bookbashuk Chapter 93 Wasteland Zombies
Chapter 93 Wasteland Zombies
As the first rays of dawn broke through the horizon, Dawn City was still shrouded in a thin mist.
"Clang clang clang!"
The urgent sound of gongs shattered the silence.
"Oh no! Oh no!"
Four patrolmen stood on the wall, pointing outside the residential area, their expressions utterly terrified.
Li Hao suddenly opened his eyes.
The next second, he was already on the balcony.
Their gaze turned towards the outside of the residential area.
The once continuous green mountains, forests, and hills have all disappeared.
Instead, there was an endless expanse of urban ruins.
Collapsed high-rise buildings, twisted steel bars, broken license plates, streets overgrown with weeds, and abandoned vehicles lying haphazardly.
Everything was shrouded in a gray morning mist, deathly silent and desolate.
"this……"
Li Wen rushed out of the room, stood next to Li Hao, and stared wide-eyed. "Brother, where...where is this?"
Chen Sihan ran out wrapped in her coat and hugged Li Hao's arm. When she saw the scene outside, she covered her mouth and couldn't speak.
"Clang clang clang!"
The gong is still ringing.
Everyone in the community was awakened and rushed to the wall.
"What's wrong? What happened?"
"Oh my god! What happened outside?"
"Where are our mountains? Where are our forests?"
"Where is this?"
Panic spread rapidly.
As Wang Hao dressed, he rushed up the wall, his face turning ashen as he stared at the ruins.
Zhang Xiaonan, Zhao Meng, Liu Xueqin, Wang Yi and others also arrived one after another.
It landed next to Wang Hao.
Some residents gathered at the large iron gate, looking through the railings at the changed world outside in shock.
"Blood Moon..." Wang Hao murmured, "Last night's blood moon...it really did cause trouble."
Li Hao leaped onto the wall, his gaze sweeping over the desolate ruins.
The implanted intelligent brain unit automatically began scanning the surrounding environment.
[Environmental analysis in progress...]
[High concentrations of unknown pathogen particulate matter detected; wearing a mask or maintaining an energy barrier is recommended]
[A large number of biological signals have been detected, approximately 800 meters away, and are moving towards this area.]
[Number of biosignals: Approximately 300...500... The number is continuously increasing]
[Biosignature characteristics: Abnormal life form, varying energy levels, initially identified as a "zombie-like" creature]
"Zombies?" Li Hao frowned slightly.
"What? Zombies?" Li Wen, who was standing next to him, changed his expression upon hearing this. "Brother, you're saying there are zombies outside?"
The voice just fell.
"roar!"
A deep roar came from the depths of the ruins.
Immediately afterwards, more and more roars rang out, one after another, approaching like a tide.
All eyes turned toward the direction from which the sound came.
At the end of the ruined street, the first dark figures appeared.
They staggered over, some wearing tattered clothes, some rotting all over, some missing limbs, but without exception, they all had gaping mouths and eyes gleaming with hunger.
"It really is a zombie!" someone screamed.
"Run!"
"They're charging!"
Terrified screams erupted from the crowd, and some people began to back away.
"Don't panic!" Wang Hao shouted. "The walls are so high, they can't get in! Everyone grab your weapons and prepare for battle!"
His voice calmed some people, but fear continued to spread.
Li Hao didn't speak, but simply watched the zombies getting closer and closer.
The first batch of about fifty were the most ordinary walking corpses, moving slowly and with weak energy fluctuations.
[Ordinary Zombie]
Bioenergy intensity ≈ 20-35 standard units
[Strength Level: Level 0]
【Characteristics: Slow movement, low attack power, weak point is the head】
"That's it?" Li Wen also saw the slow-moving zombies and couldn't help but laugh out loud. "They're way too weak!"
He was eager to try, "Brother, let me give it a shot!"
Li Hao glanced at him: "Be careful."
"rest assured!"
Li Wen bent his legs slightly, activated his leg armor, and soared into the air, flying towards the group of zombies.
"Watch me!"
With a wave of his right hand, a ball of flame roared out and crashed into the horde of zombies.
"boom!"
Flames exploded, instantly setting three or four zombies ablaze. Their bodies burned into fireballs as they collapsed to the ground, struggling.
But to Li Wen's surprise, they were still moving and crawling toward him!
"Head! Hit the head!" Zhao Meng shouted from the wall.
Li Wen reacted, his right fist ignited with even more intense flames, and he punched a zombie on the head.
"Bang!"
With its head shattered, the zombie finally collapsed and lay motionless.
"I see." Li Wen became interested and weaved through the air, punching each enemy one by one, focusing on headshots.
In less than two minutes, all fifty ordinary zombies fell to the ground.
Li Wen landed back on the wall and clapped his hands: "Too weak, not challenging at all."
But Zhang Xiaonan's expression was not relaxed.
"Xiaonan, what's wrong?" Li Hao asked.
Zhang Xiaonan closed her eyes, using her mental powers to sense the distance: "The number... is increasing, at least... thousands."
As soon as he finished speaking, even more intense roars came from the depths of the ruins.
A second wave of zombies has appeared.
This time, it wasn't the slow-moving walkers, but the much faster zombies.
Some of them run on all fours, some leap forward, and some are even significantly larger and more ferocious.
Mutant Zombie - Runner
Bioenergy intensity ≈ 50-80 standard units
[Strength Level: Level 0]
【Characteristics: Relatively fast, sharp claws and teeth, and some jumping ability】
Mutant Zombie - Tyrant
Bioenergy intensity ≈ 120-150 standard units
[Strength Level: Level 1]
【Characteristics: Huge size, incredible strength, tough skin】
The quantity is at least five hundred.
"Prepare for battle!" Wang Hao shouted. "All evolved beings, ascend the walls! Ordinary people, retreat and prepare to throw weapons!"
Liu Xueqin spread her butterfly wings and rose into the air. Her wings fluttered, and colorful powder drifted in the wind, heading towards the oncoming horde of zombies.
The first group of runners rushed into the powdery area, their movements noticeably faltered, and some collapsed to the ground, falling into a coma.
However, there were too many zombies behind them, and the powder could not cover them all.
"Mental shock!"
Liu Xueqin sipped softly.
An invisible mental attack emanated from her.
Below, a large number of the zombies that had charged forward collapsed instantly.
"Die!"
Zhao Meng was surrounded by lightning as he flew through the air. His hands surged with lightning, and bolts of lightning struck out, turning the zombies at the forefront into charred remains.
The immense force even sent zombies flying.
"Roar!" Wang Yi transformed into a silver Behemoth, a three-meter-tall silver behemoth, jumped off the wall, and smashed a Tyrant zombie away with a single punch!
He then grabbed the lower leg of another tyrant zombie, swung it around, and smashed it wildly at the other zombies.
"Bang bang bang!" A circle of zombies were blasted away.
"Watch this!" Niu Dazhuang's grasshopper arm grew larger and larger, grabbing a runner and tearing it in half.
Zhang Jingfeng's mantis legs mutated, making him as fast as lightning as he weaved through the zombie horde. His Damascus steel blade flashed continuously, each strike a precise decapitation with a "thud thud thud".
Zhang Xiaonan hovered in mid-air, her telekinetic power transforming into an invisible giant hand that grabbed an abandoned car and a huge concrete block, smashing it into the horde of zombies and crushing them.
The battle was fierce, but the number of zombies was too large and they kept coming in.
"Brother!" Li Wen shouted, "This can't go on, there are too many of them!"
Li Hao nodded.
He raised his right arm.
The palm lights up.
A beam of white light shot out, sweeping across the horde of zombies within a hundred-meter radius!
"laugh!"
Wherever the white light passed, zombies fell in droves, like wheat being harvested by a scythe!
Each one was cut in two by the high-temperature beam!
In an instant, at least two hundred zombies died!
"Holy crap!" Li Wen's eyes widened. "Brother, that was amazing!"
Zhao Meng and the others also gasped in shock.
This is the gap.
But the zombie offensive did not stop.
From the depths of the ruins came a deafening roar.
As if on command, all the zombies stopped in their tracks and slowly retreated, making way for each other.
A huge figure emerged from the ruins.
It was a giant zombie that stood five meters tall, its body covered in bone plates, its arms evolved into huge bone blades, and its eyes burning with eerie green flames.
With each step it took, the ground trembled.
[Mutated Zombie - Lord-level - Bone Blade Tyrant]
Bioenergy intensity ≈ 310-325 standard units
[Strength Level: Level 3]
【Characteristics: Extremely high defense, bone blades can cut through steel, possesses a certain level of intelligence, and can command low-level zombies】
"Lord-level!" Zhang Xiaonan's expression changed. "The same level as the previous Ape King!"
Wang Hao gritted his teeth: "This is troublesome."
Li Hao laughed.
"Don't worry."
He bent his knees slightly and charged towards the Bone Blade Tyrant like a meteor!
The Bone Blade Tyrant seemed to sense the threat, crossed its bone blades, and slashed forward fiercely!
Li Hao neither dodged nor evaded, but clenched his right fist and slammed it into the bone blade.
"Snap!"
The bone blade shattered instantly!
Li Hao's fist was unstoppable, slamming into the Bone Blade Tyrant's chest!
"Bang!!!"
The five-meter-tall giant corpse flew backward like a ball hit by a giant hammer, smashing through two abandoned buildings before finally embedding itself in a thick wall, leaving a huge dent in its chest.
It struggled to get up, but Li Hao was already in front of it.
Golden battle aura shone from his right index finger, like a thirty-centimeter-long laser.
Swing it down from top to bottom, aiming at its head.
"puff!"
The battle aura cleaved it in two, splitting its head and body in two without any hindrance.
The eerie green flames in the Bone Blade Tyrant's eyes extinguished, and it became completely still.
High-energy crystals detected.
The AI sent a notification.
Li Hao looked down and saw a green spot reflecting light inside half of the zombie's head.
He crouched down and pulled a thumb-sized crystal core, glowing with a ghostly green light, from its head.
[High-energy crystals can be used for repairing the progenitor cell and also for recharging progenitor cells.]
The AI notification sounded.
"Crystal core?" Li Hao mused.
He flew back to the wall and tossed the crystal core to Wang Hao: "Look at this, it was taken from a zombie's head."
Wang Hao caught it and examined it for a moment: "It's very similar to an evolution stone, and even more like a magic core, but the energy attributes are different."
Could it be... that these newly appeared zombies all have something like this in their brains?
Li Hao nodded: "It should be."
He looked into the distance, where the low-level zombies, having lost their leader, had begun to scatter.
"Dazhuang," Li Hao said, "reinforce the walls, send people to collect all the zombie corpses, and extract the crystal cores from their heads."
"clear."
Niu Dazhuang turned around to make arrangements.
three days later.
Outside the walls of Dawn City, thousands of zombie corpses were piled up.
In the past three days, two more waves of zombies attacked the city, but the people were easily repelled.
People went from being terrified to taking it for granted, and even began to actively hunt zombies in the ruins to collect crystal cores.
The effects of the crystal core were quickly confirmed; like evolution stones, it could be absorbed by the human body to enhance strength.
In the neighborhood, more and more people are beginning to evolve.
And those who had already evolved were also rapidly increasing in strength.
Zhang Xiaonan, Zhao Meng, Liu Xueqin, Li Wen, Wang Yi, Wang Hao, Niu Dazhuang, Zhang Jinfeng, and others successfully broke through to level three.
Zhang Xiaonan's telekinetic range has exceeded one kilometer, and her control has become more flexible.
Zhao Meng's lightning was more condensed, and it could even release an electric grid that covered a large area.
Li Wen's flame temperature increased significantly.
Wang Yi's Silver Behemoth form is more stable, with a strength approaching thirty tons.
Wang Hao's strength has exceeded fifty tons.
Liu Xueqin's psychological attacks became more intense.
And Li Hao.
He stood on the wall, gazing into the distance.
The implanted AI unit showed that his energy intensity had exceeded 450 units and was slowly approaching level five.
Meanwhile, the commotion was quickly discovered by other human survivors.
Ruins somewhere.
There are two men and two women.
A man and a woman are keeping watch over the surrounding area.
Another man and a woman were sitting on the rubble, bandaging their wounds.
"Brother Chen, is it really possible for us to find it?" a woman asked weakly, looking at another bearded man.
As she spoke, she took a water bottle out of a backpack, opened the cap, and poured water into her mouth.
A few drops of water fell into her mouth.
She pursed her chapped lips, her throat bobbing.
"Don't give up." The bearded man glanced at her and casually tossed his water bottle to the woman.
Just then, a bald, fat man descended from the sky and landed in front of the four people.
The bald, fat man excitedly told the bearded man, "Brother Chen, we found it! Twenty kilometers to the east, we've discovered a human survivor base!"
"How could it be in the east? I received information that it should be in the south."
The bearded man looked puzzled.
"Brother Chen, the clues might not be clear, but that really is a human base over there!" The bald, fat man pointed east and said excitedly.
"Brother Chen, we've finally found it!"
"If we don't find it soon, we'll all starve to death before we're killed by the zombies."
The team members were all very excited.
Tears were already welling up in the eyes of the two female team members.
They searched for more than a month based on the clues.
There were twenty companions at first, but now only four of them remain.
Finally, we followed the clues and found this place.
Only they know the hardships they endured.
The bearded man looked at the four team members, hesitated for a moment, and then said to them, "Get ready, we're leaving immediately."
"good!!"