When they came down, Jiang Zhaosu had already smelled the zombies.
But she had too much faith in Qi Xing's strength, so she didn't pay any mind to these ordinary zombies.
Who knew there would be so many when they entered the room!
Seeing the scene, Qi Xing said nothing more. He bent down, scooped up the still dazed Jiang Zhaosu, and bolted for the first floor.
Seeing their food escaping, the zombies let out angry roars from their throats and lunged after them, claws and teeth bared.
As Qi Xing ran, he controlled the plant-filled pots around them to attack the zombie horde behind him.
Seeing Qi Xing dare to flee and attack a guest, the mutated species, who had maintained its polite manager persona, flew into a rage.
Its head seemed to explode from anger, suddenly swelling to several times its size, transforming into a terrifyingly huge tumor. Its mouth split into a gaping abyss, revealing sharp, pointed fangs within.
This mutated species' neck was already severely deformed. With the increased weight of its enlarged head, it could no longer straighten its back. It dropped to all fours and charged rapidly towards Qi Xing.
Seeing this, Jiang Zhaosu immediately summoned her last few mutated giant rats to block the mutated species and the zombies.
The massive mutated giant rats let out squeaking sounds as they darted out from all corners of the hotel, instantly tackling the first few zombies in the lead. They bit down on the zombies' heads and brutally tore them off.
"Stealing food!! Rats!!"
The mutated species let out an enraged roar. Its neck actually stretched several feet, and it lunged like lightning towards the mutated giant rats, which were more than a meter away, opening its mouth to bite down.
The mutated giant rat that was bitten was instantly mangled, letting out a sharp scream.
The other rats, hearing the commotion, quickly scurried over and began tearing at the mutated species' neck.
However, this high-level mutated species was not something a few low-level mutated beasts could handle.
In less than a moment, these mutated giant rats were all brutally killed by the mutated species and torn to shreds by the zombie horde.
Jiang Zhaosu, perched on Qi Xing's shoulder, felt her heart ache as she witnessed this scene.
Her little rats... they were all truly dead now...
Fortunately, these mutated giant rats didn't die in vain. In that short time, Qi Xing had already reached the hotel entrance.
Outdoors, Qi Xing's abilities were much easier to use.
Several vines, as thick as a child's arm, suddenly burst from the ground and lunged towards the lizard-like mutated species.
While the mutated species was stiff and unsteady when in human form, its agility increased by more than two levels after transforming!
Thick vines wrapped around its arms, but it chose to bite off that arm! Its speed did not decrease at all as it continued to advance!
The mutated species nimbly weaved through the gaps in the vines, leaped into the air, and lunged towards Qi Xing with its gaping maw.
Jiang Zhaosu could even see its black and yellow tartar and smell the foul, fishy saliva emanating from the mutated species' wide gaps between its teeth, stinging her zombie eyes.
She cried out in alarm and instinctively raised her hand to block.
A white lightning bolt flashed from her palm and shot towards the mutated species with a boom.
This lightning strike hit the mutated species directly in the mouth, instantly burning a large hole in its throat.
The mutated species was blasted back three meters by the lightning, let out a piercing scream, and rolled onto the ground.
Qi Xing, who had been momentarily careless, immediately controlled more vines to emerge from the ground, firmly entangling the mutated species and piercing its body and head.
Several vines turned the mutated species into a sieve.
"Whoa, that scared me."
After confirming that the mutated species was completely dead, Qi Xing let out a long sigh of relief and sheathed the long dagger he had drawn from his back.
When the mutated species had lunged at him earlier, he had intended to use this dagger to cut its mouth open.
However, that method was very risky.
With the slightest misstep, if the mutated species' blood splashed into his eyes or onto his lips, it could also cause him to become infected and zombify.
With the death of the mutated species, the horde of zombies seemed to have lost their leader. Their movements became disorganized and scattered, and they were intimidated by Jiang Zhaosu's aura, daring not to approach.
Jiang Zhaosu climbed down from Qi Xing's embrace and ran to the mutated species, digging out a crystal core from its tumorous head.
She and Qi Xing had always had a "slowest hand gets nothing" policy when dividing crystal cores.
This crystal core was hers!
Heh heh!
Qi Xing had no intention of fighting her for it. He just looked curiously at her small hands cradling the crystal core like a treasure and asked, "Fugui, did you just use an ability?"
If he wasn't mistaken, Jiang Zhaosu had used a lightning ability.
How strange.
When did his Fugui gain such a skill?
Jiang Zhaosu was still immersed in the joy of obtaining another large crystal core. Hearing Qi Xing's words, she paused.
Oh, right.
A white light had suddenly appeared in her hand just now.
Jiang Zhaosu first pocketed the crystal core, then opened her palm and looked at her blood-stained palm.
Qi Xing walked over. "What's going on?"
Jiang Zhaosu turned her palm towards Qi Xing, recalling the feeling of shooting out lightning just now.
As she willed it, Jiang Zhaosu felt a surge of energy flow into her palm.
A thin white light suddenly shot out from her palm again, striking towards Qi Xing.
"Ah!"
Qi Xing quickly jumped, agilely dodging the white light, and chided, "Fugui, what are you doing?!"
The white light hit the marble pillar of the hotel behind Qi Xing, leaving a dark, scorched mark from the lightning strike.
Jiang Zhaosu bared her small white teeth and grinned at Qi Xing, proudly replying, "I can do it. With lightning."
Jiang Zhaosu and Qi Xing returned to the hotel and sat in the lounge area to debrief.
After much discussion, they both agreed that it was likely because Duan Yuanyuan had consumed Qin Feng's Crystal Core, and then Jiang Zhaosu had consumed Duan Yuanyuan's Crystal Core, which was why she could now use the Lightning Ability.
However, the Lightning Ability Jiang Zhaosu could unleash wasn't very strong.
It was certainly nowhere near as strong as Qin Feng's.
Perhaps Duan Yuanyuan had also consumed some of it.
After the debrief, Qi Xing acted as if he had lost a fortune, slapping his thigh and regretting it deeply. "You should have eaten all of Duan Yuanyuan's body! You definitely would have inherited more abilities!"
"Let's go, let's go. We'll go back and check again. It's cold now, maybe Duan Yuanyuan's body hasn't rotted underground yet. We can dig it up and eat it."
Qi Xing grabbed Jiang Zhaosu's hand and headed back to the underground parking lot to drive.
Jiang Zhaosu thought he was utterly insane, wanting to dig up a grave for abilities!
"Little Sister!"
Jiang Zhaosu reminded him.
Were they going back and forth like this without looking for her Little Sister?
"Oh," Qi Xing finally remembered the main task. "Right, I still need to go to A District to find my Little Sister."
The sky was bright now. The two got back into the car and set off.
As they passed a tall building, Jiang Zhaosu's sharp eyes caught sight of white cloth hanging on one of the windows, with "SOS" painted on it in large red letters.
Perhaps hearing their car, figures moved in the window – survivors who hadn't yet been rescued.
Jiang Zhaosu didn't pay much attention at first.
After all, she was a zombie and Qi Xing was a murderer. What good would it do to save people?
Would they just be reserve food and toys?
Let the Orthodox Sect come and save these survivors!
But upon clearly seeing the appearance of one of the figures, Jiang Zhaosu quickly pushed Qi Xing beside her, signaling him to look over as well. "Little Sister!"
The girl standing at the window had the exact same hairstyle as the little girl in Qi Xing's photo!
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