The sky was not as pale as usual, but instead had an eerie leaden purple hue, and the clouds were very low and looked extremely heavy.

Yan Jiasui frowned as she looked at the weather.

Many of the refugees in the building have already been driven out, most of them being the elderly, weak, sick, or disabled. The remaining refugees who are physically stronger cannot be driven away at all.

Yan Jiasui negotiated with these people for a long time, and in the end, they could only compromise and leave some refugees behind, who promised to act as human shields for the superhumans in the building.

The rough-around-the-edges man drove the car shakily, and a rotten smell permeated the air from deep within the soil.

There was another vehicle ahead, filled with refugees. Yan Jiasui's brows furrowed deeper and deeper; she had a bad feeling about this.

This time, there were an unusually large number of zombies. Countless mutilated zombies crawled frantically on the road, while superhumans attacked them from behind cover, and the air was filled with a bloody mist.

Just as they had promised, the refugees charged forward with weapons, while several others took advantage of the chaos to slip away to the side.

"Hide over there! Hide over there!"

"Those idiots are really going to be meat shields?"

Suddenly, the road made a very faint clicking sound, and a moment later, fine lines appeared on the smooth surface.

Ji Chaoxi was cooperating with Yan Jiasui. She was carrying a heavy modified gun, and the flames kept spitting at the zombie horde.

The fine lines on the road surface ran down the earth's crust, and the air gradually filled with a strong smell of sulfuric acid.

The zombies surged forward relentlessly, their numbers growing ever larger.

"Crack!"

The sudden, loud noise completely drowned out all the screams.

Just as Ji Chaoxi and his group were trying to break through the encirclement, the road surface suddenly exploded without warning, and the fine lines instantly turned into a bottomless abyss.

"boom--"

The zombies' roars stopped abruptly. They stood frozen in place, while the others wore expressions of terror. Zombies fell one by one into the crevice, and the refugees and superhumans screamed in fright.

They clung to the ground in terror, feeling a constant sense of weightlessness. Ji Chaoxi was thrown into the crack in the ground and plummeted straight into the abyss.

"Pei Yufeng—"

Ji Chaoxi's eardrums felt like they were about to burst from the wind, and her tears vanished into thin air.

Just when she felt she was being torn apart, she was suddenly embraced tightly in mid-air by a hug that smelled strongly of gunpowder.

As they fell, their vision grew darker and darker, and rocks kept brushing against their bodies. She was then pressed hard into his arms.

The sound of air being ripped apart filled Ji Chaoxi's ears, and she felt as if all the air in her lungs had been sucked out.

Pei Yufeng sensitively detected the blurry outline underground. He forcibly turned the two of them around, facing away from the rocky ground below.

"boom--"

A tremendous crash echoed through the abyss, and the world fell silent.

A faint blue light shone through the cracks in the rock wall, the ground was covered with rusty pipes, murky groundwater gushed out, silt was everywhere, and a damp, cold white mist filled the air.

After an unknown amount of time, Pei Yufeng's eyelashes fluttered. Every bone in his body felt as if it had been repeatedly crushed, causing him excruciating pain.

"...A fluttering moth?"

His voice was extremely hoarse, and his hands frantically groped in the darkness until he felt the warm weight in his arms, at which point he finally breathed a sigh of relief.

He closed his eyes and held Ji Chaoxi tightly in his arms.

The strong smell of blood kept filling her nostrils. Ji Chaoxi slowly opened her eyes. She felt the hardness of the rock beneath her, and her eyes immediately turned red.

Pei Yufeng.

Pei Yufeng was in so much pain that he couldn't speak. He closed his eyes and instinctively touched her hair to comfort her.

Unable to focus in the darkness, Ji Chaoxi subconsciously reached out to touch Pei Yufeng's face, only to find her hand sticky.

Ji Chaoxi dared not cry anymore. She wiped away her tears, and a soft light spilled from her hands, covering Pei Yufeng's wounds.

"No need." Pei Yufeng gritted his teeth and avoided her hand.

She is very weak now, and if she continues to treat him, her mental energy will definitely be exhausted.

Ji Chaoxi choked as she approached him. Pei Yufeng's neck felt icy cold. Pei Yufeng sighed. He was right to have her become a water-based ability user.

Pei Yufeng's wounds began to slowly throb, and luminous threads gradually connected the ruptured tendons. Ji Chaoxi was struggling to hold on and was wearily channeling her powers.

Feeling that Pei Yufeng's wounds had almost healed, Ji Chaoxi lay on top of him, her somewhat aggrieved voice coming from the darkness.

"I'm not getting any for you; I want to keep some for myself."

Hearing her voice, Pei Yufeng felt as if his heart had been twisted hard, trembling with a sour feeling. He awkwardly wiped away the tears on her face.

"Thanks."

The cold mist in the underground sewers continued to permeate; if they stayed any longer, they would freeze to death.

Pei Yufeng held Ji Chaoxi's hand tightly and led her out.

It was very calm outside; the leaden-purple sky had dissipated, and the air was filled with the dry, sandy smell.

Under the scorching sun, the desert appeared somewhat distorted and deformed, the distant sand dunes swayed slightly, and the sky was a pale blue.

The heatwave relentlessly assaulted the two of them. Pei Yufeng released his spiritual energy, and the two held hands tightly as they walked westward.

Ji Chaoxi's throat was incredibly sore, sweat was beading on her forehead, and her steps gradually became unsteady.

After an unknown amount of time, the scorching heat gradually subsided, and the setting sun enveloped the entire desert. Fine sand was blown by the wind, and the dunes gradually shifted their positions.

Pei Yufeng's figure appeared exceptionally tall, and with each step he took, his military boots sank into the sand, making a scraping sound.

Ji Chaoxi lay on his back, her head resting on his shoulder, her arms weakly wrapped around Pei Yufeng's neck. She was so tired that she had fallen asleep.

In the afterglow of the setting sun, her hair, carried by the wind, would occasionally brush against Pei Yufeng's cheek, causing a slight tickle.

The two rested for a night on the leeward side of the desert and continued their journey the next day.

It's even hotter today than yesterday; the air in the desert is so hot it's distorted into ripples.

Ji Chaoxi lay on Pei Yufeng's back, feeling her mind was a complete mess, sweat dripped down her back, her vision began to blur, and every breath was stinging.

Pei Yufeng noticed that something was wrong with Ji Chaoxi, so he quickly put her down. He knelt on the scorching sand and hugged Ji Chaoxi in his arms.

He poured the water from the bottle onto the cap and let it slowly flow into her mouth.

Just then, the roar of an engine echoed through the desert as a modified pickup truck suddenly charged from the side and rear.

They had clearly been observing for a long time; the pickup truck accelerated directly toward them without any intention of stopping.

Pei Yufeng's face was frighteningly gloomy.

"court death."

Just a few meters away from them, the pickup truck's front wheels were forcefully pinned down, and the vehicle rolled haphazardly across the desert, emitting a piercing metallic sound.

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