#568 - Chapter 568: Mutated Zombie Figure
Longmen County.
A certain deep pool.
This was a place that few survivors dared to approach even during the drought.
Because.
During the drought, some people had witnessed terrifying figures lurking in this deep pool!
They said mutated zombies were hiding here!
For the sake of their lives, hardly anyone dared to come near.
However, today was destined to be different.
Starting last night.
Strange bubbles had been rising from this deep pool, as if some unknown change was occurring within.
After dawn, with rainfall restoring the pool to some degree, a giant hand appeared at the edge!
A pale, enormous hand covered in strange scales!
Scratch—!
Another giant arm appeared!
Both giant hands gripped the edge of the pool and pushed with all their might, pulling the entire body of their owner out of the water and into the air!
This was a monster over three meters tall, with two massive scaled arms!
A mutated zombie!
Its left eye seemed injured, a different, ghastly white compared to the other.
If Qin Jin were here and saw this terrifying mutated zombie.
He would immediately recognize it as the monster he had personally named "Tank"!
"Roar—!"
A terrifying roar erupted from its gaping maw!
It was hungry!!
Its stomach was sunken, a void caused by prolonged starvation.
At the same time, an irresistible lure appeared from the east!
That feeling that helped it continue to evolve had returned!
But another equally urgent signal came from its mindless brain.
Hungry hungry hungry hungry hungry hungry!!!!
So hungry!!
"Roar—!"
Without intelligence, although it sensed a powerful attraction from the east, its body was also telling it that it was extremely hungry!
It needed to find something to eat immediately!
It kicked its legs forcefully, its entire body transforming into a high-speed black shadow, flashing in one direction.
It wanted to find some flesh and blood to eat first!
And then go to the place in the east that was emitting the lure!
It wasn't just this mutated zombie that Qin Jin had injured before.
Some mutated zombies in other, more distant places were also inexplicably attracted!
They began to emerge from their hiding places to replenish their food, and then rushed towards Mentang Town!
There was an opportunity there that could allow them to continue to evolve and become stronger!
Without thought, only instinct, they would only follow the desires issued by their bodies, eat their fill, and then go to find the source!
There was no way to know how many mutated zombies were attracted in this way...
There were also more slightly mutated zombies, with only greater strength, or speed, or more powerful senses of smell, sight, and hearing, appearing and approaching Mentang Town!
A feast after the end of the drought was forming!
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Eight or nine in the morning.
Sun Xiaolong, who was piloting a helicopter to Shenzhen for reconnaissance.
He watched the figures appearing one after another below and moving east, recording everything with determination.
"It's happening again! Those zombies are moving towards Guangyuan City!"
He didn't know why.
He only knew that this time the base might face another large-scale zombie tide.
And in other places.
In several cities around Guangyuan City, helicopters dispatched by Green Source successively arrived at their destinations, seeing the zombies constantly gathering towards Guangyuan City.
Noon.
Qin Jin, who was at headquarters, received the intelligence collected by the team members who had gone out.
"What exactly is going on!?"
"This woman is actually able to attract zombies even from the edge of Wan City!?? How is the range even wider than last time!?"
He looked grimly at the information sent back by his subordinates.
This time, Lin Runwei's influence was even greater than last time, with even the zombies from Wan City showing signs of moving here!
How far was that?
It was probably two hundred kilometers!!
What principle was this attraction based on!!?
This unexpected feeling made Qin Jin very unhappy.
If this woman didn't possess the key to his continued restart and evolution, he would definitely refine her into a human pill!
In the morning, he had tried to have people use an airship to send Lin Runwei to the sky above An County next door, but those zombies still gathered towards Mentang Town!
What principle was this?
Could it really be, as Lao Zhou speculated.
That the blood, or the D protein, left in the base from Lin Runwei's long stay there was the cause that attracted the zombies?
He didn't know.
Zhou Qihang was still researching to confirm whether this was the root cause.
But, if the D protein was really the inducement, how could he give up on this magical thing!?
It was impossible to kill Lin Runwei and throw away or destroy all the D protein without even the slightest result, right?
He really couldn't bear to do that.
The current situation had not reached the point where he had to give up.
Just kill all the zombies that were surrounding them.
"There's no other way! Since that's the case, then continue to eliminate all the zombies that come over like before!"
"At least, there's no need to destroy this woman and the D protein until an unstoppable situation occurs inside the base."
"But once a problem arises, then don't blame me!"
A glimmer of coldness flashed in Qin Jin's eyes in the office.
After muttering a sentence, he walked out.
He wanted the base to prepare for a higher intensity battle!
At the same time, he had to prepare the final backup.
If the zombie tide exceeded his expectations.
If a situation occurred that endangered the safety of the headquarters, then he would painfully destroy that woman and all the D protein samples left over from previous research!
Compared to his own safety, some things should be abandoned!
Qin Jin began to make a series of preparations for the zombie tide attracted by the hungry zombies after the end of the drought + Lin Runwei's mutation.
This time, the zombies attracted by Lin Runwei affected such a distant range.
The number was likely to exceed the previous hundreds of thousands, and this time it was entirely possible to break through the astonishing number of one million!
This was a desperate number that no one had ever experienced!
Even in his previous life, Qin Jin had never heard of any force attracting such a large number of zombies to attack a city!
Because later humans had long discovered that too many people would attract zombies.
So they controlled the number of survivors in their forces within a controllable range.
This day.
The daytime was slightly calmer, because the zombies who stayed in Fenghe County last night had been attracted and eliminated in advance.
And a larger number of zombie tide armies were still advancing towards Mentang Town.
The entire Green Source area had been put under martial law.
All personnel of all levels were strictly prohibited from leaving their residential areas.
Those sporadic zombies that appeared were killed if possible, and those that could not be killed were left to the headquarters to deal with.
Everyone was prepared for this sudden zombie tide!
(End of chapter)
