#162 - Chapter 162 The Swift
Inside the science and technology park.
Looking at the zombie lying motionless on the ground.
The combat team remained tense.
This was definitely the most unusual zombie they had ever seen!
How could it run so fast?
The speed was terrifying, okay!?
If it weren't for the captain's quick reaction and the wide range of bullets from their machine guns, this zombie might have charged right in front of them!
Even Li Bowen was still shaken.
He didn't expect this zombie, which had looked strange from the start, to be so terrifying, even dodging after being shot!
Fortunately, the bullets were still able to take care of this peculiar zombie.
At this time, everyone saw that the zombie wasn't moving, and they could even see several bullet holes in its head from not far away.
It should be dead, right!?
Being cautious, Li Bowen replaced the magazine with a new one and carefully approached the zombie.
The other team members didn't relax either, pointing their guns at the motionless body on the ground and slowly approaching, preventing another mutation from occurring.
The result was quite smooth. Li Bowen came to a place one meter away from the zombie, and there was still no sign of anything happening.
Not having time to examine it carefully, he quickly drew the machete from his waist with his right hand and chopped it towards the zombie's neck!
With his current skill, he was naturally well-versed in beheading.
Pfft—
The zombie's head was successfully separated from its body.
Everyone watched the headless corpse, and only then did they truly relax.
It's impossible for it to jump up and bite them without a head, right!?
No one spoke, and everyone gathered around the corpse and began to carefully examine the zombie together.
This strange zombie was now covered in bullet holes and decapitated. From its appearance, one could only roughly see that its hands were ordinary, not much different from what they had seen before.
But seeing its legs, they felt something was wrong!
The zombie's legs seemed disproportionate to its body, unbelievably thick!
Li Bowen used his knife to cut open the zombie's leg pants, revealing the firm, pale "muscles" of its legs.
Hiss!
What's the situation!?
This zombie was wearing a suit, and the pants were already seriously ill-fitting. It was impossible for its legs to be so thick before it died.
There was only one possibility.
Its legs became thick after it turned into a zombie!
Mutated zombie!
Everyone's eyes were solemn.
It wasn't that they hadn't been exposed to various films and television during peacetime, and some of them also had plots such as mutated zombies appearing.
However, they had been in the apocalypse for so long and had killed no less than ten thousand zombies, but they had never seen such a mutated one!
They naturally thought that there were no mutated zombies in this apocalypse.
Now, the previous conclusion was overturned!
Zombies can still mutate!
Everyone felt a chill in their hearts. If the zombies in the world all became as terrifying as this zombie in the future, would humans still have room to survive!?
The situation would be extremely serious!
Not bothering to continue watching this mutated zombie, Li Bowen took out his mobile phone and took a few photos of the ground, and said to the team member next to him who was sweating on his forehead:
Everyone, stop spacing out! This is a major issue. We must return to the base immediately and tell the boss about this information!
The team members woke up as if from a dream, put away the various terrifying guesses that flashed in their minds, and ran towards the helicopter.
Sun Xiaolong quickly started the helicopter, and after the propellers rotated and accelerated to a certain speed.
This fully loaded armed helicopter finally lifted off the ground and slowly ascended into the sky, flying towards the Green Source Base.
Leaving the biological park as it was.
On the way back.
The team members no longer had the joyful expressions they had before. On the contrary, everyone had a solemn look on their faces.
Today's situation had a great impact on them.
Everyone was worried that the world would become even more difficult to survive in the future.
"Do you think it's possible that some substance leaked from that biological park and caused that zombie to mutate?"
One of the team members said his guess, which was agreed by many people for a while.
"I think it's possible that this zombie was created by this company! Could this apocalypse be related to this company?!"
Another team member said his guess.
Reasonable and well-founded.
Bullshit.
"That's not right, is it? If this company created the apocalypse, the purple mist of the mutated night emerged from the ground. It's impossible for the people from this company to run to the ground to release it, right?!"
A team member next to him retorted, leaving the team member who had just made the guess speechless.
For a time, the cabin was filled with intense discussion, which even suppressed the roar of the helicopter.
Li Bowen couldn't stand it anymore and took the initiative to say:
"Okay, stop discussing it for now. Let's report back to the base and see how to deal with it."
Everyone shut up.
Team Li was still very intimidating among them.
With a belly full of questions, after two hours of flight, the helicopter finally returned to the Green Source Base.
After the two sides confirmed that there were no errors on the walkie-talkie, the helicopter slowly landed on the tarmac.
Li Bowen instructed everyone to first handle the instruments and equipment searched back from the helicopter, and then he quickly rushed to Qin Jin's office.
Soon, he knocked on the door of the boss's office.
Qin Jin was still busy planning the future development of the base in terms of talent. Hearing the knock, he raised his eyebrows and said:
"Come in."
Li Bowen responded and entered.
Without wasting any words, he directly told Qin Jin about the mutated zombie he had seen at the biotech park.
He also showed him the photos he had taken.
Qin Jin remained silent throughout the whole process.
Silently listening to Li Bowen's narration.
After he finished speaking, he stood up, walked to the window, and looked at the sky outside.
He muttered in his heart in a voice that only he could hear:
It's finally here.
He had died at the hands of mutated zombies in his previous life, so how could he forget these special zombies!
The one Li Bowen showed him just now was the "Swift", a relatively common mutated zombie in his previous life!
A zombie whose legs have been evolved by the virus, which can make this zombie's movement speed get a qualitative leap!
At the same time, it begins to give this zombie a new instinct—harm avoidance.
Instinct is not wisdom.
Just like a fish facing a larger predator, it will hide.
Mutated zombies will be more difficult to kill, they begin to learn to avoid, the Swift that Li Bowen and the others encountered sensed a strange danger and did not rush over like ordinary zombies when they saw people.
And the one who killed him in his previous life was another more terrifying and rarer mutated zombie—the "Bruiser".
I didn't expect it to have already begun.
It's been nearly two months since the apocalypse, and it's possible that mutated zombies are starting to appear.
In his previous life, he first encountered mutated zombies three or four months after the apocalypse, and at that time, he only glimpsed them from afar and didn't dare to approach.
That was also a "Swift". A group of a dozen survivors somehow provoked this monster during the day and were killed, holding their heads and scurrying away. At that time, Qin Jin was lucky to be far away and ran fast, and left quickly when he saw that the situation was not right.
It wasn't until later, after contacting more survivors, that he learned that not only humans had evolved in the world.
Even aliens have appeared among the zombies.
(End of this chapter)
