Chapter 445 - Fighting Against the Mutated Zombies

The three Rank 5 mutated zombies activated their special abilities. The first grew scales across its body as a thick mist enveloped it. Supported by the mist, it could glide through the air like a fish through water.

The second sprouted dense bone spikes until they covered its entire body, forming a peculiar bone armor. At the same time, its arms warped as the spikes twisted together, reshaping into razor-sharp pikes.

The third differed from the others. It possessed telekinetic power, allowing it to manipulate nearby objects at will. With a mental command, it tore a metal plate from the wall and twisted it into a huge lance. It planned to impale Han Wu with it.

Finally, the Rank 4 mutated zombie showed little intelligence. After activating its ability, its skin darkened to a metallic black, and its figure resembled that of a metallic gorilla. It was also the first to attack.

It jumped up high into the air and swung its fist downward to crush Han Wu’s skull. The strike was savage and powerful but riddled with openings in Han Wu’s view. He easily sidestepped the blow and sliced off the zombie’s arm with his longsword.

After losing one of its arms, the zombie snarled and tried slapping its chest to display its frustration. Han Wu seized the opening and beheaded the zombie.

“This is a battle. What are you dancing around for?” he muttered, flicking the blood off his longsword. The gorilla-like zombie was already lifeless and could no longer hear him.

After witnessing how easily Han Wu dispatched the last Rank 4 mutated zombie, the remaining three exchanged wary glances. They were more intelligent and capable of strategy. With a single look, they already understood what each of them needed to do.

The first to take action was the mutated zombie shrouded in mist. It glided through the air like a mermaid swimming in water. It could use the mist to shield its allies or weaponize it to strike with its enhanced form. It moved with blistering speed, attacking from unpredictable angles that made defense nearly impossible.

Fortunately, Han Wu’s battle experience allowed him to anticipate its trajectory and counter in time.

Before he could swing, the second zombie attacked. The telekinetic one hurled the giant lance toward Han Wu, using it as a diversion to cover the mermaid zombie.

Han Wu sliced the giant lance in two, but the halves twisted midair and reformed into twin lances. He struck again, only for the telekinetic zombie to manipulate the broken pieces into even more lances.

Each blow strained his combined force field. No matter how many times he cut the lances, the telekinetic zombie could easily reshape the halves into more lances to attack him.

Han Wu focused so intently on fending off the lances that he failed to notice the zombie covered in bone spikes gathering energy. Like a raging bull, it charged straight at him.

It was too fast and too strong, and Han Wu realized the danger only at the last second. The impact sent Han Wu flying across the air. He crashed into the thick metal doors and left a human-shaped indentation on it.

The spike zombie’s brute strength and hardened bone spikes had torn through Han Wu’s defenses, leaving two gaping wounds in his chest and abdomen.

When the mermaid zombie noticed that he was gravely injured, it lunged from an odd angle. Han Wu gritted his teeth through the pain and swung both his greatsword and longsword in unison to push it back.

At the same time, he activated Hyper-Regeneration to quickly heal himself, but the process consumed an enormous amount of energy. If he kept taking damage, he would most likely die here. Under such circumstances, fighting alone was suicidal. To turn the tide, he had no choice but to summon his locusts.

A huge swarm emerged from the hole that Han Wu had carved into the metal door. Most of them were Unique life forms, though a few had reached the threshold of a Lord life form, like the Locust Dragon.

The Locust Dragon approached Han Wu with deep reverence but was infuriated when it noticed the blood on his body. It unleashed its breath attack to freeze everything in its path.

The spike and telekinetic zombies easily blocked the attack. The first, protected by layers of bone spikes, felt no fear of the cold. The second ripped metal plates from the wall and raised them as a barrier.

Only the mermaid zombie failed to retreat in time and was struck head-on. The mist surrounding its body worked against it, freezing solid and turning into ice. The mermaid zombie crashed to the ground and thrashed like a fish on land. No matter how it struggled, it could no longer glide.

The locusts seized the moment and summoned countless weapons to hack the mermaid zombie apart. Within ten seconds, nothing remained but a heap of bones. The locust then presented Han Wu with the mermaid zombie’s crystal.

The two remaining zombies witnessed the locusts’ power and immediately gave up the fight. They had no desire to die here and turned their attention to the door that was blocking their escape.

The spike zombie charged forward, its sharp bone spikes easily punching two huge holes through the metal. The telekinetic zombie then used its special ability to widen the openings until it could squeeze through, then slipped away.

The spike zombie tried to follow, but its bulk caught in the narrow gap. It roared for help, yet the telekinetic zombie ignored its cries and vanished into the depths of the base.

Zweisteine frantically pressed the buttons, trying to seal the exits before the telekinetic zombie could escape. However, it used its powers to slow down the doors’ closing speed and slipped through the narrowing gap just before they clamped.

The trapped spike zombie watched helplessly as its companion fled. It howled in despair, but its cry ended abruptly when Han Wu beheaded it with his greatsword. He then turned toward the direction the telekinetic zombie had fled and slowly followed it. One way or another, he would tear this entire base apart today.

Back in the control room, Zweisteine knew that he had lost and decided to escape through the secret passageway. Before doing so, he needed to take the last vial of high-purity virus and several key pieces of experimental data.

It wasn’t out of passion for research. He needed them to stay alive. Parasol Corp. cared only about results, not progress. Returning empty-handed meant death.

He was still reaching into the deep freezer for the vial when the telekinetic zombie appeared behind him without warning. In the next instant, it slammed him to the ground and ate him.

The telekinetic zombie then seized the vial and swallowed it in one gulp. As the virus coursed through its body, every cell seemed to surge with energy, and its mind grew sharper than ever. Memories of its human life flooded back, including fragments of who it once was and the brief, excruciating moment of infection.

“This... feels good...” a male voice rasped from the telekinetic zombie’s mouth. At that moment, it felt that it was a king that could control everything.