More people took the wrong path and began to prey on ordinary individuals who still had supplies remaining at their bases.
On this day, Tong Sui, as usual, left the laboratory close to midnight.
The moon hung high in the sky.
Several young men squatted at the roadside, their eyes closely tracking Tong Sui’s movements. When he passed in front of them, they all stood up and followed him.
Seeing Tong Sui heading toward the best apartment in the Huabei base, the men exchanged glances, and greed was reflected in their eyes.
They hadn’t expected to stumble upon a big catch today.
In the Huabei base, possessing supernatural abilities was no longer a rare occurrence.
However, their spiritual roots were relatively low-grade.
Tasks they undertook yielded low rewards and carried high risks, which was why they were lying in wait outside the research institute.
Everyone at the Huabei base knew that those who worked in the research institute enjoyed the best treatment.
They were cloaked in the aura of high intelligence, researching what was known as the zombie antidote, but in reality, they were just ordinary people with no real strength.
The success rate of targeting them was absolutely the highest.
The men’s greedy gazes assessed Tong Sui from head to toe, as if they had spotted a lone lamb.
In the apocalypse, everyone was busy surviving; every unnecessary expenditure was trimmed down as much as possible, and most people wouldn’t invest their energy in grooming themselves.
Yet the young researcher before them appeared exceptionally clean and tidy.
Even after a long day of work, he showed only slight fatigue on his face, but his clothes were immaculate, made of high-quality fabric.
His looks were standard, with skin that was delicate and fair, clearly untouched by hard labor.
Such a spoiled individual was likely to tremble in fear even before they made their move.
The leading young man waved his hand.
The other men spread out, surrounding Tong Sui from all sides, blocking his path forward.
Tong Sui tightened the strap of his bag.
He had noticed these scheming individuals as soon as he exited the research institute. Raising his head, he looked at them with mild annoyance, “What do you want?”
Seeing him show no signs of fear or panic, the leading man was momentarily taken aback, “Stop wasting time, hand over anything valuable you have.”
As he spoke, another man behind Tong Sui stepped forward and tugged at his bag.
Tong Sui frowned in displeasure.
“Give it back to me.”
His tone was very calm, and although his figure was somewhat slender, there was an invisible sense of pressure to him, something that seemed to come from someone accustomed to higher positions.
However, at this moment, greed had already overtaken all their senses.
The man unzipped the bag.
He pulled out Tong Sui’s research report and carelessly tossed it to the ground, clicking his tongue in frustration. “Boss, it’s just a pile of useless paper.”
“How is that possible?” The man called Boss walked over and flipped Tong Sui’s bag upside down,
The research reports flew everywhere with the wind.
“This kid looks so wealthy; how could he have nothing valuable?”
At that moment, the communicator inside the bag started ringing.
The men paid no attention to the communicator, having turned Tong Sui’s bag inside out without finding anything of worth.
“Tch, it’s so annoying.”
The man called Boss picked up the incessantly ringing communicator, swearing, “Kid, how do you turn this thing off?”
He pressed a few random buttons on the communicator.
An electric static sound crackled.
Once connected, Jiang Hua’s voice came through, “Xiao Sui?”
His voice was gentle, clearly indicating a close relationship between the two.
The man, frustrated at having found nothing, suddenly got an idea and shouted, “Listen up on the other side! This kid is in my hands right now, and if you don’t want anything to happen to him, deposit ten thousand points into my account.”
Jiang Hua’s voice instantly turned cold, hiding none of his murderous intent, “Who are you?”
The man felt a chill run down his spine but pressed on, trying to extort further, “Don’t worry about who I am. If the points don’t come through, your little boyfriend in the lab won’t have it easy!”
Just as he finished speaking, a bullet zipped past his face.
He could almost feel the heat from it.
The man’s hand holding the communicator shook, followed by the sound of the bullet embedding itself in the nearby wall, leaving a dark gaping hole.
Tong Sui was holding a pistol that he had pulled from somewhere, his eyes flashing with impatience.
“You say that again, who’s making who suffer?”
The few men beside the leading man were stunned, taking a trembling step back.
The young man before them had an innocent and well-behaved face, but his aura was chilling, making them want to crawl on the ground and beg for mercy.
“A bunch of useless cowards, what are you afraid of?” the man shouted, “You supernatural beings are afraid of an ordinary person?!”
His voice jolted the frightened men back to reality.
They remembered they still had abilities.
Tong Sui felt the ground begin to shake. He leapt forward, and the next second, the ground behind him caved in, forming a deep pit.
Following that, several vines shot toward him.
Tong Sui raised his gun and fired multiple shots at the vines, hitting their roots each time.
One of the men bent over and coughed up a mouthful of blood.
Tong Sui did not stop; instead, he aimed a kick at the nearest earth-based abilities user, sending him flying into the deep pit he had just created.
The remaining men, seeing this, instinctively took a few steps back.
Who would have thought that an ordinary person without abilities would scare them like quail?
Tong Sui stepped closer and reached out his hand.
“Give it back to me.”
A flash of red light glimmered in his eyes.
The leading man froze for a moment, obediently holding out the communicator with both hands and handing it to Tong Sui.