Chapter 62 – Zombie Dogs

But now wasn’t the time to admire how cute the little tiger was. Chu Jiangyue carried the cub and approached the two adult tigers.

When the cub saw its parents, it became so excited that it roared several times in their direction.

However, because it was small, its voice was also small. Although its movements looked fierce, combined with its tiny size, it only looked adorable.

The two mutant tigers heard the cub’s roar and both responded with roars of their own.

Since the mutant tigers did not attack, Shen Zhigui and the others sensibly stopped their attacks and retreated to the side.

If they had known earlier that the truth was simply that those people had stolen the mutant tigers’ cub, they wouldn’t have gotten involved.

But once you step into a fight, it isn’t so easy to pull out.

When Chu Jiangyue shouted that the cub had been stolen, they had already started holding back in their attacks.

The cub reached its parents and whimpered something. The two mutant tigers no longer attacked Chu Jiangyue’s group of six.

But those who had stolen the cub weren’t so lucky.

The two adult mutant tigers each swiped a claw at those people’s chests. Because the attack came so suddenly, they had no time to dodge. The force of the strike was so strong that the wounds were deep enough to expose bone.

They screamed miserably and collapsed to the ground, howling in pain.

One of the tigers roared once at Chu Jiangyue, then the couple took their cub and bounded away.

“What does that mean?”

Chu Jiangyue couldn’t understand beast language, so she asked the little fox to translate.

“The cub told them you’re a good two-legged beast. The big tiger was thanking you.”

It was only one word of thanks, but Chu Jiangyue knew that she now had mutant tigers as a sort of backing.

If they met again, they definitely wouldn’t attack her on sight.

“Chu… Boss Chu, help us!”

The ones clawed by the tigers only dared to cry for help after the beasts had gone.

They weren’t familiar with Shen Zhigui’s group, so they could only beg Chu Jiangyue.

After all, she was the boss of Jianglin Hotel, and they were guests there.

“I don’t have any medicine with me. Vice-captain Ren is behind us, he should be here soon. Just hold on a little longer.”

Chu Jiangyue had a bad impression of people who stole tiger cubs. Although her wood ability had some healing effect, she was unwilling to save them.

Those chosen for roadwork were basically all ability users. A few external wounds wouldn’t kill them.

As soon as she mentioned Ren Jie, his convoy appeared. Seeing the bloody battlefield, Ren Jie was dumbfounded.

“What happened here?”

Ren Jie looked at Chu Jiangyue. They shouldn’t have had any enmity with these people, right?

“They were attacked by mutant tigers. We don’t have medicine.”

Jiang He stepped forward and briefly explained the situation.

Ren Jie felt helpless. What rotten luck.

But since the road crew were all people from the base, he couldn’t just ignore them.

“Get them to the safety passage and give them simple bandaging first.”

They didn’t bring much medicine. Even using everything they had was just barely enough for treatment.

And since some were injured, he would need to notify the base to send replacements to finish the roadwork.

“Our cars are full. You’ll have to decide among yourselves who opens the navigation and drives.”

Using navigation and vehicles required time-based fees, and the one who activated navigation had to worry about whether others would pay their share.

So who opened navigation was always a delicate matter.

“You handle it slowly, we’ll head out first.”

Chu Jiangyue didn’t want to waste time here. Seeing that none of them were in mortal danger, she prepared to leave.

Although Ren Jie wished they would wait, he also knew he had no reason to make them stay.

So in the end, he could only smile and say a few words like “safe travels.”

After the polite farewells, Chu Jiangyue’s group of six set out again.

But the next stretch of road had no safety passage, and before long they encountered zombies.

Fortunately, the vehicles provided through navigation had some zombie-shielding effect. Other than zombies, what they really had to worry about were mutant animals and plants.

About ten minutes past the end of the safety passage, Chu Jiangyue frowned at the environment around them.

Yellow sand filled the air, the sun scorched down—it was no longer a place suitable for human survival.

“Screech—”

The sudden braking sound snapped her back to attention.

“There’s a pack of mutant dogs up ahead, but they don’t look like those two mutant tigers.”

Jiang He described what he saw.

Chu Jiangyue knew that whether animal or plant, there were two directions for mutation—ordinary mutation or zombie-type mutation.

Just like humans: some became zombies, some became ability users.

“If you can attack from a distance, then do it. Don’t let them bite you.”

Zombie-mutated dogs were just like zombies.

A bite or scratch would transmit the zombie virus—something with no cure.

Shen Zhigui and the others trusted Chu Jiangyue. Standing beside the silver SUV, they used their abilities to strike at the zombie dogs.

But long-range attacks from Shen Zhigui’s lightning and Chu Jiangyue’s wood ability were the most effective.

Zombie dogs, like zombies, felt no pain and only knew how to attack.

To kill them, one had to smash their heads.

Smelling the fresh human scent on Chu Jiangyue’s group, the zombie dogs lunged forward recklessly.

But Chu Jiangyue and Shen Zhigui’s attacks always took down the ones in front.

The standoff dragged on. Neither side could advance or retreat.

Their abilities were limited, and continuing like this was bad for them.

“Roar!”

Just as Chu Jiangyue was thinking of a way to break the deadlock, a familiar roar rang out.

The two big tigers suddenly leapt out from somewhere. Using their size advantage, each stomped a zombie dog flat.

Every dog they landed on turned into a pile of bloody mush.

Chu Jiangyue used vines to pull out the crystal cores from the dogs’ heads.

Xie Silin conjured a little ice, melted it into water, and rinsed them clean.

Dozens of zombie dog crystal cores were soon collected on a large leaf shaped from Chu Jiangyue’s ability.

They divided the spoils according to contribution, leaving about thirty zombie cores on the big leaf.

Chu Jiangyue offered the crystals to the tigers.

One tiger lifted its paw and tapped the leaf—instantly, all the crystals vanished.

Chu Jiangyue: !!!

Even tigers had space abilities now?!
Weren’t spatial ability users supposed to be rare? How come she felt they weren’t rare at all?

“Thank you! Next time we meet, come to my hotel for a feast—on me!”

Then, boldly, Chu Jiangyue reached out and touched the tiger’s raised paw.

Awooo! Fluffy! So soft—she really wanted to squeeze it!