A silence fell over everyone present.

"Crazy...Crazy Zoo?" Zhang Xiaojuan touched her nose awkwardly.

Ma Dongmei and Lin Xiaobao were less optimistic, saying, "Such a large-scale parasitism might soon give rise to new mutant varieties..."

"Our lives will be even harder then."

As the group was discussing their options, a series of hurried and noisy footsteps suddenly came from outside the door.

"Young Master Su, a new batch of monsters has gathered outside!" The security captain on duty rushed in anxiously.

Lu Sheng and his group immediately headed to the outer edge of the safe zone, where they were met with a vast, dark mass of rotting and deformed mutated animals.

The animals' gathering continues.

Besides the usual stray cats and dogs, there were also some gigantic insects and poultry, interspersed with some reptiles. These mutated animals had motionless eyes and opened their mouths to reveal a set of fine, sharp teeth, which looked terrifying.

These animals move in perfect unison, as if controlled by a single brain.

A pair of dull, grayish-white pupils stared gloomily at the security team in M ​​City, their gazes occasionally shifting as they followed human movements.

"Holy crap, so many! They've all been parasitized?" Zhao Mujia was so shocked he almost jumped up.

The parasite was several times larger than its normal size, and a fish-headed, cat-bodied monster lay dead on the ground.

The rotten fish head, the size of an iron pot, was still bubbling on the ground, while the furry body below the neck was completely cold.

“There are a bit too many…” Su Zheng frowned.

Even as they were talking, more monsters were rapidly gathering on the outskirts of the city. They hadn't realized before that there were so many animals around M City…

The ordinary people hiding behind the safety line were terrified and turned pale.

"That was terrifying, I'll never dare to like cats and dogs again..."

"I'm scared... these things are scarier than zombies."

"Disgusting..."

Faced with this horrifying scene, some people with weaker constitutions turned their heads away, unable to bear it any longer. Even a tall man, over 1.8 meters, was so disgusted by the fish-headed monster on the ground that he vomited on the spot.

The survivors' panic contrasted sharply with the composure of the parasitic monsters before them.

"Boss, we..."

Bang!

Before the bespectacled guy could finish speaking, Lu Sheng's electromagnetic cannon had already been launched.

A massive electric current instantly detonated within the densely packed horde of mutated animals. The bizarre little creatures emitted piercing screams as their bodies shattered and exploded from the center under the powerful electrical attack, spraying out murky, thick black blood.

Countless twisted, slippery black worms slithered out from the fragments of the animal carcass, instantly forming a terrifying black mist.

Immediately afterwards, Lu Sheng threw out several more powerful air cannons, instantly crushing the frantically writhing black worms into a mess of murky flesh.

"Should we... move this fast..." The bespectacled guy swallowed awkwardly.

He originally wanted to ask Lu Sheng how he planned to handle the current thorny situation, but before he could finish speaking, the scene was already in chaos.

"Or should we keep it for the New Year?"

With Lu Sheng setting an example, the members of the Allied Forces also released their supernatural abilities to deal with the remaining scattered mutated animals on the scene.

Countless supernatural abilities illuminated the sky like fireworks, signaling the start of the battle between humanity and the unknown parasitic creatures.

...

In the following days, M City would be subjected to constant invasions by mutated animals.

The prolonged and exhausting work quickly led to widespread complaints from the grassroots staff.

"People need to sleep and rest, but these beasts never sleep or rest. Even if we aren't eaten by the monsters, we'll soon be exhausted and die." Ma Dongmei took a deep drag on her cigarette, her face covered in two dark, bluish smoke rings.

These parasitic monsters are very cunning, and the timing of their attacks is unpredictable. Often, they've just closed their eyes when a piercing alarm sounds from outside the safe zone.

After doing this so many times, Ma Dongmei and the others simply stopped taking off their clothes and found a slightly cleaner corner to take a nap.

For several days in a row, the combined sleep time of the group was less than five hours a day. At this rate, the guard team would soon suffer from reduced combat effectiveness due to lack of rest.

"We can't kill them all, we simply can't kill them all. The charred corpses outside are piled up like mountains, and yet countless monsters still emerge the next day." Lin Xiaobao's eyelids were drooping, barely open, as he propped his chin up with one hand.

"Waiting like this isn't a solution," Su Zheng said with a serious expression.

"Any news coming out of the Zhou Shan refugee camp?" Lu Sheng asked, frowning.

Lu Song shook his head. "We haven't received any information from the Zhou Shan shelter for two days. We've tried contacting the shelter, but no one has replied."

Lin Xiaobao, who had been drowsy, forced his eyes to stay awake and bit his lip, hesitatingly asked, "We're not going to get wiped out, are we?"

A sense of oppression immediately enveloped everyone's hearts.

"Zhoushan Base is the source of the parasitic monsters. If we want to completely get rid of the parasites, we still need to go to Zhoushan Base."

Lu Sheng stood up decisively.

Instead of passively enduring the invasion of these monsters, we should strike at their heart and eliminate them completely.

...

The Zhou Shan Shelter was located across the river from M City. When Lu Sheng and the others stepped onto the riverbank, the area around the shelter was already littered with corpses and piles of rotting flesh.

“All the animals on the mountain must have been parasitized… so many corpses.” Zhang Xiaojuan, wearing a mask, sent out a team of small clay figures to clear the way.

The main road was piled high with rotting corpses, and cars would get stuck in pieces of flesh every few steps. With the planes also constantly at risk of bird attacks, Lu Sheng and her companions had no choice but to proceed on foot towards the Zhou Shan refugee camp.

The group walked for two hours and were still an hour away from the shelter.

To conserve their energy, the group had to find a relatively clean place to rest temporarily.

Shi Nian volunteered to help Ma Dongmei and Lin Xiaobao chop vegetables, and everyone put down their heavy luggage and stood guard by the fire.

Just as everyone was relaxing and enjoying a rare moment of leisure, a strange singing voice suddenly drifted from the bushes in the distance. The voice was plaintive and plaintive, a soft and gentle lament that made everyone involuntarily feel down.

The bespectacled young man, who was vigorously frying eggs in a wok, suddenly stopped what he was doing, his gaze suddenly becoming blank.

He threw down the spatula with a blank look in his eyes, and slowly raised his head with a dazed expression.

Aside from the bespectacled guy, some team members with lower-level superpowers suddenly seemed to have been possessed, mechanically getting up and moving their feet in the direction of the singing.

Lu Sheng frowned slightly.

“I know this routine! Let me do it!” Zhang Xiaojuan jumped up with a big apple in her mouth.