BXBX NOVEL Chapter 213: 185, What the Hell is This_1
The incident happened suddenly, she wanted to dodge, but her body couldn’t keep up with the speed.
It was about to pierce herself.
Suddenly, a hand grabbed the hilt of the dagger.
The razor-sharp dagger gleaming coldly, only two or three centimeters away, was suspended mid-air.
It was Basen.
Right, she had a very capable bodyguard.
Li Yahong instantly woke up, her body swiftly retreating while simultaneously drawing her dagger from her waist.
Wang Chenggang and the others also responded by immediately drawing their weapons, their eyes chilling as they stared at the darkness ahead.
The dagger slipped out of Basen’s hand and retreated back into the dark.
“Come out, you sneaky bugger,” Wang Chenggang shouted.
“Ha, don’t be tense, folks. We thought you were some zombies or monsters,” a man’s voice echoed from the dim storeroom.
Then six people emerged, men and women.
Bicycle helmets, makeshift armor made of metal, hard plastic, and tires, holding sharpened iron pipes, daggers, or machetes in their hand.
One of them even held a homemade hand crossbow, with a crossbow bolt already placed on it.
Despite the ragtag appearance, they carried a strong aura of survivors in a post-apocalypse.
They must also be looking for resources.
However, the way both parties encountered each other was far from friendly.
As for the explanation that they mistook them for zombies, Li Yahong and the others had a hard time accepting it.
They were in the dark, while she was in the light.
They were talking when they first came in — how could they not tell the difference between humans and zombies?
If Basen wasn’t there, Li Yahong would probably be in danger now.
Even if they didn’t kill her, a small scratch from that fruit knife might turn her into a zombie.
By then, it would be too late to say anything.
“You were trying to kill me?” Li Yahong asked sternly.
The other side scanned Li Yahong and her team, seemingly comparing the combat power of both parties.
Evading the question, he asked, “What happened outside? Were you guys killing zombies just now, or were you chased in here by zombies?”
“Put down your weapons. Maybe then we can have a talk.” Li Yahong said.
Still, the man kept talking, “Where did you guys come from, how did you avoid the zombie horde outside?”
Both were speaking, but nobody answered the other’s questions.
They just kept asking.
Li Yahong lost patience, “Basen, kill them.”
Everyone present froze for a moment.
And Basen, who was standing next to Li Yahong, lowered his stance and rushed towards the other side like lightning.
Bang~!
The crossbow string sounded, and the crossbow bolt whistled out.
Basen lifted his sword slightly, and the crossbow bolt was instantly deflected.
His entire body, fast as lightning, charged directly toward the enemy.
Wang Chenggang furrowed his brows, shouting, “Follow me…”
As he spoke, he was about to charge forward.
The rest of the people also charged forward with him.
Basen had already reached the nearest person, dodged his slash, and the short blade in his hand turned into a flash of cold light, cutting directly through the opponent’s neck.
Blood gushed out, spraying the thick smell of blood everywhere.
One person fell, but Basen didn’t stop, his figure, like an elusive shadow, weaving in and out among the enemies, and his twin short blades turning into flashes of cold light.
Killing one enemy after another.
His movements were clean and quick.
By the time Wang Chenggang and his team had killed one person and turned back to provide support, they found all the remaining people had already been killed by Basen.
Blood was flowing all over the ground.
Everyone’s eyes were wide open, looking at the scene in front of them in surprise.
They could accept the high combat strength of the skeleton, but his killing speed was too fast.
He’s really fierce!
Li Yahong didn’t seem too surprised.
She had witnessed Basen in battle before; killing ordinary people was a piece of cake to him.
Sizzle sizzle~!
The walkie-talkie crackled, immediately followed by Wu Heng’s questioning voice, “Who’s in the fresh supermarket?”
Li Yahong pressed the walkie-talkie and replied, “I’m here. There were a few survivors who tried to attack us. They’ve been killed. We’re about to check the bodies.”
The walkie-talkie was public.
Upon hearing this news, people outside immediately started gathering around.
…
Wu Heng walked in with his skeleton escort.
Li Yahong quickly explained what had just happened, proving that they had killed them only as a necessity.
Wu Heng glanced at the bodies on the ground and asked if anyone was injured.
Surviving to this point, they realized that humans are now more dangerous than zombies.
Any noise could draw zombies out.
At the very least, they could judge whether there are zombies in a building based on the roars.
Humans, on the other hand, were different. They often hid in dark corners, planning to ambush you and steal your supplies.
Even if they sent Xiao Xiao to scout.
It was impossible to inspect every room or every corner thoroughly.
“So what if they’re killed? It’s no big deal.” Wu Heng pacified, and continued, “Let’s check what they have. We’ll take whatever is useful.”
Wang Chenggang and the others stepped forward and opened all the backpacks behind the attackers.
All the items were taken out one by one.
Food, grain, wallpaper knives, axes, and firecrackers, they had everything.
It seemed that they had just left; their collection was not extensive.
“I found a map here.” Wang Chenggang said as he handed over a map covered with tape.
It was a map marking the area and roads in the county.
What was different was that symbols were drawn with red and blue pens in various areas, indicating that some markings had been made.
The mall they were going to was one of these places.
A circle was drawn with a red marker, and a red cross was marked in the middle.
“Could it mean that circled places are dangerous?” Li Yahong speculated.
Wu Heng nodded, feeling that it was reasonable.
He said to the others: “You go back and check the condition of the vehicles first, be prepared to leave at any time.”
“Alright!” Wang Chenggang and the others agreed. They picked up the dead men’s spoils and left directly.
When the rest left, leaving only Wu Heng, Li Yahong, and a few skeletons…
Wu Heng asked, “Who was the leader of these people?”
“It should be this man, he was the one talking during the conversation.” Li Yahong pointed to the man’s corpse in the front.
Wu Heng didn’t say much, directly unleashing “Communicate with the dead”.
The corpse jolted up and turned to look at them.
Wu Heng asked, “What do the markings on the map mean?”
The corpse replied, “A red mark represents danger, a blue one indicates places we’ve looted.”
This was pretty close to what Li Yahong had analyzed.
Wu Heng continued to ask, “Does danger mean high numbers of zombies, or mutated zombies?”
The corpse replied, “A red circle means there are too many zombies for us to sneak in. if there’s a red cross, it means there might be dangerous creatures inside.”
With these questions, the information on the map was clear now.
It also implied that the mall they were heading to housed mutated zombies.
Once the issue with the map was settled, Wu Heng lost interest in the rest.
He dispersed the necromancy magic directly, and the corpse fell down with a thud.
Wu Heng proceeded to transform the other corpses into skeletons.
They all left together.
They climbed back onto the bus, ready to move on.
Li Yahong asked, “So it looks like the mall is quite dangerous.”
“Commercial streets are bustling areas, all swarmed with zombies, so it’s not strange for mutated zombies or other dangers to be present.” Wu Heng replied.
“So are we going now?”
They knew the theory, but it also increased the difficulty of killing.
“Let’s go, we’ve come this far, we can’t pull back now.”
Li Yahong picked up the walkie-talkie and said directly, “Keep moving, be careful along the way.”
The convoy started up again and continued towards its target.
…
The convoy continued to move.
As it got close to the Shadow City Mall, they stopped at the roadside.
The skeleton army began to clear out the zombies, cleaning up all the corpse horde attracted by their presence.
After the horde was all dead.
Wu Heng and the others climbed on top of their vehicles and looked towards the street leading to the mall in the distance.
Just from a glance, everyone’s brows furrowed.
“Poison in the air?”
The entire street seemed to be covered in a layer of grey-white mycelium-like substance, and mushroom-like plants grew on the heads of the bodies leaning against the walls.
Like wandering jellyfish, they contracted and expanded incessantly, releasing light-green dust.
And this dust covered the entire street.
It lingered in the air.
“What the hell is this?”