Caught in a Pincer Attack

"How... how could there be women here?!"

Everyone saw the slender figures of several women sitting on the ground with their legs turned inward. Their bodies twitched faintly with every sob.

They didn't seem to notice the men approaching behind them. Under the harsh light of the searchlights, their skin looked so pale that the web of veins beneath it was faintly visible!

"Are they living corpses or human beings?! Why aren't they afraid of the bright light?!"

One mercenary couldn't stand the eerie atmosphere and prepared to go forward to take a closer look, but Captain Gilbert stopped him.

"They're zombies. You can see that the ultraviolet light is causing their skin to ulcerate, but the decay is slower than it is in other living corpses..."

At the captain's words, everyone noticed the anomaly too.

The women, whose faces were hidden from view, began to shed their skin under the intense light, revealing the crimson muscle beneath. Their cries grew more and more piercing!

"Damn it! Who cares if they're human or monsters! If they show up in a place like this, then even if they're stunning beauties, don't you fucking spare them!"

Hotheaded Philip didn't care to think it over. He snatched a submachine gun from one of his men and began spraying bullets at the backs of the women on the stairs...

"Ah!!!!"

In an instant, the bullets punched dense holes through the alluring figures of the women, spraying sticky green blood as they let out even more piercing screams!

At last, their heads twisted almost 180 degrees to face the men behind them, revealing their true faces: eyes glowing blood-red, rotting features, and long tongues hanging down to their chests.

The sight instantly erased any impulse to treat them gently...

The attacked female zombies immediately tried to charge down the stairs and attack everyone, but the mercenaries already had their guns trained on them and pulled the triggers without hesitation!

Bang, bang, bang!!

Amid a burst of gunfire, the heads of several female zombies were blown apart, leaving them full of holes. They immediately fell to the ground, their bodies twitching faintly by reflex.

"All right, keep moving."

Gilbert gave another order, but he also felt uneasy. These female zombies were clearly somewhat resistant to the searchlights. Unlike other zombies, they didn't flee at the sight of light. Could this be another sign of their evolution?

After this interruption, everyone moved forward even more cautiously, unsure what new kind of zombie might appear next.

The two mercenaries at the front, carrying the searchlight, were about to step over the headless female zombie corpses when one of them caught a glimpse of something moving beneath his feet!

He widened his eyes and looked again, but there was no movement. Had the tension simply made him imagine it?

"Hey! What are you two dragging your feet for? If you're tired, let two other men take over. Don't waste the whole team's time!"

Captain Philip's booming voice startled the two mercenaries into hurrying onward. Just as they stepped over the bodies of the female living corpses...

Creak, creak~~

Suddenly, a grating sound like teeth grinding reached their ears, and the headless female zombies began moving again!

This time, everyone saw it!

"Fall back..."

Gilbert noticed the change and was about to tell the two men to retreat, but it was already too late. A shadow shot out from beneath one of the headless corpses and lunged at one mercenary's feet, moving so fast that no one could make out what it was!

Creak~~

Accompanied by a hair-raising, high-pitched laugh, the shadow pounced on the mercenary's leg in the blink of an eye and began tearing into it, making him scream in agony!

At the same time, everyone finally saw what the shadow was. It was a completely naked fetus, only a little bigger than a palm!!

Its belly seemed to still be attached to an umbilical cord. Its skin was just as deathly pale as the female living corpses', but its eyes were pitch-black, without a trace of white!

It made that creaking sound as it opened its enormous, sharp-toothed mouth and bit into the mercenary's ankle. In just two or three bites, it tore off his entire right foot!

The mercenary staggered from the sudden, agonizing injury and was about to fall. The zombie fetus seized the chance to lunge at his neck, trying to bite through his throat!

Bang!!!

Just then, Captain Philip beside him abruptly raised his right foot, clad in a hard leather boot. With a look of revulsion, he kicked the creature away with all his might. It slammed into the wall with a dull thud and burst, smearing a square meter of flesh and gore across the surface...

"What the hell is that disgusting thing? Where did it crawl out from?!"

The burly Philip grabbed the injured mercenary, who was still wailing, with one hand and tossed him to the medic behind them. Then he ordered another mercenary to take over carrying the searchlight.

Soon, the answer he wanted appeared before them again.

The other female zombie corpses began to writhe too!

No! Their swollen bellies were dragging their bodies along!!!

These zombie fetuses really had been born from female zombies!

It wasn't unusual for zombies to mate from time to time. Plenty of people had seen it with their own eyes, though the scene was so disgusting that nobody wanted to describe it.

But everyone had never heard of female zombies retaining the ability to become pregnant and actually "give birth" to zombies!

Everyone watched helplessly as the female zombies' bellies grew larger and larger. The zombie fetuses inside were about to burst out!

Bang, bang, bang!!!

Captain Gilbert immediately raised his powerful anti-materiel sniper rifle and fired repeatedly at their swollen bellies, blowing them into a mass of rotten flesh before the zombie fetuses could be born...

"If we run into another abnormality like this, don't just stand there staring! Open fire immediately!!"

He coldly tossed the anti-materiel sniper rifle back to the man beside him. These incidents were giving him a real headache.

There was no way anything normal could exist in a place like this. When they spotted something abnormal, firing first was always the right move!

Just as Gilbert was about to lead the team farther upstairs, Xia Leng suddenly turned around, his brow furrowed as he stared into the darkness behind them.

"What's wrong? Did you see something?"

Noticing Xia Leng's reaction, Gilbert immediately asked. It was the first time he had seen Xia Leng show any expression besides indifference.

"This entire floor is full of the same kind of zombies we just saw!"

As soon as Xia Leng finished speaking, the entire tenth floor rang with the hair-raising cries of women!

When they turned the searchlights back, hundreds of female zombies with bulging bellies, lying in wait throughout the floor, came surging toward the team with their claws raised!

Above them, more piercing cries rang out as a dense jumble of footsteps approached the floor!

The entire team was caught between the two groups, closing in from above and below...