Apocalypse: I rescued the big boss with millions of supplies

Chapter 127 Pinecone Protective Shield

Chapter 127 Pinecone Protective Shield

"That's a good idea." Fu Muyu always unconditionally supported Long Yangyang's ideas.

Human nature is complex, but one thing is certain: unless one is driven to desperation or is inherently rebellious, people will always yearn for a peaceful and happy life.

This is why, throughout history, those in power have always used serving the people as a slogan, and only those in power who can ensure the people's peaceful and prosperous lives can win the hearts of the people.

The strong are like this, and the weak are even more so.

Before the two had even finished exploring the food street, they were attacked by a horde of zombies. As expected of an occupied area, Long Yangyang looked at the endless horde of zombies and thought to herself, "There really aren't any survivors in a place like this."

"Let's go." After dealing with a group of zombies, Fu Muyu took Long Yangyang's hand and walked out of the snack street. The two walked and stopped, dealing with zombies along the way.

"There are too many. It feels like we can never kill them all," Long Yangyang complained. This was the first time she had experienced the phenomenon of ants killing an elephant. The zombie horde in front of them consisted mostly of level three to six zombies.

Level 7 zombies are rare, but as soon as one batch is dealt with, another batch immediately follows. They had only just finished dealing with the first batch and hadn't even finished half of the food street.

They were immediately attacked by a horde of zombies.

The zombie horde showed no signs of fatigue. Humans, on the other hand, have limited abilities and their physical strength is no match for the zombies. Long Yangyang was so exhausted that sweat was beading on her forehead.

"Let's retreat and rest for a bit." Long Yangyang pulled Fu Muyu and teleported to the top floor of a nearby shopping mall.

After dealing with the two zombies on the top floor, Long Yangyang looked curiously at the sky villa in the city center.

Compared to the dirty and messy food street below, this place looks noticeably clean and tidy, if you ignore the dense mutated plants.

"Is it a pine tree?" Long Yangyang looked at the pine tree, which was almost a single tree forming a forest, completely covering the two villas on the top floor. "It's amazing that it can grow so tall in this place."

The gardens of the penthouses have a very thin layer of soil, unlike the ground, "and surprisingly, they are not aggressive at all."

Long Yangyang could sense that this pine tree was clearly a level six mutated tree.

"I wonder if the fruit on the tree is edible." Long Yangyang looked at the pine nuts, which were the size of lychees before the apocalypse. "These pine nuts can be roasted and eaten like chestnuts."

Fu Muyu picked a pine nut and was about to crack it open when he noticed, "It's so hard."

Fu Muyu, a level seven ability user, couldn't even crack open the pine cones of a level six pine tree with his strength. As an ability user's level increases, their physical abilities also improve.

Whether it's strength or other aspects, the increase is exponential. Although it's far from comparable to other ability users of the same level in terms of strength, speed, etc.

Seeing this, Long Yangyang used her spatial ability to extract the kernel from the pine nut. "It's not poisonous." This pine tree is too obedient; it hasn't launched any attack even now.

Is this the difference between domesticated trees and free-range trees? Long Yangyang's imagination ran wild.

Fu Muyu opened his mouth and ate the pine nuts. The taste was not much different from before the apocalypse, but it was crisper and had a rich aroma.

"Brother Fu, look!" Long Yangyang suddenly noticed a small, round, transparent membrane appearing beside Fu Muyu, just enough to completely envelop him. "What is this?"

Long Yangyang curiously reached out and poked it. The thin film actually dented from where her finger touched, like a balloon, but it didn't break.

Long Yangyang boldly reached her entire arm inside, but the membrane remained unchanged except for deformation. Even when Long Yangyang stretched her entire arm to Fu Muyu's chest, the membrane did not break, and Long Yangyang and Fu Muyu touched each other through the membrane.

"How interesting." Long Yangyang gathered her supernatural power, held a spatial blade in her hand, and slashed at the membrane. "Sizzle—" The usually invincible spatial blade actually made a metallic clanging sound the moment it touched the membrane.

"It didn't break, such strong defense." You should know that the pine tree is a level lower than Long Yangyang, yet the thin membrane produced by its pine cones actually blocked Long Yangyang's level seven spatial blade.

"Brother Fu, be careful. I'll have Yu Yu test it with a corn cannonball." Long Yangyang took out a fruit from Yu Yu.

Yu Yu is at level seven, just like Long Yangyang. The power of her corn kernels is comparable to that of a small missile.

Fu Muyu nodded, covering his body with ice and time-based abilities beforehand, and nodded to Long Yangyang, indicating, "It's ready."

Long Yangyang sealed off the space around Fu Muyu, then channeled her supernatural power into the corn shell, throwing the mutated corn that was about to explode onto the transparent membrane next to Fu Muyu, and then immediately teleported outside the space-sealed area.

"Boom!" A deafening roar of artillery fire rang out, and the spot where Fu Muyu had been standing was enveloped in thick black smoke.

Because of Long Yangyang's spatial blockade, the black smoke did not dissipate within the blockade area. After breaking free of the blockade, Long Yangyang asked worriedly, "Brother Fu, are you alright?"

Fu Muyu's level was high enough to withstand the corn-shaped shells unscathed, but Long Yangyang was still very worried about Fu Muyu's safety. What if something happened to him?

After the smoke cleared, Fu Muyu stood unharmed in the same spot. Not only that, but the transparent membrane around him was still there, only it looked even more transparent, as if it would turn into bubbles and disappear at any moment.

"It actually blocked it." Long Yangyang blinked. "It's similar to Yueyao's protective shield from before." However, Yueyao's protective shield was clearly something that could be used continuously, provided that its energy was not depleted.

But this thing seems to be a disposable item; once it's used up, it's gone.

Long Yangyang conjured another spatial blade and slashed it across the transparent membrane. This time, there was no sound as the membrane shattered and vanished instantly.

“Level three or seven superpower attacks,” Fu Muyu summarized. “The defense is very strong, but I don’t know if the superpower user can attack from inside the transparent membrane, or if the superpower user’s attack will cause the membrane to break from the inside.”

Yueyao's protective shield only has a defensive function. Attacking from the inside will also consume the shield's energy, so ability users cannot use their abilities inside the shield.

If you want to attack, you have to step outside the protective shield.

“Then let’s give it a try.” Long Yangyang took out another pine nut and handed it to Fu Muyu.

Fu Muyu stood inside the transparent membrane, extended his left arm, clenched his left fist, and a silver-white ice bow appeared. Fu Muyu touched the bowstring with his right hand, and a silver-white arrow appeared.

Fu Muyu drew his bow and shot an arrow. "Whoosh—" The ice arrow pierced through the transparent membrane and landed in the ground next to Long Yangyang.

Fu Muyu fired three arrows in quick succession, but the transparent film remained completely undamaged.

Then, ice blades and ice daggers shot out again from the transparent membrane, which remained intact.

"Perfect." Long Yangyang was clearly very satisfied with the pine nut's abilities.