Chapter 95: Death Grasped His Waist
“I want to change cars!” Lu Weiyi made a quick decision. He pressed the walkie-talkie and said, “Brother Li, stop the car. I’m going to throw Xu Sa and Gu Qingji into the truck bed and bring Ning Yuan down.”
“Why?”
As Xu Sa asked, Li Zhuang in front had already stopped. Ning Yuan jumped directly out of the car and ran towards them. Lu Weiyi ignored him. Sensing that the distance was about right, he ordered, “Stop the car.”
Xu Sa also knew that now wasn’t the time to ask questions. He floored the accelerator and stopped the swaying car. All four doors opened simultaneously. Lu Weiyi threw another car out of the space, then quickly tied up Gu Qingji and Xu Sa and moved them to the truck bed. “Drive!”
Li Zhuang floored the accelerator and drove off, immediately creating distance.
Ning Yuan directly got into the driver’s seat, Lu Weiyi was still in the passenger seat, and Antonio and Liu Rui sat in the back. As soon as they got into the car, before they even had time to close the doors, the car leaped forward.
The zombies behind were already catching up, and in the fields on both sides of the road, they could see the corn stalks moving, getting closer and closer.
“There are too many zombies in front, we can’t break through,” Li Zhuang said.
“Go ahead and clear the way,” Lu Weiyi said to Ning Yuan.
As Li Zhuang’s car slowed down slightly, Ning Yuan directly rushed to the front. This car was full of ability users. Lu Weiyi cleared the way in front with the small green branches, and Liu Rui manipulated the fire dragon to cooperate. The rest were dealt with by Antonio’s blades. It wasn’t too much trouble, but they couldn’t withstand the large number of zombies, so their speed slowed down.
After a while, Lu Weiyi heard the sound of a blunt object hitting bone coming from the truck behind. The zombies behind must have caught up.
Everyone knew the abilities of the people in the back of the truck. The faces of the few people in their car suddenly became a bit grim, and the output of their abilities immediately intensified.
“Faster… we’ll be able to rush out soon!” Seeing that there were fewer and fewer zombies in front, and the bridge they had planned for was almost there, Ning Yuan’s hand holding the steering wheel was sweating, and he muttered in a low voice, “Faster, faster.”
After the last wave of zombies was pushed aside by Lu Weiyi and Liu Rui together, just as Ning Yuan was about to tell Li Zhuang to accelerate directly, Li Zhuang’s voice came from the walkie-talkie first, “A tire blew.”
“Damn it, it must have been grazed by a bullet just now, I heard the sound!” Ning Yuan cursed anxiously.
They had already broken through. If the truck behind followed closely, it would definitely be able to break through as well. But the blown tire affected its speed. Lu Weiyi glanced back through the rearview mirror. The zombies he had pushed to both sides had surrounded Li Zhuang’s car, and some were even jumping to grab the windshield.
“Can you hold on for a thousand meters? We’ll be at the bridge soon,” Ning Yuan asked.
“…”
Li Zhuang didn’t answer. Lu Weiyi said, “Get out and fight. They can’t handle it.” He had already seen zombies clinging to the back of the truck. A circle of weapons was thrown out from the truck bed chaotically, forcefully knocking down the zombies clinging to the truck, but it couldn’t stop the truck’s speed from decreasing, and the surroundings quickly closed in again.
If this continued, even without intelligence, they could step on the zombies in front and climb onto the truck.
For the four of them, Zhuang Mingxu, Dean, and Xu Sa were all in the back of the truck. No matter what, they couldn’t just abandon them and run. As soon as Lu Weiyi said this, no one objected. Ning Yuan sharply stepped on the brakes, took a machete handed over by Lu Weiyi, and the four of them walked backward.
Lu Weiyi put the car back into the space and said, “Channel your abilities into the blades.”
The others had long understood. These words were just a reminder to Ning Yuan. Ning Yuan nodded, his face serious. “Got it.”
Each of the four held a weapon in their hands, chopping off the heads of approaching zombies while those who could manipulate abilities did so simultaneously. The front might be a dead end, but no one retreated a step.
Like lone heroes, they strode forward, not asking about the way back.
Li Zhuang, who had been trying his best to drive forward, saw their actions and said to Xiong Jie, who had moved to the passenger seat, “You drive, I’ll go help. Get through as quickly as possible.”
Before Xiong Jie could say anything, the car door opened, and Li Zhuang kicked away a zombie that came close. At the same time, a triangular knife swung out, and three zombies fell down together, their heads dropping off a moment later.
Xiong Jie quickly moved to the driver’s seat and said to Zhuang Ai Yi, who was sitting alone in the back seat, “Ai Yi, hold on with both hands, don’t let go no matter what.”
“Got it, Grandpa,” Zhuang Ai Yi held the handrails tightly with both small hands, buried his head in his arms, his voice muffled. Xiong Jie was a bit worried if he was scared, but even if he was, there was nothing he could do at this moment, so he simply said nothing.
As soon as Li Zhuang got out of the car, he quickly joined the others. Lu Weiyi sent a green branch over, dragging away half of the zombies blocking the front of the truck along their necks. The remaining half were burned by a fire dragon from Liu Rui. Taking this opportunity, Xiong Jie rammed through the remaining zombies and drove forward crookedly.
The bridge from Yongping City to Pingning County wasn’t very wide, about ten meters. Underneath wasn’t water, but a mountain valley. At full speed, the distance of over a thousand meters would take ten minutes. The car was faster, but at this moment, the truck needed to maintain balance, and the road was narrow, so the time was dragged out.
“Liu Rui, fire!” After the five people waited for the truck to leave the encirclement, Lu Weiyi’s small green branch directly tore open a gap in the zombies that were about to surround them. He called out to Liu Rui, and a fire dragon shot out, scorching a circle of zombies and slightly blocking the road behind them.
“Run!” Taking advantage of the opportunity, Li Zhuang shouted, and the group ran forward at full speed.
“Liu Rui!” Xu Sa’s roar suddenly sounded from the front. Lu Weiyi turned his head and saw Liu Rui’s face pale and swaying, clearly exhausted from overusing his ability. He smiled in Xu Sa’s direction, and the zombies he had ignited, covered in flames, lunged at him.
Having abilities, in just that moment, the four of them had thrown themselves over two hundred meters away. At this time, the zombies that had been briefly blocked by Liu Rui gathered again and came in their direction. If they went back again, no one could guarantee they could get out again.
But if they just left like this… Ning Yuan felt he couldn’t do it. He paused, just about to turn back, when he saw Lu Weiyi had already run back first.
“Run!” he shouted, retreating over a hundred meters. A small green branch directly tied up Liu Rui, who had fallen to the ground, and yanked him back forcefully. He still had flames touching him from the zombies. Blown by the wind while tied up by the small green branch, the flames immediately extinguished, rising in wisps of smoke. Then Lu Weiyi turned around and ran again.
In just that moment, their distance had increased by four to five hundred meters. A group of zombies closely followed Lu Weiyi, reaching out their arms, wanting him to become one of them at any moment.
The truck that had already crossed the bridge had stopped at this time. Anyone on board with mobility had picked up weapons and started clearing the zombies on this side of the bridge. Zhuang Mingxu stared intently ahead, constantly praying in his heart, faster, faster…
Antonio and Li Zhuang reached the bridge almost simultaneously. Standing in the center of the bridge, the two stopped at the same time and looked back. Li Zhuang squatted down, his hands pressed to the ground. Ning Yuan, who came next, could feel the bridge surface he ran across seemed to be shaking.
Thinking of Li Zhuang’s ability, Ning Yuan understood his actions. He ran to the two of them and also looked back, seeing Lu Weiyi running towards them in large strides, the small green branch tying Liu Rui even a bit ahead of him.
“Catch!” Lu Weiyi shouted, simultaneously swinging the small green branch and throwing Liu Rui over. Ning Yuan and Antonio were stunned for a moment, then reached out at the same time to catch the person being thrown over.
Liu Rui slammed into them weakly. The two acted as meat shields, staggering back a few steps before gently placing him on the ground.
Seeing Lu Weiyi step onto the bridge, Li Zhuang shouted, “Jump over!”
Lu Weiyi saw the ground beneath his feet collapse downwards. There was a small stone slab in front that could just serve as a buffer. He immediately jumped onto it. With this springboard, he was no more than two meters away from Li Zhuang and the others. With his ability, it was easy to jump over.
As the bridge surface disappeared, the zombies behind fell down like dumplings. Lu Weiyi could feel the urgency of the zombies almost grabbing his ears disappear. He breathed a sigh of relief and looked at the group in front who were also relieved and smiling at him, breaking into a big smile.
Then he jumped with all his might…
A pulling force came from behind, directly dragging Lu Weiyi, who had already jumped up, down from the collapsed bridge surface.
On Lu Weiyi’s usually cold and expressionless face, a rare look of obvious panic appeared. Time seemed to slow down. Everyone’s expressions slowly changed from relieved smiles after surviving a disaster to blank stares, and then to horror.
“Xiaoyi…”
After a heart-wrenching shout, Lu Weiyi saw Zhuang Mingxu fall from the truck bed, dragging his broken leg. He stared at him with a look of despair Lu Weiyi had never seen before.
In that instant, Lu Weiyi thought, I must take good care of myself in the future. If I die, that disabled Zhuang Mingxu will definitely have a hard time surviving.
Then Lu Weiyi disappeared from everyone’s sight.
Li Zhuang, who had also overused his ability, reached out towards the front, wanting to grab something, but in the end, he could only fall weakly to the ground. Antonio and Ning Yuan reacted and quickly ran to the bridge surface, looking down. The mountain valley was over ten meters deep, and the fallen zombies had piled up. There was a continuous stream of zombies falling down, smashing the ones that had already gotten up back down.
A rare look of shock flashed across Antonio’s face for a moment. He had always felt that Lu Weiyi possessed a mysterious power, and following him would surely lead to a good life. But the person he had silently decided to follow forever had actually… died?
He felt unbelievable. “Lu… will be alright… right?”
The people on the truck behind, who had already cleared a circle of zombies, left a few to deal with the rest, while the others ran over. Lin Yimu was carrying Zhuang Mingxu on his back.
His face still held a look of disbelief and panic. The person with the injured leg, who had always been confident and offered advice and commands among their group without any hint of inferiority, now looked so fragile, as if a light touch could make him unable to get up again.
