Chapter 1232: 1232
Kong Qingming told his people to drive back, and also to report to Wu Chengyue about what they found . To go through the area, they had to remove those creatures first . However, there was a massive herd of them occupying a long section of the road, and they were actually rather strong .
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Kong Qingming controlled the surrounding plants and tied up those creatures with veins and branches . It was hard to kill them though . He was able to crush the bones of the relatively small ones, but the larger ones soon escaped .
The creatures caught by Kong Qingming’s plants screamed shrilly, their voices highly unpleasant to hear .
The other people didn’t use their superpowers . Instead, they leaped onto high places for a wide view and each took out a strange gun . They had only one of those guns each . The bullets in those guns were customized, containing catmint juice .
“This newly invented gun will work more or less, right? Even though it’s not yet the finished version,” Liu Jing raised the gun and aimed at the middle of a creature’s flower face before pulling the trigger .
Puff! Liu Jing was good at shooting . He was able to hit the target from two-hundred meters away .
The creature’s flower head was as large as a water tank . The bullet flew into its mouth, and the creature immediately let out a deafening scream . After that, it froze and fell .
It didn’t die instantly though . By the time the catmint juice inside the bullet all flowed into its body, its body suddenly exploded .
Boom! The creature was blown into pieces .
“Hey! It worked!” Liu Jing shouted excitedly .
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He heard that even grenades would fail in those creatures’ mouths . Through observation, scientists found it was because of their self-protection system . When a bomb was thrown into their mouth, their body would sense the danger and react automatically, releasing their energy to deactivate it . They were also able to spit out the bullets that were shot into their mouths .
Recently, Sea City Base developed a few guns . The fluid inside the bullets would be injected into the target’s body once the target was hit and paralyze it . After the injection, the mini bomb in the bullet would detonate .
In fact, those few guns were only half-finished products developed in a flurry . Only about ten of them were produced as the first batch, only for the people who left the base for Huaxia Base this time .
When the flower-head creature exploded, the other flower-head creatures near it all moved away from it, seemingly avoiding its blood and flesh .
Kong Qingming was controlling a massive number of plants . It was quite energy-consuming, but he wasn’t able to kill many flower-head creatures . He thought for a moment, then tied up some flower-head creatures with his plants and took out a catmint gun before shooting those creatures which were disabled from moving . Every single bullet from his gun hit a flower-head creature in the mouth .
Bang! Bang! Bang!
Squeeeek!
All the flower-head creatures hit by the bullets exploded . The other creatures were avoiding the dead bodies of the dead ones, but didn’t stop charging at Kong Qingming and his people .
Meanwhile, Huang Shou drove back to the others . On the way, he reported to Wu Chengyue through the interphone, “Chief, there are a bunch of strange creatures jamming the road five miles in the front . At least a thousand of them are gathering here . We can’t get through the area now . ”
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Xiao Licheng pulled over and asked, “What are they like?”
“Eh… Their heads look like flowers, and their bodies are flat . They have short limbs, no tails . They are around a meter and twenty centimeters wide, three to eight meters long . They don’t look like any creature on the earth’s surface,” said Huang Shou .
Those flower-head creatures looked definitely not like anything from the earth’s surface . They were also ridiculously huge . They should be from the underground, like the ones that the base leaders were talking about a lot lately .
Xiao Licheng ended the conversation with Huang Shou, then turned and said to Wu Chengyue, “A herd of underground creatures have blocked the road five miles in the front . It’ll take us some time to clean them out . Should we take a detour?”
There was a massive number of those creatures . To clear the road, they needed to kill all of them . It would be troublesome, because those creatures were not easy to kill .
“How long will it take us to take a detour from here?” Wu Chengyue asked him .
Xiao Licheng checked at the map and said, “About an hour, if the road condition is good . If there are obstacles, we might need to spend about two hours . ”
After the apocalypse, almost all the roads were jammed by abandoned vehicles . Except for the roads which had already been cleared, there were obstacles on almost every road .
Wu Chengyue glanced at Wu Yueling, then said to Xiao Licheng, “Tell Qingming and the others to come back . ”
They were going to take a detour .
Xiao Licheng nodded, then said to Huang Shou through the interphone, “Tell your boss to come back . We’re going to take a detour . ”
“Yes, sir,” Huang Shou responded, then turned the car around .
With curiosity, Xiao Licheng said, “I think they’ve used the catmint guns . I wonder if those guns worked . ”
Wu Chengyue smiled and responded with, “You can ask them about that when they get back . ”
“They’re a few miles away from us,” Xiao Licheng said, “I wonder if those creatures are fast or not . It would be troublesome if they followed us . ”
“If they follow us, I’ll kill them all,” said Wu Chengyue .
Xiao Licheng turned and glanced at him as he said, “Why are we taking a detour then? Why don’t you just go over there now and kill them all?”
Wu Chengyue looked at him with a smile and said, “I don’t want Ling Ling to see those things . Based on your description, they are really ugly . What if they scared Ling Ling?”
He didn’t want to leave Ling Ling in the car . Among the other people, Xiao Licheng and Kong Qingming were the strongest . But, they were only at level-six . He didn’t trust them with her safety .
Wu Yueling heard him mention her name, so she turned and looked at her father, then started thinking about the monster that the adults talked about earlier . She didn’t understand what exactly it was, but she felt them to be scary .
She didn’t show her fear to Wu Chengyue though, and only kept stroking the rabbit .
Before long, Kong Qingming and his people returned .
“How did the new guns work?” While turning the car around, Xiao Licheng asked Kong Qingming through the interphone .
“Not bad! The explosion happens less than three seconds after the shooting . The shooting range is a little short though . It won’t work if the target is over three hundred meters away,” Kong Qingming said .
“Are you sure they are from the underground?” Xiao Licheng asked another question .
“Yes . We can’t pass even if we kill them all, because the road in the front is broken . The earth cracked, so vehicles can’t get through . We have to take a detour,” said Kong Qingming .
“I guess we have no choice then,” Xiao Licheng sighed .
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