I Build a Floating City in the Apocalypse – Chapter 67

Chapter 67

“Has a monster started to break out of its cocoon?”

Fang Bai muttered softly, a trace of gloom descending upon his heart.

Judging from the current situation, none of the monsters born from the flesh cocoons were weak. All the monsters that had been interrupted during their gestation were already incredibly formidable, let alone those that had completed their development.

If this monster had left its breeding ground, then so be it. Fang Bai would have just wasted a trip, no big deal. But if it hadn’t left…

An ominous premonition surged within Fang Bai’s heart. He couldn’t tell if it was psychological, but he kept feeling like something was following him.

“Is it just my imagination?”

Fang Bai’s expression turned grave. He extended his Mental Power backward and activated the Eagle Eye skill, glancing behind him from time to time. However, he found nothing. Even after sprinting at full speed for nearly ten minutes, there was no sign of anything unusual.

Yet, the shadow in his heart lingered.

“An illusion?”

Fang Bai hesitated for a moment before entering a supermarket. Looking at the stacks of flour bags, he carried them into a storage room without windows.

First, Fang Bai wrote a line on the storage room door:

“Bomb inside, do not enter.”

After writing, Fang Bai stepped inside and closed the door. He then used a wire to connect the door to a lighter, ensuring that the lighter would ignite if the door was pushed open.

After testing several times to confirm that the lighter could be ignited normally, Fang Bai slowly raised a Water Shield.

The Water Shield enveloped Fang Bai and the lighter, isolating them from the outside world within a small, independent space. After taking these safety precautions, Fang Bai tore open all the flour bags and scattered the flour with abandon. In a short while, the entire storage room was filled with the scattered flour, turning the room a hazy white. Only the area within the Water Shield remained a clear haven.

The storage room had no windows, making it almost completely airtight. Moreover, it was significantly larger than the previous toilet, and there was more flour. If an explosion occurred, the power would be even more terrifying than the last time.

After completing these preparations, Fang Bai focused his thoughts, and the Return to City skill began its countdown.

Returning to the city from this location required a countdown of about two minutes. During the countdown, Fang Bai remained vigilant while using his Mental Power to sense any energy fluctuations in the surroundings.

Based on Fang Bai’s experience during this period, the effects of various skills were mostly based on energy models, just like the energy model revealed when the wind element transformed into sharp energy. The Return to City skill should be no different.

Therefore, during the countdown, Fang Bai carefully sensed, hoping to catch a glimpse of the structure of spatial teleportation.

However, Fang Bai didn’t sense anything within these two minutes. In the last twenty seconds of the Return to City countdown, a projection of the Novice Village appeared in his mind.

The additional tents, the busy crowd, everything emerged in Fang Bai’s mind.

Then, a message appeared in his mind:

“Select a return location.”

Fang Bai glanced at the options and finally chose an empty tent on the edge.

Three, two, one, countdown complete, Return to City!

Fang Bai felt a flash of white before his eyes, and then he appeared inside a tent.

After returning to the Novice Village, Fang Bai finally felt at ease.

“It’s best if it didn’t follow me.”

A cold glint flashed in Fang Bai’s eyes. He then stepped out of the tent and walked towards the Novice Village.

At this moment, Bai Qing was organizing people to cook, set up tents, build houses, and maintain order. Another group of people was transporting supplies from Shen Shan Town to the Novice Village.

To Fang Bai’s surprise, there were nearly ten brand-new trucks and trailers of various makes and models, along with about a dozen different types of engineering vehicles – excavators, loaders, forklifts, aerial work platforms, road rollers – it was a dazzling sight. And all these vehicles were brand new!

Where did they find so many new vehicles?

“Bai Qing, these vehicles…”

“Oh, Boss, you’re back!”

Bai Qing was quite surprised to see Fang Bai. He then explained,

“Isn’t there a small Automobile City near the Wetland Park? I initially planned to go there and drive back a few engineering vehicles for construction.

But things went even smoother than I expected. When we got there, we found that there were quite a few vehicles left, and the keys were all in the ignition. Anyone could just drive them away.”

Bai Qing said with a hint of emotion,

“Perhaps it was someone kind-hearted. They drove away in their own car but were worried that others might encounter danger, so they left the keys in the cars. That’s why we brought all these vehicles back.”

Fang Bai was stunned. Automobile City…

He was the one who had left the keys in those cars.

At this moment, a strange feeling welled up in Fang Bai’s heart.

“Mmm, I understand. You can continue with your work.”

Fang Bai nodded slightly without saying anything further. He then turned and found Wang Kai.

At this moment, Wang Kai was leading a group of people, studying a combined combat method using steel wire mesh, steel wire loops, bed shields, gasoline, spears, and pumpkin hammers.

They were currently practicing with large zombies as their targets.

“Boss.”

Wang Kai nodded towards Fang Bai. He was also slightly surprised that Fang Bai had returned so early but didn’t say anything.

Fang Bai took out a piece of paper from his pocket and handed it to Wang Kai.

“There’s a monster corpse in Gaoxin No. 6 Primary School. I named it Spider-man.

Spider-man has a lot of carapace on its body. It’s very strong and close-fitting, should be quite useful. It wasn’t convenient for me to carry it alone before. You can take some people to retrieve it. If it’s convenient, bring back the corpse as well.”

Wang Kai nodded directly but then asked,

“Alright, is the corpse very large?”

Fang Bai said calmly,

“Nearly four meters tall.”

Wang Kai was shocked.

A four-meter-tall monster?!

Generally speaking, the larger the zombie, the stronger it was. Even large zombies were only a little over two meters tall. A four-meter-tall monster… just hearing about it, Wang Kai could almost imagine its terrifying strength and power.

And now it had become a corpse…

Wang Kai’s understanding of Fang Bai’s strength was once again refreshed.

“Okay, I’ll take some people and drive there.”

Wang Kai immediately selected twenty people and drove over a small truck. The truck also had a crane, which should be very convenient for lifting things.

Just as Wang Kai was about to leave, Fang Bai called him back.

“Arrange a team to go out with me.”

“Okay.”

Wang Kai immediately assigned ten people to Fang Bai. The ten people were armed with bed shields, spears, and pumpkin hammers.

Their spears were simply cut from steel bars, and the pumpkin hammers were steel bars welded with a fist-sized steel ball.

The most complex bed shields were made by stacking bed boards, padding them with clothes in the middle, and then nailing a layer of sheet metal on the surface.

These items were all new, they weren’t there before. Apparently, Bai Qing had just prepared them this morning. He must have put some thought into it. In addition, Fang Bai also saw two walkie-talkies on them.

As long as these ten people, equipped in this way, cooperated well, ordinary zombies would basically pose no threat to them.

They might even be able to surround and kill regular large zombies. This meant they had the basic ability to survive and fight in the outside world.

Therefore, this was currently a separate combat group in the Novice Village, the smallest unit for external combat operations.

“Hello everyone, I’m Fang Bai. Who among you is the captain?”

“Boss, I’m the captain. My name is Wang Xiong.”

Fang Bai looked at the young man with a strong back and broad shoulders and nodded slightly.

“Okay, give me a walkie-talkie. You can also introduce yourselves.”

“Boss, my name is Wang…”

“Boss, my name is…”

The ten people quickly introduced themselves, and Wang Xiong also handed a walkie-talkie to Fang Bai and taught him the basic usage.

While Fang Bai was learning how to use the walkie-talkie, in a supermarket on the outskirts of Stone City, a dark figure moved swiftly through the shadows of the shelves, silent and undetectable, heading straight for a storage room. It quickly approached the closed storage room.

There seemed to be something written on the door of the storage room. Looking closely:

“There’s…”

The dark figure instantly burst through the wooden door and rushed inside.