Naturally, Han Wu’s sudden appearance inside the camp drew imdiate attention. Several scouts were already rushing to report an intruder to their leader.
Scanning the camp, Han Wu noticed that all of the humans present were skinny and malnourished, as if they hadn’t eaten in days. They looked more like refugees.
As he debated what to do, a squad in sturdy leather armor carrying machine guns swiftly surrounded him. They were nothing like the frail refugees.
Their squad leader stepped forward and studied Han Wu. “Are you an ability user?”
“An ability user?” Han Wu echoed.
“How else could you have jumped into the camp if you are not one?”
Realization flickered in Han Wu’s eyes. “Then you can treat as an ability user.”
The squad leader nodded with satisfaction at Han Wu’s admission. “Ability users are a valuable resource here in the Blazing Sun Camp. Please, follow to et our leader, Lie Yang.”
Han Wu’s brow lifted in suspicion. “Lead the way.”
As the squad leader guided him, Han Wu passed more survivors in tattered shirts, their bodies thin and frail from hunger. He also noticed the absence of young won and suspected they had been taken elsewhere.
They soon reached a mansion, and the sound of won’s laughter drifting from within confird his suspicion. Entering through the back door, Han Wu found a scene of indulgence: beautiful won of every kind, dressed in revealing clothes, laughing and playing without a care. The contrast to the starving refugees outside, separated by only a single wall, was stark.
For a mont, Han Wu almost believed that he had accidentally stumbled into another civilization.
The squad leader guided him further inside until they reached the camp’s leader. Lie Yang was a muscular man, bare-chested, his abdon sharply defined. Three beautiful won were massaging him as he reclined in comfort.
The squad leader bent close to whisper sothing to Lie Yang, and the latter laughed heartily. “Another ability user joins my camp. Welco, Brother. Tell , what’s your ability?”
Even though Han Wu’s current strength was average, his knowledge surpassed anyone here. He could tell at a glance that Lie Yang was as strong as a Lord life form.
Unfortunately, Han Wu wasn’t strong enough to defeat him yet. To avoid unnecessary trouble, he answered casually, “My ability’s quite strong. I can easily swing a huge blade and leap several ters into the air. I could probably clear a wall several ters tall.”
Lie Yang burst out laughing. “You call that an ability? A regular person could do the sa if they absorbed enough crystals and trained hard long enough.”
The won giggled, covering their mouths as they mocked Han Wu. The squad leader flushed with embarrassnt and shot Han Wu a resentful glare.
“Still, even though your abilities are weak, you’re technically an ability user,” Lie Yang said, his tone dripping with false generosity. “You can stay.”
He dismissed Han Wu with a wave, as if granting a favor, then turned his attention elsewhere.
The squad leader growled, “If I’d known you were that weak, I’d never have brought you here. You made look like a fool.”
Han Wu was confused. How was his ability weak?
The squad leader sneered. “Swinging a large blade around ans nothing. You might be strong, but can you beat a gun? One bullet and you’re done. Still, jumping high isn’t useless. It might help you escape zombies from ti to ti.”
Han Wu was stunned. Although he had made up those two abilities on a whim, they reflected part of his power. He wasn’t sure whether to laugh or feel insulted that re mortals dared to look down on God like him.
I will make sure to surprise all of you once I can showcase my true strength, he thought grudgingly.
The squad leader assigned him a clean room in the mansion, then sent a cheerful young woman to tend to his needs before leaving.
Han Wu gladly took the opportunity to rest. He sprawled across the bed in satisfaction while secretly commanding his locusts outside the camp to hunt every zombie nearby to strengthen themselves. He also instructed them to gather the zombies’ crystals in one place so that he could absorb them later.
Night slipped by quickly. When morning ca, Han Wu was still fast asleep in his warm bed until soone barged into his room.
“You lazy pig, get up! The leader’s got a mission for us.” The man shook Han Wu to wake him up.
Han Wu got dressed and followed the man to the plaza. Eighteen others were already assembled there, each radiating power beyond that of ordinary humans. Han Wu could tell that they were all ability users gathered under Lie Yang’s command.
Monts later, Lie Yang appeared and barked his orders. “Brothers, let’s cut to the chase. Today’s mission is simple—thirty crystals per person. Fail to deliver, and don’t bla for what happens next!”
“Yes, sir!”
“Good. Let’s move out!” Lie Yang waved his arm and climbed into a modified Humr lined with spikes.
The others jumped into their own vehicles and followed close behind.
Han Wu looked around and spotted an old motorcycle. He didn’t care about its condition and kicked it to life, trailing after the convoy. He wanted to see where Lie Yang was taking them.
The old motorcycle roared so loudly that it drew a swarm of zombies. Han Wu suddenly realized that he could use that to his advantage and summoned his locusts to his location for a zombie buffet. Within monts, they descended and started eating the zombies chasing him.
Without the zombies disrupting them, the convoy had a smooth trip and soon reached an abandoned shopping mall.
Lie Yang stopped at the entrance, gripping an AK in his left hand and a rifle in his right. Standing there, he looked like soone about to pull off a miracle.
“My brothers, I’ve sent n to scout this place before. There’s a powerful mutated zombie on the mall’s fifth floor. Once we kill it and get its crystal, we can create another ability user for our camp,” Lie Yang announced. “I’ll handle the mutated zombie myself. You only need to get rid of the zombies in the four lower floors so I can conserve my stamina.”
“No problem, Boss.”
“Boss, you can fight the mutated zombie without any worries. We’ll take care of the small fries.”
“Boss, how will the crystal be split once you kill the mutated zombie—” The man didn’t finish his question before Lie Yang shot him.
“Since when do you have the right to question how I allocate resources?” Lie Yang growled.
The other ability users fell silent, afraid that Lie Yang would turn his gun on them next.
anwhile, Han Wu absorbed every word of their exchange. Can the crystals from mutated zombies really turn ordinary humans into ability users? Can I use them on the locusts?
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