When Bai Yaoyao brought Dark Night over to Xie Shannan's group, she found them looking rather miserable. Not one face was unmarked, and one person had even lost a leg.
Xie Shannan was so exhausted that he could barely hold on.
The moment he saw Bai Yaoyao and Dark Night approaching, he let out a breath of relief and collapsed onto the ground.
The others did the same, sprawling on the ground without a care for appearances and gulping down fresh air. For a long while, they couldn't get a word out. They didn't even have the strength to tend to their still-bleeding wounds.
Not all the government's Ability Users came from the military. Some had originally been office workers and had only been assigned to combat teams after awakening abilities during the apocalypse. Holding out this long was already quite an achievement.
Bai Yaoyao discreetly counted them. Two were missing, apparently a man and a woman.
Bai Yaoyao nodded to Peiqi, who began treating everyone according to the severity of their injuries. Regrowing the missing leg was impossible; the most she could do was heal the wound.
As Xie Shannan recalled the battle against the Mutant Rats, he found Captain Bai increasingly unfathomable. Her physical skills, abilities, and even her tactical command were all top-tier.
First, she had arranged their attack order based on their abilities. Then she had located the Mutant Rat King, released her mutant beasts to draw enemy fire, and broken through alone to finish off the Mutant Rat King with a few effortless moves.
Finally, she had worked with Dark Night to lure the swarm into a pit they had dug beforehand, combining wind abilities and fire abilities to wipe out the bulk of the swarm in one go...
One step had led seamlessly into