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Chapter 115 The Man in the Trench Coat

The nine people arrived at the port city of X province again. The snow inland was heavier and the temperature was lower than at the base on the islands. Just like last time, Lu Yuan stayed on the yacht, while the other eight people, based on the distribution of energy clusters detected by Gu Nanfeng, began to move inland from the dock.

Based on his supernatural abilities, Gu Nanfeng devised a very stable route forward. He encountered quite a few zombies along the way, but most of them were ordinary second- or third-generation zombies and fourth-generation zombies with similar supernatural abilities.

The eight of them had cleared almost half of the port area without encountering any zombies with higher-level abilities. Gu Nanfeng led the other seven people toward the direction they had blown up the day before. They wanted to go back and check that place again to confirm whether the zombie from yesterday was really dead or not.

"Damn, if the snow hadn't been so thick, this place would have been blown to smithereens." Zhong Qiang squatted down next to the huge crater that had been destroyed yesterday. After a night of heavy snow, the traces of the explosion were almost invisible, and only a large snow crater could be seen.

Gu Nanfeng and Qin Yuan slid down the snow slope and searched the pit. Just like yesterday, there was nothing there. They didn't know if the "Zombie King" had run away on its own or been dragged away by other zombies.

This is not good news, because according to Gu Nanfeng and Team Leader Liu's assessment yesterday, its crystal is at least a level 7 or 8 crystal. If it is absorbed by another zombie, then a "zombie king" with even greater power will appear in the port city.

"Can't you sense anything around here?" Lin Yun asked, looking around after pulling Gu Nanfeng and Qin Yuan up.

"I don't feel anything special." Gu Nanfeng patted the snow off his clothes and looked around. "I feel that there are far fewer energy clusters around here today than yesterday."

“It’s very likely that yesterday’s ‘Zombie King’ was seriously injured. He killed other zombies with superpowers and absorbed their crystals.” Pei Sihao thought for a moment and then continued, “Or, another zombie absorbed the ‘Zombie King’s’ crystals and became a new, powerful being. It killed other zombies and wanted to become even stronger.”

"I think it's unlikely." Gu Nanfeng led the group to a factory building that could shelter them from the wind and snow. They had been out for half a day and could eat some compressed biscuits or something to replenish their energy.

Because the snow was very thick, the eight people climbed in through the open window on the second floor of the factory and found a corner where the wind and snow couldn't reach them to sit down and rest.

"Aside from when Captain Qin saw Captain Du kill a 'zombie king' after he mutated, we haven't seen any zombies killing each other." Gu Nanfeng took out a thermos from his backpack, drank some water, and immediately put it back on. The weather was too cold, and if he wasn't careful, the water would freeze, and then he would have to ask Qin Yuan for help.

"But how can they level up if they don't kill each other?" Wei Cheng couldn't understand how those "zombie kings" who rose from level three or four to level seven or eight could level up if they didn't kill their own kind and absorb their crystals.

“Just kill the superhumans.” Yang Xiao took a bite of a compressed biscuit and said casually, “The number of human survivors is definitely more than the official statistics, so the number of superhumans is certainly not limited to what we know.”

"For a port city to raise a 'zombie king' of level 7 or higher, he must have absorbed the crystals of at least 7 ability users." At this stage, no one knows how many level 1 crystals are needed to upgrade an ability by 1 level, so Zhong Qiang's statement about 7 or more ability users is just a simple addition and subtraction calculation.

"Is it possible that all the survivors at this stage have crystals in their bodies, level 1?" Wei Cheng's imaginative mind ran wild once again. "Otherwise, why would the zombies have demolished all the houses in N City, found the survivors, assimilated them, or killed them?"

Gu Nanfeng looked at Wei Cheng with some surprise; his idea actually made a little bit of sense. In such cold weather, Gu Nanfeng hadn't understood why a zombie horde had formed.

"It's not impossible." Lin Yun nodded. "I'll go back and tell Team Leader Liu about this, and see if they can figure anything out."

After eating, the eight people packed their backpacks and continued to follow Gu Nanfeng.

By four or five in the afternoon, they had cleaned up the entire port and dock, collecting more than 200 small crystals of various colors. These crystals were smaller than the thumb-sized white crystal they had obtained yesterday. The smaller ones were about the size of a little fingernail, while the larger ones were only slightly larger. The crystals were not regular circles; they came in all sorts of random shapes.

Gu Nanfeng initially judged that these were all level 1 or 2, which further confirmed that the crystal they obtained yesterday was a level 3 supernatural crystal.

Everyone handed the crystals to Lin Yun to put away, and the group prepared to return home. However, they hadn't gone far when Gu Nanfeng stopped.

"What's wrong?" Pei Sihao saw Gu Nanfeng stop and also stopped to look around.

“There are superhumans nearby.” Gu Nanfeng said, turning around and looking towards the city.

Within two or three minutes, everyone saw the superhuman Gu Nanfeng had mentioned. In the heavy snow, a person wrapped in a tattered trench coat ran towards the port. He was very fast and soon reached the group.

This person initially thought he was seeing things, since he hadn't seen any living people wandering around the port city in a long time. But when he ran over and saw Gu Nanfeng and the others, he immediately grabbed Yang Xiao's arm, who was closest to him, and shook it excitedly.

"Let go..." Yang Xiao was shaken so badly by the stranger that he couldn't even utter a complete sentence.

"Let him go!" Ji Lang abruptly pulled Yang Xiao back from the stranger's grasp, shielding him behind him. He then looked at the stranger and asked, "What are you doing!"

"I haven't seen a living person for over half a month! I'm so excited! I'm sorry!" Without Yang Xiao, the man grabbed Ji Lang and started shaking him. Then he looked at the other seven people and was so excited that tears were about to fall. However, he was very clear-headed and knew that if he shed tears now, they would immediately freeze into ice.

"Hurry! Hurry! It's dangerous here!" After his initial excitement, the strange man pushed Ji Lang, intending to lead the eight of them away. "There's a terrifying zombie here!"

"A terrifying zombie?" Lin Yun grasped the key point in the man's words, but he didn't know if he was referring to the level 7 "zombie king" from yesterday, or the newly appeared, higher-level "zombie king" that they had guessed.

“Yes, it’s been here for a long time. But I didn’t see it when I came this morning.” The strange man in the trench coat looked around. “But now that there are so many people here, it should be here soon.”

Qin Yuan was about to say something, but Lin Yun stopped him. The eight of them didn't say much and followed the strange man in the trench coat away from the vicinity of the port.