After Luo Wei lifted his clothes and exposed the wound that had been infected, Shen Shian stepped back a few steps later and exchanged some information with Shen Xun.

After a few minutes, Shen Shian asked the child, “Are you sure?”

Shen Xun raised his chest and nodded, “En! Leave it to me!”

At this time, Luo Wei and Tao Yuan had already walked in the direction of the moat. Shen Shian held the child and followed them, stopping them by the river away from the crowd. “I have something to discuss with you.”

Ten minutes later, Shen Shian led Shen Xun back to the open space beside the trucks. The soldiers were still sad and none of them spoke. They probably didn’t want to be seen by others. Through the night, they could only hear a few sobbing attempts to suppress it.

Sitting in the corner, Liu Fangzhou’s eyes were red, and he gritted his teeth. He wiped his tears while pulling the grass, “Why don’t good things happen to good people? Captain Luo is so good, he saved so many people, why is he infected with the zombie virus? I blame that damn Zhou Jianghai, if it were not for him, all this would not have happened! I curse him and everyone in the cigarette factory, I hope they all got bitten to death by zombies!”

Chen Nan sighed and raised his hand to pat his shoulder. Shen Shian sat opposite the two and Shen Xun sat on one of his legs. The tight fabric outlined the slender and straight legs, and his eyes were cold as he spoke, “I don’t think Zhou Jianghai is going to die easily.”

“What?!” Liu Fangzhou’s eyes widened, “When we left the cigarette factory, the number of zombies gathered near the gate was almost over 70,000, of which more than 20,000 were mutated zombies, and there was also a power zombie. With all of those, can those people still escape?”

After a fierce battle, both Chen Nan and Liu Fangzhou’s faces were not very good. Shen Shian handed them a bottle of mineral water mixed with spring water, and took out a box of milk. After inserting the straw, he handed it to the child. “The others will probably die, but Zhou Jianghai will not. His ability is a little special.”

Chen Nan was puzzled, “Isn’t his ability to heal people?” How can this power be used to survive?

Shen Shian shook his head, “That is just a guise. I suspect that his true ability is to replicate, the ability to replicate other abilities through physical contact.”

What?! Liu Fangzhou’s eyes widened again. This time he was scared, “He can copy abilities?! That healing healing ability is actually a guise? But I have seen him healing survivors multiple times. If copying is his true ability, what is this healing ability…” Liu Fangzhou soon realised something, “…he copied the healing ability from other people?”

Shen Shian nodded, “This is exactly my guess. He should have copied the healing ability before entering the base. After entering the base, he used this ability as a disguise and won the trust of others. You remember the survivors at the base saying that there would be warm current into the body of the person being treated? I think this warm current has nothing to do with the healing ability, but rather a means for him to copy abilities.” After that, it was easy for Zhou Jianghai to contact other survivors, and no one would doubt the true purpose of the warm current. Shen Shian had to admit that this was a really clever disguise.

F*ck. Liu Fangzhou swallowed his saliva and continued to speak, “B-but I was “treated” by that warm current…” And more than once, he remembered that he was often treated by the other party’s warm current.

Shen Shian stared at him, “So he also copied your ability.” Only in this way can Zhou Jianghai notice his trace when he was more than two hundred meters away. Not only that, the timing of the earth wall rising was just right, just in time when him with Tao Yuan and others were ready to rush back to the administrative building to pick up the bomb. With that timing, all people who were not under his control were perfectly isolated by the earth wall.

Under the eyes of Shen Shian, Liu Fangzhou was full of regret, and immediately admitted his mistake. “I promise to never touch the hands of an ability user ever again!”

Chen Nan was still shocked, “As long as he made contact with the person, he can copy their ability. Is Zhou Jianghai invincible?”

“There is no one invincible in this world, such a powerful ability cannot be without limits.” Shen Shian analyzed, “When I went to pick up the truck, I fought with Zhou Jianghai. During the process, he used Ma Zhongyi’s earth ability and made an earth wall. However, the scale of the earth wall, whether it was large or small, was several levels worse than the one that Ma Zhongyi himself raised. So, he can copy their abilities, but the copied abilities should be the “weak version” of the original ability.”

There was another piece of evidence that allowed Shen Shian to confirm this: Zhou Jianghai said, “It really is you” when he found him. There was a sense of relief and pride in his voice——this meant that before seeing Shen Shian in person, he wasn’t sure who came over the wall.

But this was a completely non-existent problem for Liu Fangzhou: Shen Shian’s light was very unique, a dazzling golden yellow color, and he had only encountered one of such a color. After his ability evolved, his color turned even more conspicuous, and it could be confirmed at a distance of one thousand meters.

He had already told Shen Shian about this, so Shen Shian speculated that the “scanning” ability copied by Zhou Jianghai was less elaborate. It should be able to divide zombies of different levels and survivors of different abilities into different colors, but more than 80% of all people or zombies in Zhou Jianghai’s induction should be either white or gray, and the farthest sensing distance should also be inferior to Liu Fangzhou’s one kilometer.

That being said, the power of copying abilities was really strong. As long as he copied enough abilities, Zhou Jianghai’s ultimate power was completely unimaginable——he is afraid that this was the main reason he wanted to seize power from the garrison and establish a safe base that is fully controlled by himself and is dedicated to attracting ability users.

“If that is so,” Liu Fangzhou was unwilling to believe, “There are more than 150 ability users in the base, and everyone has been “treated” by Zhou Jianghai, so he has at least more than 150 abilities???”

Shen Shian, “I’m afraid that’s the case. You should remember the three people who were missing in the base a few days ago, right? Two of them were murdered and their blood and corpses were used to attract the zombies tonight. The other one is an ability user, his ability should be to make himself and some things “evaporate” or disappear in place, and he used that ability the night Liu Fangzhou could not sense the three people. Unfortunately, Zhou Jianghai also copied this ability.” If they were to be besieged by the army of zombies, there was no better way to escape from the base than using this ability.

“F*ck! F*ck, f*ck, f*ck!” Liu Fangzhou cursed with hatred, and his eyes quickly turned red again. “Captain Luo, Captain Luo sacrifice was in vain?”

Chen Nan sighed silently, his heart was also sullen, and he didn’t know how to comfort him.

The crowd gradually calmed down, no one talked, but no one rested. Their eyes were wide open in the deep night. Near dawn, a gunshot came from the moat and someone was crying.

Tao Yuan did not allow anyone to approach him. He personally packed Luo Wei’s body into his body bag and put it in his truck. This place was not far from the moat where Shen Shian and the garrisons had picnicked together. Five trucks drove there, Tao Yuan personally dug a fifth tomb next to the four sacrificed comrades, and then buried the body bag.

The funeral was simple and solemn. The 497 people who had escaped from the base came to the scene, put a wildflower in front of the grave, and paid tribute to the soldiers in the first rays of the morning light.

After the funeral, it was the moment of parting. The soldiers seemed to have negotiated a plan: go back to find their family members first, and then set a date to gather at a specific place. Most of the survivors chose to go together to find other security bases. Some of the remaining people had their own destinations, and some chose to stay with the soldiers. There was no place to go back to anyway, so they would take it step by step.

Shen Shian returned all the materials brought from the administrative building to the soldiers, and declined the other party’s proposal for him to have part of it. As for how to distribute between them, that was not a question he needed to consider.

Tao Yuan did not participate in the distribution of materials. He found Shen Shian’s group of four people and spoke, “Mr. Shen, I want to go to Beijing with you.”

Chen Nan was a little surprised, “Why? Don’t you want to go home?”

Tao Yuan shook his head, “I am an only child, and my parents were infected with the flu virus before the apocalypse. It doesn’t make any sense for me to go back.” As for why he wanted to go to Beijing, he looked down at a military card in his palm and wore it on his neck. After a while, he wore it around his neck, then tucked it into his clothes carefully, before continuing to speak, “The captain’s home is in Beijing. I want to take this back.”

Shen Shian had no opinion, as long as he had no opinion on the dog spirit, even if there were opinions, as long as he kept quiet, Liu Fangzhou and Chen Nan naturally welcomed him.

However, before the official departure, Tao Yuan made a request. “Give me a day, I have to do something.”

After one night, the army of zombies around the base had surged to as many as 110,000, and under the control of the power zombie, the entire cigarette factory was surrounded by tons of zombies along the fence.

Although it was speculated that Zhou Jianghai’s scanning ability was inferior to that of Liu Fangzhou, for safety reasons, Shen Shian still parked his car a kilometer away from the base gate. After extinguishing the light, he turned to look at Tao Yuan in the back seat of the car. “He has a lot of abilities, you must be careful. Remember, evacuate immediately if you are found, regardless of whether Zhou Jianghai will appear or not, I will only give you 24 hours.”

Tao Yuan nodded, “I understand.” Then he jumped out of the car with a rifle bag.

He found a suitable position, and through the sight of the sniper rifle, the scene at the base gate was clearly visible.

There were many people standing on the earth wall, and everyone’s face was not very good-looking. Tao Yuan recognized the first few evolvers who attacked last night. Ma Zhongyi with his earth ability was also there, but Zhou Jianghai was nowhere to be seen.

He was not in a hurry. His breathing was steady, his heartbeat was slow, and his consciousness was clear. Like a motionless beast dormant in the sand, there was no trace of him except for those sharp eyes.

Zhou Jianghai appeared in the evening. The red clouds on the west side were extraordinarily gorgeous, the layers stretched endlessly, with the ground below stained with blood.

Tao Yuan did not move. He laid quietly on the spot, waiting for Zhou Jianghai to climb the earth wall, waiting for him to finish talking with the survivors surrounding him, waiting for him to walk to the middle of the earth wall step by step, and when he looked down to look at the situation of the zombies.

He pulled the trigger.

A gleam of silver light flew from the gun. After about 0.1 second, Zhou Jianghai seemed to raise his head consciously, and his consciousness suddenly turned into an outburst of abilities. A wall of water and vines crept up quickly. However, the sniper’s bullet passed through them with its speed and power.

Blood spattered, and a figure fell straight down from the dirt wall.

Until witnessing the zombies swarming towards the figure and eating it away, Tao Yuan withdrew his sight, stood up and separated the gun’s parts carefully. He then leaned on the wall and stared at the red clouds for a long time.

After the last ray of sun disappeared, he pulled the military card from his clothes and kissed it.

Captain, today’s sunset is really beautiful.