Chapter 1086: The Ability That Suddenly Appeared

When Lin Yi walked out from among the many infected, protected by a glow of light around him, he saw the scene of that woman being bitten by the high-level infected. He only glanced once, then turned his head to look for his companions.

He heard the woman's final "no."

Perhaps the woman really had fallen in love with him, but everything she had done—Lin Yi would not think her death a bad thing. After all, from the very beginning, he had never given her his heart.

The moment Ning Chen sensed the situation, he and Xiao Han leapt down from the RV together.

And Facing Huo Jinglin and Gu Yanqi also burst out from the room.

Facing Huo Jinglin did not get off the vehicle—he still had to stay on it to protect Gu Yanqi, who had no ability.

The two of them came to the front and looked at Ning Chen and Xiao Han's situation.

They saw Ning Chen reach Lin Yi's side first; with a wave of his hand, all the infected around them collapsed in a large swath.

With someone backing him up, Lin Yi could no longer hold himself up either; his legs began to go weak.

Seeing this, Ning Chen stretched out an arm to support Lin Yi.

He had already done very well—to be able to stay this calm even without any ability of his own was something only possible by trusting his teammates completely.

God knew how fast Lin Yi's heart had been pounding when that horde of zombies had charged at him just now; in that instant, Lin Yi had even thought up his last words.

And those infected, before they could touch him, were sent flying by a beam of white light.

From leaning on Ning Chen's arm to tightly hugging it—sure enough, clinging to a big shot felt great!

That high-level infected, seeing that Xiao Han and Ning Chen were clear-headed, goggled his eyes wide, his face full of disbelief.

"Y-you-you, how can you be fine?!"

Ning Chen looked at the high-level infected above, who was putting on a human front, and said nothing, while the pressure radiating from his whole body was silently bearing down on that high-level infected.

The threatened high-level infected couldn't think at all anymore; he roared, "Answer my question! What's going on with you!"

Lin Yi picked at his ear, looking at that high-level infected as if he were staring at an idiot.

"Do all you high-level infected have no brains like you? It's obvious—we saw through the trick your people sent, and we used it against you."

"You actually used your own kind?!"

The moment those words came out, Lin Yi was one hundred percent sure the other side was brain-dead—at least when he was still human, his head probably wasn't quite right.

"I say, you used to be a human too, so why is your brain so useless? So what if she's your kind—didn't she defect to you?"

Hearing this, that high-level infected froze; having long lorded it over the ordinary infected without a thought, it had been a long time since he had actually thought about anything.

And in a place with no thought, only action, among the walking dead, he had gradually lost himself.

The high-level infected's face grew more and more twisted; looking down at the three people below, he roared, "All of you, charge—tear them apart for me!"

All the ordinary infected roared out as well, swarming toward the three of them.

And what followed, in Lin Yi's words, was a one-sided slaughter.

The infected around them couldn't get close to the three at all; there were just slightly too many of them, which was a bit annoying.

Seeing the ordinary infected around them fall one after another, their numbers dwindling, that high-level infected panicked completely; he sprinted down, and as he passed the three of them, he ran toward the door.

The ordinary infected here kept surrounding the three of them, blocking any move to chase after him.

And before that high-level infected could get out, he was intercepted at the door by Facing Huo Jinglin.

Electricity crackled in Facing Huo Jinglin's hand as he stared fixedly at that high-level infected.

That high-level infected looked at the situation before him. Gritting his teeth, he pulled a pile of crystals from his pocket.

Facing Huo Jinglin took one look—weren't those exactly the crystal markers on every infected's head? Inside, there were all sorts of colors.

They saw that high-level infected swallow all the crystals at once, then spit out a large pool of blood; his whole face twisted, as if enduring some tremendous pain.

Facing Huo Jinglin frowned slightly, still not clear on what was happening before him, when he saw that high-level infected suddenly charge toward his direction at a speed so fast only an afterimage could be seen.

He hurriedly got into an attacking stance, and at that moment Facing Huo Jinglin realized the other wasn't charging at him—he was charging at the main gate.

Cursing inwardly, Facing Huo Jinglin tried to rush over and guard the gate, but the other's speed was simply too fast—an afterimage reached the gate, then slowly vanished.

By the time Facing Huo Jinglin ran to the gate, not even a shadow was to be seen.

"Shit." He cursed under his breath. At this moment Facing Huo Jinglin could only feel how useless he was—if it were Brother Ning, he would definitely have been able to stop that high-level infected; even Xiao Han could have.

Facing Huo Jinglin took a deep breath, turned around, and joined the effort to wipe out the ordinary infected; he couldn't think about anything else right now—he had to go help.

With Facing Huo Jinglin, a pure offensive electric-ability user, joining in, the situation became even simpler.

But even so, the battle didn't end until half an hour later.

Apart from Lin Yi, the other three fighters all sat on the sofa without moving.

Ning Chen and Xiao Han were fine, just sitting there to recover their stamina, while Facing Huo Jinglin simply slumped down onto the sofa.

The reason it had come to this was entirely because the three of them had used their abilities.

Ning Chen and Xiao Han were fine because they had already had all kinds of real combat; overall, they could control the use of this power.

But this time was Facing Huo Jinglin's very first time using his ability in such a large-scale battle; being drained was inevitable.

Facing Huo Jinglin forced himself to stay awake and told everyone about the high-level infected swallowing the crystals and suddenly gaining high-speed movement.

"I'm really sorry—I didn't stop him."

After saying that, he slumped onto the sofa and slowly fell asleep; he really did look utterly exhausted.

Ning Chen thought for a while, then slowly said, "Earlier Xiao Han had scanned him—that high-level infected had no ability. For something like this to happen, it should have something to do with what he ate."

Lin Yi's eyes went wide. "Doesn't that mean no matter what we do, we can't beat those high-level infected?!"

Ning Chen shook his head and analyzed, "Based on what Facing Huo Jinglin said, those crystal-like things should cause them some harm too."

"I get it—it's like us humans taking drugs; it damages you, right?"

Lin Yi wore an expression as if he had suddenly understood everything.

"But Jinglin said those crystals look a lot like the ones on the infected's heads. Could they really have been taken from those ordinary infected?"