Chapter 252: City-wide Curfew
The flickering torch was reflected in Qin Tianlang's vicissitudes of life. He was silent for a moment and said, "I understand."
"But I still can't give up on him."
"Awoo~~~~" A long wolf howl came from high above. Qin Tianlang shuddered all over and looked up suddenly. He saw a huge gray wolf standing on the rocks, howling towards the sky.
The city was noisy just now, but now it suddenly became quiet.
"Wolf!"
"There's a wolf—" The crowd fled in all directions, and the team searching for Sheng Xiuming immediately disbanded.
Iron-gray scales covered Qin Tianlang's arm. Ai Wanxin raised her hand and stopped him: "Don't worry, it won't bite."
At least it doesn't bite now.
Qin Tianlang looked at her with some doubt.
Ai Wanxin returned the terminal to He Yang: "Declare a curfew for the entire city."
He Yang took the terminal without saying a word, put it back on his left arm, and flew straight up the mountain path.
An emotionless mechanical female voice sounded in the air.
"Attention all residents, attention all residents."
"From now on, a curfew will be imposed in the old city of Frost City. No one is allowed to go out. No one is allowed to go out."
The mutant wolf king followed He Yang's flight trajectory and nimbly jumped onto the roofs of varying heights in the old city.
"Bang bang bang bang-"
All the doors and windows were slammed shut before it arrived, and soon the alleys and streets of the old city were deserted except for some trampled shoes and extinguished torches.
Qin Tianlang looked at Ai Wanxin in a daze.
Is this...is this okay...?
Ai Wanxin shook her head helplessly: "You really know how to give me a difficult problem."
So, you and your intelligence better get your money's worth.
"Jing." She turned her head and called out.
The silver-haired young man who habitually hid himself when Qin Tianlang appeared walked out of the darkness.
"I'm here, sister." Jing said obediently.
"Go and bring over the sentinels who were left at Kangbaibo Base." Ai Wanxin ordered.
If Qin Tianlang really can't stabilize the situation in Frost City, then Kuang Dingguo can be used.
"Okay, sister~" Jing agreed sweetly and retreated into the black crevice.
The iron-gray scales on Qin Tianlang's arms faded away. He glanced at the black-haired young man who had been quietly following Ai Wanxin. He knocked his transformed self unconscious with one punch. When fighting the dragon, he summoned thousands of lightning bolts.
In the sky, Qin Tianlang turned his gaze towards He Yang, and the light screen protective shield he unfolded protected the entire old city.
There was also the friendly-looking blond young man who could call the wind and snow and blocked most of the zombie hordes attacking the city.
This group of people are either taciturn or talkative, but in fact each of them has the ability to move mountains and uncover the earth.
Not to mention that she turned the tide single-handedly...
By following her, perhaps we can really overcome this crisis that is enough to cause the extinction of mankind.
After He Yang came back, Qin Tianlang led them to the tower at the city gate.
Ai Wanxin had seen these two towers from afar before. Last night, the four sides of the towers were engraved with brand new murals painted in gold and silver, but now they had been burnt black and splattered with the smelly body fluids of zombies.
Qin Tianlang knocked rhythmically on the wooden door three times, and the door was suddenly pulled open from the inside. Ma Xiaochuan, with his hair messed up like a bird's nest, almost fell in front of them.
Qin Tianlang helped him up, and heard Ma Xiaochuan choking up and saying, "Brother Lang, we helped them so much, but they didn't appreciate it at all. After you left just now, they almost wanted to eat us..."
Qin Tianlang patted his shoulder and comforted him, "It's okay."
Just now, after Pei Junlin and Qin Tianlang led the sentinels in the guard team to block the tide of zombies attacking the city, Qin Tianlang stayed behind to clean up the battlefield.
The guard team was originally formed by him. Even though the guard team had chased them before because of Sheng Xiuming's order, most people still obeyed Qin Tianlang's orders in times of crisis.
However, the situation began to take a turn for the worse after people in the Temple Square started to go down the mountain.
The news that Sheng Xiuming had deceived everyone in the city spread throughout the old city at the speed of light.
The surging anger of the survivors who escaped death was directed not only at Sheng Xiuming's minions and guards, but also at Qin Tianlang and others who were said to have taken Sheng Xiuming away.
Qin Tianlang could not deal with the angry residents of the old city in a tough manner, so he could only withdraw the guards who might be in danger of their lives to the tower outside the city gate.
However, the furious survivors were unwilling to give up. However, because the corpses of the zombies outside the city gate had not been completely cleaned up, they did not dare to rush out of the city gate. Therefore, the tower temporarily guaranteed their safety while Qin Tianlang took a detour to find Ai Wanxin.
After comforting Ma Xiaochuan, Qin Tianlang turned sideways, revealing Ai Wanxin and others standing in the night.
Ma Xiaochuan, who was still about to cry out in grievance, was silenced as if someone had strangled him.
When people encounter a major mental shock, they often rebound.
For example, they witnessed with their own eyes Ai Wanxin's power to move mountains and seas, and they were able to rely on inertia to go down the mountain. But when they calmed down and thought about it carefully, their scalps went numb, and they suddenly realized that if it weren't for her today, they would have all died.
Ai Wanxin, who knew nothing about Ma Xiaochuan's surging and subtle psychological activities, walked past the two of them and entered the tower.
Four tall and strong men with cold and tough expressions followed her in.
When they first met, Ma Xiaochuan dared to chatter to them, but now he was like a chicken with its neck grabbed, not even daring to make a sound.
The door of the tower was not spacious, so Zhuo Lingying and the girl who had met them in the small building in the new city at that time, all stood in the hollow chamber of the tower, looking at them with awe and vigilance.
Ai Wanxin looked around and asked, "Where's Sheng Xiuming? I have something to ask him."
Qin Tianlang said: "Why don't you ask me about the news of the Ninth Mountain Division first?"
"I'll ask you, but now, I want to see Sheng Xiuming."
Everyone's eyes fell on Qin Tianlang's face, and Zhuo Lingying called out worriedly: "Brother Lang..."
If this woman wanted to take Sheng Xiuming, they would not be able to protect him no matter what, and besides... he was not worthy...
Qin Tianlang looked into Ai Wanxin's eyes and understood that this was the opportunity she gave him.
Without any further hesitation, he nodded, walked to the corner, bent down and lifted a corner of the thick carpet on the ground, revealing a steel plate full of holes.
He grabbed the hole, exerted force with both arms, and lifted up the heavy steel plate.
There was a deep alley under the steel plate. Qin Tianlang jumped down nimbly and carried the pale, unconscious Sheng Xiuming out of the alley.
Qin Tianlang laid Sheng Xiuming flat on the carpet and said with a worried look on his face, "It seems like he fell on his head."