Meanwhile, inside the container truck leaving the base, a group of ragged escapees crammed every corner, but Nguyen Thanh An had a spot to himself—after all, a girl carrying a knife and with a murderous look on her face was not someone to mess with.
Soon the container truck swayed and wobbled away from the base. A heavy atmosphere spread throughout the truck. Everyone's face was ashen, their faces pale as if they were about to die. Only when the oppression reached its limit did the first person finally speak.
Immediately afterwards, a cacophony of voices came from inside the container.
Ruan Qingan originally planned to escape from the action team after leaving the base, in order to prevent Jia Lan from causing trouble again.
But at this very moment—
"Hey, do you guys know why the action team captured us?"
"What good could possibly come of it?"
The man who spoke spat: "If they hadn't suddenly come to arrest people, I would have run away long ago. I just paid money to buy the information."
"Wait, what's going on?"
"Do you know what happened in S City? It was said before that it was overrun by mutated plants, but recently all the mutated plants suddenly died, as if they had been drained dry, and all of them withered. Then S City was overrun by zombies."
"I heard this trip is to the vicinity of S City. Some superhumans have discovered a large number of zombies gathered there. They seem to be under human control, their actions are organized and disciplined, and most importantly—"
The speaker paused for a moment, drawing out his words, and only after attracting everyone's attention did he say, "Some people suspect that those zombies seem to be protecting something, refusing to leave the area, resulting in the deaths of many superhumans."
Those around who heard this couldn't help but boo: "That sounds so far-fetched, how could it be possible!"
"Hey, what do you mean? I paid a lot of money for this information. There really is a team of superhumans there who went there and found out the same thing."
The man continued, "The team went out this time either to investigate the zombies' unusual movements or to steal what the zombies were protecting. There's no other possibility. As for us... we were probably thrown out as bait."
As he finished speaking, the man's voice grew softer and softer, and the container, which had been filled with voices, fell silent once again, the atmosphere even more somber than before.
These people were just trying to find joy in hardship, because this time they were most likely being sent out to their deaths...
Meanwhile, Ruan Qing'an sat in a corner, holding a knife.
She half-closed her eyes, head bowed in thought. Her initial intention to leave had subsided, and she stroked the hilt of her knife, lost in thought.
037: [Ancestors, are we not leaving?]
Ruan Qingan shook his head and narrowed his eyes slightly: "No, they went to S City. Jia Lan probably doesn't know that after Zhou Ziqi and I left, we went there."
"Besides, little system, do you still remember what Zhou Ziqi said?"
037: [Hmm?]
"...Never mind, it's pointless to ask you."
Ruan Qingan choked for a moment, then shook his head and chuckled: "After reviewing the documents and data from the secret laboratory, he analyzed that S City was the first place where the zombie virus broke out, and that the zombie virus itself may even have been caused by humans. Now they have discovered that the zombies there are abnormal."
"The person I'm looking for is there too. Don't you think it's all too much of a coincidence?"
As she spoke, she looked out at the devastated post-apocalyptic world through the unsealed side of the container, and suddenly said, "It's as if someone is waiting for me to come over."
All the clues lead there.
About two hours later, the swaying container truck came to a stop, and the people inside immediately became restless. At this moment, the superhuman action team had already surrounded them.
The leader kicked the carriage: "Still standing there, you bastards? The train has stopped, don't you know you should get off? You bunch of useless trash, get off!"
Under the brutal driving force of the action team, the fugitives jumped down one after another. Nguyen Thanh An, with his hand on his knife, took the initiative to stand at the front of the line and asked the people in front of him to switch places so that he could go down first.
The person forced to stand in front couldn't help but glance at her.
"Aren't you...aren't you afraid?"
"How about we switch places? You're blocking my view."
"...Why the hell do you look like you're here for sightseeing?!"
The man was speechless and made way for Ruan Qing'an. These days, I've seen people who run fast when they're fighting for food, but I've never seen someone who runs fast when they're going to their death.
After jumping off the container, Ruan Qing'an looked around – this should be a small county town on the outskirts of S City, which was already dilapidated. However, she and Zhou Ziqi had taken a different route and had not come here.
On the ground, there were many winding marks of various thicknesses and shapes, crisscrossing each other, and there were also some cracks in the ground.
Ruan Qingan squatted down and touched the fine dust.
"It seems that after Zhou Ziqi and I left, the mutated plants have expanded their territory to the area surrounding S City."
She murmured softly, "But it shouldn't be like this. With such a large scale, all the mutated plants have withered and had their nutrients drained. How could there be no sign of anything happening?"
037: [Are they proactive?]
"We cannot rule out this possibility."
Nguyen Thanh An stood up again, and by then all the fugitives had come down and stood together, surrounded by the action team.
The leader was a lightning-type ability user, who gathered lightning in his hand and slammed it down in front of the fugitives, coldly saying, "Don't even think about running, or I can just strike you all dead."
"As long as you complete this mission, you can live in the Central Enclosure District when you go back. Running away—will only lead to your death!"
One of them raised his hand and asked, "What are we supposed to do..."
"It's very simple. Everyone just needs to carry a bag and go into the county to investigate the zombie situation. We will give you all the instructions. Once you have investigated, you can come out."
"Don't worry, the zombies here have very weak perception of ordinary people, they only target those with superpowers, so you won't alert them."
Immediately, everyone was discussing it.
But clearly the action team didn't give them a choice. Nguyen Thanh An also carried a bag, put on a wireless headset, and stood in the middle of the group. She carefully touched her bulging bag.
Because the action team forbade opening it, and no one dared to dismantle it.
But Ruan Qing'an seemed to have touched something hard. She lowered her voice and asked, "Little system, can you detect it?"
I'll give it a try.
A moment later, 037 said in a trembling voice: "Yes, bombs...the bags these people are carrying are all filled with the latest type of bombs!"
...
After everyone entered the county town, Jia Lan, sitting in the passenger seat of the container truck, observed through binoculars: "Good, this way we don't have to sacrifice any of our team members—that woman went in too?"
"They're inside, Captain Jia."
"Detonate immediately upon reaching the area where the virus reacts most strongly."
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