"Take everyone back to the base immediately," Xie Ning said to Cres with a serious expression. "Go right now."
"What’s going on?" Song Shijun ran over. "Sis, why is that horde of zombies suddenly swarming toward us?"
Xie Ning reached out and patted his shoulder. "Someone must have deliberately lured them here."
"No more questions. Get on that bus up ahead and go back to the base now."
"What about you?"
"I’m going to go meet an old friend, of course," Xie Ning said, her eyes glinting coldly.
On the rapidly approaching helicopter in the distance, her Spirit Capture had already picked up several familiar figures.
Xie Ning narrowed her eyes at the sky, then slowly and with a hint of hesitation, reached out her hand to catch a crystalline object.
"A snowflake?" A flash of surprise appeared in Song Shijun’s eyes.
’What kind of bizarre weather is this? It’s snowing lightly under a sun that’s over sixty degrees?’
Xie Ning’s expression turned grave. She turned to Song Shijun and the others. "You guys hurry back to the base and be careful. If the temperature drops suddenly, have Kexin practice her Fire Ability more to help heat the rooms. That way, you can also save firewood and charcoal and not waste resources."
Everyone stared at her with blank expressions. Even Cres didn’t have the energy to roast her for being such a penny-pincher...
"Looking at this weird weather, is it really going to snow?"
"Go, now." Xie Ning pushed her brother and the others toward the bus. "Get on, get on, hurry! I’ll cover our retreat."
Song Shijun and Cres boarded the bus and told Wang Pinglang to start the engine quickly.
Yuan got back into the MPV, started it, followed the bus, and paused for a moment in front of Xie Ning.
Song Kexin pressed herself against the car window and called out anxiously, "Sis, what are you doing staying here all by yourself? You should come with us..."
WHIRRRR. The helicopter bore down on them.
Xie Ning’s Spirit Capture picked up an image of Huang Shi Yao raising a gun. She hurriedly shoved Song Kexin’s head back into the car. "Go!"
She waved her hand, and Yuan no longer hesitated.
He slammed his foot on the gas, and the large MPV sped forward, brushing past Xie Ning.
At the same time, Xie Ning waved her hand, instantly activating her Gold Ability.
Several bullets flying toward her twisted and deformed in mid-air, falling to the ground with dull thuds.
"Fly over there! Get closer! Go lower!" Huang Shi Yao shrieked like a madwoman in the helicopter, lunging for the machine gun slung across the co-pilot’s chest.
The co-pilot jumped in fright and scrambled to stop her.
But the crazed woman slapped him hard across the face—SLAP!—and snatched the machine gun away.
A Fire Ability User grabbed onto a handle, barely managing to steady his swaying body as he cursed angrily, "You crazy woman, what are you doing?! Haven’t you gotten enough people killed yet?"
But Huang Shi Yao was blinded by hatred and couldn’t care less. She shrieked, "Get over there! Ah Tian, go, go!"
’I have to kill that woman down there.’
’She’s just a worthless ant, yet she’s made me suffer so much. Damn her!’
Xie Ning could already feel the whooshing Wind Vortex from the approaching helicopter.
RAT-TAT-TAT-TAT. The woman above her raised the machine gun and opened fire wildly.
Xie Ning had already metallized her entire body, encasing herself in an iron-like shell. With a wave of her hand, she batted away the bullets.
Her movements were incredibly fast as she leaped and dodged, clearly luring the helicopter toward an abandoned block nearby.
"Follow her! Follow!!" Huang Shi Yao roared. "Get over there, now."
’I refuse to believe a helicopter can’t catch up to that little bitch!’
"Miss, the buildings ahead are of varying heights, and the terrain is a bit complex. Maybe we should..."
"Go!" Huang Shi Yao, shouldering the machine gun, had already gone berserk with bloodlust. She was in no state to listen to a single word of advice.
In any case, she, Huang Shi Yao, swore she would not rest until Xie Ning was dead.
Xie Ning weaved through the deserted old streets, looping back toward Canghua Home District Three.
From time to time, the RAT-TAT-TAT of concentrated gunfire echoed from above.
Unfortunately for her, the great Miss Huang’s aim was truly terrible.
The bullets either missed completely or glanced off her metal shoulder. Not a single one hit its mark.
"Huang Shi Yao, you fucking idiot, can you stop this madness?" Chen Chengchen yelled. "Ah Tian, get back to the base now! You want to keep chasing until we run out of fuel? And crash? Will you be happy then?"
"Shut up! Shut up!"
Xie Ning glanced back. The helicopter was still circling between the buildings, pursuing her relentlessly.
Because of this, the growing horde of two to three thousand zombies was drawn by the helicopter’s roar, and they all began to howl and stampede after it.
A gleam of excitement flashed in Huang Shi Yao’s eyes. From her high vantage point, she raised the machine gun and unleashed a fierce barrage at Xie Ning. "Go to hell, you worthless bitch!"
Xie Ning suddenly kicked off the wall of a building, launching herself upward at an angle. Grabbing onto a tough, hard Metal Wire, she ascended rapidly.
The helicopter pilot’s hand trembled slightly on the control stick.
A terrible premonition instantly struck him, and the sweat-drenched pilot quickly spun the aircraft, trying to turn the helicopter as fast as possible.
"Miss, look out!!" Zhong suddenly roared, lunging forward to tackle Huang Shi Yao, pinning her to the floor and shielding her with his body.
SHK!
Everyone watched helplessly as a long metal spike pierced straight through Zhong’s back.
At the same time, a terrifying sound of grinding metal came from the helicopter’s rotor blades.
The rotor blades... controlled by the Gold Ability User, they had already begun to warp.
The pilot cursed loudly as the co-pilot pulled out his gun and fired at Xie Ning, who was clinging to the building’s wall.
BANG! BANG! The two shots forced Xie Ning to withdraw the Gold Element superpower energy she was using to destroy the rotors and focus on defending herself.
The helicopter swayed and wobbled. Clinging to the Metal Wire with one hand, Xie Ning turned and glared fiercely at them.
’Think you can just stir up trouble and run away?’
Hah!
’Dream on!’
A powerful mental assault slammed into everyone on the aircraft.
"Oh, fuck!" the pilot roared, feeling an explosive pain erupt from the depths of his mind.
"AHHHH!" Although Huang Shi Yao was shielded under Zhong, she bore the brunt of the mental assault.
She was, quite clearly, the target of Xie Ning’s "special attention."
The helicopter struggled to change direction. It had only flown forward unsteadily for a short while before cries of alarm and shouting erupted from the cabin.
With its damaged rotors, the helicopter was completely out of control and hurtling toward a building up ahead.
"00009425 asks the host: initiate escape mechanism?"
"Ah, yes, yes!!"
"Preparing escape mechanism. Ten seconds required! Ten... nine... five..."
"Hurry!" Seeing the helicopter was about to have an "intimate encounter" with the building, a terrified and frantic Huang Shi Yao shrieked.
"Initiating escape mechanism!"
"Lethal Ejection!"
"AHH!" With a scream, Huang Shi Yao was instantly ejected from the cabin by a powerful blast of air, hurtling sideways at high speed.
Xie Ning watched the woman’s face twist in terror. ’Was she just ejected, protected by what looked like a metal helmet?’
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