"Who the hell do you think you're talking to? Believe me, I'll put a bullet in your head right now!"
Long Tai aimed his pistol at Liu Feng's forehead.
"I don't believe you."
Liu Feng grinned and controlled the Parasitic Insect with his mind.
Bang, bang, bang!
The burly men whose bodies were controlled by the Parasitic Insect raised their guns and unleashed a wild barrage at Long Tai!
"What the hell are you doing? You're shooting at me!"
Terrified, Long Tai scrambled back into his vehicle.
Moments later, every one of Long Tai's men was controlled by the Parasitic Insect. Only Long Tai himself remained free.
The man holding the Rocket Launcher aimed straight at Long Tai's off-road vehicle.
The sight scared Long Tai witless.
His modified vehicle could stop zombies and bullets, but it couldn't stop an explosive round!
One shot would blow both him and his vehicle to pieces!
"Fuck!"
Long Tai cursed. Before he could even figure out what was happening, he floored the accelerator, turned around, and fled.
Once Long Tai was gone, Liu Feng waved his hand, and the Parasitic Insect burrowed out of the men's bodies.
Some emerged through their skin, others through their eyes, ears, noses, and elsewhere.
Chitter, chitter, chitter!
Thousands upon thousands of insects formed a dense, moving black net, making the scalps of Han Bing and the others prickle.
With a thought from Liu Feng, the insects covering the ground vanished, leaving only five pickup trucks and weapons scattered everywhere.
Not even bones remained of Long Tai's men, as though they had never existed.
"Clean this place up, then come with me to Long Tai's hideout!"
Liu Feng spoke calmly.
"Is this how powerful a Gene Warrior is?"
Gulp!
Han Bing and the others swallowed hard, their faces filled with shock.
In the Apocalypse World, Gene Warriors were the pillars safeguarding humanity's survival. Everyone knew they were powerful.
They simply hadn't expected Gene Warriors to be this powerful!
Without even firing a bullet, Liu Feng had effortlessly wiped out Long Tai's men with an invisible means of killing!
The weak always admired those with great strength, and all of them looked at Liu Feng again.
The doubt and curiosity of their first meeting were gone. Only respect and fear remained.
Wherever Liu Feng walked, the crowd automatically parted for him.
"Thanks, Brother Feng!"
Han Bing laughed heartily, picked up the guns on the ground, and distributed them to his men.
"Thanks, Brother Feng!"
Genuine smiles spread across everyone else's faces.
"Bring all the supplies. Let's move out!"
Liu Feng narrowed his eyes slightly, a sharp gleam in them.
Heaven gave me such a powerful system. If I can't make something of myself in this apocalypse, I'll be squandering a priceless gift!
The Xia Kingdom's human strongholds, ranked from strongest to weakest, consisted of four great cities, the Eighteen Bases, hundreds of tribes, and thousands of settlements.
And Liu Feng intended to build a superpower that rivaled the four great cities!
More than twenty people set out in ten vehicles, fully loaded with all their survival supplies!
"Brother Feng, Long Tai has a lot more men than the ones we just fought. Should we make a battle plan beforehand?"
Han Bing asked tentatively.
Liu Feng grinned. "We'll just steamroll them!"
"But..."
Han Bing was still worried when he suddenly noticed the sky gradually darkening. He jerked his head up.
At some point, a dense swarm of insects had appeared overhead. There were tens of thousands of them, and their numbers were still growing!
The enormous swarm's beating wings produced a buzzing rumble as deep as thunder, sending waves of shock through Han Bing and the others.
"Brother Feng... did you summon... all of these?"
Han Bing pointed at the sky and asked in a daze.
"Yes." Liu Feng nodded slightly.
Overwhelmed, Han Bing silently raised his thumb. As expected of the Insect King's son! With an army of insects like this, wiping out Long Tai's gang will be easy!
Meanwhile, inside a residential complex.
Several men stood watch on a rooftop terrace. They spotted a silver swarm flying toward them in the distance. "Go tell Brother Tai, quick!"
"Got it!"
The man found Long Tai and reported exactly what he had seen from the rooftop.
"A silver swarm that blots out the sky?"
Long Tai raised an eyebrow. Sensing something was wrong, he went up to the rooftop himself.
"Look, Brother Tai. There seems to be a convoy beneath that silver swarm."
One of his lackeys spoke.
Long Tai took out his binoculars and examined it carefully.
As he watched, his pupils suddenly contracted. "Aren't those my fucking vehicles?" he asked in disbelief.
"Yeah, those are our vehicles!"
Several lackeys took turns using the binoculars, and all of them saw the vehicles.
"I don't know what's going on, but get every last man here! Get ready for a fight!"
Long Tai roared his orders.
The others didn't know what was happening, but he knew perfectly well that the convoy protected by the silver swarm had to belong to Han Bing's people.
What he didn't understand was how Han Bing could possibly have produced so many insects!
The swarm was immense! It blotted out the sky!
Just looking at it gave him goosebumps!
"Yes, Brother Tai!"
The lackeys answered and immediately headed downstairs, sounded the alarm, and gathered everyone who remained. Armed with weapons, they took up their assigned positions.
Before long, Liu Feng's convoy arrived less than five hundred meters from the complex.
"Brother Feng, this is Long Tai's hideout!"
Han Bing pointed at the residential complex ahead.
Liu Feng surveyed it and nodded in satisfaction.
The complex wasn't large, with only six residential units, but its perimeter walls were thick and tall.
Barbed wire lined the tops of the walls. People couldn't climb them, and zombies couldn't get over them either.
The complex had only two entrances. One had an iron-barred gate that Long Tai had welded completely shut before sealing it with cement, making it even sturdier than the walls.
The main entrance had a broken automatic glass door.
Large numbers of sharpened wooden stakes and steel pipes were piled at the entrance. Zombies didn't know how to dodge them, so charging inside would mean certain death.
An iron-barred gate had also been installed behind the glass door, providing a second layer of protection.
Living here would certainly be more comfortable than living in a factory building!
"Han Bing! I hadn't even come looking for you, and here you are, coming to me!"
Long Tai stood on the rooftop terrace, looking down at Han Bing from above!
"Long Tai! This is Brother Feng, a powerful insect-type Gene Warrior!"
"I'll spare you the bullshit. Open the gate now, lay down your weapons, and surrender. Brother Feng might let you keep your worthless lives!"
Han Bing pointed at Liu Feng beside him and got straight to the point.
A Gene Warrior!
At those words, countless gazes instantly converged on Liu Feng.
To them, Gene Warriors were synonymous with strength and invincibility!
The hundred thousand Iron-toothed Insects overhead were irrefutable proof of Liu Feng's identity. They had no choice but to believe it!
Before the battle had even begun, Long Tai's dozen or so remaining men had already lost the will to fight.
Long Tai's face darkened. Laying down his weapons and surrendering meant giving up everything.
He had worked so hard for so long. How could he willingly hand the fruits of his labor to someone else?
Even fighting to mutual destruction would be better than surrendering.
"An insect-type Gene Warrior ain't shit! I can blow you apart with one shot!"
Long Tai shouldered his rocket launcher, aimed at Liu Feng, and immediately pulled the trigger.
(End of chapter)
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