131: Injuried

Su Mianmian looked at the firelight and suddenly felt a gaze filled with deep malice.

She had a bad feeling and instinctively turned her head, meeting a pair of eyes full of purple light.

Su Mianmian only looked at these eyes for a second before immediately averting her gaze.

In the apocalypse, the most taboo thing was to make eye contact with anything, because no one knew if those eyes could kill people invisibly.

Su Mianmian felt that the owner of those eyes was the Zombie King.

She frowned, wondering how there could be purple eyes.

Do zombies have such eyes, such a gaze?

Could it be... Su Mianmian suddenly thought of something and anxiously asked book book through her mind: “book book, is the Zombie King I’m encountering now so powerful because it obtained a meteorite fragment?”

She felt this was the most reasonable explanation.

book book was cultivating and was startled when it heard Su Mianmian’s question.

It used its mind to probe the environment where Su Mianmian was and found her surrounded by a pile of zombies.

Those zombies were incredibly ugly, and it couldn't help but withdraw its mind in disgust.

However, what it needed to know, it now knew completely.

“Master, that zombie has a meteorite fragment on its body.”

“As long as you can take it from the zombie, it won’t be able to control these low-level zombies, but you must be careful; it won’t let you take the meteorite fragment easily.”

book book said with a serious tone.

Su Mianmian nodded; her guess had come true, and she now had more ideas.

“Shi Xu, that Zombie King has a meteorite fragment on it. We just need to get the fragment, and it will lose its ability to control other zombies.”

“The most urgent task now is to find it.”

Ever since Su Mianmian made eye contact with it, she couldn’t sense where it was.

The current situation was stable, but they couldn't stand still.

Su Mianmian looked at Shi Xu with a serious expression, as if wanting to see if he had any way to find the zombie.

Shi Xu thought for a moment and said, “I can sense it a little now, but I need to get closer to confirm exactly where it is.”

After he finished speaking, he looked at Su Mianmian and said earnestly, “You stay here and fight the zombies with them; I’ll go down and find that Zombie King.”

Su Mianmian frowned upon hearing this; she was worried about him going alone.

Shi Xu seemed to sense Su Mianmian’s disapproval and said sternly, “If you go, it’s just suicide.”

He then softened his expression a little, reached out and patted Su Mianmian’s shoulder, and said persuasively, “Stay here obediently; I’ll be fine.”

Su Mianmian looked at his unyielding expression, hesitated for a few seconds, and nodded helplessly.

“Be careful.”

Shi Xu turned to leave, but Su Mianmian anxiously grabbed his hand, reminding him with worry.

Shi Xu turned his head and nodded at her with a firm expression, then went downstairs without looking back.

He went downstairs; Su Mianmian didn't dare to watch.

As soon as Shi Xu went downstairs, he felt the aura of the Zombie King. He stopped, thinking about what to do next.

If he could sense the Zombie King’s aura, the Zombie King could certainly sense his.

They both probably wanted to eliminate each other.

Shi Xu thought for a moment; perhaps if he left, the Zombie King would follow him.

He flashed away to another direction, running while observing if the Zombie King was following him from behind.

If not, he would go back.

Shi Xu had just run for a while when he felt a sense of being watched from behind.

He ignored it and continued to run.

Shi Xu knew the Zombie King had taken the bait.

As he expected, he didn't pay attention to it, and it followed him on its own.

Shi Xu led it to an open area, turned around, and directly confronted the Zombie King.

The Zombie King might have been wary of something; it didn't get too close to him.

Shi Xu looked at the distance and frowned.

How could he see where the meteorite fragment on its hand was from so far away?

Shi Xu couldn't help but walk closer to the Zombie King. As it saw him approaching, it let out a warning “Awoo” at him.

Shi Xu didn't care; what he wanted was for it to get angry.

About five meters from the Zombie King, Shi Xu stopped.

He had already seen where the meteorite fragment was—inside the Zombie King’s arm.

It was precisely embedded in the Zombie King’s arm.

Shi Xu thought for a moment; he felt that directly chopping off the Zombie King’s arm was the quickest solution.

He quietly took out a machete from his space. Before the Zombie King could react, he flashed, charging towards the Zombie King like a swift leopard, the machete in his hand glinting with cold light, cutting through the silent air.

The Zombie King’s purple eyes suddenly contracted, turning into dazzling purple light. It let out a low, dangerous roar in the direction Shi Xu was flying from, its body instantly erupted, surrounded by eerie mist, as if to devour everything.

It was prepared for Shi Xu’s sudden attack.

As Shi Xu charged over, the Zombie King used its sharp claws to meet Shi Xu’s attack.

Shi Xu only felt a cold windattack coming, and he knew he couldn’t dodge, otherwise all his efforts would be in vain.

The next second, the machete and sharp claws collided in mid-air. The moment of impact, a burst of firelight struck, emitting a deafening roar.

Shi Xu’s movements were very fast, every move deadly.

The Zombie King was not to be underestimated either; although its movements were slightly slower compared to a human’s, its strength was immense.

The clash between the human and the zombie was as fast as lightning, the surrounding air currents were stirred into chaos, and in a blur, one could vaguely see flashes of firelight.

When Shi Xu chopped off the Zombie King’s hand with the meteorite fragment, his arm was also deeply cut by the Zombie King’s sharp claws.

The Zombie King, having lost the meteorite fragment, seemed to have lost all its power. Its eyes turned grayish-white, which seemed to be its original color.

Shi Xu didn't hesitate too much, raising his machete and chopping off the Zombie King's head.

The meteorite fragment was pulled out from the severed arm by him.

Shi Xu originally wanted to take it back to Su Mianmian, but the next second, the meteorite fragment actually disappeared directly from his hand.

Shi Xu frowned, not expecting that he had directly absorbed all the power of the meteorite fragment.

It seemed this meteorite fragment had spiritual power.

As the power of the meteorite fragment was absorbed into Shi Xu’s body, the wound on his arm healed considerably, at least it no longer looked as terrifying as it did just now.

Su Mianmian was surprised to see Shi Xu return.

Upon seeing the wound on his arm, she instantly became nervous.

“It’s fine, it’s much better already.”

“Mianmian, next I’ll need your help with the healing.”

Shi Xu knew that if Su Mianmian saw his wound when he returned, she would definitely be nervous.

But he couldn't not return, so he could only quickly appease her.

Prompted by Shi Xu, Su Mianmian immediately used her ability to heal him.

As faint yellow light spots converged on Shi Xu’s wound, his wound slowly recovered.

The others had never seen such a sight. If they didn't have to kill the remaining zombies that hadn't left, they would have kept staring at Su Mianmian healing Shi Xu.

Su Mianmian’s lips turned white, and she only withdrew her ability when her body felt a bit unsustainable.

“It’s done.”

She looked at Shi Xu weakly and smiled.

Shi Xu looked at her with a pained expression. Seeing her body swaying, he reached out to support her.

“Drink some spirit spring water. Don’t exhaust your ability like this in the future; my body isn’t that fragile.”

Shi Xu took out the spirit spring water Su Mianmian had placed in his space, opened the lid, and held it to her lips.

Su Mianmian slowly drank the water Shi Xu offered her.

After finishing one bottle, her complexion improved slightly.

She now had the strength to stand steady. She pushed Shi Xu and said helplessly, “That wound of yours looked too scary. If I hadn’t treated it properly, I would have been afraid you’d turn into a zombie.”

His wound just now was oozing black blood, but the treatment was much easier than she had expected.

It wasn't until Shi Xu mentioned that the meteorite fragment had been absorbed by his body that she understood.

“If it weren’t for that meteorite fragment, you would have suffered a lot.”

“Shi Xu, you’re very lucky.”

Su Mianmian looked at Shi Xu with envy and smiled.

Shi Xu nodded; he also felt quite lucky.

Originally, when fighting the Zombie King, he had thought it would take a lot of effort, and even considered that he might be seriously injured.

Unexpectedly... Shi Xu looked at Su Mianmian and smiled. He felt she was his little lucky star; ever since he met her, his luck had gotten better and better.

After clearing out the remaining zombies, everyone was exhausted.

Aside from casualties on Ren Tingfeng's side, the most seriously injured on Shi Xu's side was actually Shi Xu himself.

Su Mianmian no longer had the ability to heal others, so she distributed the spirit spring water.

For those with serious injuries, the necrotic flesh was removed, and then spirit spring water was poured on the wound.

The rest could only leave it to fate.

Ren Tingfeng felt that having at least some help was better than none. Before, they could only endure, but now with Su Mianmian's spirit spring water, casualties had been greatly reduced.

Shi Xu saw that they had recovered enough and immediately urged them to continue their journey.

The smell of blood was too strong here; staying any longer would not be a good thing.

Ren Tingfeng arranged the wounded into a large caravan so they could lie down, while the others drove the other vehicles.

The next day, when Su Mianmian went to check on the injured, she found that their condition had improved significantly.

She smiled, thinking that spirit spring water was truly a good thing.

Ren Tingfeng also mentioned that some of them had awakened abilities after drinking the spirit spring water. Su Mianmian was surprised to hear this.

“Then let those who aren’t injured drink some and see if they can also awaken abilities.”

Su Mianmian looked at Ren Tingfeng and specifically said.

Ren Tingfeng naturally wouldn’t disagree, so everyone on Ren Tingfeng’s side drank the spirit spring water.