Apocalypse: I'm the Landlady of the Refuge

"Wanwan, what’s wrong?"

Qi Hao, who had been repairing damaged weapons, hurried over. His face was anxious, and his forehead was covered with fine beads of sweat, evidently having sprinted all the way here.

Ji Wanwan’s tense expression relaxed somewhat.

Her hand brushed over the Space Ring, from which she took out a handkerchief and handed it to Qi Hao while nodding towards the large monitoring screen, "Look at the screen."

Qi Hao took the handkerchief, his ears turning slightly red, but he didn’t dare to use it to wipe his sweat.

He obediently looked up at the screen. The dense clusters of red dots on it made his scalp tingle, but he was puzzled, "What is this?"

Ji Wanwan pointed at the red dots on the monitor: "According to the monitor, these things are within ten kilometers of our base, but our patrols haven’t found anything approaching the base, so these things must be underground."

Hearing Ji Wanwan say this, Qi Hao realized the severity of the situation.

He carefully placed the handkerchief into the inner pocket of his shirt, "What does Wanwan want to do?"

Ji Wanwan’s eyes narrowed, her gaze sharp, "If they dare to hide underground, then we’ll lift the entire ground, leaving them nowhere to hide!"

At this point, Qi Hao understood Ji Wanwan’s intention, "Should I go now?"

Ji Wanwan pulled Qi Hao to sit down and rest, "Wait, let’s go together once everyone is here!"

The number of these red dots was overwhelming; sending Qi Hao to deal with them alone would surely exhaust him to death.

They still didn’t know exactly what these red dots were. If they were just ordinary zombies, that would be one thing, but if it was something beyond their comprehension, then they definitely couldn’t let Qi Hao face it alone.

Soon, Xu Siming also arrived.

Seeing that Qi Hao was already there, Xu Siming paused for a moment before remembering to ask, "Xiao Wan, what happened?"

Ji Wanwan reiterated the situation with the red dots.

Now that the three of them were aware of the red dots, Ji Wanwan disclosed her plan: "I plan to use the Space Barrier to isolate a section of the underground area, and then Haozi will use his Earth Element to flip all the underground creatures to the surface. Senior will assist from the side, and if anything goes wrong, he will immediately freeze these creatures.

What do you think, any objections from you two?"

The two shook their heads together; she had made the process so clear, what objections could they possibly have?

Seeing that the red dots were getting closer to the base, the three decided to act immediately.

Ji Wanwan teleported several times in succession, arriving in an open area outside the base.

Now possessing Level 6 space control, she could manipulate space within a 600-meter radius.

Therefore, Ji Wanwan, with herself as the center, framed a giant sphere with a radius of 600 meters: "Haozi!"

Qi Hao understood and immediately began controlling the Earth Element.

Accompanied by the continuous upwelling of the underground soil, the creatures from beneath began to emerge.

Ant Corpses, a dense swarm of them, appeared as though an ant nest had been disturbed, making the trio’s skin crawl.

The bodies of Ant Corpses were as hard as iron, and they could burrow through walls and metal, making them extremely troublesome and difficult to defeat.

If it weren’t for her unease and the preemptive purchase of surveillance equipment that detected these Ant Corpses, once they entered the base, it would be instantly destroyed by them.

This was outrageous!

To think someone was controlling so many Ant Corpses to lead the attack!

Wait, controlling?

Ji Wanwan suddenly realized something was wrong.

Only High-level Zombies could control Low-level Zombies; ordinary people, awakeners, including Zombie Hunters, couldn’t do it. Could it be that the Baize Union had experimented with creating a Corpse Man capable of controlling zombies?

It was simply terrifying!

Thinking of the many Ant Corpses underground, Ji Wanwan immediately took out the walkie-talkie and quickly issued commands to the team leaders: "All teams assemble, the new battle has begun!"

Although there were many Ant Corpses, being only Second-level Evolved Zombies, with the enhancement of the Earth Superpower, clearing them was not too difficult, just somewhat time-consuming and exhausting.

After dealing with all the Ant Corpses, the ground within a 5-kilometer radius of the base was in complete disarray.

The battle had entered the night, and the commoners waiting at the base brought food and water, offering comfort to the awakeners who had fought outside all day.

To prevent a surprise attack, Ji Wanwan arranged for three teams to take turns on night watch.

She couldn’t sleep, so she simply went up to the rooftop to enjoy the breeze.

Gazing at the stars in the sky, she thought things over and realized that being passive was not an option, she needed to disrupt the other party’s rhythm to take control.

...

The next day, as dawn broke,

an unwelcome guest appeared at the entrance of the Bath City branch.

"Who is it?!"

The guard by the door advanced to stop him, "Do you know this place? Why are you just barging in?"

The visitor, towering and imposing, looked down at the guard, "I didn’t know, I just saw people and came in."

The intense oppressive aura made the guard uncomfortable.

But upon closer inspection, he realized that the visitor was not a superpower awakener, and immediately started bossing around, "A mere ordinary person, huh? This isn’t a place for you, scram!"

A flash of anger passed through the visitor’s eyes, "I advise you to speak politely."

The guard laughed, annoyed.

A trash without even a superpower, dared to stand up to him?

A fireball formed in the palm of his hand as he laughed arrogantly, "What if I don’t, what can you do about it?"

The visitor casually lifted his eyelids, and his piercing gaze chilled the guard momentarily. In the moment of the guard’s distraction, the visitor swiftly pulled a handgun from the side pouch and raised it.

"Bang, bang, bang—"

Right before dying, the guard’s palm released a fireball aiming for the visitor’s face, but before it could fully form, three bullets burst his brain, neck, and heart.

With a look of shock and confusion kept from his final moments, the guard’s bulky body crashed to the ground.

The other guard, who had been watching the scene, was dumbfounded.

What just happened?

An awakener had been killed by an ordinary person?

No!

This man was not as ordinary as he appeared; otherwise, he would have been dead and reduced to nothing long into the apocalypse!

Realizing this, the guard didn’t hesitate at all and immediately launched a superpower attack on the other, without uttering a word of waste.

Countless vines burst from the ground, rapidly enveloping the visitor until he was completely hidden from view.

Is he dead?

The guard couldn’t quite believe it.

But then he thought, although the other was just an ordinary person and he had attacked first, a fatal strike made sense.

Just as he was about to take a breath of relief, the guard nearly bit his own tongue.

He saw the ball of vines externally and internally catch fire.

As the vines gradually disintegrated, the guard saw the visitor in the center of the fireball smiling with a hooked lip, seemingly oblivious to the flames consuming his clothes and scorching his skin.

"Holy crap..."

The guard’s legs turned to jelly.

This guy must be insane, right?

The next second, this madman did something even crazier.

He took out several hand grenades from his side pouch...

Guard: "?"

What’s going on?

Is that small pouch a magic box? How can it hold so much?

Before he could finish his thoughts, the madman had already thrown a grenade towards him...