"All right, Master, take a break. The rest of us will figure out how to handle this."
With a cigarette dangling from his mouth, Chen Xi hopped back to where the nine of them had gathered.
There were no survivors here. It wasn't that their groups had no survivors with them; they simply hadn't brought the survivors along.
Since they were preparing to sweep through this city, they naturally wouldn't bring those burdens with them.
Instead, they had dug a basement somewhere over a hundred kilometers away and settled them there.
Monk Xingnan had reinforced the basement's structure with Buddhist arts and left behind measures to ward off Anomalies.
Apart from that, all nine Sequence Adepts had come out in force.
"Let me make this clear first. I'm only a Guide. I don't have any combat abilities, so all I can do is wait behind the lines with a vehicle to pick you up," Liu Lijuan said, raising her hand.
At her words, a teenage boy beside her spoke up too. "I don't have any combat abilities either. I'll do the same as Sister Juan and wait behind you in the other vehicle."
No one found their words surprising. After all, not every Guide had ways to defend themselves with the Five Elements and Eight Trigrams like Captain Hui did.
"Auntie Juan, you and this young fellow can wait for us in the vehicles." Chen Xi nodded, his cigarette still in his mouth. "It really would be asking too much to make you fight."
"Mm." Li Rushan nodded as well. "Xiao Si, just stay in the back."
He paused and turned toward a young woman beside him who had remained silent. "Xiao Ling, stay with Xiao Si. You have some ways to protect yourself, but you don't have much combat