The old man left with a glance at Lin Yuan, as if he recognized him. Lin Yuan was certain this wasn't the first time he'd seen that look on his face.
Lin Yuan ignored his words and asked Jiang Ziqi, "Are you sure you can block it?"
"As long as it's a biological signal, it's no problem!"
"Good."
"Let's do it."
With that, Jiang Ziqi's tentacles began to swell and lengthen, then abruptly spread into smaller tendrils, expanding to their maximum and enveloping all nine survivors. The tentacles intertwined, forming a thin sphere, which also muffled the survivors' screams.
After her tentacles evolved, they had grown considerably larger and thicker, completely losing their previous "thin string" appearance from malnutrition. They were now thick and powerful, normally around 3 meters long, and even more menacing when they split and bristled.
Pressing the communicator, Lin Yuan said, "All units, attack!!"
The fleeing old man also heard this, his eyes filled with disbelief. Just as he was about to kill someone to prove his words weren't false, he discovered he could no longer sense the presence of the bugs within them.
Things had escalated.
The composure vanished from his face in an instant. He turned and ran. In his perception, at least fifteen guns were pointed at him.
Unfortunately, his evasive maneuvers were useless. Wang Zhihai, who had already climbed halfway down the cliff, found an excellent small platform and fired a rocket.
It missed.
However, next time, he wouldn't be so lucky. While the rocket was a miss, the bullets were accurate.
Trapped within several lines of fire, he was unable to move.
Furthermore, several snipers on the mountain restricted him to an area of about 5 meters.
Wang Zhihai grinned. This was enough. If precision was lacking, brute force would compensate, much like how the White Eagle Federation and the Western European Union constantly boasted about the range and accuracy of their sniper rifles.
Huaxia simply refused to play their game. High accuracy, right? You can kill someone in a bunker through a small crack with a single shot, impressive. I'll just blow up the entire bunker with one shot. The objective is still achieved, reasonable, isn't it?
Perfectly reasonable!
(Of course, for counter-terrorism missions, sniper rifles still need to be high-precision and long-range. Fortunately, our country already has them, like the CS/LR4 high-precision sniper rifle without a silencer that Mu Qingtian was holding, colloquially known as the '260k'. No Taobao link available.)
He raised his hand and delivered two rockets to the "old iron" to liven things up.
Two high-explosive rounds, one hit a sapling near his ankle, and the other struck his body directly.
The world instantly fell silent, but Lin Yuan and his team remained vigilant. They had already informed Mu Qingtian and the others that the bugs inside their bodies hadn't been killed yet, and they had run out of molotov cocktails, leaving them to rely on firearms.
Fortunately, the three snipers had excellent shooting skills, were talented, and learned quickly.
Each time a bug emerged from their bodies, it was shot before it could even land.
Counting them, there were exactly ten.
Then, he asked Jiang Ziqi to scan for any biological signals on the same frequency.
"Captain, no findings. Underground, ten..."
Although their appearance was somewhat different.
Fortunately, Jiang Ziqi's tentacles had completed their evolution. In addition to strength, size, speed, and defense, they had also gained the ability to sense and block biological signals.
This was why they hadn't suffered a setback today.
The bugs Jiang Ziqi had just killed were likely a more advanced type, similar to the tiered classifications of zombies. This world was becoming increasingly chaotic.
Lin Yuan was now worried about whether the entity lying on the ground, now reduced to pieces, knew his true capabilities.
The look in its eyes then was definitely not that of a first encounter.
He couldn't describe it, but there was an emotion in its gaze, a sense of "I was looking for you."
"Captain!!! I found a phone in this scoundrel's pocket, the memory card isn't broken!!" Wang Zhihai excitedly held up a phone that was only the upper half.
Meanwhile, Zhu Mingjun also ran over, holding a wallet. He handed it to Lin Yuan: "Captain, Yan Ruyu and I searched the entire convoy. Most of it was food and clothing, with some weapons and ammunition. Some boxes weren't opened; we don't know what's inside. We found this in their lead vehicle, and I thought it might be useful, so I brought it to you."
Lin Yuan glanced at the wallet and opened it directly in front of Zhu Mingjun. He found an ID card with the name Du Minghu, and the address was Group 1, Xiangyang Village, Feng County, Qu City!
Du Minghu, Du Mingzhi.
Excellent, just when he was worried about this lingering hidden threat, it was now resolved along with the rest!
He flipped through it again, finding no USB drives or anything similar, so he handed it to Zhu Mingjun: "Give this to Ziqi and tell her that all her enemies have been dealt with. Let her be happy."
Enemies?
Zhu Mingjun was still a bit bewildered. Upon seeing the information on the ID card, he suddenly understood and quickly took the item to Jiang Ziqi.
Jiang Ziqi merely glanced at it, let out an "oh," and continued to examine the survivors.
"They're dead, so they're dead. With all of us here, even if he were alive, he couldn't stir up much trouble."
But a small stone in her heart had indeed been lifted. It was good that this threat hadn't caused any harm to their team.
Meanwhile, Lin Yuan and the others, including Jiang Ziqi, did not notice that on a wild pear tree not far away, a crow was watching them.
Its eyes changed from black to blood red, and it flew away.
After burning all the corpses with dry firewood, yellow bamboo, rapeseed oil, and some dead leaves, Lin Yuan and his team concluded the operation, happily transporting the supplies from the convoy back in two trips.
"Ziqi, let's go. There are no zombies in this pond, let's go fishing and catching shrimp. Your sister Wu Tian is waiting."
"Coming, coming! I'm just finishing up with this last survivor. I'll come after I extract the bugs and eggs from this child's body!"
"Then we'll go see what's on this memory card! We'll call you later."
"Okay!"
The two shouted to each other, one on the ground floor and the other on the rooftop.
The air was filled with a sense of joy.
...
Yuzhou.
A crow landed on a slender, delicate arm, its sharp claws not daring to exert the slightest force.
Crow Crow wanted to live, not die so easily.
As she read the scenes the crow had witnessed, the owner of the arm, a girl with blood-red hair, giggled.
But she didn't speak, only turned to look at another girl.
"How about it, Miss Wang? Have you decided?"
The girl made up her mind and nodded seriously, "I agree."
"Then, deal?"
The two hands clasped together.
Full of sincerity.
As she finished speaking, the girl turned to look out the window, her blood-red hair fluttering.
She murmured to herself.
"We will meet again, Lin Yuan."