Ch 117: TGCIR

Although Li Weilan wanted to protect Shen Cheng and didn’t want to tell her about these things, Shen Cheng had already guessed what these so-called bait were for.

In the apocalypse, it couldn’t be for fishing bait; could it be that they were used to lure zombies?

Without Li Weilan having to say it, she had already imagined the scene where these supernatural beings tied or bound bait to the back of a car, drove around to lure a group of zombies, and then concentrated on using supernatural or thermal weapons to attack. After finishing, they would collect the supplies regardless of whether the bait lived or died.

Shen Cheng was terrified by her own imagination.

She couldn’t help but say to Li Weilan, “Can we leave? Why should we be bait for them? You can sneak out tonight when you get a chance, can’t you?”

“I know,” Li Weilan whispered. His original plan was to be sold to the Academy as an experimental subject, but the one-third chance unexpectedly failed.

The reason he didn’t directly resist was simply because he upheld the principle of being low-key and didn’t want to attract too much attention.

As long as the kid had an idea of what was going on, that was enough for Shen Cheng to breathe a sigh of relief.

However, at that moment, a conversation among the ability users drifted in from outside.

Entering the courtyard was a woman dressed in black clothes. Shen Cheng saw the name “Chen Jie,” the captain of the Storm Team, on her head. “We need to bring more bait tomorrow. I’ve accepted the task to clean up Area A.”

“Captain, this…” Shen Cheng’s face changed color as soon as she heard it. “Isn’t there supposed to be a mutant experimental subject running wild in Area A?”

“Take care of the casualties and the team members’ emotions. This task was assigned by the Institute,” Chen Jie said after a moment of silence, looking up. “We don’t have a choice either.”

Li Weilan heard this conversation as well.

His original plan to quietly leave at night was immediately abandoned.

Although Chen Jie’s tone seemed calm, the meaning contained within was clearly one of being forced to accept.

In other words, there were not only Tang Lu and the others who were dissatisfied with the Institute in the J City Base, but also many supernatural beings who were dissatisfied with being oppressed by the Institute.

Li Weilan wanted to force the Institute to reveal its cards.

With his own strength alone, it was definitely not enough. Therefore, teams of ability users with certain power in the base, such as the Storm Team, were one of the targets he could attract.

Early the next morning, the team set out with baits, driving in three cars.

Li Weilan followed exactly the car of Chen Jie’s team. After driving for more than half an hour, the car stopped. Chen Jie pushed all the baits down with one hand and pointed to the distant building. “We’ll wait for you at the top of that building. Those who can make it to the assembly point can survive.”

From Shen Cheng’s god’s-eye view, the zombies around seemed to come alive, swarming towards the center as if they were stirred up by a hornet’s nest.

As soon as the car driven by Chen Jie’s team stopped, they left quickly, leaving only the baits standing helplessly in their original places, without any weapons. It was unclear who suddenly shouted, “I don’t want to die,” but with this scream, a zombie with legs like a lizard leaped from the rooftop towards the source of the sound, reaching out to grab it.

Li Weilan’s sharp eyes swept over most of the bait, most of whom had already lost their spirit. Even some men who were crying and standing still had collapsed to the ground, apparently having no intention of fighting for their lives.

For people like this, he could save them this time, but he couldn’t save them a second time.

It was at this moment that he heard Shen Cheng’s voice, “The sniper’s gun is aimed in your direction.”

In the direction of the distant building, the sniper who had been aiming at that direction felt that the tall man in his scope seemed to look at him a few more times.

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But when he wanted to make sure, the person’s gaze shifted away. It was an illusion.

Li Weilan said to Shen Cheng, “Don’t worry.”

Although they were baits, after all, resources and money were spent to buy them. If they were consumed too harshly, it would also be difficult to replenish them.

That sniper wasn’t their babysitter, but his presence did make Li Weilan feel uncomfortable. In the post-apocalyptic world, those who served as snipers were generally visual enhancement ability users. They could clearly see things happening thousands of meters away. With someone overlooking from a high vantage point, he couldn’t act too boldly, at least not to expose the fact that he possessed spatial ability.

Li Weilan awkwardly rolled away to dodge the first wave of zombie attacks, carefully hiding among the scattered baits, and cautiously moving towards the direction of the building.

His movements weren’t graceful at all, but no one noticed. From start to finish, aside from being covered in dirt, he was unharmed.

“To the left, to the right,” Shen Cheng reported in his ear, and Li Weilan dodged the zombie attacks accurately time and time again. Other people began to gradually follow behind him because they found that sticking close to him seemed safer.

The direction chosen by this “lucky star” often had the fewest zombies blocking the way. He didn’t run straight, but it was as if he knew this small town filled with alleys and dead ends extremely well. The route he took had the fewest zombies, the least danger, and wouldn’t lead into a dead end.

Occasionally encountering one or two lone zombies, they weren’t surrounded and managed to escape smoothly.

Following the “lucky star” meant a higher chance of survival.

Following him was the right choice.

More baits followed behind Li Weilan.

At this time, the sniper upstairs had already stopped paying attention to him because their target had appeared in the distance – it was a mountain of flesh.

As it moved, even the ground faintly trembled with the sound of “bang, bang, bang.” From a distance, it sounded like a clear earthquake.

Originally unaware of where it was hiding, it was only when wave after wave of zombies rushed past its territory that it seemed to wake up and crawl out of its nest. Shen Cheng noticed that it seemed to have a kind of sense. At the moment it woke up, it rushed towards Li Weilan.

At first, she thought it was her imagination, but soon she realized something was wrong. Li Weilan’s route kept turning, and to avoid the zombie attacks, he ran near the building, not in a straight line. But whenever he adjusted his direction, the giant flesh mountain adjusted its direction accordingly, clearly heading towards Li Weilan.

Shen Cheng’s perspective was god’s eye view, and she could clearly analyze this. Fortunately, the ability users on top of the building couldn’t see the whole picture like she could. All they could see was that the zombie occasionally turned suddenly, stopped suddenly, and occasionally changed direction, as if it were aimless.

“Lan..Lanlan That stitched monster seems to be coming for you,” Li Weilan narrowly avoided a zombie’s bite just now, and with the tall building just over a hundred meters ahead, he heard Shen Cheng’s reminder.

As he ran, there was a constant “bang, bang” of gunfire from behind, and with each gunshot, a zombie fell.

The sniper upstairs, looking at him and a few others from behind, saw that except for a few who had never wanted to run and survive from the beginning, almost everyone was running behind him.

Several times, whether showing off or deliberately trying to make him nervous, that person would even wait until the zombies were almost about to pounce on his back before firing.

But no matter what, they were getting closer and closer to the building.

Li Weilan glanced back and saw that they had attracted a large string of zombies behind them, and the bait was already exhausted, with several people showing signs of giving up in their eyes.

Even though the building was only one or two hundred meters away, this one or two hundred meters meant the difference between life and death.

Li Weilan pointed to the entrance of the building that could already be seen, shouting at the remaining bait, “Run straight, hurry up!”

The surface of the street trembled slightly. He knew that if he led this group of people forward now, they might be blocked by the stitched monster. He would be fine, but it was uncertain for the rest of these people.

Shen Cheng watched this scene in silence.

She saw the people who had originally followed Li Weilan rushing towards the building, while Li Weilan, who had no connection with these people before, glanced at the trembling ground and ran in the opposite direction without looking back.

That direction led to an abandoned gas station, half of which had collapsed, but half of the building still stood stubbornly on the ground.

Shen Cheng tapped the map of the abandoned gas station. The visible oil had indeed been completely drained, but what surprised her was that beneath the ground sealed off by the collapsed building of the gas station, there was actually a huge oil reservoir, untouched.

At this moment, a question floated into her mind. How did Li Weilan know?

He had been here before.

On top of the building, the sniper and Chen Jie both saw this scene clearly. The sniper’s face showed a look of shock. He didn’t expect that there could still be such a person among the bait. He couldn’t help but look back at Shen Jie with some confusion, “Captain, what should we do?”

“You stay upstairs and bring up the remaining survivors. Clean up the first and second-tier zombies,” Chen Jie had already seen through the situation. She squinted, “I’ll go down.”

This person was definitely not simple.

But since he dared to reveal his extraordinary abilities in front of her, Chen Jie’s once cooled blood had warmed up in her chest.

Li Weilan had already rushed to the gas station.

He even slowed down slightly, waiting until the zombies on both sides had gathered in front of him. Then he asked Shen Cheng, “Is the person upstairs still watching me?”

“No, they’re rescuing people.”

The remaining baits were brought into the building. The ability users of the Storm team were busy clearing out a small group of zombies that hadn’t been led away by Li Weilan and had instead charged towards the bait.

Li Weilan looked at the approaching flesh mountain and the small zombies at its feet. He smiled slightly, stomped his foot hard, and his shadow flickered, disappearing below the ground.

On the ground, there was only a neatly cut circular hole made by spatial blades.

The smell of oil.

The smell of fuel.

A spark flashed.

Even the people on the building heard a “boom” from the east side, and a fireball rose up. Even this flesh ball was engulfed in the rising cloud.

“Is it dead?” The sniper couldn’t help asking Chen Jie, who was about to go downstairs.

“It’s better not to.” Chen Jie’s expression became even more tense. This explosion could at most eliminate the small zombies following behind. If that large zombie was really blown up…

Her heart was filled with contradictions.

Three seconds later, there was another slight tremor on the ground.

The cloud of the explosion hadn’t dissipated yet, and the giant zombie stood up in the dust. It seemed to be stuck, as its feet were caught in two holes.

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