If you hadn't seen it with your own eyes, probably no one would believe that an owl could be calling someone an idiot from the air.
Even those who actually witnessed it looked up at the sky like stunned geese, unable to believe that their research institute had been blown up by an owl with two tufts of feathers on its head.
"...That owl seemed to be speaking Chinese? Is it an Eastern fairy?"
One of the researchers murmured a question.
"No, I think it should be a magical owl, maybe even an Animagus! It must be an Animagus that can transform into a human!! Oh Merlin's socks, I've seen a living wizard!"
"You two idiots, what are you looking at owls for at a time like this! The fire has already reached here! Don't you feel the heat? Why aren't you running away!"
Then the researchers screamed in terror and ran outside.
Sanchez, who had been directly called an idiot and demoted in rank, looked at the owl circling above the research institute with a deep gaze.
He certainly didn't think it was an Eastern fairy or a magical pet, but this owl was clearly more unusual than the half-zombie wolf king and the half-zombie giant eagle that appeared in the sky above the base.
Based on his researcher's intuition, Sanchez believed that the owl held a secret he was unaware of.
Driven by a researcher's instinct, he desperately wanted to catch the owl, dissect it, draw its blood, and study it to see what it really was.
And so, from high above, the owl Fugui witnessed Sanchez's insane transformation for the first time—
Unlike ordinary mutants who only improved their physical abilities and regenerative skills, Sanchez raised his arms directly in the flames, and then...
Huge, dark red wings of bone and flesh sprouted from his shoulder blades on his back!
"Holy crap?!"
Upon seeing his transformation, Owl Fugui was nearly terrified and fell from the sky. "Is this even human?! Did he get genetically mixed with an Australian bat?!"
With fleshy wings, Sanchez soared up from the flames, and then long, vine-like tentacles sprouted from his palms, charging directly at Owl Fugui.
"Awoooooo, what the hell are you, you monster?!"
Why is this guy's mutation so illogical?!
Now even the arrogant owl couldn't be so cocky anymore; it flapped its wings and flew wildly through the woods.
His intuition told him that if he were caught by Sanchez's mutated monster, his life would be over.
I never expected that Sanchez could grow wings and fly!
This is really not scientific!!
Sanchez was like a bizarre, humanoid bat relentlessly chasing after the owl, Fugui. The two weaved and chased each other through the dense forest.
Meanwhile, at the base outside the valley, Xie Tianlang and the legion commander in the conference room both heard the loud noise coming from the valley, and their hearts skipped a beat.
Xie Tianlang's already somewhat gloomy expression turned even colder, and he said directly, "Can you see the surveillance footage over there? Take a look at the footage."
He wanted to see his family's wealth and prosperity.
Before Xie Tianlang could even speak, the communications officer in the conference room had already pulled up the surveillance footage that showed the Savage Valley when the explosion occurred. They then saw the raging fire at the Sanchez Research Institute in the valley, the series of smaller explosions, and the Chinese-speaking owl circling above the institute.
"??? Why can this owl speak Chinese?"
But that's not the point. The point is the terrible change that Sanchez went through afterward.
A person growing flesh and bones and wings from their back, and being able to shoot tentacles from their hands—it just seems too... bizarre.
But Si Mingri, who was in the conference room, turned pale instantly. "That madman! He must have added animal and plant gene fragments to the mutated golden liquid!!"
"The gold liquid can maximize cell vitality and repair damaged genes... therefore, therefore..."
Sanchez used the powerful restorative and transformative properties of the Golden Liquid to absorb the genes of other species to modify himself, and what's most terrifying is that he seems to have actually succeeded.
The enemy they now face is a monster capable of flying and diving, with an extremely strong regenerative ability.
"Commander! Please look here..."
The soldier in charge of monitoring suddenly pointed to a corner of the video surveillance with a hoarse voice.
Following the sound, everyone looked over and saw that the corner in the video that was burning with flames was piled up with corpses lying haphazardly like a small mountain.
If you look closely, you'll find that each of these corpses is extremely shriveled, as if they have lost all their life force by having all their blood drained from them.
The whereabouts of the people who went missing from various bases over the past two weeks have finally been explained.
However, the result was worse than they had anticipated.
The legion commander abruptly closed his eyes.
"Notify everyone at the base to pack their belongings within one hour. We must defend the Golden Flower Field tonight!"
We absolutely cannot allow a monster like Sanchez to continue living, and we absolutely cannot allow another monster like Sanchez to appear.
Meanwhile, other continental bases that had previously not responded to the Huazhou base began to reply one by one.
"We'll be heading towards the Golden Flower Field in an hour. But for our own future, I want to confirm one more time: the Golden Flower Field must contain the antidote for the Golden Liquid, right?"
This is a question posed by the current head of the Richard family in Europe.
"Our base will be setting off in an hour. You'd better not be lying to us, or we're all doomed, understand? Sanchez has become a monster!"
This is an inquiry from an Russian soldier.
Many other factions also sent similar inquiries. If they hadn't wanted to fight to the death with the zombies surrounding the base just minutes before, and instead focused on protecting the Golden Flower Field, the elites of each faction in the base felt a chill after seeing the changes in Sanchek in the valley through their respective surveillance cameras.
They weren't afraid of a mutated monster like Sanchez; he was just a monster, and they were willing to risk their lives to take him down with them.
But Sanchez's mutation gave them a glimpse into a potentially even more terrifying future.
If this zombification mutation cannot be stopped in the first place, then this world will be filled with monsters like Sanchez, all living things will be sucked dry and die, and no one will be able to escape.
This is no longer a problem that can be solved by temporarily escaping.
This is the final battle to save the world, a battle that requires us to risk our lives right now, immediately, and without hesitation!
If we win, everything will return to normal; if we lose, not only will humanity perish, but all life on earth will be doomed.
When questioned by various parties, the legion commander looked at Xie Tianlang.
Xie Tianlang nodded directly. "The antidote plant is in the Golden Flower Field."
Then, the elites at each base received a reply from Huazhou:
[I guarantee this with the name of the commander of the Ninth Legion of the Washington Special Forces. Life depends on the Golden Flower Field.]
Thus, the elite forces of various factions around the valley, along with the survivors, collectively began their operation.
And at this time—
Gou Fugui, who transformed from an owl into a honey badger, was panting heavily in a hole dug by an unknown small animal.
In the previous fifteen minutes, he had almost been caught by Sanchez, who had grown wings and tentacles, three times.
He had initially dismissed the tentacles that Sanchez was extending from his palms, but when he saw how those two tentacles could turn the tree trunk black the moment they touched the branches, and even suck out the sap from the tree, his cat-like face turned a little green.
If he were to be caught by those two tentacles, he would probably be sucked dry and turned into a dried-out owl. This would make his escape even more dangerous. If he weren't fast enough and the forest wasn't dense enough, he might not even have had a chance to transform into a honey badger and escape.
Even though he had now hidden in a tree hole underground, the sense of danger that made his scalp tingle still remained, which meant that Sanchez must still be nearby, and he might be caught as soon as he popped his head out of the hole.
However, that's all for now.
Honey Badger Fugui pulled a jar of honey from his pocket and gulped it down to replenish his energy.
After finishing a jar of honey, he was once again a spirited and fighting honey badger. He took a deep breath and poked his head out of the tree hole. Then, Honeybee Fugui quickly darted among the low grass and bushes in the forest.
Sanchez, his face grim and contorted in the air, had lost track of the talking owl.
He was almost able to catch the owl several times, but the creature always managed to dodge his attacks at the last moment.
Moreover, the owl disappeared as soon as it entered the dense forest.
Even after searching the dense forest many times, Sanchek couldn't find the owl. Below, in the bushes and grass, small wild animals like ground squirrels seemed to dart about in alarm; Sanchek glanced at them casually and then looked away.
At this time, the fire at the Sanchez Institute was still burning. Most of the researchers and mercenaries who were lucky enough not to be taken away by the explosion escaped. Honey Badger Fugui, who ran to the edge of the dense forest, parted the grass and saw Wild Man Xiao Ge being guarded by two mercenaries.
Just as Gou Fugui had thought, the Wild Man was in a bad situation.
He didn't look like a zombie, but his body was covered with bruises and scars. Most importantly, the wild man was extremely thin. Compared to his healthy and strong appearance when they parted, he now looked like a dying man who had been starving and sick for a long time.
With just one glance, Gou Fugui was certain that Sanchez must have drawn an unknown amount of blood from the Wild Man.
The reason why the wild man is still alive is probably because Sanchez is using him as a petri dish to continuously produce blood.
The savage was sitting on the ground, seemingly too weak to even stand. The two mercenaries guarding him seemed to have long been accustomed to his half-dead state, neither going mad nor truly alive, and didn't pay him much attention, instead cursing the owl that had set the fire.
It was at this moment that the wild man, who had been keeping his head down like a dead man, suddenly turned his head and looked towards the bushes.
His gaze, though thin, still held a wolfish intensity, meeting directly into the eyes of Honey Badger Fugui.
Xiao knew, of course, that this was a honey badger that only stole golden flowers.
But it was the first time he had ever seen it.
After all, when he wanted to see the honey badger, the wolf said he had already released it.
Is the honey badger back now?
Why did it come back?
It's dangerous here; it should have escaped sooner...
Then, Xiao saw the honey badger making a "run this way" gesture with its two paws in the grass.
While he was still in shock and wondering if the honey badger was trying to signal an escape, one of the mercenaries guarding him suddenly kicked him: "What are you looking at?! Don't even think about escaping!"
"Aww!!"
A strange, wild animal cry suddenly rang out, and the people gathered there, who were inexplicably wary of animals because of the owl, immediately looked around cautiously.
But while they were on high alert, the savage, driven by instinct and a strange trust in the honey badger, gritted his teeth and charged toward the dense forest. The next second as he leaped away, several mercenaries turned and raised their guns. But before they could even aim, the mercenaries saw the incendiary bombs that were so familiar to them yet made them want to curse them out!
"Oh shit! Run!!"
"Damn it, why are there more bombs?!"
"No, you should say, damn it, why is it a giant rat throwing bombs this time?! Have all the animals in this forest become sentient?!"
"Idiot, that's not a big rat, that's a honey badger!"
First, an owl dropped a bomb that almost destroyed the entire temporary research institute, and now a honey badger is doing the same thing. Has their research institute become the enemy of all animals?
And why do both honey badgers and owls use bombs?!
But they will never get an answer.
While they were angrily cursing and dodging the burning explosive balls, the savage guy had already pounced into the bushes.
While Honey Badger Fugui was still frantically trying to figure out how to get such a large person out of there and avoid Sanchek, who might be attracted back by the explosion, the wild man, a native of the valley, demonstrated the power of the natives to him—
He grabbed the honey badger, Fugui, and tucked it under his arm. Then, he bent over and crawled quickly through the dense bushes.
After skillfully dodging the stray bullets fired from behind, he found two large trees that were almost growing together, and then stomped his foot hard in the bushes next to the trees! He and the honey badger fell into the tunnel dug by the natives.
Honey Badger Fugui opened his mouth wide.
No wonder the "wild man" was able to sneak into the valley even when it was blocked by poisonous nets; the natives had already dug an emergency tunnel underground.
Although the tunnel looks simple, it is wide and sturdy, much better than those temporary tunnels dug by machines.
After entering the tunnel, the young man visibly relaxed and began frantically petting the honey badger to express his gratitude, even stammering out a couple of "thank yous" in Chinese. This made the honey badger, Fugui, grin from ear to ear.
However, he did not rest in the tunnel for long. By then, the sun had set and it was already 6:45 p.m.
Night gradually enveloped the entire world, and peeking up from the tunnel entrance, a pale full moon was slowly rising from the west.
The wild man looked up at the sky, and when his gaze fell on the bright full moon, he suddenly widened his eyes and let out two loud "ahs".
He seemed to have suddenly thought of something extremely important, and quickly grabbed the honey badger Fugui and ran forward through the tunnel. Fugui struggled in frustration to no avail, then rolled its eyes and let him carry it away.
Then, Honey Badger Fugui saw the storage cellars that the natives had built underground.
After grabbing a few pieces of dried animal meat and some stored wild fruit to fill his stomach in the cellar, the wild man headed off in another direction of the tunnel.
After running fast in the tunnel for about ten minutes, Honey Badger Fugui suddenly smelled a faint floral fragrance that had recently become very familiar to him.
The honey badger suddenly looked up, thinking that he had probably been brought to the vicinity of the golden flower field by the wild man.
So, did the Wild Man also think of the important point about the golden flower under the moonlight?
Xiao did indeed remember that.
He remembered seeing a field of golden flowers blessed by the moon goddess, and at that time the high priest was smiling at him from the edge of the field, telling him:
"Xiao, it was the combined power of the sun god and the moon god that created nature."
"Only the earth under the sun god will die from the harshness, while only the earth under the moon god cannot grow."
"Life is about mutual support and unity."
He remembered that the golden flower field he saw then was completely different from the flower field during the day.
"Ahh!"
"Moon Goddess! Flower, tell... tomorrow!"
He wanted to take the golden flower, illuminated by the moon goddess, back to the boy blessed by the sun god, and then end this terrible and insane disaster!
They had reached the exit of the underground passage when Honey Badger Fugui suddenly heard a strange roar coming from the exit.
Ignoring his honey badger appearance, he stretched out his paw and scratched the wild man hard: "There are zombies up there! Watch out!!"
Almost the instant the honey badger scratched him, Xiao noticed the danger ahead. He thrust his spear straight up into a mutated undead creature that was bowing its head towards the cave entrance, and then nimbly leaped out of the cave.
However, after jumping out, he saw four mutated undead people who had gathered around the cave at some unknown time.
Unfortunately, two of these four mutated undead were mercenaries who looked quite formidable.
Xiao clenched his fists, feeling a surge of anger and despair. If he were still in his pre-imprisonment physical condition, he could still put up a fight against these four undead.
But now, he might die here... but even so, he cannot give up!
Just as Xiao was preparing to fight desperately, he suddenly heard a low, impatient voice behind him.
"Tsk."
Before he could even turn his head, he heard four gunshots in quick succession. The bullets fired from behind him killed the four undead men he was fighting for his life almost one by one.
Xiao turned his head in disbelief. The honey badger he had thrown into the flower field had disappeared, replaced by a young man standing in the flower field, holding a silver special pistol.
He had waist-length black hair that fell down his back and chest, creating a striking contrast with his fair skin.
Silver moonlight spilled down from the sky, falling on his black hair and brows, as if coating his entire being with a hazy silver glow.
At his feet and around him were golden flowers, also bathed in silver light, which were gradually turning from gold to silver.
"...Rames..."
The handsome young man standing amidst the moonlight and flower field seemed, in that instant, to be like a moon goddess descending to earth.
At that moment, gunshots rang out in the distance, and elite vanguards from various bases arrived at this Moonlit Land at the same time, along with countless mutated zombies.
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