Chapter 53
“There’s still time.”
Only one strength-type zombie had appeared so far. He could still handle it.
Ye Xuan said to Chen Cheng, “I’ll hold that zombie back. You run into the building.”
“Okay.” Chen Cheng agreed without hesitation.
The instant Ye Xuan flashed out of the car, Chen Cheng opened the door, jumped out, and ran toward a nearby open house.
Ye Xuan gripped his short blade and stabbed toward the zombie’s neck.
The rain was too heavy, affecting Ye Xuan’s judgment. He failed to cut into the zombie’s neck and instead severed its collarbone.
The speed-type zombie reacted very quickly. It immediately became alert toward Ye Xuan, took a large step back to create distance, then began running rapidly around him.
In the rain, Ye Xuan could not see its shadow clearly. He tightened his grip on the short blade and stayed on guard. He glanced at Chen Cheng. Chen Cheng was only one step away from the house.
The zombie lunged at Ye Xuan from behind. Hearing the sound, Ye Xuan leapt from the ground, splashing up a sheet of water. In midair, he turned back and cut off the hand the zombie had reached toward him, then flashed to Chen Cheng’s side and entered the house with him, closing the door.
What he needed to do was hold the zombie back. There was no need to fight it to the death right now.
The furnishings inside the house were very cozy, but neither of them had the mind to observe them.
They did not even dare sit down and catch their breath.
Thud, thud, thud sounds came from outside.
“Did you hear that?” Ye Xuan asked Chen Cheng.
Chen Cheng had naturally heard it too, because the sound was growing louder and louder. That meant something was approaching them.
“It’s that strength-type zombie,” Chen Cheng said with certainty.
Ye Xuan lifted the curtain and looked out through the window. A round, flat zombie was approaching this way. It moved very slowly. Its arm muscles were developed and powerful, while its legs were thick and short. It was different from all the zombies they had seen before, like a stone golem from an anime.
Everywhere it passed, its feet stamped narrow footprints into the ground. With one swing of its hand, it directly smashed down an intact two-story villa.
Its destructive power was terrifying.
Could he and Chen Cheng beat it?
Chen Cheng also stood beside Ye Xuan and looked outside. His tone was not optimistic. “It’s heading toward the factory. It might have been drawn back by the noise just now.”
They had to lure the zombie away now.
A plan immediately formed in Ye Xuan’s mind. He told Chen Cheng, “I’ll restrain it. You find a chance to leave here and rescue the trapped people.”
“Not realistic.”
Chen Cheng rejected Ye Xuan’s idea.
“That speed-type zombie was only injured by you, not killed. If two zombies attack you at the same time, how long can you hold on?”
What Chen Cheng said made sense. If it were two speed-type zombies, he could still stall them for a while. But one “stone golem” plus one speed-type zombie—he really had no confidence.
Chen Cheng pointed at the slowly advancing zombie. “Also, I’m guessing it doesn’t just have great strength. Its defense is also very high. That knife in your hand would be like scratching an itch if you dragged it across its body.”
“The best method is to deal with it.”
Ye Xuan felt that Chen Cheng was talking nonsense. Even if the base’s strongest strength-type ability user came, it was hard to say whether he could fight this zombie to a fifty-fifty draw.
“I’m not joking.” Chen Cheng’s pitch-black pupils stared at Ye Xuan. “I need a high point. About ten stories tall.”
Ten stories.
Ye Xuan looked outside. There was one, but it was very far away. It would take a long time to get there.
By the time they finished rushing over, the zombie would already have gone to the factory and eaten those people clean.
“Your plan is even less suitable. Let’s use mine.”
“Do you want me to call someone to clean up your corpse?” Chen Cheng’s words were merciless. He had no expression, but Ye Xuan felt like he was mocking him.
Ye Xuan also got annoyed.
“Then tell me. With such a long distance, how are you going to get there? Are you also a space ability user? Can you flash over there too?”
“Ha. Have you never thought that you, a space ability user, might be able to bring people with you?” Chen Cheng’s expression grew even flatter, making him seem even more like he was mocking him.
Chen Cheng’s counter-question stunned Ye Xuan.
He had never thought about it, nor had he ever tried. Everyone said space ability users only became faster, and the fact that he could teleport was already very special.
So he had never considered whether he could bring another person with him while teleporting.
Maybe this was feasible.
If only his body could teleport, then how could his combat suit and his knife teleport with him?
Ye Xuan suddenly understood.
“If you can’t do it, then we’ll follow your plan. I’ll find someone to collect your corpse.”
“…”
Ye Xuan did not say anything more. He grabbed Chen Cheng’s wrist and focused.
The next second, they appeared outside in the curtain of rain. Ye Xuan looked at Chen Cheng beside him and smiled.
It was actually feasible. He had never even thought in this direction before.
Ye Xuan’s flash ability had a distance limit. One flash could not exceed ten meters. Fortunately, his flash had no cooldown interval.
After flashing several times, they arrived on the rooftop of a high-rise building.
The pouring rain drenched them completely. Rainwater formed streams over their helmets, blocking their vision. The two of them simply threw their helmets aside.
Without the helmets, rain struck Ye Xuan directly in the face, painful from the impact.
Ye Xuan wiped the water from his face, but it was soon soaked again, so he stopped caring.
Chen Cheng walked to the edge of the rooftop and stretched his palm into the air.
“I need to charge energy. Pay attention to the surroundings. Don’t let anything interrupt me.”
“Got it.”
Ye Xuan did not dare relax his guard. He gripped the short blade tightly. The moment anything happened, he would strike.
Bang. A zombie crashed through the rooftop door and fell in front of Ye Xuan.
Chen Cheng did not turn around, but it was as if eyes had grown on his back and he knew what had happened.
“Don’t let it disturb me.”
Taking advantage of the zombie being stunned in place, Ye Xuan flashed to its side and stabbed at its brain.
But the zombie happened to roll to the side, so Ye Xuan missed.
He immediately stabbed forward again. This time, he hit it—its arm.
But damn it, why would the blade not go in?
This was a defense-type zombie.
This zombie was stupid too. It just watched as Ye Xuan stabbed at its shoulder.
Maybe it thought it was fun. It stood up and let Ye Xuan stab at its chest.
He could not pierce it. It was like throwing eggs against a rock, wasting energy.
What kind of damn luck was this? He had run into every kind of zombie on one mission.
The zombie and Ye Xuan played with great enjoyment. Ye Xuan stabbed left, and the zombie extended its right hand. Ye Xuan stabbed right, and the zombie extended its left hand.
Was it playing patty-cake with him?
Ye Xuan stopped playing along. He drove the blade through the zombie’s brain.
The zombie froze. Ye Xuan froze too.
It really went through?
Ye Xuan pulled the blade out of the zombie’s brain and flashed to Chen Cheng’s side. “How much longer?”
“One minute.”
In the distance, a small black hole that had not yet fully formed was spinning, and the stone golem was only five steps away from it. It continued walking forward without noticing anything.
Chen Cheng’s face was pale. His mind was highly concentrated. He was already doing everything he could to make the black hole form faster.
Ye Xuan’s strike had not killed the zombie. He had not destroyed its central nervous system, so the zombie could still move.
It slowly reacted, half a beat late, to the fact that Ye Xuan had stabbed it. Baring its teeth, it ran toward Ye Xuan, who was standing at the edge of the rooftop.
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