Chapter 1204: Meeting Other Missionaries

Ning Chen and Xiao Han had not been away from the group for long; after luring that pack of infected away, they took a different route and returned to the front of the villa.

Everyone was still waiting for them.

Ning Chen looked at the closed door before him, thinking about how to get in.

"Those inside should be our people; the car outside is a mission vehicle. This must be another mission squad as well," Tian Ze said, pointing to a vehicle not far away that looked much like theirs.

Ning Chen nodded: "I understand. Can you get the people inside to open the door?"

Tian Ze walked to the door and immediately shouted: "Squad inside, open the door! We are the mission squad 'Meeting in Another World'!"

Tian Ze shouted for a long time, but there was still no response from inside. Just as Ning Chen was about to break the door down, a sound came from the gate.

A young man looked out from inside; he glanced around, saw no infected, and breathed a sigh of relief.

Tian Ze looked at the person before him and felt very familiar: "Are you from Squad 737?"

After Tian Ze spoke, that young man quickly looked at him: "T-Tian Ze? Are you Tian Ze? Great! We're saved!"

The young man hurriedly let them in.

Inside were seven men and one woman; except for the woman, all seven men had been injured to varying degrees.

When two squads meet, there is always some awkwardness, but fortunately, as the heir to the Elder, Tian Ze knew almost every squad in City F and had at least some impression of them all.

"How did you get trapped here?"

Facing Tian Ze's question, a few people felt somewhat ashamed: "W-we took a mission to go out and find seeds. We finally found the seeds, but we didn't expect there to be an Intermediate Infected there, and then we were ambushed and surrounded."

Tian Ze frowned: "I remember, isn't your Squad 737 the squad in all of City F that accepts the most missions and has the lowest casualty rate? How could you not even defeat a single Intermediate Infected?"

That young woman sighed: "Brother Noah wasn't here today, so only we came out. Usually, we always listen to Brother Noah."

The remaining young woman didn't say anything more, but Tian Ze understood anyway.

Noah was a High-Rank Ability User; it seemed the entire squad's activities relied on him.

They probably wanted to go out alone for some reason, but they never expected they couldn't handle it at all.

As for what the young woman said about Noah having something to do, Tian Ze did not believe it; after all, once a mission is accepted, immediate action is not required. Except for urgent missions, other missions have very long time limits.

The young man lying on the sofa spat after hearing the young woman's words: "Tch! What difference does it make if Noah isn't here? This time was just an accident!"

Another young man chimed in: "Exactly! He, Noah, isn't even the most awesome one!"

At this, Ning Chen understood; it seemed there was a conflict.

For Lin Yi, the most detestable thing was people who lacked ability but still loved to act blind.

"I say, listening to your two descriptions, you two are very dissatisfied with this 'Noah' you speak of. If that's the case, why are you two injured and trapped here? No ability, yet you just bark like dogs?"

Those two were immediately struck by Lin Yi's words; both quickly stood up and looked at Lin Yi, saying: "What the hell did you say? Say it again if you dare!"

"I said, you have no ability and only know how to bark like dogs!"

The young man on the sofa quickly raised his hand, and a fireball was thrown over.

Lin Yi had experienced quite a few battles; he simply sidestepped to dodge it. After stabilizing his stance, Lin Yi couldn't help but mock: "No way, no way, why are you getting angry out of shame? Did I hit the nail on the head?"

The other party's face could be described as iron-green; he threw many more fireballs, which came at Lin Yi one after another.

Ning Chen stepped forward and, with just one hand, neutralized the other party's ability. Not only that, Ning Chen raised his hand and returned all the ability the other party had just used against them back to him.

When an Ability User is attacked by their own ability, the attack power is greatly reduced.

The young man didn't pay attention and failed to dodge; he was knocked down onto the sofa by the sudden attack.

Seeing the man knocked down, everyone else stood up and looked at Ning Chen warily.

Ning Chen, however, seemed to have no fear at all; he stared at the gazes of the crowd and walked to the man who could not stand due to pain.

"What are you going to do?" A young man nearby spoke up, coming to Ning Chen's side, wanting to block him.

Ning Chen glanced at the other party and knew their ability was at most Intermediate level.

Before Ning Chen could even speak, a cluster of vines appeared, came to the young man's side, surrounded him, and then dragged him to the side.

Xiao Han slowly came to Ning Chen's side, yawned: "Hurry up and finish it so we can go back; this place is too boring."

Ning Chen said nothing, but instead looked directly at the few others nearby who still wanted to advance.

Cold, emotionless—this was the first reaction of the few when they looked into Ning Chen's eyes.

They were frozen in place by that gaze, unable to move a muscle; the feeling was as if the other party looked at them just as one would look at a dead person.

Cold sweat instantly covered their entire bodies.

Seeing that the few no longer advanced, Ning Chen withdrew his gaze and looked down at the man before him.

"I don't mind you courting death in front of me. My person was not wrong; people like you are both weak and arrogant. Although I have never met the person you speak of, I feel you are far inferior to him."

After speaking, Ning Chen turned and walked outside.

Once Ning Chen left, the others were about to leave as well.

"Wait, um, can you give us a ride? We have a car; we'll just follow behind your vehicle." The only young woman in that squad spoke up, with a hint of pleading in her eyes.

Tian Ze thought for a moment; since these few people were returning anyway, following them wouldn't hurt, so he nodded and agreed.

When Ning Chen returned to the car, Gu Yanqi immediately came over. She and Xu Yue had been guarding that Intermediate Infected outside and hadn't gone in; seeing Ning Chen's expressionless face now, she knew something must have happened inside.

"Brother Ning, what's wrong?" Gu Yanqi looked at Ning Chen anxiously.

Hearing Gu Yanqi's soft whisper in his ear, Ning Chen felt his anger subside considerably: "Nothing, just a fly buzzing."

When Tian Ze brought the others out, he saw that Gu Yanqi had already coaxed Ning Chen into a better mood; he breathed a sigh of relief. If Ning Chen had kept that expressionless face, he really wouldn't have known what to do.

You have to know, the Ning Chen just now had also scared him quite a bit.

"T-this is an Intermediate Infected?" The few who came out saw the Intermediate Infected placed on the car roof and couldn't help but exclaim.

"Yes, this is the mission we went out for this time," Tian Ze explained from the side.

"You actually accepted that SSS-rank mission."