How Could the Gap Be So Big?

When Fang Li rushed out of the alley and returned to the street, the scene before him had completely changed.

The fiery red was spreading.

Thick black smoke billowed.

Crude houses collapsed.

Screams and wails mingled together.

At this moment, the fortress called Aragane Station had suddenly turned into a sea of flames, with building after building burning, gradually heading toward destruction.

"It's like hell..."

Fang Li couldn't help muttering this under his breath.

After all, on the streets, unrecognizable corpses lay in every corner, oozing pools of blood, sending chills down one's spine.

If this scene wasn't hell, then what was?

In this moment, even without activating his Mystic Eyes of Death Perception, Fang Li could understand.

What surrounded him was nothing other than the concept he knew best—"death."

Just as he had said earlier.

"Aragane Station is finished..."

Saying this, Fang Li looked at the mangled corpses on the ground, his expression utterly unreadable.

But before long, the way he looked at those corpses changed.

"Ugh... ah—!"

With a grating groan like a baby's cry, one of the corpses on the ground suddenly began to move.

Like a puppet manipulated by invisible strings, the corpse started to rise from the ground, standing unsteadily, forcing out harsh roars from its throat.

This corpse's skin had all turned a deathly gray, its pupils gone, leaving only the whites of its eyes.

But what drew the most attention was its chest cavity.

Because inside it, a heart was gradually glowing.

"So this is Kabane transformation?" Fang Li clicked his tongue involuntarily.

Generally speaking, humans attacked by Kabane mostly die from massive blood loss.

However, after a period of suspended animation, the hearts of these dead people begin to glow, and they revive, turning into mindless Kabane that only attack humans.

Even if someone survives a Kabane bite by luck, they will suddenly die after a certain time and revive as a Kabane.

This is called the Kabane incubation period, varying in length depending on the individual, but it never takes longer than three days to manifest.

Now, Fang Li was witnessing this very scene.

Dead people turning into Kabane.

"Not even allowed to die?"

Fang Li tightened his grip on the dagger, a pair of eyes flickering with an icy blue light.

But before Fang Li could act, someone else moved first.

"Bang—!"

With a loud gunshot, the glowing chest of the freshly transformed Kabane seemed to take an invisible heavy blow, bursting with dazzling sparks.

"Bang bang bang bang—!"

The next second, several chaotic gunshots echoed in succession, pounding the Kabane's chest with impact after impact.

Finally, the Kabane's chest exploded.

"Bang—!"

Another gunshot rang out, and the heart, now stripped of its membrane protection, was directly shattered, losing all its luster. The monster called Kabane reverted to a corpse and collapsed to the ground.

Fang Li was momentarily stunned, then understood. He turned his head and looked toward the roof of a nearby building.

Up there, Mumei was holding two Steam Guns, speaking to Fang Li with some dissatisfaction: "What are you standing there for? Hurry up and follow me!"

After saying this, Mumei didn't even wait for Fang Li's reply. She started running, leaping and moving across the rooftops like a nimble cat.

Seeing this, Fang Li couldn't help but feel a mix of amusement and exasperation.

"What a fickle cat."

Even so, Fang Li followed.

The surrounding buildings had already begun to slowly collapse under the flames.

Naturally, there wasn't a single living person left on the streets, only corpses lying on the ground.

Of course, besides the still corpses, there were also moving ones.

"Aaaaaaah—!"

With monotonous roars, Kabane after Kabane lunged at Fang Li along the way, utterly terrifying.

But this time, Fang Li did not stop in his tracks, charging forward as if the Kabane were nothing at all.

After all, those Kabane didn't need Fang Li to deal with them.

"Bang, bang, bang, bang—!"

As the Kabane rushed toward Fang Li one after another, the sound of gunfire echoed with striking clarity.

Every time those gunshots rang out, the Kabane charging at Fang Li would fall as if struck by invisible bullets, and before long, they were finished off with follow-up shots, their hearts shattered one by one, dead beyond death.

From Fang Li's perspective, Mumei—leaping and moving with ninja-like agility across the rooftops—wasn't looking his way, yet she shot down every Kabane on his path with unerring accuracy, leaving no threat in his wake.

"No comparison, no harm—how is the gap this huge?"

For Fang Li, killing a single Kabane wasn't all that difficult.

The Kabane's movement patterns were far too simple; they basically just charged headlong to attack. As long as one had a way to break through their heart membrane, even an ordinary person could kill a Kabane, let alone Fang Li, who had picked up quite a few killing techniques without any formal training.

However, when the number of Kabane grew large, even Fang Li had no choice but to either flee or find a clever way out.

But Mumei needed no such tricks.

With her two Steam Guns and marksmanship so precise it was astonishing, killing Kabane was far too easy for her.

To surround and kill Mumei with sheer numbers, it would take at least several hundred Kabane—anything less probably wouldn't cut it.

As for Fang Li, if he got surrounded by just a dozen or twenty Kabane, he was basically done for.

"As expected of..."

Fang Li didn't finish that sentence.

Because he knew it was still a secret.

Watching Mumei's figure grow faster and faster, Fang Li could only take a deep breath and quicken his pace once more to catch up.

Some distance from the city gates—in fact, in the completely opposite direction—there was a garage.

Inside the garage, an Iron Fortress gleaming with cold metallic luster sat parked, waiting silently to be started.

By the time Fang Li and Mumei arrived, quite a few people had already gathered there.

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