Chapter 790: Call Him Uncle Zhang
Chapter 790: Chapter 790: Call Him Uncle Zhang
"Brother Zhang is amazing!"
Bai Yifan was quite outgoing and instantly took a liking to Captain Zhang’s overwhelming presence, effortlessly wiping out thousands of flytraps.
His whimsical side flared up immediately.
If he could recognize such a big brother, he could walk sideways during the apocalypse.
Captain Zhang looked about the same age as Bai Xiqin and Leng Yebai, his real age was unclear, but calling him ’Brother’ certainly wouldn’t be wrong.
"Call him Uncle Zhang."
The Base Commander’s gloomy voice came from behind Bai Yifan.
The Base Commander happened to know Captain Zhang’s real age, nearly forty, not much younger than himself.
The Base Commander thought of himself as well-maintained, standing beside his son, they looked like two brothers.
But Captain Zhang’s face seemed younger by the day, looking even younger than his son.
Comparing is just annoying!
"Uncle?"
Bai Yifan blinked, looking at Captain Zhang’s clean shirt and straight back, unable to call him ’Uncle’.
"Yes, this guy is around my age, so you should call him Uncle."
The Base Commander raised his voice a bit, deliberately letting Captain Zhang in front hear.
"But, why does he look so much younger than you?"
Bai Yifan asked foolishly.
Innocence in a child’s words.
Base Commander: ...
"You better call him Brother Zhang." The Base Commander felt a bit toothache.
He mused to himself, Bai Yifan wouldn’t lose out calling him Brother Zhang twice!
Calling Zhang Yiming Brother Zhang, you could walk sideways in the zombie tide.
Calling Captain Zhang Brother Zhang, you would be considered a connection in the Human Survivor Alliance.
Goodness!
Bai Yifan’s two big brothers, one Zombie Emperor, one Captain of the Human Survivor Alliance.
King of both darkness and light!
Captain Zhang heard the voices of Bai Yifan and the Base Commander behind him but didn’t comment.
Unlike the Base Commander, he’s not obsessed with face.
Anyway, he looks young, Bai Yifan couldn’t bring himself to call him Uncle!
The flytrap rooted in many places, the group walked a long way and still hadn’t walked out of the planting area.
Along the way, occasionally, a few scattered bones could be seen on the ground, products of the flytrap’s digestion.
"There are so many flytraps, could they be artificially planted?"
Bai Yifan looked at the impressive rhizomes, goosebumps rising.
The rhizomes had been cut by Captain Zhang’s Wind Blade, no longer able to attack humans.
The growth ability of the mutant plants was very strong, after some distance, those unremoved rootstalks would grow new fly-catching leaves, and then this place would become a new Asura Field.
Captain Zhang didn’t kill them off, with each step he saw far into the future.
Humans heedlessly cutting down trees would destroy nature, and Captain Zhang wouldn’t leave such troubles for future generations.
"They are indeed artificially planted, right there, there’s a base, the people there are quite interesting, decent ability, just unlucky, having undergone two devastating blows, their research institute was nearly crippled, a few experimental subjects haven’t been recovered, but recently, the unlucky No.9 experimental subject was caught by the Zombie King, probably won’t last much longer."
Captain Zhang pointed casually in a direction, without any special expression on his face, as if simply stating a fact.
Bai Xiqin and Leng Yebai immediately thought of a middle-aged man with the Arabic number ’9’ on his clothes.
Seeing him so imposing back then, they thought his base would be something formidable!
In Captain Zhang’s words, it felt like a child’s playhouse camp, not worth mentioning.
Whether they were too weak or Captain Zhang too strong was unknown.
"Aren’t we going to do anything about them?"
Bai Xiqin asked.
From the middle-aged man’s few words, Bai Xiqin felt the research direction compared closely with Wang Ge’s father and son’s institute.
The goal was to "create God."
Socalled god, meant to be hundreds or thousands of times stronger than ordinary humans.
When people reach heights others cannot easily reach, they become gods in others’ eyes.
Just like Captain Zhang now, stronger than any Superpower User, in ordinary people’s eyes, he’s a deity who could command all.
Bai Xiqin had no good feeling about such institutes, they captured Superpower Users for experiments, using their kind for research, restraining Superpower Users’ freedom and life.
Such institutes should end up in Hell.
"No need, they’ll destroy themselves."
Captain Zhang smiled, gently shaking his head.
He could see the institute’s future, with dwindling foundation, desperately wanting to expand labs, capturing test subjects.
But not just anyone can be test subjects in this world.
No.9 experimental subject provoked someone they shouldn’t have, soon this base would face that person’s wrath.
Bai Xiqin looked at Captain Zhang’s confident smile, raising an eyebrow.
Can foresight really be this accurate?
If so, why hadn’t he predicted the apocalypse becoming Hell in the previous life?
Bai Xiqin couldn’t comprehend this logic.
Her rebirth influenced others’ trajectories, at most people she knew, strangers barely at all.
If so, Captain Zhang’s trajectory should be similar to the previous life.
Future grandparents said the future world would be a true apocalypse, safe bases falling to zombie tides one by one.
If Captain Zhang could see all this, why didn’t he start troubling Xiao Ming now?
Unless he was plotting something?
A hint of caution lined Bai Xiqin’s eyes, fearing Captain Zhang would scheme against her family to threaten Xiao Ming.
The Bai Family truly couldn’t take on Captain Zhang.
Just as Bai Xiqin was overthinking, Captain Zhang suddenly turned and looked at her.
"It’s disgraceful for humans to scheme against humans. They scheme people as test subjects, leading to self-destruction, humans should never plot against their kind."
Captain Zhang said this looking at Bai Xiqin.
While Bai Xiqin wondered about Captain Zhang, he said it.
It seemed directed at the mysterious base, yet a bit like reminding Bai Xiqin, but only Captain Zhang truly knew.
His gaze was extremely sincere, without self-interest.
After saying this, he continued leading the way.
Others thought he was talking about those researchers, but Bai Xiqin felt Captain Zhang seemed to sense her secret speculation.
Mind Reading Technique?
Bai Xiqin gently coughed, no longer daring to indulge in wild thoughts, pretending calm, walked hand-in-hand with Leng Yebai onwards.
Boom――
The sound was like a bull’s bellow or thunder from the mountaintop direction.
The sound was faint, barely audible if listened carefully, yet truly reached everyone’s ears.
"It’s so sunny, yet it’s raining? The apocalypse’s weather is really strange!"
Zhong Beihai puzzledly glanced at the sky.
Though he had seen snow in midsummer, sunny rain didn’t seem too odd.
"Not rain, it’s an animal."
Captain Zhang looked deeply in the sound’s direction, continuing,
"This creature is extremely rare, giving us a warning, better not head that way, let’s take another path!"
After speaking, Captain Zhang really changed direction.
Given Captain Zhang’s exceptional combat ability, none opposed, following behind him was enough.
This world harbored too many mutant animals, no one cared to identify which this was.
"Once reaching the mountain top, Elder Zhong and Zhang Feng should find mutant plants nearby, be cautious, and don’t venture elsewhere lightly." Captain Zhang paused before continuing, "Coming up the mountain is not easy, but it’s dangerous, so Xiao Niu, you stay close, and if anything happens, call for me and I’ll come to you."
Captain Zhang was essentially suggesting splitting up.
Bai Xiqin’s eyes flickered, Captain Zhang was giving her a chance to take the Fusang Tree from the space.