41 The Reason of Betrayal

"Brother Xiao, we got Xie Dong killed this time, so no one will shield us from the zombies next time!" At the moment, the four were hiding in a room in this small building; sitting almost equally spaced from each other and talking. 

Huang Xiao smiled carelessly and said, "What are you afraid of? Xie Dong's fire wall is gone, but have you forgotten my tornado? Besides, my power is going to upgrade soon. Without Xie Dong, the position of Captain will just be mine."

"Hehe… You're right. Our Brother Xiao is no worse than Xie Dong. We let Xie Dong be the Captain, but he took the best of our earnings every time. What we got was always ridiculously little." 

"Yeah, yeah! He got all the good things each time. And that woman in the base, she should have belonged to our Brother Xiao, but he seduced her with food. Without him, she would have been in our Brother Xiao's bed long ago!"

Speaking of that woman, Huang Xiao had his face darkened, followed by a strong jealousy flashing across his eyes.

But soon, he began laughing as he said with pride, "Women… As long as I have the resources, isn't it easy to get them into my bed? Besides, as Xie Dong is no longer with us, who will stop me when I'm back? She doesn't want to be with me, but so what? I can do whatever I want to her, can't I? I can sleep with her whenever I want, ah-hum…Haha…"

At the end of his speech, he began laughing with a creepy look that any man could understand. 

"Haha…You're right!" The others glanced at each other and laughed together. Their laughter contained the same special meaning. 

"Brother Xiao, when you return to the base and absorb all the zombie and energy nuclei we now have, you should be able to break into level four, right? Level-four wind power is much more useful than fire power. One wind blade can cut off a zombie's head, which'll be much more effective than Xie Dong's fireballs," said a level-two superpowered one flatteringly. 

Hearing this, Huang Xiao laughed and responded proudly, "I would have finished him off long ago if his level-four fire wall hadn't been holding off quite some zombies and saving us a lot of efforts. But fortunately, we had him with us that time, so we could stall the zombie leader with him. Otherwise, we wouldn't even have had the time to enter the space!" 

The other three people nodded quickly with a lingering fear. Their faces involuntarily paled when they thought of that zombie leader.

"Exactly! I had never thought we could be so unlucky. We actually ran into a zombie leader which could hardly be encountered by the others. It's a shame that the zombie leader was at its peak of power, and we were no match for it, or we would have made a great fortune with its nucleus!"

"You're right!"

Speaking of the zombie leader's nucleus, the others showed a greedy look in their eyes as well.

Holding a bottle of water, Huang Xiao took a sip and said regretfully, "Unfortunately, we didn't get Xie Dong's energy nucleus either…Such a loss! A level-four energy nucleus is enough for me to break into level-four." 

At that moment, none of the men in the room managed to discover that Xie Dong was grinding his teeth while listening to their conversation behind the closed door. His eyes bulged, veins standing out on each side of his forehead while his fists were clenched tightly. 

He couldn't have imagined that in addition to the betrayal, Huang Xiao also wanted his energy nucleus, and had been casting greedy eyes on his woman! 

'Very well! A bunch of damnable ungrateful souls!' He cursed silently.

In the room, Huang Xiao and the others were feeling pity for not getting Xie Dong's energy when they got him killed. 

Bang—Clang!

A sudden noise was heard from the door as it was kicked open by someone with an incredible force, which was great enough to send the iron door flying into the room and make it fall on the ground loudly. 

The four in the room immediately leaped up, alertly pointing their weapons at the door as quickly as possible. However, they didn't fire their guns right away, because they saw a familiar figure standing by the door.

"Xie Dong! You're not dead!" One of them shouted out loud in astonishment once he clearly saw that it was Xie Dong standing by the door. 

Bang!

All that responded him was a bullet. 

That man stared at his own chest as he failed to immediately realize what was happening. In confusion, he watched his own blood gushing out of the bullet hole in his chest, and seeping into his clothes. 

Xie Dong closed his eyes and took a deep breath. The aroma of blood immediately boosted the sense of hunger in his stomach; meanwhile, a voice sounded in his mind. 

'Eat him! Eat him! Eat him!'

Right at this moment, an air blade sliced through the air and flew at him. Xie Dong slightly turned his head and dodged that air blade without even opening his eyes. 

Puff!

The air blade left a deep cut on the wall behind him. 

"Xie Dong? Haha… Aren't you dead? Great! I was feeling a little pity for letting that zombie leader have your energy nucleus, but I didn't expect that you'd actually survive! However, that's not the point! The point is…you brought yourself back to die…Hahaha!"

He wasn't showing any look of guilt. On the contrary, he seemed relaxed, because he didn't need to try so hard pretending anymore. This had turned into an open fight, an encounter of enemies. 

Xie Dong blocked the voice in his head with an effort, struggling to make himself ignore that tempting sweet aroma. Enduring the sense of hunger, he stared at Huang Xiao with a dark face when his hands moved suddenly, firing his gun at another person. 

Bang!

"Em… Xie Dong, you…" That person didn't think that Xie Dong would actually divert his attention and launch a lethal attack on him while staring at Huang Xiao. And the worst part was, he wasn't preparing for Xie Dong's attack at all. Before he could dodge, a bullet hit him in the heart; his teammate who got shot the first was shot in the heart as well.

Xie Dong didn't even glance at him, but continued staring at Huang Xiao coldly. He didn't react too much to Huang Xiao's pretentious words, and he surely wouldn't say a word to wrangle with him. 

After all, he could not talk at that moment in the slightest bit!

After shooting the second man dead, Xie Dong turned the gun on Huang Xiao. 

Huang Xiao ignored his gun and laughed coldly, "As a level-four superpowered man, you're holding a gun? Let me guess…Is it because your superpower has run out and not recovered yet? Haha…Do you think you can defeat me with a shitty gun?"

He didn't say 'us', as he had left the other three out of his side by now. Two of them had died anyway, and the last one was completely ignorable. 

While speaking, Huang Xiao raised both hands and started a wild wind around his body. The one who hadn't been shot by Xie Dong was standing aside all this time. 

This man who wasn't killed immediately by Xie Dong originally didn't have a superpower. At least, he wasn't a superpowered one in the eyes of the rest of the team. But earlier on, he had disappeared along with Huang Xiao and the others.