Humans Shrunk 100 Times

The flickering and faint light continued to flash, accompanied by gradually emerging noises from the outside.

"There are more than just five people now," Chen Mu looked at Sun Yuan.

Sun Yuan closed his eyes tightly, carefully listening to the sounds outside, but it seemed somewhat difficult.

"There are many people, and there are some other things. I can't hear clearly; it's too much and too chaotic," he said, feeling a bit nervous, his body trembling slightly.

Tang Jing walked over and said, "Don't worry, as I told you before, eliminate some unnecessary interference and carefully listen to how many people are out there."

Although Sun Yuan was usually somewhat fearful of Tang Jing, hearing her words at this moment actually made him calmer.

After a moment.

"There are about twenty people, probably from Yizhong High School," Sun Yuan opened his eyes. Just when his nerves had relaxed a bit, he became anxious again.

It seemed that Yizhong had brought him great fear in the past.

"How do you know?" Chen Mu asked, not waiting for Sun Yuan's reply before shouting into the distance, "He Ying, go up the watchtower first and see if you can get a clear view of the situation below."

"I recognized the footsteps of some of them," Sun Yuan said.

Under Tang Jing's guidance, Sun Yuan's abilities gradually showed some special effects. Currently, his hearing was enhanced, not only in the ability to capture sounds but also seemingly accompanied by some storage and analytical functions.

For example, ordinary people may be able to identify certain footsteps, but that would require being familiar with the person through regular contact. However, Sun Yuan could accurately recognize them after hearing them only once.

On the other hand, he seemed to be able to passively store sound information.

Even without activating his ability, if he unintentionally heard certain sounds, even if he didn't pay attention to them at that time, he could still recall them very accurately when he heard them again later.

This had significant strategic implications.

If it weren't for the fact that his ability had to be actively activated, Sun Yuan could easily become a radar, ensuring that Qiming always detected danger ahead of time.

Apart from this, the current biggest limitation on Sun Yuan's abilities is the range.

And this is also one of the growth aspects of his enhanced hearing.

At first, they were about a meter away from the gate, but as they got closer, Sun Yuan could gather more information.

"I hear twenty-one people, and I recognize the footsteps of four of them from before. There's a loud sound of a big stone ball rolling, and there are many crawling sounds like insects, but I haven't heard them before and can't identify them! Senior, I haven't heard them before, can't identify them...!" Sun Yuan spoke, stamping his foot in frustration, almost sounding like he was about to cry, as if blaming himself for not being helpful.

"It's enough; you've done well," Chen Mu patted his shoulder to encourage and console him.

Though Sun Yuan usually seemed carefree, once he entered a state, he was quite reliable.

At the same time, He Ying had already reached the observation tower.

She didn't take the stairs, nor did she have time to use the elevator. Instead, she directly jumped up, using the slide bars and the door to propel herself upwards.

Before joining Qiming, He Ying had a record of jumping 30 centimeters high, though she fainted on the spot back then. However, after this period of training, especially the battles with Chen Mu, her spiritual strength and ability control had greatly improved. With the aid of a jump, reaching a height of 80 centimeters was a piece of cake.

Tonight, Qian Fei was on night duty, but by the time he gave the alert, the people below had already made most of their preparations.

As Chen Mu had said before, the 80-centimeter height, coupled with the darkness and no lights during the night, actually rendered night duty somewhat insignificant. It was just that Tang Jing insisted on doing it, saying that it was to get everyone used to it.

Although the observation tower and the ground could now communicate through alerts, they couldn't engage in more complex information exchange. In other words, the people above couldn't have a conversation with those on the ground.

Regarding this matter, Chen Mu and Tang Jing had already discussed some mature ideas, but they hadn't had the chance to implement them before being attacked.

Fortunately, Sun Yuan woke up due to the urge to urinate and detected the danger ahead of time; otherwise, they would have been in a more passive situation.

Life at Qiming had become a bit too comfortable, with no real formidable enemies so far, to the extent that many people had forgotten it was the apocalypse.

Du Jiajia, Zhao Xiaoyan, and others looked a bit pale.

"Du Jiajia!" Chen Mu shouted loudly, "Can you get your cat over here?"

"I'll try my best!"

Chen Mu didn't place all his hopes on the cat, as Du Jiajia's ability was unpredictable. What if that little cat happened to be sleeping at the crucial moment?

...

The people outside can be confirmed as from Yizhong High School.

Especially the giant flaming stone ball left a deep impression on him.

Back when he witnessed it at the cafeteria while stealing a car, that thing frightened the Qingbei team and scattered them in all directions.

A stone ball as tall as a person, with flames burning ten centimeters high, would terrify anyone.

At that time, he was just an onlooker, but now he has become the target of the attack, and his state of mind can be imagined.

"Squad leader, you and Da Lei come with me to the observation tower," Chen Mu said to Dong Junwei.

At a time like this, Dong Junwei was also somewhat at a loss.

Suddenly, Tang Jing said, "Da Lei, bring hand grenades and plastic balls."

"Plastic balls?" Wei Dalei was puzzled.

"Don't ask, bring them up first," Chen Mu knew that Tang Jing had understood his idea, and he asked, "Tang Jing, are you coming up too?"

Tang Jing shook her head, "I'll stay down here."

"Okay."

Chen Mu didn't say anything more and took Dong Junwei and Wei Dalei, who carried two boxes of supplies, to the elevator.

They didn't have the ability of He Ying.

The elevator speed was not fast, especially in such an urgent moment, it seemed even slower. Chen Mu was determined that if they survived this ordeal, he would have to improve this place again.

After sealing the door gap, the defense capability of the storage room was actually quite good. As long as the opponents didn't have targeted ability users, they could rest assured.

But now, the biggest problem arose.

Fire.

This was what wooden doors feared the most.

Once the door was ignited, after everything was burned, no one in the storage room could escape.

Especially since there were still many combustible materials like cardboard boxes in the room.

Fortunately, it was summer now, and it had rained two days ago. The bottom of the wooden door had been wet, and although it was almost dry now, it was still somewhat damp. For a while, a fire of that scale would not ignite immediately.

However, if they didn't fight back, sooner or later, the fire would burn everything, and everyone would perish in the sea of fire.

At this moment, Chen Mu finally felt the hostility from Yizhong High School towards them.

In theory, these people should have come for the car with food and Gu Yinglong, but unexpectedly, they didn't even say a word and directly set the house on fire.

This is nothing short of wanting them dead.

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