Quick Transmigration: I Was Cannon Fodder But Became the White Moonlight

Jiang Sicheng, Chen Su, Song Yi, and He Yunfan sat around the dying embers of the fire, holding an emergency meeting overnight.

The leaping firelight illuminated their solemn faces.

Meng Anran, wrapped in a blanket, was fast asleep in a corner a little further away, completely unaware of the discussion.

"It's hard to tell if the news is true or false."

He Yunfan pushed up his glasses and calmly analyzed the situation, his voice low, "It might be Xia Jie's scheme to use us to distract or deplete Zhao Hongbin's attention, or it might actually be true."

"But the key lies in our current situation. Zhao Hongbin's threat is imminent. He will not give up easily and will not stay here. Whether we hold our ground or move to a small area, we will inevitably be caught in a passive and exhausting situation and besieged."

"Going east, though the risks ahead are unknown, at least provides a clear strategic direction, and... a glimmer of hope to escape the current predicament."

"The farthest place I've ever been in the east," Song Yi said, scratching his head, his playful expression unusually serious.

"It's that old industrial area on the edge of the city, it's so desolate. Further out, I heard, there are large tracts of wasteland, abandoned villages and towns, and hilly areas. The roads have long been cut off."

"Moreover, everyone says that the mutated plants and animals in the wild are even more dangerous than the zombies in the city. They are impossible to guard against, and the roads are bound to be difficult to travel, with a nine-out-of-ten chance of death."

Chen Su didn't speak, but looked at Jiang Sicheng, waiting for his decision.

Throughout their journey, countless life-or-death situations were overcome thanks to his calm judgment.

At this moment, his brows were slightly furrowed, his gaze was lowered, and his fingers unconsciously traced the eastern area of ​​the simple sketch spread on the ground.

After a brief silence, Jiang Sicheng finally spoke, his voice steady: "To stay is to sit and wait for death. Sooner or later, Zhao Hongbin will drag us into an endless quagmire of harassment until we are exhausted."

He paused, his gaze sweeping over the crowd. "Going east is dangerous, but the initiative is in our hands. Ah Yue's words were seven parts a warning to Zhao Hongbin, a threat to drive us away..."

"The remaining three points, the news about the wall, may not be entirely unfounded. If a country still has some remaining strength after six months in the apocalypse, it makes sense to choose a place far from the ruins of the city, a place that is easy to defend and difficult to attack, to rebuild order."

His tone became even more somber: "Regardless of whether the wall exists or not, heading east, completely away from Zhao Hongbin's sphere of influence, will be beneficial and harmless to us."

"If there truly is a national force restoring order, what will it mean for Meng Anran, and for us...?"

His gaze lingered on Chen Su's face for a moment, "These are probably the best places I can think of right now..."

"Let's vote," Jiang Sicheng said succinctly. "Those who agree to head east and search for a possible safe zone, raise your hands."

Without hesitation, He Yunfan was the first to raise his hand, his eyes calm.

Song Yi took a deep breath and raised his hand, his face showing a determination to go all out.

Chen Su looked at Jiang Sicheng and slowly raised her arm.

"Okay." Jiang Sicheng nodded. "We'll set off before dawn. He Yunfan, plan the route, avoiding known dangerous areas and difficult terrain as much as possible. Song Yi, thoroughly check the vehicles, weapons, and fuel to ensure they're in top condition. Chen Su, hurry up and recover your mental strength. Your perception is crucial on the road; we need to provide advance warnings."

"yes!"

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In the darkest hour before dawn, the engine started, the SUV drove away from the warehouse where it was temporarily hiding, and plunged into the thick darkness of the east that had not yet faded.

Jiang Sicheng was driving, and Chen Su was in the passenger seat. They were fully aware of their surroundings, and their invisible spirits were constantly scanning the energy fluctuations within a range of several hundred meters ahead.

He Yunfan and Song Yi were in the back row, one constantly checking the map, the other vigilantly watching the blurry moving shadows on the flanks and behind.

Meng Anran was much more energetic and also helped keep an eye on the surrounding environment.

The journey eastward proved more difficult than anticipated.

The city ruins were quickly left behind, replaced by boundless desolate fields, dried-up and cracked riverbeds, crisscrossing fissures in the ground, and the remains of collapsed viaducts.

The original roads had long since disappeared, and off-road vehicles could only force their way through rubble, mounds, and overgrown weeds.

The air was filled with a complex and difficult-to-distinguish odor, sometimes a pungent smell of decaying chemicals, sometimes a sweet floral scent so rich it made one dizzy, and sometimes a rusty, bloody smell.

In Chen Su's perception, more and more unfamiliar life energy signals began to appear.

Some are enormous and move slowly, some are small yet dense, and some have erratic and unpredictable energy fluctuations, their nature difficult to define, seemingly existing between living and non-living things.

She was constantly on edge, issuing early warnings and guiding vehicles to avoid obstacles; her mental energy was being drained like a flood.

But she gritted her teeth and persevered, only taking advantage of the brief intervals between Jiang Sicheng's reminders to quickly absorb the crystal cores he handed her to replenish her energy.

A day later, late at night, the car passed through a particularly desolate area where buildings had almost completely collapsed.

It was pitch black all around, with only the car headlights piercing through the thick darkness.

In Chen Su's perception, a relatively clean energy blank area appeared ahead, without any fluctuations from zombies or other survivors.

The fatigue from continuous high-intensity vigilance caused her to relax slightly. Just as she was about to remind Jiang Sicheng that he could take a short break and catch his breath, she was about to speak.

An extremely subtle, cold, and sticky energy fluctuation suddenly burst forth without warning.

Swift as lightning, with a clear target, it pounced on the speeding SUV, especially the driver's and passenger's seats.

Mental interference!

Moreover, they are extremely skilled, adept at concealment and surprise attacks.

"careful……"

Chen Su issued a stern warning the moment he sensed something was wrong.

But even faster than her voice came the creeping, cold energy that coiled around her like tentacles.

Jiang Sicheng had already sensed something was wrong the instant before Chen Su spoke up to warn him.

His eyes sharpened, and the muscles in his arm gripping the steering wheel tensed instantly. An invisible energy field suddenly expanded outward from him, attempting to block the chilling mental invasion.

"Buzz—!"

Two invisible energies collided violently in front of the vehicle.

There was no loud noise, but everyone in the carriage felt as if their brains had been hit hard by a heavy hammer, their vision suddenly went black, and their ears were filled with a sharp, high-frequency buzzing.

The SUV suddenly veered off course, its tires slipped, and it nearly lost control.

"Boss!" Song Yi exclaimed, uncontrollably unleashing lightning from his body.

He Yunfan's face turned pale. He suppressed his discomfort and a healing white light emanated from his palm, trying to calm everyone's disordered minds.

Chen Su groaned, his temples throbbing violently.

Although the cold, spiritual tentacles were mostly blocked by Jiang Sicheng's energy field, the aftershocks still caused her tense nerves to be accompanied by intense dizziness.

What chilled her to the bone was that her senses clearly detected that the source of the attack was deep within the concrete rubble to her right, and... there was more than one.

Besides the chilling mental fluctuations, two other intense and volatile energy signals were rapidly awakening and approaching.

It's an ambush...

It was an ambush specifically targeting them, or rather, targeting Meng Anran.

Is he one of Boss Zhao's men, or someone else?

"Sit tight," Jiang Sicheng hissed, his eyes icy.

Faced with the sudden attack, instead of slowing down, he slammed on the gas pedal.

The off-road vehicle's engine roared, and the vehicle lurched violently as it charged straight toward the wreckage where the enemy was hiding to the right front, without dodging or avoiding it.

At the same time, he raised his free left hand, spread his five fingers, made a loose grasp on the wreckage, and then clenched it tightly inward.

"Boom—!"

The half-buried reinforced concrete wreckage seemed to be gripped and squeezed from the inside by an invisible giant hand, and then... it exploded with a bang.

Countless rubble, broken steel bars, and twisted metal plates mixed with smoke and dust sprayed upwards like an explosion.

Three figures, which had been perfectly concealed beneath the wreckage, were suddenly and brutally thrown out by the physical impact, crashing heavily into the rubble further away with a series of dull thuds and groans.

Break the deadlock with a single blow.

Jiang Sicheng declared in the most direct way that any ambush is utterly vulnerable in the face of absolute power and preemptive decisiveness.

However, the attackers were clearly no ordinary people either.

Although the chilling mental interference was forcibly interrupted, its source was the man who had fallen to the farthest point, thin and with blood trickling from the corner of his mouth.

The moment he landed, he struggled to his knees, covered his head with his hands, and stared intently at the oncoming SUV with madness and ruthlessness in his eyes.

A stronger mental attack was gathering around him, and it looked like it was about to erupt recklessly.

The other two attackers who were blown away also quickly regained their footing.

A muscular man roared and stomped his feet on the ground.

"boom!"

The ground in front of him bulged up, instantly forming a solid earthen wall nearly two meters high and half a meter thick, blocking the path of the off-road vehicle's impact.

The other was a man with a swift, elusive figure and orange-red flames dancing in his palm. His eyes were fierce, and he recklessly hurled the newly formed, blazing fireball in his hand toward the windshield of the SUV.

Earthen walls blocked the way, fireballs rained down on them, and a mental attack was poised to strike.

Although the combination of the three was rushed, it was still dangerous and deadly.

"Hold on tight," Jiang Sicheng said again.

Facing the oncoming fireball and the suddenly rising earthen wall, his eyes remained unwavering, and he did not even slow down.

With his right hand firmly gripping the steering wheel, he raised his left hand again, this time with his five fingers joined together like a knife, and slashed it through the air in front of him.

A condensed energy blade, arriving after the initial strike, precisely cleaved the center of the blazing fireball that was hurtling towards them.

"puff."

The fireball made a soft popping sound, like a punctured balloon, its internal structure instantly disrupted by the force field contained within the energy blade.

Before the raging fire element could be released, it turned into wisps of smoke and scattered sparks and dissipated, leaving only a scorching wave of heat.

As he shattered the fireball, Jiang Sicheng twisted his wrist, and the trajectory of the energy blade, which was still in motion, changed strangely, from a vertical slash to a horizontal slash, drawing a sharp arc and slamming hard into the newly formed, hard earthen wall.

"Whoosh!"

The sturdy, thick earthen wall cracked open with a snap.

A smooth crack ran from top to bottom, and then the entire earthen wall suddenly split in two, collapsing inward and filling the air with dust.

The off-road vehicle sped forward through the narrow, dust-free passage that had just been cleaved open in the middle of the collapsed earthen wall.

The front of the car hit and sent flying rocks, causing the vehicle to shake violently, but its momentum did not diminish.

"Impossible!" The burly man controlling the earth stared wide-eyed, his face filled with disbelief.

Just as the front of the SUV was about to hit him, and the attack from the psychic behind him was about to erupt in a flash.

"Song Yi! Behind the earthen wall to the left, the Psychic class!"

Despite the dizziness, Chen Su shouted in the swaying carriage, while simultaneously locking her senses onto the thin man who was preparing a mental attack, preventing him from launching a further attack.

Her perception is the most accurate coordinate.

"receive!"

Song Yi was already poised to strike. He suddenly leaned forward, spread his right hand wide, aimed at the direction Chen Su indicated, and unleashed the still somewhat violent lightning energy that he had just taken control of without reservation.

"Give it to me—yes!"

"boom!"

A thick, blinding blue-white bolt of lightning flashed from Song Yi's palm.

It tore through the air, carrying an aura of destruction, and struck with unparalleled precision behind the pile of rubble where the mentalist man, whose location Chen Su had sensed and locked onto, was hiding, at a speed far exceeding what the naked eye could perceive.

"what……"

A piercing scream suddenly rose and then abruptly stopped.

A burst of blue and white lightning erupted, illuminating the area. A human figure could be vaguely seen convulsing violently in the lightning, charred black.

The air was filled with the pungent smell of burning flesh.

The impending mental attack instantly dissipated.

The heavy mental pressure suddenly eased.

Sold out instantly.

Under Chen Su's precise guidance and Song Yi's all-out attack, the most troublesome mental attacker didn't even have time to launch a second effective attack before being completely engulfed by the raging lightning.

"Well done!"

He Yunfan gave a low praise, and a flash of white light from his hand swept across Song Yi's back, whose face was pale and who was slightly out of breath from the full force of his outburst, helping him to stabilize his disordered breathing.

Once the most troublesome controller is dealt with, the remaining two are no threat.

Seeing his companion die instantly and the off-road vehicle running him over, the burly man controlling the soil was horrified. He let out a strange cry, pressed his hands hard on the ground, and the soil beneath his feet softened as he tried to burrow underground to escape.

"Trying to leave?"

Jiang Sicheng snorted coldly, and with his left hand facing the spot where the burly man had burrowed underground, he clenched his five fingers and made a grasping motion upwards.

"Bang."

The ground, which had just softened, suddenly became hard again.

A tremendous force erupted from below.

The burly man groaned, not only failing to disappear underground but also being forcibly pulled from the ground, two or three meters off the ground. He struggled wildly, his defenses wide open.

"It's up to you now."

Song Yi and He Yunfan got out of the car.

Jiang Sicheng's gaze fell on the last fire-type ability user who was trying to escape, and he floored the accelerator, giving chase.

Chen Su's senses were firmly locked onto the fluctuations of fire-type energy, and he kept reporting: "One o'clock direction, around the ruined wall..."

"Turning to three o'clock, he saw a partially collapsed building entrance and tried to crawl inside."

Jiang Sicheng turned the steering wheel sharply, and the SUV drifted and swerved, sticking close to the target.

Behind them, facing the burly man who had lost his balance while controlling the earth, He Yunfan and Song Yi exchanged glances.

Although Song Yi was quite exhausted, his fighting spirit was even stronger, and electric arcs crackled in his palm once again.

He Yunfan instructed, "Song Yi, don't kill him. Leave him alive so you can ask him some questions."

"Okay!"

As soon as the burly man fell to the ground, several electric currents from Song Yi's palm wrapped around his wrists, ankles, and neck.

The powerful electric current caused severe paralysis and convulsions, instantly dissipating his focused energy and leaving his body stiff.

"Well……"

The burly man's breathing became completely disordered; he couldn't even lift a finger, let alone activate his supernatural abilities.

He Yunfan stepped forward and gently applied a white light to a certain acupoint on the side of his neck.

The burly man's vision went black, and he passed out without uttering a sound.

Ahead, Jiang Sicheng had cornered the fire-type ability user in a dead end, with construction debris on three sides.

The man, with his back against the ruins and nowhere to retreat, was deathly pale. Flames flickered in his palms as he hissed, "Don't come any closer! Let me go, or I'll take you all down with me!"

He was met with Jiang Sicheng's eyes, as cold as a frozen pool.

He reached out of the car window with his left hand and grabbed and flung it in mid-air.

"Well!"

The fire-type ability user felt as if he were being held firmly by an invisible force, and the next second he was slammed hard onto the hard concrete ground next to him.

"Crack." The sound of bone breaking was clearly heard.

The superhuman screamed and spat out a mouthful of blood. He slid to the ground, the flame in his hand completely extinguished, and he was on the verge of death.

The SUV braked suddenly and came to a smooth stop.

The dust seems to have settled.

On the horizon, the first rays of pale sunlight pierced the thick darkness, gently sprinkling upon the ruins where a fierce battle had just ended.

The light illuminated the dust-covered SUV and the several figures inside and outside the vehicle, their outlines clearly defined and their expressions solemn in the morning light.

The battle ended quickly; from the attack to the elimination of the three, only a few minutes had passed.

But the danger and precise teamwork involved demonstrate the team's increasingly sharp edge after being honed through trials and tribulations.

Jiang Sicheng got out of the car and walked straight toward the burly man who had been subdued.

Chen Su also got out of the car, her eyes clear and alert, her senses carefully scanning her surroundings to prevent any escapees or new complications.

He Yunfan went over and gave the fire-type ability user some basic first aid, keeping him barely alive.

On the other side, Song Yi kicked the unconscious burly man: "This guy's skin is thick and tough, an electric shock is like a tickle..."

Jiang Sicheng squatted down in front of the burly man controlling the soil, and without saying a word, he reached out and pressed hard on a certain spot on the side of the man's neck.

"Hmm..."

The burly man gasped sharply, slowly regaining consciousness. His eyes were initially unfocused, but when he saw Jiang Sicheng's cold face and the miserable state of his companions, he was immediately gripped by endless fear, and his body began to tremble uncontrollably.

"Who sent you? Zhao Hongbin, or Sister Xia? Do you have any accomplices? Speak."

Jiang Sicheng spoke softly, without much emotional fluctuation, but every word pierced the strong man's psychological defenses.

The burly man's eyes darted around, still trying to be defiant.

Jiang Sicheng didn't give him a chance. He raised his index finger, and a tiny point of energy light flickered at the tip of his finger, hovering in front of the burly man's brow.

The sharp, cutting sensation, even without physical contact, instantly sent shivers down the burly man's spine, causing him to break out in a cold sweat.

"Last chance."

The terrifying moment between life and death shattered his will to resist.

The burly man hurriedly hissed, "Yes, it's Boss Zhao, Zhao Hongbin! He guessed that the girl from the healing department might have been taken away by outsiders... so he sent a few of us... to ambush her on this road that might lead east... He also has another team on another road... Just the few of us, there's no one else, really, spare me, sir, spare me!"

"Where is Zhao Hongbin now? How is the battle with Sister Xia going?" Jiang Sicheng continued to ask, without withdrawing the energy from his fingertips.

"No, I don't know the exact location... It should still be near the community center... We fought with Sister Xia's men all night, and many people died on both sides... Boss Zhao was also injured, but he said he must catch that girl... We were just ordered to ambush her, we really don't know anything else!"

He spoke incoherently in Zhuang-Chinese, tears streaming down his face.

Jiang Sicheng stared at him for a few seconds and judged that what he said was true.

He withdrew his finger, stood up, and said to He Yunfan, "Take care of this, so they don't have another chance to send messages or do anything wrong."

He Yunfan nodded, took two steps forward, and the white light in his hand shone again.

This time, the white light enveloped the heads of the two prisoners.

It is not a treatment, but a more refined and profound energy manipulation.

A few seconds later, He Yunfan withdrew his hand, and the two prisoners went limp and fell into a deep coma again. This time, they probably wouldn't wake up for more than ten hours, and even after they did, their mental strength would be severely suppressed, making it difficult for them to use their superpowers again.

"There's no threat for at least a day," He Yunfan said calmly.

Jiang Sicheng stopped looking at the two men and turned to walk towards the SUV.

"Search their equipment and anything else they might have that could be useful, especially their communication devices. Then, get them in the car and leave immediately. Since Zhao Hongbin sent people to ambush us on this road, it means he anticipated our possible movements. It's no longer safe here; we must create distance as soon as possible."

"Yes."

Everyone quickly sprang into action.

Song Yi and He Yunfan quickly searched the three attackers and found some low-quality crystal cores, a small amount of food, two badly worn pistols, and an electronic device that appeared to be used for short-range communication.

Jiang Sicheng inspected the vehicle's condition. Although it had crashed through the earthen wall and rubble, the off-road vehicle was in excellent condition. Apart from some scratches and dents on the exterior, it was otherwise undamaged.

As dawn broke, the off-road vehicle started up again, carrying everyone eastward.