High above New York City Center, Lin An calmly gazed down at the Empire State Building.
The wind howled fiercely.
The once-prosperous metropolis seemed like a rotten forest after Doomsday.
The skyscrapers that had once towered into the clouds had decayed and collapsed. On the streets and in Central Park, densely packed Zombie Tide Mutants crowded together like ants beneath tree roots.
The Empire State Building directly below Lin An had now been transformed into an obelisk wrapped in vines of rotting flesh.
A Fourth Order Mutant the size of a thousand meters had occupied the entire building as if parasitically, treating it as its own body.
It looked like an enlarged human-snake, except that it had more than a dozen tentacles.
Perhaps it was an instinct unique to Mutants, but when Lin An looked at it, the Corpse Neck Snake with a human head was looking back at him as well.
A huge human face that had grown out of the snake's body stared blankly, its head swaying silently.
It seemed unable to understand what the unknown Coercive Pressure above its head was. Aside from its instinctive wariness, it mostly just opened its mouth numbly.
Each tentacle was like a starfish, constantly curling up the surrounding Zombies and feeding them into its mouth.
The swaying motion of its swallowing dragged the entire building into emitting painful creaks as it rocked from side to side.
The rotten-red tentacles covered nearly the entire City Center. Having abandoned its ability to move, this human-snake had essentially become part of the city.
"Team Leader Lin? Why did we come here?"
"What are all these dungeons? Why are there so many?"
Following behind Lin An, Bear Dunce gruffly flipped through the dungeon list in his hands.
The list recorded the locations of more