"But?"
"There are no buts. Just do as I say. We can't stop these zombies anyway, so let them escape."
It's a pity. I wonder what's happening inside the city. Perhaps giving those guys guns was a mistake.
After the army commander finished speaking, he completely collapsed in despair, the arrogance he once possessed had long since vanished.
………………
The city of Jinghai is thriving.
Thanks to Xu Xing not assigning them to the front lines, Yuan and Cai were not seriously injured.
For the past few days, I have been in charge of preparing the ingredients for everyone's meals.
To Xu Xing's surprise, Yuan Tang's younger sister actually broke through to the fourth level, which was truly rare.
Logically speaking, this kind of cooking-related superpower is undoubtedly a complete waste of personal combat strength. Take Yuan Tang for example, he might not even be able to defeat an ordinary superpower user who has just entered the third level.
This kind of superpower has its own limits. Like many useless superpowers, it is impossible to break through level four in one's lifetime.
Nowadays, Yuan Tang has become an anomaly, and her abilities have been greatly enhanced.
Given enough ingredients and tools, and with Yuan Cai by her side, the two of them alone could prepare meals for thousands of people.
Furthermore, crystal cores can be added to it, serving as an alternative supplement for everyone, making it an absolute top-notch tool.
Aside from this minor incident, Xu Xing's main task remained to explore the city's condition.
In his previous life, he was in the army and fighting zombies. Shortly after the war began, he hurriedly fled. He never set foot in most parts of the city after the apocalypse.
Click~
As Xu walked along, he suddenly stepped on something, which looked like the skeleton of some kind of creature.
Upon closer inspection, it was discovered that it was a human arm, a severed part, covered with gaps of varying sizes.
It was as if he had suffered inhuman torture in his previous life.
At first, Xu Xing was surprised and stopped to check the situation.
By now, it's become commonplace.
They had arrived at what was originally the zombie's lair.
Due to the prolonged occupation by these zombies, the surrounding area appears dilapidated, with crooked walls and bare bones everywhere.
It looked exactly like a living hell.
As Xu Xing had guessed, this place was originally the best and largest university in Jinghai City, Jinghai University.
When the zombie outbreak occurred, countless students gathered here, so it's not surprising that they could raise a zombie like Asmodeus.
"There doesn't seem to be anything good here, just bones and more bones. It's not even creepy enough," Susie said, riding her dog around the area.
The dog was panting heavily, sniffing the suspicious smell in the air.
Xu Xing shook his head: "Not necessarily. Not all of those zombies are idiots. Some of them are highly intelligent. Maybe there are some good things in their hometown."
Suddenly, the dog found itself standing before a pile of ruins. It sniffed the air, and a young, boyish voice rang out from its mouth:
"Something's not right. I think I smell that awful scent again, like a zombie scent, but also something else."
The dog earnestly reported the news to Susie.
"Oh? Really? Look again carefully to find out exactly where it is."
Xu walked closer and asked.
Without hesitation, the dog replied, "It seems to be underground!"
As it spoke, its originally fleshy giant claws became incredibly sharp, grabbing at the surrounding rocks reinforced with steel bars. The moment it touched them, the rocks were shattered.
Xu Xing also became interested and then traded it for a pangolin that was playing not far away.
This pangolin is five meters long and two meters tall, with a wide and thick carapace around its body and sharp, hook-like limbs, resembling a large mini excavator.
Only his face was exposed, and his tongue, several meters long, kept secreting some kind of liquid, as if he was also searching for something, making him look extremely silly and cute.
The pangolin, also a late-stage level four mutated beast, happily came over and began helping the dog dig deeper and deeper.
Two skilled hole diggers working together are very efficient.
Before long, a fishy, foul odor, containing that familiar putrid smell, began to emerge and constantly entered everyone's nostrils.
Xu Xing smelled the odor but didn't feel any discomfort. After thinking about it for a moment, he suddenly stood up straight: "Could it be..."
Xu Xing muttered to himself as he slowly stepped forward to check, while Su Xixi, who had just been on the dog's back, had long since moved out of the area.
The two giant beasts didn't react much to the smell and wanted to continue to enlarge the hole that had just been created.
Following the scent, Xu Xing took a closer look.
Inside the cave, a strange black smoke filled the air. At the very center was an object that looked like a large tree. Around it, one could see black things wriggling wildly inside.
"The Mother!" Xu Xing exclaimed.
This thing is the zombie mother that Xu Xing once talked about.
After all, the total number of zombies is limited, and they cannot reproduce sexually. However, in the final stages, their numbers are still very large, thanks to this zombie mother.
Xu Xing had seen the immature version of the zombie when he was eliminating it in the school.
But this one in front of me...
Xu Xing used his mental power to condense a small dragon hurricane that drew away the surrounding black energy, completely revealing the form of the mother body.
It's like a termite queen that has turned black, then turned upside down and magnified countless times.
If the mother body were to emerge from the cave, Xu Xing estimated that it would be no smaller than a section of a train.
Surrounding it were dark, wriggling clumps of flesh, which seemed to be still developing.
Some have even grown hands and feet, while others have completely transformed into the appearance of some kind of monster.
No wonder so many deformities appeared in the zombie horde; it all originated from here.
Perhaps due to a lack of nutrient supply, these zombies were forced to stop evolving and remained in this state. The mother zombie was the same and did not produce any more zombies.
Another reason why zombies have such a cold relationship with any other living being stems from this.
This mother of zombies needs a lot of energy to give birth to new zombies, and human superhumans are a great source of energy.
Of course, other flesh and blood will also work, but the effect won't be as good.
The deep white bones in the rest of the pit are the final proof; it would be no exaggeration to call it a mass grave, with far more animal remains than human remains.
No wonder Asmodeus went to such lengths and gained nothing but trouble to target the zoo.
Even Xu Xing felt a lingering fear. Fortunately, Asmodeus chose to start the war early. If they had gradually increased their numbers and then started massing troops, no one could have held out.
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