Lord of Illusions City

Chapter 17 The Road Ahead

"Kacha!"

While looking at the middle-aged man, Li Chenzhou held a pistol in both hands, disassembling it with rapid movements, without even glancing at it.

Several team members stared blankly at Li Chenzhou's hands, watching him complete the disassembly and assembly of the firearm in a mere dozen seconds. The whole process was smooth and fluid, practically perfect!

The next moment, the assembled pistol in Li Chenzhou's hand magically disappeared, and he extended his right hand to the middle-aged man with a smile:

"Li Chenzhou!"

The middle-aged man raised his hand, pressed the walkie-talkie at his ear, and said:

"Roger, out!"

Then, he looked at Li Chenzhou with emotion, finally letting out a long sigh and shaking his hand:

"Li Yunshan! Captain of the Qi City Special Operations Team!"

"Qi City?"

Li Chenzhou was stunned. They were in Qing City. Qi City was a neighboring city, close in distance but not in the same province. How could they be here?

"We came here on a mission to arrest the leader of a gang, but we encountered this kind of thing!"

Li Yunshan said with a wry smile.

"Lin Qiang?"

Hearing Li Yunshan's words, Li Chenzhou suddenly remembered something and blurted out.

Li Yunshan asked in astonishment, Lin Qiang was the person they were trying to arrest, but how did Li Chenzhou know?

"The only person who would require another city to arrest must be Lin Qiang. It seems he has the greatest influence in Qing City!"

Li Chenzhou explained, then smiled:

"Just last night, a few minutes before the descent of the Hell Silk, I broke his son Lin Tianci's legs!"

That's right, Lin Tianci was Lin Qiang's son, which was why he was so unscrupulous in Qing City. He wasn't bragging when he said he'd make Li Chenzhou stay in prison until he died.

"You're the one who broke Lin Tianci's legs?"

Li Yunshan looked at Li Chenzhou with a strange expression:

"Lin Tianci isn't dead! His underlings called the police, and then the local special ops came and found Lin Tianci. However, the local police only let them save him, probably because Lin Qiang wants to deal with you himself!"

"That was fast?"

Li Chenzhou was also a little surprised.

At that time, there were only a few minutes left before the apocalypse, so Li Chenzhou didn't go for the kill, because with Lin Tianci's condition and the pool of blood on the ground, he would become the target of all the surrounding zombies once the apocalypse arrived, unless he mutated himself.

He didn't expect that he could be rescued. Li Chenzhou couldn't help but feel a little regretful. He should have added another strike. But then he thought, if he had really killed him, the special ops wouldn't have to save him but would have arrested him directly.

That way, although he could have dragged it out until the apocalypse, it would have caused him a lot of trouble. This way was fine too, he could just add that strike next time he saw him!

"Forget it! Never mind him."

Li Chenzhou waved his hand and said:

"It looks like you've made a decision. At least in the short term, we won't be hostile to each other, right?"

Li Yunshan nodded.

Li Chenzhou turned to look at Duan Xue:

"Since that's the case, and you saved our people, as thanks, I can tell you some things I know. But before that, I need to talk to my brothers. Is there still room here?"

"Any room with the door open, you can pick!"

Li Yunshan gestured towards the hotel with his arm.

"Good!"

Li Chenzhou nodded, and just as he was about to turn around and leave, he stopped again:

"Oh right, this place looks safe for now, but the city is not a place to stay for long. You'd better discuss it in advance!"

Li Yunshan looked into Li Chenzhou's eyes and nodded slowly. Li Chenzhou nodded in response, then walked towards Duan Lei and Duan Xue. The three of them randomly found a guest room on the second floor, entered, and closed the door…

"Captain! Why…"

After Li Chenzhou and the others left, the young man finally couldn't help but ask. Li Chenzhou was obviously threatening Li Yunshan just now. According to the young man's understanding of Li Yunshan, he wouldn't accept this kind of threat. He didn't expect it to end up like this.

Li Yunshan came to the sofa in the lobby, sat down, and waved his hand. Except for the other guard at the door and the team member on the second floor, everyone else came to his side. Only then did Li Yunshan speak:

"When I first saw that little guy, I already thought he was very good. I didn't expect his boss to be even stronger!"

"What was that black mist? A special ability?"

The young man finally couldn't help but ask.

"I don't know. Moreover, when I say he's strong, I don't just mean that mysterious black mist."

Li Yunshan shook his head and said:

"I'm talking about his way of doing things!"

Hearing Li Yunshan's words, the other special ops looked at each other, not quite understanding what Li Yunshan meant. Now that they thought about it, that guy's way of doing things did seem very aggressive.

"The first thing he did was bypass our eyes on the rooftop and appear directly next to Leopard on the second floor. If he wanted to be our enemy, Leopard would at least be a corpse by now."

Li Yunshan knew that his team members didn't understand what he meant, so he explained:

"Plus the black mist he showed later, and his accurate marksmanship, if he used a surprise attack, I think he could do what he said and kill everyone in this hotel."

The team members looked at each other, no one said anything. Although Li Chenzhou had not shown his marksmanship, based on his proficiency and speed in assembling the gun, no one would think his marksmanship was bad.

"First, he showed his strength without being deliberate, and then when he killed Zhang Jinlong, he used the sentence, 'Even the Heavenly King can't protect you,' to show his attitude."

Li Yunshan continued:

"Then he pointed out that he had another partner lurking outside, and finally, he used the fact that we saved his companion to tell us his attitude towards us… Sigh! Everything is interlocked, if I hadn't seen it with my own eyes, I would have thought he was an old fox who had lived for seventy or eighty years!"

"What's his attitude towards us?"

The young man was like a master of comedic timing.

"Friendly! He seems to have a certain affection for police officers. At least, he doesn't want to be our enemy!"

Li Yunshan said definitively.

"Captain! He said the city in the future… will be the world of zombies, so, what should we do?"

Bai Ling suddenly asked at this time.

Because this was a secret mission, they entered Qing City in plain clothes and found their own hotel, so they were able to quickly clean up the zombies in the hotel and control the hotel when the apocalypse happened.

After that, they had been trying to contact their superiors, but all the long-distance communications were down. Even their own walkie-talkies, which had free communication within ten kilometers, now only had a communication distance of more than ten meters.

Therefore, their original plan was to occupy the hotel first, and then go out to search for survivors, collect food and water resources, and contact their superiors at the same time.

And what Li Chenzhou said just now was very obvious, that the city was not a place to stay, and they had to leave. But if they were to leave, naturally there would be no big problem with just their small team. What about the other survivors in the hotel?

Just leave them here to fend for themselves? Bai Ling felt that her captain shouldn't be able to do that…