Beltway & A Dual-Attribute Zombie

Major General Qian of Wang Army just died like that and consequentially, his 100 hundred superfunction soldiers became Mo Wenyang's, which alerted Major General Zeng of Wei Armyn even though everything seemed OK to him just a few minutes ago. Zeng told himself to beware and not to end up like Major General Qian, or else, Mo Wenyang would annex his soldiers without cost. No one suspected that the death of Major General Qian was a foul play though. After all, he was ripped apart by the mutant wolves in front of everyone.

After one day of traveling and the fight with the wolf pack, Chaoyang and Peak people were worn out, they went back to their rooms for rest. They didn't talk much, just filled their bellies and went to bed after a quick rinse of their faces. The other superfunction possessors didn't even get any chance to ask them what happened.

A quiet night passed. Everybody woke up before 7 am the next morning. They washed their faces and ate breakfast. When they heard about the wolf pack, many were terrified but no one felt sorry for Major General Qian and the other two dead superfunction soldiers. Death was too normal in the doomsday, everybody was so used to it that they didn't know what it was like to feel sad.

Before departure, Yun Che got Heiyu out in a secret corner. After a night of nice sleep, he was all spirited again. Also, Heiyu's presence scared the Wolf King who hadn't been fully tamed yet. Yun Che and Xing Feng now were convinced of the fact that Heiyu was the king of all beasts. And he proved himself to be more than the king of all beasts.

"What are you doing?"

Asked Yun Che when he saw Heiyu squirted a drop of his blood into the Wolf King's mouth. Everyone else was confused too. Heiyu took a contemptuous look at them and explained, "What am I doing? Consolidate the domestication and cure him."

What? You never said your blood could do that!

Yun Che, Xing Feng, and all the other guys saw this rolled their eyes at Heiyu and grumbled silently. But it was true, the Wolf King's wounds were healing rapidly. The power of Heiyu's blood was more effective than the Healing skill of light superfunction. Even knowledgeable guys like Yun Che and Xing Feng were amazed! "This is awesome!"

"Don't fall in love with me because I'm that awesome."

After seeing them through, Heiyu put on a smug look on the face with his head held high, which normally would be irritating, but this time, no one showed distaste against him. Yun Che even took an energy bar, tore the wrap and fed him with it. "You are indeed awesome, your blood is even better. I wonder if it works on humans."

"Master, you're getting dumber than I thought. I'm a beast, you're humans, what do you think? Even if it could, I wouldn't. Didn't you hear me say that I control him while healing him? Do you want to be under my control as well?"

Heiyu would never stop giving his master a hard time. Everybody shook the head when the scene of Heiyu controlling Yun Che popped into their heads. Damn, it was just inconceivable.

The morning drama was finally over. The expedition set off at 8 am. As they planned yesterday, they would be entering the third ring of the provincial capital from the beltway and then marched toward the state-owned research institute inside the second ring on foot. Heiyu still cleared the path at the front. Today, he had the Wolf King with him. But the march was slower than yesterday, the trucks were barely moving. It wasn't because there were too many roadblocks, the reason was, there were too many zombies, several times more than yesterday. And there were quite a number of level-3 zombies which couldn't be killed with long-range superfunction attacks.

Thud!

"Shit, it's a zombie of gold superfunction."

Right after they got on the beltway, Yun Che's mini-coach nearly melted. Literally, not figuratively. A level-3 gold-superfunction zombie prowled near their coach among the zombie herd. Luckily, they got several gold superfunction possessors with them and Xing Feng noticed the lurker, everybody abandoned the coach and escaped.

The trucks behind them stopped when they saw the melting coach. Superfunction possessors jumped off the trucks to fight the zombies around them. Yun Che located a level-3 zombie on the air panel, he didn't care whether it was gold attribute or not, he just struck shockwaves of thunder at it. Xing Feng also kept attacking the zombies with gold superfunction in the crowd. The roars and bellows of zombies never ceased.

"Aaaaahh!"

Suddenly, a horrible scream caught everyone's attention. The heart of one superfunction possessor was pierced through and his body was dragged into the zombie herd. When the guys realized what happened and blew up the zombies around him, all there left was his mutilated bloody body.

"Stick together, don't separate from your mates!"

They had no time to feel sorry for the death of another level-3 superfunction possessor. Mo Wenyang shouted his order out. Nearby soldiers and superfunction possessors converged toward him. The guys behind them also copied the tactic. Each truck a group, offensive superfunction possessors attacked the zombies while defensive superfunction possessors secured the group.

"Mo Wenyang, watch out!"

"Clang!"

As Yun Che yelled, his black blade darted out. Mo Wenyang heard the collision sound of metal came from above. Sparks spattered, a lethal steel pipe from nowhere dropped to the ground. The crowd scattered immediately. Yun Che leaped to catch his blade floating in the air. The dot of the level-3 zombie disappeared from the air panel.

"What the hell?"

Mo Wenyang was bewildered. It wasn't Yun Che's behavior but his knitted eyebrows that confused him.

"Stay alert, it's a gold/speed zombie."

If its speed hadn't been enhanced, the zombie wouldn't have disappeared in a flash. And the fact that it just remote-controlled the steel pipe verified that it was a dual-attribute zombie.

"Shit, this is unbelievable! Can zombies have two attributes?"

Mo Wenyang wasn't ignorant, he just had never seen a dual-attribute zombie before. It was kind of hard for him to process it at the moment.

"Why not? Humans can have multiple attributes, so can zombies. Keep in mind that all zombies were once humans."

After darting a scornful look at Mo, Yun Che got into a combat stance. "Be careful, you people. This zombie is fast and it controls metal. Anything can… Watch out!"

Before he finished speaking, Yun Che suddenly dashed forward like a streak of light. This time, everybody saw clearly that he was going in the direction of another fast-moving shadow stabbing another lethal steel pipe at Xing Feng who was under the protection of Heiyu and the Wolf King. However, it seemed Yun Che couldn't catch the shadow up and the steel pipe was only less than one meter away from Xing Feng's heart.

Thud!

With a wave of claws, Heiyu knocked the steel pipe away and made the zombie stagger. The giant beast jumped into the sky. "Damn you. How dare you challenge me? I'll screw you up."

Rrraaaahh.

The dual-attribute zombie was enraged and roared at Heiyu. It sped through the zombie herd, shooting loads of sharp metal scraps at Heiyu who was chasing after it. Even superfunction couldn't do any damage to Heiyu's robust body, much less superfunction-controlled metal scraps. Heiyu caught up with the zombie within a few leaps and pressed it on to the ground with his huge paw.

Roaaar!

"What? Not dead? Again! Taste my unrelenting claws."

The head of the zombie being pinched on the ground didn't explode like normal zombies would. Heiyu's mischievous mode was on again. He shrank a little and kept slapping the zombie's head using both of his forepaws after it got up from the ground. It was so much fun to hear the cracking sound of its skull.

"Huh? Where does its head go?"

Suddenly, a basketball-sized thing flew off. Heiyu was confused and ceased the entertainment. Yun Che caught up the head, cut it in half and took the crystal nucleus which was of the size of a ping pong ball. "The head would be slapped away even if it was made of iron with the way you treated it."

"Yes, that was brutal." Everyone thought, but at the same time, felt relieved.

There was no need to worry about sneak attacks anymore, even a dual-attribute zombie was like a toy to Heiyu.

"Enough of games. Clear the zombies quickly."

The zombies were endless, the expedition couldn't afford to be stuck here anymore. As Yun Che yelled, he took another mini-coach out of Space. "Xing, Xingchen, get into the coach."

All the nearby level-3 zombies had been located and killed, the rest low-level ones could be swept up by ranged attacks.

"OK."

Xing Feng wasn't supposed to fully show his superfunction to the public, so he yanked the door open and sat in the driver's seat. Ye Xingchen, a pure tamer, controlled the Wolf King to slaughter all the zombies around the mini-coach. Soon, the autocade started to advance again. Yun Che sat in the shotgun, cleaning a handful of level-3 crystal nuclei in a good mood. Driver Xing Feng took a glance at him and commented, "Got quite a lot, eh?"

Owing to the air panel, Yun Che could pinpoint level-3 zombies, so all the crystal nuclei that he got was level-3 ones. It was the first time he collected so many in a single fight after his resurrection.

"Yes. So? Do you miss the feeling of escaping death?"

Yun Che looked at him with a smile on the face after putting the cleaned crystal nuclei away. Others would take what he said for sarcasm but not Xing Feng, who just smiled back. "Meh, it wasn't that close."

Even if Heiyu hadn't protected him, Xing Feng wouldn't have been harmed. At that very moment, he was ready to reveal his combat superfunction. A zombie's gold superfunction power was but a joke to him.

"Hah, you keep hiding your superfunction, but I think the rumor of you being a liability of the team will soon spread through the base."

Space superfunction was indeed rare but Captain Xing did seem to be a liability in battle. Xing Feng now understood why he was rumored to be the weakest captain in the previous life. Well, he made himself look like the weakest one.

"Do you think everyone gets to be Captain Liability?"

However, Xing Feng just raised his brow, showing no hint of miff. Yun Che rolled his eyes, ignored him, turned around and spoke to Ye Xingchen, "How did it feel? Your very first Warbeast-control."

Ye Xingchen just reached level 3 last night, it shouldn't be easy for him to control the Wolf King who was also level 3 in the very next morning.

"Good. Heiyu's blood is really helpful. The Wolf King didn't resist so I didn't use too much of my superfunction."

To be precise, the consumption was basically negligible, only a small amount of superfunction power was needed to maintain the psychological connection with a tamed beast. Ye didn't really have to control or manipulate his Warbeast, he just gave the order, and it obeyed.

"Looks like it's an easy job. We can catch more beasts for you and you'll become the strongest among us someday."

Yun Che made a friendly joke. Tamer wasn't much of a nice-sounding title but now, this position seemed to be worth investing energy and effort into.

"Don't make fun of me. Heiyu is better than 10 Wolf Kings combined."

Formality was never needed in their conversation, they just looked and smiled at each other before getting back to their own business. The journey to the destination was still arduous.