The mention of Scott Stone sent Cole Dempsey into a rage.
"You’re asking to die!"
As a Gold Element Superpower User, he sent a Gold Spike shooting toward Nina Jacobs and her companion.
Nina tilted her head and dodged it.
Behind Cole Dempsey stood three other Superpower Users and two gunmen.
All six of them attacked at once.
BANG! BANG!
The two gunmen had just fired off two shots when a flicker of flame pierced one of them right between the eyes.
As for the two bullets, Wayne Warner had impossibly caught them with his bare hands!
BOOM!
Another sudden Fireball struck, and the second gunman screamed as he fell to the ground.
Cole Dempsey whipped his head around in shock.
’Were the Warner siblings really this strong?’
"Well now, a firefight?
You all have terrible timing. The zombies are on their way."
Just then, a voice drifted down from the hillside.
Nina narrowed her eyes, studying the person who had just arrived.
The young man before her looked exceptionally familiar.
And behind him stood several dozen more people.
When she saw how the man and the people with him were dressed, Nina was inwardly shocked.
"You’re from the sanctuary?!"
Cole Dempsey had a bad feeling about this.
They were all wearing the uniforms of the sanctuary’s rescue team. They were clearly here to ambush him.
"Easy, easy. I’m here to save you.
If I hadn’t shown up, you’d be a dead man by now."
The man turned and smiled at Nina.
"Summer, do me a favor and spare his life.
I need to take him back for questioning."
’Summer...’
"You’re Shirley Lucas?"
Nina stared at the man before her.
No wonder he looked so familiar.
Looking closely, the man bore at least a seventy percent resemblance to Shirley Lucas.
Besides, Shirley was the only one who would call her that.
Seeing him smile and nod, she finally understood why she had felt something was off about Shirley Lucas before.
’The person I knew as Shirley was actually a man.’
’And I hadn’t seen through the disguise at all...’
"What can I say? A girl’s gotta do what a girl’s gotta do to go undercover.
You have to dress the part, you know."
The voice of the female "Shirley Lucas" came out of his mouth again, and Nina didn’t know what kind of face to make.
"Who is the current captain of your sixth squad?"
Nina asked.
Just because they were in uniform, she couldn’t be certain they were actually from the sanctuary.
Shirley Lucas looked surprised, but there was also a hint of delight in his eyes.
"Summer, you even know about that?
Do you know that insufferably proud Chester Pearson?"
"You can take him.
We were only trying to save our own skins."
Now that she had confirmed his identity was likely real, Nina was eager to leave.
Cole Dempsey and his men had been captured, so there was nothing left for her to do.
Just then, everyone heard a series of explosions coming from behind them.
"Looks like we don’t have to worry about the zombies anymore,"
Nina said.
From the proud look on Shirley Lucas’s face, she could tell he had already set up an ambush for the zombies.
"You’re not going back to the sanctuary?
Once we’ve secured the supplies in there, you can come back with us."
Shirley Lucas called out to stop her.
"I still have some things to take care of. I’ll be back in a few days.
This is my friend; you can ask her if she wants to go."
Nina looked at Lily Lewis.
She could tell that Lily needed some time to rest and recover.
Just from the few steps she had run earlier, her face had already turned deathly pale.
The sanctuary was the best option.
Following Nina to kill zombies would be too dangerous for her in her current state.
Lily Lewis hesitated for a moment before nodding.
"You’ll go back too, right?"


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