"Where is it?"
’There’s another one?’
Adrian Shaw followed Daniel Hale’s gaze.
That was the location of one of their sniper positions.
But the sniper was positioned behind their main defensive line. Not even a Mutated Zombie could have gotten past it.
Everyone nearby instantly went on high alert.
"It’s right there! It’s getting closer!"
Daniel Hale’s brow furrowed.
’Could that zombie be invisible?’
But he could clearly sense its presence.
"Is it too fast to see?"
That was the only explanation Chester Pearson could come up with.
’No, that’s not it.’
Nina Jacobs knew Daniel Hale’s senses wouldn’t be wrong.
’Could it be...’
Her eyes widened, and she was already sprinting in that direction.
It was a low, earthen slope by the side of the road.
Several members of the Superpower team were already there, on high alert.
"Move! Run!"
Nina Jacobs’s shout came from a short distance away.
Two of the members reacted quickly enough.
But their reaction was followed by several pained screams. The two survivors stared in shock as their teammates were impaled.
Sharp Wood Element Vines had burst from the ground, instantly running four of the team members through.
Their bodies hung from the tips of the vines.
Blood gushed down from their wounds.
SWISH!
A sharp blade sliced horizontally through the vines.
The Fire Roaring Blade plunged into the ground.
"It’s underground! Everyone, fall back!"
’Damn it.’
’I should have realized sooner.’
’If I had reacted just a few seconds earlier, those team members would still be alive.’
Nina Jacobs stood her ground. As she pulled the Fire Roaring Blade from the earth, its tip was already stained with dark blood.
The ground began to heave and roll.
Several more wooden spikes shot out from the ground, only to be incinerated the next moment by the liquid fire Nina had spread across the surface.
ROAR!
A small, gaunt Mutated Zombie leaped out from the ground.
The palm of its hand had already been pierced by Nina.
Now, it was roaring at Nina Jacobs in a fury.
"How did it get underground?!"
Chester Pearson couldn’t believe his eyes.
’A Wood Element zombie hiding underground?’
"Unless... it’s a Dual Element user. Earth and Wood."
Adrian Shaw had already formed a Thunder Ball and hurled it at the Mutated Zombie.
As the Fire Roaring Blade swung, unleashing a Fire Blade, several Fireballs simultaneously rained down from above.
BOOM!
The Thunder and Fire Element attacks all found their mark.
However, this was clearly no ordinary zombie. It instantly materialized Stone Shields all around its body, even over its head, to block the assault.
"As expected, it’s an Intermediate."
Nina Jacobs said. ’Only an Intermediate Mutant Zombie could withstand my attacks.’
’An Intermediate, Dual Element Mutated Zombie?!’
Everyone present grew tense.
The next second, the zombie had vanished back into the earth!
"I’ll leave the rest of them to you guys,
I’ll take this one."
Nina Jacobs said to Adrian Shaw, who was standing beside her.
"You..."
Adrian Shaw wanted to say more, but he knew he was no match for Nina Jacobs.
He finally understood why the base had requested her help.
"Be careful, then."
Before the words were even out of his mouth, Nina Jacobs was already dashing forward.
Nina Jacobs activated her Five Senses Enhancement, and she could now clearly hear the sounds from beneath the ground.
"You’d better not come out."
Nina Jacobs touched the soft ground with one hand. Empowered by her Earth Element Superpower, the liquid fire rapidly seeped into the earth!
Everyone nearby was mesmerized by the sight of the flowing, liquid fire.
No one knew that Nina Jacobs had already fused her Fire and Earth Element Superpowers.
BOOM!
The Superpowers collided beneath the ground, and the force of the impact blasted the Mutated Zombie back to the surface!
Countless vines sprouted from its right arm, whipping rapidly toward Nina Jacobs.
The vines snaked around her flame-wreathed Fire Roaring Blade.

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