After hearing the soldier's report, Qin Mingyang's brows furrowed deeply.
The nobility that seemed to emanate from him was shed in an instant, leaving only a face contorted with rage.
"Damn it, these zombies have been chasing me all the way, what do they want? Why can't I activate this ring yet..." His patience was wearing thin.
"Young Master, we still can't contact the Luocheng Base. We should hurry. Your safety is the most important thing," Shui Cheng advised him.
"Speed up." Qin Mingyang took a deep breath and ordered all the cars to accelerate.
"Screech!" The lead car suddenly stopped without warning.
"What's going on!" His anger surged again.
"Young... Young Master... the road ahead seems to be half blocked by fallen mountain rocks!" The voice from the front car came back anxiously.
"Then go around it." Qin Mingyang pressed his forehead.
"It seems something is wrong behind those rocks..."
"Thump!" Before the man could finish speaking, a huge shadow suddenly leaped from behind the mountain rocks.
It immediately dove towards Qin Mingyang's car.
"It's Bat Zombies!"
"Where did these guys come from? We run into them everywhere!" Zhou Xiaojun and the others also saw the Bat Zombies and cursed!
But Luo Shu suddenly grabbed his shoulder and shook it excitedly.
"These few look familiar... weren't they the ones chasing Mo Chen and them? Does that mean they're out of danger?"
Zhou Xiaojun also reacted and slammed his palm with him.
Even Chen Xiaolin was a little excited!
The faces of the three instantly bloomed with incredibly bright smiles of relief.
Qin Mingyang, seeing the other Bat Zombies summoned by these two swarming towards their cars, turned his fair face as black as charcoal.
He turned his head to see Zhou Xiaojun and the other two in the rear car, their heads sticking out of the windows, pointing at the few Bat Zombies about to fly overhead and laughing like three idiots...
He cursed inwardly, "Do these guys have a serious illness!"
"Defense! Prepare to counterattack!" he gritted his teeth.
All guns and cannons were prepared, and all the awakened abilities users under Qin Mingyang instantly activated their powers.
They all attacked the Bat Zombies in the sky!
However, the Bat Zombies moved with incredible speed, flapping their wings nimbly in the air, dodging left and right, managing to evade most of the attacks.
"Shui Cheng! Defensive wall!" Qin Mingyang roared.
"Understood!" Shui Cheng instantly summoned an invisible water wall on the right.
Several Bat Zombies collided with it unexpectedly.
The moment they paused, other guns and cannons readjusted their angles and unleashed fire on the Bat Zombies suspended in the air!
Hit!
The sky instantly lit up like a giant fireworks display, with some Bat Zombies' brains splattering out.
Two others had their wings injured.
"Not bad." Qin Mingyang's lips curved upwards. This was the same method they had used to escape the attack of the Bat Zombies at the airport.
Of course, they had no time to care for the others at the airport. Not only was the airport roof blown open with a large hole, but many people were instantly crushed under the collapsing roof, unable to move and torn apart by the remaining zombies...
In short, there were no living people left to expose the tragic scene at the airport at that time.
Qin Mingyang, lost in his own "victory," completely failed to notice that two Bat Zombies, which had been hiding in the blind spot on the side, were silently gliding towards the convoy.
In almost an instant, they were close to the car windows.
Four vacant, pale blue eyes were eagerly pressed against the car window, greedily drooling.
Qin Mingyang's silenced pistol was already out of bullets, and the guns and cannons couldn't be adjusted... Shui Cheng's water-based attacks couldn't directly inflict damage on such massive zombies...
The two zombies stretched out their large mouths, their barbed tongues licking the car window fiercely.
The car window instantly shattered!
The tongues were about to impatiently surge into the car, intending to coil around Qin Mingyang.
At this critical moment!
The two Bat Zombies suddenly smelled something and froze for a moment.
This smelled like... a fellow kind?
The humans before them had been... marked by a stronger member of their own kind?
These were someone else's food?
Qin Mingyang's cold sweat was pouring down, and the fishy smell before him almost suffocated him, but the two zombies in front of him suddenly stopped attacking?
Still shaken, he looked around.
Through the rear car window, he saw Chen Xiaolin, sitting in the passenger seat, his eyes closed, his face flushed red, and he was intensely releasing some kind of aura.
Qin Mingyang narrowed his eyes.
Indeed, the two zombies looked at Chen Xiaolin's figure, bared their teeth alertly...
Finally, with unwilling roars, they flapped their wings and flew high into the distance...
Luo Shu and Zhou Xiaojun were silently cheering for Chen Xiaolin, who was releasing the zombie aura to drive away the zombies.
Watching the group of Bat Zombies fly away, the two of them cheered in the car.
"Chen Xiaolin, you did it! Xiao Le told you how to release zombie aura, and you did it this time!"
"Huff... so tired..." Chen Xiaolin's mental energy was completely depleted. He leaned against the car window, and the whole person fell into a deep sleep.
The redness on his face gradually faded.
Qin Mingyang looked at the situation behind him, tapped his fingers, and suddenly smiled.
"The people in this team are all quite interesting. I want this one too."
There was a look of determination in his eyes.
"No need to rush. Maintain distance from the zombie horde behind us, we..." His lips curved again, "...will go slowly..."
...
At this moment, in Zhou Shoushan's car.
Luo Xiaole looked at the "Qin" character engraved on the water cup in Zhou Shoushan's hand with great curiosity.
"Commander, this cup of yours is..." Luo Xiaole was now very curious about anything related to the character "Qin."
"Oh, it's nothing, just an old friend's..." Zhou Shoushan sighed.
"It's a pity I couldn't protect his son this time. I feel somewhat guilty."
Luo Xiaole looked at the "Qin" character...
Her mind flickered, and she ventured a question, "Your old friend's son, could it be... Qin Mingyang?"
Zhou Shoushan immediately straightened up, surprise flashing in his eyes, "You know him?"
Luo Xiaole sighed, no wonder Qin Mingyang was in such a hurry to get to Luocheng Base, it turned out he had "connections up there."
Under Zhou Shoushan's questioning, Luo Xiaole briefly explained Qin Mingyang's situation, indicating that Qin Mingyang and his group should also be on their way to Luocheng Base.
Of course, she omitted the part about the ring.
"Let's go! We'll find a place to stop ahead and wait for them, maybe we'll run into them!"
Zhou Shoushan's usually steady face showed a hint of surging excitement.
Luo Xiaole nodded. They had planned to wait for Luo Shu and the others ahead anyway.
Qin Mingyang couldn't activate the ring now, so even if they met, there was nothing to fear.
After a period of swift travel.
The group finally stopped by the roadside at a place that looked like an abandoned factory.
Luo Xiaole got out of the car and carefully observed the surroundings, confirming there were no recent tire tracks.
This meant that neither Qin Mingyang nor Luo Shu's group had arrived here yet.
She took out the map that Mo Chen had redrawn from memory and compared it.
Looking around, she saw several intersecting roads.
"That's right, we've arrived. Let's go into the factory ahead and wait for them."
No matter which road they came from, they would have to converge on this road to go to Luocheng Base, and they would all pass by this factory.
After traveling for half the day, it was indeed a good place to rest.
The group breathed a sigh of relief and got out of the cars, walking towards the factory.
Calling it an abandoned factory was even an exaggeration of the scene before them.
The roof of the entire factory seemed to have been torn off by something, much of the interior walls had been dismantled, and the ground was covered with broken tiles and gravel...
It looked like an open-roofed, long-ruined ancient ruin...
"Little friend Luo, please," to her surprise, Zhou Shoushan made a very dignified "please" gesture.
Then, the accompanying soldiers carried several camp chairs and a camping table from the car.
They set them up in a relatively flat spot amidst the gravel.
Luo Xiaole was stunned...
Commander Zhou really had a refined taste!
Since there was no immediate threat from zombies anyway.
If that was the case...
Luo Xiaole stood there for ten seconds, stunned.
Then, from somewhere, she produced a pot of... freshly brewed Pu-erh tea...
And a pile of exquisite pastries.