The scene was a little chaotic. Hundreds of people were shouting and clearing away the countless bricks and stones. The dust that had fallen earlier was stirred up again. Zhang Xiaoqiang had a cigarette in his mouth and squinted his eyes, letting the dust cover his face. Suddenly, his trousers were pulled by something.
Lowering his head, he saw a pair of soybean-sized eyes staring back at him. When the little marten saw Zhang Xiao Qiang looking at it, it let go of Zhang Xiao Qiang's trousers and squeaked twice before turning around and running. Its destination was the collapsed granary.
Looking at the small marten's fluffy tail, Zhang Xiaoqiang hesitated for a moment. He stomped his feet and chased after it. He knew that the small marten was taking him to find Meow, but he did not want to see Meow's body so soon...
The Mutated Small Marten squatted on a few broken pieces of the wall and jumped here and there, its fluffy tail almost turning into a circle. Zhang Xiao Qiang looked at the huge rubble and felt his heart turn cold. The rocks here were too big and too heavy. If it was him, he would not be able to survive.
"Come over here, move them out..."
Zhang Xiaoqiang shouted. He reached out and picked up three broken bricks and threw them to the side. Another forty to fifty people ran over to help. There was strength in numbers, and with the help of Luo Shaoshan, a strength-type evolver, the cleaning work was quick. Countless bricks and cement dregs were cleared away, and the broken wall that was taller than a human was also moved away.
When the smashed rifle came into view, Zhang Xiao Qiang's heart twitched violently. At this moment, he couldn't control his body's stiffness. He could only stare blankly at the broken rifle, its barrel flattened.
At this moment, Zhang Xiao Qiang did not even have the strength to move his fingers. The soldiers beside him did not notice his abnormality, and continued to shout as they slowly moved the huge broken wall away.
When the broken wall was still moving, a girl standing beside Zhang Xiaoqiang suddenly shouted:
"Stop, stop, everyone stop..."
Zhang Xiaoqiang suddenly turned around and stared at the girl. She was a member of the Evolver team. She looked ordinary, but her name was very nice. She was called Lan Ting, and her evolved ability was hearing.
When the girl saw Zhang Xiaoqiang staring at her, she couldn't help but shrink her neck, looking a little scared. Zhang Xiaoqiang looked at her and suddenly remembered that she could hear the sound of blood flowing in the blood vessels. He turned around and shouted at the others, "Stop, all of you stop …"
The scene quietened down. The sweaty grey men stared at Zhang Xiaoqiang and Lan Ting, who was beside him. Lan Ting took a deep breath and closed her eyes. For a moment, all movement stopped. No one dared to breathe loudly, as if even the sound of their heartbeat would disturb them.
Lan Ting suddenly opened her eyes, turned around, and pointed in the opposite direction of where everyone was digging.
"There's a heartbeat and breathing underground …"
Zhang Xiaoqiang looked at the center of the granary in astonishment. There was a mountain of sacks of grain there. The scattered rice mixed with sand had covered every inch of the ground.
"Go …"
Zhang Xiaoqiang did not hesitate and shouted. Luo Kaishan rushed over and grabbed four sacks of grain and threw them out. The spinning sacks scattered a lot of crystal clear rice. Before they could fall to the ground, more and more sacks were thrown out, each one stronger than the previous one. The sacks at the back even hit the ones in front and rolled far away in the air.
There was strength in numbers. Soon, the mountains of grain were cleared, but the space that was revealed was empty. Other than the marks from before, there wasn't even much sand and rice left.
Everyone looked at Lan Ting. Lan Ting was a little confused. She stood on the ground for a while and nodded.
"It's below, there's the sound of water flowing …"
"Can it really work?"
Ai Ai was at a loss as she stood on the ground where the Rat King Blade had gouged out the cement. She looked at Zhang Xiao Qiang and asked timidly. The tall girl thought too highly of the evolver's life. The first time she was on a mission, she had to face a sea of zombies. She was scared out of her wits. After that, she met a D3 zombie and flew around in the sky a few times. She had lost all confidence in her evolver identity.
When Lan Ting suggested letting her use her ability, Ai Ai felt weak all over and could no longer lift her spirit. At that time, under Zhang Xiao Qiang's gaze, she had no choice but to stand up against her scalp.
"Hurry up, stop dilly-dallying …"
Zhang Xiaoqiang was extremely impatient, so he did not say anything. The news that Meow might be alive made him want to cut off his head and dig into the ground. Ai Ai's dilly-dallying made him very unhappy.
"Ah!
It's … "
Ai Ai answered, and in the next second, she disappeared from everyone's sight. Following that, a scream rang out from the place where Ai Ai disappeared, and a huge pit appeared on the ground. Everything happened without any warning. There was no dust that soared into the sky, and there was no earth-shattering tremor. It was as if this pit had always been there, and no one had noticed it before.
Looking down the pit, under the layers of moist soil of various colors, there was a black pool of dirty water. Then, the dirty water suddenly burst open, and a stinky figure jumped out. It jumped over two meters into the pit and landed on the ground. Looking closely, it was Meow Meow.
"Meow …"
Zhang Xiaoqiang shouted and rushed to hug her, but this time, he hugged nothing. Meow dodged to the side and kept screaming, "So smelly, so dirty, so dirty …"
Meow ran to the side to find a place to take a shower and change clothes. Zhang Xiaoqiang stared at her back in a daze, and the soldiers around him were the same. Only Lan Ting shouted, "Ai Ai is still down there. Could she have drowned?"
The only reason Meow Meow was not crushed was because it had been able to sense danger as an evolver. When it was fighting the D3, it was so focused that it almost scared its soul out of its body. There was dust everywhere, and Meow Meow could not see what was going on. In a moment of desperation, it jumped to the corner of the wall, and then the whole wall collapsed. Meow Meow panicked, and its feet touched the iron grating of the drain entrance.
Using the sharpness of the Rat King Blade, Meow jumped into the sewer. Then, the wall above her collapsed, and the place where she was previously hiding was compressed. Meow was also trapped in the smelly sewer. If it was before, there was no dirty water, and it was not a big deal. But after it rained, Meow suffered a lot. She swam in the dark sewer alone, and drowned mutant rats floated past her from time to time.
Just when Meow was feeling extremely disgusted, Ai Ai arrived. Just as Ai Ai let out a scream, she was stepped on by Meow as a stepping stone, and jumped onto the sewer by herself …
Looking at Ai Ai, who was also wet and smelly, Zhang Xiaoqiang was in a good mood. He looked for his backpack, and threw a spare military uniform to her. He praised, "There are no useless skills, only useless people. You are quite capable, and you can consider becoming a miner in the future …"
After taking a shower and changing into clean clothes, Zhang Xiaoqiang walked to the construction site where the D3 was hanging. There were only a few dozen people there, and Tie Zhongyuan was not there either. The D3 was still grilling the D3. The D3 no longer had the strength to roar, and it did not struggle even though it was hanging on the tower crane. It only trembled slightly, like a live prawn on a metal plate.
The surrounding soldiers were pointing at the D3, and Zhang Xiaoqiang stood beside the burning bonfire. Looking at the D3 that had shrunk by a third, he felt a strong sense of achievement. He reached out his hand to grab Meow's shoulder, and pulled her into his embrace. He pointed at the D3 and said to her, "See, I have avenged you …"
Obviously, Meow did not appreciate it. She threw away Zhang Xiaoqiang's arm, and patted her clothes.
"So dirty …"
Zhang Xiaoqiang did not mind. Looking at Meow's smiling eyes, his heart felt as comfortable as drinking iced water. Looking at the D3 hanging upside down, and listening to the scattered gunshots from afar, Zhang Xiaoqiang curiously asked the soldiers who were left behind.
"Aren't there a few hundred people doing this?
Where did they go? "
The soldiers here were from Huang Jinqi and his cavalry. A platoon commander saluted to Zhang Xiaoqiang and reported:
"The commander of Wolf Flag brought them to clear out the remaining zombies. Just now, before we found the reservoir, the zombies along the way were mostly cleared out, and there were not many left. They wanted to use this opportunity to clear out all the zombies in Qi County …"
Just as the soldier finished speaking, Zhang Xiaoqiang remembered that he had brought the D3 to clear out all the zombies here. After a few rounds of clearing out, most of the evolved zombies had been wiped out, and there were no Z-types here. Obviously, they had unintentionally wiped out more than half of the zombies in Qi County.
"You guys go as well. Pay attention to your safety, and keep in contact with the surrounding troops. Focus on searching the various warehouses, as well as steel and building materials. Once you find anything, report it immediately …"
Zhang Xiaoqiang sent the remaining soldiers away, and at the same time, sent someone to report to Sumu Town, so that they could send people over to transport the supplies. Just as the soldiers disappeared, a loud cry came from the sky …