Chapter 11: The He Family Comes Knocking

Chen Yusheng led a group of Sangshi, searching along the street for supplies.

Outside the urban area, over a dozen vehicles were parked by the roadside; two of them were heavy Armored Vehicles, and the others were modified cars reinforced with steel plates, showing the strength of this convoy.

With a convoy of over a dozen vehicles and nearly thirty or forty people following, its scale was incomparable to the convoy from yesterday.

"Are you sure Chen Hai is inside?" The young man in black tactical gear looked at the middle-aged man beside him, his tone cold and hard.

The young man was a retainer of the He Family, a genuine High-level Ability User, who had come specifically to lead the team to capture Chen Hai.

As for the middle-aged man he was questioning, he was the captain of the Scavenger Team that had led the pursuit of Chen Yusheng yesterday, and also the "Uncle Qiu" mentioned by the little girl who had spoken to Chen Yusheng on the phone—Qiu Qiansheng.

Hearing the young man's inquiry, Qiu Qiansheng nodded repeatedly: "I'm sure! We personally forced him into this urban area. He was hiding in a building at the time, and the downstairs was full of Sangshi. When we pursued him, we were discovered and surrounded by the Zombie Group, so we had no choice but to retreat first."

The young man nodded upon hearing this, turned his head, and instructed a young man in his twenties nearby: "Send a drone in to scout the situation."

Soon, a small drone buzzed into the air and flew toward the urban area like an arrow. (This book is first published on Tiantiankan Novels -> ttk. tw, providing you with an error-free and non-disordered reading experience.)

The drone sped along a street, and the remote control's screen transmitted the view ahead in real-time.

"It's this way, keep going forward!" Qiu Qiansheng directed while watching the screen.

"Yes, it's this building; he was hiding in this building yesterday."

"Hiss! Why are there so many dead Sangshi?" Someone beside him watching the screen was very surprised.

On the screen, hundreds of Sangshi lay scattered across the street.

"It was like this when we chased Chen Hai here yesterday. Later, these Sangshi climbed back up to attack us, which is why we retreated," Qiu Qiansheng hurriedly explained.

"No, these Sangshi are truly dead; their heads have all been blown open. They must have had their Crystal Cores taken," someone stared at the screen, spotting the key point at a glance.

The young man frowned and ordered the young man operating the drone: "Fly around the windows of this building and see what the situation is inside."

The drone immediately flew against the building's windows, and the young man added: "Turn on thermal imaging."

"Wait! There seems to be a corpse on the screen!"

"Fly in and take a look!"

The drone slipped through a window into a room on the third floor. The camera swept across, and a corpse was indeed lying on the bed.

The camera zoomed in, clearly capturing the corpse's face.

"It's not Chen Hai," the young man judged at a glance; the target was not this person.

Qiu Qiansheng suddenly exclaimed: "This is Zhao Saner!"

"You know him?" The young man glanced sideways.

"I do! He was scavenging with us. He was killed by Chen Hai yesterday, but it's very strange, why would his corpse be here?" Qiu Qiansheng looked puzzled.

The young man didn't ask further, only saying in a deep voice: "Continue searching, scan the entire building."

A few minutes later, the drone had searched the building from top to bottom; let alone a living person, it hadn't even captured a single highlighted human figure in the thermal imaging.

"Chen Hai must have moved to a different place." Qiu Qiansheng rubbed his chin, his eyes suddenly lighting up, "Right! That Chen Hai can control Sangshi. When we ran into him yesterday, he had a large group following behind him."

"We can raise the drone higher and see where the Sangshi are clustered. Where there are clusters of Sangshi, we are very likely to find him."

The young man thought this made sense and immediately ordered: "Raise the drone and conduct a comprehensive search for nearby Sangshi gathering points."

The drone instantly rose into the high altitude, its camera sweeping over a large area.

"Look! There's a cluster of Sangshi over there!" someone suddenly pointed at the screen and shouted.

A few streets away, a large mass of Sangshi were gathered together, looking particularly conspicuous.

"Fly over and take a look," the young man ordered in a deep voice.

The drone immediately changed direction and flew rapidly toward that spot; the closer it got, the clearer the image became.

On the screen, hundreds of Sangshi were crowded in front of a supermarket entrance, yet they didn't dare to take a single step forward, as if deterred by something.

Just then, the supermarket door was pushed open, and a man carrying a backpack walked out.

Perhaps hearing the drone's buzzing, he looked up at the sky.

"It's Chen Hai! Found him!"

The drone's camera clearly captured that face, and the young man locked onto it at a glance, confirming it was indeed the target.

……

On the other side, Chen Yusheng had just come out of the supermarket after scavenging for supplies when he heard a buzzing sound from overhead.

He looked up, and his pupils suddenly contracted!

"A drone! Did that group from yesterday find me?"

Chen Yusheng didn't hesitate at all and turned to rush back into the supermarket.

His brain raced: if it really was that group from yesterday, and they had now discovered him, then it probably wouldn't be long before they came after him.

When he spoke with that little girl in the morning, he learned that there were Ability Users in this apocalypse.

Since that group couldn't kill him yesterday, would they bring an Ability User this time?

Chen Yusheng had no idea how strong an Ability User was, but he dared not gamble, and he couldn't afford to.

This place must not be stayed in for long!

But since the other side had high-tech equipment like a drone, even if he wanted to run, where could he go?

Chen Yusheng guessed that the drone could find him because of the hundreds of Sangshi gathered outside the supermarket.

He immediately drew an Exorcism Talisman inside the supermarket to keep the Sangshi from entering, then walked quickly toward the back of the supermarket.

Almost every building had a back door, and he intended to leave through it.

He circulated his True Qi to his eye acupoints; his vision improved significantly, and even though the supermarket was pitch black without electricity, he could see roughly clearly.

Before long, he reached the back door of the supermarket.

Coming out from the back door, he first listened for the sound of the drone; the buzzing drifted over, sounding like it was flying very high.

He found something to shield himself with and looked up; there was a small black dot at an altitude of over two hundred meters.

At such a height, no matter where he went, he basically couldn't escape the drone's line of sight.

His brain whirring, Chen Yusheng immediately thought of a trick: disguising himself as a Sangshi.

After a moment of hesitation, he took off his backpack and hid it in a concealed corner of the supermarket, carrying only a few dozen Zombie Crystals with him to use for recovering his True Qi.

Next, he stripped off his own clothes, changed into a filthy set of Sangshi clothes, and then walked out through the back door.

By this time, the way he walked was already exactly the same as a Sangshi.

He had been to the street behind the supermarket before and lured all the Sangshi here away, so there were no Sangshi on the street at the moment, and he was not afraid that he would attract Sangshi and expose himself.

Leaving the supermarket, Chen Yusheng crossed the street, entered a small noodle shop, and slipped into a residential area through the noodle shop's back door.

Although he imitated the way a Sangshi walked the entire way, Chen Yusheng felt uneasy, not knowing if he would be discovered by a drone.

He had no idea that no matter how well he disguised himself, the thermal imaging function of the drone high above still captured him clearly.

On the other side, on the rooftops of the city district, several people were rapidly heading toward Chen Yusheng's location.

With a single leap, these people could cover a distance of over ten meters.

The rooftops in the city had instead become their best stepping stones, and moving between the roofs would not attract the pursuit of the Sangshi on the ground.