Abnormal survival in the end times

Chapter 280 Eliminating the Root Cause
Most pregnant women become less active as the pregnancy progresses; they prefer to lie down rather than sit, and sit rather than stand.

Bai Li, on the other hand, lost the drowsiness she experienced in the early and middle stages, and in the later stages, she felt a sense of suffocation, as if she had too much energy in her body that she couldn't release.

This feeling of being stifled made her restless and want to do something.

Therefore, the large-scale sweep around Pengcheng was also to release the excess energy in their bodies, and at the same time to let those who were eyeing them with covetous intent see their strength and counterattack.

On her first day out, Base Commander Ouyang originally assigned her a guard team of fifty men, but Bai Li found it troublesome and cut it by more than half, taking only twenty men with her.

She knew in her heart that if she didn't bring any of them, Commander Ouyang would definitely not let her leave the house.

After all, according to her own wishes, bringing Bai Yang, the accompanying doctor Xiao Shuang, Qi Qi and Ji Ji, plus Xiao Wu and Feng Bao, is enough.

No matter how capable Qiqi and Gigi are, in other people's eyes they are still children and cannot be considered people.

As for Xiao Wu and Feng Bao Bai Jun, they are even less important.

So overall, of all the people she was taking out, only Bai Yang could barely serve as a bodyguard, and could be considered a normal person.

The captain of Ouyang Base's guard team stood at the city gate and watched them walk away, puzzled. He couldn't help but ask Kang Erbao, who was guarding the gate, "What's going on with you and Shi Jiashu? Your sister-in-law went out, why didn't either of you follow her?"

Kang Erbao raised his hand and touched his head, which was covered by a hat. There was a bald patch on the very top. Yesterday, when he was teasing the two little black phoenixes, he accidentally stepped on one of their tails, which angered their father, who almost chopped his head off.

Since arriving at the White Orchard, this white phoenix has been eating and drinking well, and its superpowers have been rapidly upgraded. Now, after transforming, it's almost as tall as him. The key is that its beak and claws are also powerful, and its body is agile. Even someone like him couldn't dodge its attacks.

Who would understand? This guy, who was once ranked in the top 200 in the all-army competition, couldn't even beat a bird!

Aside from Bai Jun, Xiao Wu's fire ability is unmatched by any other fire-type, not to mention the two little devils, Qi Qi and Ji Ji.

With them following their sister-in-law, Bai Yang couldn't even get a turn.

Therefore, upon hearing the captain of the guard team's words, Kang Erbao glanced at him with an expression as if he were an idiot, thinking to himself, "What do you know? Your twenty men are already in the way enough, why are you going anywhere?"

The moment she felt the energy surge again, Bai Li divided the green ivy on the car roof into twenty parts, and then, like twenty snakes, slithered away in different directions.

The first stop of the sweep was naturally Ancheng, which is right next to Pengcheng.

Although Liu Xu’s team and the management’s patrol team have been doing their best to clean up and maintain the city since the policy was issued three months ago, and have been working hard to create suitable places for survivors to live and farm in the areas around the city where there is land.

However, being outside of Pengcheng, the absence of the surrounding high walls and heavy stone gates made the survivors feel less safe and less at home.

Correspondingly, when Liu Xu's team and patrols are out of sight, some unknown chaotic situations may exist in certain corners.

such as--
Less than five miles outside the city, Bai Li told Bai Yang to turn left off the highway and drive straight west along the small road for about ten kilometers, finally stopping at the entrance of a new rural village right next to Ancheng.

"Bai Yang, take a few men into the village, resolve the matter, and then come out."

Bai Li didn't get out of the car; after all, that kind of scene was too offensive to be seen by Xiao Shuang and the children.

Although he didn't understand what his sister wanted to resolve, Bai Yang didn't ask any questions. After parking his car, he led a few people and followed a section of green vines into the village.

The guards watched curiously as the pothos vine scurried forward, leading the way. They couldn't help but pat Bai Yang on the shoulder and whisper, "Wherever this pothos goes, can your wife really see it too?"

Bai Yang didn't want to scare people, so he said vaguely, "She will only look at it if it's within a certain distance and there are unusual circumstances, and even then, she can only get a general idea and can't see clearly."

"That's still amazing." The little soldier clearly hadn't thought that far ahead and said with envy, "I'm also a wood-type, but no matter what I do, I can't reach my sister-in-law's level. I can only throw in a handful of seeds to force them to grow and launch an attack, which is incredibly slow."

Bai Yang thought he meant "slow as a feather" and patted him on the shoulder with sympathy, "You don't need to be too self-conscious. After all, not every wood element can be like my sister. For example, Ning An, who lives next to our Yunxi Village, can only accelerate peony growth from beginning to end. He can't do anything else. He's not as good as you."

"How could that be? I know Brother Ning. His peonies are amazing. They can mutate and eat mosquitoes. He's much more powerful than me."

Bai Yang felt a good impression of the young soldier in front of him; the boy was too modest.

Humility makes one progress; it seems he has a lot of room for improvement.

However, when they were led by Green Ivy to the gate of a house in the innermost corner of the village, and when they pushed open the gate and went inside, the group's faces immediately darkened when they heard the man's loud laughter, the woman's screams, and some other indescribable sounds coming from inside.

With a bang, the tightly closed door of the main room was kicked open. Before Bai Yang could do anything, the wood-type warrior who had been chatting with him all the way threw out a handful of seeds with a livid face. The seeds quickly sprouted and grew, and in the blink of an eye, they developed into vines like pothos, binding all the naked men and women together.

To be precise, it was the men who were tied up, while the women covered their private parts with vines.

The whole process took less than two seconds.

poplar:.
He stared at the rapidly growing plants for several seconds, then turned his head and looked at the little wood-type warrior with a deep gaze. "Damn it, is this what you called 'slow as a penny'?"
He even envied Ning An, saying that Ning An was more capable than him. Bai Yang dared to say that if Ning An were here, he would definitely beat this kid up.

This is Versailles!

After all, Ning An's biggest envy was that other people's wood-type characters could fight, and although his peony was no longer just for decoration, its mutated mosquito-repelling effect was excellent. However, it was still useless in combat.

You can't just give someone a pot of mosquito-repelling peony when you're in a fight and expect them to admit defeat, can you?

So even though his peony can mutate, he still feels that his special ability is useless.

But this grandson is quite something.
After I finish dealing with things here, I need to ask him what his name is, and then go back and tell Ning An. I don't believe he won't come and deal with him.

Show off, huh!

Bai Yang contacted Liu Xu, who was currently in charge of security in Ancheng. Even if they killed all these scumbags now, they would still have to inform him in the end.

As for the village's current provisional village chief, he came running over breathlessly just as Bai Yang and the others were about to leave.

Bai Yang had no intention of striking up a conversation with him, since Liu Xu had also arrived.

They didn't concern themselves with what happened next and went straight out of the village to get back to their car.

However, the moment they stepped out of the village, countless green ivy vines climbed up the walls of every household, their roots digging into the soil beneath, as if they were about to set up camp again.

"My sister-in-law is amazing!"

The young soldier's eyes lit up as he admired the green vines, leaving the poplar tree speechless. However, the plants this kid grew from seeds had a peculiar characteristic: when he stopped trying to grow them and severed his connection with them, they would immediately wither and lose their vitality, turning into limp, decaying vines.

Unlike his sister, even if she forced the growth of pothos plants here, they would still grow very well even if she left without taking care of them, and might even mutate into living individuals.

Just like those mutated pothos plants that have blossomed on the walls of Yunxi Village.

"Let's go, to the next place."

Bai Li closed her eyes and sensed the direction. This time it was quite far, and it seemed that she had already left Ancheng's territory.

Thanks to the little one in her belly, she had so much energy in her body that some of the green ivy that had just been released had already traveled nearly sixty miles, exceeding the distance she could control before.

But it seems we're not at the end yet.

On the other hand, by the next morning, almost all the captured superhumans and ordinary people had recovered from the effects of the drug and regained their mobility.

Apart from Sanda, the others drove away in the guards' cars, leaving together without taking any of the supplies stored there.

After all, someone saved my life, so naturally the things should belong to them.

Jiang Minglang and the others didn't say anything about this. Although they had brought a lot of things with them when they set off, so many days had passed and the mission was not yet completed, so it was necessary to replenish their food supplies along the way.

But they didn't take it all; they only took a small portion, and the rest was still loaded into the small pickup truck by San Er.

After studying the map and checking the route again, this time Sang Da drove the pickup truck, Sang Er sat in the passenger seat, and Huang Liu and Xiao Heilian sat in the back.

The road wasn't easy to drive on, but that wasn't a big deal for Zhang Shaoda; he could always manage to drive through smoothly.

To everyone's alarm, they didn't encounter a single other person after driving all day.

In other words, the further southwest you go, the fewer people there are on the road.

Yesterday afternoon, when we were interrogating those two guard leaders, we heard them talking about competing to arrest people. At the time, we weren't too shocked, but now... this is like they've wiped out all the survivors in the Southwest?

After that, no one spoke again. Their mood was heavy and depressed, as if they were the only humans left on this vast and desolate land.

As the sun was about to set, they passed through a remote mountain village and saw several slender zombies swaying at the village entrance in the distance.

As Sang Er had mentioned before, the terrain in the southwest is complex, with some villages located in the mountains or far from other human settlements. In such cases, the zombies initially infected by the virus might be left behind.

For example, those few in front, judging from their stiff gait and weathered, withered faces, you could almost immediately tell that they were old zombies from the very beginning of the apocalypse.

They walk unsteadily, and when they hear the sound of a car, they rush over, but even after a while, they only manage to walk a dozen meters.

Xi Yu twitched his ears and whispered, "There are people in the village. If I heard correctly, there should only be one household."

There's a family living there, and a few zombies.

When the car stopped, Lao Sheng and Zhao Kang got out to check the situation.

Because they didn't know the specifics, they didn't touch these few primitive old zombies when they passed by.

Although they were already shriveled and skin and bones, it was not hard to tell that they were already very old when they were infected and turned into zombies.

As a result, they appear clumsy and stiff in their movements, with only the 'hoarse' sounds coming from their throats sounding like normal zombies.

It was easy to kill them like that, so Lao Sheng and Zhao Kang didn't rush to make their move.

After the car stopped and fell silent, the zombies immediately seemed to lose their target, standing there blankly circling around.

Is it unable to smell human scent? Has it undergone any evolution?

The group sat quietly in the car, watching as the zombies, having lost their target, circled around a few more times before scattering and wandering aimlessly around the village entrance once more.

Not long after, Lao Sheng and Zhao Kang came out of the village, and they still did not touch the zombies when they passed by.

“Boss, there’s a family of four living in the village: parents and a son and a daughter. Two of the zombies wandering around the village entrance are their elderly relatives, and the other three are their uncles. They didn’t kill them partly because they are their own family members, and partly to mislead others so that people would avoid the village if they saw zombies.”

Fortunately, Lao Sheng and Zhao Kang didn't harm the zombies. Although they were zombies, they were also someone else's protectors. This also shows that zombies are more trustworthy than humans.

That family of four must have gone through something before, which is why they would rather live in the village with a few zombies than go to the so-called survivor base.

The car quickly drove away, and as several zombies staggered after it, Lao Sheng and Zhao Kang made noise behind them, luring them back to the village entrance.

Those people probably wouldn't want a zombie like that, so let's just keep it. The family has worked so hard to maintain a good balance, there's no need for them to break it.

As darkness fell, they finally made it out of the winding mountain road and into a small town.

We spent the night there and set off again early the next morning.

At noon, we finally saw a decent-looking county town that still existed, but as soon as we got close, we heard the sounds of fighting inside.

After everyone stopped the car and turned off the engine, Lao Sheng and Zhao Kang went to investigate again.

Half an hour later, the two returned and found that the two groups of people fighting inside had either been knocked unconscious or killed.

"Damn it, it's a double-cross. Two of the other five groups that were arresting people got into a fight over three superhumans, and they both claim they arrested them first. What kind of bastards are they?"

Lao Sheng and Zhao Kang were furious as soon as they got a glimpse of the situation. These days, it's so rare to see a living person here, and they're still arresting people?
The two men fought against thirteen, quickly killing eight and leaving five alive.

If they can find out that the stronghold is nearby, they will definitely take it out.

If it's too far, they won't go out of their way. After all, if the root cause isn't eliminated, even if one so-called stronghold is destroyed, another will appear.

Therefore, they needed to hurry on their journey, find that secret base as soon as possible, and destroy all those madmen and the drugs they were researching, which were made by mixing the blood of so-called zombies and superhumans.