XG 169 - Don't use me as a target
The zombie was no longer useful, so she swallowed its energy. Her nose caught onto the smell of oil that was getting stronger, and not long after, she felt a wave of heat along with the smell of burning. Someone, likely Kang Xunsu, must have set the zombies on fire.
But did he do that because he was getting tired of shooting, or because the new wave of zombies had reached their gate?
["Don't worry. It's still quite some distance away before the new wave hits us. Xunsu just wants to settle down the current wave before greeting the second one."]
Wong Xue Guo was quite sensitive toward sounds, so she was quick to distinguish that the words she heard were not caught by her ears.
Opening her eyes, she looked at Chen Yibo, who looked happy at his stronger ability. That lovely smile of his immediately shoots straight to her unprepared heart. Feeling weak from the power of his smile, she absentmindedly noted that his complexion looked much better than before.
He looked more lively. Even if white hair looked like it was done purposely like a k-pop idol.
Chen Yibo was worried that the words he conveyed to her mind would not sound like him. ["Don't be afraid. It's me, Chen Yibo."]
He was pleasantly surprised when he heard her thought, ["I know."]
["I can hear you."] Chen Yibo shared his thought, still surprised that he could actually do it, and also worried that she would be angry about the invasion of privacy.
["Huh."] He could sense she was slightly restraining her thoughts. ["Did you check if you can send your thoughts to someone other than me?"]
["Not yet."]
Glancing around her surrounding, she confirmed that they could effort a little distraction as there were more different degree of white-haired people, assumed to be the new batch of Awakened people, coming over.
"I'm hereeeeee!" A slender man with nice-looking muscles that would have been an impressive sight before his Awakened phase ran towards them from the direction of the lab, his attire having dirt on them. "I'm sorryyyy! I thought it's better to finish digging the hole first before coming oveeeer!"
"How is that better?" Someone muttered grouchily.
The masculine man's body started to change as he ran, his skin getting harder and translucent. "I shall protect everyone with my diamond-hard booooody!"
"... Although I'm grateful for his help, I just want him to go away. My eyes hurt!" The sunlight reflected fiercely from the diamond ability user's skin, announcing his presence like a beam of light.
Seeing as there were no more zombies in the base, the diamond man charged out from the hole in the fence. Letting out a high-pitched battle cry, he charged forward to attack the remaining zombies lingering around their front gates.
"Sorry... we... are... late." A middle-aged man was gasping heavily from chasing after the diamond man. He was too old for such speed running that even his Awaken status failed to boost his stamina. It was already good that the activated gene allowed his spine to straighten.
"Oh? Is he a power user too?" Someone asked, seeing the middle-aged man have white hair and a skinny frame.
"Yes... I've just recently Awakened. My name is Lee Seung Hae, and my ability is repatching."
"Repatching? Like fixing a broken car?"
Wiping his sweating forehead, Lee Seung Hae answered sheepishly. "No... more like... a broken vase."

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