"Join us... It's so cold..."
The dozens of faces on the fleshy ball opened and closed simultaneously, piercing straight into everyone's brains.
"Bang!"
Novsky's right eye erupted with death energy, Mosin-Nagant roared!
A special bullet pierced the center of the giant fleshy ball.
However, the [Instant Death] rule only caused the human face on the surface of the flesh ball to wither and peel off.
The ball of flesh paused for less than half a second before crashing down again, accompanied by the wails of hundreds and thousands of souls!
"Oh no, this thing has stitched all the remnants of the corpses together."
Novsky, gun in hand, retreated swiftly. "My gun can only kill one soul at a time. Run!"
Even a flamethrower can't burn it through!
Li Tie desperately pulled the trigger, but the flames from the specially made flamethrower failed to penetrate the viscous yellow corpse oil on the surface of the fleshy ball.
It went out with a hiss.
"Don't try to tough it out! Let's go! Get out the window!"
Xing Wu remained calm and composed, showing no sign of panic.
He stepped forward, shielding Li Tie and the others behind him, and the ancient sword in his hand emitted a sword cry!
"Swish, swish, swish!"
A vast, chilling net of swords suddenly burst forth!
Xing Wu severed the dozens of fleshy arms that were trying to grab Chen Xiaoyu and Sergei at the root!
The walls were splattered with foul-smelling blood, and the fleshy mass hissed.
"Jump! Retreat towards the university! I'll cover the rear!"
Xing Wu roared without turning his head.
"I'll go first!"
Li Tie took the lead and kicked the glass window at the end of the corridor, shattering it. Five figures jumped down from the fourth floor.
Thanks to their powerful physiques as A-Class Reinforced Human, they adjusted their posture in mid-air and crashed into the soft wasteland outside the sanatorium.
He then scrambled to his feet and ran frantically towards the medical university in the southeast direction.
"Boom!"
A loud bang erupted from the fourth floor of the sanatorium behind us.
That enormous ball of flesh didn't follow any conventional path; it crashed directly into and collapsed the sanatorium's thick outer wall!
It crashed onto the street behind the crowd!
"Wait for us!"
The ground was shaking violently.
Sergei ran ahead, glancing back as he went, and a chill ran down his spine.
The fleshy mass crushed a bloody, slimy path through the ruins, biting at their backs, and the distance between them was even closing!
"Don't stop! Spread out and run!"
Xing Wu ran at the very back of the group.
He dared not stop, and could only twist his body as he ran.
Using the strength of his waist and abdomen, he swung his hand backward, unleashing Half Moon Sword Qi that were over ten meters long!
"Sizzle! Bang!"
The Sword Qi slashed at the surface of the fleshy ball, slicing off large chunks of dead flesh.
But compared to that enormous size, it's just a drop in the ocean.
These wounds will be filled with newly emerged chunks of flesh in an instant.
Although Xing Wu's attack was not fatal, it successfully slowed down the rolling speed of the flesh ball.
This bought precious time for the four people in front of them to escape.
They walked through charred streets and crossed intersections piled high with abandoned vehicles.
Finally, the group rushed into the ruins of the medical university.
The buildings here are relatively low, but the terrain is quite undulating.
In despair, Chen Xiaoyu, who was running in the lead, looked up and her peripheral vision suddenly caught sight of a dormitory building that was only half-built to her left.
"Look! That person! That weirdo in the diving suit is still there!"
Chen Xiaoyu shouted breathlessly, pointing frantically at the rooftop.
On the roof of the half-ruined dormitory building, the bulky figure had not fled.
Instead, upon seeing them, he began waving his arms and then pointed in a direction not far to their left.
Chen Xiaoyu looked in that direction and discovered it was a natural fault line!
Due to tectonic shifts, the road surface there completely collapsed, forming a deep ditch slope more than 20 meters deep!
"I understand what he means!"
Li Tie's eyes lit up, and his survival instincts unleashed an astonishing display of tactical acumen.
"Lead it to that fault slope!"
"Sergei! Xiaoyu, come with me and act as bait!"
The three immediately changed direction and ran towards the edge of the fault slope.
He then stopped less than two meters from the edge and turned around.
"Now! Put it here!"
Li Tie roared.
Xing Wu and Novsky, who had been drawing aggro from the rear, instantly understood.
Just as the ball of flesh was about to crush their backs, the two of them lunged out from the left and right into the ruins on either side!
Having lost its target behind it, the mindless, stitched-together monster of flesh and blood immediately locked onto Li Tie and his two companions standing on the edge of the cliff.
"Pain... isolation... aging..."
Why must this pathetic human being endure individual loneliness?
"Abandon your useless reason! Surrender your entrails and share your brains!"
"In this endless darkness... only flesh and blood... are our eternal home!!!"
"Join this supreme Filth!!!"
It roared, and countless faces screamed greedily as it accelerated its crushing advance!
"Five... four... three... jump!"
Just as the ball of flesh was about to completely engulf the three of them, Li Tie roared, and the three of them simultaneously lunged to the sides!
"Gurgle boom!!!"
Having lost its bait, the heavy ball of flesh was simply unable to stop at this distance.
Carrying its momentum, it plunged headlong into the steep fault slope of nearly eighty degrees!
Amidst countless screams and intertwined human faces on the surface of the fleshy mass, the enormous mass rolled faster and faster down the slope...
It's getting deeper and deeper...
Finally, with a crash, it disappeared completely into the dark depths of the ravine.
The crisis has been temporarily averted.
Five people collapsed on the edge of the slope, their bodies already soaked in cold sweat.
After resting for a while, Xing Wu stood up and looked at the roof of the half-ruined dormitory building.
"Let's go. Let's go meet that [friend] who helped us."
Gripping their weapons, the group cautiously climbed the cracked stairs to the roof of the dormitory building.
When Sergei's tactical flashlight beam shone on the [diving suit-clad strange man] who was facing away from them...
Everyone was stunned.
This...
There were no oxygen tanks, no diving masks, and no fins.
It was a thick, white, multi-layered composite fabric, with a life support backpack strapped to its back.
The helmet also features precision metal buckles printed on both sides.
And on the left chest area of that bulky protective suit...
A red flag was being sewn on prominently!
This is not a deep-sea diving suit at all...
It's a spacesuit!!!
Click.
Hearing footsteps behind him, the man unlocked the collar around his neck.
Under the trembling gazes of Chen Xiaoyu and Sergei, the man turned around and took off the space helmet.
He revealed a scruffy, China face.
His eyes were complex, carrying an expression of being abandoned by the whole world, yet also revealing a hint of madness and a glimmer of hope at seeing a living person.
"Are you... human?"
The man's lips trembled.
He looked at the group of fully armed compatriots in front of him, raised his helmet, and spoke with difficulty.
My name is Li Yang.
"He is an astronaut stationed on the Chinese Space Station... his number is 0123."
He didn't ask whether he was saved or what his current situation was.
He simply raised his head, pointed to the huge ball of flesh above his head, and two lines of clear tears silently slid down his dirty cheeks.
"I'm on the space station..."
"I watched with my own eyes as the entire surface of the Blue Star lit up with a blue light..."
"Then, all of humanity vanished into thin air in an instant."
"Now... can any of you tell me... what exactly happened?!"
Facing this lonely guardian forgotten in space...
Xing Wu and Novsky exchanged a glance and fell into a long silence.