The Ningxing Squad kept moving along the highway. Whenever they encountered zombies, they tried their best to let Ke Bei take action.
Ke Bei's advantages were obvious. He had great strength and extremely high explosive power. However, his disadvantages were also equally evident. His combat awareness was very poor.
In order to train Ke Bei's combat awareness, Gu Kun tried his best to create opportunities for Ke Bei to make a move. So, along the way, whenever they encountered zombies, Ke Bei was the one to deal with them.
After three days and dozens of battles, Ke Bei's combat awareness gradually increased, and he had a deeper understanding of the cutting knife. Now, as long as he didn't face the purple-haired zombies, it was very difficult for an ordinary group of zombies to even touch him.
"Wu Shan City. We're here," Captain Gu Kun said with a sigh as he looked at the dilapidated city not far away.
"Once we enter the city, everyone be careful. The city is different from the wilderness."
Listening to the continuous roars coming from inside the city, Gu Kun's eyebrows furrowed with a bit more solemnity.
"Ke Bei, Chen Hu, you two stay in the middle."
Although Ke Bei had good strength, his combat experience was relatively lacking. Chen Hu was in charge of logistics and was the weakest in the Ningxing Squad. Gu Kun's arrangement was very reasonable.
"Let's go."
The seven members of the Ningxing Squad cautiously advanced along a narrow path. They carefully avoided dozens of zombie groups and finally reached their first destination, the "Guoji Hotel".
The Guoji Hotel was the ruins of a five-star hotel, thirty-six stories high. Generally speaking, zombies wouldn't climb stairs. The higher up, the safer it was.
The task of the Ningxing Squad this time wasn't to hunt and kill zombies but to find out if the Divine Race existed here. It was impossible to predict how long it would take to complete the task, so they needed to choose a suitable temporary residence.
"Let's go to the rooftop."
"If there are zombies in the building, kill them with one strike. Try not to make any noise."
The seven members of the Ningxing Squad kept climbing up the stairs.
Since there were no zombies in the corridor, in a short while, the seven of them reached the rooftop.
"Wang Shan, block the stairway entrance," Captain Gu Kun ordered.
"We'll rest for one night to prevent any unwise zombies from rushing up here."
"Got it."
Wang Shan responded and carried over a stone carving weighing several thousand jin that was placed in the northwest corner of the rooftop, blocking the stairway entrance tightly.
"Eat something."
Chen Hu opened his backpack, took out some dried meat and water, and distributed them to everyone.
After walking for three consecutive days, both mentally and physically, everyone was a bit tired. After eating something, they lay down and fell asleep. Soon, loud snores echoed in the empty and silent night.
Listening to his teammates' snores, Ke Bei opened his eyes and looked at the sky. He tossed and turned but couldn't fall asleep. Since he couldn't fall asleep, he might as well not sleep. Ke Bei sat cross-legged and began to practice the Peiyuan Gong.
His strength was now almost equivalent to that of twenty-six ordinary people, but he still hadn't received the system's prompt. He didn't know when he could receive the tempering of the third layer of the Dragon-Elephant Prajna Gong.
After practicing the Peiyuan Gong for a while, Ke Bei slowly opened his eyes. For some reason, he couldn't calm down today. He sat cross-legged for a long time but still couldn't enter a state of concentration.
Just as Ke Bei was staring blankly at the stars in the sky, a clear voice suddenly sounded in his mind.
"Kill three general-level demon beasts within one month. Does the host accept this task?"
Upon hearing the system's prompt, Ke Bei was stunned.
He really didn't dare to accept this task.
General-level demon beasts were comparable to the elementary Divine Race. Not to mention Ke Bei now, even if he had completely received the inheritance of the upper volume of the Dragon-Elephant Prajna Gong, he still wouldn't dare to face a general-level demon beast.
"Damn it, what kind of crazy task is this? General-level demon beasts, and there are three of them!"
Ke Bei was depressed. After successfully completing two tasks in a row, his strength had increased greatly, and he had already tasted the benefits. Now that the system presented another task, he was unwilling to give it up. But if he accepted it, there seemed to be no hope at all.
"Sigh, I don't know how much my strength can increase after receiving the inheritance of the upper volume of the Dragon-Elephant Prajna Gong. By then, combined with my throwing knife technique, I should be able to fight against a general-level demon beast, right?"
Ke Bei didn't want to give up any task. Since he didn't want to give up, he could only try to persuade himself. Although he didn't even believe that he could fight against a general-level demon beast after receiving the inheritance of the upper volume of the Dragon-Elephant Prajna Gong, it could at least comfort himself.
"I accept."
Grimacing, Ke Bei finally couldn't bear to give up.
"Hurry up and practice the Peiyuan Gong, and receive the tempering of the third layer of the Dragon-Elephant Prajna Gong as soon as possible."
Ke Bei was a bit anxious. He had to receive the third layer of tempering as soon as possible. Otherwise, with his current strength, even if he encountered a general-level demon beast, he wouldn't be enough for the beast to swallow in one bite.
The night passed without any incident. When the first ray of dawn shone down, Ke Bei opened his eyes. Moments later, the other members of the Ningxing Squad also woke up.
"Zhao Hai, take out the binoculars and observe the movement of the zombies," Captain Gu Kun said to Zhao Hai, who was always in charge of reconnaissance work.
"Sure thing. Hehe,guys, watch your Brother Hai's performance. If there really is a Divine Race here, I will definitely dig it out."
Zhao Hai smiled, opened his backpack, took out the binoculars, and crouched down by the edge of the rooftop to observe carefully.
"Captain, something's not right," Zhao Hai said with a serious expression after looking for more than ten minutes.
"The density of the zombies has increased tenfold, and every wandering zombie group is very regular."
"Every zombie group is the same. It's led by three purple-haired zombies, followed by twenty green-haired zombies and about a hundred red-haired zombies."
Gu Kun frowned and took the binoculars from Zhao Hai's hand to look down.
"These zombie groups are on patrol. Damn it, it seems that there really is a Divine Race that has sneaked here."
Upon hearing Gu Kun's words, all the team members' expressions turned grim.
"Captain, what should we do? Go back now?" Sun Ze touched his long spear and asked.
"Go back. We can't deal with the Divine Race."
The discovery of the Divine Race meant that this task ended smoothly, but Gu Kun wasn't happy. A group of zombies with a Divine Race in charge wasn't easy to deal with. Even if the Guardian Squad could send out experts to kill it, the price they would pay wouldn't be small. There would definitely be many humans who would bleed or even lose their lives because of it.
"Wait a moment, Captain. Look over here," Zhao Hai exclaimed suddenly and pointed downwards.
Gu Kun took the binoculars and looked in the direction Zhao Hai was pointing at.
"It's the people from the Free Martial Artists Alliance. Why are they here too?"
In a street less than five hundred meters away from here, a group of nine people wearing battle suits with a blood-colored short sword embroidered on their chests were fighting against a group of zombies.
This team was from the Blood Sword Alliance, one of the three major forces of the Free Martial Artists Alliance in Lingfeng Base City.
"Damn it! Didn't they say there weren't many zombies in Wu Shan City?"
A bald and muscular man chopped off the neck of a red-haired zombie with a single slash and cursed angrily.
"Boss Liu, the guys can't hold on much longer. Think of a way to retreat," a man with a crew cut retreated to the front of the bald and muscular man and said urgently.
"Kill our way out! We can't stay in the street."
The bald and muscular man slashed out several times fiercely, killing more than a dozen red-haired zombies blocking his way, and quickly made a decision.
"Charge!"
The bald and muscular man had the strength of the third polar peak level. Under his frenzied killing, he temporarily cleared a path in the zombie group. The nine of them quickly followed the bald and muscular man and charged towards the end of the street.
"Roar, roar~~"
Just as the group was about to charge out of the street entrance, a series of roars suddenly sounded. Another group of red-haired zombies, led by three purple-haired zombies, rushed over from the street exit.
This team was trapped in the street. If there were no unexpected circumstances, they were in great danger.
At this moment, the Ningxing Squad on the top floor of the Guoji Hotel witnessed everything happening in the street.
"Captain, should we save them?" Zhao Hai asked Gu Kun. Without help, the people from the Free Martial Artists Alliance would all die under the claws of the zombies.
"Check how many zombie groups there are nearby," Gu Kun said after a moment of silence.
Zhao Hai took the binoculars and quickly observed.
"There's another zombie group within one kilometer. There are three in total."
Three zombie groups meant there were nine purple-haired zombies, sixty green-haired zombies, and three hundred red-haired zombies.
"Go downstairs," Gu Kun said with a frown after thinking for a moment. He clenched his fists tightly and ordered in a deep voice.
"Aren't they from the Free Martial Artists Alliance? Why do we have to take the risk?" Ke Bei asked in a low voice, not understanding Gu Kun's decision.
"Because they are also human beings," Gu Kun stopped, turned around, and looked straight at Ke Bei.
"Human beings may kill each other because of hatred, but I can't just stand by and watch a group of beasts tear our own kind apart."