Chapter 424: Enemy Attack
Chapter 424: Chapter 424: Enemy Attack
Anselm Hughes ignored Drake Shaw and asked,
"What do you think, Captain Jacobs? Can we still cross this bridge?"
"We can’t."
Nina Jacobs answered without hesitation.
Anselm Hughes fell silent for a moment, then finally said to everyone, "Get in the cars. We’re taking a detour."
Seraphina Chase and the others exchanged slightly surprised glances.
’General Hughes has never trusted someone like this before.’
’He actually asked a newcomer for their opinion?’
After they set off again, Cecily Wells couldn’t help but put aside her previous disdain and probing.
"You’re really something, being able to tell that was a trap."
Cecily Wells’s tone held a hint of fawning.
"I was just guessing. I thought the bridge deck would collapse, not that it would electrocute someone."
Nina Jacobs answered truthfully.
"Still, who could be so vicious as to set up a trap like that?"
Cecily Wells said as she drove.
"Well, that depends on who General Hughes might have offended."
Nina Jacobs found Cecily Wells’s words a little amusing.
’When it comes to being vicious, I’m afraid no one’s worse than Anselm Hughes and his people.’
"Who would dare cross General Hughes? They must have a death wish.
Once we’re back at the base, someone will naturally investigate and find out."
Cecily Wells said.
Nina Jacobs said no more.
’I don’t care who wants to assassinate these people, but General Hughes can’t die yet. After all, I’m getting closer and closer to the clue about the supplies.’
Just as Cecily Wells and the others had worried, the convoy hadn’t been driving for long before the sky began to darken.
They would really have to camp out in the open.
General Hughes had his men find an abandoned compound and ordered everyone to rest there for the night.
Without a Space Superpower User with a full inventory, they had no proper way to rest, yet everyone seemed accustomed to it and simply began to rest inside their vehicles.
Nina Jacobs felt a bit helpless.
Fortunately, there were only the three of them in this car. Cecily Wells seemed to have gone to find her companions, leaving only Nina and Wayne Warner.
After folding down the car seats, they could make do for a night.
Nina Jacobs secretly took out a lot of food for Wayne Warner, and ate some herself.
Although General Hughes had someone bring her some food, she only pretended to accept it and didn’t eat any.
"Captain Jacobs, there usually aren’t any zombies around here. I’ve already arranged for people to stand guard."
General Hughes spoke with Nina Jacobs for a while longer on the walkie-talkie.
Probably because of what had happened during the day, his tone sounded a little more earnest than before.
"Okay."
After hanging up the walkie-talkie, Nina Jacobs also closed her eyes.
She wasn’t sleeping. From her perspective, the dozen or so Little Zombie Rats she had just placed in the surroundings were already in position outside the compound walls.
Even though General Hughes had arranged for a night watch, she wasn’t entirely at ease.
The dangers on this road didn’t seem to come entirely from zombies.
The enemy was organized and premeditated; it was very likely a powerful organization.
’I just don’t know why they’re targeting these people.’
A thick curtain was hung in the middle of the car. After chatting with Vera Coleman for a bit, Nina Jacobs gradually fell asleep.
An unknown amount of time passed before a few blurry figures appeared in her otherwise pitch-black field of vision.
’Zombies?’
Nina Jacobs, who had been asleep, slightly opened her eyes.
The figures were still far away, and their appearances were unclear in the dark night.
However, she quickly realized they weren’t zombies.
Because the figures had already found cover and were hiding.
’Zombies don’t hide as a group.’
They were people.
This immediately put Nina Jacobs on alert.
She used her Control on one of the Little Zombie Rats, making it run along a corner toward the group of people.
Because it was night, the rat’s small figure was hard to spot, and it quickly approached them.
In the darkness, a group of people deliberately lowered their voices:
"...If only we had heavy weapons, we could just blast the hell out of them."
"If we did that, the ’bait’ in the last car would be done for too."
"So what? When Anselm Hughes schemed against our Crestfall, he didn’t give a damn about innocent people."
"Listen to you, as if you have a cannon right now."
"..."
Hearing their words, Nina Jacobs was also a little surprised.
’People from Crestfall?’
’But it doesn’t sound like it’s all of them.’
"The last shipment of supplies was full of top-grade weapons.
If we’d gotten our hands on them, we’d have something to use this time."
The speaker’s voice was full of regret.
Just then, another unfamiliar voice said:
"We didn’t go for the supplies to lower their guard.
Since this operation failed, there’s no reason to hide anymore.
Let’s take advantage of that bastard Hughes’s poor condition and charge right in!"
"We can’t, Gervase! That’s too reckless!
Besides, they still have Evander!
Even if we kill Anselm Hughes, we still can’t touch their foundation."
A female voice objected.
"We can’t worry about all that. This is a rare opportunity.
Brothers who are willing to go, listen for my signal..."
Inside the car, Nina Jacobs sat up slowly and deliberately.
The fabric curtain swayed, and Wayne Warner also sat up.
"If anyone attacks later, keep them alive for now."
Nina Jacobs said in a low voice.
Wayne Warner looked as though he had just woken up, but he still nodded after hearing her.
The night was still pitch-black, and the air was filled with a lingering, putrid stench.
Anselm Hughes’s guards clearly hadn’t noticed anything.
But at this moment, Nina Jacobs already heard the sound of heavy bodies falling to the ground.
Someone had been killed.
She remained in the car, her expression unchanged.
After a few more people fell, someone finally screamed.
"Enemy attack!"
Someone shouted, and the surroundings instantly erupted into chaos.
Just then, Nina Jacobs clearly felt the car shake.
Someone had used a Superpower to deflate the tires.
’Are they trying to keep us from leaving?’
The other vehicles in the compound were in the same state.
"Looks like we’re not going anywhere tonight,"
Nina Jacobs said.
The night was too dark. Drake Shaw and the others, who had initially thought zombies were attacking, soon realized it wasn’t zombies.
It was people.
But by now, many of their own had already died at the attackers’ hands.
"Turn on all the headlights!"
Anselm Hughes’s gaze fixed on one spot, and several Metal Flying Blades shot out like a Silver Serpent toward the other side of the compound wall.
BANG!
Watching the "Silver Serpent" get shattered by a Thunder Element Superpower, Nina Jacobs raised an eyebrow.
’She had originally thought these people were being reckless, but now it seemed they weren’t weak at all.’
However, Anselm Hughes’s Silver Serpent quickly reformed.
The scene quickly devolved into chaos.
The attackers had a clear objective. Although they were few in number, because they had struck first, the two sides seemed to be evenly matched.
Seeing this, Anselm Hughes, hidden in the darkness, gave a vicious smile. His accumulated Gold Element Superpower transformed into a thousand arrows, shooting from behind him toward the crowd ahead!
An outstanding Thunder Element Superpower User was hit, and the containment he had just been providing was instantly shattered.
The situation quickly turned. The once-troublesome opponent in front of Drake Shaw was pierced through the back, and seeing his chance, Drake quickly followed up with a fatal blow.
"Redmayne!"
a companion not far away shouted upon seeing this.
However, the casualties continued to mount.
Nina Jacobs knew she couldn’t hide in the shadows forever, so she led Wayne Warner out from behind the car.
BANG!
A figure was struck by a Superpower and fell in front of her.
It was a woman.
She immediately clutched her abdomen and stood up, warily manifesting her Superpower.
"Who are you people?"
Nina Jacobs feigned fighting with her.
Fortunately, the scene was chaotic, and no one paid them any mind.
"What’s the point of asking? You people killed so many of ours.
If we’re going to die, we’ll die together!"
The woman’s expression was pained, but she still manifested her Superpower and attacked Nina Jacobs.
Her every move was lethal, but she soon discovered that Nina Jacobs’s attacks had no real Attack Power.
A Fireball tore through the night sky, and a derelict car in the distance instantly exploded.
"If you want to escape, now’s your chance. You’re no match for them."
Nina Jacobs said.