren't for Rong Shuyao's limited abilities, the purification process being particularly taxing on her powers, and the daily usage being limited, the Scorpion Base could have been even more formidable.
During the purification process, many people in the base became Rong Shuyao's lovers, including Poison Scorpion himself.
Moreover, the purification effect is better after intimate contact, so the men in the base all like to be in contact with Rong Shuyao.
Because of Rong Shuyao, several minor disputes even broke out within the base at the beginning. In the end, the higher-ups had no choice but to set up a work schedule.
Today it was Zhang Congzhi's turn.
Just as Scorpion was pondering, the person who had just been called over to deliver the message rushed in.
"Lord Scorpion! Captain Zhang's men say, say..."
"What did you say? You better calm down before you speak!"
"Zhang's men said, 'Run!'"
No sooner had the words left his mouth than an explosion was heard at the base entrance, followed by alarms and commotion.
The scorpion was terrified and kicked away the person who had just delivered the message.
He valued his life much more than his twin brother, Spider, and quickly guessed that something had gone wrong in the takeover of the Good Luck base, and that the other party had come knocking on his door.
Regardless of who it was, Scorpion's first reaction was to run.
After all, Zhang Congzhi's "fatal premonition" was quite accurate.
By the time Poison Scorpion and his men escaped through the side path, Zhang Congzhi was nowhere to be seen.
Even Rong Shuyao's closest lackeys disappeared.
These scumbags!
The scorpion gritted its teeth. They had sensed something was wrong long ago, and they had escaped without telling it!
Damn it!
Once we find them...
With a "bang," the gunshot rang out, and Poison Scorpion narrowly dodged, but his arm was still slashed.
Immediately after, another shot was fired, and one of the people behind Scorpion was shot and killed.
That person possessed plant-based superpowers, with average physical defense and a low level of ability, making them completely unable to withstand bullets.
The next few shots, even without a gun, all hit the target, though not necessarily killing them, but still causing injury.
Moreover, each shot came from a different direction, as if countless snipers were lying in ambush in the distance.
The scorpion's eyes were bloodshot with rage. With such accurate shooting and so many people, it must be an official team without a doubt.
So the authorities and the Good Luck Base joined forces to wipe out the Poison Scorpion Base?
But what's the point of firing slowly, shot by shot? It doesn't seem like the method of a legitimate team. Could it be that they brought personal grudges with them in order to get revenge on them for bringing good luck to the base?
"I wonder who this person is? Is it Captain Kunwu Yecheng? I am the base manager of the Poison Scorpion Base. If you can let me go, everyone in the Poison Scorpion Base will be at the mercy of the authorities."
Another shot, this time aimed at Scorpion's forehead.
He dodged, and the next shot was aimed at his left leg.
After dodging with a few rolls, the scorpion was furious.
He had absolutely no idea what the other side was up to; was he just toying with them like a dog?
Just as he was about to continue hiding, he suddenly heard a woman's voice coming from afar.
"It's reached its limit, it's been completely drained. It seems that I've reached the limit of my teleportation ability."
"Ranran, you've worked hard. I'll make sure you get some extra nutrition when you get back."
"Is it fun? Do you want us to gather them together so you can play a little longer?"
Members of the Poison Scorpion Base:........
Three people walked out from not far away, and all three of them were very stunning in appearance.
The scorpion took a step back in shock. "Mountain... Mountain Dye?"
The woman standing in the middle was in the eye of the storm recently and was so conspicuous that they recognized her immediately.
"You...you're awake?"
"What?" Shan Ran scoffed. "You think you can attack the Good Luck Base while I'm still asleep?"
Scorpion swallowed nervously. Besides valuing his life, he was also very pragmatic. He immediately knelt down and begged for mercy.
"Lady Yamazome, I was wrong, I was really wrong. It was...it was someone else who instigated me, it had nothing to do with me..."
"Oh? Someone instigated you?"
"Yes, it's a woman named Rong Shuyao. She said she has a grudge against you and that you've been unconscious for so long that you probably won't wake up. She wants to take advantage of the fact that the two men around you aren't at the Good Luck Base to take you down."
Shan Ran's previously teasing gaze instantly changed, "Where is Rong Shuyao?"
"I don't know!" Scorpion cried, on the verge of tears. "I also want to know where she went. I didn't see her when I came out. She had already run away with a group of people."
Among that group was one of my subordinates. His special ability was "Fatal Premonition." He probably sensed in advance Lord Shanran's wise, mighty, extraordinary, celestial, and invincible aura, so he abandoned me, the base commander, and fled.
Meng Xin frowned impatiently, "Ranran, this person talks too much. I find it annoying. Let's get rid of him as soon as possible."
Rhein, unusually, stood on the same side as him, nodding expressionlessly.
"Wait a minute!" Poison Scorpion stretched out a hand and roared, "Lord Shanran, wait a moment before you act. I still have something to say. You can make your decision after you've heard it."
Shan Ran remained silent, but Poison Scorpion continued, "Actually, our people at the Good Luck base have a backup plan. If you let me go, I'll tell you what it is. Don't worry, as long as I'm alright, my men won't make a move..."
The scorpion spoke more and more slowly, and when he said the last word, he revealed a sinister smile.
The wind around them suddenly became fierce, enveloping the three of them in the blink of an eye, and was about to penetrate their skin.
A thin film of water suddenly appeared around the three of them. The film was very thin, but it steadily blocked the poisonous fog that came with the wind.
Unlike the venomous mist of the spider, the venomous mist of the scorpion is colorless and odorless, and can blend perfectly into the air. With the help of a subordinate with wind-type abilities, he has never been defeated, whether in a head-on group attack or a sneak attack.
Especially with Rong Shuyao's help, Poison Scorpion's superpower level has improved by leaps and bounds during this period, and he is very confident in his strength.
He just pretended to be weak and said so many things, but he was actually secretly plotting all along.
They watched helplessly as the poisonous fog was just inches away from the three people, but they didn't expect the three to react so quickly, instantly using water-based abilities to block it.
That water film not only enveloped them, but also changed with their body movements.
Rhine spread a pair of wings on his back, now larger and more powerful. With a powerful flap, he blew all the poisonous mist in front of him toward the scorpion.
The wind-type ability user in the team immediately tried to control the wind to fight back, but the wind coming from the other side was extremely strong, and its speed and power were beyond his reach. He could only barely protect himself from being attacked by the poisonous wind.
The others behind them suffered the consequences; some hadn't even reacted yet, and others, even after reacting, didn't have time to set up a defense.
In the blink of an eye, most of them were killed or wounded, including those who had just been shot. Only about ten people remained on Scorpion's side.
Now that the final blow has been delivered, there is no turning back.
At Scorpion's command, the few remaining men charged forward with him, determined to fight to the death.
When Shan Ran's ability bar was almost empty, she would take some sneaky shots from behind.
While she was in the mist, the two of them were outside killing monsters day and night, and their abilities improved considerably.
However, due to ingesting too many crystal cores, Rhine also suffered a minor infection, but fortunately it was not serious and was much milder than Meng Xinye's symptoms.
The two of them are more than enough to deal with these people.
Soon, only one Poison Scorpion remained on the opposing side.
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