Chapter 54
He had been careless. He should have twisted it just now.
Looking at the zombie charging over with bared fangs and claws, Ye Xuan instead put the short blade back into its sheath.
He no longer needed the short blade. He had a better method.
The moment the zombie rushed up to him, he grabbed it by the neck and flashed outside the rooftop with it.
After an extremely brief moment of suspension in midair, Ye Xuan and the zombie plummeted rapidly. Air roared past his ears, and the rustling sound of rain continued without end.
The zombie struggled and grabbed Ye Xuan. Its sharp claws tore through Ye Xuan’s combat suit, trying to dig into his flesh.
He was done wasting time with it.
Ye Xuan flashed back to the rooftop.
A heavy object crashed down below, a brief sound quickly drowned out by the rain.
Chen Cheng still maintained his original posture.
Ye Xuan looked toward the “stone man.” A black hole was continuously expanding, sweeping up nearby stones, raindrops, and all kinds of messy things. Everything was sucked inside and disappeared.
So this was Chen Cheng’s ability?
No wonder Luo Feng had kept him in suspense. Chen Cheng’s ability was indeed very special.
The only problem was that the wind-up was too long. Without that wind-up, how terrifying would his ability be? Even in the special combat team, it would probably be extremely rare.
Such a huge black hole, yet the “stone man” walked forward without noticing at all. Could it be that living creatures near the black hole could not see it?
The “stone man” stepped into the black hole and was immediately sucked in. It instantly grabbed a nearby tree, but the moment it caught the tree, the tree fell. The black hole expanded again, swallowing both the “stone man” and the tree together.
The black hole closed, as if nothing had ever happened. Only the rain continued to fall.
What a terrifying ability. Ye Xuan clicked his tongue.
Chen Cheng withdrew his hand. His body swayed and he nearly fell off the rooftop. Fortunately, Ye Xuan was beside him and supported him.
His face was as pale as paper. The longer he maintained the black hole, the more mental energy it consumed, and the greater the damage to his own body.
“Let’s go,” Chen Cheng said weakly.
Ye Xuan brought Chen Cheng and flashed back to the house from before.
“You rest here for a while. I’ll go rescue them.”
The greatest threat was gone. As long as they were not surrounded by three or four zombies, he could handle it.
Besides, Chen Cheng’s current state looked like he was only half a step away from climbing into a coffin.
“No. I’m going with you.” Chen Cheng said to Ye Xuan in a low voice, “How do you know we won’t run into that kind of zombie again later?”
“Do you know how awful your face looks right now? You look like you could collapse at any moment.”
Chen Cheng still insisted. “I won’t drag you down.”
He looked gentle and quiet, but Ye Xuan had not expected him to be this stubborn deep down. Ye Xuan could only go along with him.
The two returned to the car and drove around toward the factory building.
Halfway there, the zombie whose hand Ye Xuan had cut off earlier jumped out from some corner again and latched onto their car.
It really was a sticky-plaster zombie.
Ye Xuan did not waste time. He found the right chance and killed this speed-type zombie with one strike.
Chen Cheng’s voice suddenly came from his wristband, extremely urgent. “Careful. Behind you.”
Before Ye Xuan could react, a heavy punch smashed him onto the hood of the car. His vision went black, and his head spun.
“Stand up.”
His shoulder blade hurt so much it made him dizzy. Ye Xuan gritted his teeth and climbed up from the hood.
It was another “stone man.” Its body was smaller than the one just now, and its destructive power was weaker, but it was a little faster.
If it had been the one from earlier, Ye Xuan would already be on his way to the Western Heaven to fetch scriptures.
The “stone man” opened its bloody mouth and charged at Ye Xuan. If he fought it head-on, Ye Xuan absolutely could not win.
Inside the car, Chen Cheng clutched his chest, and a few drops of blood seeped from the corner of his mouth. He stretched out his hand and formed a small black hole under the “stone man’s” feet. Because it was too small, it could not swallow the “stone man.”
It could only temporarily slow its steps.
Unable to move forward, the “stone man” shifted its target to Chen Cheng in the car. Its eye sockets were crimson as it madly pounded the windshield.
Soon, a crack split across the windshield.
Chen Cheng’s voice came from Ye Xuan’s wristband, even weaker but still calm. “Go. Send a message to the base. I can’t hold it for long.”
If he left, Chen Cheng’s fate was obvious. There was a hundred percent chance he would die under this zombie’s hands.
Unless there was absolutely no other choice, Ye Xuan would never abandon a teammate.
If his speed was fast enough, then the impact force would be greater too. Could he use that impact force to deal with this zombie?
He had no chance to test it. It had to succeed.
Through the wristband, Ye Xuan said to Chen Cheng in the car, “Find every way you can to hold it down. Wait for me.”
After saying that, Ye Xuan flashed into midair.
Five meters above the ground.
Ten meters above the ground.
Twenty meters above the ground…
Ye Xuan stopped flashing, aimed the tip of his blade at the zombie’s head, and fell straight down.
His speed grew faster and faster, and Ye Xuan’s heartbeat grew faster too, pounding nonstop.
This was a dangerous move. If it succeeded, both he and Chen Cheng would live. If it failed, neither of them would survive.
He had to hold it down!
The blade pierced into the top of the zombie’s head, splattering Ye Xuan’s face with blood. Ye Xuan instinctively closed his eyes. Under the force of the impact, the blade continued stabbing downward, actually splitting the zombie in half.
Ye Xuan slammed heavily onto the windshield, smashing a spiderweb-like dent into it. Fortunately, the zombie had cushioned him from below, his combat suit had absorbed part of the force, and he was also an ability user. Otherwise, Ye Xuan felt he really would have gone to meet his great-grandmother.
His whole body hurt as if it had been dismantled and reassembled. Ye Xuan could not move. He closed his eyes and let the rain wash the blood from his face.
Chen Cheng inside the car was not much better. He vomited a large mouthful of blood. For a period of time, he would not be able to use his ability again.
Ye Xuan slowed down for a while and finally recovered a little. The moment he hit the windshield, his body had already begun activating its self-healing mechanism.
But he could not move his left hand now. The impact must have been too great and directly fractured it.
Ye Xuan flashed into the car, held up his left hand, and asked Chen Cheng, “Are you okay right now?”
“I should be asking you that. You really aren’t afraid of dying.”
Ye Xuan smiled. “If I were really afraid of dying, maybe you’d already have been eaten by zombies until not even scraps were left.”
Chen Cheng did not speak. He started the car and continued forward.
Fortunately, on the way to the factory, they did not encounter any more zombies. The factory was not far, and they soon drove near it.
Chen Cheng stopped the car and looked at the factory building ahead.
Ye Xuan also looked forward. It was a two-story factory building. According to the mission information, there should be two zombies inside.
Chen Cheng could not use his ability now, and one of Ye Xuan’s hands was fractured.
How were they supposed to bring the trapped people out?
Although he could bring people with him when he flashed, the people he brought could not ignore spatial barriers the way he did. Putting aside whether the trapped personnel would panic when he used his ability, if there were speed-type zombies inside and they attacked the moment he brought someone along, the trapped people would be in great danger.
Ye Xuan and Chen Cheng sat in the car, both wearing extremely grave expressions.
In the end, Ye Xuan said, “Let’s request support.”
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