The woman laughed, too.
She pulled a car out of her dimensional space. "A bunch of idiots. Did they really think we were going to take them out to find water and supplies?"
"I know, right? I can’t believe them, nagging us every single day.
Director Palmer must have had no other choice but to let us come out and ditch them,"
the man grumbled in dissatisfaction.
"I just wonder where Lily and the others went."
The woman peeked her head out and looked around before getting in the car.
"Who cares about them? It took a lot of effort for me to get assigned to the same team as you today. How about we find a deserted spot up ahead and spend the day there?"
The man suddenly hugged her from behind.
"Samuel Valentine, so you’re the one who deliberately ditched Lily and the others."
The woman didn’t push him away, just laughed with feigned anger.
’No wonder when the zombies appeared just now, that guy Valentine kept pulling me in this direction.’
"Anyway, we’re just out here to put on a show. We just have to go back when the time’s up..."
The two seemed unable to wait, and the car sped away.
Sitting in her car, Nina Jacobs felt like she had just stumbled upon some baffling drama.
After all, she had no idea who those two were.
’Is it because this place is too far from the base that there are no decent people around?’
Although this was the main road to Lornwood Base, it was still quite far from it.
Just as Nina Jacobs was considering whether to move to a different spot, she heard a crash.
It was immediately followed by the roar of zombies.
Not far away, a car had smashed into the traffic island at a three-way intersection.
Two Mutated Zombies were close behind, pouncing toward the vehicle.
"I’m right here! Come and get me if you’ve got the guts!"
Two more cars had followed behind. A man jumped out of one and yelled provocatively at the two zombies.
The two Mutated Zombies were indeed drawn to the man on the ground. They roared and turned to run at him.
At that exact moment, an arrow shot out from a car window, striking one of the zombies square in the temple.
The man, meanwhile, faced off against the other zombie.
Nina Jacobs could tell that the man was likely an ordinary person with no Superpower.
But he was clearly very experienced. Even though he was facing a Wood Element Mutated Zombie, it couldn’t get close to him at all.
A short-haired young woman holding a crossbow climbed onto the car roof and took aim at the zombie below.
The crossbow arrow hit its mark instantly.
After the two Mutated Zombies were dealt with, everyone else got out of their cars to check on the situation in the first vehicle.
"Ms. Ulrich’s thigh is injured! What do we do?"
The car that had crashed was severely damaged, and two people inside were covered in blood.
"It’s too late to go back to the base now."
"If only Samuel Valentine and his group were here. I remember Director Palmer reminded them to bring Hemostatic Medicine."
"Don’t you guys think something is off?"
At that moment, the woman with the crossbow spoke up.
"The moment the zombies appeared, all those Superpower Users ran off,
It was like they’d planned it."
"Genevieve is right. As soon as trouble started, those Superpower Users ran faster than any of us.
Even if we don’t need their protection, they didn’t have to do that, right?"
A young man squatted by the roadside, grumbling.
"What can you do? They’re the Superpower Users," a man said, his voice full of regret as he knelt and checked on his injured companion.
"This injury... we probably have to get back to the base to treat it. Otherwise, she’ll bleed to death out here."
"Don’t worry about me. We all had such a hard time getting this far. If we go back without finding anything, it’s a dead end for us anyway..."
The woman known as Ms. Ulrich said through gritted teeth, enduring the pain.
A long shard of glass had pierced her thigh, and blood was still flowing, making her already pale face even more colorless.
"Yeah, my injury is minor. I’ll stay here and watch Ms. Ulrich. You guys go on,"
another man, who was injured in the shoulder, also said.
Everyone fell silent, but just a few seconds later, a series of roars echoed from the distance.

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