"The team that went to City N had eleven ability users and three researchers. Their destination was the local research institute, where twenty-two researchers were stationed. The original plan was to rescue them while collecting samples of the contamination source."
"They never expected to run into a new kind of zombie. It's enormous, and it can summon other zombies to surround the place. It even seems to be toying with them."
Da Qiao's brow was tightly furrowed as she explained, and she handed them her tablet.
"This is the zombie. The combat team has already lost three members, and everyone else is trapped inside the research institute. Their lives aren't in immediate danger, but their food won't last much longer. The situation is critical."
Qin Luo and the others leaned closer to look. The little zombie watched intently too, her eyes wide.
It was a video. At first, all they could hear was the zombies roaring outside the window. Then the camera swept upward, and an enormous head appeared at the window.
It gave them quite a fright.
Perhaps this thing could no longer be called a zombie. A zombie monster was more like it.
It had bulging white eyes, blue-black skin, and rotting flesh on its face, complete with maggots. It was utterly disgusting, and there was no telling why it had grown so huge.
Da Qiao closed the short video and opened the latest information on it. The zombie monster had been exceptionally tall even before, and had been diagnosed with gigantism at ten years old, which had meant frequent hospital visits.
That was also why it didn't dare enter the research institute. It was afraid of places like that. After becoming a zombie monster, it had continued growing at an alarming rate.
In particular, it evolved by