The Absolute Favorite in the Apocalyptic Rebirth

A beast's howl opened the curtain of the night and woke Lou Ling from her sleep.

She sat up and subconsciously touched the Tang saber beside her. Her whole body was like an unsheathed sword, full of sharpness.

"Brother? Lou Dian?"

Lou Ling suddenly found that she was the only one in the room. The man who had been with her was not there. A strange feeling rose in her heart, but it was not panic. She probably understood that the man was strong enough to protect himself. Even if he was not in front of her, she would not worry about him. After a moment, she jumped out of bed, quickly put on her shoes, and came to the window.

They lived on the second floor with a wider view. Lou Ling looked out and found that all kinds of different abilities lit up in front of the next house, including fireballs, lightning, wind blades, and earth walls. It seemed that their team was well equipped, and almost all five elements' abilities were included. In front of the house, more than a dozen wolves were staring at them. From time to time, some wolves attacked the erected earth wall. In the dark, green eyes were staring at them. Lou Ling gasped. How many mutated wolves were there?

Soon, Lou Ling saw a giant wolf that was several times larger than a normal wolf not far behind the attacking mutated wolves. It stood there, followed by a group of mutated wolves that were smaller than it. It looked like the king of the wolves.

Just as Lou Ling was concentrating on watching, she quickly found two wolves sneaking towards the house. When they jumped onto the wall and were about to jump down, they were suddenly entangled by the iron wire rattan that had been quietly climbing on the wall. The iron wire rattan tightened the limbs of the mutated wolves, making them howl miserably, and then threw them out of the courtyard.

There were still mutated wolves rushing towards this side, but they were quickly stopped by the wolf king.

The wolf king seemed to have wisdom. It looked at her with its green eyes, as if warning her. Lou Ling felt a chill down her spine, and her palms were a little wet.

The wolf pack's attack continued, and all kinds of sounds came from next door from time to time. Lou Ling thought for a moment, went downstairs, gave the iron wire rattan some abilities, and sat at the door of the hall on the first floor with the Tang saber to guard. According to the number of wolves, the several ability users next door were not their opponents at all. If they wanted to drive away the mutated wolves, they had to return the wolf cubs.

Suddenly, Lou Ling heard a slight sound and looked back to find someone coming down from upstairs.

It was dark, and she could only vaguely see his outline. When he came to her, she breathed a sigh of relief and asked, "Brother, where did you go just now?"

"On the roof." Lou Dian came over, pulled her up, and said, "Don't worry, the wolf king wants to deal with those people next door, it has nothing to do with us, unless we help them fight against the wolves."

After hearing his words, Lou Ling's heart moved, and she felt that her previous guess was right. The wolf king was very intelligent after the mutation, and even knew how to warn people. Fortunately, she didn't let the iron wire rattan kill the two wolves just now, otherwise they would be attacked by the wolves now.

Lou Ling didn't ask him what he was doing on the roof. She originally wanted to sit quietly in the hall and watch the battle outside, but Lou Dian used the excuse that they would return to the base tomorrow to let her go up and rest to conserve her energy. How could she sleep at this time?

Thinking of this, she was still forcibly taken back to the room on the second floor by him, and then he sat on the edge of the bed, watching her lie down, his warm big hand stroking her hair again and again.

"Lou Dian, I can't sleep." She said honestly, at this time, being able to sleep means being heartless.

Lou Dian sighed, knowing that she couldn't sleep until the wolves retreated. After a while, he said, "Okay, when the wolves retreat, you must sleep."

A little dissatisfied with his coaxing tone, Lou Ling snorted, jumped up, got up and went to watch the battle between humans and wolves below. As for whether to help or not, if they were ordinary people, Lou Ling would not hesitate to help. After knowing that they stole the wolf cubs and these wolves were here to get the wolf cubs back, Lou Ling had no intention of helping at all. She thought to herself, wouldn't it be better if they just returned the wolf cubs? No matter how important the task is, it is not as important as life, right?

The two watched at the window for a while, and saw that the ability users below were obviously unable to continue, and they might be breached by the wolves soon. Lou Dian suddenly jumped out of the window on the second floor and stood on the high courtyard wall. From here, he could clearly see the situation next door.

When he appeared, the ability users next door had already noticed him.

Qin Ling, who was attacking the mutated wolf that jumped onto the wall with fire, looked at him in surprise and joy. Her face was flushed with the firelight, and she cried out in surprise, "Lou Dian!"

Lou Dian didn't look at her, and even seemed to have not heard her.

Li Chuan protected the entire courtyard with his mental power and said, "Mr. Lou, can you do me a favor? We are all human beings, at this time, we should work together to overcome the difficulties. If Mr. Lou can help, we will definitely thank you."

The others also waited nervously, and after a while, they heard the other party's voice, "You should see that the wolves did not attack us. If we help you, we will also become the target of the wolves' attack. Sorry, I don't do this kind of losing business."

At this moment, the wolf king finally made a move.

Everyone only felt a gust of wind rushing towards them. Qin Ling, who was standing beside them, suddenly screamed, her whole body flew out, and then was caught by one of the ability users. Upon closer inspection, a claw mark with exposed bones ran diagonally from her right forehead to her left cheek, her right eyeball exploded, and her entire face was covered in blood.

Qin Ling was in so much pain that she couldn't even scream, and she fainted just like that.

"Qin Ling!" Everyone exclaimed.

At this time, Lou Dian also made a move. He stopped the wolf king who was pouncing on other ability users, and at the same time, his mental power also attacked the wolf king. That huge and terrifying mental power also made the wolf king pause, its whole body exploded, and it fell back to the ground, making a threatening sound from its throat.

Lou Dian jumped off the wall and stood outside the door, confronting the wolf king. Because the wolf king made a move, the wolves also retreated outside, crowding the street outside the door.

Seeing that Lou Dian forced the wolf king back, everyone breathed a sigh of relief.

Lou Dian didn't give them any chance of luck. He said coldly, "Why don't you return the things to the wolf king? Do you want all of you to die here?"

Everyone was stunned, hearing him speak so rudely, several hot-tempered people couldn't help it anymore. Li Chuan argued, "What are you talking about? We didn't take anything from them."

Lou Dian glanced at them. In order to drive away the wolves, they lit torches around them. The whole world was illuminated by orange-red light, and he could clearly see the expressions on these people's faces.

Lou Dian always disdained people who were related to the research institute, but these people, although not from the research institute, had a close relationship with the research institute. His eyes fell from Qin Ling's unconscious face to the ability user holding Qin Ling, and another ability user who was obviously protecting Qin Ling.

The two ability users were glanced at by him lightly, and for some reason, a chill rose in their hearts.

Lou Dian directly put away his Tang saber and snorted coldly, "Since you want to die, don't blame others for not helping you, and I don't have this obligation!" After speaking, he turned and walked towards the next door.

Li Chuan was anxious, and even one of the ability users said resentfully, "Everyone is human, are you still human if you just stand by?"

Hearing this, not to mention Lou Ling, who was watching the battle upstairs, was about to laugh angrily. Li Chuan also felt a little embarrassed. They had done a lot of things like leaving people to die every time they went on a mission. When facing a group of zombies, those ordinary people would only end up being abandoned. This kind of thing can also be called leaving people to die. It's just that those were ordinary people. They didn't feel anything when they died, and even felt that it was right. Why should they face danger for the sake of irrelevant people? But when their own lives are threatened, if others stand by and watch, they will feel resentment in their hearts, and they will blame others for not saving them.

This is a double standard. Although contradictory, many people will have this kind of psychology when facing danger.

"Instead of having the strength to accuse me, an irrelevant person, of having to save you, it's better not to be so greedy and return those wolf cubs to the wolf king." Lou Dian said sarcastically, "Be clear-headed, don't grow muscles but not brains. People like you who live in this world are just wasting food on the earth."

Hearing Lou Dian's words, several people's expressions changed slightly, and they couldn't care less about the sarcasm behind them, but they were a little surprised how he knew that they had stolen the wolf cubs.

Seeing that Lou Dian didn't look back, Li Chuan looked back at Qin Ling, whose breath was weak, estimated the current situation, and decisively decided to give up this mission, and asked someone to carry out the few wolf cubs locked in a special iron cage in the house and put them at the door to return them to the wolf king.

The wolves finally retreated.

The wolf king was not reconciled to letting go of the murderer who stole their cubs and killed their companions, but unfortunately, there was another dangerous man beside him. The huge mental pressure was too terrifying, and in the end, he could only reluctantly pick up the wolf cubs and retreat with the wolves.

After Lou Dian came back, Lou Ling said to him, "They are really annoying, they only have double standards!"

In such a dangerous world, Lou Ling never thought about waiting for someone to save her like a weak person. Even if she was really in danger and no one came to save her, she would not resent irrelevant people for not coming to save her. Only when people are strong enough to have enough strength can they free up their hands to save others. If everyone is in danger, it is up to others to save you or not. If you feel resentful because the person does not help, you just want to ask, why?

A smile appeared on Lou Dian's face, and he said, "Yes, there are many people with double standards in this world, and we just happened to meet them today."

Lou Ling frowned, but quickly relaxed it, and asked about the injuries of those people. Hearing that one of the women in red had half of her face scratched and even her eyeballs exploded, she couldn't help covering her face, thinking that it must be very painful.

Who knows if she is in pain or not?

Lou Dian thought casually while washing his face. She always prided herself on her beauty, like a queen, confident that men should hold her, love her, and cherish her… It's a pity that even her eyes exploded this time. Without her beauty, she will probably be hit hard, right? What a pleasant thing.

After washing his face and taking the towel handed over by the girl next to him to wipe the water droplets, the smile on his face became more gentle. How could he let them die so quickly? It is also a kind of fun to destroy the things they care about little by little.

In this life, no one can calculate or separate them again.

When it was dawn, Lou Ling got up.

They were going back to the base today. It would be better to drive back when the sun was not so strong in the morning, so they didn't sleep in. After breakfast, they were ready to set off.

Before leaving, Lou Ling went to see the iron wire rattan first. Seeing that it was still growing well, but because it was spawned by abilities, it seemed to be less energetic than the wild one. After checking, she found that it was because she didn't give them abilities. And because she let them grow too fast, they were a little weak at the moment, they looked listless, showing signs of old age.

After thinking about it, Lou Ling tried to output her abilities, let the iron wire rattan grow rapidly, then age, and finally turned into a seed.

From the whole to zero.

This was the first time she tried this. Lou Ling picked up the seed and was so happy that she almost jumped up. But soon she was overwhelmed with joy.

She overused her abilities, her brain throbbed, her face was pale, cold sweat broke out, and her limbs were weak.

Lou Dian was the first to notice her abnormality and decisively picked her up and sent her back to bed. After discovering that her abilities were exhausted and she was about to break through the zero level and be promoted to a first-level ability user, he was both angry and distressed. In the end, seeing her holding her forehead in pain, he could only postpone the time to return to the base.

"It's okay, I'll be fine after a rest." Lou Ling's face was pale, but she still tried to ignore the discomfort and comforted him.

Because he looked more uncomfortable than her, it made her feel as if he was the one whose abilities were exhausted.

Like them, Li Chuan and the others next door did not leave either. They were all recovering from their injuries, each with a haggard look and a mess.

Although the mutated wolves had retreated, they still couldn't relax. In addition, everyone had overused their abilities and had not yet recovered, so they didn't look very good.

Li Chuan looked at Qin Ling, who had been unconscious since the injection yesterday, with a solemn expression. Like him, the other people next to him also had solemn expressions. They were all ability users sent by the Qin family to protect Qin Ling, but they didn't expect that Qin Ling would be the most seriously injured in the end. If it wasn't for the coincidence, they would all think that someone was deliberately targeting Qin Ling.

Why did the crazy mutated wolf target Qin Ling so coincidentally in the woods? Last night, the mutated wolves came to attack, and Qin Ling was also protected at the back by everyone. Why did the wolf king choose to injure her first?

Li Chuan also wondered if it was the man named Lou Dian next door who did it. Although Qin Ling seemed to like him very much, Qin Ling was injured, but he didn't come to visit, he was completely like a stranger. In addition, they deliberately took a detour in the woods yesterday, and his malicious tone last night, so it's no wonder that he would suspect him. Of course, there is no basis for this kind of thing, and it is not easy to say anything.

"Brother Li, Miss Qin is so badly injured, why don't you contact Mr. Qin?" One ability user suggested.

Li Chuan's face darkened, he glanced at Qin Ling, whose half of her face was covered with white bandages, and nodded, "That's the only way."

The author has something to say: Today's goal:

Lou Ling's goal: Try to stick to the principle!

Lou Dian's goal: Try to destroy the enemy!

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