"Whoosh!"
Xiao Qiang's warning cry sounded from the sky.
Qin Shilei put away the silver treasure chest dropped by the Zombie King and its corpse. "It must be the Zombie King's subordinates coming. I'll go check, you guys recover."
With that, he turned and ran towards the valley.
The sound of rumbling footsteps could be heard in the distance, and indeed, a Tyrant was leading over a thousand mutated zombies towards them.
Xiao Qiang, seeing its master appear in front of the forest, swooped down and caught Qin Shilei as he leaped.
The short bow reappeared in Qin Shilei's hand.
He drew and shot, targeting the ordinary mutated zombies.
However, the mutated zombies, fearless of death, continued to charge into the valley, their footsteps unceasing as they rushed towards the forest behind.
Qin Shilei thought for a moment, stopped shooting, and took out the Zombie King's head from his Qiankun Ring.
The zombie horde running at high speed below immediately became chaotic, all looking up at the Zombie King's head in Qin Shilei's hand in the sky.
Rumble!
Just then, the sound of propellers could be heard from afar again.
Several armed helicopters appeared in sight and quickly flew towards Qin Shilei.
Rattle rattle!
The armed helicopters soon arrived and began strafing the mutated zombies below with machine guns.
The zombie horde below became even more chaotic.
With the Zombie King that commanded them killed, there were no longer any orders.
Some zombies turned and ran back towards the city.
Some zombies picked up things from the ground and attacked the helicopters and Qin Shilei.
Some zombies ran towards the forest.
"Trouble!"
Qin Shilei flew over the zombie horde, first directing Xiao Qiang to fly above the forest.
If two to three hundred zombies rushed into the forest, caught off guard, An Qian and Zhang Xiaoli would likely suffer greatly.
"An Qian, Zhang Xiaoli, be careful of zombies."
Through the gaps in the leaves, Qin Shilei shouted to An Qian and the others on the ground.
Upon hearing this, An Qian and Zhang Xiaoli quickly put away the crystal cores and ability beads in their hands, stood up, and ran towards the other side of the mountain. Seeing that An Qian and the others would not encounter the zombie horde, Qin Shilei once again directed Xiao Qiang to fly above the valley.
Boom!
One armed helicopter, flying too low to better kill zombies, was hit by the Tyrant with a stone in a critical spot and fell, causing an explosion.
The remaining helicopters quickly ascended to a higher altitude.
Qin Shilei reached an altitude of two to three hundred meters above the valley and said to himself with a smile, "My dear zombies, accept the baptism of the arrow rain."
In his eyes, the mutated zombies below were like individual walking bronze treasure chests, so adorable.
The only thing that displeased him was that there were other people snatching monsters from him.
After Qin Shilei killed another thirty to forty mutated zombies, more than ten Tyrants led the remaining mutated zombies and scattered in all directions.
"Let's go down," Qin Shilei patted Xiao Qiang, instructing it to land in the valley.
He quickly moved through the valley, picking up treasure chests and zombie corpses.
This was because breaking skulls to dig out crystal cores was too slow, and Zhang Xiaoli's pet willow tree could absorb nutrients from zombie bodies to grow rapidly.
The armed helicopters also landed on the grassy ground of the valley, and Huo Wang, Bing Wang, Xia Yunyan, and their group jumped off the helicopters.
"Qin Shilei, hello," Bing Wang Lu Tiangang greeted Qin Shilei first.
"Hello to you too!" Qin Shilei replied simply without looking up.
Bing Wang shamelessly bent down and picked up the treasure chests on the ground.
He even called out, "Huo Wang, you guys pick them up too. These were killed by helicopter machine guns. I'm sure the military wouldn't mind us taking some rewards."
Qin Shilei sneered, "You didn't kill a single zombie, and you have the nerve to talk about rewards."
Bing Wang retorted, "We risked our lives to kill the Zombie King. What business is it of yours if we collect some rewards?"
Qin Shilei picked up the last treasure chest and waved his hand as if shooing away flies, "All the treasure chests have been collected. You should leave quickly."
Bing Wang glared, "Such a large group of mutated zombies appeared here, so the Zombie King must be nearby. If you're scared, then get lost!"
Qin Shilei waved his hand, and the Zombie King's corpse appeared on the ground. "Its corpse is right here. You can go back and discuss the important matter of recapturing Nanzhuang City with peace of mind."
Everyone stared dumbfounded at the corpse that appeared on the ground.
With its distinctive cape, it looked exactly like the Zombie King in the photo taken by the military.
Could it be that in just two to three hours, this guy named Qin had actually killed the Zombie King?
Everyone looked at Qin Shilei, then at the Zombie King on the ground, their faces filled with disbelief.
Was the other party truly so powerful?
To be able to kill the powerful Zombie King unharmed amidst thousands of mutated zombies.
If Qin Shilei had relied on his pet to fly in the sky and shoot the Zombie King, they might have had a sliver of a chance.
But the Zombie King on the ground was missing limbs, clearly killed in close combat.
This made it even harder for everyone to accept.
They had originally planned to follow the trail. If Qin Shilei could indeed kill the Zombie King, they would cheer from the side, and then they could claim some credit.
Now that he had already silently killed the Zombie King, were they just going to return like this?
As various thoughts flashed through their minds, and they were about to turn back to discuss the recapture of Nanzhuang City.
Bing Wang's eyes swept over and suddenly noticed the cave emitting white light.
He asked, "Why is that cave emitting white light?"
Qin Shilei patted his forehead, pretending to suddenly remember, "I almost forgot to tell you, there's a spatial rift from another world here. Once, beetles the size of mantises, two meters tall, came from there."
After speaking, he led everyone to the side of the cave in the middle of the grassland.
"Those scythe beetles were about eight or nine-star in strength, but I suspect they were just weaker individuals from the other world."
After hearing Qin Shilei's words, everyone looked down into the cave with heavy hearts.
Looking at the deep cave, it was like looking at a man-eating beast, making them feel uneasy.
Lu Tiangang asked with a worried expression, "Is that true? Should we first find something to block the cave?"
Qin Shilei replied solemnly, "It's absolutely true. I crawled down, and the cave is over a hundred meters deep. At the very bottom, there's a blue-glowing, water-curtain-like passage."
"Because my intuition told me that once I stepped through, I might never be able to return, so I blocked the bottom with some things."
Hearing that Qin Shilei had already blocked it, and lacking any tools at the moment, everyone no longer mentioned blocking the cave.
"What about that cave?" Fan Xiaobo persistently asked.
"Really persistent, can't such a big matter shift your attention?"
Qin Shilei cursed inwardly, then casually replied, "I don't know about that. This cave is so close to the spatial rift, I wonder if there's any connection?"
Fan Xiaobo called out to everyone, "Let's go take a look."
After some probing and bombardment, the cave was finally opened, revealing a winding passage.
"Let's go in," Fan Xiaobo had his subordinates go in front to scout.
Lu Tiangang and the others filed in.
Qin Shilei turned to An Qian and Zhang Xiaoli, who had also come over, and said, "Let's go in too."