Hesheng returned with the wood, but Li Yanting and Da Kun had not yet returned. Lan Duo had set up the stove and was looking nearby for dry branches that could be burned as firewood.
The dozen or so ordinary survivors on the bus in front also got out of the car and prepared food. Two people with tools were repairing the stalled pickup truck parked at the front.
As Hesheng came out, Duan Zhanfeng also climbed over a few walls and walked out of another alley. The three parties here seemed to be at peace, each busy with their own affairs, but Hesheng suddenly felt a little flustered. The more peaceful it was, the more uneasy she felt.
“Lan Duo, have Li Yanting and the others come back?” Hesheng asked, putting down the wood.
Lan Duo shook her head: “Not yet, what’s wrong?”
“I…”
Just then, a shocking thunderclap came from the center of a residential building on one side, followed by a sound of houses collapsing.
Hesheng recognized that it was the direction Li Yanting had left, and her unease increased. Without thinking, she followed the sound and rushed into the alley.
Lan Duo hesitated for a moment in place, but ultimately did not chase after her. Their team’s vehicles and supplies were still in place, and someone had to stay behind to guard them.
Hesheng rushed into the alley, and the sound of fighting grew closer and closer. She turned a few corners and finally found a collapsed farmhouse.
The dust rising after the collapse of the house was still spreading in the air. The section of the big tree that was struck by lightning was charred black, and it was obvious that the sound just now came from here.
The sound was getting closer and closer. Amidst the rising dust, Hesheng finally found several figures fighting together.
“Brother! Calm down! The zombies have been killed by you, there are no attack targets here!”
Da Kun’s roar was panting, and the owner of the voice was experiencing an extremely difficult fight.
“Chief Li! Wake up! Da Kun, what the hell is going on? What do we do now?”
Another voice sounded familiar, but it was also panting.
Hesheng heard their conversation and couldn’t help but become more anxious. From the information conveyed in their words, it seemed that something had happened to Li Yanting.
She didn’t care about anything else and quickly climbed over the ruins, taking the shortest distance to get closer.
Three figures were fighting together, and several dead zombies were lying on the ground.
The one being besieged by the other two was Li Yanting, and Li Yanting’s condition was very wrong. He seemed to have lost his mind after being stimulated by something and was now in a state of ability berserk.
There seemed to be no living humans in his eyes. Everything within his sight was an attack target. As long as it could move, it was a zombie that needed to be killed for him.
And Da Kun and the man named Ji Hui were not so much besieging Li Yanting to force him to stop, but rather passively being beaten, trying to awaken Li Yanting’s reason with screams.
Hesheng had never seen Li Yanting like this. She even realized at this moment that Li Yanting was much stronger and more powerful than she had always thought.
Ability berserk, in the final analysis, is because ability users cannot remove impurities when absorbing crystal core energy, causing impurities to accumulate in the sea of consciousness, affecting the advancement and use of abilities.
The more crystal cores absorbed, the more powerful the ability user, the more impurities will accumulate, and the more chaotic and disordered the sea of consciousness will be. At the same time, the balance between ability and impurities is even more difficult to establish, and the easier it is for the ability user to collapse and go berserk.
And even before Hesheng’s rebirth, she had only seen one ability user whose ability level was so powerful and whose balance between awakened ability and impurities was so fragile.
She never knew that her fiancé was such a strong person.
In addition to being shocked, Hesheng also felt a burst of soreness in her heart…
He was so powerful, so how did he die in his previous life…
Was he deceived, trapped in a zombie horde, and learned that the person he was going to rescue was not in danger at all, and that everything was a conspiracy against him, did he also go berserk?
In the end, did he explode and die because he couldn’t bear the mental burden, or did he go berserk until he was exhausted and eaten by zombies?
Hesheng’s eyes were already blurred, and the pain in her heart was tearing her apart, because no matter which result, it was painful enough and heartbreaking enough for Li Yanting.
“Li Yanting…” I’m back.
I won’t hurt you again, Li Yanting, I will never hurt you again.
Hesheng opened her mouth, choked up and unable to speak.
So she could only kneel on the ground, staring at Li Yanting’s direction, injecting her ability into the earth, using the soil as a medium to find Li Yanting’s foothold and soothe him and relieve impurities.
This method was clumsy and inefficient. Hesheng knelt on the ground and worked hard for a long time, but she didn’t see any obvious effect.
Li Yanting’s berserk continued. Da Kun was thrown away by the whirlwind he created, and the flames in Ji Hui’s hand were even more vulnerable in front of the lightning ability.
Seeing that the two ability users were overturned by Li Yanting, Hesheng’s heart tightened. She couldn’t let Li Yanting go berserk and leave here. After leaving here, he would face greater danger.
So she stood up and condensed her ability in her palm. Taking advantage of the gap when Li Yanting was attacking the house with his back to her, she rushed up and hugged Li Yanting’s waist tightly from behind.
Da Kun, who was thrown away, fell on the broken wall and couldn’t stand up for a long time. He watched Hesheng rush up and couldn’t even say a word to stop her.
“Damn, you’re really something.” Da Kun coughed lightly and wiped a handful of blood, “The more you add, the more chaotic it gets.”
“Li Yanting! Wake up!”
Hesheng screamed and hugged Li Yanting’s waist. The moment she touched him, she tiptoed and reached for his forehead with her other hand. She thought she would be thrown out by Li Yanting without hesitation, but she clearly felt his movements pause the moment she hugged him, and then his body stiffened.
“Li Yanting, you know it’s me, right? I know you must have recognized me!”
Hesheng was overjoyed, knowing that Li Yanting was forcibly restraining his violent actions. He was conscious, and his reason was struggling to seize the dominant power.
Hesheng didn’t give up this opportunity. She bent down and went around to his front, reached out and hugged Li Yanting’s neck, supported the back of his head and pressed him down, and then tiptoed to find Li Yanting’s forehead with her own.
This was the fastest and most direct way to soothe and relieve ability.
However, just as she was about to touch Li Yanting’s forehead, his extremely restrained hands suddenly tightly clasped Hesheng’s waist and back. Hesheng was forced to look up, and a hot and eager kiss immediately fell, hitting her lips, domineering, and conquering.
“Ugh…”
Hesheng was a little out of breath. Her instinctive struggle was exchanged for a more suffocating kiss and hug. Her eyes were wet with excitement. When she opened her eyes again, she saw Li Yanting’s eyes close at hand, dark and sharp, staring at her like a prey.