Bu Ying took the opportunity of drinking to do many things. First, he inquired with the guards at the city gate and learned that Mingyue and the others had not returned. A sharp glint flashed in his eyes.
Then, he ordered a team of ability users to secretly leave the city, and then went to find He Shi, asking her to pack her things.
Finally, he returned to his office, clinking glasses with the demon envoy, and got him thoroughly drunk.
Wen Qingtian, in the villa, did not sleep all night. Mingyue and the others had not returned, and he was very worried.
Although he knew in his heart that with Mingyue and Ba Jiu around, they should be safe.
But yesterday at the meeting, Mingyue had predicted that they would not be out overnight.
Since they had not returned, something must have happened. He couldn't help but feel uneasy.
The sky was already faintly lit. Wen Qingtian, who had waited all night on the living room sofa, was about to return to his room for a nap.
Just then, he heard a commotion outside, as if something had happened, and he hurried out to check.
To his surprise, zombies were attacking nearby residents. There were quite a few of them, more than a dozen.
He was astonished. The base was very safe, so why were there zombies?
But there was no time for him to think. He quickly unleashed wind blades and killed the attacking zombies.
"What happened? Why did zombies enter the base?"
He grabbed a young man in his early twenties and asked. He had seen this person running very fast just now, and he should be a low-level wind ability user.
"Benefactor, run for your life! The base is surrounded by zombies, and the city gates have already fallen.
Zombies have entered, and most of them are concentrated in the East City. I just ran from there.
I thought the West City was the rich district, with fewer people, so zombies might not come. Who knew they would be here too."
After the young man finished speaking, he ran off in a hurry. The roars of zombies in the distance grew louder and louder, and by the sound, there must have been many of them.
This news was too shocking. Wen Qingtian couldn't believe that Yuncheng had been surrounded by zombies overnight.
Moreover, the city gates had fallen without warning, and zombies had entered the city to commit atrocities. This was too unbelievable!
This was not an ordinary city; it was a human survival base, and the city gates were guarded and patrolled twenty-four hours a day.
A horde of zombies could surround the base, and the commotion would have been considerable, with at least tens of thousands of them.
With such a large zombie tide, the guards at the city gates couldn't possibly not have noticed. But why wasn't an alarm sounded?
There were many ability users within the base. As long as the alarm sounded, everyone would fight to the death to defend the city gates.
Because only with the base could everyone have a place to sleep and rest in peace in the apocalypse.
Even if zombies broke through the gates, it should have happened after a few days.
But now, zombies had entered the city so silently, which surprised him.
As his thoughts raced, zombies were already surging in the distance, densely packed, numbering in the thousands.
Thinking of He Si still in the villa, Wen Qingtian hurried back, intending to take him away.
"Xiao Wen, don't mind me. You should escape quickly. Taking me with you will only be a burden."
He Si pushed Wen Qingtian away. He knew he was just an ordinary person and couldn't help at all.
If Wen Qingtian had to carry him to escape, he would become a burden and drag Wen Qingtian to his death.
"Uncle He, there's no time. Please forgive me.
You are Mingyue's father, so you are my father. I can't abandon you."
Zombie roars were already coming from the courtyard. Wen Qingtian had no time to explain. He grabbed He Si, threw him onto his back, and tied him securely to himself with strips of curtain. Looking back, he saw seven or eight zombies had already broken in.
He raised his hand and unleashed wind blades, shattering the window, and flew out of the room like a gust of clear wind.
Carrying He Si on his back, Wen Qingtian pushed his wind ability to the extreme and moved rapidly through the buildings.
He dodged large groups of zombies with his speed. If any blocked his path, he would kill them with wind blades.
The Hurricane Mirror had been enlarged and followed him closely, like a shield protecting He Si's body.
After he came out, he realized how dire the situation in Yuncheng Base was.
There were too many zombies. Although their levels were not high, mostly around level five, they had already filled all the streets.
There were likely tens of thousands of them. Once trapped in the zombie horde, they would be trapped and die.
Therefore, even though he heard ordinary people screaming for help in his ears, he dared not stop running, for fear of being surrounded by zombies by mistake.
He now had only one goal: to safely deliver He Si to Mingyue. So, he was heading towards the city gates.
This was his thought. When Mingyue and the others returned, they would surely come back from the direction of the city gates. Perhaps, if they were lucky, they might meet.
If he ran around randomly, even if Mingyue and the others returned, they would have nowhere to find him.
So, Wen Qingtian ran towards the city gates with all his might. However, there were simply too many zombies. Before he could even approach the city gate, he was completely surrounded by zombies and could not move an inch.
Thousands of zombies surrounded him, layer upon layer. Wen Qingtian could only activate his ability and maximize the Hurricane Mirror.
A vortex of wind formed around him and He Si, preventing surprise attacks from zombies, and then he activated his invisibility skill, disappearing within the wind vortex.
He hoped that after he and He Si became invisible, the surrounding zombies would disperse, allowing him to slip away.
However, he was disappointed. Because there were too many zombies and he was carrying someone, there was no gap for him to escape.
Instead, after being bumped a few times, he attracted the attention of the zombies, who began to attack the spot where he had disappeared.
The invisibility skill and wind ability could not be used simultaneously. Wen Qingtian had no choice but to give up invisibility.
He controlled the Hurricane Mirror to counterattack, hoping to carve out a path to escape with He Si.
However, after fighting for an hour, he still couldn't break through, and the zombies around him only grew in number.
He vaguely felt that his ability was about to be depleted. Wen Qingtian poured a bottle of Life Water potion into his mouth.
He vowed in his heart that he must persevere and safely deliver He Si to Mingyue.
But the zombies in front of him seemed endless, giving him no hope. He could only grit his teeth and persevere.
At this moment, a zombie lunged at him, only to be cut in half by his wind blade.
Then, a metal-element zombie charged at him. Wen Qingtian didn't want to waste his ability and decided to confront it head-on.
He tried to jump up and dodge, but found his feet heavy and couldn't jump.
He looked down and saw that the upper body of the zombie he had cut in half had tightly clasped one of his legs with its arms.
It was opening its rotten mouth, its sharp fangs bared, about to bite into his calf.
He quickly unleashed a wind blade, severing its head, and kicked away the half-corpse.
It only took him a dozen seconds, but the metal-element zombie's fist struck his chest, sending him flying.
This punch caused his old injuries to relapse, and the meridians in his body began to ache again, causing his ability to stagnate instantly.
Wen Qingtian flew through the air, thinking, "It seems I'm going to be offline today."