Chapter 107

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Chapter 107- Apocalypse (8)

Mutant rats. Some may regard them as a treasure trove of crystals while others regard them as certain death.

This is because if a group of powerful ability users meet a small group of rats, they have hit the jackpot. Because the smallest group of rats had at least 100 members, meaning that as long as you killed the rats, you earned 100 crystals.

However, what happens if the number of rats increases to the tens of thousands? At that point, the best thing to do is to run away. If you become targeted by rats as their prey, they will not give up on chasing you. Like a black wave of death, wherever they go, nothing is left behind. Humans, animals, and even zombies are all eaten, with not a single trace of them left behind after they are eaten. Unless one has something that can scare them away, when the rats arrive, the area no longer belongs to the humans but the rats now.

“Put up your defenses!” Mu Qingli shouted.

Earth walls, black fog, and electrified water walls appeared around everyone. At the same time, the group of rats squeak loudly in unisions.

Crackling lightning appeared around the rats….they were lightning-type mutant rats! Gu Anran didn’t know if they were just incredibly lucky or incredibly unlucky.

The mutant rats were about the same size of a cat, with green eyes the size of soybeans and sharp teeth that can bite through anything. Furthermore, due to their lighting abilities, they also moved very fast.

From a cursory glance, Gu Anran estimated there were about a 1000 rats and this number is already considered a lot, but she could see there were still more merging from behind. She did not dare to know the exact number.

“Ahhhh!”

A scream sounded, and one of the men jumped up and down as a rat bit down on his foot and refused to let go. Soon enough, his foot was bitten off and his constant screaming caused the others to panic.

What was going on? The walls obviously haven’t been broken through yet so how did they get in?

Gu Anran turned her head around and saw that the theory was a fist-sized hole where the man had originally been standing! The rats actually knew how to dig and tunnel their way through the ground!

“Earth users! Take down your earth walls and focus on the rats hidden in the ground!” Duan Hongwu waved his hand, and all the rats that appeared from the hole were promptly burned to ashes.

In an instant, the earth walls disappeared as the earth ability users dropped to the ground. They placed their hands onto the dirt and closed their eyes. With this, fewer and fewer rats appeared from beneath thiem. From her experience, Gu Anran knew that they were using earth spikes beneath the ground. This type of attack was quite deadly and could only be countered by other earth ability users.

However, due to the disappearance of the earth walls, the outer circle’s defense became even more difficult to maintain. Gu Anran and the other water ability users could only increase their output in order to effectively repel the rats.

The rats came in wave after wave, and soon the ground was littered with charred or half-decomposed corpses. However, the tide of rats seemed endless, while the humans were growing tired. The darkness ability user’s face was growing paler by the minute, and his black fog was slowly starting to flicker in and out of existence. It seems that his mana was almost exhausted and his control over his power was wavering.

The water ability users were a little bit better, but not by much. They had two people to maintain the defenses, but they could not continue like this. And if the water wall, their last line of defense, disappears then everyone would be exposed to the onslaught of the rats.

As the number of rat corpses increased, the rats were able to crawl higher as the mountain of bodies grew higher. The water wall’s height had to be increased every few minutes, causing the mana needed to maintain it to increase.

Furthermore, the lightning-mutant rats had some resistance against the lighting in the water so the lighting ability user had to increase their output as well.

By now, the darkness had thinned out so much that it only slightly irritated the mutant rats. The darkness ability user was basically out of the fight, and now only the lighting ability users, the water users, the earth users, and fire users were still able to fight.

In this fight, those with strength or speed abilities are rather useless as their first cannot match up with the speed of the mice and the speed ability users can easily be overwhelmed by the sheer number of rats if they were not careful.

“All non-combatants, ready your guns.” Mu Qingli’s calm voice sounded out.

Click….

The sound of guns being loaded could be heard throughout the area.

“Lower the water walls! Ready, set, fire!” Following Mu Qingli’s words, the water walls immediately fell and a series of gunfire rang out. There were a total of three teams and after one team shot their bullets, they fell back and the other team stood forward to take their place. This covered the first team as they loaded their guns again, and their teams moved back and forth as the sound of gunfire continued indefinitely.

It stands to reason that during the early days of the apocalypse, bullets were a very precious commodity and were indispensable for building a safe base. However, now that everyone’s abilities are exhausted, they must use these precious guns. After all, are bullets more important than your life? No, the guns will become useless if they die here.

Bang, bang, bang!

The jarring sounds continued until the rats were completely annihilated. Once the last rat fell, everyone heaved a sigh of relief and threw down the guns in their hands to wipe the sweat on their faces. They fell to the ground and panted for breath, their hands swollen red and trembling from all the shooting. It seems the recoil of the guns had caused harm to their hands.

As the only healing-type ability user, Chi Mengyan started working. The red and swollen hands were soon covered in a soft green light. The wounds then began to disappear at a speed the naked eye can see. The visual effect was pleasing and the actual effect made the body feel better. After a minute, the hands were no longer swollen, and except for some soreness, there was no pain at all.

Gu Anran stood up and stretched. After being tense for so long, now that she relaxed, she realized she was aching all over.

She drew out Obsidian and began cutting down some of the zombies that were attracted over by the sound of gunfire. Soon the zombies promptly joined the increasing pile of crystals on the ground.

Fighting zombies is one thing, but digging out crystals was not much better. Despite their exhaustion, the people began digging out the crystals. In the end, they dug out nearly 300 Azure colored crystals mixed with the energy of speed abilities. There were crystals of different sizes, meaning that there were different levels and tiers among the animals as well. As for the mutant rats, they had golden crystals that exuded lightning energy. Their numbers amounted to about 5000 crystals.

“Ah…so tired…and so dirty…” Hong Qingyi looked at the dirt on her hands and on her clothes with disgust on her face.

Gu Anran forced out some water she used to wash her hands and face before taking out several basins to fill with water for the others to wash their faces.

“Let’s get out of here first!”

The smell of blood will attract many zombies and although the zombies weren’t much of a threat, it would be troublesome to attract another large group of mutant animals.

“Ahhhh! So disgusting!” Hong Qingyi quickly took off her shirt, pinching it with two fingers as she quickly threw it aside to put on a cleaner shirt.

“Hey! Don’t throw your dirty clothes at me!” Gu Anran yelled out dispealeasedly as she quickly evaded Hong Qingyi’s ‘surprise attack’.

The two people who were comfortable changing their clothes did not notice the fiery gazes of some certain people not too far away.

Gulp….Mu Qingli swallowed nervously as she caught a glimpse of Gu Anran’s fair skin. Although she was still unclear what Gu Anran’s true identity was, she could not deny the attraction she felt towards her.

And these two need to be more aware of their surroundings!

Mu Qingli glanced at Chi Mengyan, who was also changing her clothes, but was staring intently at Hong Qingyi. She sighed quietly in her heart. It seems that both of them were ensnared in the trap called love.

Gu Anran took out the food they had put away into her space bracelet. After the fierce battle just now, everyone was hungry again. With the appearance of starving animals, they devoured their food. After all, who knew if something was going to attack them again….bah, it was better to focus on eating instead of thinking about this nonsense!

The biggest gains from this trip were most definitely the speed crystals and the lightning crystals. The biggest beneficiary is Mu Qingli. As the only lightning ability user, all the crystals would belong to her.

Furthermore, the speed ability users each had a hundred or so crystals they could ingest. With this, Hong Qingyi successfully stepped into Tier-5, becoming the first Tier-5 speed user. As for the other two speed ability users, one was able to enter Tier-4 and the other rose to the peak of Tier-3. With this, their overall team strength had improved by quite a bit.

As for Mu Qingli, although she obtained a large number of lightning crystals, she was unable to absorb her crystals due to her dual abilities. If she ingested just the lightning crystals then there will be an imbalance in her abilities. So she must eat some ordinary crystals and mix them together to improve her abilities concurrently.

Perhaps they felt bullied by the mutant animals just now, everyone had some anger suppressed in their hearts. So whenever they drove by any zombies, they all rushed out of their cars and exterminated the zombies like crazy.

The innocent zombies who were killed: “…..”

And because of this, the zombies on the streets were promptly cleaned up. If it weren’t for the zombie corpses on the ground and a little bit of black blood, one would think that this place was an empty city with no zombies at all.

“Ah! That was refreshing!” Hong Qingyi absently tossed a crystal up and down in her hand. The crystal belonged to a Tier-3 zombie she had just killed. Her current speed was even faster than a car and she could disappear in a flash. When she came back, she would always come back with an armful of crystals.

Gu Anran looked at the mountain of crystals in the basin in front of her. Why did they give all the crystals to her! She wanted to go out and kill some zombies too!

While everyone else got to go out and release some anger onto some zombies, Gu Anran had to wash away the stains on the crystals in front of her. Feeling depressed and resentment in her heart, she muttered bitterly in her thoughts. Just you wait, I’ll absorb all these crystals and laugh in your faces!

Although she muttered this in her heart, she still continued to clean the crystals. After all, once everyone absorbs these crystals, the team’s overall strength will increase.

She didn’t know how far they traveled or where they went, as the roads all flashed by her and the only thing she did was continue to wash the countless number of crystals. After some time, her hands had become numb to the monotonous movements.

Jiiiiii

Suddenly the car stopped.

Hmm? They had arrived at a military arsenal?

Gu Anran raised her eyebrows with a dull curiosity.

“Anran, we are going to collect some ammunition and guns. We used quite a bit earlier so we need to replenish our supplies. We don’t believe anyone has been through here yet, so there should still be a lot of materials left for us.” Mu Qingli took out a map and pointed at the arsenal she was talking about. Who knows who scouted this area, but their investigation was so detailed that the location and the military base was reported in extreme detail. Furthermore, this military arsenal is somewhat remote so its materials have not been divided between other bases yet.

Putting the crystals and cars into her bracelet, Gu Anran watched as several strength users began tearing down the fence.

Step, step, step…

Suddenly the sound of footsteps rang out and everyone turned as a group of 40-50 people with backpacks, carrying iron rods and guns, approached them.

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