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The vines set up a stairway-like structure in the warehouse, and Ji Yao and Qiao Daye are sent up to cooperate with Li Xuanyuanâs frontal attack.\n
At the same time, Hou Ying looked around the back of the zombie and saw that the zombie did not respond to him. He immediately climbed up the vine stairs to the back of the metal zombieâs head with the most powerful pistol they hadâthe zombie who felt the danger suddenly turned around!\n
ââŠâ\n
Cold sweat slid down Hou Yingâs temples. Although the zombie quickly turned his head back uninterestedly, he was still frightened and his heartbeat fast. After gritting his teeth, Hou Ying pressed the mechanism! The bullet that pierced through the air was about to penetrate into the back of the zombieâs head, but its direction suddenly reversed and shot Li Xuanyuan instead!\n
âXuanyuanââ\n</ins>\n\nâBoom!â \n
While Hou Ying warned, Li Xuanyuan had already knocked the bullet to the ground with a vine. But soon the bullet bounced from the ground and became a new toy for the metal zombie, adding another weapon to stab their teammates.\n
âDamn it!â Hou Ying yelled. They believed too much in the lethality and speed of the bullets, but they didnât expect to give the metal zombie a dowry. Full of hatred, he hammered his head and scolded himself for being stupid, how could he enter this blind zone of thinking, forgetting that the other party is a metal zombie who has absolute control over any metal, and his level is not low!\n
Hou Ying takes the gun and tries to get close to the zombie with his isolation ability to seriously hurt him so that his teammates can take advantage of it.\n
Qiao Daye, who had been watching all directions, discovered his plan and immediately roared, âBrother Hou, come back! Donât go!â As soon as the voice fell, a vine wrapped around Hou Yingâs waist and pulled him to Li Xuanyuanâs back. The latter didnât look back, but scolded, âYou act privately and donât obey the command! If you were a soldier, you would have gone to a military court!â\n
Hou Ying knows that he is wrong. Although he can hide from zombies, his hearing ability is not aggressive, and his speed is not fast. Itâs impossible for him to seriously injure a level 3 zombie.\n
Li Xuanyuan continued, âYou cover Liu Zhan and Ji Yao.â He pushed him to a high place as he said, and he was not allowed to refuse.\n
The metal base controlled by the metal zombie is very large. The attacks of the low-level Ji Yao are becoming more and more ineffective. Later, it is even more difficult to protect himself. Not only him, but also Qiao Daye, whose speed ability reaches level 2 high-level, has failed to dodge several times. Li Xuanyuan acts as a distraction and constantly replaces the vines to wrap their vital parts and block the disaster for them. Within 20 minutes of the battle, there was a sign that his ability was exhausted.\n
âXuanyuan, let me down! Lao Er, you take cover!â\n
Hou Ying shouted.\n</ins>\n\nLi Xuanyuan did not refuse this time, and placed Hou Ying next to him, exposing his back shoulders to absorb the energy transmitted by Hou Ying. After about two minutes, Li Xuanyuanâs energy recovered again, and the attack power and speed of the vines were faster than before!\n
Ji Yao roared over there, âBrother Hou, heal me!â\n
Li Xuanyuan immediately sent Hou Ying to Ji Yao, and immediately after him, to Qiao Daye.\n
The three of them returned to their peak state, but the metal zombie lost his patience and fell into a violent state, then a metal storm set off! The roof of the warehouse was lifted off in an instant, and then, sharp metal weapons stabbed people from all directions like a storm! Before Li Xuanyuan wrapped their eyes, Qiao Daye hurriedly dodged before his eyelids got cut. If it hadnât been for the speed ability, his eyes would become blood holes and scrapped!\n
Li Xuanyuan gathered everyone together. They were all blocked from sight, and they were completely cocooned in vines. They could only attack the metal zombie with sound and a sense of crisis.\n
The clashing sound was close to his ears, and Ji Yao, whose abilities became more and more invincible, was forced out of blood, and he roared wildly! With a single blow, the huge wind blade broke through level 2 low-level and directly exploded the power of level 2 high-level. It threw the metal back in the direction of the metal zombie. Fortunately, it cut the shoulder of the zombie! Li Xuanyuan immediately followed through, dozens of vines pierced the zombieâs shoulders at the same time, severely tore his shoulder with his left arm, and was pulled out by the vines the next second!\n
Ouch!\n
The zombie is furious!\n
âYaoji!<sup>1</sup> Cut off his head!â Qiao Daye shouted!\n
ââŠâ\n</ins>\n\nWithout hearing Ji Yaoâs answer in time, Li Xuanyuan immediately sent Hou Ying into his vine cocoon, to find that Ji Yao really lost his energy! There are not many wind zombie nuclei. Ji Yao needs more energy after breaking through to the second level high-level. Hou Ying has already stored all the energy of zombie nuclei in the wind system in his body before leaving, but now it is far from enough for Ji Yao.\n
Ji Yao, who resurrected in situ, threw himself into the battle before he had time to be surprised with his breakthrough. He roared, âIâm only half blue<sup>2</sup> now. Just now, the wind blade can only be played once, no more!â\n
Thereâs only one chance.\n
âGongsun, pay attention to the injured and be prepared to cover! Ji Yao, save your energy, aim in the direction, and be ready to attack at any time! Ah Zhan, Hou Ying supports you, no matter the cost, you must increase the water curtain to slow down the metal! Lao Er, listen carefully. Iâll attack him with all my strength now! Weâll give Ji Yao a chance!â\n
Li Xuanyuan shouted.\n
Utilizing their respective strengths to the extreme, everyone has their nerves tense!\n
The water curtain wrapped up a few people, and the metals that passed through the vine cocoon smashed against it. As expected, the sound is really weak and the power is greatly reduced. And Li Xuanyuan tried his best to attack every corner of the metal zombieâs body with the amazing vines! The roar of the zombie became more and more furious, and he fought back frantically. Li Xuanyuanâs vines kept breaking and regenerating!\n
The two sides fought, and Li Xuanyuan was almost exhausted after three minutes of fighting in the arena, but at this moment, Qiao Daye shouted, âXuanyuan! Behind! His weakness is in the back!â\n
Li Xuanyuan immediately put away two-thirds of the vines and concentrated on attacking the back waist of the metal zombie. However, this third-level zombie was really messed up, even ignoring the damage in other places, he kept protecting the back waistââJi Yao!!â\n
Ji Yao sharply slammed down the wind blade!\n
Cut off half of the zombieâs head with a single cut! With a snapping sound of dead flesh hitting the ground, Ji Yaoâs spirit stirred. After recovering, his nerves relaxed and he fell down immediately. Faster than that, thousands of vines immediately plunge into the rest of the zombieâs head and pull out the crystal nucleus. In an instant, the zombie fell to the ground and the zombies outside the warehouse growled.\n
The exhausted Li Xuanyuan falls to the ground, and the vines on their body also shrink and disappear. Hou Ying and Gongsun Jing pounce on Li Xuanyuan and Ji Yao one after another; Liu Zhan and Qiao Daye, with their vision restored, immediately turn to defend and block the zombie attack outside.\n
Fortunately, the crystal core of the third-level metal zombie was soon put into the iron box prepared by Hou Ying, and the zombie riot outside subsided. But their smell still attracted a lot of zombies. Liu Zhan immediately isolated them with a water curtain to cover up the smell of everyone.\n
Hou Ying transmits energy to Li Xuanyuan while holding a second-level transparent nucleus, but Li Xuanyuanâs ability is still like a bottomless pit and couldnât be filled. After Gongsun Jing finished treating Ji Yao and others, he simply stopped and said, âItâs not safe here, wait âtill we go back and absorb this level 3 nucleus.â\n
He felt that Li Xuanyuanâs ability had reached another level but the lack of nuclei energy made him not complete the breakthrough.\n</ins>\n\nâLetâs go back.â\n
Compared to this third-level crystal, they were more excited to kill this third-level zombie together. Gongsun Jing took over the treatment of Li Xuanyuan and gave him glucose infusion and normal saline.\n
Ji Yao came back to life, but his current ability could not be replenished, and his combat effectiveness is equal to zero, so he can only stay peacefully in the water curtain and watch them get busy.\n
He looked back at the metal zombie that had fallen to the ground and suddenly muttered, âWhy didnât we notice that this zombie is a mother before?â\n
Qiao Daye and Hou Ying with sharp ears, ââŠâ\n
They really didnât find out this fact. The metal zombie was really too tall, and the flesh on its chest was regarded as pectoral muscles by them by default. Itâs not as good as Ji Yaoâs observation.\n
There are more and more zombies pouring into the warehouse outside. Although there is no smell of humans because of the water curtain, the residual smell of the level 3 nucleus makes them refuse to disperse.\n
Liu Zhan said, âMy ability has broken through the bottleneck of level 2. Although I donât have much energy, itâs okay to attack until we get into the truck.â He was talking about his plan to leave here, as long as Li Xuanyuanâs physical condition recovers, they could leave. Then he heard Qiao Dayeâs scream, âMy God! Look!â \n
He tremblingly pointed at a place trampled on by the zombies. Before a few people could see anything, he called out, âBaby zombie! This is a baby zombie bigger than a mouse?! His smell is too similar to the metal zombie, heâs not hiding on the metal zombieâs back waist all the time, is he? Is he the weakness in the zombieâs back?! Itâs a mother zombie, isnât it?â\n
He couldnât believe it. Several people looked in the direction he pointed out.\n</ins>\n\nEveryone, ââŠâ\n
Gong Sun Jing was shocked, âItâs not yet a baby. It looks like itâs only four or five months old. Why⊠become a zombie?â\n
Seeing the baby zombie only bigger than a palm and being trampled beyond recognition, and even knowing that it is a zombie, everyone canât bear to look at it, they withdraw one after another. At this moment, the baby zombie, whom they thought had been trampled to death, suddenly opened his eyes and seemed to wake up from a dream. Then, he opened his mouthâ \n
âBangâ!!â\n
âAh!!â\n
The water curtain burst open instantly! The shrill cry of the zombie pierced everyoneâs eardrum!\n
Hou Ying and Qiao Daye, who have hearing abilities, fell to the ground in pain, holding their heads and screaming, with blood flowing from their ears. The zombies in the warehouse screamed, but the baby zombieâs scream became louder and louder. Within a few seconds, all the zombies in the warehouse were expelled.\n
The others fell to the ground as well. Li Xuanyuan was also attacked, but his level was higher, and he barely supported the vines to wrap them up. Enduring the bursting headache, he attacks the baby zombie with the vines.\n
Bang, bang, bang!\n
Facing the invisible sound waves from the baby zombie, the vine burst instantly, and Li Xuanyuan felt a strong sense of crisisâthe level of the baby zombie was higher than him! No, higher than that metal zombie!\n\n
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Translatorâs Notes:\n
<ol>It means little chick. I actually forgot to put a footnote like that in Chapter 1 because thatâs how Hou Ying called Ji Yao when he called him, remember that scene? A gaming term referring to MP or mana(?) points.</ol>\nThis is a double update because itâs a cliffhanger, wait a minute for the next one~\n\n</ins>\n\n\n\n<hr class="wp-block-separator">