novelBeat Them Back
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Translator: Henyee Translations Editor: Henyee Translations
Something was pressing against his stomach, and his limbs were hanging in the air. When he recovered from dizziness and realized what was happening, he found himself on someone's shoulder, moving forward at a surprisingly high speed.
"Who are you?" His head was pointing at the ground. In the darkness, he saw a blurry back, so he asked a question. However, the one who carried him didn't respond, and just kept running.
Lin Qiao saw Xiao Licheng being carried away, and Yun Meng had her mind focused while attacking the giant gorilla. After launching a few moves, she found that the gorilla had turned a little agitated, and then realized that something was wrong.
She turned and instantly found that Xiao Licheng was missing."Eh? Where's Xiao Licheng? Was he dragged into the hole already?"
"Roar!" The giant gorilla, whose prey was stolen, gave a wrathful roar. Then, it turned away from Yun Meng to track Xiao Licheng's scent and followed behind him.
Right at that moment, Lin Qiao abruptly raised a hand. A faint wisp of dark smoke drifted out of her palm, quickly moving toward the giant gorilla in the darkness.
She had only regained about ten percent of her energy. She wasn't able to use netherworld fire yet, but could manage to control a slight amount of poisonous mist, only a slight amount though.
That dark mist, which was invisible in the darkness, was faster than the gorilla. Within a blink, it flowed into the gorilla's mouth.
Since those underground creatures had super strong skin, Lin Qiao decided to try cracking them from the inside. They appeared to be immune to all sorts of poisons, but her dark mist was not like any normal poisonous mist.
Her mist was the same as her netherworld fire; it was able to devour anything. She wasn't sure if it would hurt those underground creatures though. Therefore, she sent out a wisp of dark mist to try and devour that gorilla's energy, and see how it would work.
She didn't ask Wu Chengyue to follow behind the gorilla which was chasing Xiao Licheng, but gave Yun Meng an instruction, telling her to find Xiao Licheng first.
On Wu Chengyue's side, the gorilla that had suffered two strikes from him in a row was already weakened. It was much less aggressive and threatening than before.
"Roar..." Its chest that had suffered two strikes now had a hole in it; dark-colored blood had been flowing out of that wound. It was hard to tell the color of the blood in the dark, but a strong odor could be sensed from it.
Lin Qiao pinched her nose; she really didn't like the scent from that blood.
The underground gorilla that was targeting Wu Chengyue had stopped attacking him fiercely, but kept a distance from him and just stared at him fiercely, with its muscles tightened in high vigilance. Its body was still glowing with a red light, which emphasized the dark wound on its chest.
Wu Chengyue looked at it, then suddenly raised an arm and threw out another strong bolt of lightning. Once he moved, the gorilla turned and attempted to run.
However, it was already too late. The dazzling lightning bolt descended from the sky and landed on its body once again, accurately hitting the wound.
"Errr..." The gorilla moaned with a strange voice as it was sent flying again, smashing the surrounding trees and rocks. But still, it didn't fall to the ground. It turned its body while it was in the midair and quickly landed on the ground, then rushed toward the hole at a super high speed and crawled in within a moment.
Once it shrank back into the hole, the other underground gorillas which were lingering nearby instantly started moving toward the hole.
Wu Chengyue watched the huge gorilla run without trying to chase it. As the danger was gone, he said to the air, "Let's go and find Licheng. We might be able to take care of that large one. This one has gotten away."
He wasn't really talking to the air; he was informing Lin Qiao that they needed to move.
Lin Qiao flashed to his side. In order to catch up with Xiao Licheng in time, she had no choice but to hold her belly with one hand and put the other hand on Wu Chengyue's shoulder, to let him take her away.
Wu Chengyue took her hand off his shoulder and held it in his other hand. As Lin Qiao didn't say no to that, he smiled a bigger smile and brought her away from where they were.
On the other side, Xiao Licheng didn't get any response from the one who was carrying him. His stomach kept bumping against the mysterious being's shoulder, and that made him feel very uncomfortable. He immediately ordered that person to put him down. That person's vibe was a little familiar, but he failed to recognize it immediately.
However, that mysterious person still didn't respond. Finally, he felt that something was not right. He quickly raised a hand to touch that person's skin: it was icy cold.
That was not a human, but a zombie!
Xiao Licheng's heart leaped. He instantly raised an arm and turned it into stone, then slapped on the back of that zombie's head.
He restrained his strength, so he wouldn't crack the zombie's head. He only wanted to frighten the zombie to make it put him down.
Every zombie would instinctively protect its own head. Xiao Licheng didn't understand why the zombie suddenly showed up at the battlefield and carry him away. Was it trying to save him? Was it taking him to eat him?
He wanted an answer, so he didn't kill the zombie but only made a move to free himself.
As he expected, the zombie paused for a moment when his stone hand landed on the back of its head. Next, the zombie suddenly grabbed him with both arms and threw him away.
Xiao Licheng reacted while he was still in the air and adjusted his posture so he could land on the ground safely. He leaped away to create a safe distance from the zombie once his feet touched the ground.
At that point, he suddenly realized why the zombie's vibe was so familiar.
Wasn't that the silly and adorable zombie leader that he saw not long ago? That zombie was actually capable enough to steal him from that huge underground gorilla! That was a level-seven mutated beast!
The zombie, obviously, didn't plan to give Xiao Licheng any time to think. Right after throwing him away, it pounced on him.
Xiao Licheng was pressed to the ground after he made merely two steps backward. As the zombie bared his teeth to bite him, he grasped something from the ground and thrust it into its mouth without thinking. He didn't even know what it was.
Crack! A muffled noise was heard. Something seemed to have broken.
At that moment, Xiao Licheng finally saw what he had in his hand: it looked like a cellphone.
Abandoned cellphones could be found everywhere in the post-apocalyptic era.
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