Translator: Henyee Translations Editor: Henyee Translations
“What happened?” All the others turned their eyes to Lin Wenwen.
“I don’t know why but… At first, he suddenly shouted at us and told us to leave, to stay far away from him… Before we could react, he began attacking us with his power!” said Lin Wenwen to Lin Qiao with red eyes. She was burning with anxiety, but she still tried her best to calm down.
At that moment, everyone sensed an earthquake.
‘This is bad!’ They all had a bad feeling as they turned to look outside the window.
Yuan Tianxing had earth power!
As they looked outside the window together, the earth quaked even more intensely. Rumbling noises could be heard from a distance away. Meanwhile, Lin Qiao flashed out of the conference room.
The earthquake grew stronger and stronger, and the people outside the building panicked again.
“What’s going on! Is this an earthquake?”
“Earthquake! Earthquake!”
The earthquake stirred the crowd of survivors who were gathering in the playground.
“Everyone, calm down! This is not an earthquake! This is not an earthquake! Don’t panic!” Chen Yuting stood on the platform as he raised both arms while shouting at the people. However, his words failed to comfort those people.
“Is this the second apocalypse? Why did so many people die suddenly? And some others turned into zombies through one single night… Now there is an earthquake!”
“I think you’re right… This is terrible! Why is there a second apocalypse!”
“What are we gonna do… Are we all dying? How are we supposed to survive all this?”
Fear instantly spread among the people.
“Listen to me if you want to live! Don’t panic! Otherwise, you might scare yourselves to death before the zombies kill you!” Chen Yuting yelled at them harshly with a cold face as his comforting words didn’t manage to calm those people down.
“Stop talking, or I’ll throw you out of the base!”
That threat worked well, and the people instantly quieted down. After all, none of them wanted to die. They would be willing to obey, as long as they could stay alive.
The quietness calmed them down gradually.
On the other side, Lin Qiao flashed to the most chaotic area. The people in that area had fallen back to a distance away. The ground had cracked, and buildings had collapsed. The whole area was wasted, as if the earth had been stirred.
The man who did that was standing on a pile of ruins. His energy had been gushing out of his body uncontrollably, flowing into the earth and spreading.
Lin Qiao turned invisible and approached him, so he didn’t sense her coming.
The energy from Yuan Tianxing was so strong that it formed a circle, stopped the others from approaching. Fortunately, as a level-seven zombie, Lin Qiao had a super-strong body. She wrapped herself up with her own energy and moved toward Yuan Tianxing step by step.
Soon, she walked up behind Yuan Tianxing, raised an arm, and gave him a heavy strike on the back of his neck. The tense atmosphere in that area was eased instantly.
Thud! Yuan Tianxing fell on the ruins.
Lin Qiao sighed with relief, then carefully looked around. Seeing what had been destroyed, she even wanted to give Yuan Tianxing a heavy kick.
His power burst out of control and spread in all directions. Consequently, everything was ruined within the area five miles in radius around Yuan Tianxing’s body. All the buildings had been torn into pieces, trees broken, and roads damaged.
It was too horrible to even look at. That area seemed to have been through a genuinely destructive earthquake. He lost control of his power for merely a couple of minutes, yet such a serious result was caused!
Earlier on, as Yuan Tianxing’s power exploded, all the others had moved out of its effective range. Now, as he fell to the ground and the energy storm faded, another figure showed up beside Yuan Tianxing.
The crisis was averted, so people quickly went back to Lin Qiao.
“Bring all the people who have lost their minds to Base Number Two and give them to Yun Meng. Tell her to find a few metal-powered ones to help isolate them for observation,” said Lin Qiao to Duan Juan.
Lin Qiao told Duan Juan to lock up those people’s hands with metal power, in case they woke up crazy and caused trouble again. Locking up their hands couldn’t disable them from releasing their powers, but would largely limit the amount of energy that they could release.
Lin Qiao sent Shen Yujen to find Yun Meng and told the latter to return to Base Number Two to deal with the current problem.
Base Number Two was the name that Lin Qiao gave to the other half of All Beings Base.
Then, she glanced at the devastated area once again. Because of what Yuan Tianxing had unwittingly done, this area was no longer suitable for living. The earth was stirred, meaning that no buildings could be built in that area, unless the whole area was rebuilt underground.
Watching some other people carry Yuan Tianxing away, Lin Qiao felt that she wouldn’t want to see him again in the next couple of days.
The current situation made her feel a little agitated. Problems occurred wave after wave. From the morning till now, the new zombies had been brought under control, and the dead bodies had been removed from buildings. However, some superpowered people had started going crazy now.
The cause of all this was still unknown. Without knowing the cause, people couldn’t possibly know how to stop or prevent further problems.
Only Lin Hao and Leng Xuantong were able to find out the cause.
“Gather all superpowered people to the square in B District. Isolate them and keep a close eye on them! Send some more people to keep Leng Xuantong and Lin Hao under watch, but let them keep doing their work,” Lin Qiao gave Duan Juan an order with a frown, “You go too. Yujen will deal with the rest.”
She decided to isolate all superpowered people for now, in case some of them lost control and caused unnecessary damages. Before the cause was found, none of them was allowed to leave the square.
That was the only way to keep the others safe.
Lin Qiao turned to Shen Yujen and said, “When Yun Meng manages to stabilize the situation on her side, get all level six and seven zombies to the conference room in Base Number Two to wait for me.”
“Yes ma’am!” Shen Yujen responded, then turned and left to spread the message.
Duan Juan delivered Lin Qiao’s words, and soon, Chen Yuting, Lin Feng, Lin Wenwen, Jian Shengtong, Xia Yushen and all the other superpowered people arrived at the square.
The base had about ten-thousand human residents so far. Among them, only hundreds had superpowers. Therefore, their gathering spot wasn’t as crowded as that of the commoners.
Among all the commoners, Li Jian had a good ability to lead. Chen Yuting made him a temporary squadron leader and asked him to lead the soldiers to do the post-disaster clean-up in the base. Currently, he and his men were running about in the base, doing their work.
Lin Qiao asked Lin Feng to control and manage the group of superpowered people, then quickly returned to Base Number Two and had a short meeting with the other zombies.
