Tears of emotion welled up in everyone's eyes.
At first, they didn't understand why Xu Qian took on such a zombie-infested mission. It turned out it was all for them.
A single sentence echoed in Xu Qian's mind.
They would definitely not let Sister Qian down!
She curved her lips into a faint, gentle smile. Her teammates were truly wonderful.
Xu Qian decided to lag behind with Mei Yuebai this time, letting them take the lead. They couldn't always rely on her to guide them; they needed to grow independently.
The stairs leading down to the subway station had few zombies, and they passed through easily.
The real subway station below was where the zombies truly abounded. They ambled slowly, loitering within the vast station, a dense mass of heads.
Xu Qian, Mei Yuebai, and Gu Qing were alright.
Cheng Liangqing and the other two, inexperienced as they were, were covered in goosebumps. They froze, chilled to the bone. There were simply too many zombies. How could they possibly kill them all? They didn't even know where to start.
Xu Qian frowned, glancing at them.
"Use your abilities, use your blades. These zombies are only level 1. If you can't handle this, how will you cope with level 2, level 3, or even level 4 zombies later on?"
Her strong voice jolted everyone, and also drew the zombies to surge towards them.
Everyone tightened their grip on their daggers and charged forward.
No more thinking, just kill!
Seeing them fighting fiercely, Xu Qian decided to split off and search for the documents first, as the mission still needed to be completed.
There were easily thousands, if not tens of thousands, of zombies in this subway station. She could take her time.
Mei Yuebai had been following closely behind her, but Xu Qian had shooed her away with a single sentence.
"I'm immune to zombies; they won't harm me. If you follow me, the zombies will only block my path. Besides, your ability has been stuck at level 1 for a long time. Are you sure you don't want to improve it first?"
Mei Yuebai, indignantly, turned and went to fight zombies. She looked down on people. Today! She would definitely upgrade her ability to level 2.
Xu Qian shook her head subtly. Such a child's temper.
This subway station was medium-sized, with only three lines passing through. Only one train was stopped here, consisting of 8 carriages.
The doors weren't open, trapping everyone, humans and zombies alike, inside.
The carriages were packed with zombies pacing within. Countless terrifying faces pressed against the windows, roaring at Xu Qian with all their might.
Xu Qian, her expression unchanged, took out an A4 sheet of paper and scanned the instructions.
The documents were in carriage 2, on a young man wearing a blue shirt. The instructions included a photo of this man and some basic information.
His name was Zheng Xue, he was 29 years old, and he was… quite handsome.
This man was a hydraulic engineer. The base had confirmed that the documents in his backpack contained methods for purifying water. If they could find this information, there was hope that the base's water quality might return to normal.
In her previous life, no one dared to take on this mission. It was eventually elevated to a five-star mission, yet still, no one accepted it. It wasn't until the second year that the army was dispatched to find it.
Xu Qian approached carriage 2 and peered in from the outside. She didn't see the man in the blue shirt.
With the arrival of the zombies, no sensible person would stay foolishly in a carriage. She looked from carriage 1 to carriage 8, but none of them contained the person described in the documents.
She sighed and returned to carriage 2.
Xu Qian looked at the carriage before her. How could she open it? Smash the glass door?
Then all the zombies would come out.
There was no keyhole on the door; she could only pry it open.
She took out two cleavers from her spatial inventory, wedged them between the doors, and leveraged them forcefully. The door opened a small gap.
Xu Qian seized the opportunity to squeeze through. The zombies automatically retreated, keeping their distance.
The carriage door closed.