The concept of "H City Animal World" is to let people return to nature, so herbivorous animals run freely in the park.

In comparison, carnivores are not so lucky.

Their living area is divided into two parts: one is a cliff-like exhibition stand, and the other is an open-air activity area enclosed by iron mesh.

Visitors take a sightseeing bus and slowly travel along a path, viewing the wolves, tigers and leopards along the way. The asphalt road they travel on is separated from the exhibition stand by a man-made slope five to ten meters wide, allowing humans and beasts to face each other from a distance.

But today the exhibition stands in the beast area were empty, and screams were heard one after another not far away, with occasional monotonous gunshots mixed with strange whimpering sounds.

A tall dark figure walked slowly along the employee passage and slowly approached an open-air activity area for carnivores.

The door to the breeder's studio was wide open. A shadowy figure took a few steps, and two unsteady zombies stopped on a side path. The shadowy figure raised his pistol and fired a quick shot. One zombie staggered and fell, and the other roared and rushed over.

The black shadow moved quickly, threw a thin rope, tied up the roaring zombie, and dragged it into the breeder's studio.

There was a locked iron door on the other side of the studio. The black shadow kicked the door open and dragged the twisted and struggling zombie across the door to a grandstand.

This is where the keepers feed the wild animals. The iron fence is one and a half meters high. On the other side of the fence is the open-air activity area for the wild animals.

The black shadow picked up the zombie and threw it hard, dropping it from the edge of the iron railing.

The zombie fell to the ground, the ropes binding it disappearing. It twisted and roared, but the heavy fall broke its spine.

Several black beasts jumped out from under the stands and pounced on the zombies in the open space.

The sounds of biting and chewing mixed with the muffled sounds of chewing, and the stench of decay filled the air. The shadow raised his gun and looked at the beast moving under the open-air platform.

After a moment's silence, the black shadow heard a low snoring sound, and the beasts that were fighting for food stopped moving. They all turned around, their white eyeballs rolling in their eye sockets, and buzzing flies circled around their turned-out, rotten flesh.

Their bodies were already rotten, but on their treacherous and sinister faces, there was a big grin with upturned corners.

Low, thin snoring sounds came from their mouths, echoing the initial sounds and interweaving into a strange tune.

There is an introduction board hanging above the iron fence of the activity area——

Spotted hyena (Crocuta crocuta): also known as spotted hyena, moves in groups, is good at running, and is ferocious...nicknamed "Bone Crusher".

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Cai Lu bent down and slowly pulled the curtains.

A mop, broken in two, lay scattered crookedly on the infirmary floor. A medicine cabinet had overturned, pinning a zombie's head. Nearby, under a makeshift bed, lay a zombie with a severed hand. Brains and goo had been dug out and smeared all over the floor, especially under the cracks in the door and windows.

Lu Cai was also covered in the stench of decay.

The little girl squatted behind the cart in the corner, holding a pack of sandwich cookies and a roll of bandages in her hands. Her eyes were red as she stared at Lu Cai's figure.

The curtains were drawn tightly and the door was locked, and Lu Cai relaxed a little.

She sat down next to the little girl, who took small steps and clung closely to her arm.

The girl's clothes were exquisite: a white, orange-printed, chest-length skirt, white lace tights, and bright orange leather shoes. She had originally had a small orange hairpin on her head, but unfortunately, Lu Cai only remembered to run for his life and didn't know where he had lost it.

It really looks like someone... Lu Cai smiled, then was stunned.

She turned her head to look at the little girl, her thin, curly hair stuck to her dirty forehead, her eyelashes trembling, her eyes and nose red, but she was trying hard not to cry.

The child who was rescued was quiet and didn't cry or make a fuss. This might be the last luck God gave her.

"What are you doing with the bandage?" Lu Cai lowered his voice to a whisper.

The little girl didn't expect Lu Cai to be able to speak. After all, in her eyes, Lu Cai was just an older sister who was a little fierce and a little scary.

"Sound to mommy——" the little girl said in a baby voice with a crying tone.

The young woman who was mutated by the zombie attack and shot in the head by Lu Cai was her mother.

"Oh." Lu Cai nodded, "Then take it."

She raised her hand and took the packet of biscuits from the little girl's arms. They had picked them up from the ground at the door when they first arrived at the consultation center.

The biscuits were in a pink backpack. The bag was covered in blood and had a big hole torn in it. Fortunately, the biscuits and mineral water inside were not damaged.

Cai Lu tore open the biscuit packaging, and the crackling sound was particularly harsh in the infirmary.

The little girl choked.

Lu Cai took out a cookie and handed the rest to the little girl. After the little girl carefully took it, Lu Cai put the cookie into her mouth. It was chocolate-filled and so greasy that it made her teeth ache.

After swallowing the biscuits, she unscrewed the bottle of mineral water and poured it into her mouth from a short distance without touching it to her mouth.

After the water went down his throat, Lu Cai sighed. He had thought that coming to the information center would at least give him some clues, but instead, the place had become even more completely devastated.

She gave the remaining mineral water to the little girl next to her, but saw that the little girl was wiping her tears. Although she didn't cry out loud, her mouth was pouting.

The little girl was crying, and Lu Cai didn't try to comfort her. He just put the mineral water in front of her. She cried and hiccuped, reached out for the biscuits, and ate them in small bites.

"Bang--"

There was a dull knock on the door, and Lu Cai immediately clenched his pistol. The little girl dared not move immediately, because if she moved, the biscuit packaging in her arms would make a harsh sound.

"Bang--"

The banging sounds were not strong, but sporadic, sounding like a bored zombie banging on the door.

"Bang--"

Lu Cai raised his hand and touched the little girl's forehead, and the girl's trembling shoulders relaxed slightly.

The sunlight pouring onto the ground through the gaps in the curtains gradually turned dim. Sunset was approaching, and when the sky turned into endless darkness, terror and danger would truly arrive.

"Bang--"

Lu Cai was so disturbed by the sound of the door banging that he wanted to open the door and shoot it. Just as he was waiting for the expected next bang, he heard a faint scratching sound.

Her mind was tense, and she stared at the door intently.

The nails scratched the angle between the wooden door and the door frame, making a rustling sound for a while, and then the sound suddenly stopped.

Lu Cai held his breath. After a moment, he heard something being knocked to the ground. The zombie at the door walked away.

She relaxed her tense back and leaned back, only to realize that she was covered in cold sweat.

At least to get through tonight—

Lu Cai thought to himself that he had to go out tomorrow, either to look for someone alive or to find some clues. Cheng Mushen and Lin Yong must be at the zoo too, it would be great if he could find them.

Following the prompts, they will definitely come to the consultation station.

The sky gradually darkened, and the surroundings became hazy. The little girl opened her eyes wide, her small hands tightly grasping the decorative strips on Lu Cai's trouser pockets.

I don’t know how much time passed, the darkness became darker and darker, and the air around me became a little chilly.

Lu Cai lay awake, completely unaware of sleep. Even the slightest rustle of wind made her hair stand on end, as the roars outside the door and window intensified.

The little girl was half curled up beside her, hugging her arms and falling asleep.

The low roar stopped outside the window sill, separated by a wall, and made Lu Cai's scalp stand on end.

This sound is heavier than the sound of zombies, as if the demons in the deep mountains and forests are wreaking havoc on the world in the dark night.

A carnivorous beast in the zoo—

Lu Cai half-turned his body to block the sleeping girl, and changed from sitting to half-squatting, his eyes fixed on the curtains.

There were iron bars outside the window, but she couldn't guarantee that the bars could block a large wave of zombies that would come after hearing the noise.

Low growls lingered on the path in front of the window. The vision, hearing and smell of wild beasts were more sensitive than those of humans. When natural hunters were helped by the mutant virus, would they become even more terrifying killers?

Unfortunately, Lu Cai is not a scientific researcher and has no way of guessing the idea of ​​this topic, which is too difficult for her.

What she cares most about right now is whether the gun in her hand can kill the beast that has turned into a zombie.

The growl gradually subsided, the air seemed to stagnate, my breathing slowed, and my palms were covered with sweat. For several long minutes, there was no movement, only the night wind rustling against the window glass.

She slowly exhaled the breath that was stuck in her throat, her eyelids drooping.

Bang——

There was a loud bang and the sound of metal breaking. The glass window was shattered and the curtains wrapped in broken glass fell to the ground.

The little girl was startled awake and began to cry. Lu Cai raised his gun and fired at the huge shadow stuck in the window. The bullet penetrated the flesh with a dull and sticky sound.

The beast's crazy roar was mixed with the sound of liquid and flesh falling to the ground.

Bang bang——

There were also crazy banging sounds outside the door, and the windowsill was crowded with running heads.

Just as Lu Cai was about to fire another shot at the beast, it squeezed down from the windowsill. Its belly hooked onto the window frame, and with a sizzling sound, a piece of black, rotten flesh peeled off from its belly.

The beast lunged at Lu Cai, and she quickly fired a shot that missed, hitting it in the left shoulder. She instinctively pushed the little girl under the bed, and she was unable to dodge and was taken down by the beast.

My wrist was hit hard and my pistol fell to some corner.

One of the beast's paws slapped her right shoulder, giving her the illusion of bones breaking, and her skin and the flesh underneath were torn apart by its claws.

Fortunately, it hit the window just now and broke most of its claws. Otherwise, if this claw came down, she would not even have the chance to become a zombie, and her head and body would be separated and reincarnated.

Perhaps it was her survival instinct that made her desperately press her hands against the beast's throat as it opened its mouth to bite. She thought she was doomed, her eyes wide open, as if to see what monster had killed her, but she unexpectedly held her ground against the beast.

The moonlight outside the window was cold and silent, shining on the heads of the people in the crowd and on the monster's face that had been torn to pieces.

It's the golden tiger——

The veins on Lu Cai's arms bulged, and a deep red light flashed through his meridians. The veins disappeared, and a faint red empty battery symbol appeared on the inside of his right wrist.

Having seen death, she was filled with resentment. She bent her hands into claws and dug into the tiger's neck.

Kill them all! She was like a rage-mad woman, her fingers digging into her flesh, but the golden tiger was unaware and continued to pounce on her.

Lu Cai gritted his teeth and pushed hard. The battery symbol on his wrist flickered slightly, then trembled and did not disappear.

Jin Hu was almost pushed against the wall. Lu Cai felt a half-broken mop stick nearby. Without thinking, she picked up the stick and pounced on Jin Hu.

The cross-section of the wooden stick was jagged and it pierced straight through Jinhu's skull, causing it to twitch violently.

Lu Cai exerted force with his hands and with a "crack", the wooden stick was broken.

A zombie squeezed in from the windowsill, swaying and roaring as it lunged towards her. Lu Cai, clutching the remaining half of the stick, turned and thrust it straight into the zombie's head.

The zombie fell to the ground. In the moonlight, she saw the pistol ten centimeters above Jin Hu's head.

She quickly picked up the gun and fired a burst of shots at the windowsill.

There were constant gunshots, heads exploded one after another, black brain matter splattered on the walls and the ground, making them black and sticky, and the wooden door behind them was crumbling.

There were more than a dozen zombies on the windowsill. Lu Cai cleaned the windowsill temporarily, then fished out the little girl from under the bed and pushed the motionless zombies on the windowsill out.

As she jumped off the windowsill by stepping on a zombie, the wooden door behind her collapsed with a loud bang, and she rushed into the infirmary with a fierce roar.

The noise was so loud that it attracted many zombies. Lu Cai raised his gun and shot, killing five or six along the way. He jumped up and down with the little girl and finally slipped into the back kitchen of a restaurant.

The kitchen has no windows, only two doors at the front and back.

After dealing with the two zombies gnawing on raw meat in the kitchen, Lu Cai put the little girl down, locked the door, and dragged the table over to hold the two doors in place.

The empty battery symbol on her wrist finally couldn't hold on, and it broke in two and disappeared.

Lu Cai was also exhausted. One of his legs went weak and he fell to the ground with a thud.

The little girl didn't dare to cry, for fear of attracting the monster outside, so she walked tremblingly to Lu Cai.

Lu Cai looked scary. There was a scratch on his right shoulder so deep that the bone was visible. His black short-sleeve was torn, and the edge of the crack was stained wet.

The broken wooden stick pierced the base of his right palm, leaving a bloody wound, and red blood flowed onto the white floor tiles.

She felt hot all over and her head was dizzy. She felt no pain in her body, yet she felt pain all over.

The little girl lowered her head, tore off the precious bandage in her hand, and knelt beside Lu Cai with a look of grievance on her face, but she was bandaging the wound in a serious manner with her hands.

But Lu Cai knew she was messing around without even looking, so he curled his lips.

"If you wrap it up for me, what will happen to my mother?" Her voice was weak and her breathing was intermittent.

After hearing this, the little girl pursed her lips and tears flowed from her eyes, rolling down her face, with a few drops falling on Lu Cai's wound.

Shit! It hurts even more!

Lu Cai suddenly thought, if he was caught, would he turn into a zombie?

Too bad my brain isn't working fast enough...

The crying became louder and louder, making her head hurt.

"Stop crying! You're making so much noise!" A somewhat childish scolding voice sounded, making it difficult to distinguish between reality and dreams.

The scolding was a bit harsh and arrogant, full of impatience, but the crying gradually subsided.

Lu Cai was in a daze, feeling somewhat pleased with himself, and the irritability he felt gradually faded away.

Darkness came quietly——

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The introduction of spotted hyena comes from the Internet.