The Vegetable Garden Behind the Iron Gate!

Outside the building, John Preston sat in his car, listening to the continuous, intense gunfire inside, and glanced at his watch.

It's almost time.

The thought had barely formed in John Peston's mind when the intense gunfire, which had been continuing, suddenly ceased, leaving only lingering echoes within the building.

"Um?"

A hint of surprise flashed in John Preston's eyes; the time seemed to be shorter than he had expected.

Immediately afterwards, a look of understanding appeared on his face. Chen Mo's speed of improvement was indeed beyond imagination, and it seemed that he was not far from the level of High Priest.

He will probably become the fastest person in Church history to be promoted to High Priest!

Without much hesitation, John Preston got out of his car after the gunfire stopped and stood beside it, looking towards the building entrance.

The soldiers who had been hiding behind the armored vehicles on guard rushed in after the gunfire stopped. However, they weren't there to fight. Since Chen Mo joined the Cleansing Squad and took full control of the battle, their job had changed from fighting the militants head-on to surrounding, driving away, blocking off, cleaning up the battlefield, and searching for and destroying contraband. Like John Preston, they had all become Chen Mo's assistants in practicing Gun Fu. Chen Mo had greedily taken over all the head-on combat.

However, the soldiers were quite happy about this. In the past, they would lose several men in every battle, but since Chen Mo joined them, their casualties have been greatly reduced, and they often even completed the battle without any losses. How could they not be happy?

The gunfire inside the building has stopped, indicating that Chen Mo has finished the fight, and it's time for them to come out and clean up the battlefield and search for contraband.

Shortly after the soldiers stormed into the building, Chen Mo, dressed in a gray priest's uniform, walked out of the door. Looking at his indifferent and calm expression, who would have thought that he had just killed nearly a hundred people in the building by himself? This was practically a Carnage!

"Your strength has increased again!"

John Preston said approvingly to Chen Mo, who had walked to the car.

"At this rate, it won't be long before you become High Priest!"

Chen Mo shook his head slightly and walked to the other side of the car.

"It's not that easy. There aren't many large armed forces like this in the entire Nithers. The smaller forces are too weak and can't help me much with my training anymore."

After Chen Mo finished speaking, he opened the car door and got in. However, just as he sat down and reached out to close the door, his gaze inadvertently peeked out from the gap in front of the open door, and he immediately paused.

Following his gaze, past several collapsed ruins, more than a thousand meters away from the abandoned shopping mall, there was a low building surrounded by a wall, with a rusty iron gate tightly closed, seemingly without any signs of human activity.

However, Chen Mo's eyesight was extremely sharp. Even though they were thousands of meters apart, Chen Mo could still see the scene in the yard behind the gate through the gaps in the iron gate. Rows of green vines grew neatly along the trellis, and many green fruits were hanging on them.

Someone has grown a lot of vegetables here!

However, what initially caught Chen Mo's attention was not these things, but the two figures that had appeared behind a window on the second floor of the small building.

At first, Chen Mo thought it was a hidden sentry from another direction that hadn't been taken out, but upon closer inspection, he saw a middle-aged man and woman behind the window. Judging from their appearance, they didn't seem to be armed men and captured survivors, but rather a couple living together.

Adding to the vegetables planted in the courtyard below, it's clear that these are two abandoned people living on the outskirts of Nithers. It just so happens that the armed men chose to hide in the abandoned shopping mall not far from them. If Chen Mo hadn't eliminated them in time, these two would have been discovered sooner or later, and their fate would naturally not have been good.

They were clearly startled by the gunshots in the mall, which is why they ran to the window to observe. From such a distance, it would not be easy for an average person to spot the two people hiding behind the window unless they were deliberately looking for them.

When Chen Mo looked over earlier, the man's expression changed drastically, and he quickly pulled the woman to hide, clearly having noticed Chen Mo's gaze.

After confirming the identities of the two people by looking at the vegetables in the yard downstairs, Chen Mo looked away and closed the car door again.

Everything that just happened happened in an instant. John Preston, who got into the car with Chen Mo, did not notice Chen Mo's abnormality and continued the previous topic, turning to him and saying.

"You have plenty of time, take your time."

Chen Mo nodded upon hearing this, without saying anything.

In his mind, the Church's soldiers were the best training targets. They had undergone formal military training, possessed considerable combat capabilities, and were all injected with "Bosean" emotional suppressants, making them emotionless and fearless of life and death, thus the best combat targets.

However, it's not the right time yet, let's wait a little longer.

After the two got into the car, it started and drove back, leaving the troops who were still cleaning up the battlefield behind.

In the small building in the distance, a middle-aged man held his wife and hid behind a wall, his face full of despair.

"He... that priest discovered us?"

His wife asked softly, her voice trembling slightly, nestled in his arms.

Upon hearing this, the middle-aged man looked down at his wife in his arms, nodded gently, and hugged her even tighter.

"Darling, it seems we can't escape this time."

It's only a kilometer away. Even if they run downstairs now, by the time they open the gate, the Church's car will probably already be right in front of them.

How could the two of them possibly escape the capture of the powerful priest?

The wife didn't speak, but simply nestled quietly in the man's arms, her hands gently stroking his chest. Her tense body gradually relaxed, as if she had nothing to fear in her husband's embrace.

In this chaotic world where people prey on each other, they live cautiously in this small building, constantly on guard against other abandoned people and armed men. The arrival of a group of nearly a hundred armed men not long ago has kept them awake at night, fearing that they will be discovered and suffer a fate worse than death.

These years have been incredibly difficult, and the constant fear and anxiety have left them exhausted and weary. If it weren't for each other's companionship, they would have long lost the will to live.

They had long been prepared to die at any moment, and now that day had finally come, after the initial fear, they quickly came to terms with it.

I'm finally free.

The two embraced quietly, savoring this last moment of tenderness.