Outpost

It was eight in the evening.

With most of the Illusion Worm’s neurotoxins dissipated, a small number of zombies appeared nearby.

Ping Chengcheng had already directed the Emergency Strike Team to find an intact apartment building nearby that could be used as a temporary outpost.

After clearing the entire apartment building, the girl pondered for a moment and chose to leave the first squad of the Emergency Strike Team and more than sixty members of the Collection Team here.

This included the little girl, Qian Yu. The closer they got to A City, the more dangerous it would be. This place, thanks to the Illusion Worms’ toxins, was actually the safest.

Leaving behind a month’s worth of food rations, tens of thousands of bullets, and dozens of tactical items, there wouldn’t be any accidents here unless they encountered an extremely powerful Variant.

The entire apartment building had a total of six floors, with 12 rooms on each floor, enough to accommodate everyone in the convoy if they squeezed in.

At ten o’clock in the evening, Song Ning was practicing combat techniques alone in front of the apartment building. Fighting monsters and zombies required more than just overwhelming power and speed; skill was equally important.

For her, now that she had the support of the exoskeleton, she could perform many actions that she couldn’t do before. After mastering them, she could further improve her strength.

It would be great if she could learn some methodical swordsmanship or something.

At the top of the apartment building, the wind was strong, but being far from the ground made the air feel fresher, although it was a well-worn phrase.

Ping Chengcheng sat on the edge of the rooftop, swinging her little feet with interest.

The fog had thinned out, leaving only a few wisps of mist on the roof. The girl could see the young woman practicing, wielding a black bone blade.

Ping Chengcheng was very familiar with these things. As someone who had survived in the apocalypse for a full three years in her previous life, she had lived as a lone wolf for a long time.

She had once had an apocalypse team, but it was because of that team that the girl had suffered betrayal, so she spent most of her time alone afterward.

One of the biggest taboos in an apocalypse was using firearms, so Ping Chengcheng was skilled at chopping zombies and mutated monsters.

Once in her previous life, she had a very thrilling experience. The girl encountered a Butcher in the cafeteria of an elementary school.

At that time, she was out of ammunition and food, and only managed to survive by sticking a specially made long knife from the base into the Butcher’s head.

Song Ning’s movements were very inexperienced. The girl could see that she was trying to find a way to touch the threshold of skilled use of a blade.

Ping Chengcheng hesitated about whether she should teach Song Ning a thing or two.

She was a little afraid that Song Ning would become stronger and then escape her control.

However… if Song Ning became stronger, she wouldn’t have to worry about her getting into trouble if they encountered danger in the future… After all, she had to protect her sister, right?

So the girl stood up, the wind whistling in her ears, her short hair dancing in the night.

She smiled faintly and leaped from the high rooftop.

Landing lightly on the ground with a crisp “click” sound, the girl landed in front of Song Ning, startling her.

“Chengcheng?”

Ping Chengcheng gave a cute “Mmm” sound. “Sister, you’re too clumsy. Let me teach you~”

“I’ve been watching you for a while now, but I found that you haven’t made any substantial progress in so long.”

“Let me demonstrate to you how to swing a knife to unleash all your power!”

Saying that, the girl took the bone blade from Song Ning’s hand and adopted a very standard standing posture, gripping the knife.

Then, in Song Ning’s gaze, the girl twisted her waist, driving her slender arm, and the bone blade turned into a black stream of light.

“Hoo!”

That was the sound of a sharp blade cutting through the air! The sound was loud, startling Song Ning.

Just listening to it, the power seemed to be more than a notch above hers.

“Sister, you have to use your core to drive your entire upper body, oh~” the girl winked, teasing. Although this was the most basic thing, the girl had spent a whole month in her previous life to master these things.

Song Ning nodded knowingly. “I understand. I’ll try again.”

She took out her own bone blade again, recalling the girl’s movements and words.

The bone blade drew a beautiful arc of black light!

The sound of the wind breaking was the same as the sound the girl had just made!

Ping Chengcheng stood there dumbfounded.

“Huh? She understood after just one demonstration and one sentence?”

Song Ning, on the other hand, was in a great mood. She had found the feel of swinging the knife.

Presumably, the power of her slashes would increase significantly.

If she faced that Imposter again, the damage she inflicted with the bone blade would no longer be scratching, but scraping bone.

Ping Chengcheng blinked, suddenly feeling like she was trash, but then she thought it was normal.

Song Ning’s athletic ability was good to begin with. In her previous life, before the apocalypse, the girl was just an ordinary boy, and her physical fitness was that of a standard layabout.

But Song Ning? Her physical fitness was stronger than many men, so it was normal for her to be able to do this.

This was also a good thing, which meant that her ability would be even more powerful. If there were times when she couldn’t protect her sister, or…

If she didn’t obtain the medicine to suppress the Variant in the A City base’s laboratory this time, at least the abilities and strength that her sister could possess would allow her to protect herself.

So Ping Chengcheng unreservedly imparted all her close combat experience from the past three years in the apocalypse to Song Ning.

Song Ning’s advantage was that her learning ability was very strong, and her nerve reaction speed, etc., were all quite outrageous.

Before Ping Chengcheng taught her these things, Song Ning could fight her to a draw, but now…

After teaching seriously for an hour, Ping Chengcheng wasn’t sure if she could suppress Song Ning anymore.

Of course, if it was a deathmatch, the winner would definitely be Ping Chengcheng. The girl, who had just obtained the Imposter’s ability, had greatly enhanced defense, and was probably quite difficult to kill.

As for the possession ability?

The girl roughly sensed that this was an ability that could be used to amplify others. The girl could transform into her tentacle body and choose any creature to possess on the surface of their body.

At the same time, this skill also had a more brutal way of using it, which was to directly invade and connect to the other party’s brain to achieve perfect control and fusion. This would allow the possessed object to gain strength beyond their own, and the girl would also be able to perfectly hide her body within the other party.

This was a common trick used by the Imposter to deceive people, controlling the other party’s brain, hiding himself within the other party’s body, and then luring more humans.