Song Haoran and Song Ying's group reunited with them without incident. They had also discovered that the zombies seemed to have been drawn away by something.
'Luo Qiu's' relapse into unconsciousness was no longer something Song Haoran could worry about. The priority was getting everyone out of the hospital safely, then sealing the hospital off completely.
The zombies were terrifying, but they were not impossible to deal with—at least along the way, Song Haoran himself had already killed four of them.
After taking in Song Ying and the others, Song Haoran soon reunited with everyone and Master Song's group.
The Cold Light bronze sword that had been beside Blind Master had long since vanished without a trace. He merely watched the movements of the zombies in silence after they gathered together.
"What exactly are they... doing?"
The third-floor open-air level of the hospital building was where everyone from the Song Family had gathered. At that moment, Song Tianyou, Song Da, and the others all stared down in shock and fear at the area below—the parking lot at the hospital entrance, which was also the zombies' final destination.
At some point, a 'tree' had appeared there... something that could only barely be described as a 'tree.'
It now stood seven or eight meters tall, its entire body black, with branches growing from its top... Yet it had been formed from zombie after zombie fused together.
At that moment, the slowly approaching zombies walked one by one to the front of this 'tree,' then squeezed their bodies into the 'trunk' of the 'tree.'
Their flesh, their bones, and their faces were all buried in the body of the tree. They tangled together, seemingly becoming nourishment that caused the tree to grow even taller.
The 'tree' had no leaves, yet things resembling fruit