At the same time, Lin Qingqing, with the ice - knife in her right hand, charged towards Zhou Mang together with the flying ice blades.
By now, Zhou Mang realized he had been tricked. Being repeatedly provoked by Lin Qingqing, his anger instantly overwhelmed his rationality.
He didn't want to know anything now. There was only one thought in his mind: "Kill her!" He had to tear her into pieces and burn her to ashes to quench his hatred.
Seeing the incoming ice blades, instead of using fireballs to block, Zhou Mang directly raised his flame - covered fist.
As it seemed that the two sides were about to collide, at this moment, the ice blade in front of him suddenly split into two. One met Zhou Mang's fist, while the other made a turn and shot straight towards Zhou Mang's eye.
With a "clang", the ice blade shattered, and Zhou Mang's fist was cut by the broken ice blade, leaving several wounds. Blood instantly dyed his fist red.
Almost simultaneously, he instinctively turned his head, barely avoiding the second ice blade that suddenly appeared.
However, although he managed to avoid his eye, half of his left ear was sliced off by the ice blade.
Zhou Mang was in such excruciating pain that his eyes were bloodshot. Ignoring his bleeding ear, he clenched his left fist, which was ablaze with flames, and swung it towards Lin Qingqing.
Lin Qingqing sidestepped to dodge, then with a twist of her wrist, she horizontally slashed the ice - knife towards Zhou Mang's neck.
Just as the sharp edge of the ice - knife was about to cut through the swollen artery, a wall of flames suddenly appeared between the two of them.
Lin Qingqing's pupils constricted. She quickly stopped in her tracks, changed the direction of the knife in her hand, and blocked it in front of her, sweeping it towards the wall of flames.
Although she reacted promptly and avoided the burning of the flame - wall, she still couldn't dodge Zhou Mang's howling fist in time. She could only turn her body slightly, allowing the fist to land on her right shoulder.
In an instant, a cracking sound of bones came from her shoulder. Lin Qingqing spat out a mouthful of blood and was sent flying backwards.However, Zhou Mang wasn't having an easy time either. With a muffled groan, he looked down at his abdomen, where there was an ice blade that Lin Qingqing had hidden in the dark before.
Under the cover of darkness, the small ice blade had been hidden for a long time and finally played its role.
Zhou Mang was completely unprepared. The ice blade plunged deep into his chest and abdomen. The cold ice - attribute energy eroded his body. At this moment, it felt as if all the blood in his body had been frozen. "You damned bitch..."
Before his words were finished, another ice blade came flying and also penetrated Zhou Mang's body. This was the second ice blade that Lin Qingqing had hidden in the dark, and it was her final strike.
By now, her superpower was exhausted. She originally had only twelve ice blades. Fortunately, with Captain Xiao's guidance in the past two days, her superpower had advanced a step, so she had two more ice blades.
Zhou Mang never expected that after being so skilled at hunting geese all his life, he would be pecked in the eye by a goose today.
He fell to the ground unwillingly. Looking at Lin Qingqing, who was sitting slumped on the ground, coughing up blood, he laboriously raised his arm. The next moment, a fierce light suddenly burst out in his eyes.
Summoning his last breath, he sent two final fireballs towards Lin Qingqing. Lin Qingqing's face was filled with shock as she faced the two howling fireballs!
Without thinking, she rolled on the ground, dodging the first fireball, and then without hesitation, dived headfirst into the small fish - pond.
"Plop"
The fireball fell into the water along with her. Even through the water, one could feel the danger of its scalding temperature.
In a moment of desperation, Lin Qingqing suddenly thought of the ice - lake that had appeared in her dream.
She instinctively waved her hand, and a thin arc - shaped shield instantly formed in front of her, finally blocking the fireball, whose power had been greatly reduced.
"I'm saved!"
"Whoosh"With great effort, she climbed out of the small fishpond and immediately looked in the direction where Zhou Mang had fallen.
"No, I can't let him turn into a zombie!"
Lin Qingqing struggled to pick up the ice - knife that had fallen aside and shuffled step by step towards Zhou Mang's corpse.
Looking at his eyes wide open in death, Lin Qingqing closed her eyes for a moment. Then, she raised the ice - knife with her left hand and forcefully chopped off his neck.
"Crash", the ice - knife broke upon impact, and a bloody head rolled away.
The three - story building behind was still burning. By this time, Xiao Pengfei and the others in the front yard had led the surviving residents to break through.
It was almost dawn when all the survivors were finally evacuated to a safe area.
Out of the more than a hundred residents who had followed from Furong Community, only about thirty remained. The vast majority had died in this disaster. Even the military team had lost one of its members.
That team member had been bitten by an ordinary person who had just turned into a zombie from behind. Xiao Pengfei, with a heavy heart, ended his life.
Although the base had developed potions to improve physical constitution and enhance superpowers, there was still no way to prevent those bitten by zombies from turning into the undead.
The soldiers in their team were all elites, brothers who had shared life - and - death experiences. They had survived so many dangers, yet unexpectedly, one of them had died in such a small farmhouse.
Lin Qingqing suddenly emerged from the water, gasping for breath."How's the head - count going? Who's missing?" Xiao Pengfei lit a cigarette.
He surely wasn't asking about the ordinary people. Xiao Lu knew this best. He counted all the people he knew one by one.
"Excluding us, there are thirty - six people alive in total. Shi Kai is still here, but his sister is dead. Miss Lin hasn't been found yet, and all of Zhou Mang's group are missing!"
Xiao Lu's tone was also heavy. They all knew what had caused this disaster, but none of them had expected those people to be so crazy.
Upon hearing that the fire and the zombies were likely Zhou Mang's doing, Shi Kai was stunned on the spot.
"Could it be that because I brought everyone out, Zhou Mang got angry?"
Hearing this, Xiao Pengfei glanced at him but didn't say anything. Perhaps there was such a reason, but it surely wasn't the main one. The fundamental motive probably still lay with Miss Lin.
"That girl is probably in grave danger," Xiao Pengfei sighed.
Hearing him say this, Shi Kai couldn't help but curl his lips. Not knowing the reason, he simply thought that Xiao Pengfei was reluctant to part with such a beautiful woman.
Fearing further complications, Xiao Pengfei and the others didn't dare to delay any longer. They set off at full speed towards Rongcheng Base overnight.Just ahead of them, on another road, three cars were also making their way to Rongcheng Base. There were a total of eleven people in the cars, six of whom were superpower users. Compared to the狼狈 state of Xiao Pengfei and his group, these people could be described as leisurely. The cars were piled high with supplies, and the leader was Qian Mao.
Lin Qingqing knew nothing about these things. She briefly treated her wounds. Then, taking advantage of the fact that the flames of the three - story building temporarily blocked the zombies in the front yard, she climbed over the wall of the backyard, followed a small path, and hid in the small forest behind the farmhouse.
The hillside here was steep and the trees were thick. Zombies couldn't get through at all, which was just right for her to have a good rest. Without superpowers, she had no means of self - protection, and without self - protection, she felt uneasy.
Lin Qingqing climbed up a tree, planning to find Xiao Pengfei after she had recovered.
By then, with so many people watching, even if Zhou Mang still had accomplices, they probably wouldn't be able to do anything to her.