At the same time.
An City, the most luxurious five-star hotel, rooftop terrace.
"Cough cough cough! Good heavens, what are those disgusting things? They scared me to death!"
Mo Wan slumped to the ground, coughing violently.
Less than two meters away from her, Lin Zhu was holding a large bag of Potato Chips and munching on them.
"Mmm... smack smack..."
Lin Zhu mumbled, "Although it's a bit ugly, its size and crawling style make it look a bit like a mutated Ghost Infant from a zombie movie."
"Nonsense!"
Mo Wan rolled her eyes dramatically. "With its appearance, who wouldn't be able to tell it's Ghost Infant?!"
"My question is, what the hell are these guys' abilities?!"
"I just saw it with my own eyes, that guy named Jiahao, after being surrounded by several of those things..."
"They gnawed him to a pile of ashes, bones and all! Not even a complete corpse was left!"
Mo Wan scratched the two buns on her head in frustration, feeling a headache coming on.
Lin Zhu licked the seasoning powder off her fingers and said.
"Don't worry, I saw it."
They weren't gnawing on the flesh, but rather on the unfortunate man's Shadow.
"That's why I drove you all the way to this rooftop."
Lin Zhu looked up at the scorching sun overhead. "It's exactly noon now, the sun is shining directly, and the ultraviolet rays are at their strongest."
"We stand here, the light shining almost vertically on us..."
"The Shadow will be compressed to the smallest point on the sole of your feet, almost negligible."
"Those things that want to eat our Shadow will have to risk getting sunburned and crawling out."
Upon hearing this, Mo Wan looked down at the almost invisible Shadow at her feet, and her eyes lit up.
"Oh?"
She looked Lin Zhu up and down with some surprise. "Wow, Lin Zhu, it seems all those snacks you eat all the time haven't gone to waste!"
"Some of the nutrients did end up in his brain, unlike before when they all went to his butt, making him look like a pig!"
As soon as she finished speaking, Lin Zhu stopped chewing.
The next second, the bag of Potato Chips was thrown to the ground.
The veins on her forehead bulged, and she immediately bristled.
"Magic Core! You underdeveloped little bean! Who are you calling fat with your sarcastic remarks?!"
"I call this 'plump'! Don't you even know what 'sheep tail fat level' means?!"
"Don't you even understand the saying, 'How can you gather the world if your breasts aren't huge?!'"
As she spoke, Lin Zhu strode aggressively to Mo Wan, puffed out her proud chest, and swung it violently.
"Bang!"
They went straight for a charging tackle!
"Holy crap!"
Poor Mo Wan was Suppression away by the overwhelming size of the opponent and fell flat on her back.
She covered her reddened face and looked up in grief and indignation.
Lin Zhu looked down at her, arms crossed, a disdainful smile on his face.
"How about that, little one? Now you know how powerful I am, right?"
"Weapons of mass destruction of this magnitude are simply beyond the reach of someone as flat-chested as you, who doesn't even need children's bras!"
"You're just Envy!"
"Damn it! You're exposing my weakness, aren't you?! Lin Zhu! I'll fight you to the death!!!"
Upon hearing these devastating words, Mo Wan immediately broke down.
She leaped up from the ground like an enraged little lion, baring her teeth and claws as she pounced on Lin Zhu.
"You useless cow, all you're good for is being a freshman! I'll pluck all your hair out!"
"Come on! I'll suffocate you, you Magic Core, today!"
However, just as the two were locked in a fierce and evenly matched fight...
Their hands suddenly Time Stop.
A booming sound came from the distant horizon.
The sound was neither like thunder nor like the sound of an ordinary airplane engine, but like metal screaming!
The two turned their heads at the same time, looking towards the northeast sky in the direction of the sound.
With just one glance, their pupils contracted sharply at the same time!
That... that was a massive transport plane!
The problem is that the aircraft's fuselage is covered with dark red growths and barbs!
At the nose of the aircraft, there was even a giant mouth full of fangs that had split open!
The wings were covered in blood and rust, making it look like a giant zombie beast flying in the sky!
It's flying from the northeast of An City towards the airspace near the hotel!
"Holy crap..."
Mo Wan's scalp tingled with rage.
"Quick, hide!!!"
Lin Zhu reacted quickly, grabbing Mo Wan by the collar and rushing towards the backup power room in the corner of the rooftop, where she closed the iron door.
The two hid in the power room, peering nervously out through the narrow louvered window of the iron door.
Watching that terrifying flesh-and-blood transport plane fly over the hotel rooftop.
Oh God...
"Mo Wan was so frightened her teeth were chattering, "What the hell is this thing? It's disgusting!"
"This look..."
Lin Zhu stared intently at the plane, her brow furrowed. "It looks a bit like an urban legend I saw while scrolling through bizarre short videos late at night..."
"I think it was called something like [Infected Sky] or [Flesh Flight]? The name's pretty cool."
"Are you out of your mind? Is this the time to worry about whether a name is cool or not?!"
Mo Wan was so angry she almost jumped up; she pointed at the sky.
"Look closely for yourself! This thing..."
"It looks like it's airdropping something down below An City!"
At the same time.
Several kilometers away from the hotel, on the top floor of a high-rise building in a residential area.
The China Vanguard, en route to the military base, was currently lying in ambush behind a bunker on the rooftop.
Xing Wu and Novsky were staring intently at the eerie, flesh-and-blood airplane in the sky.
Is it dropping bombs?
Novsky licked his chapped lips. "But there was no explosion."
As the plane flew by, huge black specks were being dropped from its belly, falling towards various areas of An City.
Xing Wu squinted, trying to get a clear look at the falling objects.
Just then, astronaut Li Yang suddenly spoke up.
"No need to look anymore, Chief."
"Those black spots..."
"It's the mutated monster I reported to you before, the one that can move during the day..."
Li Tie frowned and said in a muffled voice, "That's not right."
"This thing looks pretty big!"
"We've killed quite a few Ghost Infant and Ghost Brat along the way, but even Ghost Brat weren't this big!"
Upon hearing Li Tie's words, Captain Xing Wu seemed to have made a connection to something, and his expression instantly turned ugly.
"Unless..."
Xing Wu gasped, "This thing is nothing like the ones we've encountered before..."
"Bang!"
Beside him, Novsky had already quickly set up the Mosin-Nagant.
He aimed at a black object that had just fallen onto the roof of the building next door.
The moment Novsky saw the thing in its entirety, his finger trembled.
That wasn't a bomb at all.
Those were giant, black eggs, several meters tall, pulsating!
"But..."
Novsky's voice trembled slightly, and his finger tightened on the trigger.
"Their higher-level evolutionary form!"