I Build a Floating City in the Apocalypse – Chapter 33

Chapter 33

A green light cluster slowly enveloped Old Li’s upper body as the bone armor floated up.

Watching this scene and recalling Old Li’s sudden burst of speed and the extra armor, Qin Jian instantly understood what had happened.

“Damn it!”

Qin Jian cursed in a low voice, not sure who he was cursing. After cursing, he gestured to the two people beside him. They reacted instantly, taking a few people and turning to leave. Qin Jian then said out loud,

“This brother, my man may have taken something he shouldn’t have, but we can return it to you.

Isn’t it excessive to kill him directly?”

Fang Bai, holding the compound bow, walked out from the street corner and bent down to pick up the green light cluster floating on Old Li’s body. Without checking the attributes, he directly clicked “Equip.”

The stab-resistant vest appeared on the ground beside him, replaced by the bone armor that wrapped around Fang Bai’s upper body and upper arms. The moment he equipped it, Fang Bai felt a surge of strength in his body.

After adapting slightly, Fang Bai drew an arrow from the quiver, placed it on the compound bow, glanced coldly at Qin Jian, picked up the stab-resistant vest from the ground, and turned to leave.

“Damn it.”

Seeing Fang Bai turn around and leave directly, without any intention of speaking, Qin Jian’s face showed a hint of ruthlessness.

“I’ll chase after him first, you guys follow!”

Qin Jian immediately charged out with the bone knife in his hand, shouting at the same time,

“Don’t hide anymore, he’s running, chase him directly!”

The moment his voice fell, bursts of rapid footsteps came from the back alley of the originally silent shops.

Who said that villains always die from talking too much?

A talkative villain might just be stalling for time.

Fang Bai heard the footsteps behind him and immediately understood that his decisive departure was the right decision.

There were many enemies and few allies. Stalling for time when outnumbered was simply asking for death.

A hint of coldness appeared on Fang Bai’s face. During his run, he leaped back and turned around, an arrow instantly piercing the air.

Fang Bai turned around extremely quickly. Qin Jian, who was chasing after him, was wide open. When he saw Fang Bai turn around, he instinctively twisted his body.

Whoosh!

An arrow grazed past the outside of Qin Jian’s thigh on his beach shorts. The seemingly thin layer of beach shorts actually blocked the arrow, causing it to deflect to the side.

Fang Bai’s eyes showed a hint of surprise when he saw this scene.

One must know that this was a seventy-pound compound bow. The arrows it shot could hunt elephants. Yet, such a powerful arrow was actually blocked by a mere pair of beach shorts. Although it wasn’t a direct hit, just a graze, the fact that the beach shorts could block such a powerful arrow was already absurd, wasn’t it?

“Equipment?”

This thought popped into Fang Bai’s mind. Only this could explain it.

“As expected, the weirder the clothes, the stronger the person.”

Qin Jian behind him felt pain in his leg. Although the beach shorts blocked the arrow, the friction of the beach shorts also caused a bloody mark on the outside of his thigh.

And when he saw the black bloodstains left on the arrow, he instantly broke out in a cold sweat. The fear of death instantly brought him back to calmness and clarity.

Looking at Fang Bai running away, Qin Jian hesitated for a moment, then stopped, grabbing the bone knife in his right hand and fiercely slashing it into a nearby tree, leaving a deep mark.

“Damn it!”

Angry as he was, Qin Jian didn’t dare to continue chasing. Looking at his subordinates who had caught up, he said directly,

“Alright, stop chasing!”

Qin Jian glanced coldly in the direction Fang Bai had left.

“Let’s go back and collect their bodies!”

However, when he saw the zombie that Old Li’s body had turned into, another nameless fire surged in Qin Jian’s heart.

“Damn it.”

Qin Jian fiercely kicked Old Li’s zombie in the stomach, sending it flying.

“Good for nothing, only causing trouble!”

There were many possible outcomes of sending Old Li to find Fang Bai, but countless outcomes were better than the current one.

Befriending him, even becoming enemies with him wouldn’t matter. If he had snatched the equipment and killed Fang Bai, that would be even better. Qin Jian might even have thought highly of Old Li and might have reused him in the future.

But to end up in this current situation…

The more Qin Jian thought about it, the angrier he became. He kicked out fiercely again.

“Damn you, useless trash!”

Qin Jian decapitated Old Li’s zombie with a single slash and regained his composure.

“Alright, let’s all go back. This person’s archery is very powerful, and his arrows are all coated with the zombie virus. Even a slight scratch will cause infection.

If we continue chasing, we’ll all die.”

After Qin Jian finished speaking, he pointed out the three people who had encountered Fang Bai earlier.

“You guys take me to where you encountered this person. The rest of you go back to the company and prepare bed boards. Inform my dad, we’ll take collective action tonight.

We can’t let the deaths of Old Li and the other two go unavenged!”

“Okay.”

“We can’t let this grudge go unavenged!”

When the group heard that they didn’t need to chase anymore, their morale instantly rose. Qin Jian followed the three directly to the location where Fang Bai had hunted the large zombie.

There, the traces of Fang Bai hunting the zombie were very obvious. Based on the arrow holes and remaining arrows on the zombie’s body, Qin Jian quickly tracked him to the entrance of a residential area.

“Galaxy Garden!”

Qin Jian took a deep look at these three words, then turned around and left with the three, returning to the company and finding the real CEO Qin.

“How did you mess things up like this?”

Qin Jian fell silent upon hearing this. Old CEO Qin, seeing this, didn’t say anything more and continued to ask,

“What are you going to do now?”

“His archery is very powerful, we can’t confront him head-on. I found the residential area where he lives.

We’ll launch a collective operation tonight. I’ll take half of the people with me and directly block him in the building of the residential area and kill him.”

Hearing these words, Old CEO Qin’s expression improved slightly, then he said,

“You still have some brains left, you didn’t say something like going to kill him alone, otherwise I would have beaten you to death.

As for your idea, it’s feasible, but fifty people are still a bit too few.

Since this person is very strong and has just obtained a new piece of green equipment, to avoid any accidents, let’s take everyone.

It’s just the right opportunity to take these people and let them realize the cruelty of the apocalypse, to gather their hearts and select a group of truly capable people who can be trained.”

Qin Jian was stunned for a moment, then nodded. Old CEO Qin pondered for a moment before adding,

“Also, since you said this person is very cautious, doesn’t even talk to you, and is decisive in killing, it’s very likely that this person will immediately relocate after returning.

Since you plan to go, don’t wait until tonight, go now, directly block the entrance and exit of the residential area, and then go find him.”

“Go now?”

Qin Jian was taken aback.

“Okay, I’ll go call people now. Then Dad, you…”

“I’ll go with you, but you’ll be in command the whole time.”

After Old CEO Qin finished speaking, he took out a crossbow and some steel balls and short arrows from the cabinet behind him and handed them to Qin Jian, who looked surprised.

“Take this with you too.”

“Okay!”

A moment later, Qin Jian led more than a hundred people out of the company building, heading straight towards Galaxy Garden residential area in a mighty procession.

At this moment, Fang Bai returned to his home, picked up the 《Mage Apprentice’s Manuscript》, put it in his bow bag, took all the three-edged broadheads and bladed screw broadheads, bundled more than a hundred arrows with rope and carried them on his back, then turned and left without any hesitation, exceptionally decisive!