"Are you alright?" Old He leaned close to Wang Zhi and asked, looking ahead.
"I'm fine. You all be careful not to hit the pipes," Wang Zhi said, shaking his hand.
"Did it just jump down from the billboard?" You Luo looked up at the billboard above them.
"What kind of Zombie was that? Did you see it clearly?" Wang Zhi asked.
"It should be an Agile Zombie," Su Muying said grimly.
'Agile Zombie?"
"That's right. That speed didn't give me any chance," Gray Wolf clutched the Inhibitor he hadn't fired, knowing they only had four doses in total, so he couldn't act rashly.
"It doesn't matter. It's gone into the room. It has to be dealt with today," Duan Qingtian gritted out.
"Old He, give me the launcher. I'll take the priority shot. Gray Wolf, you're the backup. We have to confront it head-on to have a chance," Wang Zhi said, taking the launcher.
"Got it. We'll cover you from the sides," You Luo replied.
*Gulp*. However, as soon as Wang Zhi took the launcher, he swallowed hard. He had experienced the power of that Agile Zombie just now. Even if he shot it directly, it wouldn't take immediate effect, and during that time, he couldn't be sure he wouldn't get hurt.
"What's wrong?" Seeing that Wang Zhi was delayed, Su Muying stepped forward and asked.
"Nothing, just thinking about what posture I should use to take it down, haha." Wang Zhi laughed and walked forward.
Because the opponent was too fast, several people had also switched their firearms to blades in advance.
"Wang Zhi, don't overdo it. If it doesn't work, we'll retreat."
As soon as Old He finished speaking, that black shadow immediately jumped out of the distant room again.
When the crowd saw the black shadow emerge, they immediately took up defensive positions.
the black shadow weaved back and forth among the vehicles, its feet sinking into the metal sheets on the cars.
Wang Zhi stared intently at the rapidly moving black shadow. He clearly saw this Agile Zombie; its sharp claws looked like metal, and the musculature over its black and red body was particularly conspicuous.
The group retreated two steps, leaving Wang Zhi at the very front, ensuring he became the target of the enemy's aggression.
Wang Zhi gripped the launcher tightly; he only had one chance.
Although this Zombie seemed to possess some intelligence, being able to ambush him from the billboard above, its immediate action of rushing out of the room to attack them seemed somewhat mindless.
Perhaps its previous attack failed, or perhaps because Wang Zhi was standing at the very front, this time the opponent's target was still Wang Zhi.
The Agile Zombie stepped onto a steel pillar, pushed off forcefully, and lunged toward Wang Zhi.
This is a good chance! Watching the Zombie rush straight over, the opponent couldn't change its trajectory anymore. As long as he shot the Inhibitor forward, it was bound to hit.
*Whoosh!* Wang Zhi pulled the trigger, and the launcher instantly fired the syringe containing the Inhibitor.
The needle hit the Agile Zombie precisely in the collarbone.
This shot had no effect whatsoever on the Agile Zombie's attack. Wang Zhi watched the dark shadow getting closer and closer to him. He was somewhat surprised; the moment he pulled the trigger, he had already made a move to dodge, but in the end, he couldn't avoid the Agile Zombie's charged lunge.
A sharp giant claw struck his chest, knocking Wang Zhi back two meters. The Agile Zombie firmly gripped Wang Zhi, and the area without the Bulletproof Vest was pierced by the sharp claws, digging into his body.
"Ah!" Wang Zhi looked at the Zombie pinning him down and struggled fiercely through gritted teeth.
*Slash!* A glint of a blade flashed before Wang Zhi's eyes, and his goggles and mask were instantly splashed with blood. Wang Zhi, having lost his sight, did not panic; he knew the Agile Zombie had just had its head severed by someone else.
"Hurry and dig out the Crystal Core!" Wang Zhi said while lying on the ground, feeling around blindly.
After Wang Zhi finished speaking, someone beside him started helping him up. Wang Zhi wiped the blood from his goggles with his hand and saw Qin Sheng opening a Medical Kit, preparing to disinfect his wound.
"Phew!" After Fatty dug out the Crystal Core, he wiped it clean, blew on it, and seeing no sign of darkening, he exclaimed happily, "It hasn't gone bad!"
"It's better to just kill these kinds of Zombies outright," Su Muying said while wiping the blood from her blade.
Wang Zhi looked at the blood on Su Muying's knife and knew she had been the one who struck just now.
Although that Agile Zombie was strong, there were still nine people standing behind Wang Zhi; trying to fight ten at once, it was obvious that the Zombie's intelligence was very limited.
At this moment, Wang Zhi already had two holes torn in his clothes. Qin Sheng had just finished disinfecting wang Zhi, and the two wounds were already repairing at a speed visible to the naked eye.
"With your rate of recovery, this disinfection step seems quite superfluous," You Luo commented, looking at Wang Zhi's wounds.
Wang Zhi didn't speak. He was still deeply shaken. Although he appeared outwardly composed, he was extremely panicked inside. When he was tackled just now, he couldn't break free from the Agile Zombie's frenzy. He had once again experienced what it felt like to stand shoulder-to-shoulder with Death.
Entering the room, Wang Zhi found several firearms and three backpacks on the floor.
Afterward, Old He searched through a mangled corpse and found a Magnetic Card.
The group exchanged glances; seeing the Magnetic Card confirmed the identity of the corpse.
"This is really a good start; finding something valuable right after coming out," Gray Wolf said, carrying a backpack as he walked over from the side.
Wang Zhi took the bag and looked; it still contained over three hundred rounds of ammunition, along with some other tools.
"Search carefully and take everything these people have," Wang Zhi put away the Magnetic Card and began picking through the food items on the shelves that couldn't be carried away.
"Instant noodles... self-heating rice... beef jerky... bottled water... " Wang Zhi muttered, putting things that wouldn't easily expire into a large bag.
Fatty, meanwhile, was selecting various car maintenance supplies.
The group searched the convenience store inside and out, finally driving the car into the station, filling the tank completely, taking two extra barrels, before reluctantly leaving.
Wang Zhi roughly calculated that the supplies from those three survivors, not counting the Survival Points in the Magnetic Cards, were worth at least 2000 Survival Points just for the firearms and tools. Adding the over three hundred rounds of ammunition, the value reached 2500 Survival Points. Plus an unknown-value Crystal Core and the miscellaneous items from the convenience store, for an ordinary team, acquiring this much was already enough reason to head back to the city.
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