Chapter 77: Getting Angry with Each Other

Even though Lin Mu’s physique had been enhanced by Xiao Yuan, his back throbbed with pain.

The iron plate made a loud noise, and the other four soldiers immediately focused on their tasks—those responsible for loading explosives continued loading explosives, the drivers kept driving, and those with nothing to do pretended to be busy by peering through the visual scopes, looking at the zombies outside.

Why did it feel like the zombies outside were a bit less terrifying than the Major?

Fu Jingmo’s eyes were ablaze with anger, seeming angrier than he had ever been since they met. His arm, as firm as welded iron, was pressed horizontally against Lin Mu’s throat, while his other hand gripped Lin Mu’s shoulder tightly.

“Dammit! Acting on your own! No regard for discipline! Lin Mu, have you thought about the consequences!!”

Lin Mu glanced at him. Compared to Fu Jingmo’s direct fury, his gaze was cold and calm.

Heh, what a coincidence, I’m angry too.

“Let go. I am not your subordinate!”

Lin Mu’s voice was icy and hard, as if he were a stranger. “Mr. Fu, you’re not the only one who wants to survive in this safe zone.”

The distant address made Fu Jingmo pause, and his rage instantly doused by half. He gritted his teeth and withdrew his arm, cursing coldly, “Bastard!”

Ignoring him, Lin Mu walked to the narrow space up front and looked at the scene outside the small iron window.

A short section of vine was tightly clenched in his hand.

The explosives were loaded and pressed into the launcher, then shot out with a thunderous blast, charging into the zombie horde ahead at an extremely high speed, creating an open space.

“How do you plan to find it?”

Lin Mu spoke in a deep voice without turning around. “It” naturally referred to the mutated zombie.

Fu Jingmo stared at the soft top of Lin Mu’s head, then quickly reined in his thoughts.

“Its ability range won’t be too far. It’s skilled in luring and trapping, and possesses a certain level of intelligence.”

“First, it needs to be at a high vantage point where it can observe the safe zone. Secondly, Wen Tang mentioned it doesn’t have any other abilities, so it can’t protect itself. It will definitely have more zombies surrounding it to form a protective area.”

“There are only two suitable places outside the safe zone. Apart from these two, we just need to look for where the zombies aren’t rushing towards the safe zone but are lingering in one place.”

“Not hard to find.”

Fu Jingmo calmly analyzed. From the moment he decided to come out, he had already made a plan in his mind; he never fights unprepared.

“Which direction are the two places you mentioned?”

Lin Mu finally turned his head to look at him.

“One is at the southeast corner of the safe zone, and the other is just less than 900 meters ahead.”

Looking forward again, Lin Mu closed his eyes, as if his consciousness was entering a different space. He spread his awareness outward.

It was like a spider web radiating from him as the center, countless lines winding through his mind, turning the entire safe zone into a flat network of lines.

Energy surged from within him; he had used his abilities on the concrete walls for a long time. If it weren’t for the continuous influx of zombies from which he absorbed energy, he would have run out long ago.

At this moment, he was frantically mobilizing the energy that remained in his blood, injecting it into the energy orb. Managing both tasks simultaneously, he not only had to control the energy but also his awareness.

Even for Lin Mu, his head throbbed with intense pain—this was the first time he had used his ability in this manner.

The web-like lines extended farther and farther.

Fu Jingmo noticed his discomfort and quickly stepped forward, supporting the swaying Lin Mu. “Lin Mu…”

Finally, just as Lin Mu felt like his head was about to explode, a red dot flickered on the web of bluish lines.

Clearly, their luck wasn’t good—it wasn’t within the 900 meters ahead but on the other side, at the southeast corner that Fu Jingmo had mentioned.

That mutated zombie was hiding right there!

Now, it was exposed on the web woven by Lin Mu’s consciousness, with nowhere to hide.

He suddenly opened his eyes, his forehead covered in fine sweat, and pulled his hand away from Fu Jingmo’s support.

“Not ahead, it’s at the southeast corner.”

After speaking, he leaned against the iron plate and sat down, closing his eyes to rest.

The armored soldier driving the vehicle glanced at Fu Jingmo upon hearing this, momentarily unsure whether to follow his orders.

Fu Jingmo didn’t ask anything; he decisively commanded, “Turn to the southeast corner.”

Bombs cleared the path as the armored vehicle turned towards the southeast corner.

Lin Mu closed his eyes to rest, quickly regaining his strength. He released a vine, which found a small hole to slip through, absorbing the energy from the twice-dead zombie corpses.

Fu Jingmo knelt beside him, watching. Despite the anger still burning in his chest, he couldn’t help but ask, “Tired?”

As expected, he didn’t receive an answer. Fu Jingmo sat down next to him.

“Didn’t you say the last thing you wanted was to be torn apart by zombies? When did you become so bold?”

He tilted his head to look at Lin Mu, not caring whether he got a response, speaking as if to himself.

These were the words Lin Mu had said in the small courtyard at Jiao Mountain when they first met, and Fu Jingmo didn’t even know why he still remembered them.

The person beside him turned his body, showing his back to Fu Jingmo.

Oh, seems like quite a temper. Major Fu didn’t bother pushing further and stood up.

Since they were already here, they might as well drag that mutated zombie out and see what it really was!

Explosive shells were thrown one by one, clearing a path of ten meters ahead at a time. The southeast corner was the farthest from the main gate, and the situation there was still unknown.

Relying solely on abilities, how could they possibly deal with thousands of zombies to kill the mutated one hiding among them?

They needed to control the use of explosive shells and all their ammunition.

——

Inside the safe zone, ever since Lin Mu left, He Ze’s thoughts kept wandering off, and he would occasionally look up into the distance.

Beside him, Shen Rangchen was diligently taking down the zombies in front of the concrete wall. Over the past couple of days, he had crafted another paper figure named Daisy, which was currently helping to toss the piled-up zombie corpses further away.

He himself wielded an iron rod, effortlessly taking out one zombie with each thrust.

“Damn, I wonder how Mumu and the others are doing.”

He Ze glanced back at Shen Rangchen and, seeing his calm and composed demeanor, felt a surge of irritation.

“You damn—Mumu treats you so well, don’t you have a heart? Aren’t you worried at all!!”

Shen Rangchen glanced at him sideways. “Is worrying useful?”

“…”

Choked by the response, He Ze ground his teeth, and his eyes turned red.

“I put a defensive talisman on him. That talisman can block damage. It hasn’t broken yet, which means they haven’t encountered any danger.”

Shen Rangchen looked as composed as ever, glancing at He Ze as if he were a fool.

After hearing this, He Ze closed his mouth, rubbed his eyes, and immediately put on a smile. “Really, Chenchen, your talisman actually works? Give me one, will you?”

“Get lost.”

With a thrust of his iron rod, Shen Rangchen smashed the skull of a zombie.