Chapter 93

Lin Siwen looked like the most terrifying madman.

There is never any logic to deal with a madman. Their thought patterns are completely different from those of normal people.

The armed guards watched Zhang Lin and Lin Siwen with full caution. Countless gun barrels were aimed at them, and many people got off the trucks, forming a circle to trap these two audacious fraudsters.

Yes! They are fraudsters, fraudsters!

Lin Yu's mind was racing with countless thoughts.

He did not want to repeat the same mistake, so he carefully chose the base, dispatched a large number of guards to search outside, and even quietly stationed the massive supply convoy in a small town over thirty kilometers away from the city.

As for the intelligence... In this city, Lin Yu had already captured nearly a hundred survivors. Everyone had been interrogated, and information about the city gradually accumulated, pieced together into a rough framework, though incomplete.

Besides Zhang Lin and Lin Siwen, there were other people who knew about the team in the north of the city—their leader's surname was Su. The exact number was unknown, but they had strong armed forces, vehicles, and abundant supplies. As for the abandoned camp to the east... there had been an explosion, and several buildings had collapsed. Now, there were only zombies, rubble, and bones.

Zhang Lin and Lin Siwen did not seem to be lying.

Since the day they were captured, they had been arguing and mocking each other.

Especially the conflict over food yesterday, which had been resolved with blood and violence, dispelled the last of Lin Yu's doubts—Lin Siwen was very fierce, and Zhang Lin's anger did not seem fake.

Otherwise, it would be hard to explain why a small man would foolishly provoke a brutal giant.

Zhang Lin was beaten badly.

If Lin Yu had not stopped him, he might have been beaten to death by Lin Siwen.

Was this their so-called "performance"?

Indeed, there were no flaws, it was perfect, and it had deceived everyone's eyes.

What was their purpose?

Why kidnap me?

Lin Yu, with his head held down by Lin Siwen, was racking his brain.

For food?

For weapons and ammunition?

Or... something else?

"Get out of the way! Don't block the road. I said: I need a car with a full tank of gas. Now, did you hear me?"

The armed personnel of the "Shengfei" Group ignored the threats.

They gradually tightened the circle, but were only worried that these damned fraudsters would harm Lin Yu, so they did not take more aggressive actions.

Lin Yu did not speak throughout.

He felt that things were getting out of control, more terrifying and scary than he had imagined.

He had injected a second-stage agent and possessed great strength. Now, he was being tightly restrained by Zhang Lin and Lin Siwen, unable to struggle.

Weren't enhancement agents strictly controlled by the military?

Where did they get the agents? Where did their strength come from?

"I said—get out of the way—"

Seeing the crowd that refused to budge, Lin Siwen's eyes flashed with violent anger. He pressed the gun to Lin Yu's ear and pulled the trigger. The intense explosion almost stunned Lin Yu. A piece of flesh hung, and blood gushed from the wound, flowing down his cheek.

Everyone saw that one of Lin Yu's ears had been shot off.

But as the victim, Lin Yu did not feel much pain from the physical damage.

He only felt a loud ringing in his ears, his face burned from the explosion and flames, and his nerves twitched, causing an indescribable feeling of nausea in his stomach.

He finally realized that Lin Siwen was not bluffing but was really willing to kill him.

This terrifying thought controlled his mind, driving away clarity and calm, prompting Lin Yu to stomp his feet and scream desperately— "Don't move, all of you, step back! Everyone, step back! Listen to him, give him the car, give it to this madman—"

A few minutes later, Lin Siwen, holding the bloodied Lin Yu, climbed into an SUV. Zhang Lin jumped into the driver's seat, turned the key, and started the engine. Under the watchful eyes of the angry and unwilling armed personnel, they left through the gap in the crowd, gradually disappearing.

Three SUVs quickly drove through the empty city. They split into two groups, one in front and two behind, chasing on the road filled with various obstacles.

There were hundreds of armed personnel from the "Shengfei" Group on the scene.

Among them were many middle and lower-level leaders.

Although they lacked experience in handling such emergencies, they could not just stand by and watch Lin Yu be captured without taking action. The two SUVs following behind were just to keep the target in sight. Through the vehicle communication system, several other leaders were calling for reinforcements from outside the city and the camp from different directions.

"You won't get far."

In the SUV, Lin Yu's blank and panicked thoughts were gradually recovering.

He glared fiercely at Lin Siwen sitting beside him, his face dark and menacing, growling, "You'd better stop the car and drop your weapons. You are enhanced, and just for that, I can give you the treatment many people dream of. Women, power, wealth... everything you want."

Zhang Lin turned his head from the front driver's seat, meeting Lin Siwen's gaze.

The two men immediately laughed evilly.

Especially Lin Siwen, his eyes kept circling around Lin Yu's buttocks, flashing an abnormal light.

"You, you won't get away—"

Although they did not speak, the contempt and ridicule on their faces were clear. Feeling deeply humiliated, Lin Yu's face turned ashen. Ignoring the intense pain from his dislocated shoulder joints, he twisted his neck and screamed hysterically, "I, I have many people. I will kill you, kill you—"

"Boom—" Before he could finish, a deafening explosion came from behind the car. Two rockets were fired from the windows of a building on the adjacent street. They hit the other two SUVs following behind with a faint flame. The fire instantly turned into a terrifying fireball, flames swirling and swallowing in the smoke, the heavy vehicles were lifted high by the explosion and fell heavily. Accompanied by the clanging of metal, countless burning fragments scattered.

A few people escaped from the mangled vehicle wreckage. They were on fire, screaming like tortured ghosts, stumbling and rolling on the ground. Soon, the burning cars exploded violently, leaving the road in chaos. The remaining vehicles, reduced to frames, were engulfed in flames, and the sound of bullets and other objects exploding could be heard from time to time.

Zhang Lin stopped the car by the roadside. Lin Siwen grabbed Lin Yu by the back of the neck and dragged him out of the car.

Lin Yu did not struggle. He opened his eyes wide, staring in shock at the scene behind him.

At the corner of the opposite street, two more armed pickup trucks with heavy machine guns drove up. They slowly stopped about ten meters away, and a tall, handsome young man got out of the car, his face beaming with a smile like sunshine.

That was Su Hao.

Several fully armed team members surrounded him, walking up to Lin Yu.

"Good job, very good—"

Su Hao patted Zhang Lin and Lin Siwen on the shoulder, praising them repeatedly.

Before handing Lin Yu over to Tang Zi, Su Hao had already extracted everything he wanted from Lin Yu.

The "Shengfei" Group would not let the destruction of three teams go unpunished.

They would counterattack, retaliate, and concentrate their strongest forces against him.

Su Hao's advantage was that his entire team was composed of enhanced individuals, with a cohesion that no organization or group could match.

He selected eighty people to disguise themselves as survivors, dispersing them in pairs throughout the city.

These team members looked no different from refugees, struggling for food and safety.

Before they set out, Su Hao warned them to strictly refrain from using their enhanced strength and speed. Their behavior in any situation must conform to the standards of ordinary people.

This was like spreading a net throughout the city.

Any minor disturbance could be detected by Su Hao immediately.

In addition, the dispersed team members could interact with more refugees in the city. They would spend time with these people, gain their trust with food and help, and escort them to the team base. Once a positive first impression was formed, the likelihood of them accepting Su Hao's blood and becoming "worker bees" would increase exponentially.

There were only a few main routes in and out of the city. Although Lin Yu had hidden the supply trucks outside the city, the badges, weapons, uniforms... all these things indicated that they did not belong to the city and revealed their identity.

Six groups discovered these outsiders at the first opportunity.

According to the plan, Zhang Lin and Lin Siwen pretended to be city refugees and were captured by the "Shengfei" Group without resistance. Through observation and waiting, they used their roles to stage a violent scene of bullying the weak, attracting a crowd. When they confirmed that important figures from the "Shengfei" Group were present, they very "carelessly" exposed the golden badge originally belonging to Lin Zhou.

Lin Zhou had said—this thing was important. Only he and his brother Lin Yu each had one in the entire "Shengfei" Group.

It can be imagined that the group's leadership would not let the refugee who obtained this badge go. Out of habit, they would see Zhang Lin as the most important target who knew the truth and had information about the disappearance of the previous teams. Zhang Lin's task was to act greedy and timid, fitting the refugee role. Under the pressure of threats, coercion, and inducements, he would gradually reveal the scene of "witnessing" Lin Zhou's death.

No one would think that Zhang Lin and Lin Siwen were hiding their strength—enhancement agents were rare and precious at this time, and ordinary people could not obtain them through normal means. Zhang Lin also revealed the location of Lin Zhou's death, Tang Zi, and Su Hao's team. Through subconscious induction, Lin Yu instinctively felt that Su Hao's team was the biggest enemy. When the reconnaissance personnel sent out at night returned with confirmation, Lin Yu, filled with intense anger and a desire for revenge, had unknowingly fallen into the trap.

He took the main force of the entire team—there were fewer of them than his own, no other powerful groups were stationed near the city, the military would not intervene in conflicts between civilians and groups, and the appearance of Zhang Lin and Lin Siwen left Lin Yu with no time or manpower to search the entire city or discover the "Castle"... All these external factors led Lin Yu to make a wrong judgment.

He urgently needed to do two things.

First: retrieve his brother Lin Zhou's remains.

Second: regardless of whether Su Hao was responsible, he had to eliminate this armed team that posed a threat to him.

No one would think that Zhang Lin and Lin Siwen were third-stage enhanced individuals—according to normal probability, this was impossible.

No one would think that ants could suddenly turn into elephants, and Lin Yu was completely unable to resist them.

The sudden kidnapping caught everyone off guard, allowing Zhang Lin and Lin Siwen to drive away safely.

As for whether anyone was following them?

What would the others on the scene do?

How would the hundreds of "Shengfei" armed personnel handle the situation?

These issues would be resolved one by one by the backup plans Su Hao had set up in advance.

Lin Yu opened his eyes wide, almost spitting out furious flames, and stared at Su Hao approaching him.

"You... who are you?"

The moment these words slipped out, Lin Yu had already figured out many unanswered questions. So he immediately asked, "Did you kill my brother?"

Su Hao said calmly, "He raped my people. This is not a sin that can be repaid by cutting off limbs or mutilating a part of the body. Since he did it, he must pay the price."

"Who are you? You... what right do you have to say such things? Are you a police officer? A judge? Or someone else? The world is over, you can't do this. I must live, you, you can't kill me... you, you damned pigs, dirty bugs, more disgusting than trash—"

Lin Yu began to curse like a madman. Although his words were filled with intense hatred, they clearly showed fear and despair.

Su Hao's face had a faint smile. He never argued with Lin Yu.

Because it was unnecessary.

Lin Yu felt unprecedented fear from Su Hao's indifferent attitude. He began to strengthen his tone and roar threats.

"I have many people. They are all strong. They will kill you, make you and your subordinates die horribly—"

Su Hao glanced at him indifferently and looked into the distance.

These threats were meaningless.

Everything must be proven by facts.

Less than five minutes after Zhang Lin and Lin Siwen kidnapped Lin Yu and left, a fierce battle broke out at the intersection.

The reason Tang Zi executed Lin Zhou here was not out of personal preference or aimless behavior.

Su Hao chose this place—open terrain with no obstacles. The hastily arrived Lin Yu could not dispatch more personnel to guard, and he did not know that several buildings along the street were ambushed by Su Hao's team.

This was a premeditated ambush.

When the two SUVs followed the kidnapped vehicle away, the "Shengfei" Group members left at the intersection inevitably became restless. The captain, wanting to rescue Lin Yu, urged the armed personnel to get into the trucks, which were already starting their engines... The scene was chaotic, and many people felt lost. After all, they were not professional soldiers and had no experience handling such situations.

The three already started trucks were hit by rockets and turned into burning fireballs.

At the same time, dozens of sniper rifles suddenly appeared in the windows of nearby buildings, and the people scattered around the trucks were shot dead on the spot. The sudden chaos intensified the fear in people's hearts. They screamed and cursed, seeking cover under the command of the captain and others, firing back at the unknown enemies with their guns.

Burning bottles were continuously thrown from the tops of buildings, exploding in the outer crowd, creating scorching flames. With the strength and vision of enhanced individuals, this was not difficult.

After five or six minutes, the intersection was surrounded by flames. The burning bottles thrown from the air formed a series of fire points, creating a winding line. Anyone who dared to cross this strange circle would be shot dead by the snipers in the buildings.

"Break out! We must break out at all costs—"

A squad leader realized the enemy's intention.

Through the raging fire, he saw in horror that the zombie horde following the convoy was getting closer. Especially the dark red blood zombies, which were less than a hundred meters from the intersection.

Su Hao never intended to launch a strong attack.

The city was full of zombies.

With no obstacles at the intersection, the panicked and chaotic "Shengfei" team could not hold out for long. They were sealed off and trapped by the flames and gunfire.

As for the most difficult part, it was left to the zombies.

Trucks kept rushing out of the circle of flames but were intercepted by at least two rockets.

The captain organized people to rush out in groups, but they were mowed down by the heavy machine guns set up on the rooftops, and no one could cross that terrifying curtain of death.

The flames, gunfire, and screams of fear in the face of death... these things attracted the zombie horde like a magnet. When the densely packed, wave-like zombies approached the intersection, completely sealing off the escape route for the living inside the fire circle, the ambushers in the nearby buildings jumped out of the windows in the opposite direction, using pre-set zip lines to leave the area surrounded by zombies.

Even from a distance, the captured Lin Yu could still see the black smoke rising from the end of the street, feel the shock of the explosions, and hear the indistinct screams of the dying and the desperate cries for help.

"You shouldn't have come here."

Su Hao's eyes were like still water, showing no emotion: "Yes, this is a chaotic world. No hope, no future. But you have no right to turn ordinary people into slaves. They have already lost so much and should not have their remaining freedom controlled by people like you. You could have avoided death, but you still came."