novelhk Chapter 329 Zuochuan People's Hospital - Beginning
Chapter 329 Zuochuan People's Hospital - Beginning
The morning sunlight pierced through the thick clouds, drawing a bright golden edge across the earth.
Miao Yin sat on the roof of the RV, golden light filtering through her fingers and falling on her fair skin. The interplay of shadow and light highlighted her beautiful features.
Her excellent hearing allowed her to immediately detect the activity inside the several RVs.
The sounds of clinking cutlery, the rushing water, and the clatter of weapons being put away and their bags fastened.
The car door opened.
With a push of her arms, she jumped steadily off the roof of the car. Her neat hoodie and jeans made her look like she was going out for a spring outing, relaxed and stylish.
"Leave a few people to watch this place, the rest of you come in with me."
After a period of rest, Yan Shuzhou's health has improved considerably, and he is now able to get down and move around from time to time.
But it's impossible to go back to the way things were before.
He could only lie in the RV, and Yu Wenwen naturally had to go with him.
Therefore, a few people need to be left to protect the two fragile characters. If they accidentally run into a passing mutant, the two will be doomed.
"I'll stay," Ji Yuanzhou volunteered.
Ling glanced at the hospital ahead and said, "I'll stay here too, to guard the rear for everyone. If anything unexpected happens, I can provide support."
The snow thorns are highly malleable, allowing for both offense and defense. Even inside a car, she could throw the thorns all the way to the hospital.
Xia Tang wrapped her arm around Yao Yue's and said affectionately, "We're both non-aggressive, so let's not go and join in the fun."
"Is it really necessary to go to all this trouble?" Tu Hao got out of the car, two guns tucked into his waistband, his eyes gleaming coldly, looking fierce and menacing.
"Me, you, and that other guy who came here before, isn't that enough?"
With their current strength, unless the opponent is divine retribution, what is there to fear?
I'm not afraid of the noise if I bring a lot of people.
"Didn't I say that there was a Crimson Calamity inside?" Miao Yin tilted her head.
Tu Hao paused, then said nonchalantly, "So what? Haven't you fought the Crimson Calamity before?"
Miao Yin lowered her eyes and shrugged, clearly not caring at all.
Bringing people along was just something she did casually; even if she were alone today, it wouldn't matter.
So she said, "Ling, seal off the hospital and wait for us to come out."
Ling naturally agreed: "Okay, leave the outside to us."
"Gong Jingming, follow me." Miao Yin called out the man's name, then turned and left.
Gong Jingming and Tu Hao followed behind her.
Once their figures disappeared at the hospital entrance, Ling raised her hand, and with her white hair fluttering, countless thorns rose from the ground, surrounding the entire hospital and forming a huge thorn cage.
"Have a safe journey," Ling said softly.
Upon entering the hospital, Miao Yin looked around with a sense of wonder.
As one of the first areas affected by the disaster, Zuochuan People's Hospital was already in a terrible state of disrepair.
Not to mention the elevator upstairs, even several parts of the walls have collapsed, looking shaky and like a dangerous building.
"Where did you wake up before?" Miao Yin's clear voice broke the silence.
Gong Jingming then came to his senses and recalled, "I don't remember very clearly, it should be above the fifth floor. I only remember running down many floors at the time."
"And you?" Miao Yin turned her head to look at Tu Hao. "Did you sense anything?"
Since the last battle with the Heavenly Punishment, Tu Hao's abilities have greatly improved, and his danger predictions have become more accurate.
He stopped in his tracks, silently sensing for two seconds, then opened his eyes: "This building hides a lot of things, the information is very mixed, but..."
He looked up at the ceiling, his brow furrowing. "Something's strange up there."
Tu Hao couldn't quite describe the feeling. It was different from what he had sensed when he encountered the Crimson Catastrophe before. Instead, it was somewhat like the eerie, damp feeling he had when he saw a few Origins of the Apocalypse in Dream City.
Miao Yin stopped in front of the escape tunnel, then kicked the door, which was so deformed it couldn't be opened, and said, "Let's go up there."
Before entering the building, Gong Jingming tapped the wall.
Wherever it touched, a blue moonflower bloomed.
After that, he would leave a blue moonflower outside each floor he reached to observe the hospital.
The corridor was dark and gloomy, with only the smell of rust lingering in every corner. Miao Yin turned on a flashlight, and under the cold white light, the walls and handrails were stained with blood, indicating how many people had perished here.
Soon, they reached the fifth floor. Tu Hao stopped and looked sharply at the stairs above.
"There are deformed people up there."
No sooner had he finished speaking than a screeching sound of metal twisting came from the gaps in the stairs.
The voice, so familiar it seemed to penetrate his very soul, sent shivers down Gong Jingming's spine.
There's no mistake, that's it.
It was that mutated human that had been chasing us back then!
His use of supernatural abilities was too superficial at the time; he simply used vines to trap the opponent without killing it.
I never expected to run into it again after more than half a year.
"Is it the Crimson Catastrophe?" Gong Jingming asked in a low voice.
"No, just an ordinary mutant." Tu Hao's fingertips gradually sharpened, revealing a menacing wolf claw.
Miao Yin looked at the stairs ahead and said, "Tu Hao, take care of it."
"Two minutes."
Tu Hao uttered three words, and the next second, his figure disappeared before their eyes.
The sounds of fierce fighting came from above, and dust began to fall from the stairwell.
Miao Yin took a step back in disdain.
Seeing this, Gong Jingming summoned his Hundred-Life Willow to shield the two from the dust.
The willow branches swayed gently, and Miao Yin reached out and grabbed a branch to caress it.
"It seems that this Black Tide is not enough to make you use your limit."
The same disaster led to vastly different fates for the two summoners.
Yan Shuzhou nearly died while lying on the bed, while Gong Jingming acted as if nothing had happened.
The former is clearly more powerful.
Gong Jingming's bluish-gray hair swayed: "I haven't felt the limit, but the Black Tide in Dream City and Moon City is very different. I had it much easier than him."
A series of thumping sounds came from the stairs, suggesting that the situation was not as simple as it seemed.
"Miao Yin!" Tu Hao suddenly shouted, "Get out of the way!"
Upon hearing this, the branches of the Hundred-Life Willow grew rapidly, covering the two of them.
Miao Yin and Gong Jingming ran into the fifth floor under the cover of willow branches.
The very next second after they left, the entire upper staircase broke off and crashed down.
Miao Yin brushed away the dust and looked over. In the ruins, she saw Tu Hao tightly gripping a deformed human with black bone spurs growing from its back.
Tu Hao looked out from the darkness, his eyes blazing with murderous intent like two pools of boiling iron, his muscles tense: "Miao Yin, this guy doesn't have a crystal core."
Miao Yin narrowed her eyes: "This aura, it's at the pink crystal core level, right?"
They had encountered this situation before in the armory, but the one they encountered then was nowhere near as powerful as this one; it was completely stubborn and weak.
Moreover, this level doesn't have a crystal core, so can it withstand it?
The captured mutant screamed wildly, emitting broken whistles.
Tu Hao was annoyed by what he heard, so he tore its throat with a claw. The air was quiet for a moment, and then the wound began to heal rapidly.
"Can't kill him."
Without crystal cores to mine, they can't be killed.
Isn't this exactly the situation of those few Apocalypse Origins back then?
Didn't the people of Dream City say they had already caught all eight tomb raiders?
Miao Yin approached the monster and took out a knife to cut her finger.
Blood droplets fell on the mutant, who trembled violently as if he had encountered some kind of magma or sulfur, and his half-healed throat emitted a painful scream.
And so, slowly, before Miao Yin's eyes, it turned into a handful of ash.