Chapter 932: Section 613: Desolate City (Part 1)
Meng Quyi was awakened by the noise of the mechanical vessel flying over her head; the girl rolled over and crawled up from the floor, shivering slightly as she approached the window to see a mechanical vessel descending beside the Bell Tower.
People had arrived, which was good news, but the bad news was that they had misjudged her location. When Meng Quyi saw the mechanical vessel making a second descent in the southern part of the city, she knew she had to move—she needed to head towards the Bell Tower or to the south to find someone, depending on what paths Chaos and the zombies left open for her.
If Chaos and the zombies were fighting fiercely in the north, then Meng Quyi could only continue to wait.
The truth was, before Meng Quyi could flee, fighting had already broken out here. Chaos’s troops had entered the city from the north, battling the northward-moving zombies. Her neighborhood had become a battlefield.
To avoid exposing herself, Meng Quyi had no choice but to apply a Breath-Concealing Spell on herself, and then she used a spell to completely destroy the staircase leading to the second floor.
Before Meng Quyi could catch her breath, Chaos forces had stormed into the first floor of her building. These Chaos soldiers, armed with antique firearms, howled as they attempted to utilize this strategic high point to combat the zombies. They noticed the destroyed staircase and, in desperation, tried to climb up, but the zombies had already surged forward; thus, Meng Quyi could only curl up tightly while listening to the screams, gunshots, chewing sounds, and the noise of knives sinking into flesh below.
During this chaos, a hand had reached over the edge of the second floor, and a soldier from Chaos, who locked eyes with Meng Quyi, was about to shout, but suddenly he fell, his shout turning into a terrified scream. Meng Quyi’s Mage Hand failed to grasp the throat of Fate, and the soldier from Chaos could not complete his shout of Fate, instead being dragged down by the zombies.
Life was completing a cycle between them.
Meng Quyi then made a decision to let her Activating Vine pull down furniture next to her, blocking her direct line of sight to the edge.
Then she applied a Grease Spell at the edge.
Soon after, she heard curses, the sound of heavy objects falling, some arguing voices below, but quickly the howls of the zombies once again resounded continuously.