Two more days passed, and both Kong Qingshu and Xiao Qiang remained in a coma.
Qin Shilei decided to take Kong Qingshu to Lingquan City to find that divine doctor to treat her.
Hope City had entered a period of stable development, so Qin Shilei's temporary departure would not significantly impact it.
Besides himself and Kong Qingshu, Qin Shilei also brought along a man and a woman.
The other two were both Black Iron Four-Star.
The woman was named Yin Xiaoxue, an evolved individual with healing abilities, who could help care for Kong Qingshu.
The man was named Dong Qi, a soldier with excellent driving skills.
They were driving a modified armored vehicle, with Kong Qingshu lying on a bed in the rear compartment, with Yin Xiaoxue beside her.
As the people from Hope City had cleared zombies in this direction, the speed was consistently high for the first few dozen kilometers.
"City Lord, regarding the obstacles blocking our path, should we ram through them or get out and move them?" Dong Qi asked, while driving.
"You decide. Ram through what you can, and I'll get out to move any excessively large obstacles."
Before setting off, Qin Shilei had fixed a green attribute called "Steadfast as a Mountain" to the vehicle.
Even with impacts, the passengers inside felt very little vibration.
Upon hearing this, Dong Qi immediately drove the armored vehicle forward with great enthusiasm.
Whether it were abandoned cars or ferocious zombies, all were violently flung aside by the armored vehicle.
After driving and stopping intermittently, they arrived at the front of a canyon not far from Lingquan City by late morning the next day.
The road ahead passed between two large mountains, with steep cliffs on either side. The narrowest part of the canyon was just wide enough for two vehicles to pass.
"This road is blocked, leave quickly."
As Qin Shilei's vehicle approached the canyon, they were stopped by several people.
Dong Qi leaned out of the window and inquired, "The road is perfectly fine, why is it blocked?"
One of the burly men glared and roared, "If I say it's blocked, it's blocked! If you don't want to die, scram!"
Dong Qi, also a Black Iron Four-Star expert, couldn't tolerate such treatment and turned to Qin Shilei for instructions, "City Lord, shall I get out to investigate?"
Qin Shilei's gaze sharpened, and he suddenly said, "I'll go down with you."
He got out of the car and looked up at the cliffs above the road.
Dozens of people were hidden in various locations above.
Seeing that Qin Shilei had discovered their people, a middle-aged man beside the burly man stated plainly, "Our city guard is hunting beasts here. Please take another route."
Qin Shilei looked ahead. This section of the canyon was about two hundred meters long; it would take their vehicle just over ten seconds to drive through, but turning back to find another route would take at least half an hour.
He then said, "Could you be accommodating and let us pass first?"
The burly man's face hardened, and he said coldly, "Accommodating? If you disrupt our beast hunt, can you bear the consequences?"
As they were speaking, a loud whistle suddenly sounded from above the cliff.
"They're here, get in position!"
The burly man immediately turned and looked tensely towards the canyon, ignoring Qin Shilei and his group.
Just then, a powerful beast roar suddenly echoed from the other side of the canyon.
Immediately after, a figure appeared on the opposite side of the canyon and was rapidly running towards them.
The person's speed was astonishing; in the blink of an eye, they had covered half the length of the canyon.
At this point, a massive figure appeared at the other end of the canyon, thundering as it chased after the person ahead.
Qin Shilei observed intently and realized it was a huge black bear.
With a boom!
As the black bear entered the canyon about thirty to forty meters, a huge explosion suddenly erupted from behind.
Large rocks from the cliffs on both sides of the canyon were blasted open and fell into the other end of the canyon, effectively sealing it off.
Seeing that the path was completely blocked, Qin Shilei said helplessly, "Dong Qi, let's go, we'll find another route."
As they turned to leave, intense explosions also occurred at the entrance of this canyon, completely sealing it off.
Qin Shilei did not intend to steal someone else's kill, so he did not linger to watch them hunt the beast.
After the armored vehicle departed, the people on the cliffs began a fierce assault on the black bear trapped below in the canyon.
"Roar!"
The black bear let out a roar, and the soil on the ground instantly attached itself to its body, as if it had donned a suit of armor.
The people on the cliffs dislodged large rocks from the cliff edge.
Instantly, dozens of boulders with diameters of two to three meters rolled down with a rumble, and in the blink of an eye, they were ten meters above the black bear.
With immense potential energy, the boulders descended with an unstoppable force, smashing towards the four to five-meter-tall black bear.
The black bear dodged left and right, evading the falling boulders.
When it couldn't dodge, it swiped its claws, unleashing balls of earth that smashed into the boulders, destroying them with a single blow.
Above the cliff.
"City Lord, this bear is so powerful, I fear the stone wall on the other side of the canyon won't hold it."
"Let's go down too. We must kill this bear."
As they spoke, the bear had already reached the canyon exit.
Although incredibly powerful, it was struck two or three times by the countless falling rocks.
A section of the armor on its back was destroyed, and a few wisps of blood seeped from the corner of its mouth, indicating internal injuries.
At this moment, the canyon exit was blocked by boulders that had fallen from the explosion, forming a stone wall about ten meters high.
The black bear was attempting to climb over the stone wall.
Suddenly, a volley of arrows shot down from above, rapidly flying towards it.
These arrows not only possessed astonishing speed but were also imbued with potent vital energy.
It was evident that these arrows were shot using combat techniques within archery.
It had taken Xiao Zi'ang considerable effort to assemble these thirty to forty archers proficient in combat techniques.
Under such concentrated combat technique attacks, the black bear, despite its fierce resistance, was hit by four or five arrows.
Although the arrows did not penetrate deeply, they enraged the beast completely.
With another roar, new armor formed on the black bear's body. Then, with a powerful leap, it sprang seven or eight meters high and landed on a protruding point in the middle of the stone wall.
With another jump, it reached the top of the wall.
At this point, several more arrows struck the black bear, while Xiao Zi'ang and dozens of his subordinates appeared not far in front of the stone wall.
Close combat was imminent.
Meanwhile, Qin Shilei's group was already several thousand meters away, with a small mountain obscuring everything behind them.
Only faint roars of the black bear could occasionally be heard in the distance.
"City Lord, do you think those people can kill that black bear?" Dong Qi asked curiously.
"It's hard to say. My feeling about that black bear just now was that it should have advanced to the Silver realm."
Qin Shilei knew that Silver realm beasts were not easy to kill.
As they were speaking, they suddenly heard the rumbling sound of running from behind.
Dong Qi glanced at the rearview mirror and exclaimed, "City Lord, that black bear is chasing us!"
"Keep driving forward." After saying this, Qin Shilei pushed open the car door and jumped out.
The charging black bear slowed down as it noticed Qin Shilei standing in the middle of the road, and then stopped.
Qin Shilei looked up. The black bear now had more than ten arrows embedded in its body, along with several sword and knife wounds.
It looked battered and weary, but its aura had not significantly diminished.
Before the black bear could decide whether to flee in another direction, Qin Shilei suddenly vanished from his spot.
Seven Stars Falling Across the Sky!
Qin Shilei teleported behind the black bear and rapidly thrust seven swords around its body.
He then leaped up and swung his sword towards the black bear's neck.
In a moment of life-or-death crisis, although the black bear tried its best to lower its head to avoid Qin Shilei's attack, it still had a quarter of its neck sliced off by Qin Shilei's sword.
Before the beast could struggle, Qin Shilei used Seven Stars Falling Across the Sky again, completely severing its neck.
As soon as he collected his spoils and returned to the car, Xiao Zi'ang also appeared in the distance with his subordinates.