Chapter 78

Boom.

The door of the sturdy cell instantly exploded into pieces.

The two earth-type ability users rushed out of the guard pavilion first. An earth wall was just raised when it was kicked into pieces by Shen Shian one after another.

The plant ability user was a little behind, but his reaction was not slow. A thick vine quickly emerges from the ground and entangles everyone. Chen Nan immediately spawned his own mutant green radish to meet the enemy. His ability level was slightly lower than that of the opponent, but it completely crushes the ordinary vines. It took roots into the ground, wandered around, and quickly tore the other’s roots to pieces. Tao Yuan took the opportunity to take out a knife, and cleanly cut another one.

Wu De finally came out. He turned around and wanted to run when he saw what was going on, but Shen Xun had been waiting for him. He broke off the wooden cell door next to their cell and chased him. He then beat his two legs until it broke. The screams were deafening, and he turned his right hand into a knife and tried to stab the child. Just when he lifted his hand up, it was crushed hard by a black hiking boot. After a few moments, the sound of broken bones in the wrist crackled like firecrackers.

Liu Fangzhou looked away and his hands quickly suppressed the screams in his mouth. At the same time, he kicked him hard on the crotch: Dare to lock me, be an eunuch.

After lifting his foot from Wu De’s hand, Shen Shian let out a sigh of relief and turned to walk next to the two earth-type ability users who were defeated first.

The two of them were difficult. One of them kept quiet, and the other even dared to say with a blank face, “It’s useless for you to catch us, you can’t get out even if you catch us. There is no entrance to this place, it’s 5 or 6 feet underground, and only one person in the entire base can take people in and out freely…”

Before he finished, there was a muffled sound from another platform opposite to where Shen Shian and others entered.

Zhao Fan, who had the ability to pass walls, brought in Xu Ge, who was wearing a hood.

Zhao Fan used a second to estimate the situation on the scene. He quickly turned around and pulled the ladder to run. But Shen Shian was like a wind, he grabbed his foot before he was completely submerged in the soil, and pulled him down forcefully. After pulling him out of the soil, he threw him down from the platform.

He raised his eyes to the earth-type ability user, “What did you just say?”

Earth ability user, “…”

Xu Ge heard Shen Shian’s voice, took off her headgear in a panic, looked around and ignored the rest. “Mr. Shen, I’ll go find my sister first.”

Shen Shian looked at her as if he wanted to say something, but Xu Ge was too anxious and didn’t realize it. She ran down the steps in a hurry. She didn’t know which cell her sister Xu Yao was kept in, so she could only search for her one by one. Even if she knew that the people were falling asleep at this time, she still couldn’t help but try to call her sister. Anxious shouts echoed throughout the underground prison, “Yaoyao, Yaoyao, where are you, Yaoyao, I am your sister, do you hear this…”

Shen Xun grabbed Wu De by the collar and dragged him over, “An An?”

Shen Shian walked down the steps, feeling a little heavy. He could hear all the conversations between Zhao Fan and Wu De, so he had already guessed that Xu Yao had bad luck. He sighed softly, “Let’s follow along.”

The dog spirit held Shen Shian’s hand in one hand and dragged Wu De in the other. Zhao Fan could escape easily with his ability, so Tao Yuan twisted his arm and pulled him up from the ground. Chen Nan used his ability to take the mutant green radish back, and then wrapped the fainted plant ability user and the two earth ability users who were about to faint into three cocoons. He dragged two, Liu Fangzhou dragged one, and they followed at the back of the team.

Liu Fangzhou couldn’t help but praise, “Brother Nan, you are amazing.” This was the first time he had seen Chen Nan use his ability in battle, and it was amazing.

Chen Nan was a little embarrassed, “Brother Shen gave me good plants.” After persistently tying bows to exercise his control, coupled with the strong mutant plants, fighting was almost twice the result with half the effort, even he himself was scared. However, his biggest disadvantage was still in his ability level. The level of the plant type ability user who was tied into a cocoon was significantly higher than him. If the strength and control of his ability was high, he might lose to him. It seemed that it was important to speed up his ability’s improvement. He had evolved his ability at the beginning of the apocalypse, it made no sense to be left behind by others.

There were so many cells in the underground prison, they had passed roughly 70 or 80. The number of people detained here per cell varies, some had one or two, a dozen, and large cells had twenty or thirty. Most of the original residents who were ordinary people were in this kind of cell.

When Shen Shian and others caught up with Xu Ge, she had found the place where Xu Yao was previously detained, but she was blocked outside the door and couldn’t get in. “This is it. Yaoyao was locked up with these people, but she is not here now. Why isn’t she inside?”

Shen Shian pulled the iron chain that locked the door forcefully and pulled it down along with broken pieces of wood. Xu Ge hurriedly rushed in, looked around and turned around to ask Shen Shian for help. “Mr. Shen, do you have a way to wake them up?”

Shen Shian shouted, “Fangzhou.”

“Ai.” Liu Fangzhou responded. He walked into the cell, pinched its mouthpart, and prodded the sleeping people one by one on the arm.

There were a total of 23 people in the cell, and the mouthpart became useless after waking up seven of them.

Shen Shian frowned, “It’s used up.” The mutant mosquito had died long ago, and the substance remaining in the mouthpart was limited. It was a miracle that it could support so many people.

Liu Fangzhou suddenly remembered something, and pointed to Wu De, who was dragged on the ground by Shen Xun half alive, and said. “Last night he covered the mouth and nose of an unconscious person with a piece of cloth, and the unconscious person woke up!”

Shen Shian turned around and walked to Wu De’s side, and stepped lightly on his other wrist. “Say, how do you wake the sleeping person?”

As soon as the lump in Wu De’s mouth was spit out, he immediately began to scream again, “I’ll say, I’ll say! Just stop their breathing for 20 seconds, and they will wake up. Don’t step, don’t step, don’t step!”

Liu Fangzhou immediately covered the mouth and nose of one of the original residents and tried it. After twenty seconds, the person woke up.

Shen Shian was clear in his heart: It seems that he was able to wake Chen Nan up with cold water last night was just a fluke, because the continuous splashing of water restricted his breathing, so he happened to achieve the wake-up condition.

Under Xu Ge’s anxious questioning, the original residents who had awakened finally talked about Xu Yao’s whereabouts, “About a week ago, your family’s Yaoyao had a fever. The guards said she was infected with the virus and will soon become a zombie, so she was taken to solitary confinement…”

“Infected with the virus? No, how could it be possible for Yaoyao to be infected with the virus after being kept here?” Xu Ge burst into tears and rushed to grab Wu De’s shoulder. “Yaoyao, where did you bring Yaoyao to? I had followed your orders and been obedient, where did you bring Yaoyao to? Talk!” Because the nails were embedded in his skin too hard, Wu De screamed again in pain.

Shen Shian, Chen Nan and the others looked at each other: ordinary people may not know it yet, but they do. Having fever after the apocalypse meant that they were probably not infected with a virus, on the contrary, it was a sign that they were going to evolve abilities.

Now that they found out about this, with more than a thousand ability users in Noah’s Ark, it was impossible for them to not know this.

It was possible for a hostage to evolve abilities, which was probably not good news for those in power in Noah’s Ark. As a result, Xu Yao’s safety became more worrying.

Wu De, who was still very cooperative just now, they didn’t know why but he refused to speak any further. Liu Fangzhou took out a scalpel from his pocket and was about to get started. Zhao Fan, who was held tightly by Tao Yuan, suddenly spoke, “If I tell you the whereabouts of that little girl, can you promise not to kill me? You probably know the situation here, and no one can get out if you kill me.”

Shen Shian stared at him, “Speak.”

Zhao Fan gulped, “You promise first…”

“Mr. Zhao hasn’t figured out the situation yet,” Shen Shian squinted his eyes, and they flashed with dim light, “You are not qualified to negotiate terms with me.”

Zhao Fan who was full of spirits felt cold air hitting his face. They were obviously inside the hot underground prison, but he felt like cold water was splashed on him in the middle of winter. His complexion gradually turned pale, and he honestly explained, “The little girl had a high fever, and the captain’s order was for her to be kept in solitary confinement for close observation, and any changes should be reported. Two days later, there were signs of evolving an ability. At that time, the captain had not decided what to do, but Wu De sneaked into the confinement room and stayed for a few hours. When he came out again, the little girl died. He said,”

Zhao Fan glanced at Wu De, disregarded his pleading eyes, and said the rest of the sentence. “——He said, anyway, she is going to die, it’s better to let him be happy before she dies.”

There was silence in the prison.

Xu Ge’s eyes widened in a daze, the blood on her face was lost, and tears rolled down her face one by one.

She seemed to not understand Zhao Fan’s words, her mouth opened and closed, like a fish lacking water, unable to spit out a single word for a long time.

But she finally made a sound.

“Yaoyao’s corpse.” She looked at Wu De, her ten fingernails digging deeper, penetrating the skin and piercing in, dripping blood down her shoulders.

Her pale complexion quickly turned rosy, her eyes also shone, and her voice was extremely soft. She repeated every word. “Say, after you’re happy, Yaoyao’s corpse.”

Wu De screamed, trying to struggle, but Shen Xun pinched the back of his neck, making him unable to move at all. He could only answer while screaming:

“Ahh! Buried… took out and buried… you quickly let go!”

Xu Ge’s face turned redder. Her exposed skin gradually glowed a red iron-like color.

“You took her out and buried her?” She repeated gently, crying and laughing, “You took my Yaoyao out as a flower fertilizer? Why? Why did you do this? She is only twelve years old,”

“She’s only twelve years old!!!”

Shen Shian’s expression changed suddenly, and he pulled Shen Xun and Liu Fangzhou, who were the closest to Xu Ge, back quickly. At the same time, accompanied by a stern cry that could almost pierce the eardrum, Xu Ge’s body turned red like magma. The crimson color burst out from her, and two extremely high-temperature flames burst out from her palm, instantly burning Wu De from the forearm to the collarbone to ash, and the two arms lost connection. “Puff” Ashes fell to the ground, and the remaining part was scorched. Before Wu De could even scream, he rolled his eyes and fainted.

“…F*ck.” Liu Fangzhou looked at the picture in front of him in shock, “This is, what is she, is this a sudden evolution of an ability?”

Shen Shian looked solemn, and squatted down more than one meter away from Xu Ge, “Miss Xu, can you hear me?”

The two flames burned Wu De’s shoulders and were retracted in an instant, leaving only two scorched black shallow pits on the ground that were scorched by the flames.

Xu Ge knelt on the ground, her eyes were dull and empty for a moment, but soon light gathered in her eyes, and the magma-like complexion gradually returned to normal.

She looked at Shen Shian, “…Is this an ability?”

Shen Shian nodded, “Can you control it?”

Xu Ge stared at her palms for a while, and suddenly a flame burst out from them. Because the temperature was extremely high, the outer flames revealed a faint light purple.

She closed her palms, and the flame disappeared.

“Controlled,” she said. In just a short time, she seemed to have fully recovered her sanity.

“Mr. Shen,” She looked at Shen Shian again, “are you going to fight the entire base later?”

“Yes. But some preparations are needed before that.”

“Can I join?” It seemed that she was worried that Shen Shian would not agree, and there was a hint of begging in her voice.

“Of course.” Shen Shian came over and reached out to her, “Welcome.”

Xu Ge stretched out her hand and smiled faintly, “Thank you.” Then she stood up with Shen Shian’s pull.

She stood on the spot and looked around. When she scanned Zhao Fan and the other three guards who were lying on the ground wrapped in a cocoon, they obviously shrank back, their eyes full of fear.

“I’m afraid I won’t be able to help for the time being,” Xu Ge said to Shen Shian, pulling Wu De by the collar. “While Mr. Shen is preparing, can I be alone with him for a while?”

Shen Shian nodded, and pointed to a guard pavilion that was about two cells far away, “That place is just right. By his nature, there should be something that you can use.”

Xu Ge was taken aback, then reacted, “I see.”

Shen Shian watched her walk towards the guard pavilion, after a little thought, he caught up with her and handed her a small half bottle of water. “If he can’t hold it, give him a bite to extend the time.”

Xu Ge took the bottle in his hand, and then slowly squeezed it tightly. This time she smiled more obviously, “Thank you.”

Liu Fangzhou squeezed the scalpel and stopped talking: He also wanted Wu De, he hadn’t dissected an ability user yet.

But after thinking, he decided that this sister needed to vent more than him.

Turning his eyes to the three human cocoons on the ground, he asked Shen Shian, who came back, “Brother Shen, can I dissect one?”

Itchy hands, and I want to study.

“Next time, not today. I have a task to give you.” Shen Shian knocked out the three cocoons and Zhao Fan without mercy. Whether they could wake up depends on luck. Then he led the team members to the cell where they were locked up at the beginning, took out a mountaineering bag from the space and gave it to Tao Yuan, “You can start.”

Tao Yuan nodded and walked out of the cell carefully carrying the bag.

Before Liu Fangzhou had time to ask him what he was going to do, Shen Shian took out two more boxes, one for food and the other for mineral water mixed with spring water. “Chen Nan and Fangzhou, you two are responsible for waking up the ability users in cells on the left. Xunxun and I are responsible for the right side, and then distribute the food and water equally. If they are willing to resist the base together, let them gather in the middle area.”

“Ai.” Chen Nan immediately picked up half of the food and water and walked out.

Shen Shian picked up the other half and said to the dog spirit, “let’s go.”

In the process of waking up the ability users, Shen Shian saw the fat uncle who originally lived in 8005. He was not in good condition. His body was full of scars, burns, cuts, and three fingers on his right hand were missing. After being woken up, he drank half a bottle of water in one breath, and then laughed at the screams of Wu De in the guard pavilion. “My ability is probably not very helpful, but I am not greedy, as long as I can kill one of them, brother, count me in!”

The short uncle other than him in the trio was also sure to join. The tall uncle was nowhere to be seen, and the fat uncles did not say anything, nor did Shen Shian ask.

After waking up two thirds of the ability users, Liu Fangzhou suddenly ran over, “Brother Shen! They are gathering! A lot of ability users are gathering above our heads!”

The location was exactly where the three platforms were located, one inside the hotel and two outside the hotel.

“What to do? We will definitely be besieged when we go out.” And that Zhao Fan can only take a few people at a time, wouldn’t they be caught easily?

“Don’t worry, we won’t go out of the platform.” Moreover, all they want is their prisoners.

Since Zhao Fan was the only person who could take people in and out of the underground prison freely, for him to not return for a long time, it would inevitably arouse the vigilance of the base.

Chen Nan chased him and pulled Liu Fangzhou back, “Don’t worry, brother Shen had already considered it. It’s important that we wake up all the ability users as soon as possible.”

After half an hour, all the captured ability users were awakened.

Except for 131 people who were imprisoned for too long and suffered severe physical loss and almost completely lost their combat ability, all the other 1,018 people joined the fight.

Shen Shian took out the longsword and the Tang sword. He gave the Tang sword to Shen Xun, with the longsword behind him.

The red tasseled spear on the weapon wall on the second floor of the bamboo building was originally intended to be given to Chen Nan, but he had gradually become handy using the mutated green radish, so the tasseled spear was given to Liu Fangzhou. The young man liked it so much that he danced vigorously with it in his hands. Fortunately, he had done special training with Tao Yuan, and his strength was more than three or four times higher than before, otherwise he might not be able to pick up the spear.

As for Chen Nan, he got a watering can with pure spring water. “Spray twice on the mutated green radish when the power is not enough, remember not to spray too much.”

In addition, the team members, including Xu Ge, each had a micro-radio walkie-talkie pinned to their neckline. It was originally a material for the garrison of the tobacco factory, but was later taken out by Shen Shian from the administrative building. The battery was installed, it supported short-distance calls, and couldn’t exceed 500 meters.

Finally, Shen Shian took out a long bag from the space and handed it to Tao Yuan. “Are you all ready?”

Tao Yuan nodded, “The position where we are standing now is the least affected by the explosion, so safety can be guaranteed.”

A few meters above, on the surface, were more than a thousand talented ability users waiting for them.

A few meters below, in the prison, under the dim light, were more than a thousand pairs of eyes burning hot for revenge.

Standing in front of the thousand people, Shen Shian raised his head and glanced at the explosive packs installed on the top soil of the three platforms. His eyes were dark and shiny, with a trace of blood.

“Blow it up.”