Massacre

"This time, the intel was indeed wrong. With that Zombie King's bizarre abilities, this should be at least a four- to five-star difficulty!"

Lü Hao said with a frown.

Recalling the earlier scene still filled him with lingering fear. That tall, slender figure had been truly terrifying.

Faced with such a desperate situation, the female Awakened could not help but cry, her voice choked with sobs.

"I... I don't want to die yet."

"It's okay. At least we're safe for now. Once we recover some stamina..."

Xiao Wen had just begun to comfort her when his voice abruptly stopped.

A sense of foreboding had suddenly clouded his heart. As a psychic Awakened, he was exceptionally sensitive to danger. At that moment, he felt as though something was approaching them...

Xiao Wen felt like he was sitting on pins and needles, a chill running down his spine. He instinctively looked back, only to find nothing but pitch-black darkness behind him.

"Xiao Wen, what's wrong?"

Lü Hao noticed that something was off about him.

Xiao Wen frowned tightly.

"It seems... something got in!"

"What?"

Everyone around them was horrified and found it hard to believe.

"Brother Xiao Wen, don't scare me!"

"Yeah... the walls are so thick, and they haven't been damaged. How could anything get in?"

"Didn't you just say we were safe?"

"..."

The group began discussing it anxiously.

"I'm not sure either. Maybe I used up too much energy earlier and my nerves are too tense."

Xiao Wen rubbed his forehead, unable to believe it himself.

When people were in an extremely tense state,

it was normal for them to experience hallucinations.

Maybe his intuition had been wrong...

But just as Xiao Wen turned his head back, a tall, slender figure appeared out of thin air behind him. Dressed in a pristine white shirt and wearing an icy expression, he resembled a grim reaper come to claim lives!

Lü Hao and the female Awakened were seated across from him and saw it most clearly.

Their eyes instantly widened as though they had seen a ghost. Their faces were filled with terror, and they even suspected they were hallucinating.

"H-He... he got in!"

The female Awakened could barely speak without stammering.

Xiao Wen looked confused.

"Who?"

But the moment he said it, he realized something was wrong. Everyone was staring behind him, their faces twisted in extreme terror.

There really was something...

A powerful sense of danger surged up again. He could smell death itself, and he did not even dare turn around, afraid his life would end the instant he looked back.

Yet he could not suppress the urge to turn around. He slowly turned his head, but a large hand was already gripping the top of his head. It pierced through his skull and directly pulled out his Crystal Core.

Thud!

As he turned, Xiao Wen's corpse toppled to the floor. In the moment of death, he vaguely saw that pristine white shirt.

That life-reaping figure had truly gotten inside...

At the same time, one final thought arose in his mind.

"Everyone here... is going to die..."

Lü Hao's eyes were wide as saucers. From such close range, watching Lin Dong's method of killing made his entire body go cold. Though he had experience hunting Zombie Kings, this was the first time he had seen such a bizarre scene!

More importantly, the surrounding walls had been fully reinforced, yet Lin Dong had somehow infiltrated without making a sound.

The feeling of strangeness in his heart was overwhelming.

This was a true Wraith Zombie!

As for the female Awakened, her pretty face had turned deathly pale from fright. She stared fixedly at Lin Dong's figure, her delicate body trembling uncontrollably.

"This graveyard is built pretty well..."

Lin Dong swept his gaze around.

The hotel walls were a full ten meters thick, making the interior space oval-shaped. It really did resemble a tomb.

Lü Hao did not want to sit around and wait for death.

"Quick, open fire!"

Rat-a-tat-tat-tat-tat!

The armed personnel pulled their triggers. Muzzle flashes drove back the darkness as dense bullets rained toward him.

A red glow flickered across Lin Dong's body, as if he had turned incorporeal. The bullets passed through him and all struck the wall behind him.

"This..."

Everyone was terrified out of their wits. The Wraith Zombie was truly extraordinary; firearms were completely useless against him, and despair welled up within them.

Yet they continued pulling the triggers, the deafening roar of their guns shaking the air. They were not merely shooting at Lin Dong, but making their final protest against this cruel world.

Why... had it come to this?

The next moment, Lin Dong unleashed his Corpse Domain, enveloping the surrounding space. The gunfire immediately fell silent.

The armed personnel were merely ordinary people and could not withstand such pressure. Their bodies burst apart one after another like watermelons smashed by hammers.

Watching the blood spray through the air, Lin Dong could not help thinking of the "mashed garlic" from his orphanage days.

After setting off firecrackers, it was time to eat dumplings...

Against this group of battered remnants,

it was nothing but a massacre!

Lü Hao and the female Awakened had expended a great deal of energy earlier. Their bodies were weak, and under the pressure of the Corpse Domain, they were in just as much agony.

The female Awakened clenched her teeth. Facing a Wraith Zombie like this, she felt that the death rate was not eighty percent, but 99.99999%!

"Die!"

The female Awakened screamed, blood spilling from the corner of her mouth. She had already pushed her body beyond its limits and unleashed her last remaining energy.

Countless steel rebars immediately shot out from the thick surrounding walls. Like sharp arrows, they tore through the air and flew toward Lin Dong from every direction!

Because the rebars contained the energy of an Awakened's Crystal Core, Lin Dong did not take them head-on. With a wave of his hand, he gathered the power of the Corpse Domain and blasted them away.

At the same time, he arrived before the female Awakened.

Before her despairing eyes, he reached out and removed her Crystal Core.

The female Awakened's corpse crumpled softly to the ground.

Only one thought remained in her heart.

"Which bastard gathered this intel and called this a One-Star Zombie Nest? I hope that intel officer runs into zombies like this every single day..."

After the female Awakened died, the King-Hunting Action Squad had been almost completely wiped out, leaving only Lü Hao.

However, his will to survive was extremely strong. In the instant when the Corpse Domain's power had just dispersed, he immediately unleashed his final burst of energy.

"Earth Armor!"

With a thought from Lü Hao, the dirt from the surrounding walls rapidly gathered around him and adhered to his limbs and body. In the blink of an eye, he transformed into a giant made of earth!

Empowered by the soil, Lü Hao's body swelled until he stood three meters tall. His muscular arms were as thick as an adult's waist.

He looked immensely powerful.

Resisting the pressure of the Corpse Domain, Lü Hao raised his heavy arm and punched toward Lin Dong, the sound of rushing wind following in its wake.

Lin Dong did not dodge. Instead, he threw a punch of his own.

This opponent was somewhat interesting...

So he used eighty percent of his strength.

A sonic boom rang out through the dark air. His iron fist surged forth like a trapped dragon breaking free from the sea, unstoppable in its momentum.

Boom!

The instant the two collided, it was like two small mountains crashing together. A thunderous roar filled the air, followed by a crisp crack.

The earth giant's arm looked powerful, but spiderweb-like cracks now spread across it. It continued breaking apart, chunks beginning to fall away.

Before long, Lü Hao's real arm was exposed. It hung limply at his side, completely numb.

"So strong..."

Lü Hao gritted his teeth, his heart growing heavier. This Zombie King not only had bizarre abilities, but possessed such terrifying physical strength as well!

He was practically an unsolvable existence...