Translator: Dj2203
Editor: Dj2203
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Just after the trees and vines were removed, Lu Xun stood on the car roof, smiling broadly, and loudly proclaimed, “If you want to get out of here alive, hand over the person who killed Grandma Shu Ming.”
In the darkness, the superhuman’s vision was much clearer than that of ordinary people, but they could only see Lu Xun’s position.
Liu Wei’s face darkened. It was indeed that woman’s doing!
He opened the car window, and sure enough, the previously frenzied zombies had suddenly become incredibly docile, not even trying to grab Liu Wei: “I told you, his grandmother wasn’t in the base before, we didn’t harm her!”
“Tsk tsk, you won’t listen to reason, so you’ll have to drink the penalty cup.” Lu Xun picked at his ear, looking at Shu Ming: “Do you believe what he said?”
Shu Ming shook his head.
Lu Xun laughed loudly and said, “Even a child doesn’t believe your nonsense, yet you try to fool me? I don’t have much patience, and for a bunch of scum like you, death is death. If you don’t hand it over, don’t blame me for being impolite.”
Hand it over? Hand it over to whom?
Everyone here, except Liu Wei, had eaten the old lady’s flesh. Handing over any one of them would be a trap for Liu Wei in the future.
It’s not about the person being handed over, but the fact that he could hand someone over at a time like this. Who would still trust him?
Handing over an ordinary person? Lu Xun simply didn’t believe it.
Liu Wei spoke into the communicator: “Ready, charge out!”
Lu Xun narrowed his eyes: “Xiao Hei, will you go first or me?”
Hearing this, Xiao Hei roared and charged out.
The zombies that had been blocking the cars retreated like a tide. Xiao Hei was overjoyed, roared again, and ripped up the ground in front of Liu Wei.
Mud covered all the cars.
“Earth-type ability!” Liu Wei realized that the car doors couldn’t be opened at all, and the cars couldn’t move forward at all.
“Base Commander! Our abilities can’t break through!” A panicked voice sounded from the communicator.
Liu Wei and his group seemed arrogant, but their ability levels were improving slowly. They usually only cared about eating, drinking, and having fun. Dealing with ordinary zombies and ordinary people was no problem for them.
But when they encountered Xiao Hei, once zombies awakened their abilities, they used them far more skilfully than humans.
It was as natural for them as breathing.
Lu Xun watched as the zombies retreated, leaving only Xiao Hei, Shu Ming, and the others. He jumped onto Liu Wei’s car, carrying Shu Ming, saying, “I’ve changed my mind. Anyway, his grandmother’s death is related to you. Killing you would be avenging Shu Ming’s grandmother, wouldn’t it?”
As he spoke, Lu Xun’s hand touched the car covered in mud, a slight smile playing on his lips.
“How about leaving their base leader for you?”
Shu Ming looked at Lu Xun and nodded.
Instantly, screams erupted from inside, an unseen panic in the darkness. Only the warmth and smell of blood on the people nearby could be heard.
The atmosphere of despair made Shu Ming nervously pull on Lu Xun’s hand. Lu Xun looked down at Shu Ming.
“Xiao Hei, the others are yours. Don’t bother with the ordinary people,” Lu Xun said with a smile to Xiao Hei.
Xiao Hei roared excitedly and leaped onto the roofs of other cars, causing the mud covering them to fall away and reveal the vehicles. Xiao Hei punched through the windshield.
Before the driver could react, he grabbed the man by the collar and yanked him out.
The driver was a wood-type ability user; his mind went blank when Xiao Hei grabbed him, but he quickly recovered and lashed out with branches from nearby trees, trying to pull Xiao Hei away.
Xiao Hei grinned, his blood-red eyes coldly fixed on the man, and with a light leap, he left the car. But that lash sent the entire car flying.
“Ah—!”
A scream rang out, and the car plummeted from the sky, rolled to the ground, and exploded shortly after.
“Xiao Hei, don’t hurt ordinary people,” Lu Xun noticed the situation and couldn’t help but warn him.
Xiao Hei, still gripping the man’s neck, gave Lu Xun an innocent look. How could this be his fault? It was this man who caused the car to explode; it had nothing to do with him!
“Roar—” With a dissatisfied roar, it picked up the man and slammed him to the ground.
The man tried to resist, but Xiao Hei was incredibly fast. It was as if it were throwing a defenceless rag doll.
On Lu Xun’s side, everyone in the car was dead, but Liu Wei was still bound by Lu Xun’s metal wire. He couldn’t move. The wire was extremely thin, and even the slightest movement cut his skin.
Lu Xun pulled out a dagger and placed it in Shu Ming’s hand: “It’s up to you.”
Shu Ming gripped the dagger tightly, looking down at it.
Liu Wei panicked and hurriedly said, “Shu Ming, your grandmother really has nothing to do with me. She hasn’t been at the base since you disappeared. I always thought she left with you. I’m telling the truth!”
As he spoke, a burst of flames erupted, and Lu Xun picked up Shu Ming to dodge the attack.
“Yo-ho.” A whip suddenly appeared in Lu Xun’s hand, lashing out fiercely at Liu Wei, pulling him out and causing him to roll to the ground.
“Pfft—” Liu Wei spat out a mouthful of blood, glaring at Lu Xun with resentment.
“Shu Ming, I had your grandmother killed. Do you know how she died?” Liu Wei coughed twice, a malicious smile spreading across his face.
He knew that no matter what, they wouldn’t let him go today.
So what was the point of hiding it? Even if he fought to the death, he wouldn’t be a match for this man.
Lu Xun narrowed his eyes, knowing full well that Liu Wei’s next words wouldn’t be kind. However, before he could do anything, Shu Ming tugged at his hand and shook his head.
He wanted to know, to know exactly how his grandmother died.
Liu Wei laughed loudly: “Shu Ming, your grandmother’s death was horribly tragic! Your grandmother didn’t have to suffer like this. If you want to blame someone, you should blame those people.”
“Your grandmother died because of them. Because of them, your grandmother suffered so much. Do you know the horrible screams your grandmother made when she died… tsk tsk.” Liu Wei looked at Lu Xun’s ashen face, even more smug.
Shu Ming, gripping the dagger, slowly walked towards them, step by step.
Lu Xun, fearing Liu Wei might cause further trouble, remained extremely vigilant and dared not relax for a moment.
Liu Wei slowly recounted, word by word, how he had ordered Shu Ming’s grandmother beaten, how he had her boiled alive, the expression on Shu Ming’s grandmother’s face, her pitiful screams.
Shu Ming’s vision blurred; he tried to open his eyes wide, but the mist obscured his vision. He could only see the figure in front of him, but not Liu Wei.
They were so close.
Shu Ming bit his lip, gripping the dagger with both hands, and stabbed him viciously, again and again, blood staining his face, body, and hands.
However, Shu Ming seemed to have turned into a robot, only knowing how to stab himself repeatedly.
Tears fell onto his hands, the warm touch making it impossible for him to distinguish whether it was Liu Wei’s blood or her tears.
Lu Xun silently watched Shu Ming. Liu Wei was already dead, yet Shu Ming continued to stab him. He sighed softly, looking at Shu Ming with a complicated expression.
Just now, Liu Wei’s words had clearly been provocative; he wondered if Shu Ming would harbor resentment towards them because of Liu Wei’s dying words.
He walked over, took the dagger from Shu Ming’s hand, and hugged him, patting his head reassuringly: “It’s alright, it’s alright, it’s okay.”
Shu Ming was trembling all over, Liu Wei’s description of his grandmother’s death kept echoing in his ears.
The person in his arms went limp; Lu Xun looked and saw that he had fainted, probably due to the shock.
“Xiao Hei, it’s done.” Lu Xun called out. Apart from the people in the car that had been whipped away by the branches, all the ordinary people in the remaining cars were alive and well; and all the superhumans were dead.
Lu Xun glanced at Wang Zhen, who looked terrified, and at the man who had run out of the car after the pregnant woman was pushed out.
Lu Xun didn’t even look at them; there was still one car available, and they could leave if they wanted.
He led Xiao Hei and carried Shu Ming towards the van parked to the side.
“Wait—” Wang Zhen reacted. Although he had been terrified, he had found his wife, who had been left aside, after the zombies retreated.
Now, standing beside his wife, seeing Lu Xun and the others preparing to leave, he instinctively called out to Lu Xun.
Lu Xun turned around: “What’s wrong?”
Wang Zhen recognized Lu Xun; Lu Xun was among the people outside the Radiant Base. The fact that the zombies hadn’t harmed them must be related to Lu Xun.
He looked at his pregnant wife: “Can we…can we come with you?”
Lu Xun looked at him amusedly: “Come with me? Do you know where I’m going?”
Wang Zhen froze; he naturally knew where Lu Xun was going. But looking at his wife, who was about to give birth, and now that Liu Wei and the others were dead, he was alone with her, and things might be even more dangerous. He had underestimated the situation. He hadn’t considered that after leaving the base, he wouldn’t be able to care for his wife, let alone survive himself.
So many zombies, yet they hadn’t harmed his wife or him…
“I know, please, take us with you, okay?” Wang Zhen held his unconscious wife. “My wife is about to give birth…”
“Tsk, taking you isn’t impossible.” Lu Xun looked at Wang Zhen. “But you’d better think carefully. Do you really want to come with me?”
“I’ve thought it through.” Wang Zhen said firmly.
The others who were still alive hid in the car, afraid to come out, and remained silent. Lu Xun nodded. “Okay, then come with me.”
Fu Ke withdrew her mental energy after seeing this scene.
The woman hadn’t miscarried because Fu Ke had protected her; otherwise, given how roughly they had treated her, and the shock she had experienced, she should have gone into labor even if she hadn’t miscarried.
So Fu Ke helped stabilize the foetus, but she didn’t expect the pregnant woman’s husband, who had been so determined to leave, to actually come back now.
However, the pregnant woman was probably about to give birth.
Fu Ke called Feng Han over: “Do you know how to deliver babies?”
Feng Han was confused: “What?”
“Delivering babies.” Fu Ke frowned and said, “The pregnant woman who left before is returning with Lu Xun and the others.”
“If it’s a natural birth… I’m fine, but if it’s a C-section, I can’t help.” Feng Han spoke honestly.
“Let’s prepare. I estimate that by the time they return, the pregnant woman will be about to give birth.”
After giving the instructions, Fu Ke rubbed her stomach, feeling uneasy about the food she had prepared.
Although it was the middle of the night, Fu Ke felt really uncomfortable.
So she took out a live octopus from her spatial storage, cleaned it, and prepared to make spicy octopus[1].
She prepared scallions, ginger, garlic, and dried chili peppers. Then she boiled water, put the gutted octopus into the boiling water, and added a little white vinegar. After briefly blanching the octopus, she used a slotted spoon to scoop it out.
She heated oil, sautéing scallions, ginger, garlic, and dried chili peppers until fragrant, then added fermented bean paste and stir-fried until the oil turned red. The aroma of the seasonings made Fu Ke’s stomach rumble; she was hungry again… She swallowed, only to feel her stomach growl even more.
After adding cooking wine, she stir-fried the octopus, seasoning with sugar, chicken bouillon, and cilantro.
The adorable octopuses made Fu Ke’s mouth water.
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