When Fang Li rushed out of the alley and returned to the street, the scene before him had completely changed.
Fiery red spread outward.
Thick black smoke filled the air.
Crude houses collapsed.
Roars and wails mingled together.
At that moment, the fortress known as Aragane Station had completely become a sea of flames. One building after another burned, gradually heading toward destruction.
"It's practically hell..."
Fang Li muttered involuntarily.
After all, mangled corpses lay in every corner of the streets, blood pouring from them in great quantities. It was enough to make one's skin crawl.
If this was not hell, then what was?
At that moment, even without activating the Mystic Eyes of Death Perception, Fang Li understood.
What filled the surroundings was nothing else but the concept Fang Li knew best—"death."
Just as he had said before.
"Aragane Station is finished..."
As he said this, Fang Li looked at the mangled corpses on the ground, his expression utterly unmoved.
However, before long, the look in Fang Li's eyes as he watched those corpses changed.
"Ugh... ah—!"
Amid a grating groan like a baby's cry, a corpse on the ground suddenly began to move.
Like a puppet manipulated by invisible strings, the corpse crawled up from the ground and swayed to its feet, squeezing out a harsh roar from its throat.
Not only had its skin turned deathly gray, but its pupils had vanished, leaving only the whites of its eyes.
Naturally, the most eye-catching part was its chest.
Because within it, a heart gradually began to glow.
"So this is becoming a Kabane?" Fang Li clicked his tongue.
Generally speaking, humans attacked by Kabane would mostly die from severe blood loss.
However, after a period of apparent death, the hearts of these dead people would begin to glow, and they would revive, turning into Kabane without reason who only attacked humans.
Even if someone was lucky enough not to die after being bitten by a Kabane, they would suddenly die after some time and revive as a Kabane.
This was called the Kabane incubation period. Its duration varied from person to person, but it would occur within three days at the latest.
Now, Fang Li was witnessing it firsthand.
The sight of dead people turning into Kabane.
"Not even death is allowed?"
Fang Li tightened his grip on the dagger in his hand, and his eyes flashed with icy blue light.
However, before Fang Li could make a move, someone else did.
Bang—!
With a loud gunshot, the glowing chest of the corpse that had just transformed into a Kabane burst with dazzling sparks, as though struck by an invisible blow.
Bang bang bang bang—!
The next second, several chaotic gunshots rang out in succession, pounding the Kabane's chest again and again with invisible impacts.
In the end, the Kabane's chest exploded.
Bang—!
Another gunshot rang out. The heart, now stripped of the protection of its heart membrane, was directly shattered and completely lost its glow. The monster called a Kabane turned back into a corpse and fell to the ground.
Fang Li froze slightly. Then, realizing something, he turned toward the rooftop of a nearby house.
There, Mumei held two Steam Guns and said to Fang Li with some dissatisfaction, "What are you standing around for? Hurry up and follow me!"
After saying that, Mumei did not even wait for Fang Li's reply. She started running, leaping across the rooftops of building after building like an agile cat.
At the sight, Fang Li could not help but smile wryly.
"What a temperamental cat."
Though he said that, Fang Li still followed her.
The surrounding buildings had begun to slowly collapse beneath the burning flames.
Naturally, there was not a single living person left in the streets, only corpses strewn across the ground.
Of course, besides corpses that could not move, there were also corpses that could.
"Ahhhhh—!"
Beneath their identical roars, Kabane after Kabane charged at Fang Li along the way, terrifying to behold.
This time, however, Fang Li did not stop. As though he regarded the Kabane as nothing, he sprinted forward.
After all, Fang Li did not need to deal with those Kabane himself.
Bang bang bang bang—!
As Kabane after Kabane rushed toward Fang Li, gunshots rang out continuously, startlingly clear.
Whenever those shots rang out, the Kabane attacking Fang Li fell as though struck by invisible bullets. Before long, they were each finished off with another shot, their hearts shattered one after another until they were dead beyond doubt.
From Fang Li's perspective, Mumei leaped and moved nimbly across the rooftops like a ninja without even looking his way, yet each time she flawlessly shot down the Kabane in his path. Wherever Fang Li passed, there was no longer any threat.
"There's no hurt like comparison. Why is the gap so huge?"
For Fang Li, killing one Kabane was not particularly difficult.
The Kabane's behavior patterns were simply too straightforward. They basically only charged headlong into attacks. As long as one had a means of breaking through their heart membranes, even an ordinary person could kill a Kabane, let alone Fang Li, who had instinctively picked up quite a few ways to kill people.
However, once the Kabane became too numerous, even Fang Li had no solution. He could only flee or find some clever trick.
But Mumei did not need any tricks.
With the two Steam Guns in her hands and shooting skills precise enough to astonish anyone, killing Kabane was simply too easy for Mumei.
If one wanted to overwhelm Mumei with numbers, it would probably take at least several hundred Kabane.
As for Fang Li, if ten or twenty Kabane surrounded him, he was basically finished.
"As expected of..."
Fang Li did not say the rest.
Because Fang Li knew that it was still a secret.
Watching Mumei's increasingly swift figure, Fang Li could only draw a breath and speed up again to chase after her.
Some distance away from the city gate—in fact, in the complete opposite direction—there was a garage.
Inside the garage, an Iron Fortress gleaming with a cold sheen stood parked there, silently waiting to be started.
By the time Fang Li and Mumei arrived, quite a few people had already gathered there.
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