CHAPTER 479: CHAPTER 477: ASSASSINATION

"Jianxiong, keep an eye on those five people behind us, I’m going to help," Su Mo dropped a word and rushed forward with her blade.

The Fire Ability User opposite her was of the same level, and she could lock onto its shape after slowing down the visual field.

In her eyes, its attack trajectory was discernible only for a fleeting moment.

The five people sent by Fang Qing were meant to create chaos in this battle, aiming to kill the three of them and seize both the Crystal Stone and the granary in one fell swoop; sitting idle was not an option.

"We’ll help too!"

At the same time, the five unleashed their superpowers, some targeting zombies while others aimed directly at the backs of Su Mo and Lu Chen.

Furious, Jianxiong’s body surged like a small mountain, using his sturdy back to blockade some of the abilities, but then he was entangled by two Wood Element Superpower Users.

On Su Mo’s side, she occasionally waved her Tang Blade, chasing the zombie in an attempt to cause some trouble.

She leaped following it onto the granary, her Tang Blade ready to target its shin to knock it down, but unexpectedly, the Fire zombie suddenly turned its head. Its jaw completely unhinged, releasing a stream of nearly thousand-degree steam from its mouth directly towards her face.

The scalding heat hit her face, and Su Mo turned around to dodge, but suddenly a golden dagger flew towards her, aiming straight for her heart.

Su Mo’s expression turned cold, just as she was about to raise her right hand which transformed into a shield to block, Lu Chen grabbed her by the waist, quickly retreating and moving through a Space rift to reappear elsewhere. Where they had been, the metal dagger, after encountering the steam, turned red-hot; one could imagine that if it had hit her face, it would have been more horrendous than being splashed with sulfuric acid.

The zombie, failing to hit her, turned and continued jumping across the rooftop, hurling fireballs ceaselessly.

After setting Su Mo down, Lu Chen released his full aura, and his superpower surged, a massive Ice Giant Sword slowly taking shape and hovering in the air, radiating a powerful aura.

He did not grasp the giant sword but controlled it purely by his absolute manipulation over his superpower, thrusting it toward the zombie.

Steam sprayed out again from its mouth, but in such high temperatures, it didn’t leave even a scratch on the energy-infused ice.

Quickly running and jumping, the Fire zombie evaded, but the giant sword, as though it had eyes, merely followed behind it. Exposing its location, Su Mo seized the opportunity to charge out again and threw her blade at the Fire zombie’s shin, causing it to fall from the mountain of corpses in the granary, landing right by Jianxiong and next to a Wood Element Superpower User’s feet.

In an instant, that fiery hot, sharp mouth bit into the superpower user’s thigh. The Wood Element Superpower User, who was manipulating vines, couldn’t withdraw his ability and escape in time and had a leg brutally torn off.

The intense burning and tearing pain were so severe that he passed out without even a chance to scream.

With one fewer person entangling him, Jianxiong ripped off the vines from his body, lifted the remaining Wood Element Superpower User with both hands using full force, and hurled him away, smashing through maggots and limbs, ending his noise a few meters away.

With two superpower users quickly dealt with, the people guarding outside the granary charged in upon seeing the situation.

They were determined not to let them go.

Su Mo swung her Tang Blade back into position, and Lu Chen also didn’t kill the Level 5 zombie immediately but allowed it to activate its speed ability and vanish again.

There, in the neighboring grain storage.

Under the control of Fang Qing’s spiritual ability, Jin Han and his associates, their faces swollen from beating, were tied together. She did not plan to kill these people. The team always needed to inject some fresh blood, and these individuals would make up for those who had died today.

"The adjacent place is out of control!" someone came to report.

Fang Qing’s eyes twitched, and she immediately led people to the neighboring site.

The situation she saw made her pupils dilate a fraction.

All the elite superpower users she had sent out, including those guarding outside, were dead!

Lu Chen’s Ice Giant Sword still had a corpse impaled on it. He had delegated the combat responsibility to Su Mo. The dual sides were equally matched, presenting a good training opportunity.

Pulling the corpse off the sword, the man slowly turned sideways, his slightly lifted jaw was taut, and his ruthless phoenix eyes were filled with killing intent.

Fang Qing’s scalp tingled under his gaze, yet her lips curled into a sinister smile.

An Earth Element Superpower User beside her summoned the dark soil beneath the concrete. A massive amount of soil broke through, countless particles of earth clumped together, forming a wall that separated them from the grain storage, effectively sealing the entire storage.

Inside the storage, Su Mo once again caught sight of that extremely swift shadow and purposefully exposed her back to the zombie, waiting for it to strike from behind. Swiftly turning around, her right-hand shield slammed it fiercely to the ground, she pounced on it, and before the zombie could form another fireball, a strange gleam was flowing in her eyes.

"Bang!"

The head of the Level 5 Zombie burst open, releasing a Crystal Stone that twinkled red mixed with some gold flecks. Breathing heavily and her vision darkening slightly, Su Mo knelt down and picked the Crystal Stone from the pile of minced flesh, throwing it into her System Bag.

Using this skill at the same level really strained her. She could not use it again in a short while.

In her flickering vision, she noticed the door sealed by soil. Lu Chen was standing there, one palm pressed against it, as countless frigid ice spread from the center of his palm, instantly covering the entire soil wall.

The originally smooth black soil wall, about half a meter thick, began to crack inch by inch in Fang Qing’s view. She was not at all surprised and led her people to step back a few paces.

From a distant rooftop, Rong Yuan drew on a cigarette, "Prepare to launch, blast them."

Su Mo shook off some chunks of flesh from her body, stepped over a multitude of corpses, and came to the door, watching the soon-to-be shattered ice-sealed soil wall, she said, "These people are really troublesome."

Jianxiong was still maintaining his transformed posture without any change, his fists nearly as large as a soccer ball. One punch on the ice, the soil wall shattered instantly; from construction to breach, it all took less than a minute.

Sunlight re-entered, bringing a touch of warmth onto the trio. Su Mo’s just-emerging smile stalled upon noticing the rocket hurtling straight towards them.

Lu Chen remained unfazed, took a sip of Jasmine Tea, extended his arms, and the Ice Giant Sword quickly took shape, thrusting towards the incoming rocket, moving so fast that Jianxiong only saw a pale blue blur in his eyes.

The giant sword collided with the rocket mid-air, creating a loud clang. The rocket exploded in mid-air, the fiery glow bursting low in the sky as splendid as fireworks.