A Weapon That Fits the Hand

"Team Leader Lin!"

"Should we split up to search, or stay together?"

After charging into the second floor, the number of zombies had not decreased but increased.

Zhang Tie swung his Bone Whip with all his strength. In his desperation, he even had to use his feet to kick apart the zombies lunging at him.

His breathing was heavy.

His stamina and Mental Strength had nearly reached their limits.

After charging and killing continuously, he had already lost count of how many zombies he had slain.

His jet-black fur had been dyed dark red, with bits of intestines hanging all over him.

At a glance, he looked just like some kind of Mutant Zombie.

Flustered and overwhelmed, even his Physique of 15.4 was not enough to replenish his stamina. He was gradually unable to hold on.

"Huff..."

Zhang Tie panted heavily, nearly exhausted.

"Team Leader Lin!"

Lin An was likewise trapped deep within the Sea of Corpses.

As the vanguard, the number of zombies he faced was nearly three or four times that of Zhang Tie.

The blade in his hand left afterimages as it slashed, yet he could barely keep the zombies from approaching him.

Lin An had no time to respond, making Zhang Tie increasingly anxious.

"My second transformation is about to end!"

Once the transformation ended, death would follow.

Lin An's heart sank. He had underestimated the power of the Zombie Crowd.

He had thought that after obtaining Antitoxin, he would be able to face the hospital's Zombie Crowd alone with his strength.

He had only brought Zhang Tie along to add another layer of security.

Previously, he had faced small groups of zombies without any danger. Since his Awakening, he had begun to underestimate zombies.

But he had not expected that he had still vastly underestimated how terrifying a Zombie Crowd could be.

These endless monsters that could never be completely killed could wear any Awakened person to death.

This arrogance would not do!

Lin An reflected on himself.

No matter how strong an Awakened was in the Doomsday Game, they were nothing more than struggling ants.

He was merely Tier 1. What gave him the right to look down on these monsters?

"Eye of Judgment!"

Lin An shouted in a low voice. Pale blue mist rose as all the information within his field of vision transformed into streams of data.

"Number of zombies within current detection range: 4197."

"Mutants: 0."

"Mutants: 1."

On the light screen, the number after Mutants fluctuated back and forth, as though it had been disrupted.

Lin An's expression changed drastically.

It was his first time seeing the Eye of Judgment fail to provide accurate data.

The number kept shifting.

Either there truly was a Mutant nearby, but it was at the very edge of his perception range.

Whenever the Mutant drew closer, the number changed back to 1. When it moved farther away, it became 0.

Or that Mutant possessed the strength to resist detection by the Eye of Judgment!

Damn it!

According to the rule description, any Mutant capable of resisting the Eye of Judgment had to be at least Third Order!

Only Willpower Attribute that completely overwhelmed his could interfere with the Eye of Judgment.

Lin An's expression was grave. He could only hope it was not the second possibility.

Trapped within the Zombie Crowd, neither possibility was something he could bear.

If it was the first possibility, he could barely deal with it, but Zhang Tie would definitely die.

If it was the second, neither of them needed to struggle.

Before a Third Order Mutant, he would not even have a chance to escape.

The anomaly in the underground parking garage, the shriek he had heard last night.

The Mutant he had never heard of in his Previous Life, as well as the Corpse Snake.

Lin An vaguely felt that there seemed to be some connection between these four things.

What exactly was it?!

"Roar!"

Black Bear let out a pained roar.

In just a few seconds, Zhang Tie was surrounded by zombies.

One zombie after another pounced and bit at him like bloodthirsty ants, while even more zombies swooped down like locusts.

If not for the fur from Bear Transformation and the cotton clothes he had prepared beforehand buying him a little time.

With so much zombie toxin injected into his body, he would not last even a second before being infected.

The massive bear body was covered in zombies, nearly drowning him completely.

At the same time.

"Crack."

Metal snapped.

The Nepal Curved Blade in Lin An's hand was completely destroyed, exploding into fragments.

They instantly pierced through the bodies of several zombies around him.

As if things were not bad enough, the situation worsened further.

Lin An had no time to think about what it was. He could only take out two sections of zombie spine from the Ring of Judgment and use them as thrusting swords.

"Stepping Charge!"

"Spinning Thrust!"

He exerted force through his waist and stepped forward.

Holding the "swords" with both hands, Lin An shredded the zombies before him like a vicious drill and charged toward Zhang Tie.

Still not enough!

There were simply too many zombies. The ground was already covered in a thick layer of shredded flesh.

The slick blood was thick and viscous. It truly was a Mountain of Corpses and Sea of Blood.

He had to end this quickly!

He had to use the Stimulant!

As a trump card, every Potion he used was one less he had.

But there was no need to conserve them now.

If he died, nothing else mattered.

Lin An bit open the Stimulant he had taken from the ring, swallowing the medicine along with shards of glass.

"Ding. Strength +1, Physique +1, Agility +1."

"Ding. Explosive Power increased by 50%. Endurance and Impact Resistance increased by 30%. Attack Speed increased by 20%."

After downing two tubes of Potion, he felt that long-lost power!

"Strength Burst!"

Lin An activated Strength Burst again just before the second use ended, preventing the momentum of his charge from being interrupted.

Golden psionic energy flashed and vanished as his stamina returned to its peak.

"Ding. All attributes +2!"

"Buzz."

A faint Psionic Fluctuation flashed past.

His Strength Attribute broke through the critical threshold of 21 points.

Lin An instantly felt that the Bone Spikes in his hands were as light as nothing, while power accumulated inside him like a Volcano.

With the help of the Potions, Lin An's strength reached the peak of a First Order Advanced Stage Awakened.

Time slowed.

The zombies that had once been swift and berserk now seemed to move in slow motion in his eyes.

"I seem to..."

The thought flashed through his mind.

After breaking through the critical threshold of 20 points, a marvelous perception spread outward.

Is this the power of the First Order Advanced Stage?

Lin An was incomparably excited. With the enhancement of two external aids, he had actually temporarily experienced the power of a higher level.

"I think I can kill them all!?"

His heart pounded wildly, pumping blood through his body like an engine.

With his temporary high-level strength, Lin An felt that he could even tear a Licker apart with his bare hands.

His muscles swelled with explosive power, and strength surged endlessly within him.

Berserk!

"Straight Thrust!"

Gripping the Bone Spikes with both hands, Lin An exerted force. Under the empowerment of this strength, bursts of Air Burst rang out around him.

The Bone Spikes shot out like lightning, instantly blasting through the zombies before him.

Like candied hawthorn skewers, a single strike cleared everything in front of him.

"Turn Around Reverse Chop!"

Empowered by overwhelming strength, Lin An's fighting spirit surged without end.

He directly turned and chopped downward with the Bone Spikes in his hands as though they were machetes.

His speed was incredibly fast.

Rather than chopping, it was more like smashing.

Amid the shriek of the weapon tearing through the air, large numbers of zombies were smashed into pools of pulp.

This feeling, this power!

Joy flashed through Lin An's eyes. This kind of immense power was simply intoxicating.

"Hah!"

His furious shout was deafening, like thunder exploding from a clear sky.

Caught up in the slaughter, Lin An simply threw away the Bone Spikes in his hands.

Though the Bone Spikes were fairly sharp and their durability was not bad.

They never quite felt right in his hands.

The two Bone Spikes shot out like lightning, easily piercing through the zombies in their path and leaving bloody holes.

"Give me—"

"Smash!"

"Boom!"

Lin An's expression was crazed, his eyes scarlet.

He directly grabbed a zombie beside him and swung it like a heavy hammer at the Zombie Crowd.

"Boom!"

"Boom!"

As though swatting flies.

The densely packed Zombie Crowd around Lin An was instantly cleared, turning into a mess of flesh on the ground.

Awesome!

Lin An felt incomparably exhilarated, and the gloom in his heart was swept away.

He had originally been wary of the Mutant hiding in the shadows.

Now, so long as it was not a Second-Order Mutant, he had absolute confidence that he could fight it!

His momentum did not diminish.

Taking advantage of the time when the Potion and Strength Burst were Stacking, Lin An charged rapidly toward Zhang Tie.

"Boom!"

A huge cluster of gathered zombies was smashed into a pool of pulp pasted across the ground.

Severed limbs and intestines flew everywhere as blood splattered.

"Boom!"

Lin An had no idea how many zombies he had replaced in his hand as a heavy hammer.

Under Zhang Tie's terrified gaze, Lin An had smashed out a blank passage through the Zombie Crowd in only a few seconds.

Zhang Tie was dumbstruck.

"This is fucking way too brutal!"

Zhang Tie could not help swallowing. His expression was especially vivid on his bear-like face.

Lin An, covered in blood, swung zombies left and right as weapons. In Zhang Tie's eyes, he was even more terrifying than a Mutant.

"Boom!"

The ground trembled. Lin An casually smashed the zombie beside Zhang Tie to death, then wiped the Blood Plasma from his face.

He grinned, sending chills through Zhang Tie's entire body.

"Team... Leader... Lin..."

Zhang Tie no longer had his previous booming voice as he called softly to Lin An over Team Voice Chat.

The surrounding Zombies had been briefly cleared out, giving him a chance to catch his breath.

"Hmm?"

Lin An looked at Zhang Tie in confusion. His scarlet eyes glowed with Red Light after the repeated slaughter.

The respite lasted only an instant before the Zombie Crowd rushed in again.

Out of habit, Lin An grabbed a Zombie, only to find that there wasn't a single intact corpse around him.

He looked at the massive Zhang Tie.

Big enough, sturdy enough.

It seemed...

He could be used as a hammer?

"Fuck!"

Zhang Tie was terrified.

He understood the naked intent in Lin An's eyes.

"Team Leader Lin!"

"Don't!"

Boom!

The ground shattered like a small earthquake.