Eerie Mist

"Give me a weapon!"

Lu Chengchuan watched for a while, then could no longer hold back and asked Zhou Yaning for a melee weapon.

The situation was urgent. If they did not deal with the monsters soon, more pedestrians around them would be hurt or killed. Zhou Yaning made an exception and handed him her longsword.

With the sword in hand, Lu Chengchuan immediately charged out.

When the skinless monster saw someone rushing at it, it roared and swung its claws at Lu Chengchuan. He dodged aside, then slashed the skinless monster with his sword.

The blade tore through flesh, leaving a massive wound across the skinless monster's body.

The monster let out a wail. Lu Chengchuan stepped forward and struck its head with another slash, splitting its skull open and cleanly cutting its head in two.

With its head severed, the skinless monster collapsed to the ground, and Lu Chengchuan heard the system's voice.

Killed a ghoul. Obtained 7 days of lifespan.

The system called the monster a ghoul. Killing it had also earned him seven days of lifespan. After taking care of one, Lu Chengchuan strode toward another ghoul.

Seeing him dispatch the monster so easily, the people behind him also prepared to fight the monsters.

They held knives in one hand and guns in the other as they moved forward. Pushing through the surging crowd, they found the ghouls running wildly alongside the fleeing pedestrians, forcing them to run after them as well.

By the time they cornered one ghoul, three ghouls had already fallen beneath Lu Chengchuan's sword.

The five of them joined forces to surround it, slashing at the ghoul with blades while dodging its claws. Yet when they all attacked together, the monster's frenzied assault forced them back.

Someone fired at the monster. The bullets struck it but failed to stop it. With their companions all around them, they did not dare keep firing. In an instant, they could no longer contain it, and the monster burst through their encirclement.

Lu Chengchuan rushed over, caught up to it, and slashed its hind leg. Then he brought his sword down hard on its neck, chopping off its head.

The investigation team was dumbfounded. They had surrounded the monster and still failed to kill it, but Lu Chengchuan had ended it with two strikes. The gap was simply too great.

As everyone stood there stunned, Lu Chengchuan caught up with the fifth ghoul.

This was the last ghoul. It did not last long against Lu Chengchuan either. After only three exchanges, its head rolled onto the ground.

All the visible monsters had been killed, and Lu Chengchuan gained thirty-five days of lifespan.

His lifespan had increased, and Lu Chengchuan was pleased, though he did not show it. He walked back to the investigation team and returned the bloodstained longsword to Zhou Yaning.

Zhou Yaning took the sword and was about to say something when her work phone rang.

She quickly answered it.

"Captain Zhou, this is Yang Jikai. Monsters have appeared in many places across the city..."

Yang Jikai's voice came through the phone. He had not brought good news. Besides their location, monsters had appeared in other parts of Anyang City as well. Every police officer in the department had already been mobilized, and they were even preparing to call in the military.

"Monsters have appeared on my side too. They've already been dealt with. Send people to handle the aftermath. I'll head over right away—"

"Mr. Lu, monsters have appeared in other areas too. Please come with us."

Zhou Yaning put down her phone and hurriedly called her subordinates to the car, asking Lu Chengchuan to come with them as well.

Lu Chengchuan got into the car with them. There was no need to hide anymore, and he wanted to kill more monsters to gain more lifespan.

The car sped to a large shopping mall. Monsters had appeared inside, trapping many people who could not get out. The police had suffered considerable casualties while entering to rescue them.

The monsters inside still had not been eliminated. After Lu Chengchuan and the others got out of the car, Zhou Yaning confirmed their identities with the police, and Lu Chengchuan rushed into the mall carrying the longsword.

The mall was huge, with seven floors. Each floor sold different things.

The third through fifth floors were lined with restaurants. Usually, the place saw heavy foot traffic, but when the monsters came, many people were trapped in the upstairs shops and unable to get down.

When they entered, many bodies lay on the ground—some monsters, some humans.

Monster howls, human screams, gunfire, and music all blended together. There was more than one kind of monster here, and they had also discovered where the monsters were coming from.

Several masses of black mist filled the seven-story mall. The black mist churned, and monsters emerged from within it.

Monster after monster came out of the mist. The police had been holding the line here for a long time and had killed many monsters, but monsters continued to emerge. They fired into the mist, threw explosives, and sprayed flames at it, but the mist would not disperse.

They sent remote-controlled cars in to investigate, but the cars lost signal as soon as they approached.

The mist had appeared more than half an hour ago and had yet to dissipate.

The police could only hold the perimeter, clearing out the monsters that emerged while slowly evacuating the crowd.

But monsters kept appearing, and with their strange abilities, the police had suffered many casualties as well.

When Lu Chengchuan and the others entered, another group of zombie monsters attacked. The officers had encountered zombies several times and knew that only shots to the head or neck could kill them quickly.

Lu Chengchuan and the others moved to the side and helped the police fend off the zombies and other monsters.

Zombie after zombie leaped at them, and Lu Chengchuan stood at the very front with his longsword in hand.

He swung the sword with all his strength, cutting down the low-level zombies that kept approaching. As the system's voice rang out repeatedly in his mind, Lu Chengchuan grew more and more excited.

After cutting down more than a dozen zombies in succession, the longsword in his hand suddenly snapped.

It was a fine weapon, well made and crafted from good materials, but it was still only a weapon. It was certainly not an indestructible divine blade.

Zombie bodies were harder than wood. On top of that, Lu Chengchuan did not know how to use a sword. He merely hacked with brute force, wielding the longsword as roughly as possible. It was already impressive that it had killed more than a dozen zombies.

The broken sword fell to the ground. Lu Chengchuan simply discarded the weapon and fought the zombies barehanded.

Several zombies surrounded him. Their sharp nails struck his body, but they could not break through his defenses and only tore apart Lu Chengchuan's clothes.

Having mastered the Iron Body Skill, his body was impervious to blades and bullets. Zombies found it difficult to hurt him.

He killed more than a dozen zombies in a row. Zhou Yaning and the police did not stay idle either, and everyone worked together to eliminate the dozens of zombies that had charged out.

The monsters upstairs were also eliminated. Although the police had suffered casualties, they had managed to bring the situation under control.

The zombies had been wiped out, but the eerie black mist continued to churn.

He had killed sixteen zombies and gained 112 days of lifespan. Added to what he already had, he could now live for half a year.

Lu Chengchuan was delighted when he saw Zhou Yaning and the others approaching. They looked terrible, but fortunately none of them were injured. As they came closer, he wiped the smile from his face and bent down to pick up the broken sword.

Looking at the dead zombies around him, Zhou Yaning and the others still wore shocked expressions.

"What is that mist? How are monsters coming out of it..."

Lu Chengchuan shook his head. How could he possibly know what was going on with the mist? He was not a scholar or a scientist who could explain it all clearly.

He shook his head, and Zhou Yaning understood that he did not know either. At that moment, a police officer walked over.

"Captain Zhou, do you have any way to deal with the mist?"