Chapter 613: Chapter Six Hundred and Thirteen: Dodging Debts

Returning to E City once more, Lian Jiyue couldn’t help but feel moved, yet the number of zombies in E City seemed to have increased, with a whole street outside the factory gate filling up with them early in the morning.

Fu Li, Nie Xingbang, and others looked out from the second floor of the factory, only to feel overwhelmed by despair.

With so many zombies, and this was just the outskirts of E City, could they really reach the E City base safely?

“They’re going out!”

Someone shouted, pointing at the flames appearing at the gate!

Did those two men really intend to challenge this entire street of zombies by themselves? It looked like there were at least a thousand, and yet there were only two of them.

“It’s terrifying, there are so many more zombies in this city than in our small place.”

“The people in the city are also much more formidable than those in our little place.”

Nie Xingbang, watching the fierce flames below, started to have some regrets. Would it have been better if they had stayed in their original small base and fought to the death rather than coming here? Because they were clearly far behind the special ability users outside.

“Oh, let’s just focus on keeping our lives first. Once we get to the base, we’ll be safe. Then we can figure something out,” a woman consoled, noticing the overwhelming fighting power of the two men outside.

Lu Hao and Lian Jiyue worked together to deal with a Level Seven Fire Element Mutated Zombie first. Facing the other mutated zombies that had climbed over the low walls set by Lian Jiyue and tumbled inside, Lu Hao turned the area in front of them into a sea of fire.

The zombies’ groans and screams came in waves, more and more of them being engulfed by the raging red and black flames.

Bang!

Lian Jiyue harnessed all the surrounding metal and sent two metal walls crashing towards each other from left to right. After a squishing noise, all that remained was the flesh paste left between the two sheets of metal…

Lu Hao shook his head; Lian Jiyue’s methods were always as bloody as ever, but the results were undeniably effective.

With the defensive and offensive capabilities of the Metal Element Ability complementing the powerful lethality of the Fire Element Ability, they wiped out the thousand zombies in just 20 minutes.

Seeing Lu Hao had already started digging out crystal cores, Lian Jiyue did not say much and also began to dig for crystal cores.

Lu Hao simply found a tattered cloth to collect the crystal cores. Without water to clean them, they had to put up with the stench for now.

“Umm… I can help you wash those,” said a woman in her thirties, coming forward.

As the two men hesitated, the woman quickly introduced herself, “My name is Song Qin. I am a Water Element Ability User, I can help you wash them…”

Fu Li gave Song Qin a disdainful look. What was Sister Song doing offering unnecessary help? The two men clearly didn’t want to engage with anyone.

Unexpectedly, Lu Hao dumped a bag of crystal cores onto the ground and said to Song Qin, “Please go ahead.”

Song Qin smiled awkwardly, didn’t say anything, and started using her Water Element Ability to wash the pile of crystal cores on the ground. Lu Hao even brought out the crystal cores he had accumulated the day before from the trunk and let her wash them too.

“Our car, you washed that too, right?” Lu Hao asked, noticing that the splatters of blood left by the man who had called for help the day before were gone, and the car was now spotlessly clean.

Song Qin nodded and simply said, “It’s the least I could do.”

The man who had gone up to ask for help was her husband. If not for him, all of them might already have…

However, Lu Hao and Lian Jiyue didn’t know this. After washing the cores, Song Qin returned to her inconspicuous place among the people.

Lu Hao packed up the crystal cores. Though they seemed unimpressive, these crystal cores collected along the way added up to seven or eight thousand. He poured every last one of them into a box in the trunk.

Watching Lu Hao handle the crystal cores so carefully, Lian Jiyue thought of Mao Qiqi.

So that’s why the little girl has always loved collecting Crystal Cores, it turns out to be for this reason. However, to have such a family with a common goal, he couldn’t help but feel envious.

“Let’s go,”

After closing the trunk, Lu Hao tossed the Local Tyrant Gold into the co-driver’s seat pocket and said to Lian Jiyue.

Lian Jiyue nodded, and after the group of people also got into the car, he waved his hand and closed up the rear of the vehicles before entering the armored car himself.

The two had no intention of entering the base directly through the registration office, especially since everyone at the base could recognize Lian Jiyue. Lu Hao was indeed grateful that Su Jin had forgotten the Local Tyrant Gold in the car, otherwise entering with Lian Jiyue would have been troublesome.

The two vehicles crossed one street after another before finally seeing the sign for E City Base in the distance.

“Stop here,”

Lu Hao parked the car and said.

Once you turn the corner on the road ahead, you’ll quickly arrive at E City Base. It’s time to settle accounts.

Lian Jiyue indicated his agreement, and the truck drivers following behind also stopped their vehicles.

Metal plates turned into metal rails under Lian Jiyue’s Special Ability as the people inside the car looked out, puzzled, at the two men.

“What’s going on? Why did we suddenly stop?”

Nie Xingbang asked.

“The gates of E City Base are just ahead, I think it’s time for you to settle your debts,”

Lu Hao answered.

“Come on, young man, at least drop us off at the city gates before settling up, right?”

The middle-aged woman who had been crying and begging Lu Hao for help took a look at Fu Li and then said with a smile to Lu Hao.

“Right here,”

Lu Hao could tell that these people were really trying to evade payment.

“Look at you two, your Special Abilities are so powerful, you could collect tens of thousands of Crystal Cores in just one day–can’t you be lenient with us? Can’t we just owe you for now?”

“Yes, I just counted the Crystal Cores in the Space again, and there don’t seem to be as many as fifty thousand,”

Fu Li chimed in as well.

“Sure, I can safely bring you back here, but I can also take you back to where you were yesterday. Have you thought it through well?”

Lu Hao was almost amused by anger; he’d never encountered such a group of people before.

“Ah, forget him, Old Liu, drive, to the base!”

The middle-aged woman directly tapped the glass behind the driver’s seat and shouted. After all, they were about to reach the base, and what could happen if they just refused to pay?

Driver Old Liu was naturally in on the group’s plan already. Seeing the hint from the woman in the back, he immediately stepped on the gas and drove the vehicle swiftly away from the spot.

“What should we do?”

Lian Jiyue asked Lu Hao.

“Chase them. There is no way they can get out of paying,”

Lu Hao said angrily.

Lian Jiyue couldn’t help but laugh: “That’s right, and there’s no way they can evade your debt,”