Chapter 586: Lured Too Many
Chapter 586: Chapter 586: Lured Too Many
Liam Grant hadn’t even reached the South District Cemetery before he noticed an unusually large number of zombies in the vicinity. After stepping out of the car and killing a few waves of them, their numbers had increased rather than decreased.
"Liam, the South District hasn’t been peaceful lately. Should we wait until the rescue team clears this area before coming back?" Zachary Barron asked.
"What if it only gets less peaceful from here on out?
"We need to collect the supplies as early as possible. Otherwise, it will be even harder to get close to this place later on," Liam replied.
Many roads in the South District led to South Riven, and quite a few zombies here had gathered from over there. In his previous life, the zombies here had only multiplied. At that time, the City D Base had been too overwhelmed to fend for itself and was ultimately forced to lock down the entire South District. He planned to transfer all the supplies he had previously collected in the South District before the lockdown took effect.
His sister Hannah Grant’s space had already been emptied. Although her space had never been large, if she worked together with the other Space Superpower User in their team, the two of them should be able to fit everything.
"Alright, we’ll listen to you." Zachary thought for a moment and said no more.
Nine times out of ten, Liam’s words were accurate. Before the apocalypse began, he had told them not to throw away the warm clothes and bedding they had collected. There had also been a few times when he led them to find supplies in the ruins. Whenever he said a certain path was impassable, later facts always proved him right. Even though Liam was extremely arrogant and selfish, the Superpower Users in the team were willing to listen to him because of this foresight.
They didn’t know how many supplies there were this time, but since Liam had even brought along his troublesome sister, the amount surely wouldn’t be small. They just didn’t know what percentage of the supplies he would share with them.
The vehicles continued forward, but the situation grew increasingly dangerous. Even Liam frowned. He wondered why so many zombies had appeared here this early.
"Brother Grant, someone is killing zombies up ahead!" a man who flipped down from the roof of the car shouted.
"Someone is killing zombies? Could it be the rescue team?" A look of pleasant surprise appeared on Zachary’s face.
"It doesn’t look like the rescue team, it looks like..."
When a roaring Fire Dragon appeared in mid-air, everyone immediately thought of one person.
"It’s Stella! That’s Captain Stella Nina Jacobs’s Fire Dragon! I definitely can’t be wrong!" someone shouted.
The surrounding zombies gradually gathered toward the front. In just over ten minutes, their numbers had already decreased significantly. Everyone could now clearly see the situation ahead.
"As expected of Captain Stella. What a powerful Fire Element Superpower."
"It’s not just the Fire Element. She is a Three-Element Superpower User! The Fire Element is her main attack, the Earth Element is her defense, and the Wind Element acts as support!"
The people inside the cars immediately grew excited.
"I heard Stella helps anyone from the base they encounter. We’re really lucky today." Running into Stella here was just as good as running into the rescue team. Everyone breathed a sigh of relief.
No one noticed Liam’s complex expression.
Not far away, Nina Jacobs was accurately manipulating her Three-System Superpower. Her control over her superpowers had already reached a masterful level. Every time she activated her powers, she could either unleash destructive force or perfectly conceal the residual energy down to the smallest detail.
In contrast, even though he had lived through two lifetimes, his superpowers were showing a declining trend. At this point in his previous life, although he hadn’t advanced to the Intermediate level yet, he had been close. Now, however, he could clearly see the massive gap between his two lifetimes.
At this time, Nina had also noticed the new arrivals not far away. However, she simply pretended not to see anything and continued to focus on killing zombies with everyone else.
To prevent the distant zombies from gathering too quickly, she controlled the mid-air Fire Dragon, making it spit out streaks of Fire Blades toward the surrounding ground. Even though the weather was bone-chillingly cold, the power of the Fire Element Superpower wasn’t diminished in the slightest.
"We accidentally lured too many zombies." Although Holden Shaw said this, there wasn’t a hint of worry in his eyes.
The reason so many zombies had gathered here was actually that he and Chase Gallagher had lured them over. After all, the open space in front of the cemetery was extremely vast, and this was also Nina’s intention. It was just that the two of them had accidentally lured a bit too many.
"What does it matter? It’s been a long time since things were this thrilling!" Leo Hale’s Gold Element Superpower moves were varied and diverse. Sometimes he used golden threads, sometimes a Flowing Light Dagger that quickly pierced through a zombie’s head, and other times Metal Spike Fists that wrapped around his hands at a moment’s notice...
"This Mutated Zombie... is incredibly tough," Warren Ramsey said, dodging an attack from a Thunder Element Mutated Zombie.
At least two-fifths of the zombies here were Mutated Zombies. Holden and Chase had taken the lead in dealing with a few Speed Element Mutated Zombies. If Nina hadn’t used her Earth Element Superpower to condense a sand wall over a man’s height in front of them to temporarily block the zombies’ attacks, they probably wouldn’t have been able to handle it at all.
"Captain, it looks like someone is coming over there," Jessica Vance said.
"Yeah, ignore them," Nina replied.
Liam Grant had brought people to the cemetery to collect supplies. It seemed this was also one of the storage points for the supplies they had gathered early on. She just didn’t know where exactly his supplies were located.
"What are they doing waiting over there?" Holden asked in confusion.
"Maybe they want to enter the cemetery in the back?" Ian Chandler replied. The end of this road was the cemetery, yet they had stopped there, as if waiting for the team to clear out all the zombies.
But Nina was right; there was no need to get distracted by those people.
"Ian, how did you pull off that move? It’s way too cool!" Leo asked.
An Alloyed Mutated Zombie was controlling long Gold Spikes to attack him, while Ian condensed a Wood Shield to block in front of himself. Just as the Alloyed Zombie tried to pounce forward, the space behind it seemed to tear open, and immediately after, several vines quickly dragged the Mutated Zombie into the rift!
The rift appeared again, and the Alloyed Zombie was thrown out, having been cleanly sliced in half from top to bottom!
This scene almost left everyone around them stunned.
"Is this... a Space Superpower?" Theodore Thorne couldn’t help but ask.
"Yeah, it’s my Space Superpower," Ian gave a shy smile, looking quite embarrassed on his boyish face.
"That’s amazing, I’ve never seen anything like it! How did you do it?" Alaric Fletcher said, wondering if Space Superpowers could truly be used like this.
"I was inspired by Nina.
"Actually, that’s my Space Blade. The principle is based on fetching objects through space, but instead, I grabbed the zombie into my Space Blade.
"As long as it goes in, I can instantly shred it to pieces," Ian explained. He really liked everyone in Stella, so he didn’t hold back in explaining his ideas regarding his superpower. Inside the Space Blade was a space he had carved out, and he was the master of that world.
"I think I understand, but at the same time I don’t.
"It seems this Space Superpower isn’t just for storing things. It has a lot of potential waiting to be developed," Warren said.
Nina casually formed a Wind Dragon Vortex. Inside that Wind Dragon Vortex, sharp blades seemed to flash, and streaks of flowing fire spilled out.
"Every superpower has infinite possibilities for development," Nina said.
Ian had been inspired by the Space Skill Book she gave him. As for the contents of the Skill Books of other elements she had acquired, she had also taught them to the people around her through verbal explanations or other means.
However, in the end, she did all this for herself.
"If the skin is gone, where will the hair attach?" This was a truth she had only understood later in her previous life. If the outer skin was destroyed, the hair and other appendages would no longer exist either.
The City D Base, and even the entirety of Drakonia, was the skin to her. She didn’t know if what she was doing would help in this apocalypse, but judging from the current situation, the City D Base in this life was changing for the better.