In the dimly lit shopping mall, the long-haired woman's veins bulged, her fingers gripping the wall like chicken claws, and she made gurgling sounds in her throat, seemingly trying her best to stand up.
"Um, are you alright?" He suddenly regretted sending his teammates back to report, leaving him alone with this woman.
Upon hearing his voice, the woman trembled all over, seemingly reacting.
"Well, how about I make you a fire? Are you too cold?" From his perspective, he thought the woman was probably shivering because of the cold, after all, zombies were too fantastical for ordinary people.
So he made the decision he regretted most in his life.
He picked up a nearby bag, smashed a wooden desk, and soon a fire broke out on the ground.
Upon seeing the firelight, the woman became visibly excited and struggled to her feet.
"Let me help you!" He stepped forward and took the woman's hand. The moment he touched her skin, a chilling sensation ran through his fingers.
Good heavens, how can it be so cold? Doesn't she have any comfort? He suddenly began to doubt whether the woman in front of him was even alive.
The firewood crackled and popped, and in the blazing firelight, the woman moved her entire body in a strange posture.
Her joints made a teeth-grinding crunching sound.
The more he looked, the more terrified he became, his hair standing on end. At that moment, he finally understood that the woman opposite him was not human at all. Although she had the appearance of a human and could move, she was definitely not human.
At this moment, she was staring at him with bloodshot eyes, as if he were her prey.
"The fire is about to go out, I'm going out to collect some fuel," he said in a trembling voice. Regardless of whether the monster could understand him, he turned and walked towards the door.
He turned on the walkie-talkie, "Hey! Captain, are you guys here yet? This woman isn't human! I... ah!"
He felt a gust of wind behind him, and he instinctively turned around, only to see a pair of inhuman, bloodshot eyes.
"ah!"
A bloodcurdling scream shattered the tranquility of the mall.
"Captain, that's Li Ziwei's voice! Something's happened to him!"
Upon hearing the sound, the search team members rushed towards the location.
"What happened?" they asked each other.
"I don't know! It sounds like the voice is coming from upstairs. Let's go up and check it out!"
"Zhao Xuan, where did you just find the survivors?" the search team leader asked anxiously.
"It's just ahead!" The team member named Zhao Xuan pointed to a place that looked like the mall management office not far ahead.
The two pushed open the door and were immediately hit by a strong smell of blood.
"My God!"
The two were stunned by the scene before them.
Blood was everywhere on the ground and walls. Team member Li Ziwei was lying on the ground, convulsing, while a disheveled woman was biting him. Beside them was a smoldering, extinguished fire.
"What is this?!" The two were so frightened that their faces turned ashen. Was the woman in front of them even human?
"Li Ziwei, what happened to you?" The teammate lying on the ground, could he still be alive?
The sounds of the two startled the woman, who stopped biting and looked up.
Through her body, the two could see that half of Li Ziwei's head had been bitten off, revealing his white brain.
"Ugh!" Zhao Xuan's stomach churned, and he couldn't help but vomit.
"Zhao Xuan, stop vomiting! Let's get out of here!" the captain said anxiously. Although he didn't know what had happened, judging from the scene before him, this woman was definitely not a good person. There was no guarantee that she wouldn't attack others, so they had to leave quickly.
"What? Captain! What about Li Ziwei?!" Zhao Xuan hadn't yet recovered from the shock of his teammate's death.
"Hurry up and leave, or it will be too late!"
In fact, it was too late to leave now. The woman used both hands and feet, leaping like a spider, and almost instantly, Zhao Xuan was tackled to the ground.
She bit Zhao Xuan's neck like a wild beast.
"Ah! Captain, Captain, save me!" Zhao Xuan struggled and desperately cried for help.
The captain drew his pistol and began firing wildly at the woman.
"Bang! Bang! Bang!" In the chaos, almost all the bullets missed their mark, with only one hitting her shoulder, shattering half of it. But she seemed completely oblivious to the pain, continuing to bite. Zhao Xuan soon fell silent.
He wiped the cold sweat from his brow. What kind of monster was this?
At this time, the other team members also arrived.
"Captain, what happened here? My God, what's going on?"
"Don't worry about it, it's a monster. Let's retreat immediately and report what happened here to our superiors," the captain stopped the other team members.
“But!…” They hesitated as they looked at Zhao Xuan lying on the ground.
"Never mind that, let's go!" At this moment, the woman raised her head again, looking at the many prey in front of her, and stood up excitedly.
"Run!" Having already witnessed her ghostly speed, the captain was the first to flee downstairs. In this situation, he couldn't care less about others; survival was the most important thing.
Behind him, some people have already begun to suffer.
"Ah! Ah! Help!"
"Monster! Run!"
Screams and cries for help echoed throughout the mall. Half an hour later, the mall fell completely silent, with only the sounds of zombies gnawing away with relish remaining. None of the search team members survived.
Actually, this was also due to their bad luck. They happened to run into a zombie that had woken up early, and the fire that team member Li Ziwei kindly lit accelerated the thawing of the zombie's ability to move, which led to this tragedy.
Three days later, at the headquarters of country H.
"Strange, we haven't heard from the third squad for several days. Could something have happened to them?"
"That can't be! Z City is basically a ghost town. How could they possibly be attacked?"
"Should we send the nearby search and rescue team over to take a look?"
"But they have a lot of tasks too. Never mind, I'd better report to my superiors as soon as possible!"
After the third advance team disappeared, the headquarters of Country H immediately dispatched a team from the vicinity to check the situation at the Wald Supermarket.
However, apart from bloodstains, no other team members' remains were found inside the Wald supermarket.
The search and rescue team had no choice but to leave. They had initially thought it was just an accident, but little did they know it was the beginning of everything.
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