N-M Chapter 254 Zombies Unleashed
Chapter 254 Zombies Unleashed
Hearing Lin Fan say this, Mark didn't say anything more and directly picked up the communicator to order his men to blow up the isolation facilities in the industrial zone.
In no time, a combat squad had finished planting the bomb.
"boom!"
With Mark's command once more, several muffled loud thuds came from the industrial zone's perimeter wall.
The industrial zone's perimeter wall collapsed instantly, the load-bearing columns broke, and the special steel wire mesh crashed to the ground, raising a cloud of dust.
At the same time, reports came through the communicator.
"Report to the captain, the passage is open."
"All combat personnel evacuate the area."
After speaking, Mark looked at Lin Fan, awaiting further instructions.
Lin Fan didn't say anything. He walked to the edge of the rooftop, picked up his binoculars, and looked towards the industrial area.
From afar, one could see that as the isolation netting collapsed, the spore zombies that had been imprisoned inside surged out of the industrial zone like a tide.
They have no sight, but are very sensitive to sound and the breath of living things.
These spore zombies, which had just broken out of the quarantine zone, instantly sensed the presence of living beings—the infected that had just flooded into the city.
Sensing all this, the thousands of zombies with poisonous mushrooms on their heads immediately and without hesitation took off their stiff legs and rushed through the gap into the city alleyways, heading straight for the infected.
Meanwhile, on the streets, the infected creatures parasitized by the Shoggoths also noticed the commotion.
At this moment, having been completely transformed into monsters, they also sensed a large aura approaching them.
Immediately, two completely different waves of monsters rushed toward each other without prior arrangement.
In just a short while, the two sides met with a roar on a wide main road.
Without any pause, without even a tentative probe, they collided with a deafening roar.
Lin Fan was still holding the binoculars and watching.
Just before an infected creature was about to pounce on a spore zombie, it suddenly opened its blood-red maw, and several thick black tentacles shot out and pierced into the zombie's chest cavity.
According to the normal attack process of the infected organism, it should be injecting assimilating cells at this time to assimilate the target.
Unexpectedly, the spores on the surface of the zombie attacked by the black tentacles suddenly burst open the moment the attack was launched.
Large plumes of pale green spore dust erupted and adhered directly to the black tentacles.
When the green spores come into contact with the black mud, they immediately begin to frantically absorb its energy.
Then those black tentacles began to visibly wither and turn gray.
Immediately afterwards, a fine layer of green fungus spread along the surface of the tentacles, heading back towards the black mud infected body.
In an instant, the infected creature seemed to be in great pain, letting out a sharp hiss and retreating frantically, as if trying to pull out its tentacles.
But it was all too late.
In less than a second, the green fungi had covered the infected body.
The infected creature, which had been resilient to life, suddenly collapsed to the ground and began to convulse.
But soon it stopped struggling, and then its skull cracked open, and a large, green mushroom emitting a faint glow burst out of its head.
The same scene was playing out repeatedly across the entire front.
The entire battlefield underwent a dramatic reversal with the appearance of these spore zombies.
The originally formidable infected force was completely halted in its advance by these spore zombies.
Large numbers of infected individuals fell, becoming nutrients that nourished the mushrooms.
The entire neighborhood began to be filled with green spores of bacteria...
On the battlefield not far from here,
Just as the silly girl was about to condense the fire and wind tornado again, she turned around and saw this strange scene.
She stood frozen in place, her hands still in the mudra position.
"Holy crap, what the hell is this?" She extinguished the flames on her body and took two steps back.
Sato Saori, who was not far away, leaped into the air using an abandoned car, and then nimbly jumped to her side.
"Sister Dai, are those spore zombies? Should we still fight them?" she asked in a low voice.
"What the hell are you talking about! Those are that bastard's pets!" the naive girl cursed, pressing her earpiece. "Old Lin, what are those things you kept getting out of here?"
Standing on the rooftop, Lin Fan heard the words coming from the communicator, picked up his binoculars and looked towards where Dai Da Mei was, and laughed:
"Of course it's for training. Alright, you two should retreat first, so as not to distract the zombies."
"Damn it! Lin Fan, that bastard."
Upon hearing his words, Daida Mei couldn't help but curse again, then turned around and quickly retreated from the battlefield with Sato Saori.
With the addition of the spore zombies, the pressure on all combatants on the previously tense battlefield was greatly reduced, and under the organization of their respective squad leaders, they began an orderly evacuation...
at the same time.
Behind the infected body.
A humanoid black creature with several black tentacles on its body and six eyes on its head seemed to sense something, and its six eyes stared in astonishment at the dilapidated city ahead.
In its perception, the parts it parasitizes are dying at an incredible speed.
Without hesitation, it immediately connected with the infected ahead via some kind of signal to check the situation.
Unexpectedly, the moment it saw the scene before it, it witnessed something that shocked it beyond belief.
Within a nauseating green mist, the infected creatures it had contaminated were collapsing in droves.
At the same time, it also felt the fear of being preyed upon in this green spore fog.
This sensation caused its main brain to contract violently and emit a silent brainwave pulse.
"Contract! Merge!"
As its consciousness was conveyed, the infected on the battlefield instantly stopped charging and quickly moved together.
Once these infected individuals come together, their limbs begin to fuse together like softened clay.
In just a short while, giant black stitched monsters, each five meters tall and covered with human limbs, were formed.
Furthermore, under the control of the Shoggoth mastermind, these fused infected no longer chose to infect, but instead switched to violent attacks.
They swung their giant hands, the size of a door panel, and frantically attacked the endless stream of zombies. Often, a single slap would crush more than a dozen spore zombies.
In an instant, severed limbs and fragments, along with green spore dust, flew everywhere.
This sudden reversal made the combatants who had just retreated to the defensive line gasp in shock.
These monsters are just too shameless!
If it can't be devoured, then it will merge and grow larger?
Have you no shame?
"Boss, those infected have merged; I'm afraid the zombie horde won't be able to hold out!"
Mark, who also noticed the situation below, couldn't help but look at Lin Fan.
Lin Jianguo, standing to the side, clenched his fist:
"Looks like I'll have to do it myself, instead of relying on those brainless idiots..."
"Wait a moment."
Lin Fan reached out to stop Lin Jianguo, his eyes fixed on the battlefield below.
"Who says those zombies are useless? Take a closer look..."
"Let me take a closer look? No matter how I look..."
Lin Jianguo looked in the direction Lin Fan pointed with disdain, but before he could finish speaking, his eyes widened as if he had seen something unbelievable.
What did he see?
He was astonished to see that the zombies that had been knocked down and were missing a leg were actually moving again.
He saw a zombie, whose legs had just been broken, struggling to crawl toward a pool of black mud and rotten flesh, then opening its mouth and biting down hard.
Chewing and swallowing.
Of course, none of this surprised him the most. What surprised him the most was that while the spore zombie was eating the rotten flesh, black flesh was wriggling at the joints of its broken legs.
In just a few seconds, not only did the zombie's legs regrow, but a layer of black keratin, similar to that of a black mud infected, also grew on its body surface.
As its injuries healed, the zombie stood up again, and its previously sluggish movements became extremely agile.
Even more outrageous, a red poisonous mushroom that grew on its chest suddenly swelled up, and accompanied by a violent cough, it actually spat out a large glob of thick green acidic liquid.
The acid landed on the leg of a giant stitched monster in front of them.
"Hiss—"
A harsh, corrosive sound rang out.
The Frankenstein's right leg was melted open, leaving a large hole, and its massive body staggered and nearly fell over.
Upon seeing this, the other zombies nearby immediately swarmed over and climbed onto the Stitches monster, devouring it frantically.
Lin Jianguo's eyelids twitched as he read it.
"This is... evolution?"