ATDIWR Chapter 95

Chapter 95: Du Ruanlan Battles the Mental-type Zombie King, Bi Xue’s Space Abili…

Chapter 95: Du Ruanlan Battles the Mental-type Zombie King, Bi Xue’s Space Abili…

Owen’s eyes were fixed on Du Ruanlan. She said firmly, “He won’t. He’s not someone with such a weak spirit!”

The Mental-type Zombie watched Du Ruanlan walk away with his back turned, a grin stretching its lips, looking more like a spasm. Suddenly, Du Ruanlan stopped.

Du Ruanlan whipped his head around. At that moment, the mental power threads the Mental-type Zombie King had injected into Du Ruanlan’s brain completely snapped. The broken mental power recoiled back into the Mental-type Zombie King’s brain. The backlash caused blood to gush instantly from the Zombie King’s seven orifices.

“Owen, did you see that? Boss, he really broke free from the Mental-type Zombie’s mental control!” Jiang Fuzhong laughed loudly, as excited as if he had broken free from the Mental-type Zombie King himself!

Owen’s eyes were wet. “I knew he could. I knew he definitely could. My man isn’t someone with such a weak spirit, someone who is easily controlled!”

Since the R-country released the Mental-type Zombie King, no one had ever broken free from its mental control. It stared at Du Ruanlan in disbelief, unable to accept the reality.

Du Ruanlan sneered. His whole body suddenly lunged towards the Mental-type Zombie. As he neared the Mental-type Zombie King, he kicked off forcefully with both feet, leaping into the air. He raised the long blade formed by his ability and slashed down towards the Mental-type Zombie King’s head.

The Mental-type Zombie King retreated several steps, backing up to the edge with nowhere left to go. It spread its arms and did a backflip, jumping down.

Du Ruanlan’s long blade struck empty air. He followed, pressing to the edge of the balcony, and leaned over to look. Seeing the Mental-type Zombie King land steadily without any injury, he jumped down without hesitation, holding his ability-formed long blade and approaching the Mental-type Zombie King.

The Mental-type Zombie King bared its teeth, letting out a hoarse, unpleasant whimper from its throat, like the roar of a wild beast.

The surrounding zombies and the Power Users controlled by the Mental-type Zombie King, as if hearing some kind of summons, all stopped attacking and immediately gathered around the Mental-type Zombie King.

The Mental-type Zombie King was instantly surrounded by bodyguards who had rushed from all directions. It was like their king, standing high above, while the surrounding zombies and mentally controlled Power Users were its slaves.

The Mental-type Zombie King pointed its long fingers at Du Ruanlan. The zombies and Power Users forming a protective barrier on the outer edge immediately moved, charging towards Du Ruanlan. More remained to protect the Mental-type Zombie King’s safety.

At the same time, Owen, Jiang Fuzhong, the Deputy Commander, and other Power Users also rushed forward to help Du Ruanlan. Du Ruanlan, with his formidable strength, took down zombies one by one with his blade, killing them effortlessly.

Just as a bloody path was cleared, heading towards the Mental-type Zombie King, the Mental-type Zombie King seemed to realize that its zombie subordinates were no match for Du Ruanlan. A sinister glint flashed in its eyes.

The Mental-type Zombie King raised its hand and pointed. Several Power Users broke away from the group and charged directly at Du Ruanlan.

These Power Users were mentally controlled by the Mental-type Zombie King and attacked mercilessly. They were also high-level Power Users themselves, forcing Du Ruanlan to concentrate and fully respond.

Three high-level Power Users Siege Du Ruanlan alone, but Du Ruanlan showed no sign of distress. He even managed to push the three Power Users back repeatedly.

The Mental-type Zombie King’s eyes grew more gloomy. It again pointed its long black fingers twice within the group. A Power User darted out from the group like a fish, attempting a sneak attack from behind while Du Ruanlan was fighting the other three. Leaping into the air, the Power User slashed towards Du Ruanlan.

“Be careful, Ruanlan!”

“Be careful, Boss!”

Owen and Jiang Fuzhong shouted in unison. Du Ruanlan glanced sideways, catching sight of the incoming ability from behind in his peripheral vision. He turned to dodge, swinging his arm back with an ability that struck the Power User in mid-air, sending the person crashing to the ground and spitting out a mouthful of blood.

Immediately after, Du Ruanlan’s second ability attack was about to be unleashed. If this strike landed, the Power User in front of him would be dead or crippled!

“No, Boss, that’s Chen Dazhuang!” The Deputy Commander shouted, “He’s not a zombie, he’s just being mentally controlled by the zombie! Don’t kill him!”

Du Ruanlan heard the Deputy Commander’s words and quickly retracted his ability, turning to dodge the attack from behind.

The Mental-type Zombie King tilted its head, watching everything unfold before it, as if it had found something interesting. It again used its long black fingers to point twice. All the zombies retreated, and all the mentally controlled Power Users stepped forward, closing in on Du Ruanlan and the others.

Du Ruanlan’s expression became extremely grim. Jiang Fuzhong couldn’t help but curse, “MD, if you have the guts, fight me fair and square! You just hide behind doing these dirty tricks, you spineless coward without a dick!”

The Mental-type Zombie King didn’t understand human language, but it seemed to understand Jiang Fuzhong’s expression and knew he wasn’t saying anything good. It immediately became enraged and roared. All the mentally controlled Power Users in front of it charged forward.

The Power Users were now mentally controlled by the Zombie King and completely treated Du Ruanlan and the others as imaginary enemies. They fought without holding back, aiming to take their lives. However, Du Ruanlan and the others had to consider the lives of these Power Users and didn’t dare to use their full strength. Soon, they were at a disadvantage, while the Mental-type Zombie King watched with relish.

“Boss, we can’t keep fighting like this. This ugly thing probably realized we won’t kill our own people and is deliberately using our people as shields in the front while his own zombies hide in the back. With this fighting style, the ones getting hurt in the end are still our people.”

“You cover me, I’m going in!” Du Ruanlan said, “If there are Power Users blocking the way, try to stop them. If you really can’t stop them, knock them out. If you can’t knock them out, kill them!”

“But they are controlled by the Mental-type Zombie King, if we kill…” The Deputy Commander hesitated.

“Then are you just going to stand by and watch them kill others? If we don’t eliminate the Zombie King, in the end, even if you and I aren’t killed, we’ll be mentally controlled by the Zombie King. You choose!”

This is like someone asking you, on one side of the track there are a few children, and on the other side there are hundreds or even more children, what do you choose?

Owen charged forward and was the first to kill a Power User, roaring, “Don’t hesitate! Don’t sacrifice the entire base because of temporary soft-heartedness! If the Mental-type Zombie King isn’t eliminated, let alone these mentally controlled Power Users, even you and I won’t survive!”

Jiang Fuzhong followed Owen and killed a Power User who was trying to kill him. “To prevent more Power Users from dying, kill these Power Users protecting the Mental-type Zombie King now, and let Boss kill the Mental-type Zombie King!”

The Deputy Commander fell silent, no longer speaking, but also joined the others in killing the mentally controlled Power Users.

With everyone’s cooperation, Du Ruanlan quickly carved out a bloody path and charged towards the Mental-type Zombie King. The Mental-type Zombie King, shielded by the zombie horde, retreated while roaring loudly, causing more zombies and mentally controlled Power Users to rush out.

This time, neither the zombies nor the mentally controlled Power Users received any special treatment. Du Ruanlan swung his blade,Kill everyone who came to block his path one by one.

The Mental-type Zombie King was forced to retreat repeatedly. It roared in anger, spreading its mental power again, frantically surging towards everyone except Du Ruanlan.

Du Ruanlan’s pupils contracted. He stepped on the shoulder of a zombie, sending his entire body flying. All of his ability transformed into a long blade, slashing down from the air, cutting off all the mental power threads the Mental-type Zombie King had released.

The Mental-type Zombie King cried out in pain. Even though it hadn’t been attacked physically, its entire body fell backward. It was caught by a Power User behind it, preventing it from falling directly.

However, the Mental-type Zombie King, after getting back on its feet, immediately reached back and ripped a hole in the head of the Power User who had just helped it up, directly pulling out a crystal core like a rainbow-colored crystal.

“Zhao Chang!” The Deputy Commander roared. He charged forward like a madman, not caring about his life, but was stopped by Owen and Jiang Fuzhong.

“What are you doing?”

The Deputy Commander shouted tearfully, “That’s Zhao Chang! He’s a Mental-type Power User, he’s a researcher. Researchers are not supposed to fight on the front lines! I transferred him here to help deal with the Power Users controlled by the Zombie King, but now he’s been killed by the Zombie King! If I hadn’t insisted on transferring him, he wouldn’t have died!”

“Calm down, this has nothing to do with you!” Owen roared, “He’s not the only Mental-type Power User who came out to fight and help everyone break free from mental control! There are many others, and he’s not the only one who died! It’s not your fault, blame the Mental-type Zombie King!”

The Zombie King held the rainbow-colored crystal core and began to absorb it. Streams of the most primitive energy drilled into the Zombie King’s seven orifices and brain. The Zombie King’s condition visibly recovered, and its seven orifices stopped bleeding.

The Zombie King quickly finished absorbing the Power User’s crystal core. Its eyes showed an abnormal look of intoxication, like someone addicted to drugs, and it looked lost in pleasure, as if still unsatisfied.

This time, it looked at Du Ruanlan and the others and again twitched its lips. A large amount of mental power threads surged out from the Zombie King’s brain in all directions.

Jiang Fuzhong cursed, “This coward only knows this one trick! Fight me one-on-one if you have the guts!”

The Zombie King’s mental power didn’t stop because of Jiang Fuzhong’s cursing; instead, it surged even more fiercely. Then Du Ruanlan heard a series of loud bangs.

Du Ruanlan turned his head and saw that among the crowd, countless Power Users were detonating the crystal cores within their brains one after another.

The range of self-detonation varied depending on the Power User’s level, but regardless of the level of the self-detonating Power User, countless unprepared Power Users around them were affected, blown away one by one.

For a moment, the sky was filled with exploding blood flowers and broken limbs.

The entire Luo City Base at this moment became a living hell!

The wind seemed to carry the smell of blood, and this smell intoxicated the Zombie King, making it look mesmerized.

A drop of blood, drifting from somewhere, landed in Du Ruanlan’s eyes, staining them crimson.

“MD, this is too much!” Jiang Fuzhong roared, sending an ability from a distance towards the Zombie King, blowing away several zombies protecting the Zombie King in front of it. Du Ruanlan immediately followed, injecting his full ability, unleashing three powerful ability strikes, directly clearing a bloody path in front of the Zombie King.

Du Ruanlan held his long blade, aiming directly for the Zombie King’s head. The Zombie King quickly retreated. Du Ruanlan pressed forward step by step. The Zombie King had no choice but to summon its subordinates to rush forward, but they were all intercepted halfway by Owen, Jiang Fuzhong, and the others.

In a blink of an eye, Du Ruanlan’s blade was close to the Zombie King. The Zombie King had nowhere to dodge. As if knowing it couldn’t escape, it didn’t dodge. Instead, it extended its long black fingers directly towards Du Ruanlan’s neck.

“Ruanlan, be careful, dodge quickly!” Owen shouted urgently!

Jiang Fuzhong’s eyes were splitting, “Boss, don’t worry about the damn Zombie King, you dodge!”

At this moment, the Zombie King’s long fingers were still some distance from Du Ruanlan. If Du Ruanlan gave up the attack and dodged, he could have done so. However, in that case, he would have to abandon this full-power strike, and the Zombie King would likely summon its subordinates again in that short moment and escape successfully.

If the Zombie King escaped this time, having learned its lesson, it would definitely not show itself so prominently again. It would surely hide among the zombie horde, secretly manipulating Power Users and zombies to fight or self-detonate.

It would be much harder to find it then.

Du Ruanlan thought of the faces of those who had self-detonated around him, all familiar faces. He did not dodge, only looked back quickly at Owen, and then rushed forward without hesitation!

“Ruanlan, Du Ruanlan!” Owen screamed heartbrokenly!

Jiang Fuzhong also screamed in pain, “Boss!”

Following everyone’s shouts, the Zombie King’s fingers deeply pierced into Du Ruanlan’s neck, burying half a finger. At the same time, Du Ruanlan’s ability long blade split open the Zombie King’s brain, revealing the crystal-like rainbow-colored zombie crystal core inside, shimmering brightly in the sunlight!

A drop of blood fell onto the zombie crystal core, seemingly blooming into a seductive rose within the core!

All the Power Users who had been mentally controlled by the Zombie King regained consciousness at this moment. They stood blankly in place, bewildered for a moment, before remembering that they had been controlled by the Zombie King and were fighting their comrades.

And their comrades, unwilling to harm their lives, were instead harmed by them. Tears immediately streamed down their faces.

Seeing their comrades wake up, screaming loudly, crying and laughing, the Deputy Commander looked at his old comrade in front of him who had regained consciousness, and said tearfully, “Old Li, Old Li, you’re finally awake. If you hadn’t woken up, you would have killed me!”

The awakened Old Li said guiltily, “Deputy Commander, I’m sorry, I didn’t mean to just now.

I, how did I suddenly wake up!”

“It was Commander Du Ruanlan…”

Everyone looked towards Du Ruanlan simultaneously. They saw Du Ruanlan kneeling on one knee with his back to the crowd, looking exhausted, with several of the Zombie King’s fingers deeply embedded in his neck.

“Du Ruanlan!” Owen suddenly unleashed a strong wave of ability, knocking away several zombies in front of her and rushing towards Du Ruanlan. She hugged Du Ruanlan’s body, her face already covered in tears.

Du Ruanlan’s face was pale. He gave Owen a weak smile, then yanked out the several fingers of the Zombie King deeply embedded in his neck. Blood immediately spurted out.

Owen quickly took out disinfectant from her space and poured it into the deep holes in Du Ruanlan’s neck. The pain caused by the disinfectant seeping into the wounds made Du Ruanlan let out a muffled groan. The veins on his neck immediately bulged.

Owen cried, “Ruanlan, bear with it, bear with it!”

In fact, they all knew it was too late, everything was useless. Once the zombie virus entered human blood, it would flow throughout the entire body in just a few seconds. Disinfectant was completely useless.

But Du Ruanlan just smiled at Owen, still with that seductive, slightly teasing smile. “Okay.”

As soon as Du Ruanlan said the word, his entire body went limp and fell into Owen’s arms.

At this time, Jiang Fuzhong and the others also rushed over. They surrounded Du Ruanlan, shouting one after another, “Boss, Boss!”

Owen held Du Ruanlan tightly. She asked in a panic, “Ruanlan, what’s wrong? You…”

Du Ruanlan lay in Owen’s arms, smiling as he looked at her face. His voice was very gentle, still as relaxed as if saying the weather was good today. He smiled and said, “Just now I used too much ability fighting those subordinates protecting the Zombie King. Now it seems my ability has been overused and is Wasted!”

Owen’s expression was terrified, large tears falling from her eyes. Jiang Fuzhong muttered, “No, no, how could this happen? It shouldn’t be like this.”

Du Ruanlan struggled to reach out and wipe the tears from Owen’s face. His voice was as magnetic and sexy as ever, “Don’t cry. Maybe this is a good thing. Getting infected with the zombie virus always requires a secondary awakening. Maybe having no ability makes it easier to get through the infection period.”

How could that be? After losing their ability, a Power User’s physical attributes in all aspects would decrease to the standard of an ordinary person, and their immunity would drop. How could it be more beneficial to resist the zombie virus!

Du Ruanlan comforted everyone, “Stop crying, everyone. No matter what, the Mental-type Zombie King is dead, and our Luo City Base is saved!”

The Deputy Commander advised, “Yes, no matter what, this crisis is finally over. Our Luo City Base is at least safe… Pfft…”

The Deputy Deputy Commander didn’t finish his sentence before spitting out a mouthful of blood. The Deputy Deputy Commander looked down and saw that a dagger formed by an ability was deeply embedded in his heart. The other end of the dagger belonged to Old Li, his good brother who had just regained consciousness.

The Deputy Deputy Commander couldn’t understand any of this. He stared with wide eyes and asked, “Old Li, why?”

Old Li didn’t answer him and pulled out the short blade. Jiang Fuzhong, who was nearby, clearly saw everything. He looked into Old Li’s eyes and said, “No, something’s wrong. He didn’t regain consciousness, he’s still being mentally controlled?”

“Then what was that thing we just killed? Was that not the Mental-type Zombie King?”

Everyone immediately became vigilant. The two people who had just been calling each other brothers immediately became tense. A Power User who had just woken up immediately said, “No, that’s not right. I did wake up, I wasn’t mentally controlled again!”

However, some Power Users, like Old Li, had their eyes become dull and vacant again. They manipulated their abilities regardless of everything and attacked the surrounding Power Users again.

“No, this isn’t right!” Jiang Fuzhong murmured, unable to believe how the hell that was supposed to be over had suddenly descended again!

Du Ruanlan got up from Owen’s embrace. His face was as white as paper, without a trace of blood. “There are still Mental-type Zombies! They are controlled by different Mental-type Zombies!”

Jiang Fuzhong broke down, “Mental-type Zombies? Where did so many Mental-type Zombies come from!”

On the other side, in the underground tunnel, Ji An said to Gu Jinsheng, “The situation at Luo City Base won’t be good. They haven’t had training to resist mental invasion beforehand. Once the Zombie King controls a Power User to quietly open the Luo City Base’s protective shield, and the Zombie King sneaks in, the consequences are unimaginable.”

Everyone just thought about that scene and knew what kind of living hell it would be.

He Tao said, “What can we do then? Wan Xueying hasn’t arrived yet, and we can’t fly. If we drive there, by the time we arrive, all we’ll be able to do is collect corpses for the people at Luo City Base.”

Gu Jinsheng, however, asked Ji An, “Do you have any ideas?”

Ji An didn’t answer, but looked at Bi Xue. Bi Xue pointed to her nose. “Me, Boss Ji? I don’t have an airplane in my space.”

Ji An said to Bi Xue, “Bi Xue, come out with me for a moment, I have something to tell you privately.”

Bi Xue didn’t suspect anything and followed Ji An out without hesitation. Gu Jinsheng got up to follow, but Ji An shook his head at Gu Jinsheng, “Jinsheng, don’t come out. I have something I want to talk to Bi Xue about alone.”

Gu Jinsheng looked into Ji An’s eyes. Ji An’s eyes were filled with seriousness and gravity. Gu Jinsheng nodded, “Okay.”

The two walked out of the underground tunnel to the ground. Ji An said, “Bi Xue, getting to Luo City Base might require your help?”

“I don’t know what I should do?”

Bi Xue then thought of Ji An using her ability to use Space Blade and Space Slash, and the Space Teleportation used when escaping the R-country fighter jet. In an instant, her blood boiled.

Bi Xue said, “Boss Ji, just tell me what you need me to cooperate with, I can cooperate with anything. It’s just being mentally invaded, I’m already used to being mentally invaded by you. Just go ahead.”

Bi Xue smiled cheekily, acting as if she didn’t care about being mentally invaded. “As long as Boss Ji teaches me all these things afterward, I’ll be a big shot too! Next time I go on a base mission, I’d like to see who dares to call me a burden!”

However, Ji An shook his head with a heavy expression.

“It’s not possible?” Bi Xue was immediately disappointed. “Is it because my level is too low, that I can’t use those skills myself? That’s okay, Space Blade and Space Slash are already amazing!”

“No,” Ji An said, “It’s that if I use your ability to go to Luo City Base, once we get there, it’s very likely that your space ability will be Abandoned due to overuse!”

In the apocalypse, ability is more important than life!

Even a not-so-powerful low-level ability can give a Power User the ability to protect themselves.

And Bi Xue’s ability is even a intermediate-level ability, and now she knows that space ability isn’t just for storage but can do so much more. It might be more powerful than any other ability. In such a situation, asking Bi Xue to give up her space ability is no less than telling her to give up her life.

Bi Xue’s face instantly turned pale.

Ji An said, “Luo City Base is in imminent danger. Every minute we delay means one more minute of danger. In this situation, I don’t know when Wan Xueying will be back.

I want to borrow your ability to rush to Luo City Base, but your ability level is still low. If you use your full power to reach Luo City Base, there’s a nine out of ten chance it will be destroyed as a result.”