Chapter 445: Apocalyptic Trading System (17)

Qin Tao, having escaped two disasters in a row, desperately wanted to see what the Ability User who saved him looked like, so he wouldn't fail to recognize them if they met later.

But more Zombies surged in from behind, and he dared not be distracted any longer; he clamped his travel bag under his arm, brandished a metal clothes-drying pole, and ran desperately in the direction the lightning had come from.

The others were just like him, all scrambling to run toward the Recreational Vehicle.

However, Xie Yang did the opposite; she stepped on the gas and charged toward the Zombie horde.

"Bang! Bang! Bang—"

Zombies fell all over the ground.

Before they could get back up as if nothing had happened, their necks were severed by lightning shot from the side window of the driver's cab.

"Holy shit!!!"

The girl driving was actually an Ability User too?

This discovery made the pupils of the several sturdy young men, who hadn't yet given up the idea of hijacking the vehicle, quake with shock.

"Damn! Two Ability Users!"

"And both are Thunder Element Ability Users!"

At this moment, they were immensely grateful they hadn't managed to make a move.

Otherwise, it would have been their necks being severed.

Xie Yan controlled the tricky Zombies from a high vantage point, while Xie Yang was responsible for ramming the close-range Zombies.

The siblings coordinated perfectly, intercepting this group of Zombies at the entrance of the Complex and not giving them a chance to leave the intersection.

Half an hour later, all the Zombies that had followed them out were left as corpses with their heads separated from their bodies.

"Isn't it over? What are they still doing?"

"Are they trying to burn the Zombies into ash?"

"Huh? The Ability User on the roof of the car jumped down; what is he holding in his hand?"

"Looks like a dustpan."

"And a snake-skin bag."

"He's shoveling ash; what does he want with this Zombie ash?"

"No idea..."

The siblings ignored these people's discussions and continued to electrocute the Zombie corpses into charred ash.

"Hey! Senior!" Xie Yan waved at Qin Tao, "Can you lend a hand?"

"Sure, sure!"

By now, Qin Tao had recognized that the Ability User who saved him was none other than the schoolmate he had just crossed paths with that morning and who had helped him before; how could he be unwilling?

He trotted over, put down the travel bag under his arm, and asked actively: "Brother, thank you for saving me just now; what do you need me to do?"

"Hold the bag open." Xie Yan pointed to the snake-skin bag.

"You got it!"

The two of them—one shoveling ash, one holding the bag open—soon filled five large bags with Zombie ash.

They left the thin layer that remained.

Once it rained, this ash would follow the terrain and flow into the green belts on both sides of the road, just treating it as fertilizer for the green belts.

After cleaning up the "battlefield," Xie Yan carried the snake-skin bag back to the Recreational Vehicle.

Seeing the Recreational Vehicle kept running and seemed about to leave immediately, those with quick wits hurried back to their own cars, started them, and drove behind the Recreational Vehicle.

In this world, the chances of survival were much higher when staying with the strong.

In order to compete for the lead position behind the Recreational Vehicle, several cars even cut each other off.

Qin Tao's fellow townsman saw he couldn't grab a good spot, so he drove the car next to the Recreational Vehicle, and after getting out, he familiarly patted Qin Tao on the shoulder: "Taozi, you know them? Won't you introduce me to them, brother?"

Qin Tao pursed his lips.

He was just too lazy to hold a grudge, not stupid.

When these people were running away, they had deliberately squeezed him to the back just to buy time for themselves. Now they had the nerve to come to him to fish for information about his savior?

He shook his head with a blank face: "I don't know them."

"That's not cool." The other man's smile faded, "Look, you aren't even in our dorm, yet I still brought you along to escape, just because you're my fellow townsman. If you aren't willing to help with an introduction, it'll be hard for me to explain to my roommates; what if they aren't willing to give you a ride anymore..."

"Hey!"

Xie Yan opened the door of the Recreational Vehicle and reached out to Qin Tao: "Senior, you don't have a car? Get on! I'll give you a ride."

"..."

Before Qin Tao could react, he was yanked into the car by Xie Yan.

The door of the Recreational Vehicle closed, and it sped away.

The cars behind, seeing this, couldn't bother with competing for the lead position anymore and hurriedly followed.

Including that fellow townsman of Qin Tao's, who cursed under his breath and turned back to his car: "Quick! Follow them!"

Unfortunately, for some reason, their car suddenly wouldn't start.

"What's going on?"

"Out of gas?"

"I don't know!"

"Holy shit! The front hood is smoking! It wouldn't spontaneously combust, would it?"

"Get out, get out, get out quickly!"

The five of them scrambled out of the car in a panic, and just as they remembered their supplies were still in the trunk, more Zombies emerged from the side door of the Complex supermarket.

"Ahhh! Help—"

They staged another escape from the jaws of death. Only this time, they were missing an honest man to cover their retreat.

And those motorcades tailing the Recreational Vehicle were dumbfounded when they encountered the river:

"Is this a car or a boat? How can it still drive on the river?"

"I've heard of amphibious vehicles, but I've never seen one. So this is what they look like!"

"Then what do we do?"

"..."

They had originally said that by following the Ability User, they wouldn't have to worry about encountering Zombies. With this stunt, how were they supposed to follow?

How could there be someone who doesn't play by the rules like this! No, it's a vehicle!

On the Recreational Vehicle, Qin Tao, who had come to his senses and wanted to thank the siblings, was also dumbfounded when he saw the Recreational Vehicle enter the water and drive as steadily as it did on flat ground:

"Is, is this a car or a boat?"

"This is an Amphibious Recreational Vehicle."

Xie Yan couldn't help but be amused seeing his foolish expression.

He had said that no one could see this kind of vehicle without their jaws dropping; his mom had even mocked him that day for acting like a country bumpkin.

Qin Tao sighed in wonder: "I've seen military amphibious all-terrain vehicles on the news, but I've never seen a civilian one. Is it imported? It must have cost a lot of money, right?"

Xie Yan didn't say that his sister had traded for it with gold bars; so far, no second Trading Ability user had been discovered, and he couldn't put his sister in danger.

So he changed the subject: "Where are you from? Have you been able to contact your family since the apocalypse?"

This topic instantly made Qin Tao's eyes turn red:

"I'm from Lucheng. After the school fell into chaos, I called my parents, but the signal was too poor and I couldn't hear what they were saying. Later, I couldn't get in touch with them at all. That person just now was a fellow townsman of mine; I thought since we were both from Lucheng, maybe we could travel home together. I didn't expect..."

"Lucheng, huh? That's indeed very far." Xie Yan patted his shoulder in consolation.

He thought about how it took him and his dad six or seven days to travel from the University Town to the East District, a distance that usually took less than half an hour by car.

In the current situation, let alone Lucheng, which was two thousand kilometers away, even leaving the province was fraught with difficulties.

There were many cars on the highway, and many Zombies too. Although the authorities had organized the military and Ability Users to clear the road sections one by one, manpower was ultimately limited.

They couldn't just send all their armed forces out to clear the roads; urgent units like supply chains and medical institutions all needed manpower to resume operations.

"Sigh, what we can do is truly too limited."

While lamenting, Xie Yan cast his Lightning Spear, slicing through the heads of the Zombies wandering on the shore, inadvertently saving several groups of people.

Qin Tao: "..."

Brother, you call this limited? Then what am I?