After devouring this Mutated Zombie, he had gained two points of virus energy in one go—twice as much as from an ordinary Zombie!
It seemed that the strength of different prey determined how many points of virus energy he gained.
However, after devouring the Mutated Zombie, Xia Tianming felt a little itchy around his mouth.
He scratched it without thinking and felt several cracks around his mouth?!
When he opened his mouth again, it split into six petal-like sections, each lined with densely packed sharp teeth. It looked terrifyingly similar to the Mutated Zombie!
So after devouring it, had he taken on the Zombie's traits?
Roar!!!
Just then, two more Zombies charged toward Xia Tianming from opposite directions, attacking him from both sides.
Xia Tianming simply opened his petal-shaped maw and lunged at the Zombie in front of him, biting back hard. In one gulp, he swallowed its entire rotting head!
Biting back at a Zombie—he was probably the first person in the Resident Evil world to do that...
He applied a little more force, and the Zombie's head came off easily, held in Xia Tianming's petal-shaped mouth.
Then he chewed it without the slightest hesitation, making crisp crackling sounds as if he were munching on soybeans.
Xia Tianming could feel sweet juices spreading across the tip of his tongue. Not only did it cause him no discomfort, the taste was so delicious that he could hardly bear to swallow...
A Resident Evil feast for the taste buds?
After swallowing the Zombie's head raw, he didn't spare its headless body, which was still swaying in place from its momentum. Blacklight Tentacles twisted it into a ball of blood and devoured it, turning it into nourishment for the Blacklight Virus.
[Blacklight Threshold: 4/300]
Squelch!
While Xia Tianming was still savoring the taste of the first Zombie, the one behind him had already pounced and sunk its teeth into his shoulder!
But it didn't hurt as much as he'd expected. And the Zombie virus couldn't possibly overpower the Blacklight Virus inside his body and infect him.
The moment the Zombie virus entered his body, the Blacklight Virus swarmed over it and devoured it in an instant.
Xia Tianming reached back and grabbed the hair of the Zombie biting his shoulder, then threw it over his shoulder onto the ground in front of him. He raised his foot and stomped down hard on its head!
Crack!
Like a balloon being burst underfoot, the Zombie's head exploded at once, spraying blood several meters away!
Dense Blacklight Tentacles sprouted from Xia Tianming's right foot as it came down, twisting the Zombie's body apart and devouring it!
Every part of his body was now under the control of the Blacklight Virus!
Any part of him could extend Tentacles to devour his enemies!
[Blacklight Threshold: 5/300]
He had gained five points of virus energy by killing four Zombies with his physical strength. He still needed 295 more points to break through the threshold and evolve.
The main body of the Zombie horde had now drawn close, but Xia Tianming felt no fear at all. It seemed that the Blacklight Virus had even stripped away emotions like joy, anger, sorrow, and happiness.
Because emotions would only become a burden when hunting!
He coldly watched the overwhelming tide of Zombies surge toward him. In his eyes, they were nothing more than lambs walking straight into a tiger's jaws.
"Roar!!"
Unable to contain the Blacklight Virus boiling inside him, Xia Tianming instinctively opened his petal-shaped jaws and roared. A visible shock wave burst from his mouth, its sound even drowning out the horde's howls!
Could Zombies, with their shrunken brains, feel fear too? His roar had just made them freeze in place?!
Now that the Zombies were stunned, it was Xia Tianming's turn to launch the attack!
His calves tensed, revealing powerful, explosive muscles. The Blacklight Virus had granted him superhuman strength and speed, and the soles of his shoes sank deep into the ground.
Then he pushed off hard and shot into the horde like an arrow loosed from a bow, beginning his hunt and slaughter!
Xia Tianming clenched his fists and used the simplest, most brutal attack he could: one punch each to smash and devour the heads of the Zombies swarming around him!
At that moment, he was like a harvester, felling heaps of Zombies all around him!
The Blacklight Virus's devouring speed was in no way slower than his killing speed. Large numbers of dark red Blacklight Tentacles extended from every part of his body, devouring and absorbing several Zombies at once!
The blood balls formed from the Zombies also nourished the Blacklight Virus, banishing fatigue and keeping him tireless.
That meant he could fight and replenish himself at the same time, becoming a relentless killing machine!
His virus energy rose steadily, climbing at an astonishing speed!
[Blacklight Threshold: 15/300] [Blacklight Threshold: 73/300] [Blacklight Threshold: 152/300] [Blacklight Threshold: 221/300]
The seemingly endless tide of Zombies had now been carved apart by Xia Tianming, leaving a circular gap!
He had killed nearly a quarter of them, but not a single corpse remained on the ground—they had all become nourishment for the Blacklight Virus!
When the Blacklight energy reached 299, Xia Tianming clearly felt a mysterious power about to burst out from within him.
Just one more, and he would break through the threshold!
But the Zombies had already slowed their advance, as if they were beginning to feel afraid.
Could Zombies feel fear too?
Perhaps the T-Virus inside them instinctively feared the Blacklight Virus in his body.
In this world, overrun and conquered by biohazards, the appearance of the Blacklight Virus had created an unprecedented crisis for them.
Indeed, only a virus could defeat a virus.
Not wasting any more time, Xia Tianming fixed his dark gaze on a Zombie ahead that seemed to be backing away, then lunged forward in a burst of speed!
Squelch!
Another punch, another kill!
Blacklight Tentacles that had already extended from his knuckles shredded the Zombie's body and devoured it ravenously. Before long, not even a speck of it remained. It had vanished from the world.
[Blacklight Threshold: 300/300]
The instant he devoured that Zombie!
Xia Tianming froze in place, as if someone had pressed pause!
Every drop of black blood in his body boiled, and every dark red Tentacle extending from his skin writhed, as if celebrating together the breakthrough of the Blacklight Threshold!
At last, the Blacklight Tentacles protruding from his body began to weave and intertwine wildly, quickly covering and enveloping Xia Tianming, frozen in place!
Before long, they had completely wrapped him in a two-meter-tall, dark red egg!
Or rather, it looked more like a gigantic cocoon about to hatch a butterfly!
Under the Crimson Moon in the sky, the cocoon radiated an eerie dark red glow.
At the sight, the surrounding Zombies seemed unsure whether they should approach.
The bloodthirsty, violent horde hesitated for the first time.
But one Zombie seemed to have been bewitched. Its rotting body began to move forward against its will, step by step drawing closer to the strange, gigantic cocoon.
The rest of the horde behind it let out a series of low growls, as if trying to stop their companion from committing suicide.
But the Zombie had already come within five meters of the cocoon, which had begun to stir.
As the distance continued to shrink, the Blacklight cocoon's movements grew more and more violent. Even the dry, dark red Tentacles on its surface had begun to peel away...
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