Breaking into the Research Institute

Rraaah! Rraaah!

Over the zombies' heads, on the gliders were their favorite fresh meat. Down there, the zombies seemed to have started a riot. They turned around and started chasing them, roaring and drooling foul fluids. Leng Yehan, Mo Wenyang and the other Peak and Chaoyang guys were the first to land at the crossroads. Before putting the hang gliders away, they immediately separated to engage the zombies around them, trying to clear a safe landing spot for others.

"It's our turn."

Yun Che consumed more energy than he thought sending all the gliders out with air superfunction. When he and Xing Feng stepped on the railing, he was drenched in sweat. Xing Feng wiped off the sweat on his face with tissue in a caring way. "We won't do quests for the military again."

"Yeah."

Yun Che nodded and put Xing Feng's hand on the control bar. The two of them took a dive. Few seconds later, air superfunction energy propelled them to steadily glide forward.

"Take this, master!"

A glittering crystal nucleus drew a perfect curve across the sky as it flew right at Yun Che and Xing Feng. With a whiff of air superfunction, Yun Che pocketed the crystal nucleus. "Enough fun for you two. Follow up."

"Sure!"

With a lively reply, in a split second, Heiyu and the Wolf King jumped ahead of them.

"Don't waste time. Keep moving leftward!"

Before the hang glider landed, Yun Che shouted at the team. Level-3 superfunction possessors formed two groups by themselves. One group cleared the path at the front, the other brought up the rear. Every space superfunction possessor had a level-2 guy as personal bodyguard in the middle. Heiyu and the Wolf King joined them later. The team advanced at a fast speed as if nothing could stop them.

Roaaar!

A level-3 fire zombie came out of nowhere, throwing fireballs at the team and roaring.

"Shut the hell up! Move aside!"

Heiyu ran into the zombie, slapping it away. His formidable strength would shock the guys every time. Yun Che dashed at the speed of light over to the level-3 zombie who got slapped away but was still alive. "You go first. Xing, take them to the front entrance and make your way into the institute."

Yun Che yelled so hard, his voice even sounded hoarse.

"OK."

Xing Feng didn't say much on Heiyu's back. He took a concerned look at him and turned to leading the team to the front entrance of the institute. Shen Rui, Jiang Shang and Lu Haixuan, the gold superfunction possessors, were around him, not just because they were powerful, but they were also in charge of opening the gate. Ye Xingchen couldn't fight on his own, he rode the Wolf King in its mutant form, protecting the rear together with Leng Yehan, Zhan Yafei, and Yang Huaien. Mo Wenyang and Yu Wenqing kept the troops in order in the middle, trying to avoid any injury or death.

Booom!

Most zombies gathered around the KTV previously so they could hardly catch up the team. The team moved fast under Xing Feng's lead. All kinds of colorful superfunction power bombarded the zombies. After killing the level-3 zombie, Yun Che joined the team.

"Jiang Shang, Shen Rui, cover Haixuan when he opens the gate!"

They reached the entrance. Behind the portcullis, zombies kept roaring and snarling at them. After Xing Feng gave the order, Jiang Shang flashed to the left, Shen Rui to the right, shooting gold-enhanced bullets at the zombies. While they were at it, Lu Haixuan bent down and melted the lock with superfunction energy.

"Fuck off!"

Some level-3 superfunction possessors came forward to help push the portcullis open with all of their strength. Then they kicked away the zombies out of the way. Heiyu jumped inside and started whacking zombies away.

Voom!

"Get away from the gate."

Thunder rumbled. 100 meters away from the gate, Yun Che fired countless streaks of purple lightning at the zombies, unleashing earth-shaking power. All superfunction possessors immediately backed up. Thunderbolts struck and charred nearly 100 zombies at the gate. A follow-up black blade cut another dozen zombies' heads in half.

"Che!"

Yun Che staggered after he cast the ultra strike. Zhou Zeyu rushed over to Yun Che. When he held him with one hand, his other hand used wind superfunction to collect crystal nuclei, shouting, "Everybody inside. Keep the zombies out!"

His instruction brought all the shocked superfunction possessors back to earth. They hurriedly swarmed into the institute, Leng Yehan shut the gate when everybody was in. Lu Haixuan, Shen Rui welded the portcullis with superfunction energy.

Roaaar!

The zombies behind them tried to seize them through the gratings, but it was too late. All superfunction possessors immediately engaged with the zombies inside the institute.

"That was a bit ahead of me."

Held by Zhou Zeyu, Yun Che gulped for air. That was at least a level-4 strike but Yun Che just wanted to save time. As his superfunction reserve was emptied all at once, Yun Che felt so terrible as if his lungs were about to explode.

"Che, can't you have faith in us even for once?"

Zhou Zeyu struck blades of wind at zombies when he rolled eyes at Yun Che, in the meantime, he held him to move toward Heiyu who was surrounded by zombies. Xing Feng had jumped off his back, running toward Zhou and Yun. Sick of hiding his gold superfunction anymore, Xing Feng cleared the path with a gold-attribute whip.

"Just because I had faith in you, I made that insane move. See? Isn't my man cool?"

Watching Xing Feng making his way through the zombies toward him, Yun Che put on a weak smile. Having noticed Captain Xing charging at them in a frenzy, Zhou Zeyu gnashed his teeth and replied, "Yeah, so cool. The whole world notices."

Another gold superfunction possessor, Jiang Shang waved his offensive, dazzling ribbons, slashing at the zombies. Xing Feng was never restricted to one form, he would conjure anything he would like, blade, spear, club, or rod. And he was good at all forms. It wasn't necessarily cool but the strikes would be precise and critical.

"I say you're jealous of me."

Yun Che was always enthusiastic about jeering at his teammates. Zhou Zeyu didn't even want to speak to him anymore.

"Che!"

For the first time, Xing Feng put on a worried look on the face when he reached them. Most of the time, he was chill or graceful even. Anyone would find it hard to believe that he used to be a soldier. He would only show the secret side of his if it was about Yun Che.

"I'm fine. Feeling a little weak though. I'll be good after some rest."

Yun Che collapsed into Xing Feng's arms and drank up a bottle of spring water that he got from Space. Xing Feng examined every inch of his body and was relieved until he was sure Yun Che was OK. "Can you cast air membrane?"

The battle was ongoing, the best place to get some rest would be Heiyu's back.

"No."

Yun Che's superfunction reserve was completely empty. He couldn't even activate the air panel, much less air membrane.

"Then we kill a way through!"

Eyes sharpened, Xing Feng held Yun Che by the waist with one hand and brandished the golden whip with the other, making an intimidating sound.

"I'll clear the path for you!"

Zhou Zeyu never went anywhere. He jumped in front of them, two tornados were summoned from the ground, sweeping the way ahead of them with a destructive momentum.

"Thanks."

Xing Feng carried Yun Che when they followed the tornados. He wrapped the end of the whip around the neck of any zombie that approached them and broke their necks with a jerk. Any superfunction possessor who had a glimpse of it when fighting the zombies was shocked by such ruthlessness and the efficiency. But none of them had time to think about when Xing Feng switched from space superfunction to gold.

"Shit, where's my deputy?"

Knowing that Xing Feng would keep Yun Che safe, Zhou Zeyu didn't follow them. He turned around and saw Mo Wenyang fighting against two level-3 zombies. He struck blades of wind at the zombies and rushed over to Mo without thinking.

"Another wood zombie came for me all of a sudden. Watch out, he's no regular level-3."

Back to back, Mo Wenyang said in a low voice. Mo attacked a fire zombie with the water blade in his right hand while emitting burning knives from his left hand to collide with the wooden stakes darting at him.

"Shit, you all think you're superman?"

Cursed Zhou Zeyu as he struck the power of wind to enhance Mo's burning knives. When the wind source caught up the knives, the small knives were enlarged to long, sharp blades. Although the wood zombie was nearly level 4, he had no ability to think. Instead of dodging the blades, the zombie attempted to fend them off with more wooden stakes.

Thuck! Thuck! Thuck!

Rrrraaaaahh!

Wind could enhance fire, fire could subdue wood, it was the law of nature, which no one could alter. The wind-enhanced fires burned up all the wooden stakes instantly and the rest of the burning blades stabbed right through the zombie's body, making him bellow in rage.

"Shut the hell up and die!"

Mo Wenyang went back to dealing with the fire zombie. Zhou Zeyu leaped up and hit the head of the zombie with the tiny tornado from his palms.

Raa…

Boom!

The wood zombie's head exploded the moment he roared again. A green, translucent wood-attribute crystal nucleus burst out. Zhou Zeyu grabbed it, turned around and saw Mo Wenyang hack the level-3 fire zombie in half from the top to bottom with the water whip. Aghast, Zhou had got used to the power of water superfunction yet.

"Carry on!"

Mo Wenyang and Zhou Zeyu didn't have time to take a break to celebrate their perfect teamwork. They immediately flung themselves into fighting with more zombies.

"Yafei, watch out!"

On the other side of the battlefield, Zhan Yafei nearly got stabbed by a gold zombie's blade because she was supposed to protect space superfunction possessors with Yang Huaien. In the nick of time, Yang pulled her into his arms. Thwack! A sharp edge pierced through his arm.

"Yang?!"

Zhan Yafei opened up her eyes in fear. Yang Huaien pulled the edge out with an unperturbed look on the face as if nothing ever happened. "It's fine. We're used to this." He calmed Yafei.

"O-OK."

But how could he be fine? Looking at the soothing smile on Yang's face, Zhan Yafei couldn't express her concern. She just charged right at the level-3 gold zombie after a quick nod. Giant rocks fell from the sky, raining on the gold zombie but unfortunately, half of the zombie's body was covered in metal so earth-attribute attack could do little harm to him.