HLnovel Chapter 79 Superpower Evolution (2)
Chapter 79 Superpower Evolution (2)
"Damn it, why don't we have any?" Zhong Qiang and Yang Xiao put down their bowls and chopsticks, flipping their hands up and down, hoping that flames would leap from their hands in that instant.
“We’ve had the same experience since the second viral rain, so why haven’t we evolved?” Pei Sihao pondered, looking at his palm.
“During the second virus rain, Captain Du was not exposed to the virus air, but he went berserk during the meteor shower.” Pei Sihao glanced back at Du Wenqing, who was still unconscious on the bed. “Moreover, of all the surviving team members, he is the only one who is temporarily conscious.”
“Every time these special phenomena occur, the zombies evolve. After the meteor shower, that female zombie with a bow and arrow clearly evolved again; it should have been a third-generation zombie at that point. Humans have also experienced these phenomena, so what exactly influences human evolution?” Gu Nanfeng recalled the female zombie with a bow and arrow. Pei Sihao had practiced shooting with his father since childhood, and his shooting skills were comparable to Zhang Hao's, but that day he had indeed fired several bullets without hitting the target. That female zombie was even faster and more agile than a few days ago.
“But we won’t be able to use this ability for long.” Lin Yun chuckled, as if recalling something amusing. “After I discovered my ability, I also reminded Old Qin…”
When Qin Yuan learned that he might have evolved superpowers in this apocalyptic world, this patriotic, immature young man, who wasn't even that old to begin with, instantly became flamboyant. He quickly raised his hands and started pushing the snake on the ground, just like in the martial arts dramas he watched as a child, slapping it left and right. But perhaps he hadn't grasped the knack, while Lin Yun easily defeated the snake, he hadn't been able to react at all.
Even after Lin Yun had driven back the snakes, there was still no fire on Qin Yuan's side.
The snakes retreated temporarily, and Du Wenqing called all the soldiers to quickly get into the vehicles. Lu Yuan's vehicles had been modified to be very sturdy, so once they were in the vehicles, they were basically safe.
Lin Yun got into the car and opened the sunroof, blowing the wind towards the horde of zombies surrounding them, trying to clear a path. However, Lin Yun had probably exhausted himself earlier, and his wind power gradually weakened until he couldn't even lift the hem of the zombies' clothes.
Qin Yuan was extremely anxious in the other car. He followed Lin Yun's example and opened the sunroof. He roared and raised his hands in front of him. Unexpectedly, two tongues of fire suddenly appeared and shot towards the zombie in front of him, instantly igniting the zombie's dry body and clothes.
Because the zombie horde wanted to trap them, they kept shrinking the encirclement. The zombies inside were basically packed together. Once the fire was lit, they burned one after another, quickly spreading into a continuous fire. The animals in the enclosure were driven away by the smoke and fled in all directions. The zombie horde, oblivious to this, continued to surround them.
Although Lin Yun's wind had weakened, it still had some effect when blown onto the fire. He used the wind to direct the flames spewed out by Qin Yuan toward the direction of the second-generation zombies. Soon, their dozen or so vehicles were also surrounded by the fire. If it weren't for Lu Yuan's good car, they wouldn't have been able to break out of the fire circle and might have all perished in the end.
When Lin Yun rushed out of the ring of fire, he retreated back into the car. But Qin Yuan was too excited. When the car drove out, his entire face was blackened by smoke, and he was dizzy for most of the day due to excessive exertion.
They had just finished talking when Du Wenqing woke up. He smelled the aroma of food. He really hadn't had a decent meal in three months, especially since food was scarce at the base, and he had been eating steamed buns and compressed biscuits all the time. Now that he could smell the aroma of food, his stomach started rumbling.
"Old Du, are you alright?" Qin Yuan was sitting directly opposite Du Wenqing's bed. Seeing that he had sat up and his eyes no longer looked like he was about to go crazy, he invited him to come and eat.
Du Wenqing is the oldest person in this bus. He has been in the army for almost thirty years. He never expected that he would be so hungry in front of a group of people in their twenties that his stomach would growl loudly so that everyone in the bus could hear him. He blushed a little embarrassedly, but he really couldn't resist the temptation of the food.
Once he sat down at the dining table and started eating hot food, he realized that it had been more than three months since the zombie virus outbreak, so where had he gotten fresh ingredients to cook with?
"These..." Du Wenqing looked at the table full of food, then glanced at Lu Yuan. Lu Yuan had also brought out this RV earlier. He asked uncertainly, "Is this also from your space?"
“No,” Du Wenqing thought for a moment, then asked uncertainly, “If it’s a superpower, it should only be a recent development, right? Which supermarket still has fresh vegetables?”
Lu Yuan didn't know how to explain it either, but using awakened superpowers to explain his space was indeed the most reasonable explanation. He glanced at Gu Nanfeng and Pei Sihao and said, "Maybe it's because I awakened it earlier?"
“That’s right. I’ve always found it strange how you have a spatial ability.” When Qin Yuan heard Lu Yuan say this, he foolishly thought that Lu Yuan was actually the first among them to awaken his superpower.
"So that's how it is!" Zhong Qiang slapped his forehead. "Then when we came out of the dormitory, the zombies suddenly stopped moving. Could it be that one of us had a special ability?"
"Who knows?" Yang Xiao nodded. "Now Lu Xiaoyuan has spatial abilities, Captain Qin has fire abilities, Captain Lin has wind abilities, and even Captain Du has earth abilities. How come we're so weak?"
Even Yang Xiao and Zhong Qiang now believe that Lu Yuan's spatial ability was the first to awaken, but only Gu Nanfeng and Pei Sihao know that Lu Yuan's spatial ability originated from a spatial ring. The fact that none of the three of them explained it, and that everyone believes it, is perhaps not a bad thing.
“Zhong Qiang is right. It's possible that when we ran out of the dorm, the zombies all stopped moving. Perhaps it was an awakened ability in one of our groups.” Gu Nanfeng also recalled that the zombies suddenly stopped moving and remained so for a long time. At the time, they assumed a high-intelligence zombie nearby was commanding these low-intelligence zombies. However, they later encountered zombie hordes led by second-generation and even third-generation zombies, and never encountered a situation where a high-level zombie could control low-level zombies to completely stop moving.
“But the person who awakened the superpower might not be the first among us.” Pei Sihao sighed regretfully. At the time, Ruan Wen and two other women and a man were with them. Who knows who awakened the superpower back then?
"Why do good things never happen to me?" Zhong Qiang looked up at the sky at a 45-degree angle with great regret. Before the play could even begin, Yang Xiao slapped him awake. "Aren't you lucky enough to be with Lu Xiaoyuan?"
“Following Dad Lu is definitely the luckiest thing that has ever happened to me!” Zhong Qiang suddenly hugged Lu Yuan tightly again, indicating that he couldn’t be separated from Lu Yuan for even a minute.
Before Lu Yuan could break free, Pei Sihao joined in the fun, hugging Lu Yuan tightly and sobbing, "Without Daddy Lu, Xiaohao can't live."
"That's enough, you two!" Because Du Wenxing had come to eat, Gu Nanfeng was separated from the others and was a bit far away. He wanted to go over and help pull them apart, but his arms weren't long enough...