There is a large supermarket and some other supporting facilities in the service area.
As the convoy slowly drove to the tollbooth, Qi Peng suddenly waved for all the lawnmowers behind to stop.
It was so quiet.
A sense of tension arose spontaneously among everyone present.
It was eerily quiet here; even their breathing was exceptionally clear.
"It smells of blood."
Xu Yi and the others jumped out of the car first and knocked on the door of Lu Sheng's car.
In the sweltering, stuffy air, a faint, pungent, fishy stench wafted through the air.
Unlike the usual smell of blood, this odor was mixed with the smell of old, rotten wood, which wafted straight into the top of the head, making people's eyes water.
As soon as Xu Yi finished speaking, the lawnmower team erupted in an uproar.
Most of these people's abilities are closely related to agricultural production, and combat-related abilities are extremely rare. In the event of any unexpected situation, they lack combat experience.
"Can we take a detour?" someone in the group asked nervously.
Qi Peng scratched his forehead in distress. "No, this is the only highway that can get us there. The rest are all unpaved dirt roads that are impossible to drive on."
"There's no other way, we've already come this far, so we just have to grit our teeth and get through it."
Qi Peng glanced at his fellow villagers, gritted his teeth, and made up his mind.
"Piggy, sniff around quickly, is there any danger nearby?"
Qi Yue was not afraid at all; on the contrary, she was eager to try. She untied the carrion pig that had eaten the swamp beast and affectionately rubbed its nose against it.
The carrion-eating pig was quite intelligent; it grunted and made some noises to Qi Yue before strutting proudly into the tollbooth.
"Can pigs handle it?" Han Rui asked anxiously, standing on tiptoe to look around.
Lu Sheng took out a headlamp and handed it to a few people. "Don't underestimate pigs. A pig's sense of smell is two to three times that of a dog. Search and rescue pigs existed even before the apocalypse."
As the group was talking, a shrill animal cry suddenly came from ahead.
The carrion pig, which had just run a short distance away, suddenly became frightened and charged back, squealing and yelling.
Zhang Xiaojuan was positioned with her back to the direction the pig was charging from. When she heard the noise and tried to dodge, it was too late. She was immediately knocked into the ditch by the carrion-eating pig.
A tall, level-five zombie suddenly rushed out of the tollbooth supermarket and darted in front of the group.
The zombie was still wearing the tollbooth uniform, its scarlet eyes flashing with an eerie, ferocious light in the night, its gaping maw roaring as it lunged at the unarmed villagers.
The villagers had never seen such a high-level zombie before, and they were so frightened that they were at a loss for what to do. Some people dropped their lawnmowers and ran away, while others were so scared that they stood there motionless.
Qi Yue stood there stunned, staring in terror at the enormous creature so close to her.
The carrion pig, which had already run far away, saw its little master in danger and immediately turned around and ran back with a yelp, then suddenly rammed its head into the leg of the fifth-level zombie.
Compared to the fresh and juicy human girl, the fifth-tier zombie clearly had no interest in pigs. Its sharp claws pierced the carrion pig's neck with a soft thud, and it casually tossed the pig aside.
The carrion-eating pig was severely injured and lay on the ground making weak gasping sounds.
Just as the sharp fangs were about to bite off Qi Yue's head, Lu Sheng quickly used his electric python to wrap around the zombie's neck and dragged it to his side.
Immediately afterwards, Sun Tiantian tacitly pulled out her ice blade and, before the fifth-level zombie could resist, stabbed it into its putrid mouth.
Thick, dark blood splattered all over the ground, and Sun Tiantian skillfully took out the crystal core and gave it to Lu Sheng.
At this moment, Qi Yue finally snapped out of her shock and immediately rushed toward the carrion pig lying by the roadside.
"Xiaoyue! Come back!"
Just then, Qi Peng suddenly shouted and dragged Qi Yue and the carrion pig back frantically.
Before the villagers could recover from their shock, a huge head suddenly appeared in the direction of the tollbooth.
It was dark and sticky, like pork belly just pulled out of oil, making it greasy to look at.
The face was so large that no facial features could be seen; the skin on the face had all fallen off, the eyes were two dark holes that were not visible, and only two small holes remained of the nose.
The mouth was filled with a terrifying array of swirling teeth, and a black, fleshy tongue flicked with each breath.
Everyone was stunned by this sudden turn of events and instinctively took a few steps back.
The next moment, two webbed forelimbs resembling duck feet suddenly lifted the barrier at the tollbooth entrance, and the entire body of the enormous creature finally came into everyone's view.
The monster looked as if it had just crawled out of the mud, its short, thick, and strong hind legs slowly moving as it approached.
A villager accidentally fell to the ground while running away, immediately attracting the monster's attention.
With its duck-like forelimbs, it swiftly swept across, and the villager, in a panic, instinctively released a huge fireball.
The next second, the flames blazed brightly.
The fire dragon instantly turned on the villagers, burning them to a crisp in just a few seconds.
"Be careful, this zombie is a petroleum-derived mutant," Lu Sheng warned seriously.
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