NOVEL NEXT Chapter 450 Safe Rendezvous_2
Wang Tao continued to walk forward, reaching the vicinity of the building where the battle had taken place yesterday. There were still no zombies in sight.
Not only were the zombies that had been pursuing him on the road gone, but there were no zombies where the herd had previously been!
The traces of yesterday's battle near the building were buried under the heavy snow; however, the axe marks on the rooftop were still clearly visible, though the Giant Axe had disappeared. There wasn't a single zombie under the building, not even a footprint.
Wang Tao carefully probed with his spiritual power and could see footprints beneath the snow, but they were too chaotic to make sense of.
"All the zombies are gone; they must have left last night. The question is whether they went to Changhe Base—not to mention, Ding Yuqin and the others were heading towards the base. If the Zombie Herd went there, they couldn't possibly get through the herd to find me, so it's highly likely the herd didn't head in the direction of the base…"
Realizing this, Wang Tao heaved a sigh of relief.
If that Zombie Herd had gone to the base, whether the high walls could withstand them was a question…
"Huh?"
Wang Tao suddenly discovered that the Incubation Flesh inside the building was still alive!
"The Frozen Zombies didn't destroy this Incubation Flesh?"
Wang Tao took a closer look and saw that the Incubation Flesh was not completely undamaged, but the vast majority were well preserved, with many being full HP.
Wang Tao guessed that these damages were probably caused by the axes thrown by the Great Axe Zombie yesterday, but that was it. The Great Axe Zombie and the long-haired zombie had not touched the Incubation Flesh after that.
This was good news for Wang Tao!
Because he still had many Night Demon Parasite Bug Eggs, which he could now use here. And the scale of this Night Demon's Nest was large, with plenty of Incubation Flesh! He should be able to incubate a good number of Night Demons!
"Although I didn't manage to kill the Zombie Lord, being able to incubate Night Demons means this trip wasn't in vain…"
Wang Tao showed a smile on his face.
However, to use the Insect Eggs, he needed to capture zombies to host the parasites.
So, Wang Tao began to search for zombies right there, including the shopping mall and other places. His search proved frustrating—although he found quite a few Crystal Cores, probably leftovers from the battles between zombies and Night Demons the previous night, as they had no use for Crystal Cores. But Wang Tao didn't see a single zombie…
The zombies of this herd had truly all left, not one remained behind.
With no choice, Wang Tao had to look for zombies in other areas around, but frustratingly, after several hours of searching, he wasn't able to find a single one.
"Have all the zombies gone…"
Wang Tao was very disappointed.
At that moment, a Crystal Energy Car arrived fast and stopped beside Wang Tao; a group of people quickly got out of the car, and Ding Yuqin, her eyes red, threw herself into Wang Tao's arms.
"Wang Tao, are you okay?"
"I'm fine."
Wang Tao hugged her and then embraced Han Rui, Jiang Shixue, Wei Zhenguo, and the others one by one.
The events of the previous night were a life-and-death crisis for them. Especially for Wang Tao, he was the one in the gravest danger among them.
Now seeing Wang Tao safe and sound, they were all relieved and felt the joy of having survived a great calamity.
Little Bing ran out from Wang Tao's pocket and stuck close to Little Huo, who had just crawled out of Qu Shilin's arms. The two ferrets chirped at each other as if recounting the harrowing events of the previous night.
Qu Shilin approached Wang Tao, opened her arms, and also gave Wang Tao a big hug.
Although she didn't quite understand what danger Wang Tao had faced the night before, the way Wang Tao had instructed them was almost like a last will. This had made Qu Shilin's heart flutter, and tears flowed out.
After all, Wang Tao was one of her few good friends. If a friend were to die in the same mission, even if she hadn't done anything wrong, she would still feel very guilty.
Fortunately, Wang Tao was still alive.
"I'm fine!"
Wang Tao let go of Qu Shilin, patted her shoulder, then turned to the others.
"Seeing that all of you are okay, I can finally set my mind at ease! Speaking of which, did any of you see where the Zombie Herd went last night?"
"I saw that some of the zombies seemed to be heading south, and the rest of the zombies stayed where they were. I didn't dare to look more and left quickly with everyone…"
Jiang Shixue said with her head bowed.
She felt that her own strength was still too weak to protect Wang Tao, which made her somewhat self-blaming. If it hadn't been for Ding Yuqin, who could sense that Wang Tao was still alive through the Perception Ring, and Wang Tao instructing her to lead everyone away quickly, she would have turned back to look for Wang Tao.
Feeling Jiang Shixue's mood was a bit down, Wang Tao immediately grabbed Jiang Shixue's hand.
Then with furrowed brows, he said,
"And that means these zombies didn't actually head north. However, when I was coming back from the south today, I didn't see any trace of the zombie herd all the way. I'm certain they didn't pass me, which suggests that after chasing me for a while, they didn't continue southward but instead turned east or west halfway..."
Changhe Base was to the north, so the zombie herd not going north was indeed good news. However, the zombie herd still existed and it was unknown where they went, which still was a time bomb...
The people looked at each other, unsure of what to do.
"Forget it, even if we know the movements of the zombie herd, there's nothing we can do. We might as well take the opportunity to enhance our strength now!" Wang Tao shook his head, then looked towards the others, "Did you see any zombies on your way back? The Incubation Flesh here is still preserved; we can hatch Night Demon Worm Eggs!"
"We did see them! We saw some scattered Frozen Zombies on our way here, but it's a bit far from here..."
Han Rui immediately said.
"Distance isn't an issue as long as they exist, let's capture the zombies!"
Wang Tao called everyone to get on the vehicle and head towards the location specified by Han Rui to capture the zombies.
Qu Shilin had never seen firsthand how to cultivate the Night Demon, so he discussed it with everyone on the way. When it got dark, Wang Tao saw the zombies Han Rui had mentioned.
It was a dilapidated town, where one could see some Frozen Zombie Elites shaking and wandering aimlessly in the snow.
"They're all Fourth-rank Frozen Zombie Elites, go!"
Wang Tao led the group out of the vehicle.
All of them were Fourth-order Awakeners and had already figured out the characteristics of the Frozen Zombies, naturally capturing these zombies was like taking candy from a baby.
After a bit of time, all the heads of the Frozen Zombies wandering around the town were chopped off.
Qu Shilin watched as Wang Tao and the others threw the Zombie Heads into the back of the truck, quickly piling them into a small hill. She wasn't scared at all; instead, she looked forward to it even more.
Soon, the zombies outside the town were all captured, but Wang Tao felt the number was insufficient, so he led the group into the town.
The number of zombies inside the town was visibly larger, but as long as there was no Zombie Lord, they wouldn't pose too much of a threat to them.
After some more time, Wang Tao thought they had enough and was about to lead everyone out when Han Rui suddenly whispered,
"I've found humans, hiding in the basement of the house in front of us!"
"There are still humans? What kind of strength do they possess?"
Wang Tao was somewhat surprised.
To survive in such ice and snow indicated they must be quite capable.
"There are nine people in total, eight of them seem to be ordinary people, and only one is an Ability User, but just a Level Two..."
"..."
Wang Tao was extremely surprised. How had they survived with such strength?
"Let's go have a look!"
He led everyone into the house, knocking on the basement door.
Knock, knock, knock—
There was no response.
"There's no one inside, let's break in. Maybe there's good stuff in there."
Wang Tao purposely spoke out loud.
Creak—
As soon as he finished speaking, the basement door opened.
"There are people! We're inside, please don't break the door!"
A warm current hit them, mixed with an unpleasant smell. Three men dressed in dirty, thick clothes, with jaundiced complexions, looked at Wang Tao and his group with trepidation.
Wang Tao twitched his nose, his eyebrows raising.
That was the scent of "Holy medicine"!
People from Dusk Church?