Even after a zombie's level increases, its size doesn't change significantly.

Even a level 3 flesh-type zombie couldn't quickly break through the horde and rush to King Kong's front.

Before long, King Kong disappeared from sight and returned to his aimless wandering state.

"Um?"

Through his mental perception, Huang Zhao suddenly spotted a rather peculiar zombie ahead.

The aura emanating from its body was at level three, but the color of its superpower, as perceived by Huang Zhao, was silver, a color that Huang Zhao had never seen before.

However, the silver light on its body was flickering erratically, as if its alien energy had been over-consumed.

At this moment, the zombie was also attracted by the commotion caused by King Kong and rushed towards King Kong.

Specialization!

A zombie that has awakened special abilities!

The three words "trait system" came to Huang Zhao's mind.

"King Kong, charge over there and grab that level three zombie."

Huang Zhao spoke excitedly to King Kong through the mental connection, while also pointing out the location of the zombies.

"Awooo! Okay!"

King Kong, who was frolicking among the zombies, suddenly changed direction and moved closer to the special zombie.

Without much effort, King Kong approached and grabbed the special zombie on the ground.

No matter how much it struggled, it couldn't break free from the large, steel hand.

Even biting causes very limited damage to King Kong; it's barely painful.

Continuing forward, another familiar zombie figure appeared ahead: the Devourer.

Huang Zhao's eyes lit up, and he said to Jin Gang:

"King Kong, kill that big guy in front!"

At this point, the zombies that can break through to level four are basically mutants, and they have a hard time resisting Huang Zhao's mental attack.

Just like in Chiayi City, Huang Zhao used a mental shock to stun and exhaust the Devourer, while King Kong approached and pierced the Devourer's head with an iron rod.

Huang Zhao then stored the Devourer's corpse into his special ability space.

With a series of fluid movements, he obtained a level four energy crystal.

"Another unexpected bonus."

Huang Zhao had no reason to refuse such an action that had a small cost but a huge reward.

Although the number of zombies is dozens or even hundreds of times that of humans, there won't be many Level 4 individuals in the early stages of the apocalypse.

With the number of Level 4 zombies in the city still relatively small, Huang Zhao and Jin Gang can move around almost freely.

The longer time goes on, the more terrifying the zombies will become.

It's impossible to simply rush into the city and kill a level 4 zombie.

If surrounded by several level-four zombies, even King Kong would find it difficult to escape.

After about half an hour, the group traversed 20 kilometers of urban area, emerging from Quzhou, a city with a population of two million.

"Phew, it's exciting, but it's still a bit dangerous."

After continuing forward for more than ten kilometers and completely shaking off the large horde of corpses that had followed them, Ning Chuxia said.

"Today's itinerary is already a bit rushed. I don't know if we can get to Ganzhou City by covering half the distance during the day."

"Roar! King Kong can charge even at night!"

Since leaving, King Kong has been in a state of extreme excitement.

Upon hearing Huang Zhao's comment that it was still a bit slow, he immediately replied.

"It's too dangerous at night. Let's see how things go before we decide."

"First, cut off its tail. Then let's see what this zombie is."

Behind King Kong, there were still more than thirty level-three flesh-type zombies hanging in the distance.

The speed was roughly the same as King Kong's steady pace, maintaining around 100 kilometers per hour.

This is just what King Kong attracted along his route, and it already exceeds the total number of all Level 3 ability users in Dawn City combined.

If these zombies were to attack the Jinshi settlement where Yang Lan had previously been, they would be completely unable to resist.

However, for Huang Zhao, it was just a minor problem, but it still needed to be dealt with.

If we don't deal with them, these zombies could probably follow us all the way to Guangzhou.

The main force of zombies behind them had long been left far behind.

Upon hearing Huang Zhao's order, King Kong immediately stopped and prepared to rush towards the zombies behind him to deal with them.

Indeed, Qin Yi's voice was heard again:

"King Kong, let me do it, you take a rest first."

Qin Yi stopped King Kong from rushing out and jumped to the ground with his long-handled hammer.

“I’ll go too. Since arriving in Dawn City, I haven’t had a chance to go out of the city to carry out a zombie hunting mission.”

Having a high level of superpower isn't enough; you also need to be able to kill zombies!

After absorbing the giant python's energy crystal to enhance her talent, Ning Chuxia also wanted to test her own strength.

Along the way, those with only level three superpowers were merely spectators.

Without Vajra, a level three expert would have followed Huang Zhao to Yangcheng.

Let alone being able to help in any way, just being able to avoid being a burden to Huang Zhao and the others would require their utmost effort.

They also understood Huang Zhao's earlier actions in stopping them from following.

However, the zombies chasing them were only level three, and the two felt they could still handle them.

After hesitating for a moment, Huang Zhao agreed to their request.

"I want to go too! I want to go too!"

Seeing that the two of them had gone to deal with the zombies, Alice was also eager to try.

Huang Zhao stopped Alice, somewhat amused and exasperated.

"Alice, don't go. Just stay behind and keep an eye on things and take care of the logistics."

"Alice also wants to be able to help."

After being pulled back by Huang Zhao, Alice pouted and said somewhat aggrievedly.

"There will be opportunities. The most important thing for Alice is to protect herself."

You're our wet nurse; we can't do without you, no matter who's gone.

"Hmph, of course!"

While Huang Zhao and Alice were chatting, Qin Yi and Ning Chuxia had already begun fighting the level three zombies that had caught up with them.

The armor they wore protected them well from being easily harmed by zombies.

Qin Yi's heavy hammer struck the zombie's head, though it failed to smash the flesh-type zombie's skull.

But it can also directly smash zombies away.

Ning Chuxia activated her bloodline and transformed into a rabbit, but her entire body was covered by armor, so it was impossible to see her.

He moved with incredible speed, leaping and weaving through the horde of zombies, until he reached behind one and plunged his titanium alloy dagger deep into its head.

Each strike can severely injure a zombie, or even kill it instantly.

The zombies couldn't even touch Ning Chuxia's armor.

'So fast! And it seems to have gained a lot more strength too.'

Huang Zhao's mental perception completely enveloped the battlefield where the two were fighting against more than twenty zombies.

Ning Chuxia's burst of speed was at least twice that of Qin Yi, which means it reached more than 200 kilometers per hour!

Although her strength was slightly inferior to Qin Yi's, her extreme speed meant that even Qin Yi could not inflict as much damage on zombies as she could.

More than 30 level-3 zombies were killed by the two men in just over ten minutes.