Absolute Gate

Chapter 19 Dog Barking
Wu finally caught his breath and rested for a while.

His excitement gradually subsided, and he felt pain all over his body.

The ordeal was grueling; his body was covered in bruises, scratches, and bite marks—a truly harrowing experience.

"Tear!"

He tore off a piece of his tattered clothing and used it to bandage his wound.

Observing the smooth, vertical pipe wall, since the saber is so sharp, one could try to carve out a groove to climb out.

Ding-ding-ding-ding!

He kept hacking and chiseling, then stepped on and climbed the grooves marked by the knife marks, proceeding cautiously step by step, struggling to support himself as he climbed upwards.

"Pain Pain!"

He even fell down during the process, but he did not give up. He gritted his teeth and persevered, and after who knows how long, he finally climbed to the top of the pipe.

"Boom boom boom!"

There was a pipe gate here, so he chopped it open, slammed it hard, and rolled out.

"Oh my god... I'm exhausted."

He lay on the cold ground, the surroundings brightened, and a foul smell filled the air.

This looks like a pig farm, with live pigs kept in enclosures all around.

"Thank goodness it wasn't in a cold storage; it turns out they're feeding live animals."

Wu staggered to his feet and followed a path to leave.

Not long after, he pushed open a small door and walked out of the large pig farm.

He discovered that the pig farm was in a larger building, but the building had been bombed and destroyed, with most of it collapsed and traces of purple slurry remaining on it.

It seems that Endless Summer knew he would come out from here, so she destroyed this place in advance and lured him away.

"Boom!"

Outside, wind and rain raged, and thunder roared.

Faintly, there were also gunshots and cannon shots, as well as indescribable sounds of collisions and explosions.

Wu Zhong was located within the barbed wire perimeter of the base. This area was quite large, containing several buildings, including a pig farm, and guard towers stood everywhere.

Upon seeing a large group of personnel being mobilized, Wu hurriedly lay down on the ground.

"So I just came out of the underground air-raid shelter. There's a military base outside. How do I get there?"

Wu Zhong looked at the military knife in his hand; the tip was dull and the blade was quite bent.

Despite the exceptionally tough material, the blade didn't chip after all that handling, but it's no longer as sharp.

"Fine, I'll do my best. At worst, I'll be caught and taken back."

After seeing a group of people walk by in the distance, Wu Zhong immediately sprang up and ran towards the wall.

To be honest, the base here is much less heavily guarded, mainly because most of the personnel are rushing towards the direction from which the explosion came.

There, a fierce wind swirled raindrops and debris, and a purple light emanated from within.

Boom boom boom!
A beam of purple light shot out, which was an explosion, enough to blast open a metal wall or create a plasma crater on the ground.

“It’s Endless Summer… He’s still creating opportunities for me.” Wu finally abandoned his thoughts of surrendering and, taking advantage of the chaos in the camp, ran to the foot of the wall.

The walls are very high, and there is barbed wire on top.

Of course, there should be no electricity. The power station seemed to have been destroyed by Endless Summer. Along the way, Wu Zhong saw several underground cables that had been blown up and were exposed in a terrible state.

This was likely all intentionally sabotaged by Endless Summer.

However, the main purpose may also be to weaken those powerful air shield users who need electricity to hook up.

"cut!"

Wu Zhong leaped and slashed, cutting through the barbed wire fence, then flew over the wall and arrived in the wooded wilderness.

The base is located in a remote area and was originally built around an air-raid shelter in the mountain.

Once Wu Zhong escaped, he found himself in the middle of nowhere.

The mountain roads here are muddy, and the wind is howling.

Wu Zhong ran wildly in the rain, but he hadn't gone far when gunshots rang out behind him.

"Oh!"

"stop!"

Someone has spotted him.

He turned around and saw not people from inside the wall, but patrolmen outside!
The mountains and forests outside the base are not truly desolate wilderness areas; in fact, there are multiple hidden sentry posts in various places!

They did not act rashly despite the chaos inside the base, but remained vigilant on the perimeter, keeping a close watch on him.

"Don't shoot..." Wu Zhong dared not run any further and hurriedly raised his hand.

"Crouch down and put your hands on your head!" The tall, burly sentry slowly approached him.

But just then, a loud bang!
A huge explosion came from behind, followed by a violent shockwave that knocked him and Wu Zhong off their feet.

"Fuck..."

Wu Zhong saw a building in the base collapse, with a towering wave of air shooting out, and a faint golden light emanating from below.

"This...this is that Captain Lu's move, right?"

Wu Zhong's forehead was covered in sweat. Endless Summer's energy was purple, while Lu Guangqi's was golden yellow.

Lu Guangqi also used this sky-piercing explosive light wave when dealing with Ji Mengshen.

The power was immense. In the hazy distance, amidst the raging storm, only golden light could be seen, no longer the purple light.

"Won't Endless Summer get killed instantly, will it?"

Wu Zhong grimaced, but he had no right to interfere.

Seeing that the fierce battle had attracted the attention of the sentries, he suddenly pulled the pin on a grenade, threw it, and turned to run!
"boom!"

He heard a grenade explode behind him and thought he was about to laugh.

But he only heard the sentry's laughter; he himself felt nothing amiss.

"Huh? I heard it but nothing happened? Was it a localized infection?"

Wu turned around and estimated that he was about thirty meters away from the hidden sentry.

In other words, only people within a 30-meter radius of the grenade will be forced to laugh after it explodes; those outside the radius will not be affected.

Wu finally calmed down and hid the last grenade.

He braved his back and ran wildly through the mountains and forests, using both his hands and feet.

Wu Zhong had experienced the effects of forced laughter before; it was extremely uncomfortable, and regardless of one's original abilities, it would greatly diminish one's combat strength.

This is much more troublesome than being hit by a stun grenade or tear gas; it requires another grenade to resolve.

Clearly, these outposts on the periphery do not have such equipment and should wait for the specialists from Unit 985 to come and rescue them.

Wu used this opportunity to shake off his pursuers and drift further and further away from the base, running around aimlessly in the mountains and forests.

Mount Lu is a mountain range, encompassing not only famous scenic spots and peaks but also a large natural area, including nature reserves. Wu Zhong didn't know the way and walked for a while, crossing three mountain peaks without finding a road.

"Where did you bring this to me?"

Exhausted, he plopped down on the ground, drank some spring water, and rested for a while.

"Ouch... my whole body aches..."

"And I'm so tired, my heart is pounding..."

"Is it because the corpse poison is affecting my heart and I'm about to change?"

Wu re-bandaged his wound, worried about the consequences of being bitten or scratched by a zombie.

Since zombies exist in the world, it is common knowledge that getting scratched by a zombie will lead to infection.

"Awoo! Roar! Roar!"

Suddenly, Wu heard a wolf howl... no, a dog bark.

He looked behind him and saw three large wolfhounds standing on a rock in the distance, staring at him!
The breed appears to be black-backed, but it is large in size and runs incredibly fast in the mountains.

"Oh no, a dog is really chasing me!" Wu Zhong hurriedly got up and ran away.

He noticed that the three German Shepherds had collars around their necks and realized that they were dogs kept by the 985 Unit.

It's probably used for tracking, like police dogs.

Can a human beat a dog? That depends on the situation.

When he was a teenager, Wu Zhong once fought a dog with his bare hands. It was a stray dog, and he won, but he was also badly bitten.

The black dog chasing him now was much stronger than the stray dog ​​that bit him back then, almost half a person's height, and looked like a wolf.

Still three!

If a real fight broke out, Wu Zhong felt things were going to be difficult.

"Stop chasing me!"

As Wu Zhong ran, he saw three wolfhounds getting closer and closer, so he turned around and threw a stone.

He threw with perfect accuracy, hitting the one closest to him.

However, suddenly, *poof*!
The stone was sent flying by the wolfhound, and what's even more terrifying is that the dog's head didn't even hesitate for a moment.

Unscathed!

"Huh? Not a single hair shed?"

Wu was shocked and smashed a few more pieces in succession.

No matter how hard he threw the stones, the three dogs were not injured at all, and their speed did not decrease!
Upon closer inspection, these dogs, which had been speeding through the jungle, had actually scraped against rocks and tree branches multiple times, yet they were completely unharmed.

In contrast, Wu Zhong's body was already covered in countless scratches and bloodstains from the journey.

The fastest dog was already pouncing on behind them.

Wu Zhong turned around and swung his sword straight at the dog's head!
"Buzz!"

His hand went numb from the shock, and he almost dropped the knife.

"what?"

"What kind of dog is this?! Invulnerable to swords and spears!"

Wu Zhong felt a chill run down his spine, realizing that this was no ordinary dog.

His slash could split open a zombie's skull, but it couldn't even shave a single hair off a dog's head.

"Awooo!"

Just as he was about to be bitten by the dog, Wu Zhong rolled on the spot to dodge, and at the same time, he half-knelt down and barked.

"Woof woof woof! Woof...woof!"

Wu Zhong barked quite well at imitating dogs, but he still forced himself to scold them.

Baring its teeth and barking wildly!
Although I don't know why, since Endless Summer gave me this advice, I'll just listen to it.

Sure enough, when he barked like that, the three big wolfhounds were stunned.

It started pacing around in place, barking at him, but stopped chasing him.

Seeing this, Wu slowly backed away and started arguing back with the dog!

After spraying him until his mouth was dry and his throat was parched, and he couldn't shout anymore, and the distance between them increased, he turned and ran.

"It really works!"

"But why is that?"

Wu Zhong ran while his head was full of questions.

He has never experienced more amazing things in his entire life than in the last two days.

A plum that makes you thirsty forever just by looking at it, a tangled mess that's hard to unravel, grenades that force laughter within a certain range, an air shield that's linked to carrying electrical energy, a cultivation system that's only for the poor, and a dog whose defenses can't be broken even by a knife.

All these unusual occurrences only fueled Wu's growing astonishment.

Compared to that, he found supernatural beings like zombies and ghosts quite commonplace.

He was curious about this world and had a lot of questions.

But he could only swallow these questions and curiosities, waiting for Endless Summer to answer them for him.

"I've already escaped, you should be able to escape too, right?"

Wu Zhong murmured, but suddenly he heard a dog barking again.

"Ouch!"

Wu Zhong turned around in astonishment; he hadn't been able to outrun the dog after all... It was chasing him again!
There's no other way, so let the dog bark!
After being caught up by three large wolfhounds, he had no choice but to turn around and start barking and snarling at them again.

He barked frantically, but the big wolfhound barked back at him and wouldn't come any closer.

"It is skilled at tracking and invulnerable to blades and bullets, but once it hears the dog barking at the person it is chasing, it will stop and start barking back... until it can no longer hear them, then it will continue tracking."

Wu Zhong carefully considered the situation, having already figured out the wolfhound's tactics.

By delaying and creating distance, Wu was able to escape once again.

But a man can never outrun a dog; the dog can always catch up to him by smelling his scent.

"Will this ever end...?"

The third time, the fourth time, the fifth time...

Wu was being relentlessly pursued by the wolfhounds, and he knew he couldn't shake them off.

After several barks and exchanges, his voice was so hoarse that he knew he wouldn't be able to bark anymore if the dogs chased him again.

Fortunately, after wandering around in the mountains, he finally emerged from the mountains and saw a highway.

……

　P.S.: Sorry.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)