Abnormal survival in the end times

Chapter 214 Mission Completed
Yunxi Village?
The group, who had been excitedly anticipating moving to the centrally heated residential area in the city center the next day, suddenly fell silent.

They couldn't quite describe the feeling in their hearts, but it was a bittersweet one.

Even knowing that the new home they're moving to has soldiers sent by the base commander guarding the gate, there probably won't be any major security problems.

But that's just a rough estimate; how can it compare to the impregnable Yunxi Village?

The woman sitting in the main room, I heard that the green ivy wall she cultivated has mutated and has an automatic attack ability. Any living thing that gets within three meters of the wall will be entangled and strangled. It's truly a 360-degree, no-dead-angle protection.

Not to mention Captain Jiang and his band of iron soldiers.

It's really something. You could laugh yourself awake even if you fell asleep inside.

Unlike them, although there are protective teams patrolling the greenhouse area, it is far inferior to Yunxi Village. They still have to be on guard when they sleep at night in case something unexpected happens in the middle of the night.

Although the probability is low, it has happened before.

Another very important point is that the people in Yunxi Village reportedly all own their own land, and they even receive guidance from agricultural university professors on farming. The grain they grow belongs entirely to them, which is completely different from the grain and vegetables they get from working in greenhouse areas.

Even if they returned to their jobs, such a place wouldn't be as good as this.

I wonder how Su Yanxia got involved with this Bai family member in the main hall.

While feeling a pang of sadness, everyone smiled and told Su Yanxia to keep in touch, then watched with envy and resentment as the family drove away.

Three days passed in the blink of an eye. In order to conceal their whereabouts, Jiang Minglang and his group traveled through almost entirely uninhabited areas. The cities and villages they passed through were either lifeless, occupied by mutated plants, or overrun by mutated animals.

The more desolate a place is, the more likely this phenomenon is to occur.

Whenever they passed through such places, Jiang Minglang and the others were fine, but Qiqi always had the illusion that humanity had perished, leaving only these dominant plants and animals.

so horrible.

However, they did not actually experience many battles when passing through these places. This may be because their aura was strong, and plants and animals also have the instinct to seek advantage and avoid harm. Therefore, apart from zombies, the only ones that actively attacked them were a few arrogant plants and animals, or plants and animals whose bodies had mutated but whose brains had not.

However, there are not many zombies left. Two years and three months into the apocalypse, this culprit that initially disrupted human order has become the first to perish.

With fifty kilometers to go before reaching their destination, they passed through a villa community.

"It's all in the past now," Jiang Minglang ordered the car to reverse.

Five minutes later, two black minivans stopped at the entrance of the residential compound.

But no one got out of the car, and no one spoke. Even the two children, Qiqi and Jiji, held their breath and listened intently, just like adults.

Faintly, there seemed to be some crying coming from deep within the residential area; no, not just crying, there also sounded like a cat meowing.

Once confirmed, Lao Sheng and one of Qiao Fei's speed-type ability users floated inside like the wind.

Jiang Minglang and Qiao Fei then got out of the car with the two children and Bai Yang.

They've been doing this the whole way. They agreed to train Jiang Qi, Lin Zhe, and Bai Yang, so it's impossible for them to stay safely in the car when something happens.

In that case, it would be better not to come out at all and just stay in the White Orchard.

The people inside were very alert. Lao Sheng and his companion thought they were being careful enough, and they didn't make a sound when they walked. However, they were still noticed when they were about to get close to the villa where the noise was coming from, and they quickly ran away through the back door of the villa.

His speed was extremely fast, almost on par with Lao Sheng's; clearly, he was also a speed-based ability user.

Old Sheng didn't catch up with the person, but he did manage to see clearly who had run away.

He really wanted to say, "Don't run away, we just heard the child crying and came in to check."

But the woman carrying a child and with a black cat was running too fast for him to catch.

"I couldn't see her face clearly, but from her figure I could tell she was a young woman, carrying a backpack on her back and holding a child in front. The cat that was with her was also running very fast. It didn't even turn its head back, it was like a dog chasing it."

Jiang Minglang, who was listening to Lao Sheng's report, looked up at him with a complicated expression.

"If you can't speak properly, then don't speak at all. I'll report this to Captain Jiang next time."

His comrades who were chasing after him were speechless. They said, "If you want to be a dog, then be one yourself. Don't drag him down with you."

The reason I came in to investigate after hearing the baby crying and the cat meowing was because I was afraid the child had been brought here by the cat.

Now it seems that this is certainly not the case.

That black cat clearly belongs to that woman.

As soon as the villa door opened, the smell of burning wood wafted out. A small fire was burning on the living room floor, with three bricks stacked into a triangle and a small milk pot on top, the water inside already boiling and bubbling away.

People were boiling water, but they seemed to have scared people away.

Jiang Minglang and the others glanced at the villa from the doorway but didn't go inside. He turned to Lao Sheng and said, "Go back to the car and get a bag of noodles and a bottle of sesame oil."

Consider it an apology, for them accidentally disturbing others.

I just don't know if that woman will come back with the child.

I think I'll go back. Judging from the layout here, it seems like I've been here for a while, since it's freezing cold and it's hard to find a place to stay.

After putting their things down, the group set off again.

This time, there were no further delays on the road. It wasn't until we were five kilometers away from our destination that we found a secluded spot to park the car.

After everyone got off the vehicle, they pulled down the invisible canvas fixed to the roof of the vehicle, turned on the switch, and the two vehicles disappeared from the spot.

The place where they rescued Old Huo last time wasn't their main base. After all, Old Huo refused to join them, so they didn't take him to their secret base, but just placed him at the First Experimental Base.

The place had been destroyed during their last rescue of Old Master Huo, and it was now a ruin. The people who were imprisoned there at the time also took the opportunity to escape.

This place is their real core laboratory, which was discovered by Commander Ouyang using all his connections.

Two days later, in the middle of the night, dozens of purple lightning bolts suddenly crackled and popped in succession in a small, heavily guarded base in the Northeast. After the lightning, various ice balls and metal balls of different sizes sped through the air.

For a moment, crackling and thudding sounds echoed continuously.

As the alarm sounded, dozens of submachine guns immediately appeared on the walls and rooftops. But before they could fire, lightning struck again, first accurately hitting the submachine guns that had emerged from the rooftops, and then the ones on the walls.

A sniper precisely locked onto the superhuman who emitted the lightning, but froze at the moment of firing: it was a child! Afraid he was mistaken, he tried to confirm again, but the child had vanished.

The sniper immediately went on alert and searched around. Then, his sniper rifle locked onto another person: the superhuman who was smashing ice balls and metal balls at the base.

But the finger that was about to pull the trigger couldn't help but pause again: Why is it a child again?

Or is it the one from just now?
When the alarm sounded, the guard post's headlights also turned on, but they were slammed off before they were even a second old.

In the dim light, the sniper saw two children dressed identically, both wearing black masks.

Therefore, he suspected that it was the same child.

Possessing both lightning and ice powers?

Holy crap, dual superpowers?

The sniper was excited. So far, their leader had only found two people with dual abilities, one of whom had both water and wood powers. Unfortunately, he became weak after only a few blood draws, then developed a persistent high fever, and soon passed away.

Another one is speed-based and has a rare self-healing ability. After she was artificially inseminated and became pregnant, she ran away just before giving birth and has not been found to this day.

With one of the two dual-elemental ability users dead and the other escaping, the laboratory now has no one to conduct research on.

Thinking of this, the sniper quickly asked his comrade next to him to inform the leader that the person who attacked the base was a child, and that the child had both lightning and ice powers.

Compared to support abilities, the boss and his collaborators are more interested in offensive abilities.

Moreover, this is just a child, making it even more significant for research purposes.

"Then make sure you don't get hurt. I'll gather people to go and catch him."

I used the walkie-talkie to notify my superiors and my colleagues nearby, telling them to be careful not to hurt the child.

After the notification, the sniper's companion excitedly left his hiding place, intending to personally capture the dual-elemental ability child.

No, it might be more than just two systems.

Through the binoculars, the sniper discovered that the child was running extremely fast. He circled the base's perimeter wall from one point to another, sometimes releasing purple lightning, sometimes throwing ice balls inside. He was swift and frantic, and it seemed as if his body had an inexhaustible source of energy.

What does this mean?
This suggests that he may have three different abilities and that his level of power is not low; otherwise, he wouldn't have shown any signs of fatigue after so long.

good very good!

The first person in history to discover a three-elemental ability user was a teenager who came to them.

Thinking of this, the sniper quickly picked up his walkie-talkie and began to warn, "Everyone, be careful, everyone, this kid is running very fast, he's probably a third-tier fighter."

Upon hearing that it was the Third Department, the three base leaders who had been in the secret room, accompanied by their guards, excitedly emerged and instructed their men, "Use nets to capture them, but be careful not to hurt anyone."

Bang bang bang!
With three gunshots, the three founders of the superhuman research and experimentation base had three holes appear on their foreheads in succession, then stared wide-eyed in disbelief as they fell backward to the ground.

The eight guards on the scene reacted extremely quickly, each finding cover or using their earth-based abilities to instantly erect a wall in front of them.

However, after the three gunshots, the area outside the laboratory seemed to return to calm, with no further movement.

Not only was there no movement here, but even the child with three types of supernatural abilities who had been causing trouble outside the base's walls had disappeared.

For a moment, the entire base was so quiet that only their breathing could be heard, as if nothing had happened, there had been no attack, and there were no children with three different abilities.

Aside from the three top leaders of their base who were lying on the ground.

After waiting quietly for another five minutes, confirming that the attackers would not launch another attack after killing the base leader, the guards emerged from behind cover. The man who appeared to be the guard captain had just opened his mouth to say something when suddenly a loud explosion rang out—
Bang!
In the flames, pieces of sheet metal and wood were blown into the air, followed by a crashing sound, as if the windows had been broken. Then, the piercing alarm sounded again.

However, the sound only lasted for a dozen seconds before it stopped abruptly, and then another explosion rang out, tearing a hole in the dark night sky as flames shot up.

Two explosions occurred in two different places, blowing open two doors.

As the firelight died down, someone ran out of the door, staggering and in a panic, still wearing a blue and white striped hospital gown.

These people hadn't run far when someone carrying three large bags rushed up to them like the wind, opened the bags, rummaged through them, and threw cotton-padded coats at them. "Those who don't want to die, hurry up and put these on. Run to the left, that's the parking lot. Here are the keys. Hurry up and get the car, we're going to blow up the gate now."

Before anyone could react, he left behind a bunch of car keys and ran off like the wind.

No one could see the face clearly from beginning to end; they only saw that it was somewhat dark.

boom! boom!
When the explosion rang out again, the group that had escaped the laboratory were already in their cars. Those who could drive led those who couldn't, flooring the gas pedals and speeding forward with a fierce determination.

With all three leaders of the experimental base dead, the hundreds of guards were leaderless and lost their will to resist. They all found places to hide, allowing the experimental subjects and the mutated animals that were still alive in the basement to leave.

As dawn broke, Jiang Minglang and his group had already retraced their steps and returned to the villa complex at the 50-kilometer mark.

However, this time they didn't sense anyone inside, and they wondered if it was because their previous investigation had startled the woman, preventing her from returning.

It was just a minor incident, and none of them took it to heart.

After all, the mission was completed unexpectedly smoothly, in just two hours, with no casualties.

For a moment, Lao Sheng and Ren Bin wondered if they had come to the wrong place, or if the guards were fake.

How could they be so cowardly? Their leader is dead and not a single one of them dares to confront them head-on.

Unlike last time, that battle was really difficult. The enemy had many superhumans and even more weapons, which led to Xi Yu being accidentally shot.

Now, I've managed to handle them both with my two kids.

Thinking of this, Jiang Minglang turned around and glanced at the last seat. The two children were slumped over in the back seat, sleeping soundly with their heads touching.

Two hours later, everyone stopped to rest and eat.

They brought a pot with them this time, and each of them cooked a bowl of noodles with chili sauce. It was fragrant and delicious.

They never expected that their noodles and chili sauce would attract a thief.

While the noodles were cooking, Qiqi, who couldn't handle spicy food, went to the trunk of the second car to get the scallion oil sauce that his great-grandmother had specially prepared for him.

He first opened the bottle cap and smelled it, finding it much more fragrant than the chili sauce his dad and the others ate. Then, without checking if the trunk lid was properly closed, he turned around and went to eat noodles.

Behind him, a dark claw stealthily reached into the trunk.
good night!