Chapter 16: A Way Out at Death's Door

The other Sangshi all charged toward the enemy, but Chen Yusheng led over twenty Sangshi, turned, and fled down a passage in the other direction.

He planned to take advantage of everyone's attention being drawn to the frontal battlefield and slip away through some other place.

The enemy's numbers were simply too great, and they even had heavy firepower like an Armored Vehicle—fighting them head-on would be suicide.

He planned to leave here first, find a place to hide, and slowly develop his strength.

As long as his cultivation grew strong enough, no matter how many Ability Users the enemy sent, he wouldn't be afraid.

Before long, Chen Yusheng led twenty Sangshi and found a passage entrance.

"Kid, where are you going?"

A dark shadow suddenly blocked the passage entrance.

Chen Yusheng looked up and saw, more than ten meters away, a young man in his thirties standing there, with two subordinates behind him, treating him with utmost deference.

This person was one of those who had been chasing him earlier.

Judging by the others' attitude, this young man was clearly the leader.

The moment he saw these three people, Chen Yusheng was instantly on guard to the extreme.

The aura on these three people's bodies gave him an intense sense of danger.

"Go! Take them out!"

Without the slightest hesitation, Chen Yusheng directly issued orders to the Sangshi, while he himself turned and ran.

Normally, he could still use Soul Capture to fight alongside the Sangshi, but now his True Qi was nearly depleted.

If these twenty Sangshi couldn't take down these three people, then adding himself would only mean going up to die.

Roar roar roar!

Receiving the order, the twenty Sangshi immediately charged madly toward the three.

From another stairwell not far away, the dense rat-a-tat of gunfire still echoed.

Chen Yusheng swept a glance left and right, then immediately sprinted madly in one direction.

"Boss, he's trying to run."

"Deal with these Sangshi first," the young man said in a flat tone.

As his words fell, he raised his hand and waved—three fireballs shot out instantly, precisely hitting three Sangshi.

The next second, the fireballs wrapped the Sangshi's entire bodies, burning fiercely.

The Sangshi let out miserable shrieks, their forward speed growing slower and slower; before they could run ten meters, they collapsed straight to the ground.

Another person nearby raised his hand and flung out a golden blade gleam, which shot swiftly toward a Sangshi's neck.

Pshw!

The blade gleam sliced viciously into the Sangshi's neck, leaving a wound deep enough to expose bone.

Thud! The Sangshi collapsed on the spot.

By this time, the Zombie Group had charged to within five meters of the three.

The last person immediately activated his ability.

A massive blue water curtain appeared out of thin air, firmly shielding the entire stairwell.

The Sangshi rushed up close and slammed violently into the blue water curtain.

Boom boom boom!

The Sangshi attacked the water curtain madly, shaking it violently, but never managed to break through.

A few seconds later, the young man behind the water curtain fired three more fireballs, which pierced through the water curtain and burned three more Sangshi to death.

The other Ability User also seized the chance to strike, killing another one.

In less than ten seconds, the three working together had taken out eight Sangshi.

At this rate, it wouldn't be long before all these Sangshi were completely wiped out.

Sure enough, in less than another twenty seconds, the twenty Sangshi were thoroughly cleaned out by the three.

"Chase!"

At the young man's command, they immediately pursued in the direction Chen Yusheng had fled.

"People downstairs, pay attention—the target went toward the 4th Channel direction, don't let him get away!"

……

Third floor.

Chen Yusheng found another stairwell passage; just as he was about to go down, he heard footsteps coming from below.

Seeing the situation, Chen Yusheng's face changed.

Without the slightest hesitation, he turned and ran swiftly up the stairs toward the fourth floor.

The enemy's numbers were too great—he had been driven all the way from the basement up to the upper floors.

As long as the enemy guarded every exit downstairs, he simply couldn't escape.

Now that this stairwell was blocked too, he could only keep running upward.

Reaching the fourth floor, Chen Yusheng didn't stop and kept charging upward.

He wanted to get to the rooftop and see if he could jump from the mall's roof to the building next door, then escape through another building.

Soon, Chen Yusheng reached the fifth floor; one more floor up was the rooftop.

Buzz buzz buzz!

The moment he stepped onto the rooftop, the sound of a drone rang out.

Seeing the drone, Chen Yusheng's face instantly turned ugly to the extreme.

Another drone.

With that thing around, his movements couldn't be hidden at all.

He walked quickly to the edge of the rooftop and looked down, finding that the building and the mall next door were separated by at least seven or eight meters. At such a distance, he couldn't possibly jump across, so he instantly abandoned the idea of escaping by leaping off the building.

"Hmm?"

Just as Chen Yusheng was surveying his surroundings, he suddenly saw a dense mass of Sangshi appearing on the distant street.

"Hiss!" Chen Yusheng sucked in a cold breath.

The number of these Sangshi was terrifyingly large.

Chen Yusheng hurriedly went to the other side of the rooftop and looked down. On another street, another dense swarm of Sangshi was rushing over.

Moreover, he could clearly sense that these Sangshi were closing in on him from all directions.

"There's hope."

Seeing this scene, hope instantly ignited in Chen Yusheng's eyes.

Dealing with humans, he had no real way to handle it, but dealing with Sangshi, he had plenty of methods.

"Chen Hai, why did you stop running?"

Suddenly, a teasing voice rang out.

Chen Yusheng turned his head and saw, about twenty meters away, a young man leading several people up the stairwell onto the rooftop, all of their gazes locked onto him.

Seeing these people, Chen Yusheng's pupils contracted slightly, then he said calmly, "You should take a look outside first."

He extended his hand, pointing at the nearby main street.

Hearing this, the young man frowned and gestured to a younger man.

Being signaled, the young man immediately went to the edge of the rooftop and looked down. In just one glance, his face changed completely.

"Boss! This is bad, a ton of Sangshi are charging over!"

"What?"

The young man rushed over to check. After seeing the scene outside clearly, his face instantly became extremely ugly.

He not only saw the dense Sangshi on the ground, but also saw countless black dots in the sky rapidly approaching.

"Flying Type... how is that possible? It's a Zombie King! Could a Zombie King have actually appeared in this city?" The young man's face was full of terror.

"Boss, that kid ran!"

Someone suddenly cried out in alarm.

Everyone turned their heads, just in time to see Chen Yusheng sprinting madly toward a distant stairwell.

"Let's get out of here, leave this place now!"

The young man glanced at the fleeing Chen Yusheng, then immediately gave the order.

"Boss, aren't we going to capture him?"

"Capture my ass. If we don't run now, we'll all die here!"

The young man no longer hesitated, suddenly took a running start, and leaped toward the building next door.

The ground was about to be submerged by an endless flood of Sangshi, and the sky was also full of flying Sangshi.

Judging by this posture, these Sangshi were clearly being controlled.

Only a Zombie King could control so many Sangshi.

In this situation, the young man couldn't care about anything else; he only wanted to escape as quickly as possible.

What was capturing Chen Hai compared to saving his own life?