PFC Chapter 108 Port City (1)
Chapter 108 Port City (1)
Within 24 hours, Lu Yuan and Gu Nanfeng returned to the port city. Due to the continuous snowstorm, the checkpoint of the South China Base had been buried in the snow and could no longer be found.
Considering the unclear situation on shore, Qin Yuan and his group did not agree to the supply ship approaching the port. So, they transferred to a yacht released by Lu Yuan about five kilometers from the coast. The eight of them sailed along the coastline and finally found a place with less snow and, after Gu Nanfeng's reconnaissance, no large energy clusters were found, to dock.
Lu Yuan's spatial ability is a lie; he hasn't evolved any abilities, so his physical stats haven't improved at all. The blizzard outside could blow it all away, so the others don't plan to let him go ashore and keep him on the ship for logistics.
Lu Yuan was well aware of his physical condition. He knew that going out with them would only cause trouble for the others, so he quietly prepared supply packs for everyone, filling them with weapons, water, and food that might be needed. All seven of them now had enhanced physical abilities, so even though it was minus fifty or sixty degrees Celsius outside, they could withstand the cold just like in normal winter, wearing thermal underwear and normal winter clothes.
Lu Yuan didn't have many cutting-edge high-tech products in his space, and he had to use the defensive spheres sparingly, since the goal this time wasn't necessarily to eliminate the "Zombie King" of the port city. So Lu Yuan only put one in everyone's backpack. Wei Cheng didn't know how powerful this little gadget was and was tossing it around playing with it, only stopping after Qin Yuan slapped him.
The seven of them split into three groups: Gu Nanfeng, Pei Sihao, and Wei Cheng. Gu Nanfeng used his special ability to search for survivors and surviving ability users in the port city, while Pei Sihao used his healing ability. They started from the right side of the shore, where they had not found many energy bodies, with rescue as their main goal and to search the entire port city before returning in the afternoon.
Qin Yuan and Lin Yun, along with Yang Xiao and Zhong Qiang, who possessed auxiliary abilities, headed towards the direction of the larger energy cluster in the port city that Gu Nanfeng had detected on the ship. They were to investigate the specific strength of this "Zombie King." If they could kill it, they would use the walkie-talkie to gather everyone together to kill it. If they could not kill it, they would mark it first and then go to meet up with Gu Nanfeng and the others.
Lu Yuan watched them leave from the yacht. The speed of all seven of them had increased dramatically. They didn't need Lu Yuan to provide snowmobiles and sped across the city ruins, quickly disappearing from sight.
Not long after the seven people left, Lu Yuan was idly lying down on the yacht when he heard a "bang" and felt the yacht shake, as if someone had boarded the yacht.
Lu Yuan took out a submachine gun from his spatial storage, crouched behind the sofa in the middle of the yacht, and aimed at the cabin door. But after waiting for a while, he didn't hear any more sounds. He wondered if the impact might have been caused by a large fish from the seabed. Just as he relaxed, he heard a series of bangs on the cabin door.
"Lu...Lu Yuan, open the door!" A shivering male voice rang out from outside the cabin door, sounding like he was shivering from the cold.
Lu Yuan ran over and, upon opening the hatch, saw a tall man covered in snow and ice, bundled up like a giant ball, standing in the doorway. Lu Yuan recognized him as Ji Lang, the captain of the supply ship, and quickly let him in.
After Ji Lang entered the cabin, Lu Yuan pointed the heater at him and turned up the air conditioning. As the snow on Ji Lang's body slowly melted, he finally recovered.
"Didn't we tell you not to come over? How did you get here?" Lu Yuan looked out of the small window of the yacht and seemed to see a small lifeboat at the stern.
"You drove that over?" Lu Yuan was almost certain how Ji Lang got here. This guy was really fearless. His physical condition was only slightly better than Lu Yuan's, after all, he was born a soldier. But to drive a lifeboat with no shelter from the supply ship in the freezing cold of minus fifty or sixty degrees Celsius, he was really going to risk his life.
"Cough cough." Ji Lang didn't want to explain at all. He always thought that his physique was excellent. Although Team Leader Liu had shown him the research report on the physique of people with superpowers who had evolved superpowers, he never believed that he was inferior to them.
It wasn't until he arrived alone in the lifeboat that he realized the frigid conditions outside were unbearable for ordinary humans. Despite wearing such thick clothes, he was still nearly frozen solid. If it weren't for his strong will, he probably wouldn't have been able to reach the cabin door, knock on it, or even if Lu Yuan had opened the door a little later, he would have been frozen solid on the yacht.
To save energy, only the air conditioning was on on the yacht, and no other equipment was turned on. Lu Yuan took a thermos from his space and handed it to Ji Lang. Ji Lang was puzzled at first, but when he opened the lid, a wave of heat hit him and he felt his face, which had been numb from the cold, finally regain its feeling.
"It's a good thing I didn't go out with them, otherwise you would have turned into an ice pop when we got back..." Lu Yuan noticed that Ji Lang's expression was not good, so he stopped joking and sat silently opposite Ji Lang, making the atmosphere extremely awkward.
Ji Lang is not a talkative person, and Lu Yuan is a half-E and half-I person who is still improving. When faced with people he is not very familiar with, if the other party does not pay much attention to him, he will retreat into his shell.
On the other side, Qin Yuan and Lin Yun found the approximate location marked by Gu Nanfeng. This was the ruins of the port's office area. Ports generally don't have very tall buildings, so the ruins didn't look as exaggerated as the ones Qin Yuan and Lin Yun had seen on their way from N City.
Some of the low-rise buildings had only collapsed some walls, while others were just leaning. They were leaning against each other, and the overall structure of these buildings was still relatively intact. A small part of them was exposed and covered with snow, while the other half was buried by snow.
All of this caused Qin Yuan and his group considerable trouble. Based on Qin Yuan's experience, zombies could walk underground in the snow. Since Gu Nanfeng was not with them, they could only rely on their enhanced perception to sense whether danger was approaching, and they could not completely lock onto the "Zombie King".
"Why can't we mass-produce Gu Nanfeng's abilities?" Zhong Qiang asked, while keeping watch around. "Maybe we shouldn't have split into groups. How are we going to find the 'Zombie King' in this snowy wilderness?"
"It was our oversight." Qin Yuan looked around. He remembered that the zombie king and Du Wenqing had been fighting on the snow when he saw them earlier in N City. He had completely overlooked the fact that the zombie king usually hid under the snow like other zombies.
"Gu and the others are here. Let's find a place to wait for them." Lin Yun put away his walkie-talkie. He had originally planned to ask Gu Nanfeng for his location and then go to meet them, but he didn't expect Gu Nanfeng and the others to come here first.