Night of the Apocalypse

“Uh, what should we do now?”

“You say this won’t work and that won’t work. Why don’t we just retreat?”

Taking the opportunity, Shen Qiu suggested.

“How can we retreat? It’s not easy to find them,” Yun Xiaoxi shook her head, showing no intention of backing down.

“Well, since you don’t want to retreat, I have another idea.”

After pondering for a moment, Shen Qiu raised his head and blinked at Yun Xiaoxi.

Yun Xiaoxi looked at Shen Qiu with a face full of questions.

Swish!

In the next second, Shen Qiu pulled out the belt tied around his pajamas and directly bound Yun Xiaoxi’s hands, tying it into a slipknot.

Yun Xiaoxi looked at Shen Qiu with a confused expression.

“What are you doing?”

“What else? I’m just putting you in the role of bait for now. And turn around, I need to change my clothes,” Shen Qiu replied as he took off his backpack and pulled out a half-dry gray combat suit while speaking to Yun Xiaoxi.

“Oh!”

Yun Xiaoxi turned around shyly upon seeing this.

After a rustling sound, Shen Qiu said softly,
“All set.”

“Oh!”

When Yun Xiaoxi turned back, she found that Shen Qiu had changed into a combat suit and put on a hat.

“My plan is to disguise myself as a member of the Gray Scorpion organization, tie you up, and get close to them. At that point, we can take action,” Shen Qiu explained, clearing his throat as he spoke to Yun Xiaoxi.

“What are we waiting for? Let’s hurry up!”

Yun Xiaoxi seemed impatient, urging Shen Qiu.

This made Shen Qiu wonder to himself why this girl seemed even more excited than those guys. However, to be safe, he still spoke up,
“There’s one thing I need to clarify first.”

“What’s the question?”

“Can you actually fight them?”

“Of course I can! I’ve been practicing swordsmanship and fighting for over twenty years. If I can’t handle these small fries, I might as well go back to my mother’s womb and be remade,” Yun Xiaoxi confidently replied.

“Over twenty years? How old are you?”

Shen Qiu looked Yun Xiaoxi up and down. Although he couldn’t see her face, she didn’t seem old at all.

“I’m twenty-one!”

“Uh, you’re twenty-one and have been training for over twenty years? Did you start practicing in the womb?”

“Well, not that exaggerated. It’s just that when I was born, my father put me next to the training ground so I could watch every day. I absorbed it all,” Yun Xiaoxi replied, nodding her head sincerely.

Shen Qiu couldn’t help but twitch the corner of his mouth, looking skeptical. However, he still chose to believe her, especially since this girl had shown some fierce determination when ambushing Beluk.

“Let’s not talk about that. I need to add something: to avoid giving ourselves away before we even get close, we can’t carry these swords. We’ll have to leave them here for now. And when we do engage, our priority should be to take out the two guys with submachine guns first.”

“Got it!”

Yun Xiaoxi nodded in response.

At that moment, near the sewage outlet, a burly man in a gray combat suit with a face full of meat and fierce eyes was gnawing on a piece of meat while holding a submachine gun.

“This is really f***ing disgusting!”

“Brother Ruini, how much longer do we have to stay in this hellhole? It stinks to high heaven!”

“I’m about to go crazy from being here!”

His companion beside him couldn’t help but complain.

“Who knows? It depends on how things are going with Boss Baikatu. And you guys need to stop whining; I’m already annoyed enough!”

Ruini was feeling quite irritated himself.

Just then, Ruini suddenly spotted two figures appearing in the dim passage ahead. He immediately raised his submachine gun and shouted,

“Who? Stop right there!”

At that moment, Shen Qiu, dressed in combat gear, slightly lowered his head as he held onto the bound Yun Xiaoxi. He imitated Kaon’s tone and shouted in the universal language,

“Brothers, don’t be nervous, we’re one of you! Look what I brought you—a beautiful captive!”

As he spoke, Shen Qiu pulled Yun Xiaoxi forward.

Yun Xiaoxi felt her heart tense as the distance between them and the enemies continued to shrink.

“Brother Ruini, they seem to be one of us?”

Deer said after carefully observing. Due to the dimness of the passage, he couldn’t clearly see Shen Qiu’s face, but he could roughly make out the gray combat suit Shen Qiu was wearing.

Ruini didn’t relax his guard at Deer’s words; instead, he switched to the Sok native language and shouted,

“Whose subordinate are you?”

Yun Xiaoxi felt her heart drop when she heard Ruini suddenly switch languages.

“Oh no, we’re done for!”

She hadn’t expected the other side to be so cautious and use the local tribal language to question them. How was she supposed to respond?

If she couldn’t answer, they would definitely be exposed.

Thinking this, Yun Xiaoxi prepared to turn against them, but they were still over twenty meters away, and the other side had already aimed their guns at the two of them. They were truly in trouble this time.

However, at that moment, Shen Qiu confidently responded in Sok native language.

“I’m a subordinate of Captain Ozark. Not long ago, we went on a hunting mission, and I managed to catch a little fish that slipped through the net after a lot of effort.”

When Yun Xiaoxi heard Shen Qiu’s fluent response, her eyes revealed an expression of disbelief. She never expected that Shen Qiu would know their language.

“Oh, you’re from Ozark! Your captain is quite inconsiderate; he caught so many people but didn’t share any of the pretty women with us.”

Upon hearing Shen Qiu’s words, Ruini’s guard relaxed immediately.

“Isn’t this bringing you a gift?”

Shen Qiu quickly pulled Yun Xiaoxi toward Ruini.

“Let me take a good look at what you caught; she seems pretty nice.”

Ruini’s interest was piqued as he carefully examined Yun Xiaoxi, noticing her fair skin, and a wicked smile appeared on his face.

“Let us take a look too.”

Deer and the others also crowded around.

Yun Xiaoxi’s body tensed up, and her eyes flashed with anger, but she still managed to suppress it.

Before long, Shen Qiu had pulled Yun Xiaoxi close to Ruini, and then a dramatic scene unfolded.

Ruini took a close look at Yun Xiaoxi’s figure and, seeing that she was flat-chested, immediately showed an extremely disappointed expression, saying in the universal language,

“Damn, it’s a flat chest—what a letdown!”

Shen Qiu was also taken aback by Ruini’s words.

“Who are you talking about?”

At that moment, Yun Xiaoxi was like a cat whose tail had been stepped on, instantly becoming furious. The cloth strips wrapped around her hands ignited, and she quickly broke free from her restraints.

Shen Qiu’s eyelids jumped; he didn’t expect Yun Xiaoxi to explode like that.

Ruini immediately raised his submachine gun and aimed it at Yun Xiaoxi.

Yun Xiaoxi extended her hand, burning with black flames, and directly grabbed the gun barrel.

In an instant, the entire gun melted away.

Ruini’s face changed dramatically as he hurriedly loosened his grip on the gun and retreated frantically, shouting to Deer and the others,

“Take her down!”

Deer’s expression changed drastically as he raised his submachine gun, while the other three Gray Scorpion members swiftly drew their military daggers.