The pitch-black night made it impossible to see the expression on his face. He lifted his arm and lightly waved his hand at the person beside him. The subordinate understood and activated his ability; several bursts of fire instantly appeared in the fire-ability user’s hands.
Through the firelight, Yan Bin lowered his head and looked at Feng Zhe lying by his feet, just looking at him, carefully avoiding getting any blood on his shoes. He watched as the blood flowing from the other man’s limbs gradually spread wider across the ground.
Feng Zhe struggled to crawl forward, wanting to grab Yan Bin’s leg. As if he knew that begging him was his only chance of survival, he tried to seize this last lifeline.
A black-clothed subordinate beside Yan Bin kicked Feng Zhe. An ability user’s strength was enormous, this kick was not light. Feng Zhe was kicked several meters away.
A mouthful of fresh blood sprayed out of Feng Zhe’s mouth. “Yan… Boss Yan, why are you doing this? We have no grudges at all.” He did not believe that Liu Yue and Liao Feifan could convince Yan Bin to act on their behalf. There had to be a misunderstanding.
Seeing Yan Bin frowning and silent, Feng Zhe pushed on desperately: “As long as you spare my life, Base M is yours including all the supplies inside.” He tried to win him over with materials: “I guarantee the supplies are more than the other three bases combined.”
Hearing this, Yan Bin was somewhat surprised. The supplies of Base M were more than all the other bases combined?
Afraid the other party wouldn’t believe him, Feng Zhe hurriedly babbled out everything he knew, trying to move Yan Bin.
Listening to Feng Zhe say things he had already known for a long time, Yan Bin lost interest, turned around, and prepared to leave. What a waste of time. He waved his hand, signaling his subordinates to finish the job.
Feng Zhe panicked. After saying so much, he hadn’t expected the other party to not care at all and even seem to have known everything already. Seeing Yan Bin turning to leave, Feng Zhe broke into a cold sweat and shouted loudly, “Liu Yue has a space ability! All those supplies are in her space!”
Oh? Hearing that, Yan Bin stopped walking, turned back, and approached Feng Zhe step by step.
A subordinate grabbed the prone Feng Zhe roughly and threw him against the wall.
“Liu Yue’s ability is space. That foresight ability was something she made up.” After saying this, Feng Zhe put on an expression of someone who would rather die than say more, and negotiated: “You can’t kill me and you must arrange for someone to send me out of Base B. Then I’ll tell you everything.”
Yan Bin became interested and nodded. “Okay.”
Only then did Feng Zhe breathe a sigh of relief. Yan Bin’s reputation was well-known, he did things decisively and kept his word. Since he agreed, Feng Zhe believed he wouldn’t die. He wasn’t planning to suffer this loss for nothing. Once he safely left the base, he would take revenge on them one by one. He would definitely settle this score.
Feng Zhe began recounting everything he had learned over the years about Liu Yue, Liao Feifan, Liu Zhengnan, and everything big and small about Base M.
“That’s basically all of it.” Feng Zhe looked at Yan Bin ingratiatingly.
Yan Bin nodded and said, “So in other words, Liu Yue is actually a space ability user?”
Mentioning this made Feng Zhe furious. That b*tch had secretly taken most of the supplies that he and his brothers had worked hard to collect. “Yes. Every time she took us to large warehouses and similar places, she would secretly hide away most of the supplies. Over the years, countless times. She never brought those things out.”
“How do you know?” Yan Bin asked, picking out the interesting points. Liu Yue was actually a space ability user? The foresight ability was fabricated? That he didn’t know.
“One time, when we went to the military base to collect military supplies, she secretly stored several armored vehicles while hiding from everyone else, and I happened to see it.” Feng Zhe spat. That vicious woman dared treat him like that. “Her healing ability came from eating the crystal core of a dual-ability user. That ability user was Liao Feifan’s girlfriend.”
Human ability users, like zombies, formed crystal cores in their brains, but their appearance differed, and same-type beings couldn’t absorb each other’s. If a human absorbed another human’s crystal core, their body would explode. He hadn’t expected Liu Yue to be able to absorb a human crystal core.
Afraid Yan Bin wouldn’t believe him, Feng Zhe simply explained clearly: “Five years ago, Liao Feifan had a classmate surnamed Du—too many years have passed, I can’t remember the exact name. They found out about this, that her ability actually came from her classmate, and they wanted to expose Liu Yue. That girl even fled the base. It was Liu Yue who told me to take care of her.”
By the end, Feng Zhe even looked somewhat proud. “I suspect the reason Liu Yue knows so many things is because she might be a reborn person.”
Hearing this, Yan Bin no longer cared about anything else. He fell into thought, quietly repeating: “Reborn?” No wonder.
Then those dreams of his, were they from a previous life?
Yan Bin’s features were sharply defined. His calm, expressionless gaze rested on Feng Zhe. He did not speak, yet it gave off an inexplicable sense of oppression.
Feng Zhe didn’t even dare breathe loudly. “That’s all, that’s all. I really don’t know anything else. I’ve told you everything.”
Yan Bin nodded in satisfaction. This was enough. These matters truly surprised him. He glanced at a subordinate beside him and softly spoke words that plunged Feng Zhe into utter despair: “Once it’s done, send him out of the base.”
Trying to touch Qi Yue? He should have been a corpse at that banquet. Keeping him around these days was only to make Qi Yue happy. Now the game was over.
Seeing the tall black-clothed man approaching, Feng Zhe shouted at Yan Bin’s back, “Yan Bin, you despicable man! You said you’d spare my life!”
The black-clothed man sneered, as if wanting him to die understanding clearly. “Brother Bin promised that he wouldn’t kill you. We’re the ones killing you. Rest easy, we’ll send you back to the base.” As the words fell, the black-clothed man raised his hand and released his ability. Feng Zhe instantly went silent.
“Brother Bin, everything’s taken care of.” The black-clothed man stood by the half-open car window to report.
The person inside heard the result. Without waiting for orders, the driver sensibly started the car and drove off. As that car left, another vehicle also started up, slowly transporting Feng Zhe’s corpse toward the base gate.
Yan Bin leaned back in the seat, eyes closed, one hand braced against the half-open window as he massaged his forehead.
After a long time, he suddenly opened his eyes. A cold sharpness flashed through his clear gaze. No matter who it was, they could not hurt Qi Yue!
Seeing the scene inside the room, Liao Feifan went mad and activated his ability. A burst of frenzied slaughter followed; over a dozen nak3d men lay on the ground with incomplete limbs, blood pooling everywhere, severed limbs scattered all around.
Lifting the corpse clinging to Liu Yue, Liao Feifan’s eyes were bloodshot. He took off his shirt and covered Liu Yue’s nak3d body, then picked her up. Liu Yue, still delirious, rubbed against Liao Feifan, moaning.
In the car, Liao Feifan held Liu Yue in his arms with heartache, using his sleeve to wipe the dirt from her face. He had countless times hated himself for failing to protect the goddess in his heart. His eyes reddened, tears falling uncontrollably. Looking at Liu Yue’s face flushed red from the effects of the drug, he cried out in his heart: Little Yue, you must not leave me.
Two days passed in a blink. After the morning headcount was completed, they officially set out. The distance was long, and because the people, ages, and vehicles varied widely, each squad or small group was responsible for themselves. Not counting the people who would depart from other bases later, Base B alone had more than three hundred vehicles.
Liao Feifan still tried to persuade Liu Yue with heartache: “Little Yue, there may be danger on this trip. Stay at the base and rest well, otherwise, if you get tired, I’ll feel terrible.”
Liu Yue rejected him coldly. “Feifan, stop talking. I’m a healing ability user, there are only two of us in the whole team. If I put my own safety first and let everyone else fall into danger, how could I be at ease?”
Her ability had suddenly recovered these past two days. After soaking in the spiritual spring inside her space, her body had recovered completely, and her spiritual energy was full. Since she couldn’t have things her way in the base, she would use this operation to eliminate all those eyesores. Only then would she feel at ease.
Qi Yue, Tang Ke, and Lin Yuze were not following their respective teams. Instead, the three sat together in an off-road jeep. They held walkie-talkies, directing remotely.
Qi Yue leaned back in the rear seat, squinting, munching on the sunflower seeds donated by Tang Ke, wearing the old portable music player Lin Yuze had dug up from somewhere, listening to popular songs from five years ago.
Tang Ke, this operation’s highest leader, wore a military uniform and sat beside Qi Yue. Looking at those legs resting on him and shaking nonstop, he fought the urge to slap them down. After a long time enduring it, he finally couldn’t take it anymore. For someone his age, still shaking his leg like this, he grabbed the shaking leg and pulled it onto his own.
Qi Yue opened his eyes, removed his earphones, and looked at Tang Ke in confusion, not understanding why the other suddenly grabbed his leg.
With just that one glance, Tang Ke felt half his body go numb. Looking at Qi Yue’s lazy, puzzled expression, *** reacted. His hands, full of teasing intent, and his eyes filled with meaning. “Rest for a while. Didn’t you say you were tired this morning? Always shaking around in front of me, are you complaining that I wasn’t enthusiastic enough last night?” As he spoke, his hand slid toward Qi Yue’s waist.
Qi Yue slapped away Tang Ke’s wandering hand and cursed, “F*ck, behave yourself. Stop thinking about that all the time.”
Tang Ke said aggrievedly, “Yueyue, Little Brother Tang gets excited every time he sees you. I can’t control it.” After speaking, he even lifted it up.
Sensing the h*rdening reaction, Qi Yue’s face darkened. He warned, “Control that thing. If you mess around again, I’ll cut it off.”
Hundreds of vehicles, hundreds of people, on roads where zombies could appear at any time yet this person wasn’t worried at all and still had the mood to think about that.
Lin Yuze, driving, glanced at Qi Yue through the rear-view mirror, and as if knowing what he was thinking, said, “The zombies on this stretch have already been cleared. We’ll encounter the zombie tide in about three days.” For the next three days, if nothing unexpected happened, they would be very safe.
Qi Yue nodded in satisfaction, shot Tang Ke a look, put his earphones back on, and started shaking his leg again.
Tang Ke’s expression stiffened. He tried hard to suppress the sudden surge of desire. That leg resting on his knee kept brushing against him, making him lean over helplessly, pulling off Qi Yue’s earphone to warn, “If you keep shaking, I’ll do you right here.” Only when he saw Qi Yue’s body stiffen did he sit up straight, satisfied.
