Chapter 495: Pretending to be a fool is no match for being truly insane (5K single chapter)

"What... is that the stuff bandits use in those anti-terrorism games?"

"Damn it, is that the C4 that can level an entire Area A?"

"Holy crap, that lump in his hand looks even bigger than what the bandits use..."

The people from Absolute Justice seemed to trust the speaker implicitly. Upon learning the true identity of the white dough-like lump in Zhang Su's hand, many subconsciously hid behind the vehicles. Whether it was useful or not was beside the point; it provided at least some sense of security.

Lei Zi stood in the middle of the road, looking quite gaunt. The detonators hanging on him looked imposing, but compared to that lump of C4, which was larger than a red brick, they were definitely small fry. He understood these basics.

Slap, slap.

Zhang Su weighed the C4 in his hand. The hearts of the hundred people present trembled in unison. Those who knew understood that C4 had excellent stability and couldn't be detonated even with fire, but they still couldn't suppress the fear in their hearts.

"Look, everyone is very scared when I take this thing out, and we can't talk properly. So, I suggest you take off those detonators, and I'll put this dough-lump aside, then we can talk properly. What do you think?"

As he spoke, Zhang Su made a move that made the vast majority of the people present lose their souls in terror: he raised his hand and tossed the white dough-lump forward.

"Get down!"

Someone shouted, though it was unclear who.

Almost everyone at the scene dropped to the ground with a 'whoosh'.

Pfft...

The white dough-lump hit the ground with a solid thud. There was no reaction whatsoever; people would have believed it if someone said it was a lump of plaster.

The line of captives was like a long dragon, stretching sixty or seventy meters from front to back. When Zhang Su tossed the C4, the entire line dropped rapidly, like dominoes. Not a single person remained standing, because even if one were slow, they would be pulled to the ground by those in front or behind...

Even someone as crazy as Lei Zi was so startled by Zhang Su's move that he used his arm to shield himself. Only after glancing sideways at the white dough-lump on the ground and seeing no reaction did he dare to stand straight again.

"Don't be afraid, everyone, don't be afraid... forget about dropping it like this, it wouldn't explode even if you shot it with a gun. I think large-scale weapons of mass destruction should be used against zombies; let's not fight among ourselves!"

Zhang Su walked up, calmly picked up the C4, blew on it with a 'whoosh-whoosh-pfft-pfft', patted it, and then held it out to show Lei Zi again. "I'll throw this thing aside, you take off your detonators too. Can we talk now?"

"I..."

Lei Zi was truly sweating now. He gritted his teeth and looked back at a companion: "Cotton, go verify if what he's holding is really C4. Don't let us, so many people, be fooled by a lump of white flour—that would be a total loss of face!"

"Come on, verify it!"

Zhang Su did not refuse and signaled for the guy called Cotton to hurry up and inspect the goods.

After a simple inspection, Cotton looked at Lei Zi with an ugly smile: "Master Lei, it is... it is C4... and it's domestic-made, too."

C4 originated in the Czech Republic, but many countries produced it. The names varied, but people generally liked to call it C4.

The last shred of hope was extinguished. The people from Absolute Justice hadn't expected the other side to hold such a badass item. Looking at Lei Zi again, there was truly a sense of humor in seeing someone brandishing a broadsword in front of Guan Yu.

"Throw all these things that threaten everyone's life and safety far away, and then we can have a good talk about the trade and go home happily. How about that?"

Zhang Su pointed toward a grove of withered trees behind him.

"Fine, you're the boss!"

Lei Zi's attitude softened. He obediently put away his grenades and then very decisively took off the detonators he was wearing. Only then did others see that he wasn't just wearing six; there were four more hanging on the back—a total of ten!

But even with ten more, the power of twenty detonators wouldn't equal half of that lump in Zhang Su's hand. The two substances weren't even in the same league.

But these were actually just small potatoes. Little did they know, the real Great Demon King was in Zhang Su's embrace.

Zhang Su was mainly afraid that Lei Zi would go crazy, so he tried every possible way to make the other side unload the explosives. As long as the other side compromised, the rest would be easy to handle!

"How about over there?"

"Fine, let's just hang the detonators on that street lamp over there."

Zhang Su heard the few people on the opposite side secretly discussing. With the help of his companions, Lei Zi took off the detonators, and Zhang Su's hanging heart finally settled.

He handed the C4 in his hand to Zheng Xinyu and said loudly: "Walk one hundred meters into the woods, put it down, and then come back!"

However, at this very moment, Zhang Su suddenly heard a hissing sound in his ears, which made his scalp go numb, because that was the sound of a fuse being lit! He looked back, and sure enough, Lei Zi on the other side of the road was holding three lit detonators with a strange smile on his face.

"Never tried it, so how would I know if it's real or fake? Come on, let's have a taste first!"

Following a loud shout, the three detonators flew toward Zhang Su's side...

"Run!"

Pretending to be a fool meant never being able to understand the thoughts of a madman. Who could have expected that even after things were settled, the other side would change their mind at the last minute and light the detonators directly!

Seeing the detonators flying in the air, Zhang Su fiercely pushed Zheng Xinyu toward the forest. Using the reaction force, he stomped hard on the ground, pulled the steel bar from his waist with his other hand, and launched himself into the air, charging straight at the detonators.

Zhang Su could clearly see the burning of the fuses. He firmly believed he could knock the detonators back before they exploded, but the problem was whether he could knock all three back. They were slightly scattered, and he didn't have absolute confidence.

Even without confidence, he had to do it. Passive defense was a dead end; active attack still held a glimmer of hope!

The others watched the detonators flying in the air, their brains losing the ability to function. They were all in a state of tonic immobility, but two people were exceptions.

The first was Zheng Xinyu. She had been pushed over by Zhang Su's immense force. All she remembered was Zhang Su shouting at her to run. She didn't have time to care where she was hurt, so she grabbed the C4 and ran fiercely into the depths of the forest.

The second person was Tachibana Mai Sakura.

Less than half a second after Zhang Su reacted, she moved too. After a running start, she stepped onto a car tire and then onto the hood. With a fierce kick on the hood, 'bang', a deep dent was left behind.

She was like a willow branch blown by a gale, her eyes fixed tightly on the detonators flying toward her. The slender steel bar was already in her hand! Lei Zi's smile was extremely crazy after throwing the detonators, waiting to watch the show. He didn't take the two figures in the air to heart at all. In his view, as long as the fuses were lit, all efforts would be in vain.

Unfortunately, he underestimated the strength of Zhang Su and Tachibana Mai Sakura! Slap, a light sound.

Zhang Su extended the steel bar in the air, aiming for the middle of the detonator. With a flick of his wrist, he gently nudged it. The detonator immediately turned around and fell back toward where it came from. Taking advantage of the momentum, his hand without the weapon reached out, caught another detonator, and as his body fell, he threw it fiercely toward Lei Zi's location!

Almost at the same time, the steel bar in Tachibana Mai Sakura's hand touched the last detonator. Her force was even more ingenious; the tip of the steel bar tapped the center of the detonator, a burst of clever force stopped the detonator's momentum, and then she gave it a gentle push forward...

The three detonators were thrown from Lei Zi's hand toward Zhang Su's side, and in the blink of an eye, all three flew back exactly as they were. This dramatic scene shocked the nerves of everyone present!

Who said that only zombies were getting stronger in the apocalypse? It's just that some people were evolving secretly without bringing everyone else along...

"Prepare for battle!"

Chen Hanzhou was the first to recover after a brief moment of distraction, but he didn't dare shout to open fire, because at this very moment, Zhang Su and Tachibana Mai Sakura were caught in the middle, and once fire was opened, they would easily be caught in the crossfire! But his loud roar had the effect of a tolling bell, allowing the people in tonic immobility to regain their ability to act. They began to look for cover while drawing their weapons.

The negotiations had broken down, and what followed would surely be a fierce firefight. Even if they were unwilling, things had reached a point where it was unavoidable.

Lei Zi's act of throwing the detonators didn't just scare the people of Tianmayu; many of the Absolute Justice people were also stunned. They hadn't finished processing the previous information when new information arrived. Their brain frequencies weren't enough; even overclocking wouldn't work. If it weren't for Chen Hanzhou's roar, they would still be in a daze, but that roar woke them up! "Run..."

Watching the detonators with flickering sparks returning, the people of Absolute Justice all had their hair stand on end! They didn't have the magical agility of Zhang Su and Tachibana Mai Sakura, nor did they have such guts. Most importantly, there was no time left...

"Get down!"

Pfft, rumble...

Zhang Su rolled the moment he landed. It had been a hair's breadth in the air, and he had to hold his breath to maintain his force, but now he finally had the breath to shout.

Whoosh, a light sound. Tachibana Mai Sakura landed a few meters away from Zhang Su. Her movements were lighter than Zhang Su's; her whole body landed like a wild cat jumping off a wall, her limbs cushioning the force. "Run!"

Seeing Tachibana Mai Sakura staring at the opposite side with cold, gloomy eyes, looking as if she wanted to rush over and kill, Zhang Su grabbed her and ran toward his own camp. Based on his brief observation of the fuse burning, there were at most two seconds left before the explosion! "Big brother, hurry, hurry!"

"Uncle, hurry!"

Zhao Dezhu and Pang Dakun waved their hands frantically, feeling as if time had stopped.

"Holy crap?"

Barely scrambling to the side of the car, without even time to pick a safe spot, Zhang Su heard Lei Zi let out an undulating curse, and then...

Bang-boom, bang-boom-boom!

"Ah..."

The explosion was accompanied by heart-wrenching wails. Several cars were blown into the air, the fire trying to compete with the sunlight! "Ah... hold on, hold on!"

The shockwave of the explosion swept out. The glass of the van blocking the front shattered all over the ground, and the entire vehicle body was lifted off the ground on one side. If it weren't for several tough guys holding it up, it would definitely have flipped! "Hurry, hurry... pfft pfft, ah pfft..."

Zheng Xinyu, who had initially run deep into the forest, heard the explosion and, ignoring the sand and dust kicked up by the shockwave, immediately turned around and started running back toward the road, because the situation at the scene was quite tragic.

Dust was flying, shouting was constant, mixed with heart-wrenching calls for help.

"Ah... help. I'm being crushed..."

"Brother Su, save me."

"Come and help me, hurry, damn it, can't... hold on..."

Zhang Su and Zhao Dezhu were hiding behind the same car. Both were as strong as oxen and managed to hold up the van, but not everyone else could be as fierce as them...

At least seven or eight cars at the scene had been flipped by the shockwave, and more than ten people were pinned underneath. They probably wouldn't die on the spot, but serious injuries were inevitable!

However, the truly grim situation wasn't the injuries, but that some people from Absolute Justice had survived the explosion! Slap, slap-slap...

At the head of the Absolute Justice convoy in the distance, two people were holding pistols and firing repeatedly toward the direction of the Tianmayu convoy in the smoke and dust!

"Master Xiao, we're almost out of ammo, what should we do?"

Huang Yixiao was one of the two, and the other member's face was filled with terror.

Huang Yixiao's expression was twisted. He had been very quick to act; seeing Zhang Su and Tachibana Mai Sakura rush toward the detonators, he had run away, very luckily avoiding the explosion. Hearing his companion's question, he lowered his voice and scolded angrily: "How the hell would I know what to do!"

After saying that, he continued to aim and shoot. He really didn't know what to do, but he was clear that if they didn't eliminate the people from Tianmayu, they wouldn't be able to escape at all.

"Those who can move, stay and save people. Little Chen, you go solve those few on the north side, I'll take the two bastards on the south!"

Zhang Su's heart was filled with killing intent. Listening to the sounds to locate the survivors, he rushed out from behind the car with agile movements.

"Leave it to me!" Chen Hanzhou didn't say a word and took off running. His decent combat power, combined with his ability to heal injuries, made him fearless in the face of the current situation.

"Hey, wait a second!"

Zheng Xinyu had just run back and saw Zhang Su rushing out from the smoke and dust again.

"Sister-in-law, help save people, Brother Su will be fine."

Wang Xin grabbed Zheng Xinyu, who was about to chase after Zhang Su.

If Zhang Su couldn't solve it, then they would likely just be throwing their lives away if they went. It was better to do what the boss had instructed; the scene really needed people to handle it.

"Right, let's hurry and rescue the others!"

Tachibana Mai Sakura had wanted to rush out to help, but in the end, she decided to listen to the command and consider the big picture. At the same time, she beckoned to Zheng Xinyu, the meaning being: give me the C4...

Zheng Xinyu hurriedly returned the hot potato to Tachibana Mai Sakura and then participated in the rescue.

"Hurry, hurry and see how they are!"

Yang Xinci hadn't been crushed by a car, but he had hit his head hard, and his forehead was scraped. He was seeing stars and double vision, but he couldn't care about himself. His first priority was to understand the situation of the companions who had been taken away by Absolute Justice.

Compared to the combat personnel, the ordinary members of the Apocalypse Group didn't have much of a problem. When Zhang Su tossed the C4 earlier, everyone had dropped to the ground. It wasn't easy to stand up because they were all tangled together, so they just didn't get up. Plus, being some distance from the explosion site, only the ten or so people at the very front of the line suffered injuries of varying degrees, but none were fatal.

"Medicine, Yama, divine medicine, I need divine medicine, a brother is not going to make it!"

Suddenly, Liu Yao shouted. His head was covered in blood, but those were just flesh wounds. He couldn't care about himself, holding a miserable companion in his arms.

That person had been hit by shrapnel from the explosion near the collarbone, and there was a huge gash in his neck, gushing blood...

"Coming, the medicine is here!"

Zheng Xinyu naturally knew what divine medicine Liu Yao was shouting about, but when she pulled out a piece of zombie thalamus and ran to Liu Yao's side, her arm hung limply, and a look of regret appeared on her face.

No matter how miraculous the healing effect of the zombie thalamus was, it had to be eaten to work. But at this moment, the person in Liu Yao's arms had vacant eyes and had lost their spirit, and the rise and fall of their chest had stopped. Clearly, they had already breathed their last.

"Ah, Xiao Bei! Must save people, right, must save people... there are other brothers who are injured!"

Liu Yao could naturally feel the passing of his companion's life. He placed him on the ground with great sadness and then threw himself into the rescue of the other personnel.

"Damn it, you dog, you actually didn't die!"

On Chen Hanzhou's side, he moved rapidly through the sea of fire. The ground was full of burning car wreckage and human remains. Having seen so many zombies, these weren't scary. He followed the sound of coughing and found the survivors of Absolute Justice. Seeing the two who had survived, he revealed a sinister smile.

Lei Zi didn't know what magical method he had used, but he had actually survived. It was just that his situation was extremely miserable: one arm was completely gone, his shoulder and ribs were bloody, and his clothes were a mess. He had less than half a life left.

"Don't kill, don't kill me... go to hell!"

Beside Lei Zi, another survivor wasn't in life-threatening danger. He pretended to hide behind, then picked up a pistol from behind a car tire and pulled the trigger at Chen Hanzhou.

Slap.

A burst of smoke exploded from Chen Hanzhou's chest and abdomen. He had been shot! "Haha, go to hell, uh..."

The man had shot Chen Hanzhou and hadn't even had time to be happy when he saw the other side's body shake from the bullet, then step forward, a steel bar stabbing straight toward him.

At close range, Chen Hanzhou didn't have the "Observation Haki" of Zhang Su and Tachibana Mai Sakura and couldn't dodge at all. But he didn't need to dodge. With his petrified skin, bulletproof vest, and powerful self-healing ability, he wouldn't die unless he was shot in the head.

Pfft! The man was knocked to the ground by the steel bar and was preparing to continue shooting. However, before he could aim, everything went black before his eyes. A sharp blade had actually grown out of the other side's hand. A piercing pain rushed to his heart. Only upon dying did he realize that the other side only had one arm.

"Ah..."

The pistol fell to the side. He tried hard to push Chen Hanzhou away, but unfortunately, he no longer had the strength.

Following a strange sound, the man's brain was completely pierced, his head tilted to the side, and he died on the spot.

Thud...

Chen Hanzhou had just finished off the man when his back was hit by something, completely weightless. Looking back, it turned out that Lei Zi, who was lying limply on the ground, had picked up a piece of car wreckage and was throwing it at him...

(End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 496 =====