The festive atmosphere was completely frozen and replaced by solemnity. The four bases communicated with each other and confirmed that everyone was in the same situation. They quickly organized their own teams and set off. However, this time they disappeared without a trace and no news was heard from them again.
As night fell, Lin Zhongrong paced back and forth in his room in agitation. An older man nearby advised him, "Comrade Zhongrong, please be patient. Once you cross the border, communications will be cut off. It will take them at least until tomorrow noon to get back and forth."
"Don't be impatient? How can I be impatient?" Lin Zhongrong suppressed his temper and said irritably, "When will that crappy satellite be repaired? Oh, if there's a problem with the signal over there, we'll be at a loss here."
When the apocalypse began, a satellite inexplicably exploded in the sky, and the debris destroyed the surrounding satellites. Then, like a chain reaction, all satellites were almost completely destroyed, and global communications were paralyzed. It took China several years to reconnect to a half-damaged satellite.
Lin Zhongrong didn't understand either. He only knew that he relied on the half-broken communication satellite and some other means to barely re-establish domestic communications. After that, it took a lot of time and resources to reconnect with the outside world.
This kind of connection is very fragile. Once a problem occurs on one side, it can be easily interrupted. I didn't expect that such a thing would actually happen, especially at such a critical moment, and it doesn't make people anxious.
Lin Zhongrong stopped to think for a moment, then turned and walked out.
"Hey, where are you going?" the man asked from behind.
Lin Zhongrong did not answer. What he had to do was search and rescue and prepare for battle. If there was no news within the scheduled time, he would have to take the next step.
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When China entered the busy and tense second half of the night, the city of S had just entered the night. Lin Cheng sneaked into this city that he was already very familiar with under the cover of darkness.
He walked carefully and cautiously towards the city lord's castle. Here he also smelled the scent of zombies, not that of the zombie king, but the faint zombie breath of the infected. However, there were not many, only about three.
Lin Cheng ignored all that. With his keen sense of smell, he locked onto a window on the second floor of the gloomy castle. The city lord should be there.
The old city lord has gone to bed. As a zombie in essence, he does not need to sleep, but after being a zombie for more than ten years and regaining his human characteristics, he misses everything human, including eating human food and maintaining a human schedule.
Every night he just dozed with his eyes closed, but tonight seemed different. He suddenly opened his eyes and saw a tall figure standing beside the bed. The door to the terrace behind him was half open, but no cold wind blew in. The faint light from the fireplace shone in, but could not illuminate the man's face.
He tried to get up immediately, but suddenly something pulled his hands and feet and tied them to the bedposts, and a huge force pressed down on him.
The old man was unable to move suddenly. He opened his eyes wide to try to see the whole person clearly. In fact, he used not only his eyes, but also relied more on his hearing, smell, and all his senses, but he could not recognize the other person's identity at all. If he had not seen it with his own eyes, he would not even know that there was a person standing there.
He finally had to rely on his eyes to see, and guessed: "Lin?"
Lin Cheng took two steps closer, and the firelight from the fireplace finally illuminated his face. He looked down at the frail old man on the bed, who was being suppressed by his supernatural powers. "Lord City Lord? Or should I call you, Zombie King?"
He spoke the local language. He didn't know foreign languages originally, but after staying here for more than half a year, he had already become able to speak it fluently.
The old man looked at him tolerantly: "What are you talking about?"
Lin Cheng's response was to tighten the special ropes wrapped around his hands and feet, increasing the pressure on his chest. A teeth-numbing sound of tightening and bones creaking could be heard. Lin Cheng did not hold back. An ordinary person, let alone an old man whose bones should be fragile, even a strong man would have his bones broken. But this old man did not. His chest was squeezed much smaller, but his ribs were not broken, and he did not even show any pain.
This is the best evidence.
The City Lord's smile remained unchanged, and he looked very kind and sighing: "You are very smart. Are all Chinese people as smart as you?"
"We Chinese are not only smart, but also very good at killing zombies. The first zombie king of your kind died in China, and the second one was chopped in half by me. If you don't want to become the third one, you can remove the virus from my companions the same way you planted it."
The old man's expression was a little subtle: "Aren't you curious about my business? How did I hide for so long and become the Lord of Si City? Why don't you ask me what I want to do?"
With two dull thuds, Lin Cheng directly broke two of his ribs.
The old man's expression twisted. A broken rib pierced his lung. He was now living like a human, breathing like a real human, with blood coursing through his body. His breathing became heavy, and the bleeding made his vital signs unstable. His skin quickly shrank, shriveled, and grayed, his pupils shrank, and his nails turned black. He suddenly looked more than a little uglier, taking on some zombie-like characteristics.
He stopped breathing, staring at Lin Cheng with pinprick-like pupils. He spoke again, his voice becoming very dry and stagnant: "There is no other way. Their only fate is to become zombies."
Lin Cheng's eyes were cold.
The zombie on the bed said again: "But I admire you very much. If you are willing to be my servant, I can save them."
Lin Cheng immediately asked, "Can you really do it?"
The old zombie said, "I can restore some of my people to human form, but you should let me go."
Lin Cheng seemed to be trying to determine whether his words were true or not. Finally, he slightly relaxed his suppressing force, and the shriveled zombie's chest soon filled up again, its bones reconnected and grew back together, and it soon resumed breathing, and its appearance turned into the original kind old man.
Lin Cheng watched coldly. The zombie king's recovery ability was indeed strong enough. When dealing with the last zombie king, fortunately he directly split its head open, leaving it no room for self-rescue.
Lin Cheng's gaze fell on the thin rope at the head of the bed. A wisp of energy wrapped around the rope and tugged. A moment later, a waiter came to the door: "Lord City Lord, what can I do for you?"
Lin Cheng sensed that the other person was an infected person. He quickly opened the door and pulled him in. He also used his supernatural powers to control him from head to toe and threw him to the ground: "This is it."
The Zombie King chuckled and said, "How do you know he has been infected with the zombie virus?"
Lin Cheng said coldly: "Stop talking nonsense!"
The Zombie King had no choice but to say that it was easy to plant the virus but difficult to eradicate it, and asked Lin Cheng to stop imprisoning him. Lin Cheng looked at him and loosened some of his control.
The Zombie King came to the waiter, who was unable to move with his eyes wide open in fear, and said a few words of comfort to him kindly. Lin Cheng didn't quite understand what he said. It was not a common language, and he guessed it was a prayer like "The Lord will bless you." He watched coldly as this thing pretended to be a ghost and did not miss any of his moves.
Suddenly the waiter twitched, as if in pain. Lin Cheng released his grip on him, and he rolled on the ground with his head in his hands.
Lin Cheng frowned slightly, and the Zombie King said that this was normal, and that removing the virus was painful. However, Lin Cheng could feel the zombie aura on the waiter getting stronger and stronger.
Suddenly, the waiter pounced on Lin Cheng, and at the same time, a powerful force burst out from the Zombie King's body, broke free from Lin Cheng's control, and ran towards the terrace.
Lin Cheng kicked the waiter away, his hand already grasping the hilt of the knife. The next moment, a red light flashed, and he slashed towards the zombie king with the force of thunder.
The zombie king howled, and his lower body was cut off, leaving only his upper body falling downstairs.
Just as Lin Cheng was about to give chase, the waiter he had lifted up to the wall lunged forward again, his fangs protruding and blood dripping. In an instant, he transformed into a zombie! And he became an extremely powerful zombie!
Lin Cheng immediately realized that he had been tricked. It took him a few seconds to kill the zombie. When he chased it to the terrace, the zombie king was nowhere to be seen. The ground was covered with dripping black blood and several pieces of black intestines, as well as several fresh zombies that appeared from nowhere.
Lin Cheng supported himself and jumped down, killing the zombies with a few slashes. However, more zombies rushed towards him. These were obviously created by the zombie king to stop him. He had no expression on his face, and killed them one by one, following the breath of the zombie king.
Meanwhile, the zombie king, now only a figure from the waist up, howled miserably and crawled swiftly on his hands. Anyone startled and approached became his prey, either quickly transformed into a zombie for him to command or devoured as a snack. People screamed in terror, confused as to what was happening. Hadn't the zombies been eliminated?
They hid, or shut their doors and windows tightly, afraid to go out. Suddenly, the Zombie King unleashed a heartbreaking howl. All the infected in the city, who were supposed to remain dormant for days before transforming into zombies, suddenly clutched their heads, screaming, or rolled on the ground, or convulsed. Their relatives and friends either rushed forward to anxiously check on them or retreated in fear, but this couldn't prevent those people from taking on zombie characteristics within a few minutes. Those closest to them, of course, became their first meal.
The smell of decay and blood quickly spread throughout the city, and in just over ten minutes, hell on earth reappeared.
Lin Cheng soon discovered that the air was filled with the smell of zombies, screams were heard one after another, and there was no shortage of zombies swaying in the streets. Because of his intervention, the zombie virus broke out prematurely, and Si City was about to become a sea of corpses, just like Lan City had been before, and he was now in this sea of corpses.
Lin Cheng curled his lips in sarcasm. So many of them worked so hard here for so long and paid so much, but in the end they still failed.
There was no pity or guilt in his eyes. Even if he didn't come back tonight, this scene would have happened sooner or later. Who made the city lord of these people a zombie king with evil intentions?
However, he still picked up his sword and started killing the zombies. He did not stand idly by and watch the tragedy that was about to happen before his eyes. He tried his best to capture the breath of the zombie king and continued to chase him.
"Lin! Why are you here? Didn't you leave?" Someone suddenly called out his name. Lin Cheng looked and saw it was someone from Si City who had once fought alongside them. Lin Cheng said coldly, "A zombie king has appeared here. He's your city lord. Now only the upper half of his body is left, and he's still fleeing. If we want to control the situation as soon as possible, we must find him."
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