Translator: Henyee Translations Editor: Henyee Translations
Qiu Lili came back the next day. She looked angry, and didn’t seem to want to talk.
“What happened?” Lin Qiao sat on the couch in her room and looked at Qiu Lili with surprise, then asked Yun Meng who was standing next to the other.
Yun Meng glanced at Qiu Lili smilingly, then said to Lin Qiao, “You sent us after that attacker. We did find him, but couldn’t catch him, because that man seems to be very sensitive. We couldn’t approach him. Every time we got two-hundred meters away from him, he turned vigilant.”
Lin Qiao replied confusedly, “You’re both at level-seven. Couldn’t you flank him? He’s just a level-seven wind-powered man, isn’t he?”
Yun Meng shook her head. A gleam of light flashed across her eyes as she said, “Wrong. He’s not at level-seven. He’s at level eight. He was hiding his power before. When he found us, he decided to release his full power. Therefore, even the two of us together couldn’t catch him.”
“Level-eight!” Lin Qiao was stunned a little. Then, she frowned and asked, “Where’s this level-eight superpowered man from? Which way did he go?”
Lin Qiao didn’t expect him to be at level-eight.
“Toward… South. He was really fast, so not even I could catch him,” Qiu Lili pouted and said unhappily. She was very unhappy about the enemy hiding his power. She felt as if she was fooled.
Lin Qiao rested her chin on her palm and thought for a moment, then said with confusion, “Since he’s at level-eight, he was clearly not serious when he attacked Yan Fangyu and the two young men. If he were, you wouldn’t have a chance to save them. And, you tried to stop him when you got there, but it should be no difficulty for him to keep going after Yan Fangyu… Yet, he didn’t do that… I guess he’s just trying to ruin our relationship with the Sea City Base.”
For a level-eight man, killing Yan Fangyu and the other two would be as easy as crushing a few ants. However, that man let Yan Fangyu go. It meant that he wanted to use Yan Fangyu for something.
“Did you see his face clearly? His body shape?” Lin Qiao narrowed her eyes and asked Yun Meng and Qiu Lili.
“Em… Square face, fierce-looking eyes, thick eyebrows… Not tall though… About… about…5 feet and eight inches tall, slim,” Qiu Lili described that man.
She and Yun Meng weren’t able to approach that guy, but their eyes could be used as telescopes. Their good eyesight allowed them to see that man clearly.
“Five feet and eight inches? Square face, thick eyebrows… That’s easy to recognize,” Lin Qiao wore a grim look.
“Do you know him?” Noticing the change of Lin Qiao’s expression, Qiu Lili and Yun Meng looked at her with surprise.
Lin Qiao nodded and said, “Yeah. He’s Lu Zhuofeng from Hidden Cloud Base. It has only been a few months, but he unexpectedly made a breakthrough! Last time when he attacked me, he was still at level-seven. I guess he obtained a special high-level energy nucleus lately. It might be a level-seven zombie nucleus.”
She surely knew that man. He was one of her enemies. How could she not know him? He was there when she blew herself up.
Unexpectedly, he had broken into level-eight. He might be a difficult enemy now.
Him showing up here clearly had something to do with Long Yubai. Things seemed to be happening way faster than Lin Qiao thought, as the enemies had sneakily come to her place.
Yun Meng handed Lin Qiao a handful of level-four-and-five zombie nuclei. Those nuclei belonged to those zombies which she and Qiu Lili killed in Binjiang District, and those they hunted on their way chasing that man.
“You two, stay here and guard the base. From this day on, expand the range of vigilance. If you find any suspicious person, bring them under control first,” Lin Qiao said to the two of them.
“Alright!” Qiu Lili responded.
“Is this serious? Are you going to leave again?” Yun Meng detected the other meaning in Lin Qiao’s words.
“Eh?” Hearing that, Qiu Lili finally figured out why Lin Qiao’s words sounded a little strange.
“This time, the enemy was here to test us. They weren’t planning to launch a full strike yet. In this case, I’m going to put it out first. It must be Long Yubai who’s behind this again. I’m going to finish him first, so we won’t have more future problems,” Lin Qiao slightly lowered her face and said with a serious look. Then, she abruptly stood up.
“I’ll leave the few level-five zombies for you. We’re really short-handed now. When I come back, I’ll just upgrade zombie number one to seven!” Lin Qiao said with a frown and then disappeared into thin air.
After about ten seconds, she came out of her space with five zombie leaders.
She caught those zombie leaders on her way to Hades Base, and didn’t have a chance to bring them out of her space. Now, they were finally coming in handy.
The five zombie leaders flinched the moment they came out, without daring to move. One level-seven zombie was frightening enough, but they were facing three of them now.
There was a lot of pressure!
“From now on, you will listen to their orders,” Lin Qiao said to the five zombie leaders.
“Roar…” Those zombie leaders responded carefully.
“Keep an eye on them. If they make any mistake, just punish them,” Lin Qiao said to Qiu Lili and Yun Meng, then turned back to those zombies and continued, “Remember, no one is allowed to attack the human beings in this building. If you hurt those people, I’ll dig your nuclei out!”
“Roar!” The five zombie leaders nodded quickly. The higher level they reached, the more they cared about their nuclei. That might be an instinct.
“I think we should let them guard the entrances for now,” said Yun Meng.
“Alright! The zombie old man and the middle-aged male zombie are all out there hunting other zombies lately. I think we need to find two more zombie kings or queens!” Lin Qiao rubbed her chin and said. Thinking about the current strength of the base, she couldn’t help but get a little worried about the future.
Only upgrading the zombies that she knew was not enough! Not enough!
“Before I leave, I’ll upgrade Yuan Tianxing and Lin Feng. If there’s any problem, don’t forget to talk to them,” Lin Qiao said to Qiu Lili and Yunmeng.
“Alright!” Qiu Lili responded reluctantly, as she knew that she wouldn’t be going out with Lin Qiao this time.
“I get it!” On the other hand, Yun Meng was pretty happy, because Qiu Lili didn’t need to leave.
“Alright, you can leave now. Oh, Lili, you go and tell Lin Feng and the others to come back. I need to re-formulate their missions,” Lin Qiao first told them to leave, then thought for a second and asked Qiu Lili to find Lin Feng and the others.
“Sure!” Qiu Lili replied quickly, then turned and left.
Yun Meng crooked her finger toward the group of zombies, saying, “You guys, come out!”
