Chapter 152: Parting of the Living and the Dead [Subscription Requested!]

Ever since the disaster struck, this gymnasium had served as a monster's lair. For quite some time, an untold number of human lives had been claimed by it.

To the monster, humans were merely meat dishes to be devoured at will, but today, it had encountered a formidable opponent.

Ailee's heavy hammer smashed the tentacles on the monster's body, causing it visible pain. The tentacles, reduced to a pulp, could no longer recover their original shape, simply lying limply on the ground, resembling nothing so much as giant geoducks boiled in hot water.

"I..."
"Want..."
"To..."
"Kill..."
"You..."

Accompanied by the monster's grating and anxious voice, the twin pupils within its eyes suddenly lit up, and a streak of black light tore through the air, piercing straight toward Ailee!

It actually possessed ranged attack capabilities!

"Wah!"

A sharp screech escaped Ailee's lips. Immediately following, a similarly ugly phantom of a monster—its teeth occupying eighty percent of its face—manifested to block the blow.

"Sizzle!"

Just like oil splashing onto hot meat, under the refraction of the black light, the phantom appeared to be in agonizing pain.

As if misfortunes never came singly, just as the monster's eyes projected the black beams, figures began to emerge one after another from the damaged gates of the gymnasium.

"Hungry... I'm so hungry..."
"I want more food!"
"I'm sorry, I didn't mean to hurt you, it's just... you were so delicious..."

They were human, yet at the same time, they were not.

All the hair on their bodies had completely fallen out, and tumors grew on their heads. They were emaciated, resembling towering skeletons covered in red, wrinkled skin. A fluid-seeping wound served as their mouth, and two points of deep red light flickered within their eyes.

Not only that, parts of their internal bodies were constantly writhing, as if other lives were residing inside them, a sight that turned one's stomach.

Their obsession with food was vividly displayed. The moment they saw Fan Li, they lost all self-control, thick saliva dripping from the corners of their mouths as unimaginable changes took place across their bodies.

Though he was reluctant to admit it, Fan Li knew clearly that most of the survivors in this camp were beyond saving.

They still retained a shred of consciousness, unlike other zombies that had degenerated into mindless demons incapable of speech, but their current state was equally grim.

This was a new type of zombie.

Much like the binder monsters, this mutation retained a limited ability to speak and moved even faster. However, in their consciousness, human thought had vanished, replaced entirely by a craving for flesh and blood. Bestiality had completely overridden human nature, turning them into living entities wearing human skin with thoroughly rotting interiors.

These people, just like the petitioner he had seen at the stronghold, were utterly hopeless.

"Purify them."

Fan Li muttered in a voice audible only to himself. The next instant, an mutated entity that had just taken a step forward had its head pierced clean through by a steel tail.

"Whoosh!"

The Xenomorph, lingering in stealth, had been lurking in the surroundings. There were quite a few of those mutated creatures, and it was the perfect opportunity to use the Xenomorph to block them and prevent a single one from escaping through the net.

At Fan Li's command, the Xenomorph launched a massacre. As a monster born solely for slaughter, it exhibited a frenzied state, utilizing not only its tailbone but also thrusting its tongue forward like a battering ram, smashing once more into the chest of another mutated entity.

The lean chest shattered instantly, gushing a stream of foul blood, followed immediately by an intensely nauseating stench that permeated the surrounding air.

"Die!"

With its reinforcements blocked, the monster fell into an even deeper rage. Speaking with overlapping male and female voices, the twin pupils releasing the black radiance locked their gaze onto Fan Li. Then, with a sudden leap fully three meters high, it bore down upon Fan Li.

A shadow enveloped Fan Li, and normal speed was simply insufficient for evasion.

"Swish!"

The shadow beneath Fan Li began to churn, shooting out and wrapping around Ailee. Using Ailee as an anchor point, the Shadow Tentacle yanked fiercely, pulling Fan Li directly out of harms way just in time.

With a deafening crash, the monster landed, its sheer weight causing the ground to shake violently and cracking the concrete floor into a web of fractures!

Fan Li stared at the monster before him, his hand clenched tight. While casting the Shadow Tentacle, he had retrieved an English textbook from his backpack.

"Did he dare to go out on such a stormy night?"

A mental interrogation descended upon Fan Li's mind. His vision blurred, and hallucinations began to manifest. The sensation was akin to going days without sleep, inducing a powerful wave of dizziness.

The monster did not wait; having locked onto its enemy, it bent its knees, preparing to leap once more and trample Fan Li.

Right at that moment, however, the female head on its body suddenly let out a wail, its brain gripped by a stabbing pain as if a sharp dagger had been plunged inside and twisted around.

Compared to summoning the female teacher, the mental trauma Fan Li suffered was tripled or multiplied manifold when inflicted upon an enemy.

This wasn't the first time Fan Li had witnessed the female teacher inflict mental shock upon an enemy; he had even given the move a name.

——Banshee's Wail!

Before long, a zombie wearing high heels, with bulging eyes and bloodshot veins covering its body, materialized beside Fan Li. It frantically spat out one obscure, incomprehensible character after another. Under the weight of these characters, the monster before them seemed to suffer severe trauma, disrupting its ability to attack effectively.

Struck by the assault, the female head on the ugly body contorted in pain. Bizarrely, the male head beside it furrowed its brow in a remarkably human display of distress, just like a devoted man watching his beloved woman suffer. In that instant, the monster even forgot to counterattack.

Thud, thud, thud!

Ailee broke free from the restraints, hoisting her giant hammer and taking a sweeping stride, charging directly toward the head of the monster, which was caught in a tangle of pain and anguish.

At the same time, Fan Li clenched his teeth hard. The shadow cast upon the ground seemed to spring back to life, twisting into thick ropes that coiled tightly around the monster's body, plunging it into a state of paralysis lasting several seconds.

Both of the monster's heads fell into a daze, barely comprehending what had just befallen them. Immediately afterward, a colossal hammer—unimaginable by conventional logic—came crashing down directly onto the female head. With a squelch, the skull was successfully shattered, and a stream of boiling hot blood directly sprayed across the adjacent head!

The worried expression on the male head froze, leaving only a single, vacant, staring eye. A heavy wave of sorrow began to spread, covering every inch of the surrounding land like a vast net.