#171 - Chapter 171 Night Arrives
It was 5:30 PM.
Somewhere in a residential complex in Fenghe County.
A family of three had been living in one of the units here.
"Husband! It's not even dark yet, how have the monsters outside become so terrifying?! You have to think of something!"
Although the wife usually looked down on her husband, she had no choice but to seek security from him at this moment.
After the last food shortage, her husband had been very lucky the next day to find a few sweet potatoes that someone had previously planted on their rooftop, which prevented them from actually starving to death.
Even their son had become a little more affectionate towards his father.
But this afternoon, they encountered trouble again. The zombies outside were desperately attacking their door, even in broad daylight, for some unknown reason.
"I don't know either. Maybe they'll go away in a little while. Let's be quiet. Maybe we attracted them because we were too loud earlier."
"Our door is very sturdy. They can't get in. Let's hide in the bedroom."
The man's gaunt and weathered face, which had become much thinner, showed uncertainty as he spoke.
After speaking, he took his wife and skinny son, grabbed the last half of a sweet potato, turned around, and went into the bedroom, locking the door, not daring to listen to the hysterical roars of the monsters outside anymore.
Hearing that kind of sound too much would inexplicably make humans feel disturbed.
"Daddy, will we be okay?"
The skinny son hid in the blanket, revealing a pair of round, black eyes, and spoke to his father, in whom he had regained a little trust.
"Don't be afraid, Xiaoming. We'll be okay. Dad will find more delicious food for you tomorrow."
The man patted his son, who was hiding in the blanket,勉强露勉强露出一个微笑, and said words that he himself didn't quite believe.
He felt that it would be difficult for him to be as lucky as before and find something to eat.
The three of them hid in the blankets in the room, trying to distract themselves from the fear brought by the zombies outside by chatting.
What they didn't know was that as time passed, the sky outside was getting darker and darker. As it approached six o'clock, the night finally fell completely!
The zombies that had been pounding on the door seemed to have entered some kind of inexplicable state. The viruses in their bodies became more active, and the originally shriveled muscles of their bodies actually regained a trace of expansion!
One of the male zombies, standing in the back and about 1.8 meters tall, suddenly stopped moving and stood in place.
It bent down and lowered its head, its body trembling strangely, its muscles wriggling rapidly as if they had come to life!
Whether it was ten minutes or several minutes, it finally stopped trembling.
It raised its head again, which had swelled twice in size, revealing a hideous face full of pustules, and a pair of wild, white eyes!
When it stood up straight, its height had suddenly increased to more than two meters in a short period of time!
One of its arms had almost completely atrophied, leaving only a skin-and-bones stump hanging on its body.
The other arm, however, had swelled to the thickness of a waist!
A mutated zombie!
If Qin Jin were here and saw this monster, he would definitely recognize it as the mutated zombie that killed him in his previous life!
A Charger!
A special kind of zombie that sacrificed one of its arms, concentrating its power in its right arm and the bones of its torso, possessing terrifying strength!
However, it was still in the early stages of mutation, and its figure seemed a bit "thin".
Hungry, hungry, hungry!!!
Without intelligence, it only had the most primitive instinct!
It wanted to eat something to replenish its body!
"Awoo!!!!"
It opened its huge mouth and let out a beastly roar from its dark, stinking throat!
With a wave of its right hand, it directly swatted away those zombie "companions" who had been blocking its path like swatting mosquitoes!
Standing in front of the family of three's door, it clenched its fist and slammed it hard against the door that it had been unable to break through no matter what!
Bang!!!
With a loud noise! The long-defended door was completely smashed, revealing the room that exuded the scent of flesh!!
"What's going on!!?"
The three people hiding in the room panicked. They had already been startled by the inhuman roar they had just heard, and now they heard a muffled sound. Could it be that something had happened to the front door!?
They weren't given time to think, and the answer was given in the next moment.
"Awoo—"
That terrifying roar had already appeared outside their bedroom door!
The man and woman exchanged glances, and both saw immense fear and despair in each other's eyes!
Boom!
The wooden bedroom door didn't block for even a second before being smashed to pieces by the Charger's punch!
In the dim room, the last ray of afterglow that had not completely darkened shone through the window, and they saw a terrifying figure taller than the door frame appear here!
A terrifying sense of suffocation that froze every cell in their bodies swept through them!
Before they could even scream, the extremely hungry figure pounced over frantically!
Pfft!
The Charger grabbed one with its right hand, bit one with its mouth, and stepped on one with its foot!
It frantically stuffed the flesh and blood that entered its sight into its huge mouth!
Xiaoming's head was bitten off halfway on the spot, and the woman's neck was crushed by its giant hand.
The man whose chest was stepped on by the monster had blood flowing from all seven orifices. His weak internal organs had been crushed beyond repair.
But he wasn't completely dead yet.
At this moment, he wasn't as afraid as he had been before.
He took one last look at his son with half his head gone, and his wife whose face looked ferocious due to the blood filling her head from her crushed neck, and he actually grinned a bloody smile.
With regret, apology, and a trace of relief for his family, his consciousness entered the darkness.
Only the sound of the Charger devouring flesh remained in the room.
The zombies outside also wanted to squeeze in and get a share, but the Charger was extremely protective of its food, swatting away any companions that came in!
After a long time, whether it was full or uninterested in the remaining small pieces of corpse, the Charger finally stopped eating and stood motionless.
The muscles all over its body were moving again, like worms drilling around.
The zombies outside finally waited for the boss to finish eating and began to come in to eat the remaining leftovers.
The Charger stood among the group of zombies licking blood and flesh on the ground, standing out from the crowd.
About ten minutes passed, and the changes in its body finally stopped.
Its height had suddenly increased to two and a half meters!
Its muscles were refined and compact, and the terrifying giant arm on its right was almost bigger than its entire body, with some keratinized hard skin on the outer layer!
It opened its eyes again and let out a terrifying roar!
The surrounding ordinary zombies were "startled" and stopped eating, staggering around like headless flies.
The evolved Charger stepped out of the room.
No one knew where it would go in the future.
Perhaps it would appear wherever there was the scent of flesh and blood.
At this time, it was completely night outside.
The night had come.
(The probability of ordinary mutated zombies like Swift Beasts appearing is about one in 100,000, while more advanced ones like Chargers are less than one in a million. There will be some lower-level and higher-level mutated zombies appearing in the future, but there won't be many of them.)
(From the beginning of writing about this family, the ending was already destined to be like this. Congratulations to them on finishing their story.)
