The aura left behind by the elephant-shaped zombie at the cost of its life was still there, and he was also sending people to surround and intercept her.
But he kept feeling that while he was hunting this woman down, she was also waiting for the people he sent over.
Those seventh-rank people were either captured or killed, or else they hid in all directions under that woman’s gaze like stray dogs!
You’re already seventh-rank! What are you hiding for?!
If they were not so far away, and if his control over those ability users’ bodies was not weaker than their own control, he would have taken over directly long ago and sent the souls of those useless fools straight to heaven!
His chest rose and fell as he forcibly suppressed his anger.
No rush. There was no need to rush at all.
After all, the pieces he had planted early on had not yet reached the moment of complete backlash.
Just a little more.
The day the wind stopped would be the day his zombie army devoured everyone who failed to appreciate his favour.
Only he was the one true king of this world!
At the beginning of June, the apocalypse had arrived exactly three years ago.
After a full year of raging snowstorms, the climate of the land finally returned to a relatively stable state: twenty degrees, a light breeze, fine rain, and devastation as far as the eye could see.
Building Seven seized the last stretch of time in which it could still develop everywhere, desperately searching for food. It did not even spare the floating corpses and rotting things in the water, wrapping them up, absorbing and purifying them, and continuously strengthening itself.
As for Fu Erdie, she opened her ability to its fullest, pulling all close companions within her domain, as well as the dandelions with their larger domain, into push-pull training together. She trained without stopping for even a moment, expanding both her mental power and ability to their limits. At the same time, she sped up their travel and increased the efficiency of harvesting zombies.
Finally, at the end of June, when Ning City Base in the east gathered a massive zombie tide and surged toward the central region, the succulent, pothos, spider plant, gardenia, and zucchini—the four founding members plus one all-purpose member—finally struggled their way to seventh-rank.
Fu Erdie had been travelling madly every day and continuously using wind abilities to unleash large-scale attacks to harvest zombies. From the piles of hundreds of millions of zombies, she had already obtained one hundred thousand crystal cores.
She did not use the crystal cores on the plant cubs, who could level up simply by absorbing zombies. Instead, she picked out a portion of crystal cores that matched the attributes of her close companions and let them absorb them. Then she put away all the remaining crystal cores and brought them home for the house to use. Through sheer piling up of crystal cores, she forcefully pushed the house to seventh-rank.
At the same time, Ning City Base’s offensive officially began.
All the zombie kings of Ning City Base, under the control of the base master Bin Mushi, had finished eating every zombie of their own kind. Now they marched out in a vast formation. At first glance, every single zombie king looked like one zombie standing against thousands of troops.
Even more frightening was that there were many variants among the zombie kings. It was obvious that under Bin Mushi’s manipulation, humans and animals had been “assembled” together to gain special abilities.
Just like the previous elephant-shaped zombie, which could sense radio-wave fluctuations within a certain range, then achieve spatial jumps and descend instantly.
Now, there were clearly even more of these strange, bizarre mutated zombies.
The dandelions at the front line transmitted many shocking images of the zombie king horde. But almost the instant those images appeared in the energy space, the spatial anchor point where that dandelion was located vanished.
The space shrank inward by one piece. The dandelion had lost contact with the group.
Then came the second, the third…
Fu Erdie sank her consciousness into the energy space and arrived at the very edge of the space.
She saw even more images that the dandelions had not yet had time to transmit.
In a wasteland, the dandelions ahead had been contaminated by unknown energy and withered instantly.
There was no time to be shocked or afraid. Fu Erdie immediately pushed her ability forward, expanding the boundary of the ability space and forcibly enveloping the withered dandelions within it. Then she urged the dandelions near the front line to quickly pull the withered dandelions back.
The dandelions’ energy space was interconnected. As long as a withered dandelion still had one root that had not died, Fu Erdie could seize that faint energy and hold onto its life.
As expected, these dozen or so dandelions were not completely dead yet!
She quickly activated her ability, preserving the dandelions and sending them to a safe place.
In the air, the withered dandelions slowly moved inland under the relay of many dandelions’ wind abilities. When they finally arrived at An City Base and An Ya arranged treatment for them, Fu Erdie slowly let out a breath of relief.
The battle had officially begun.
At this moment, Building Seven was at Jian City Base, fighting the base master Luo Can and the other ability users who had defected to Ning City Base.
After instructing everyone in the butterfly garden to stay on alert, Fu Erdie left the zucchini, already seventh-rank, to defend the home base and guard against sneak attacks. Then she took the house, which had already entered the box truck, and rode the wind toward An City.
Now, Fu Erdie was already extremely skilled at using wind abilities. She could fully be described as travelling a thousand li in a day. It took her only one night to reach the place in Jian City where Building Seven was fighting.
Luo Can and the others were people who had fled under Fu Erdie’s previous pursuit and interception, then somehow gathered together as if guided by fate.
After discovering that everyone was an ally of Ning City Base, and that all of them were seventh-rank ability users, they no longer took the Butterfly Garden Principal, who was also seventh-rank, seriously at all.
No matter how powerful this person had seemed before, she was now merely the same rank as them!
Two fists could not defeat four hands. One seventh-rank ability user, plus these plants that only seemed to be high-rank, were completely nothing to worry about!
Ning City’s boss had already promised them that as long as they could kill the Butterfly Garden Principal and these plants, they would receive another ten seventh-rank psychic crystal cores and level up to eighth-rank.
Eighth-rank… Eighth-rank!!! How many eighth-ranks could this entire land support?
Once they levelled up to that rank, they would be invincible!
Because of this, the people who had been chased everywhere a month ago were now especially brave. When they saw Fu Erdie suddenly appear, they did not feel afraid. Instead, they became even more excited and attacked desperately.
However, none of them noticed that their minds had already broken away from the cautious thinking habits formed over three years of the apocalypse. Like brainwashed puppets, their minds contained only attack, attack, and more attack.
They did not realise at all that only four plants from Building Seven were truly participating in the fight. Nor did they realise how strange it was that more than a dozen seventh-rank ability users had fought four plants for an entire day and still failed to take them down.
Of course, they also did not notice that after Fu Erdie joined the battle, the entire structure of Building Seven changed. It coordinated with the plants’ attacks more freely, allowing the plants to display twelve parts of strength from ten parts of power.
Ten minutes later, they fell one by one, and there were fewer and fewer Ning City ability users left on the battlefield.
Only now did they realise just how large the gap was between their seventh-rank and the other side’s seventh-rank…
But at this moment, their minds only cleared for an instant. After that, a huge tearing sensation came from the depths of their souls, as if something was ripping them apart where they stood.
After that, muddled and confused, they lost control of their bodies. Their bodies charged savagely toward Building Seven. When a huge pothos leaf lashed toward them, they neither dodged nor avoided it. Their abilities stabbed in, and their entire bodies exploded along with them.
Pain. It hurt. It hurt so much…
Everything was over.
The explosion of the ability spaces of more than a dozen seventh-rank ability users was actually not especially earth-shattering. The succulent’s fleshy leaves and the house’s own defence were enough to block these impacts.
But Fu Erdie felt dizzy and nauseous. A burning sensation filled her entire body, and her energy space, which had always been extremely peaceful and stable, actually began to surge violently. If she had not disconnected from her close companions in time, it might have directly dragged their energy spaces into it too.
She leaned against the wall and sat there, taking quite a while to recover from the aftershock.
This ability self-destruction was actually an existence that directly attacked her energy space.
“Fu Erdie?” Sang Wenhao and Cen Xiyang gathered around, looking at her worriedly. The house also flashed with white light, treating her injuries.
But any fluctuation related to the energy space could not be treated purely by the house or the fruits of intelligent plants. She could only regulate it with her own ability.
She waved her hand. “It’s not a big problem. I’ll be fine in two hours. Give me the telegraph machine. I need to contact D City Base and Jing City Base.”
That psychic ability user in Ning City was absolutely not someone she could easily deal with on her own.
For now, Fu Erdie could still use the dandelions to determine the approximate location of the zombie king horde. If the dandelions withdrew one after another, the possible range of that zombie king horde would expand, and it would become troublesome to handle them.
Although her previous request for the plants to enter and settle had already been refused by Jing City Base, Fu Erdie still tried once more to send a signal and seek cooperation, asking Jing City Base to suppress them with weapons.
They had kept those weapons for self-protection. But now, the zombies across more than half of Hua Country’s land had already been cleared out, and the remaining half had been swallowed up by Ning City Base and transformed into a zombie king horde.
As long as these zombies were cleared away, Hua Country could almost be said to have eliminated all zombies at a heavy cost. The days afterward would be much easier.
She wanted to persuade Jing City Base. However, she waited for a long time. Even D City Base, which had received her later message, had already replied, but there was still no news from Jing City Base.
D City Base’s response was strong and decisive: “We are willing to provide all weapon support. However, both weapons and energy sources have suffered a certain amount of damage. The accuracy of long-range strikes cannot be controlled, so the effect may not be ideal.”
Fu Erdie understood. After all, high-precision weapons required satellite positioning and precise guidance. Now that satellites had long since failed due to radiation, long-range attacks were very difficult.
As for fighter jets, to be honest, back when D City Base resisted the zombie tide, some had been shot down by ability zombies. If they sent fighter jets to attack now, facing zombie kings that were often seventh-rank, it would be extremely dangerous and they might not even hit their targets.
So the only weapons usable now were land-attack weapons, such as tanks and cannons whose attack positions were physically controlled.
To transport these weapons to the front line would have been unrealistic during the previous high winds. Now that the weather had improved, the road conditions were poor, so it would take a very long time.
Only if Jing City Base was willing to move could this be resolved as quickly as possible.
However…
After waiting for a long time, Jing City Base finally replied with one sentence: “We need to send people out to verify.”
Fu Erdie: “…”
Sang Wenhao and the others: “…”
Although what you’re saying makes sense, is there a possibility that the instant your people go out to verify it will also be the instant those intelligence personnel die?
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