LWDC Chapter 121

Chapter 121 – Picking Someone Up Upstairs

Chapter 121 – Picking Someone Up Upstairs

Chapter 121 – Picking Someone Up Upstairs

The mutated creature’s leader was indeed difficult to kill. Duan Yunhong said that its limbs were half blown off, and its upper body was riddled with bullet wounds and rotten flesh. But even when the drone’s battery was low and it issued a warning, the leader could still barely move, not completely dead.

Following Ning Fei’s instructions, Duan Yunhong landed the drone with the depleted battery closer to Zheng Liwen’s team. Then, he nailed the wooden planks back onto the window, once again sealing the room tightly – except for that ten-centimeter circular pipe opening. He had suggested that the rescue team come and pick him up, and he could fight alongside them with a shotgun. Ning Fei completely ignored his suggestion, only telling him to hunker down and not move, not to cause trouble, and then hung up the phone.

Duan Yunhong had no choice but to restrain himself and wait quietly in the dark.

Before long, he heard the mutated creatures roaring from the direction of the mountain, approaching from far to near, from the top of the mountain to the bottom. The rhythm of the sound seemed more rapid and frantic than before. Duan Yunhong listened carefully and didn’t seem to hear the leader’s unique voice.

–The leader is dead…!

The leader’s death must have triggered the mutated creatures’ frenzy. The sound was conveying the news of death, and even more so, it was stimulating the mutated creatures’ emotions. If they didn’t understand the concept of “retreating when they can’t win,” they would definitely become more courageous!

The only advantage was that they would become disorganized in a short period of time, unable to launch a planned attack. As long as the rescue team had enough firepower and organized their attack properly, it would be easier to stop their offensive.

Duan Yunhong wanted to call Ning Fei to remind him, but Ning Fei didn’t answer. Thinking about it, Ning Fei wouldn’t be unaware of this, and it was a critical moment, so he probably didn’t have time to answer the phone. Duan Yunhong had no choice but to listen to the sounds while patiently waiting with his phone in hand.

Not long after, Duan Yunhong received a notification that the drone had been destroyed.

–The mutated creatures must have discovered the drone.

After a while, Duan Yunhong noticed that the familiar sound of the automatic rifle seemed to have disappeared.

–Ning Fei ran out of bullets? No way, Yu Zhou spoils him so much, he should have plenty of bullets…

This continuous gunfire lasted for more than four hours before it almost stopped. Duan Yunhong looked at the time, it was already six o’clock, and dawn was about to break. Even if the mutated creatures weren’t completely eliminated tonight, as long as it turned to daytime, they would consciously lie dormant. The scattered remnants were not to be feared, and Ning Fei and the others could easily take Duan Yunhong out.

Sure enough, when the ventilation duct also reflected a faint light, Ning Fei called: “The mutated creatures have basically dispersed, we’re coming over now. Wait until we get downstairs and confirm it’s safe before you open the door.”

This “open the door” of course didn’t mean simply opening the door, but having Duan Yunhong take back all the things he had taken from his space and piled in front of the door. Duan Yunhong understood the implication and said he understood: “Okay, I’ll follow Captain Ning’s command.”

Ning Fei scoffed: “Don’t pretend with me, it sounds like sarcasm.”

“I didn’t…”

“Ning Fei, we collected the drone you mentioned!”

Zheng Liwen’s voice came from upstairs, waving the drone wreckage and rifle towards Ning Fei downstairs. Ning Fei’s attention was immediately drawn to it: “Don’t wave it around! You’ll be happy if you accidentally kill yourself!”

Zheng Liwen laughed above: “Do you think I didn’t check? The magazine is empty, and the connection between the drone and the rifle is also half broken, this gun is basically useless.”

“Then hurry up and get down here, what are you waving it around for? You’ve been fighting all night, aren’t you tired? It’s time to pack up and go.” Ning Fei complained a few times before turning his attention back, looking at the phone interface, and putting it back to his ear, “Hello, are you still there?”

Duan Yunhong chuckled: “How would I dare hang up if Captain Ning doesn’t hang up?”

“I’m here to rescue you, and you’re cursing me like that?” Ning Fei also sneered, “Alright, we’ll clear the way to your building, and call you when we get there.”

After saying that, he hung up the phone directly. If he waited for Duan Yunhong to reply, who knew what kind of unpleasant things he would say.

There were basically no living mutated creatures left in the village. The reason for saying “basically” was because some team members found that the fallen mutated creatures still had slight breathing reactions, and fired several more shots, finally the mutated creature lay still. On the way to Duan Yunhong’s building, they counted 47 mutated creature corpses. But at dawn, there were at least 10 in the small group that retreated to the distant mountains, showing that the number of mutated creatures was indeed quite large.

Duan Yunhong chose a newly built farmhouse. The courtyard gate was already broken, but he didn’t know when it broke. In the courtyard was the familiar Hummer, the courtyard and the Hummer both looked like a mess, they should have been jumped on, smashed, and ruined by the mutated creatures. The group circled inside and outside the walls, confirming that there was no danger, and Ning Fei called Duan Yunhong: “We checked, you can come out now. Your Hummer’s shell is still there, the windows are smashed, and the inside is a mess, clean it up yourself.”

“It’s fine as long as the car isn’t torn apart.” Duan Yunhong answered the phone with one hand, and with the other, he put a large pile of his own furniture and items in the room into his space one by one, “Wait a moment, I need to remove the nailed wooden planks.”

Ning Fei knew what he was doing and replied: “It’s okay, take your time.”

Duan Yunhong saw that he wasn’t in a hurry to hang up this time, so he simply chatted while putting things away: “The leader of the mutated creatures is most likely on the back mountain, aren’t you going to collect it and bring it back to Tianyue for research?”

“We’ve already collected a few relatively complete corpses in the back, we won’t go to the back mountain, it might be a little dangerous.” Ning Fei replied, “By the way, send me a copy of the video from your drone, with the sensitive parts cut out.”

“Okay.” Duan Yunhong finally finished putting away the furniture and started removing the wooden planks. Removing them was easier than installing them, he used his space ability on the nails, and the nails came right out. He first removed all the wooden planks on the window, the morning light stabbed his eyes, and for a moment, it was so glaring that he felt a little dizzy.

He blinked hard to adjust, and then looked downstairs. There were indeed people downstairs, but they were all unfamiliar faces, probably the members of Zheng Liwen’s team.

Duan Yunhong didn’t see Ning Fei at a glance, so he went back into the room and removed the wooden planks on the door. From top to bottom, seven or eight large and small planks were nailed, and the nails were removed, the planks fell down with a crash, Duan Yunhong didn’t catch them at all.

At this time, the man also noticed that Ning Fei hadn’t spoken for a while. He subconsciously checked the phone interface, confirmed that he was still on the phone, and then asked towards the phone, “Where’s the person? Why aren’t you talking? I’ve removed the wooden planks, I’m ready to open the door…”

“Don’t open it! Get out of the way!!!”

Ning Fei’s voice rang out almost simultaneously outside the house and in the phone, Duan Yunhong subconsciously jumped to the side, and heard three consecutive gunshots outside!

One of them went straight through the door, if Duan Yunhong hadn’t dodged behind the wall, this bullet might have really hurt him. If not directly hit by the bullet, the splinters of wood would have stabbed him. Along with this, there were also two loud “thud” sounds, which sounded like a very heavy axe hitting the door.

Duan Yunhong also heard Ning Fei shouting outside: “…It’s okay! I killed it!” Presumably the others downstairs were rushing up to support.

After a little while, the noise outside completely quieted down, and Ning Fei’s voice finally sounded again: “Alright, open the door. Stand behind the door, don’t let the things in front of the door hit you.”

Duan Yunhong had already guessed what was going on, because under the door, black-red and smelly blood was slowly flowing in.

He stood behind the door as instructed, and stretched out his hand to turn the doorknob – it didn’t open the first time.

Probably because the door was deformed, Duan Yunhong adjusted the angle a little and pulled hard!

With a “click” sound, the wooden door suddenly opened, and the corpse of a mutated creature slammed into the ground inside the room. Duan Yunhong took a closer look and found that this thing’s head was gone, and the bloody appearance was very terrifying.

“Tsk, it was hiding in the building, we didn’t find it just now. It almost gave you a big ‘surprise’ when you opened the door.”

Ning Fei stood a few steps away outside the door, putting the gun back into the holster: “Fortunately, I came up to check, otherwise this mission would have been a waste of time.”

Duan Yunhong’s eyes quickly scanned him up and down, a little dirty, a little embarrassed, and a little bloodstained, but no injuries, and he looked very energetic. Only then did the man turn his eyes away calmly and glanced at the door. The door was covered in blood, he didn’t find the bullet holes, but the two deep blade marks were very conspicuous. Duan Yunhong immediately understood and asked, “You chopped off its head?”

“The place is too small, I couldn’t use my full strength, it would have died too slowly with just a gun. Chopping off its head will definitely kill it, I tried it before.” Ning Fei said, “Let’s go quickly, what are you standing there for, do I have to beg you three times?”

Duan Yunhong looked at the corpse blocking the door and the blood on the ground, moved the mattress that he originally planned to abandon here, and covered the corpse and blood stains, then stepped on it.

Ning Fei chuckled: “I knew you were a germophobe, fussy.”

“If I stepped on it now, wouldn’t I be wasting the words you just said to let me hide a little when opening the door?” Duan Yunhong didn’t care about his teasing and followed him downstairs. At the corner of the stairs, he ran into other rescue team members, saw that Ning Fei and Duan Yunhong were fine, and turned around and went downstairs. Downstairs, Zheng Liwen stood next to Duan Yunhong’s Hummer and smiled at him: “Director Duan, haven’t seen you in a while.”

“…Haven’t seen you in a while.” Duan Yunhong responded calmly, “Thank you Captain Zheng for bringing people on this trip.”

“Don’t thank me, thank Ning Fei.” Zheng Liwen pointed to the Hummer window, “The car window was broken when I came, so I put your armed drone in, Director Duan remember to check it.”

“Okay, thanks.” Duan Yunhong replied briefly and turned to look at Ning Fei, “What are your next arrangements?”

There was no need to think much about this, after fighting for so long, of course they had to go to the nearby base to rest and then start the journey back to Tianyue. And Duan Yunhong’s car didn’t have any major problems, but there were a lot of minor problems, so he also had to go to the nearby base to clean and maintain it before continuing to Huichuan.

Needless to say, the four cars would temporarily travel together.

After confirming this arrangement, the people from Zheng Liwen’s team drove in to pick up the people. Zheng Liwen walked towards his car, Ning Fei glanced at the Hummer and turned to follow him.

Duan Yunhong couldn’t help but call out to stop him: “Now that there’s an extra car, why do you have to squeeze in?”

Ning Fei chuckled: “Why deliberately suffer when there’s a car that doesn’t leak wind or have broken glass stabbing your butt?”

After saying that, he turned and left. Duan Yunhong watched silently, but in the end didn’t say another word, only got into his own car.

The inside of the car was indeed messy, but in fact, with a turn of Duan Yunhong’s ability, it was quite simple to clean up. However, even so, he only cleaned up the driver’s seat. As for the passenger seat and the back seat, he was too lazy to deal with them for the time being. Anyway, no one was sitting there, he would wait until he got to the base and asked the car repairman to clean it up.

Just as he was about to start the car, Duan Yunhong’s phone received a new message.

Opening it, it was sent by Ning Fei: [Cleaning up before inviting guests is the way to treat guests.]

Duan Yunhong raised his eyebrows slightly, chuckled softly, and finally put away his phone and started the Hummer.