Chapter 7: Ambush on the Road

Chen Yusheng led over a hundred ordinary Sangshi, and in less than half an hour burst out of the city district.

Just outside the city, as he was about to tidy up the Zombie Group trailing behind him, the sudden sound of a car engine came from behind.

He turned to look—several off-road pickup trucks were barreling down the road, closing in on the Zombie Group in the blink of an eye.

Bang bang bang……

Rat-a-tat-tat……

A dense volley of gunfire instantly erupted.

"Holy shit!"

Chen Yusheng cursed, leapt onto Dali's back without a second word: "Dali, run!"

But the moment he ran, two of the off-road vehicles swerved around the Zombie Group and came in hot pursuit.

Dali's speed simply couldn't match the off-road trucks.

"Stop! Stop right now!"

One off-road truck kept its distance, and an RPG rocket was propped right up in the window, aimed at Chen Yusheng and his one Sangshi.

Chen Yusheng glanced back, and his pupils suddenly contracted—besides the rocket, there were also two machine guns on the roof, aimed at him as well.

"Stop, or we open fire!"

Chen Yusheng clenched his teeth and had Dali stop.

He wasn't sure Dali could withstand a rocket, but he was certain he himself couldn't take a hail of machine-gun bullets.

The moment he stopped, one truck immediately pulled up and ordered him to stand still, while the other turned and opened fire on the Zombie Group behind them.

Over ten minutes later, the hundred-plus Sangshi were all wiped out.

Chen Yusheng did the math—he figured this group had burned through at least several thousand rounds just to shoot out the Sangshi's heads.

Once the Sangshi were dead, a group of people immediately got out of their vehicles, split open the Sangshi heads, and collected the crystals.

Meanwhile, four fully armed people half-surrounded Chen Yusheng.

"Kid, get your Sangshi the hell away from here!"

"Everyone, is there some kind of misunderstanding?" Chen Yusheng shrank behind Dali, trying to stall and parley with them.

But the other side didn't buy it for a second, their gun barrels aimed straight at him: "Cut the crap, do as you're told, or my Armor-piercing Bullet won't discriminate."

Chen Yusheng's face darkened.

If he sent Dali away, he'd be a lamb for the slaughter; but if he didn't comply, a rocket would blast him to death just the same.

He couldn't just sit and wait for death, nor did he dare gamble that obediently following orders would earn him mercy—these people's attitude had been terrible from the very start.

This was the apocalypse; killing wasn't a crime.

His mind spun at top speed, and suddenly he thought of a plan: activate the Soul-Capturing Technique.

The Soul-Capturing Technique was a Technique among Daoist spells that could be cast on ordinary people—capturing their mind and soul, forcing them under control for a short time.

However, the True Qi consumption of the Soul-Capturing Technique was enormous, roughly a dozen times that of the Soul-Suppressing Talisman; with his current True Qi reserves, he could use it at most once, and the effective range for soul capture was limited.

Right now only four people were surrounding him; the rest were off in the distance collecting crystals. Even if he controlled these four, the remaining people wouldn't let him off.

"Are you deaf? Get your Sangshi out of here, now!" At that moment, the man from before barked at Chen Yusheng again.

"I'll count to three. If you don't comply, I open fire."

Hearing this, Chen Yusheng steeled himself, and quickly formed a hand seal while hiding behind Dali.

At the same time, the other side began counting.

"Three…… two…… one……"

Just then, Chen Yusheng's Soul-Capturing Technique was ready. He immediately raised his hand and swept it toward the men, barking in a low voice: "Be gone!"

A wave of golden ripples instantly spread out, and he immediately ordered Dali: "Dali, go! Take them out!"

The instant the words left his mouth, he himself also sprinted furiously toward the man with the rocket launcher.

Swept by the Soul-Capturing Technique, the four men's eyes instantly glazed over, and they froze in place, motionless.

Hearing Chen Yusheng's order, Dali also exploded into motion, charging at one of the men holding a machine gun.

With a wet thud, Dali smashed that man's head to pieces.

On the other side, Chen Yusheng had already reached the man with the rocket launcher, and brought his fire axe down viciously on the man's neck.

Thud!

Blood splashed across his face, and the man dropped stiffly to the ground.

After taking one down, he didn't stop, charging next toward the man by a car who was holding a rifle.

At that moment, Dali followed up and blew apart the second man's head as well.

Thud!

The last man's neck was half-severed by Chen Yusheng's axe, and he was completely done for.

Bang bang bang bang bang……

The people in the distance collecting crystals finally reacted, and a storm of bullets immediately rained down on Chen Yusheng.

Thud!

Chen Yusheng's stomach clenched, as if hammered by a heavy mallet. He immediately rolled aside and ducked behind a pickup truck.

He'd deliberately saved this last man for last precisely because there was a vehicle next to him!

"Dali, charge them!" Chen Yusheng roared out the order.

Roar roar roar—

Dali bellowed and charged at the group, but the next second, the muffled thud-thud-thud of gunfire rang out, and Chen Yusheng watched helplessly as several bloody holes were punched into Dali's body.

"It's Armor-piercing Bullets!"

His heart clenched—Dali probably couldn't withstand this stuff!

Taking advantage of Dali drawing everyone's fire, Chen Yusheng scrambled onto the pickup truck.

Ignition on, clutch released, gas pedal floored—the pickup shot forward like an arrow loosed from its bowstring.

Bang bang bang—

The commotion on his end finally drew fire; a stream of bullets slammed into the pickup truck, clanging and banging in a chaotic racket.

Thud! Thud!

Two more dull thuds of pain struck Chen Yusheng's back, but he couldn't spare a thought for the agony, mashing the gas to the floor and racing forward for his life.

"Damn it!"

Furious cursing erupted from behind. Seeing Chen Yusheng flee, that group wanted to get in their vehicles and chase, but Dali had already charged right up to them, so they could only focus on dealing with Dali first.

Dali's body couldn't withstand Armor-piercing Bullets, but the hardness of its skull was several times that of its body; Armor-piercing Bullets hitting it could only grievously wound it, unable to kill it instantly—unless a great many Armor-piercing Bullets all struck its head.

However, Dali was extremely fast, and it wasn't so easy for Armor-piercing Bullets to hit its head.

Thud!

Dali charged up to one man and punched straight through his chest.

Immediately after, it lunged at the people beside him. After taking down three in a row, Dali was finally brought down by a dense volley of Armor-piercing Bullets.

"Chen Hai! You bastard! I'll tear you to a thousand pieces!"

Dali crashed to the ground. Staring at the corpses strewn across the floor and his brutally slain companions, the middle-aged man's eyes blazed crimson, and he bellowed in towering rage.

And by now, Chen Yusheng had long since driven the pickup and vanished completely from their sight.

"Chase him! All of you, chase him! Don't let him get away!" The man's hysterical roar exploded across the outskirts.

Meanwhile, Chen Yusheng drove to a fork in the road—on the left was a road leading away from the city, on the right was the ring road.

Without a moment's hesitation, he wrenched the steering wheel hard and turned onto the ring road—he was going to loop back into the city!

Once the people behind finished off Dali, they would surely come after him like madmen; fleeing out of the city would let them catch up in no time.

Only by returning to the Sangshi-packed city and using the Zombie Group as cover would he have a chance to escape.

Three minutes later, a small road leading into the city appeared ahead. Chen Yusheng floored the gas and drove straight in.

Once the car entered the city, the engine noise instantly alerted the nearby Zombie Group, and a large horde of Sangshi immediately charged at the vehicle.

Chen Yusheng floored the gas and plowed through the Sangshi pile, forcing his way over five hundred meters before being blocked by a massive horde of Sangshi blocking the road.

"Go!"

Seeing the Sangshi about to swarm the car, Chen Yusheng gritted his teeth and condensed a Soul-Calming Talisman, hurling it out with an outstretched hand.

The talisman paper exploded at his side; a wave of golden Qi swept outward, and every Sangshi within ten meters instantly stiffened and collapsed.

Enduring the searing pain across his body, he pushed open the car door, staggered into a residential building beside him, and rushed all the way up to a room on the third floor.

He shut the door behind him, and Chen Yusheng immediately drew an Exorcism Talisman on the door panel. Only after finishing all this did he collapse to the ground in a heap, utterly spent.

Only now did he have time to check his own injuries.