novelraw Chapter 252 - 243: The Blood-colored Asura Returns to the Human World
Chapter 252 - 243: The Blood-colored Asura Returns to the Human World
In the command vehicle, Yang Liu was piloting a drone, trying to find a relatively safer route for the convoy through the dense, swaying mountain forest.
But the rain was too heavy. Although the drone was waterproof, the footage it captured was extremely blurry, and visibility was severely obstructed.
Even though the situation was urgent, Yang Liu remained calm.
Just then, Zhou Qian’s voice suddenly came through the walkie-talkie: "Captain, we’ve made contact with headquarters. Satellite data shows this earthquake is over magnitude ten and its scope covers all of City A."
However, there were still millions of survivors in A City Base...
But right now, they could barely save themselves. Forget about rescuing others—they didn’t even know if they could make it out of this mountain forest alive.
In the face of nature’s fury, humanity had no room to resist.
Amid the violent shaking, everyone fell silent. Zhao Qingxiao’s hands, gripping the steering wheel, turned slightly white from the force.
"Captain..." someone’s voice came through the walkie-talkie.
Ye Junhan’s expression was calm. He pressed the button on his walkie-talkie, just about to speak.
Just then, Gu Xi took the walkie-talkie from his hand and said calmly, "A City Base should be fine. Just now..."
The earthquake’s outbreak was too chaotic, and perhaps others didn’t notice, but Gu Xi did. After the Guard Team from the base and the group from the research institute had a dispute over the uneven distribution of that pot of chicken soup, neither side went back to their tents to rest. Instead, they got into their vehicles.
The moment the earthquake began, both of their convoys sped off immediately.
This meant they had received news in advance. It was clear the base had predicted this major earthquake long before.
And in the first few years after the apocalypse began, City A experienced several major earthquakes. Later, when the base was established, the authorities took this into account. The entire A City Base was built to a high standard of seismic resistance. If they received news in advance and made preparations, the casualties shouldn’t be too great.
For some unknown reason, however, the base predicted this massive earthquake but didn’t notify the Special Service Team.
Everyone’s expression turned grim.
"Those sons of bitches..." Liu Hao cursed under his breath, wrenching the steering wheel to the left to avoid a giant tree crashing down in front of them.
Ye Junhan glanced at Gu Xi, then opened his personal terminal. He quickly pulled up a map, circled a route, and sent it to the other team members’ terminals.
The sudden, massive earthquake had completely ruined the route Gu Xi and the others had planned earlier.
"Where do we go now?" In another vehicle, Qi Xiang was gripping the roof of the car for dear life, still being thrown about by the jolting. She couldn’t even find a chance to buckle her seatbelt.
In the driver’s seat, Wei Heng stared intently ahead. "We’ll follow the research institute’s vehicles. Let’s get out of this area first, then we’ll rendezvous with Gu Xi and the others."
Qi Xiang’s face was pale from the violent shaking. "This is insane. Earthquakes in the past only lasted for a moment, but this time..."
Just then, the car gave another violent jolt.
’It’s happening again.’
From the moment the earthquake struck, the intense tremors had already lasted for more than five minutes, and each aftershock was more violent than the last.
Seeing the grim look on Wei Heng’s face, Qi Xiang didn’t dare speak again and distract him. She just held on tightly to the car roof, trying her best not to cause trouble for her teammate.
In the other vehicle, Gu Xi sat in the back seat, soaked to the bone, her expression chillingly cold.
She hadn’t even used her ability to dry her clothes.
Through the rearview mirror, Ye Junhan’s gaze fell on Gu Xi. His brow furrowed almost imperceptibly. ’Ever since she got in the car, something has been off about her mood.’
The off-road vehicle drove on through the tremors for several hours. At three in the morning, they finally reached an open area.
Ye Junhan ordered a stop, broadcast his location to everyone’s personal terminals, and commanded the entire convoy to converge on his position.
From the driver’s seat, Zhao Qingxiao had already jumped out of the car.
After getting out, Ye Junhan walked a few steps forward, then returned to the vehicle and knocked on the window.
Gu Xi lowered the window. In the misty morning light, her eyes were cold to the extreme.
Ye Junhan looked down at her. "Change your clothes. Don’t catch a cold."
After speaking, he raised the window for her and strode away.
An hour later, the convoy had gradually finished assembling.
As soon as Shen Yue and Wei Heng stopped their vehicles, several of the young women rushed out, clutching their chests and vomiting until their faces were pale.
Gu Xi silently handed them a few bottles of water.
Just then, she suddenly looked back.
At the same time, Qian Shan, who had been standing on the roof of a vehicle about to jump down, suddenly gripped the frame with both hands.
"Captain!" He looked up toward the rear, but the heavy rain blurred his vision.
’What is that!’
Qian Shan rubbed his eyes. In the distant ruins, he saw something crawling out of a fissure in the earth torn open by the earthquake. It threw its head back and roared like a monster in the dark, rainy night...
The next second, the things seemed to notice him and snapped their heads around to look his way.
When he got a clear look at them, Qian Shan’s eyes widened, and his scalp tingled. ’They’re...’
In the downpour, Yang Liu’s ten fingers flew across the controls, his movements so fast they left afterimages as he piloted the drones.
Soon, a blurry image appeared on the Light Screen from the drone’s camera. Yang Liu’s eyes were fixed on the roaring things in the image as they rushed toward them. His voice was hoarse and tight as he said haltingly, "Captain..."
He was just about to share the drone footage with the team when there was a sudden "CRACK!"—
The several drones in mid-air shattered at almost the same instant and plummeted to the ground.
Fortunately, Ye Junhan had already seen it.
—It was zombies. High-level Zombies.
The kind of zombies that had only ever appeared in data files, the kind that had been gone for thirty years.
Ye Junhan tightened his grip on the scimitar in his hand.
Just then, a figure flashed past him, swift as a ghost, and appeared before the zombies in the blink of an eye.
It was Gu Xi.
Ye Junhan narrowed his eyes slightly. Just then, Yang Liu’s voice came over the walkie-talkie: "Captain!"
It turned out that in that brief moment, Yang Liu had managed to pilot two more drones in pursuit. The Light Screen, which had gone black, lit up again with a blurry image.
Yang Liu shared the real-time footage to everyone’s personal terminals.
In the torrential rain, Gu Xi was like a sharpened, living weapon, slaughtering the surrounding zombies at incredible speed.
Her movements were clean and efficient, devoid of any grace, and filled with savagery and ruthlessness.
Whether it was the scimitar in her hand or the thorny vines coiling around her, every move was a killing blow. In just a few short seconds, Gu Xi had cleanly and efficiently eliminated the small group of High-level Zombies.
She was so fast that the young men of the Special Service Team, seeing zombies in person for the first time, couldn’t even react.
In the dark of night, rain washed over the young woman’s slender body. Thick, dark blood and a yellowish-white fluid dripped from the cold edge of her blade, quickly dissolving into the night rain.
BOOM!
A sudden clap of thunder exploded across the sky!
Amidst the lightning and thunder, the cold glint of her blade reflected on Gu Xi’s pale, calm, and even indifferent face. Gripping the blood-drenched knife, she slowly raised her gaze toward the distant ruins.
—The zombies had reappeared. The Blood-colored Asura had once again descended upon the world.