Chapter 284: Inhuman
Translator: Henyee Translations Editor: Henyee Translations
There were two other people in the living room—Wu, who was leaning against the window near the three captives and smoking, and Si, who was checking the kitchen and bathrooms.
After Er had left, San and Boss stopped talking. They both quieted down and began carefully looking around like Er just did.
Lin Qiao glanced at each of them. Er seemed to have the sharpest sensations among them all. She couldn’t tell what power Er had yet, but was almost sure that San had s.p.a.ce power.
Normally speaking, s.p.a.ce-powered people were relatively weak. Since the bald San had s.p.a.ce power, his fighting capacity should be no good. However, he was called ‘San’, meaning three. So, Lin Qiao wondered how they ranked themselves.
“Wu, keep an eye on them,” Boss said to Wu. The latter put the cigarette between his lips and nodded before turning to the three captives in the corner. Lin Qiao understood that these people wouldn’t mention anything important now. Only after Er returned and confirmed that it was all clear would they start talking again.
She turned around and walked out of the house, then quickly leaped over the fence wall and ran to hundreds of meters away to summon the boy zombie.
She took out a piece of paper and a pen from her s.p.a.ce, then wrote down a few words before handing the paper to the boy zombie, “Four, go back and give this to Lili. Don’t let anyone else see you. Go.”
The boy zombie nodded and took over the piece of paper, then folded it and put it in his pocket. Then, he turned and ran fleetingly toward where Lin Feng and the others were. After that, Lin Qiao went back to the villa and began thinking about how to deal with that bald guy.
Earlier on, she didn’t plan to make a move, as she thought that she would only be watching whatever was happening around here. However, what happened here was unexpected. Those robbers turned out to be going after Lin Feng and his people; and after finis.h.i.+ng Lin Feng, they would try to hurt Yuan Tianxing as well.
‘They’re coming at us, and they think that we don’t know yet, ‘ thought Lin Qiao. ‘In this case, whoever strikes first gains the advantage!’
Er walked out of the gate and asked the two guards outside if they had noticed anything strange. As same as the man on the roof, the two also told him that they had seen nothing but zombies.
“What? Is there a high-level zombie?” One of the two asked.
Er scanned around with his sharp eyes, yet found nothing.
Lin Qiao thought for a moment, then abruptly saw the elderly zombie who was on the other side of the road. She immediately ran to him, then showed up beside him. She restrained her vibe as much as possible, then said to the elderly zombie, “Grandpa, gather the zombies nearby… the more the better. Let’s surround them!”
“Roar?”
‘Should I kill them?’ Grandpa looked at her and asked, seeming to be in deep thoughts.
“Kill them,” said Lin Qiao, “Leave the bald guy to me. But, you need to be careful about the one wearing gla.s.ses. He’s powerful. Don’t become his target.”
Grandpa clasped his hands behind his body and nodded, then disappeared from where he was.
Lin Qiao then returned to the villa and stood behind the bald man. Right at that moment, a long and weird roar was heard from the outside.
“Roar!”
Lin Qiao knew that was Grandpa summoning ordinary zombies.
“Eh? What happened? What’s that sound?” San asked curiously. He and the others had all heard that. The Boss blinked and said, “If I’m right, it should be a high-level zombie.”
San’s eyes glowed. “High-level? Which level? Four? Five? It’ll be even better if it’s a level-six…” he said.
“We only have three level-five zombie nuclei now,” said Boss, “But, we have quite some level-four nuclei. The nuclei we have can buy us quite some food from Yang Chao. So, if we get a level-six zombie nucleus, we can’t give it to him.”
San paused slightly, then nodded and responded, “Alright! Let me check how many level-four nuclei we have.”
While speaking, he closed his eyes. Three seconds later, he opened his eyes and said, “Boss, we have thirty-one level-four nuclei.”
Boss nodded in response.
Outside, Er showed a look of knowingness after hearing Grandpa’s roar. After that, he turned and walked back.
“It should be fine. That high-level zombie seems to be the reason why I’m nervous. I just don’t know which level it’s at,” he said.
“Alright!” The two by the gate nodded.
Lin Qiao didn’t launch an attack, but walked to the three captives and sensed their life-force.
The woman was fine, but the slim long-haired man was already at his last gasp. Four of his rib bones were broken, and so was his arm bone. Apart from that, his liver was slightly injured as well. The other man was in a better state. He wasn’t injured as badly as the long-haired one, but he still had a leg bone broken.
Lin Qiao squatted and reached out a hand to touch the two men’ foreheads, then sighed.
Those two men had almost given up on survival.
She pressed her hand on their foreheads and asked them in her mind, ‘Do you wanna live?’
She repeated the question for a couple of times.
She used to be a soldier. Back then, saving people was her duty. Now, she didn’t have that duty anymore, but her sense of responsibility remained. She wasn’t kind enough to be willing to save anyone, but what would be wrong if she saved some lives while fighting the bad guys?
But at this point, she didn’t think that she could save the souls of these two men. She was able to heal their bodies with the lake water, but not their souls. She had repeated the question so many times, yet the two men gave no response at all. It seemed that they had both given up on their lives.
Nevertheless, she had grasped some faint subconscious thoughts from the woman.
‘Someone will certainly come to save me!’
She repeated that over and over again to hypnotize herself, so she didn’t kill herself because of despair.
At that moment, Wu suddenly walked over. Lin Qiao hurriedly stood up and stepped aside. Wu kicked the slim man, then turned to talk to Boss.
“Boss, this kid will die in hours. Why don’t we cut him before he dies? He’ll taste bad after death.”
Lin Qiao noticed that the women froze upon hearing Wu’s words.
Boss turned to glance at Wu. However, before he said anything, Er walked in.
“I think we should listen to Wu. His vitality will be gone after he died, and his flesh will taste awful.”
Lin Qiao slightly widened her eyes and turned to stare at those people with disbelief. They wanted to cut this boy alive and eat him! These robbers had truly lost their humanity. They were no different from wild beasts.
They talked about eating human beings like how people talked about eating animals back in the old world. Moreover, they refused to eat dead people, but wanted to eat someone alive!
Boss nodded and said, “Then let’s build a fire to roast meat. We can cut him while roasting. He’ll taste better that way.”
Lin Qiao clenched her fist, trying to calm herself down.
She had decided to kill them all. Man-eating people were even more disgusting and terrifying than zombies. More importantly, these people were holding evil intentions toward Lin Feng and Yuan Tianxing. She wasn’t able to kill the level-seven one now, but she could kill the others!