Chapter 114
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Gu Ning picked up the badge and placed it carefully in her hand to double check and it was indeed the Five Stars Brigade badge with the five stars being plated with real gold. Whose badge did this belong to? Who was on the plane? Was it Zhuang Chen, Yi ShaoQing, or Ji JiuZhe?
Gu Ning felt a little dazed for a moment as she thought of the corpse that had been severed in half.
When Brother San saw Gu Ning stopped in her track and picked up something from the ground. He hurried over to check on the stunned Gu Ning and asked: “Gu Ning, are you alright?” Brother San was in shock after getting a glimpse at the five-star badge in her hand: “This, this seems to be the badge of the Five Stars Brigade. Could it be that they were the ones on these helicopters?”
Gu Ning clenched the badge in her hand, calmed down her nerves, and stopped moving ahead.
Instead, she stayed by Xiang Xu’s side.
Time seem to be slowed down suddenly, Gu Ning was a little anxious and restless. She kept holding back the urge from turning around to look at the crashed helicopter scene.
Zhang Ji hesitated for a moment, then came over: “Gu Ning, are you alright?”
Gu Ning shook her head: “I’m fine.”
Zhang Ji actually had a lot of questions in mind but he didn’t know where or how to start asking them. He wanted to ask how was it possible for Gu Ning, who came in second to last in the 400m run at the sports day, had become what she was now.
At that moment, Xiang Xu who kept her eyes shut, all of a sudden snapped open and exclaimed: “Found it!”
Gu Ning’s spirit was lifted and asked immediately: “Where is it?!”
Xiang Xu looked up to the roof of the hotel: “Right at the top of the building.”
Gu Ning, Zhang Ji, and a few others glanced up at the building and could barely see the roof. Zhang Ji frowned before stating: “This building has at least forty floors.”
With over forty floors to the roof and no electricity for the elevator, all they could do were climb up one floor at a time.
After taking care of some of the zombies surrounding them, the group retreated into the hotel’s lobby. It was a mess and filled with corpses of adults and children. Almost all of them had been chewed on by zombies, making it difficult to even find a whole corpse intact.
Gu Ning roughly glanced through it and instructed: “Half of the men will follow me and the other half will remain here.” Then she continued: “Fang Fa, Cheng Ming, Zhang XiaoBai, Zhong Xu, and Xiang Xu, you five will go with me. Brother San, Jia DaoZhang, and the rest will stay down here.”
Brother San had no objection and agreed: “Alright, take care of yourselves guys”
No one suggested Gu Ning stay down here with them as they knew very well in their minds that she had far surpassed them in both physical strength and combat ability.
Zhang Ji had realised that he had completely misunderstood Gu Ning’s position in the Third Company ever since he had witnessed her killing the big-headed zombie. Thus, right now he took the initiative to speak up: “I’ll go with you.”
There was also an Earth ability user in his team as well as Zhou Jian’s sister, Zhou Yan, who also volunteered to head up. Gu Ning also requested the Spiritual ability user in Zhang Ji’s team to tag along.
The other teams also sent two or more physically fit members to follow Gu Ning.
Without further delay, Gu Ning led the team toward the stairs
The stairs were so narrow that three people could barely walk side by side with each other. Therefore, they spaced themselves from each other around a metre apart in case there was no room to manoeuvre during an emergency. The Third Company team took the brunt of the action, followed by Zhang Ji’s team, the Survival squad, the Yuezhou team, the Green Tree squad, and finally the Nighthawks squad at end.
The difference between a special ability user and an ordinary person was not only about their psychic abilities but also in terms of their physical strength. Yet, climbing up stairs of more than 40 floors was still a bit strenuous.
Fang Fa walked at the front of the group since he was a Speed ability user and his strides seemed unusually brisk compared to the others. It was understandable for him to maintain such a brisk pace when he had already reached the tenth floor, but Gu Ning was following closely behind him and her pace did not even reduce in the slightest. She didn’t even pant and her breathing was as calm as if they were walking on flat ground.
Zhang XiaoBai, Cheng Ming, and Zhong Xu were well aware of Gu Ning’s crazy physical strength, but the others weren’t. Gu Ning’s previous reticence was due to timidity in their eyes, but now that timid and slender image was crumbling in their mind. It was replaced by the way Gu Ning wielded her knives to kill the mutated zombies without any hesitation.
Zhang Ji felt even more complicated than the others at this time.
While Zhang XiaoBai and the others had never seen Gu Ning’s former personality, Zhang Ji knew her past very well. She was the girl who always smiled and circled around Lu JiaZi. She also loved to wear all kinds of dresses and could cook very well. Moreover, she had almost no temper at all, so it was very hard to relate the former Gu Ning to the girl who now had short blonde hair, wore a long grey sports attire, and carried knives around with an indifferent look.
Even if the apocalypse would change a person and their personality, what about her skills? How did she become so powerful? It was really puzzling as Zhang Ji thought silently in his mind.
Although Gu Ning had calmed down her emotions which had fluctuated violently because of that five-star brigade badge, her heart was incomparably worried and heavy. Who was the owner of this five-star badge? Most importantly, is this person still alive……
They had climbed over thirty floors.
The distance between each other was getting farther apart, at first it was just three steps, but now it became nine or ten. The last one was even left behind at twenty-plus or so floors. Even Zhang XiaoBai and Zhong Xu who had excellent endurance were starting to get a bit overwhelmed while Cheng Ming was also gritting his teeth to support himself. Most of them were sweating profusely and panting while hanging onto the railing as they struggled to climb upward.
Fang Fa was a Speed ability user so this was to his advantage. What the others couldn’t understand was how did Gu Ning manage to keep up with his speed to this point without looking tired at all? If they remembered correctly, she was only a Space ability user, right?!
“Fang Fa, hold on.”Gu Ning called out to Fang Fa, who was still going up, and gestured for him to look at those behind them: “Let’s take a break first.”
Fang Fa glanced at those panting, pale-looking faces behind him, he stopped his strides with some embarrassment and scratched his head.
However, the moment Fang Fa stopped in his track, Gu Ning suddenly snapped her gaze in his direction. He was standing on the platform between the thirty and thirty-one floors and was facing a small door on the opposite side of the wall. The door was tightly shut and it didn’t look any different from others yet for some reason, Gu Ning had a sudden ominous feeling!
She subconsciously glanced over at the Spiritual ability user in Zhang Ji’s team! Just in time to find her standing in the middle of the next floor while Zhou Yan was beside her. Both of them were looking in her direction at the moment and were startled by Gu Ning’s fierce gaze when their eyes met. The Spiritual ability user’s gaze flickered away as if she had done something wrong while sheepishly avoiding Gu Ning’s gaze. Yet, Zhou Yan who was beside her gave a sarcastic and smug smile.
Gu Ning’s heart suddenly leaped and her expression changed! She instantly snapped her head to look at the door, and then saw slight vibration on the door…… Gu Ning shouted: “Fang Fa watch out!” Yet the moment her sentence ended, a loud boom! Rang out instantly! A huge force hit the door and the whole wooden door was flung off in a second! The lifted door slammed straight toward Fang Fa!
Causing shrieks from below!
Fang Fa, however, seem to be stunned and stood there frozen in his tracks!
Gu Ning screamed in her mind, but her body reacted even faster than her brain! In a flash, she rushed forward and lunged at Fang Fa! He had been frozen by the sudden loud noise! Before he could react, his whole body was knocked out of the way! And then slammed heavily on another wall, the door grazed his arm before crashing onto the wall beside him. There was a splash of wood splinters everywhere!
Although Gu Ning managed to push Fang Fa away, the door brushed hard past her right shoulder. The sharp pain made Gu Ning knit her eyebrows yet there was no time to check on her injury. She clutched the knife in her hand with a grave expression, her gaze slowly trailed from the huge stone pillar in front of her feet and fell on the hovering corridor beyond the knocked-out wooden door. A mutated zombie was leering at the ground.
Gu Ning had seen many different kinds of mutated zombies but this was the first time she had seen such a huge zombie. It was so enormous that its body looked like a puddle of mud and almost filled the entire corridor. The fluid travelling in the veins beneath the propped-up skin could be seen and there were numerous wounds and slime all over its body as well. One of the wound seem to be caused by some unknown sharp object and some green slime were oozing out from one end of its body to the other. Many tentacles grew on top of those bodies, twisting and turning while being entangled. If anyone with trypophobia saw this sight, they would probably vomit, and even Gu Ning without having the phobia also found the mutated zombie very disgusting.
Upon taking a closer look, Gu Ning noticed the oddity of the mutated zombie. Some of those tentacles were thick while some were thin and seem lighter in colour…… It seem like they were newly grown and combined with those previous wounds on its body, maybe it had already engaged in a tough battle not long ago……
If she was right, it should be caused by the Five Star Brigade. Furthermore, since they were still able to fight off this mutated zombie, that would prove that at least they were still alive and had not been in the helicopter crash but managed to make a forced landing. The thought of this brought a very untimely surge of joy to Gu Ning’s heart.
Fang Fa forced down the gastric acid that rose to the back of his throat due to the sight of the disgusting mutated zombie. Those big-headed zombies from half an hour ago were disturbing enough but never once did he think that the more revolting would follow later.
In one of its tentacles, the mutated zombie had a huge stone pillar rolled up in it and the door that had just been smashed away was done by this stone pillar. The image of a tentacle that was only the size of an arm being able to swing a stone pillar that required two hands to hold by a normal adult was utterly bizarre.
Although Gu Ning couldn’t see where the eyes of the mutated zombie were, she could feel that its strong gaze was “staring” at her. Strangely, she felt that the mutated zombie’s gaze was full of hatred and at the same time seemed to have deep scruples……
Zhang Ji saw Gu Ning and Fang Fa almost being crushed by the door and immediately guessed what had happened up there. Associating with Gu Ning’s sudden glance to the back just now, he instantly thought of something and turned his head to stare at Lu Qi and Zhou Yan. Lu Qi didn’t dare to meet his gaze but Zhou Yan’s expression was full of grim and hatred mixed with pleasure which made Zhang Ji feel very repulsive.
Zhang XiaoBai, Zhong Xu, and Cheng Ming were all stunned by the sudden attack just now and immediately rushed up when they came back to their senses. After spotting the mutated zombie, a feeling of nausea rose in their stomach.
Gu Ning had a deadly stare fixed on the mutated zombie, it was as if she was trying to intimidate the mutated zombie before ordering in a low voice: “Get ready……”The psychic energy in her body began to surge wildly as she prepared to utter the word run.
However, the mutated zombies reacted first!
Instead of attacking it was moving backward!
The huge body was moving backward and away from the staircase as it headed to the other side of the corridor with great difficulty! The tentacle that was wrapped around the stone pillar was still raised high while its “eyes” were still fixated on Gu Ning. As if it would swing the pillar as soon as Gu Ning made a move.
It just stared at Gu Ning while slowly retreating and disappearing from her sight afterward!
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Gu Ning picked up the badge and placed it carefully in her hand to double check and it was indeed the Five Stars Brigade badge with the five stars being plated with real gold. Whose badge did this belong to? Who was on the plane? Was it Zhuang Chen, Yi ShaoQing, or Ji JiuZhe?
Gu Ning felt a little dazed for a moment as she thought of the corpse that had been severed in half.
When Brother San saw Gu Ning stopped in her track and picked up something from the ground. He hurried over to check on the stunned Gu Ning and asked: “Gu Ning, are you alright?” Brother San was in shock after getting a glimpse at the five-star badge in her hand: “This, this seems to be the badge of the Five Stars Brigade. Could it be that they were the ones on these helicopters?”
Gu Ning clenched the badge in her hand, calmed down her nerves, and stopped moving ahead.
Instead, she stayed by Xiang Xu’s side.
Time seem to be slowed down suddenly, Gu Ning was a little anxious and restless. She kept holding back the urge from turning around to look at the crashed helicopter scene.
Zhang Ji hesitated for a moment, then came over: “Gu Ning, are you alright?”
Gu Ning shook her head: “I’m fine.”
Zhang Ji actually had a lot of questions in mind but he didn’t know where or how to start asking them. He wanted to ask how was it possible for Gu Ning, who came in second to last in the 400m run at the sports day, had become what she was now.
At that moment, Xiang Xu who kept her eyes shut, all of a sudden snapped open and exclaimed: “Found it!”
Gu Ning’s spirit was lifted and asked immediately: “Where is it?!”
Xiang Xu looked up to the roof of the hotel: “Right at the top of the building.”
Gu Ning, Zhang Ji, and a few others glanced up at the building and could barely see the roof. Zhang Ji frowned before stating: “This building has at least forty floors.”
With over forty floors to the roof and no electricity for the elevator, all they could do were climb up one floor at a time.
After taking care of some of the zombies surrounding them, the group retreated into the hotel’s lobby. It was a mess and filled with corpses of adults and children. Almost all of them had been chewed on by zombies, making it difficult to even find a whole corpse intact.
Gu Ning roughly glanced through it and instructed: “Half of the men will follow me and the other half will remain here.” Then she continued: “Fang Fa, Cheng Ming, Zhang XiaoBai, Zhong Xu, and Xiang Xu, you five will go with me. Brother San, Jia DaoZhang, and the rest will stay down here.”
Brother San had no objection and agreed: “Alright, take care of yourselves guys”
No one suggested Gu Ning stay down here with them as they knew very well in their minds that she had far surpassed them in both physical strength and combat ability.
Zhang Ji had realised that he had completely misunderstood Gu Ning’s position in the Third Company ever since he had witnessed her killing the big-headed zombie. Thus, right now he took the initiative to speak up: “I’ll go with you.”
There was also an Earth ability user in his team as well as Zhou Jian’s sister, Zhou Yan, who also volunteered to head up. Gu Ning also requested the Spiritual ability user in Zhang Ji’s team to tag along.
The other teams also sent two or more physically fit members to follow Gu Ning.
Without further delay, Gu Ning led the team toward the stairs
The stairs were so narrow that three people could barely walk side by side with each other. Therefore, they spaced themselves from each other around a metre apart in case there was no room to manoeuvre during an emergency. The Third Company team took the brunt of the action, followed by Zhang Ji’s team, the Survival squad, the Yuezhou team, the Green Tree squad, and finally the Nighthawks squad at end.
The difference between a special ability user and an ordinary person was not only about their psychic abilities but also in terms of their physical strength. Yet, climbing up stairs of more than 40 floors was still a bit strenuous.
Fang Fa walked at the front of the group since he was a Speed ability user and his strides seemed unusually brisk compared to the others. It was understandable for him to maintain such a brisk pace when he had already reached the tenth floor, but Gu Ning was following closely behind him and her pace did not even reduce in the slightest. She didn’t even pant and her breathing was as calm as if they were walking on flat ground.
Zhang XiaoBai, Cheng Ming, and Zhong Xu were well aware of Gu Ning’s crazy physical strength, but the others weren’t. Gu Ning’s previous reticence was due to timidity in their eyes, but now that timid and slender image was crumbling in their mind. It was replaced by the way Gu Ning wielded her knives to kill the mutated zombies without any hesitation.
Zhang Ji felt even more complicated than the others at this time.
While Zhang XiaoBai and the others had never seen Gu Ning’s former personality, Zhang Ji knew her past very well. She was the girl who always smiled and circled around Lu JiaZi. She also loved to wear all kinds of dresses and could cook very well. Moreover, she had almost no temper at all, so it was very hard to relate the former Gu Ning to the girl who now had short blonde hair, wore a long grey sports attire, and carried knives around with an indifferent look.
Even if the apocalypse would change a person and their personality, what about her skills? How did she become so powerful? It was really puzzling as Zhang Ji thought silently in his mind.
Although Gu Ning had calmed down her emotions which had fluctuated violently because of that five-star brigade badge, her heart was incomparably worried and heavy. Who was the owner of this five-star badge? Most importantly, is this person still alive……
They had climbed over thirty floors.
The distance between each other was getting farther apart, at first it was just three steps, but now it became nine or ten. The last one was even left behind at twenty-plus or so floors. Even Zhang XiaoBai and Zhong Xu who had excellent endurance were starting to get a bit overwhelmed while Cheng Ming was also gritting his teeth to support himself. Most of them were sweating profusely and panting while hanging onto the railing as they struggled to climb upward.
Fang Fa was a Speed ability user so this was to his advantage. What the others couldn’t understand was how did Gu Ning manage to keep up with his speed to this point without looking tired at all? If they remembered correctly, she was only a Space ability user, right?!
“Fang Fa, hold on.”Gu Ning called out to Fang Fa, who was still going up, and gestured for him to look at those behind them: “Let’s take a break first.”
Fang Fa glanced at those panting, pale-looking faces behind him, he stopped his strides with some embarrassment and scratched his head.
However, the moment Fang Fa stopped in his track, Gu Ning suddenly snapped her gaze in his direction. He was standing on the platform between the thirty and thirty-one floors and was facing a small door on the opposite side of the wall. The door was tightly shut and it didn’t look any different from others yet for some reason, Gu Ning had a sudden ominous feeling!
She subconsciously glanced over at the Spiritual ability user in Zhang Ji’s team! Just in time to find her standing in the middle of the next floor while Zhou Yan was beside her. Both of them were looking in her direction at the moment and were startled by Gu Ning’s fierce gaze when their eyes met. The Spiritual ability user’s gaze flickered away as if she had done something wrong while sheepishly avoiding Gu Ning’s gaze. Yet, Zhou Yan who was beside her gave a sarcastic and smug smile.
Gu Ning’s heart suddenly leaped and her expression changed! She instantly snapped her head to look at the door, and then saw slight vibration on the door…… Gu Ning shouted: “Fang Fa watch out!” Yet the moment her sentence ended, a loud boom! Rang out instantly! A huge force hit the door and the whole wooden door was flung off in a second! The lifted door slammed straight toward Fang Fa!
Causing shrieks from below!
Fang Fa, however, seem to be stunned and stood there frozen in his tracks!
Gu Ning screamed in her mind, but her body reacted even faster than her brain! In a flash, she rushed forward and lunged at Fang Fa! He had been frozen by the sudden loud noise! Before he could react, his whole body was knocked out of the way! And then slammed heavily on another wall, the door grazed his arm before crashing onto the wall beside him. There was a splash of wood splinters everywhere!
Although Gu Ning managed to push Fang Fa away, the door brushed hard past her right shoulder. The sharp pain made Gu Ning knit her eyebrows yet there was no time to check on her injury. She clutched the knife in her hand with a grave expression, her gaze slowly trailed from the huge stone pillar in front of her feet and fell on the hovering corridor beyond the knocked-out wooden door. A mutated zombie was leering at the ground.
Gu Ning had seen many different kinds of mutated zombies but this was the first time she had seen such a huge zombie. It was so enormous that its body looked like a puddle of mud and almost filled the entire corridor. The fluid travelling in the veins beneath the propped-up skin could be seen and there were numerous wounds and slime all over its body as well. One of the wound seem to be caused by some unknown sharp object and some green slime were oozing out from one end of its body to the other. Many tentacles grew on top of those bodies, twisting and turning while being entangled. If anyone with trypophobia saw this sight, they would probably vomit, and even Gu Ning without having the phobia also found the mutated zombie very disgusting.
Upon taking a closer look, Gu Ning noticed the oddity of the mutated zombie. Some of those tentacles were thick while some were thin and seem lighter in colour…… It seem like they were newly grown and combined with those previous wounds on its body, maybe it had already engaged in a tough battle not long ago……
If she was right, it should be caused by the Five Star Brigade. Furthermore, since they were still able to fight off this mutated zombie, that would prove that at least they were still alive and had not been in the helicopter crash but managed to make a forced landing. The thought of this brought a very untimely surge of joy to Gu Ning’s heart.
Fang Fa forced down the gastric acid that rose to the back of his throat due to the sight of the disgusting mutated zombie. Those big-headed zombies from half an hour ago were disturbing enough but never once did he think that the more revolting would follow later.
In one of its tentacles, the mutated zombie had a huge stone pillar rolled up in it and the door that had just been smashed away was done by this stone pillar. The image of a tentacle that was only the size of an arm being able to swing a stone pillar that required two hands to hold by a normal adult was utterly bizarre.
Although Gu Ning couldn’t see where the eyes of the mutated zombie were, she could feel that its strong gaze was “staring” at her. Strangely, she felt that the mutated zombie’s gaze was full of hatred and at the same time seemed to have deep scruples……
Zhang Ji saw Gu Ning and Fang Fa almost being crushed by the door and immediately guessed what had happened up there. Associating with Gu Ning’s sudden glance to the back just now, he instantly thought of something and turned his head to stare at Lu Qi and Zhou Yan. Lu Qi didn’t dare to meet his gaze but Zhou Yan’s expression was full of grim and hatred mixed with pleasure which made Zhang Ji feel very repulsive.
Zhang XiaoBai, Zhong Xu, and Cheng Ming were all stunned by the sudden attack just now and immediately rushed up when they came back to their senses. After spotting the mutated zombie, a feeling of nausea rose in their stomach.
Gu Ning had a deadly stare fixed on the mutated zombie, it was as if she was trying to intimidate the mutated zombie before ordering in a low voice: “Get ready……”The psychic energy in her body began to surge wildly as she prepared to utter the word run.
However, the mutated zombies reacted first!
Instead of attacking it was moving backward!
The huge body was moving backward and away from the staircase as it headed to the other side of the corridor with great difficulty! The tentacle that was wrapped around the stone pillar was still raised high while its “eyes” were still fixated on Gu Ning. As if it would swing the pillar as soon as Gu Ning made a move.
It just stared at Gu Ning while slowly retreating and disappearing from her sight afterward!
Gu Ning picked up the badge and placed it carefully in her hand to double check and it was indeed the Five Stars Brigade badge with the five stars being plated with real gold. Whose badge did this belong to? Who was on the plane? Was it Zhuang Chen, Yi ShaoQing, or Ji JiuZhe?Gu Ning felt a little dazed for a moment as she thought of the corpse that had been severed in half.When Brother San saw Gu Ning stopped in her track and picked up something from the ground. He hurried over to check on the stunned Gu Ning and asked: Gu Ning, are you alright? Brother San was in shock after getting a glimpse at the five-star badge in her hand: This, this seems to be the badge of the Five Stars Brigade. Could it be that they were the ones on these helicopters?Gu Ning clenched the badge in her hand, calmed down her nerves, and stopped moving ahead.Instead, she stayed by Xiang Xu's side.Time seem to be slowed down suddenly, Gu Ning was a little anxious and restless. She kept holding back the urge from turning around to look at the crashed helicopter scene.Zhang Ji hesitated for a moment, then came over: Gu Ning, are you alright?Gu Ning shook her head: I'm fine.Zhang Ji actually had a lot of questions in mind but he didn't know where or how to start asking them. He wanted to ask how was it possible for Gu Ning, who came in second to last in the 400m run at the sports day, had become what she was now.At that moment, Xiang Xu who kept her eyes shut, all of a sudden snapped open and exclaimed: Found it!Gu Ning's spirit was lifted and asked immediately: Where is it?!Xiang Xu looked up to the roof of the hotel: Right at the top of the building.Gu Ning, Zhang Ji, and a few others glanced up at the building and could barely see the roof. Zhang Ji frowned before stating: This building has at least forty floors.With over forty floors to the roof and no electricity for the elevator, all they could do were climb up one floor at a time.After taking care of some of the zombies surrounding them, the group retreated into the hotel's lobby. It was a mess and filled with corpses of adults and children. Almost all of them had been chewed on by zombies, making it difficult to even find a whole corpse intact.Gu Ning roughly glanced through it and instructed: Half of the men will follow me and the other half will remain here. Then she continued: Fang Fa, Cheng Ming, Zhang XiaoBai, Zhong Xu, and Xiang Xu, you five will go with me. Brother San, Jia DaoZhang, and the rest will stay down here.Brother San had no objection and agreed: Alright, take care of yourselves guysNo one suggested Gu Ning stay down here with them as they knew very well in their minds that she had far surpassed them in both physical strength and combat ability.Zhang Ji had realised that he had completely misunderstood Gu Ning's position in the Third Company ever since he had witnessed her killing the big-headed zombie. Thus, right now he took the initiative to speak up: I'll go with you.There was also an Earth ability user in his team as well as Zhou Jian's sister, Zhou Yan, who also volunteered to head up. Gu Ning also requested the Spiritual ability user in Zhang Ji's team to tag along.The other teams also sent two or more physically fit members to follow Gu Ning.Without further delay, Gu Ning led the team toward the stairsThe stairs were so narrow that three people could barely walk side by side with each other. Therefore, they spaced themselves from each other around a metre apart in case there was no room to manoeuvre during an emergency. The Third Company team took the brunt of the action, followed by Zhang Ji's team, the Survival squad, the Yuezhou team, the Green Tree squad, and finally the Nighthawks squad at end.The difference between a special ability user and an ordinary person was not only about their psychic abilities but also in terms of their physical strength. Yet, climbing up stairs of more than 40 floors was still a bit strenuous.Fang Fa walked at the front of the group since he was a Speed ability user and his strides seemed unusually brisk compared to the others. It was understandable for him to maintain such a brisk pace when he had already reached the tenth floor, but Gu Ning was following closely behind him and her pace did not even reduce in the slightest. She didn't even pant and her breathing was as calm as if they were walking on flat ground.Zhang XiaoBai, Cheng Ming, and Zhong Xu were well aware of Gu Ning's crazy physical strength, but the others weren't. Gu Ning's previous reticence was due to timidity in their eyes, but now that timid and slender image was crumbling in their mind. It was replaced by the way Gu Ning wielded her knives to kill the mutated zombies without any hesitation.Zhang Ji felt even more complicated than the others at this time.While Zhang XiaoBai and the others had never seen Gu Ning's former personality, Zhang Ji knew her past very well. She was the girl who always smiled and circled around Lu JiaZi. She also loved to wear all kinds of dresses and could cook very well. Moreover, she had almost no temper at all, so it was very hard to relate the former Gu Ning to the girl who now had short blonde hair, wore a long grey sports attire, and carried knives around with an indifferent look.Even if the apocalypse would change a person and their personality, what about her skills? How did she become so powerful? It was really puzzling as Zhang Ji thought silently in his mind.Although Gu Ning had calmed down her emotions which had fluctuated violently because of that five-star brigade badge, her heart was incomparably worried and heavy. Who was the owner of this five-star badge? Most importantly, is this person still aliveThey had climbed over thirty floors.The distance between each other was getting farther apart, at first it was just three steps, but now it became nine or ten. The last one was even left behind at twenty-plus or so floors. Even Zhang XiaoBai and Zhong Xu who had excellent endurance were starting to get a bit overwhelmed while Cheng Ming was also gritting his teeth to support himself. Most of them were sweating profusely and panting while hanging onto the railing as they struggled to climb upward.Fang Fa was a Speed ability user so this was to his advantage. What the others couldn't understand was how did Gu Ning manage to keep up with his speed to this point without looking tired at all? If they remembered correctly, she was only a Space ability user, right?!Fang Fa, hold on.Gu Ning called out to Fang Fa, who was still going up, and gestured for him to look at those behind them: Let's take a break first.Fang Fa glanced at those panting, pale-looking faces behind him, he stopped his strides with some embarrassment and scratched his head.However, the moment Fang Fa stopped in his track, Gu Ning suddenly snapped her gaze in his direction. He was standing on the platform between the thirty and thirty-one floors and was facing a small door on the opposite side of the wall. The door was tightly shut and it didn't look any different from others yet for some reason, Gu Ning had a sudden ominous feeling!She subconsciously glanced over at the Spiritual ability user in Zhang Ji's team! Just in time to find her standing in the middle of the next floor while Zhou Yan was beside her. Both of them were looking in her direction at the moment and were startled by Gu Ning's fierce gaze when their eyes met. The Spiritual ability user's gaze flickered away as if she had done something wrong while sheepishly avoiding Gu Ning's gaze. Yet, Zhou Yan who was beside her gave a sarcastic and smug smile.Gu Ning's heart suddenly leaped and her expression changed! She instantly snapped her head to look at the door, and then saw slight vibration on the door Gu Ning shouted: Fang Fa watch out! Yet the moment her sentence ended, a loud boom! Rang out instantly! A huge force hit the door and the whole wooden door was flung off in a second! The lifted door slammed straight toward Fang Fa!Causing shrieks from below!Fang Fa, however, seem to be stunned and stood there frozen in his tracks!Gu Ning screamed in her mind, but her body reacted even faster than her brain! In a flash, she rushed forward and lunged at Fang Fa! He had been frozen by the sudden loud noise! Before he could react, his whole body was knocked out of the way! And then slammed heavily on another wall, the door grazed his arm before crashing onto the wall beside him. There was a splash of wood splinters everywhere!Although Gu Ning managed to push Fang Fa away, the door brushed hard past her right shoulder. The sharp pain made Gu Ning knit her eyebrows yet there was no time to check on her injury. She clutched the knife in her hand with a grave expression, her gaze slowly trailed from the huge stone pillar in front of her feet and fell on the hovering corridor beyond the knocked-out wooden door. A mutated zombie was leering at the ground.Gu Ning had seen many different kinds of mutated zombies but this was the first time she had seen such a huge zombie. It was so enormous that its body looked like a puddle of mud and almost filled the entire corridor. The fluid travelling in the veins beneath the propped-up skin could be seen and there were numerous wounds and slime all over its body as well. One of the wound seem to be caused by some unknown sharp object and some green slime were oozing out from one end of its body to the other. Many tentacles grew on top of those bodies, twisting and turning while being entangled. If anyone with trypophobia saw this sight, they would probably vomit, and even Gu Ning without having the phobia also found the mutated zombie very disgusting.Upon taking a closer look, Gu Ning noticed the oddity of the mutated zombie. Some of those tentacles were thick while some were thin and seem lighter in colour It seem like they were newly grown and combined with those previous wounds on its body, maybe it had already engaged in a tough battle not long agoIf she was right, it should be caused by the Five Star Brigade. Furthermore, since they were still able to fight off this mutated zombie, that would prove that at least they were still alive and had not been in the helicopter crash but managed to make a forced landing. The thought of this brought a very untimely surge of joy to Gu Ning's heart.Fang Fa forced down the gastric acid that rose to the back of his throat due to the sight of the disgusting mutated zombie. Those big-headed zombies from half an hour ago were disturbing enough but never once did he think that the more revolting would follow later.In one of its tentacles, the mutated zombie had a huge stone pillar rolled up in it and the door that had just been smashed away was done by this stone pillar. The image of a tentacle that was only the size of an arm being able to swing a stone pillar that required two hands to hold by a normal adult was utterly bizarre.Although Gu Ning couldn't see where the eyes of the mutated zombie were, she could feel that its strong gaze was staring at her. Strangely, she felt that the mutated zombie's gaze was full of hatred and at the same time seemed to have deep scruplesZhang Ji saw Gu Ning and Fang Fa almost being crushed by the door and immediately guessed what had happened up there. Associating with Gu Ning's sudden glance to the back just now, he instantly thought of something and turned his head to stare at Lu Qi and Zhou Yan. Lu Qi didn't dare to meet his gaze but Zhou Yan's expression was full of grim and hatred mixed with pleasure which made Zhang Ji feel very repulsive.Zhang XiaoBai, Zhong Xu, and Cheng Ming were all stunned by the sudden attack just now and immediately rushed up when they came back to their senses. After spotting the mutated zombie, a feeling of nausea rose in their stomach.Gu Ning had a deadly stare fixed on the mutated zombie, it was as if she was trying to intimidate the mutated zombie before ordering in a low voice: Get readyThe psychic energy in her body began to surge wildly as she prepared to utter the word run.However, the mutated zombies reacted first!Instead of attacking it was moving backward!The huge body was moving backward and away from the staircase as it headed to the other side of the corridor with great difficulty! The tentacle that was wrapped around the stone pillar was still raised high while its eyes were still fixated on Gu Ning. As if it would swing the pillar as soon as Gu Ning made a move.It just stared at Gu Ning while slowly retreating and disappearing from her sight afterward!
