Zombification

This was the place!

An old building was covered in withered vines. 520 Official Website

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Lin An looked at the familiar yet unfamiliar address plaque, his heart surging with emotion.

He had not wasted a single second.

In just five minutes, he had forced his way through a crowd of over a hundred Zombies.

The sticky blood on his Combat Suit had already crusted over.

His leather boots were covered in chunks of flesh.

The broken Fire Axe in his hand had been replaced by half of a Licker's spine.

Lin An had fought a Blood Battle all the way here.

From the outside, he looked like a monster that had crawled out of a mountain of corpses.

"Jing Tian! An Xia!"

Without slowing down, Lin An strode into the residential building.

He paid no heed to the Zombie Crowd outside.

He kept shouting the names of An JingTian and An Xia.

"Brother Lin!"

Inside the room.

Curled up in a corner, An Xia sprang to her feet in delighted surprise, as though afraid she had misheard, and leaned toward the window.

"I'm here!"

An Xia leaned out and waved, her eyes full of hope.

Outside the door, the Zombies grew increasingly agitated, drawn by the scent of a living person on Lin An.

Hearing An Xia's voice, Lin An hurriedly looked up.

Inside the room, An JingTian's bound hands suddenly broke free from the restraints.

The flesh around his wrists had been worn away, making them thinner, and the iron chain no longer held him.

The iron chain fell to the floor with a crisp clatter.

But amid the Zombies' howls, An Xia failed to notice.

The room was dim and lightless.

A pair of crimson, bloodthirsty eyes suddenly appeared behind her.

Lin An's pupils instantly contracted into dangerous pinpoints.

"Strength Burst!"

His Awakener Talent activated once more.

Ignoring the immense toll of activating his talent repeatedly in such a short time, Lin An frantically drove the power within his body.

Forehand Thrust!

"Pfft!"

The Licker's sharp spine pierced straight through the Zombie at the doorway.

Like candied hawthorn skewered on a stick, it was nailed to the side of the door.

Faster!

Even faster!

Lin An roared inwardly as he threw his right fist with all his strength.

"Boom!"

Brute force shattered the door.

The hard, thick Iron Gate let out a shrill groan of deformation as it twisted and buckled.

Inside the room.

An Xia weakly clutched her throat as blood seeped through her fingers.

"Br... Brother?"

Her lips parted, but no sound came out.

There was not the slightest trace of reason left in An JingTian's savage, rotting face.

A smear of blood hung from the corner of his mouth as he prepared to bite down again.

"Jing Tian!"

Lin An shouted in fury.

His muscles tore.

His already explosive speed increased by another fraction.

An JingTian's body trembled at the sound, and a flicker of confusion passed through his eyes.

The mouth that had been about to bite down froze in place.

"Boom!"

Within half a second.

Lin An shot from the doorway into the room, slamming into An JingTian and knocking him away from An Xia.

Behind them, the wall cracked and dust rained down.

Zombies were different from ordinary humans.

Even though An JingTian had not fully transformed, the virus-enhanced strength of his body already surpassed that of ordinary people.

If it had been an ordinary human.

Even with Lin An holding back, most would have lost the ability to move after that impact.

But An JingTian was different.

After a brief stiffness, crimson once again flooded his eyes, filled with hunger for flesh and blood.

"Roar!"

Lin An pinned him firmly beneath him, preventing him from hurting An Xia.

His body was tightly restrained by Lin An, but his head twisted wildly.

Low, beastlike growls rose from deep in his throat.

His once resolute and dignified face no longer had a single patch of intact flesh.

Under the infection of the Zombie Virus, the skin on his body had completely rotted away.

Grief filled Lin An's eyes.

He had already quickly checked An Xia beside him. Though she was not in immediate danger, the wound on her throat from An JingTian meant she would be infected by the virus as well.

Watching his best brother become a Zombie.

And seeing the sister they both cherished become infected.

It felt as if Fierce Fire were scorching his heart.

Jing Tian, you have to hold on!

"Shk."

Holding a shard of iron in one hand, Lin An swiftly cut open his wrist.

Blood gushed out.

"Strength Burst!"

Lin An muttered under his breath and activated his Awakener Talent again.

Only, the dense golden Radiance around him had dimmed somewhat.

A layer of gold tinged his crimson blood.

His Mental Strength was depleted, and his vision darkened.

Lin An simply bit through the tip of his tongue to force himself awake.

"Brother Lin..."

"Can my brother still be saved?"

An Xia sat helplessly on the floor nearby, asking timidly with great difficulty.

The wound on her neck had been caused by An JingTian's fingers. It was not very large.

Lin An did not answer. With a grave expression, he extended his slit wrist toward An JingTian's heart.

The wound came into contact with his skin.

The faint gold within the blood seemed alive as it suddenly burrowed inside.

"Don't worry. I'm here."

With his tongue bitten through, a rusty sweetness filled his mouth.

Only after seeing that his blood truly changed when it touched An JingTian did Lin An relax slightly.

After all, in his Previous Life, it had only been rumored that Awakener Blood could suppress Zombification. He had never tested it himself.

He had no idea how effective it would be...

He softly offered An Xia a few words of comfort, but he did not have much confidence himself.

Using an Awakener's blood to delay Zombification.

It was the only method he had ever heard of that could affect Zombification.

With An JingTian about to undergo Zombification, he could only treat a dead horse as if it were alive.

As the faintly golden blood seeped strangely into the skin of An JingTian's chest.

The crimson in his eyes slowly gave way to a trace of clarity.

His frantically struggling body gradually calmed down as well.

It really worked!

Joy surged through Lin An's heart, and his nose stung.

The regret of his Previous Life could finally be remedied.

"Brother Lin, is my brother going to be okay?"

An Xia looked at him with hope in her eyes, desperate for Lin An to give her a reassuring answer.

Lin An forced himself to stay alert and was about to comfort her.

"Aaaahhh!"

A sudden change erupted.

An JingTian's body, which had just calmed down, suddenly arched backward at a ninety-degree angle. Bone-grinding sounds that made one's teeth ache came from his joints.

His pupils instantly turned grayish white.

The blood that had seeped into his chest from Lin An's wrist was expelled from his body.

"Shk."

The faintly golden blood dripped onto his chest and instantly vaporized, releasing a thick stench of decay.

Lin An was utterly shocked.

His relaxed nerves instantly tensed.

In only a few seconds.

The skin and flesh on An JingTian's body peeled away like clothing, exposing bright red muscle.

"No!"

How could this happen!?

Lin An's eyes turned bloodshot.

His face was ashen.

Perhaps the rumor from his Previous Life—that Awakener Blood could delay Zombification—had been false.

Or perhaps the Awakener Talent he had obtained was different from everyone else's.

Rather than delaying the change as expected, an Awakener's blood actually accelerated a person's transformation into a Zombie!

If that was the case.

Then he had no way left to save An JingTian.

The blood was useless.

Then An Xia...

She would die too!

After fighting his way here through bloodshed, his strength exhausted, Lin An felt utterly drained in body and mind.

Why did it have to end this way!?

He could not save either of the two people he cherished most!

Lin An clenched his fists, his nails digging deeply into his flesh as despair and unwillingness filled him.

Ding.

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