Survivors' Camp

"Hmph!" Qian Yu snorted coldly and immediately pulled out a pistol, aiming it at Lou Shasha's head as he said viciously, "If this were anywhere else, I wouldn't give a damn if you died. But right now, none of us can get out of here. We're all in the same boat. If you bring trouble here, I'll be the first to put a bullet in you siblings!"

At that moment, Lou Hua, who had remained silent all along, suddenly reached out and grabbed Qian Yu's hand. In an instant, all of Qian Yu's men raised their guns at Lou Hua. But Lou Hua merely slowly pulled Qian Yu's wrist down, pinning the hand holding the trigger.

"You! Let go!"

Qian Yu stared at him in alarm, struggling to pull his hand free, only to discover that Lou Hua was astonishingly strong.

"Brother!" Watching this, Lou Shasha called out worriedly. Clearly, the siblings did not want to clash with these people either.

Only after hearing his sister speak did Lou Hua release Qian Yu's hand, then continued to look at him with an indifferent gaze.

Qian Yu gritted his teeth and shook his painfully squeezed hand. His cold gaze swept over the two of them, and just as he was about to lash out, he suddenly spotted Lin Xian and Kiki in the vehicle.

"Who are these two?"

"Unlucky fools who stumbled in here by accident, just like us," Lou Shasha said.

Qian Yu's expression shifted slightly as he casually swept his eyes over Kiki. He snorted coldly, then turned and left with his men.

"Old Eagle, get some more men to keep an eye on those siblings."

On the way back, Qian Yu gave the order coldly.

"Boss, that Lou Hua may be an Esper, but he's not immune to bullets. If we want to take him out, we can do it anytime," the scar-faced middle-aged man said carelessly at Qian Yu's side.

"No need."

Qian Yu's expression was gloomy as he said flatly, "If we're going to charge through the formation, that guy will still be useful."

Qian Yu was no fool. An Esper's combat strength was far beyond that of an ordinary person. Although he could not recruit Lou Hua for himself, they were currently trapped in the fog. He would gladly have a few more useful Espers serve as cannon fodder, giving himself a few more chances of surviving.

The modified pickup slowly drove into the square and stopped in a corner. Quite a few survivors from other convoys cast strange looks their way. Aside from Lou Hua and his sister, most of those looks were directed at the unfamiliar faces of Lin Xian and Kiki.

Besides Qian Yu's Black Flood Dragon convoy and Lou Hua and his sister's single vehicle, there were over a dozen other survivor convoys trapped here.

Most of them had fled eastward from several nearby cities. The larger groups had over twenty people, while the smaller ones had only a handful. However, none of them were as heavily armed as the Black Flood Dragon convoy. The vast majority had only a small number of firearms.

These convoys had gathered in groups of varying sizes across different areas. The children and women were basically all inside the vehicles, while the surrounding men stood guard.

"When we first arrived the day before yesterday, there were more people. But yesterday, everyone gathered together and made a charge toward the way out of the city. Dozens died, so we had no choice but to retreat," Lou Shasha said.

Lou Shasha jumped out of the vehicle, took out two cans, and tossed them to Lin Xian before saying to him, "You have abilities, and so does my brother. If we can work together, maybe we can try charging out..."

Lin Xian and Kiki both looked toward the towering man behind Lou Shasha. Honestly, the difference in height and build between these siblings was rather...

Lou Shasha was like a little deer, while her brother Lou Hua was built like a bear.

"Hard to say," Lin Xian said seriously. "A spider like the one from today was already difficult enough for us to deal with. If there are other monsters, I don't think the chances of success are high."

Looking around, there were at least two or three hundred people in the square. Qian Yu's Black Flood Dragon convoy was well-equipped, and together with the other convoys, there were no fewer than seventy or eighty long guns and sidearms. If that level of firepower still could not break through, and they had lost dozens of people, then trying to force their way through just by adding Lin Xian and Kiki did not sound very reassuring.

Kiki opened the tailgate and sat on it, swinging her legs as she looked at the thick fog in the sky. Impatiently, she said, "What the hell is going on with this damn fog?"

"Who knows? It hasn't shown any signs of clearing up for days," Lou Shasha said somewhat despairingly.

"Then what do we do now?"

Lou Shasha jerked her chin toward the center of the square, where Qian Yu was discussing something with the leaders of several convoys.

"I guess all we can do is charge through. If we can't get out before Polar Night, we won't have any chance of surviving..."

Time gradually passed. Lin Xian checked his watch. It was already 18:05, with only forty minutes left until dark.

But after thinking about it, the current situation did not seem much different from after nightfall.

"After dark, will those monsters attack on their own?" Thinking of this, Lin Xian asked Lou Shasha.

"They will." Lou Shasha nodded. "Too much noise will draw those corpse monsters over. It's just that those big ones haven't appeared..."

Just then, the roar of several engines and the sound of gunfire came from afar, instantly shattering the calm of the survivor camp. Everyone sprang to their feet at once, and the men readied their loaded weapons for battle.

"What was that sound?!"

"Over there!"

"Watch out!"

"Another convoy?"

The crowd erupted in discussion. Lin Xian and Lou Shasha also became alert. "Let's take a look!" Lou Shasha grabbed her grenade launcher and ran over. Her brother Lou Hua took a rifle from the driver's seat, slung it over his back, and followed after her.

Lin Xian and Kiki carefully followed as well.

On the street to the northwest, thick fog churned as the howls of corpses and the roar of gunfire steadily drew closer. Dozens of people in the square spread out with guns in hand. Some climbed onto vehicles, while others hid behind roadside flowerbeds for cover.

Before long, several military jeeps suddenly burst through, crushing a few grotesque corpse monsters beneath their wheels. The people in the vehicles kept firing at the corpse monsters flooding in from the roadside and behind them.

The moment Qian Yu saw that they were military jeeps, his eyes lit up. Whoever they were, their powerful firepower meant one more layer of protection for him.

He immediately ordered, "Everyone, help them!"

For a moment, continuous gunfire rang out one after another, as if a full-scale modern battle had broken out.

Under the cover of overwhelming firepower, the military jeeps quickly broke through the tide of corpses and drove into the square.

As everyone retreated to the defensive line, more gunmen from the convoy began resisting the corpse tide.

Several gray-white corpse hounds controlled by black Strange Bugs howled as they burst from the corpse tide, instantly pouncing several people who failed to dodge in time and knocking them to the ground. Their bloody maws opened wide as they began tearing into them.

"Ah!!!"

The unlucky victims immediately let out shrill screams.

"Hold the line, everyone!" someone shouted!

The convoy's defensive line began steadily contracting. Gunfire erupted as several corpse hounds charged wildly about, actually forcing their way through the bullets and into the crowd.

"Kill these beasts first!" Lin Xian made the decision at once. If they wanted to live, they had to stand with these survivors for now.

Pfft! Pfft! Pfft!

Several Wind Guns shot out, blasting apart the heads of several zombies. At the same time, Lou Shasha and her brother joined the battle.

Lou Hua did not draw the gun from his back. Instead, he charged forward, snapped off a roadside guardrail post with one hand, then threw it with all his strength. The metal pipe immediately let out a piercing shriek as it tore through the air, piercing straight through a white corpse hound and sending it, along with the body, flying more than ten meters away!

"Wow, what incredible strength!" Kiki cried out.

"He's an Esper," Lin Xian said gravely.

"What kind of power? Super strength?"

At that moment, the people in the military jeeps also got out and joined the resistance.

Lin Xian had thought the people coming down from those vehicles would be military personnel, but they turned out to be civilians dressed in all sorts of different clothes. Their leader was a balding middle-aged man in his forties. However, every one of them carried a Spark Type 26 Automatic Tactical Rifle, clearly military-grade equipment.

"Kill those dogs first!"

Watching his men fall one after another, Qian Yu roared in fury and continuously sprayed bullets at the corpse hounds ambushing them.

"I'm joining in too!"

Seeing the corpse hounds charge into the crowd, Kiki gritted her teeth in anger. She suddenly reached out and, before everyone's astonished eyes, lifted an abandoned bus from the roadside into the air out of nowhere. Then she swung her hand!

Boom!

The immense force instantly crushed and blasted apart dozens of monster corpses surging down the street, along with several corpse hounds, grinding them into scattered limbs and flesh across the road. The sight made everyone's hearts tremble!

The enormous commotion drew countless shocked gazes toward her. No one had expected this unfamiliar newcomer to be such a powerful Esper.

That one move instantly cut the pressure on the armed defenders by more than half. At the same time, it gave everyone tremendous confidence, and the remaining armed personnel quickly reorganized their formation.

After a barrage of fire, the once-surging corpse tide gradually retreated. Before long, the gunfire in the streets began to die down as well.

The sudden battle against the corpse tide had cost the Black Flood Dragon convoy three people. More than ten people across the survivor camp had been killed or injured, and the entire plaza was filled with a grim, bloody atmosphere.

Once she caught her breath, Lou Shasha stared at Kiki with her mouth wide open.

"Wow, you're amazing!"

Standing behind Lou Shasha, Lou Hua also studied the two of them with an unusual look in his eyes.

Qian Yu and Old Eagle of the Black Flood Dragon convoy both looked at Kiki with complicated expressions, and the atmosphere turned somewhat strange.

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