The post-apocalyptic world has a space full of supplies.

Chapter 219 Another Battle with the Beijing Research Institute

After the group finished packing, it was indeed within the twenty minutes that Lu Yuan had mentioned. Perhaps it was because Lu Yuan had lived for over two thousand years, but he always gave people a sense of authority and pressure, and Zhong Qiang didn't dare to utter a sound at all.

"Shall we go back the way we came?" Lin Yun asked, turning back before opening the door. He was also clearly looking at Lu Yuan. In the past, if Gu Nanfeng or Ji Lang were around, everyone would just use Lu Yuan as a "warehouse". Who would ask the "warehouse" for permission before setting off?

"Don't focus on me so much, I'm just a 'warehouse'." Although this Lu Yuan was much stronger in terms of personal ability than the Lu Yuan they knew, he seemed to have gotten used to obeying orders. However, the difference was probably that the Lu Yuan they knew wouldn't notice when the orders were wrong, but this Lu Yuan would directly correct them, and in a rather violent way.

"Shall we follow the route you took last time to the underground parking lot?" Gu Nanfeng suggested, looking at Ji Lang. Usually, when the two of them came out together, Gu Nanfeng rarely offered opinions, because Ji Lang was already a very mature captain, and they had a meticulous vice-captain like Lin Yun. However, last time here, Ji Lang and Lin Yun suffered heavy losses. The fact that Ji Lang hadn't spoken up yet showed that they were both feeling very bad.

“Alright, I’ll lead the way, Lin Yun will bring up the rear.” Ji Lang and Lin Yun exchanged a glance, and Lin Yun opened the door to their office. The group of seven walked out of the office one after another.

Just like last time, they didn't encounter many zombies as they walked down from the new research building. Moreover, the zombies they encountered this time were the ordinary kind from the beginning. Even Ji Lang, who was walking ahead and getting his head blown off whenever he encountered one, was a little confused. It felt like he had returned to the very beginning of the virus outbreak. Zombies looked terrifying, but as long as you didn't make contact and just get your head blown off, they didn't seem so scary.

"Is the situation the same as last time?" Pei Sihao, who was following behind Ji Lang and helping to finish him off, asked.

“It’s different. Last time, although there weren’t many zombies here, there were some second and third generation zombies, and a few zombies with level three or four superpowers.” Ji Lang said while changing his magazine. “But this time, the zombies we encountered were all level one.”

The reason we are so certain is that everyone now knows the function of the crystals. Whenever a zombie is killed, people will stop to collect the crystals. However, without exception, none of these zombies had any crystals.

Soon, they arrived at the first level of the underground parking lot, which connected to the original research institute. Based on their previous experience, Ji Lang and Lin Yun now knew that there was a road here that led directly to Beijing's underground transportation network, and that going down three levels from here, followed by several specific safety passages, would lead to the underground laboratory section below.

“We escaped from here last time,” Ji Lang said, pointing to an open emergency exit after walking for a while.

Sure enough, when Gu Nanfeng raised the light on the right side of his protective suit, he could see some dark gray ash on the stairs. These were traces of the zombies that Zhao Qi had burned when he rescued Ji Lang and the others last time.

The safety door on the second floor below is always closed. Below that is the safety door that Ji Lang closed back then. Behind that door were tens of millions of zombies, but now there is no sound at all.

"Going down from here leads to the emergency staircase closest to that office." Lin Yun was the last to leave, so when everyone else reached the emergency exit, he stood alone on the stairs, making him appear quite tall.

"We don't have fire-based abilities, so we're at a disadvantage against so many zombies." Since Qin Yuan's sacrifice, there hasn't been a single high-level fire-based ability user in the entire South China base.

Previously, there was a child whose special ability was the flame ability. The other fire-type ability users were only at level one or two, and they were all survivors who had been rescued. During the months they were in refuge, their fire-type abilities were practically nonexistent. You can imagine how timid they were. Even if the base wanted to train them, they couldn't.

“The fire-type ability user who appeared here last time was of a very high level.” From the marks on the ground, Gu Nanfeng could tell that Zhao Qi’s ability level had surpassed all of theirs, but it seemed to be much weaker than the mental ability user he had sensed in S City.

“Zhao Qi is a level nine ability user. He said he had just broken through to level nine at the time,” Yang Xiao added.

"The range of a level nine ability user is so large?" Gu Nanfeng pondered for a moment, then decided not to delve any deeper, as now was not the time for research. He walked to the safety door and began to release his mental energy.

While Gu Nanfeng was using his mental power to investigate, the others remained vigilant about their surroundings. After all, apart from Gu Nanfeng and Pei Sihao, everyone knew that there were high-level zombies here, and quite a few of them.

Lu Yuan was the only one who calmly sat down on the bottom floor of the stairs. He took out a bottle of Fatty Water from his spatial storage and took a big gulp. He even let out a loud burp, which startled Zhong Qiang, who was standing in front of him.

"Grandpa Lu, you'll attract zombies if you do that," Zhong Qiang said to Lu Yuan in a low voice while listening carefully to the sounds around him. For some reason, he felt that Lu Yuan was unreliable at this moment.

"Don't be nervous. Although we don't have fire-type abilities, have you forgotten how you managed to rush in last time?" Lu Yuan chuckled and suddenly stood up.

"What are you doing?" Yang Xiao felt uneasy seeing Lu Yuan like this, feeling that this person was a ticking time bomb. He wanted to step forward to stop him, but before he could do so, he saw Lu Yuan push Gu Nanfeng away.

Logically speaking, Gu Nanfeng is at least a level six ability user. The crystals they collected in S City have brought Gu Nanfeng and Pei Sihao's ability levels close to level seven. Breaking through the level six barrier should only take a few more crystals.

But even this Gu Nanfeng was easily pushed away by Lu Yuan with a light push, and Lu Yuan's control of his strength was excellent. After all, they all knew that Lu Yuan's exoskeleton was from Interstellar Industry, and it had taken Lu Yuan a long time to gradually master the control of his strength. He would never dare to push like this suddenly, for fear that one wrong move could lead to a life-or-death situation.

"Wait..." Pei Sihao realized that Lu Yuan wanted to open the fire door. He also noticed that Gu Nanfeng's mental detection indicated that there were high-level zombies on the other side. But as soon as he shouted, Lu Yuan had already opened the fire door.

The moment the fire door opened, it was unexpected for everyone. A wave of hot air rushed out. If Lu Yuan's exoskeleton hadn't automatically activated its protective shield the instant he opened the door, the flames would have burned all seven of them to ashes, leaving not a trace.