latelenovela Chapter 136 The Apocalyptic Boss Arrives (13)
Chapter 136 The Apocalyptic Boss Arrives (13)
Ji Xiaosong distributed dinner to everyone. Although everyone had supplies stored in their cars, this was in case of emergencies and someone accidentally got lost.
However, the food that Ji Xiaosong took out from her space was all prepared in advance by the base's canteen, and it was still steaming hot when she took it out, at the perfect temperature.
With hot meals readily available, who would bother to cook for themselves?
Everyone took the food, their faces showing satisfaction, and they couldn't wait to start eating.
Ji Xiaosong and Gu Lin returned to the RV and sat down at the table. As they were eating, Gu Lin suddenly heard the roar of zombies.
"Xiao Song, there might be zombies around here, so we need to be careful."
"Don't worry, I know where those zombies are. We'll go after we've eaten and rested for the night."
Anyway, the zombies seemed to have been in that village for a long time, and their level wasn't very high, so Ji Xiaosong didn't think there was anything to worry about.
"I will set up a barrier around all of our RVs so that nothing from the outside can get in as long as our own people don't go out."
After dinner, Ji Xiaosong took out a plate of bright red strawberries and pulled Gu Lin to lie down on the sofa.
The glass bowl was piled high with bright red strawberries. Ji Xiaosong deliberately left the water droplets wet, and the peels glistened with tiny glints of light.
She stepped barefoot on Gu Lin's knees, her toenails painted with the same color as strawberries, and placed the fruit plate on the coffee table with a "clatter".
“Guess,” she poked his thigh with her toe, “whether the strawberry is sweeter or I am sweeter.”
Gu Lin grabbed her wriggling ankle and gently rubbed the protruding ankle bone with the base of his thumb.
The air conditioner blew the scent of strawberries past his nose, and he suddenly leaned in and bit into the biggest strawberry. The juice burst between his teeth, and the cool flesh brushed against her fingertips.
"Is it sweet?"
Ji Xiaosong withdrew her fingers and rubbed them on the hem of her skirt, leaving dark red floral stains from the strawberry juice seeping into the cotton fabric.
She suddenly flipped over and straddled Gu Lin's waist, her hair brushing against his bobbing Adam's apple. "Want to try some more..."
The last note was swallowed up by the sudden illumination of the overhead light.
Outside the completely transparent dome, a sudden downpour was pounding the glass, and the curtain of water meandered like a river above their heads.
Ji Xiaosong gasped and shrank into his arms, her lower back bumping against a remote control button, and the entire starry sky suddenly lit up in the rain.
The artificial galaxy swirled and fell into Gu Lin's eyes. He grabbed the girl's waist and pressed her deeper into the sofa.
Strawberries rolled onto the carpet, their sweet juice seeping out in the shadows.
His warm breath brushed against her earlobe: "Now you can taste it, it's peach flavored."
Ji Xiaosong suddenly bent her knee and slammed it into his stomach: "You pervert!"
But he grabbed her ankle and dragged her back.
A chilled strawberry was placed against her collarbone, and Gu Lin lowered his head to bite it in that position, the flesh leaving a rosy mark on her skin.
"What are you running for?"
He chuckled softly, a half-melted piece of strawberry in his mouth, strawberry juice dripping down his chin onto her chest. "Didn't we say we were going to have a competition to see who's sweeter?"
The sound of rain suddenly became deafening.
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Due to the torrential rain overnight, the group's presence was almost completely washed away, which also quieted down the zombies in the village.
The next morning, Ji Xiaosong distributed the breakfast.
After finishing breakfast, Ji Xiaosong said, "There are several neighboring villages about four or five kilometers from here, with about four or five hundred zombies. To prevent them from harming people in other places in the future, why don't we go and deal with them today?"
As soon as he finished speaking, Li Yang nodded first, his face showing a firm expression: "I agree. These zombies roaming around are always a hidden danger. The sooner we deal with them, the sooner we can have peace of mind. Besides, everyone in our team is quite skilled. Four or five kilometers is not a long distance. With everyone in good condition, today is the perfect time to take action."
Li Yang was among the first batch of special forces soldiers to undergo body tempering. As a master among lightning-type ability users, he was never afraid of these zombies.
Immediately afterward, Zhang Yu stood up and patted the long knife at his waist: "Xiao Song is right, we can't let these zombies harm more people. We've dealt with quite a few zombies before, this time will definitely be no problem either. I can take care of fifty, to say the least!"
Zhang Yu is Ji Youshu's college classmate and also an earth-type ability user. Ji Youshu specifically put him in the team this time, mainly to accompany Ji Youshu and protect Ji Xiaosong.
Zhao Gang, who had been silent all along, finally spoke up. His voice was deep but carried an undeniable power: "I'll go with you. More people means more strength. The sooner we deal with these zombies, the sooner we can find a safe place to rest."
Zhao Gang is a metal-type ability user; he was arranged by Gu Changqing.
“Since everyone agrees, then Gu Lin will lead the team this time,” Ji Xiaosong said, glancing at Gu Lin.
"All personnel, activate the combat channel."
Gu Lin's fingertips traced a pale blue arc on the tactical tablet. "The drone shows that the three natural villages are arranged in a triangular pattern, with the main battlefield in the threshing ground in the middle."
Ji Xiaosong distributed twenty jade pendants to everyone: "These are amulets made from the crystal cores we found in the zombies' bodies. They can withstand mental attacks below level three."
Her skirt moved without wind, and sixteen ice prisms floated in mid-air, refracting a seven-colored halo.
Li Yang squatted in the mud, adjusting the electromagnetic pulse device: "The biogas digester in the southeast corner is a natural bomb. We'll lure the zombies there later."
The falcon on his shoulder crackled and popped, its feathers crackling with blue-purple lightning.
In the morning mist after the rainstorm had just stopped, earth-elemental ability users were reconstructing the battlefield.
Zhang Yu pressed his palms to the ground, and the bluestone pavement suddenly moved as if it were alive, connecting the Hui-style horse-head walls into a circular barbican.
Zhao Gang drew a long tungsten steel whip from his waist, and dark golden light flowed along the tip of the whip, carving dense Sanskrit characters on the stone wall.
"coming!"
The sniper on the watchtower suddenly pulled the trigger, and the silencer spewed out a ghostly blue flame.
Five hundred meters away, the rotting blue head exploded, and the fragments of the crystal core traced parabolic arcs in the morning light.
The zombie horde, like a startled swarm of ants, swept in with a stench.
The mutant at the forefront landed on all fours, its spine piercing its skin to form bone blades that sparked as it scraped across the stone pavement.
"Power grid activated!" Li Yang pressed the remote control.
The electromagnetic coils buried around the outer perimeter of the barbican suddenly lit up, and blue and white arcs wove a web of death in the morning mist.
The smell of burning filled the air instantly, and more than thirty charred corpses plunged into the mud while still in a charging posture.
Ji Xiaosong stepped onto the ice steps and rose into the air, the jade hairpin in her hair bursting with blue light: "Southeast position, wind rises!"
The gale whipped up the rice husks from the threshing floor, creating a golden tornado amidst the horde of zombies.
Taking advantage of the moment, Zhao Gang swung his long whip. The tungsten steel whip disappeared into the eye of the storm, and tens of thousands of rice husks were coated with a metallic edge.
The sounds of flesh tearing and metal clashing intertwined to create a symphony of death.
Gu Lin's figure flickered among the ruins, his Tang sword whipping up heads with each strike.
When he appeared beside Ji Xiaosong for the seventh time, the scabbard suddenly vibrated abnormally.
"Underground!" the two exclaimed in unison.
Zhang Yu stomped his foot suddenly, and the ground cracked open with spiderweb-like fissures.
More than twenty zombies covered in mycelium burst from the ground, their abdominal cavities splitting open and spewing out clouds of dark green spores.
The nearest warrior had no time to dodge; the amulet suddenly burst open, revealing an emerald light shield that shut out the poisonous mist.
Gu Lin reacted quickly, plunging his Tang sword into the ground and using the recoil to leap high into the air, avoiding the range of the dark green spore cloud.
At the same time, he shouted, "Everyone be careful, don't inhale these spores!"
Ji Xiaosong quickly formed hand seals, and the sixteen ice prism mirrors shone brightly, instantly spreading an extremely cold aura.
The originally surging dark green spore cloud was quickly frozen by the invasion of this extreme cold air. The spores that were bursting out were frozen in the air before they could fully spread, as if time itself had stood still at this moment.
A ruthless glint flashed in Li Yang's eyes. The Thunder Falcon on his shoulder spread its wings and took flight, letting out a sharp cry. Countless streaks of blue-purple lightning shot out from between the Thunder Falcon's feathers, pouring wildly towards the zombies that burst from the ground.
Under the lightning strike, the mycelium on the zombies was instantly ignited, crackling and popping. The zombies struggled and writhed in agony, quickly turning into piles of charred remains.
Zhang Yu exerted his strength again, and the bluestone road beneath his feet trembled violently. Countless sharp stone spikes protruded from the ground, piercing towards the zombies covered in fungal hyphae.
The stone spikes moved incredibly fast, piercing through the zombies in an instant and pinning them firmly to the ground.
Zhao Gang brandished his tungsten steel whip, the dark golden light on the tip of the whip becoming increasingly dazzling.
He roared, and his long whip, like a dragon emerging from the sea, lashed fiercely at the zombie impaled on the stone spikes.
Each lash was accompanied by the shattering of a zombie's body and the deafening clang of metal colliding. Under the whip's strike, the zombies' bodies were reduced to fragments.
With the combined attack of everyone, the more than twenty zombies covered in mycelium were quickly wiped out.
Meanwhile, the zombie horde outside had been decimated by the electric grid, the strong winds, and the combined superpowers of the group.
Gu Lin looked around and shouted, "Everyone, give it your all and wipe out these zombies completely!"
Hearing this, the group's morale soared, and they launched a final attack on the remaining zombies.
After a fierce battle, the last zombie fell to the ground.
The battlefield was silent, save for a gentle breeze that stirred up dust and the remains of zombies.
Ji Xiaosong let out a long sigh of relief and slowly landed on the ground: "It's finally over."
Li Yang put away the electromagnetic pulse device and said with a smile, "This was really satisfying. These zombies can no longer harm people."
Zhang Yu wiped the sweat from his forehead and patted the long sword at his waist: "Yes, but this time it was also thanks to everyone's concerted efforts."
Zhao Gang silently put away his tungsten steel whip. Although he didn't say anything, a look of satisfaction appeared on his face.
Gu Lin looked at everyone, his eyes full of praise: "Everyone has worked hard. This mission was completed very well. Now, after we burn all these zombies, we'll take the crystal cores and go back to the camp."
But as soon as they arrived at the RV campsite, they discovered a group of uninvited guests.