CHAPTER 1846: CHAPTER 1839: BOILING OVER

On the other side, the Level 8 zombie from before did not stop running, even after Huang Quanjiu and the others ceased their pursuit. It continued to advance relentlessly, even as its internal vitality gradually diminished, its body becoming uncoordinated, and its flesh starting to detach. Still, it struggled onward, crawling and staggering closer to the bank of the Yangtze River!

"What is it trying to do?"

"Is it going to jump into the river?"

"Possibly." From the precipice of a ruined building, the five people and the zombie did not recklessly advance further. Instead, they cautiously observed the situation in the Yangtze River. They were quite surprised; they hadn’t expected that simply chasing one zombie could lead them to such a significant event. That was clearly a corpse tide formed by Water Guanyin!

At this moment, they once again paid attention to the Level 8 zombie they had been chasing. Seeing it come here was by no means accidental.

Two minutes later, the speed of the Level 8 zombie slowed down more and more. Its legs and feet were no longer obedient, and after arriving at the Cloud Gorge Base, to avoid drawing attention, it had almost gone without eating vitality-replenishing food for two months. In the earlier battle, it mutilated itself to escape from Ah Fu.

It inexplicably shed a thick layer of skin during Yi Huangcheng’s entanglement. Now, as its body continually tried to repair its damaged parts, it was extremely lacking in vitality and couldn’t even walk normally. Every cell in its body screamed for it to obtain food or forcefully enter a dormant state!

But it did not stop, did not go to get food, nor chose dormancy. Instead, it kept moving forward, forward, and forward! If it couldn’t walk, then it would crawl!

Bit by bit, it crawled forward!

Finally, heaven does not let down those who persist. Like enduring endless hardships, it reached the riverside, and when it grabbed the rust-encrusted iron railing, it seemed to sigh in relief.

Huh~

Letting out a low growl, it seemed quite happy, with only a short distance left before it could enter the river. Even if the enemy chasing behind came again, it would have enough time to enter the river, but at this critical juncture, it finally stopped! It didn’t immediately plunge into the river.

Instead, it turned its nearly skeletal head back to face the hollow eyes staring at Huang Quanjiu and the others in the distance.

It seemed to be mocking them, mocking their cowardice!

Uh~ heh heh heh...

Another low growl escaped it, and finally, it turned its head back to continue crawling forward.

As its body moved past the shore, it slid down through the rust-covered railing and with a "plop," it successfully fell into the Yangtze River!

The severely decayed body triggered the river surface to boil the moment it made contact! Thick tentacles whipped up massive waves and lunged towards where it had fallen!

In mere moments, the Level 8 zombie was devoured clean by the numerous Water Guanyin in the river!

"It committed suicide..." On the ruins of a building, the faces of Huang Quanjiu and the others grew even more grave. They had seen people with suicidal tendencies before, but they had never heard of a zombie wanting to commit suicide.

This was definitely not without reason!

Recalling the construction workers that emerged from the club earlier, they knew the situation had escalated.

The invasion by the Four Great Zombie Kings was not as simple and brutal as imagined, just grabbing weapons and attacking!

They even understood how to dispatch spies for infiltration...

The fall of the Level 8 zombie into the water, enveloped by countless Water Guanyin, became untraceable, triggering a chain reaction that made the entire Yangtze River come alive. Before long, the howls of zombies sounded from all directions, as if something had agitated the zombies in this apocalyptic city, causing them to become excited without cause.

Roar!

Roar roar!

...

"We have to hurry back..." The faces of several people became increasingly serious. Though they didn’t know much about the Northern Zombie King, they knew it had the ability to influence zombies over a wide area. That Level 8 zombie earlier might have been influenced by it, hence why it infiltrated the Cloud Gorge Base, and upon discovery, desperately rushed towards the aquatic corpse tide.

"Hu Ji, inform the boss about what’s happening here, and let’s go."

The surrounding zombie howls were incessant; not only was the Yangtze River boiling, but the city was too!

Seeing this, the group did not linger any longer and turned to leave.

...

In the slightly reddish vision, everything around was stretching rapidly, sweeping past at incredible speed. In the darkness, the sound of "creak creak" seemingly from stepping on sludge drummed endlessly into ears. Occasionally, other rats could be seen emerging from another pipe, quickly disappearing. Some cockroaches and evolved insects writhed, completely obscuring their original species.

Soon after, they would fall into the sewage beside.

The rapidly stretching and moving scene did not stop, neither did the owner of the scene, traversing quickly through the dark, long pipes. Before long, the scene shifted, revealing a light at the end of the darkness, hastening the pace of the stretching scene, driving away the surrounding darkness with light.

As light increased and darkness decreased, a room’s living room came into view. The living room had no furniture but many people.

At this moment, the scene finally paused. The provider of the scene seemed to be cautious not to draw attention, stopping its steps carefully.

People were sitting around in different spots, gulping down "divine water" concocted from industrial reagents.

Among them, some sat dazed on the soaked floor, others lay asleep on makeshift mats. After the scene paused, someone stood up from the ground, stumbling zombie-like outside, the others conversing without noticing the little thing emerging from the pipe.

Inwardly dissonant, these people’s voices entered ears muddledly, like indistinguishable murmurs in a dream.

The scene began moving slowly from its static state.

Circumventing people’s gaze, the scene wormed into a broken pipe nearby. At this point, it trembled, twisted, and then blurred.

The scene vanished as Tang Ye opened his eyes, placing the Level Nine Evolution Crystal he held into his pocket.

The projection screen displayed daily news; he glanced at it, withdrawing his feet from the coffee table, picked up the remote, and turned off the projection.

"Strange," he muttered, as he walked into the bathroom, unhooked the pipe beneath the sink, and then stretched out his other hand to block the pipe opening. Before long, a hairless, entirely silvery, cracked-skinned odd rat emerged.

Chitter chitter~

The rat’s sound was abnormal, like a dark creature’s sinister laugh.

Just crawling out of the pipe, the silvery rat immediately hit Tang Ye’s palm, where it began to liquefy, quickly absorbed by the skin of Tang Ye’s hand.

Following the appearance of the first rat, more rats emerged continuously, but all met the same fate as the first, their lives directly seized by Tang Ye!

This is when Tang Ye, the owner of the palm, spoke, yet there was no one around, and it was unclear who he was addressing.

"Anyone got a phone? Send a photo over."

"..."

"Alright then, inform the others, have them all return. No need to keep searching, let those left stay there."

"..."