"Brother, you're truly something else. I thought you deliberately attracted this monster because you had some real skill, but you let a woman handle it? You're just going to watch?"
"Let me go. I'd rather die fighting than die so meaninglessly!"
The man said with great spirit.
Zhang Chen turned his head to look at the man, then said, "Okay!"
As soon as he finished speaking, the man immediately regained his strength and got up from the ground.
"Watch me!"
The man said, stepping to the edge of the rooftop and jumping forcefully into the distance. He didn't pause at all after landing, accelerating rapidly and continuing to charge forward.
This guy wanted to escape. His previous words were all lies.
"Heh, the new batch of reincarnators are really naive. In the apocalypse, how can people survive without a bit of acting?"
"You guys continue fighting this monster, I'm not playing anymore!"
The man said with a smug look. In this short time, he had already run several hundred meters away.
From this distance, Zhang Chen and Zhao Xiyue had become small dots.
At such a distance, coupled with the obstruction of the scattered buildings, even energy attacks would find it difficult to aim. As for that skill that could weaken his abilities...
Could it still be effective from this far away?!
The man thought as he kept moving quickly, wanting to escape this terrifying man as soon as possible.
However, when he prepared to jump again, a sense of powerlessness struck him once more.
But he had already taken the step to jump forward.
The man only managed to jump a little over a meter forward before he began to plummet rapidly.
"This is bad. Falling in this state, I'm doomed!"
The man was panicking, but it was too late to regret it.
Bang!
The moment he landed, his strength returned.
Although he landed face down, with energy protection, the impact would at most cause him a slight sting, not a fatal injury.
"Hoo... I'm saved? Does his ability disappear as long as I leave his sight?"
The man guessed wildly.
Just as he flipped over and prepared to stand up.
Suddenly, the sense of powerlessness struck again, pressing his entire body firmly to the ground.
"What... what is going on?"
The man was full of fear.
Soon, Zhang Chen and Zhao Xiyue reappeared on a rooftop near the man.
Zhang Chen knew, of course, that this man wouldn't have the guts to fight the Red Soil Fungus with him.
If he had that kind of courage, he wouldn't have survived until now. He would have died during the surprise attack on the camp last night.
How could someone who lacked the courage to face death with his comrades be willing to fight a stranger he had only met for a few minutes?
Everything was within Zhang Chen's control.
He made the man fall from mid-air, then gave him back his energy before he hit the ground to prevent him from dying from the fall, and then withdrew his energy, using him as bait to attract the Red Soil Fungus to attack.
In fact, Zhang Chen also held a sliver of hope, wishing that this man genuinely had such courage and wasn't as despicable as he predicted. That way, Zhang Chen would let him live and join the camp.
Unfortunately, things didn't go as planned.
Zhang Chen never went easy on those who deceived him.
This time was no exception, it just required the man to die with some value.
A faint rustling sound could be heard.
Although the Red Soil Fungus wasn't as fast as Zhang Chen, once they locked onto a target, they would pursue relentlessly.
Most importantly, these things were everywhere and could infiltrate everywhere.
They attacked not only from behind in overwhelming numbers, but also the windows of surrounding buildings were instantly blown out. The Red Soil Fungus poured out from all directions like a red flood, converging on the streets and building surfaces, encircling their prey.
Buzz! Boom!
Zhao Xiyue continuously repelled the Red Soil Fungus trying to sneak attack from behind with her energy attacks.
Zhang Chen stood at the edge of the rooftop, activating Absolute Sight, and silently watched the fungal swarm closing in on the man.
He observed that every time these fungi moved, they extended reddish, thin tendrils resembling tentacles or vines. Upon landing, they immediately clung firmly to the ground like claws, advancing with thousands of these tentacles alternating.
"Save me, save me! I promise to do whatever you say, anything you ask!"
"I... I'm willing to reveal the locations of others, including whose ring has supplies. As long as you save me, I'll tell you everything!"
The man screamed like a pig being slaughtered.
Zhang Chen turned a deaf ear, continuing to focus on the fungal swarm.
Soon, a red tendril latched onto the man's arm.
It was this arm that had been oozing blood earlier, but it had now healed and scabbed over.
The tendril skillfully crawled to the wound and, with a sudden tug, instantly tore open the already scabbed wound, causing blood to spurt out.
This made the fungal swarm even more excited!
They eagerly surged towards the scent of blood, then burrowed into the wound one by one, beginning to devour the man's flesh and blood with gusto.
With his strength weakened, the man was powerless to resist, only able to watch as his arm rapidly shriveled, his blood drained quickly, and his skin turned paler and paler.
Zhang Chen, with Absolute Sight activated, could not witness such a brutal scene.
In his eyes, he saw the man's internal energy flow being slowly absorbed into the vast energy network of the fungal swarm.
Energy absorbed by energy construction... Right, it clicked!
Zhang Chen's brain had grasped all the energy construction methods of the meteor energy, but it needed to see the same energy construction to activate!
Ding! The ability [Energy Absorption] has been activated!
Zhang Chen continued to observe the trajectory of this energy.
After being absorbed from the man's body into the fungal swarm, the fungi began a new energy construction. As the energy construction completed, a portion of their bodies was replicated.
This energy construction was somewhat different from the healing construction Zhang Chen had used for medical purposes.
Healing construction accelerated the body's metabolism, thereby achieving rapid healing.
However, the Red Soil Fungus's energy construction involved replicating the main body into a physical form, which was then managed by a unified consciousness.
This was also different from the clone technique.
The clone technique used the body's internal energy to materialize, creating an energy clone identical to the original.
Therefore, once defeated, it would completely disappear.
But if Zhang Chen utilized his body replication ability, it would create a living, flesh-and-blood puppet, completely acting according to his will.
Ding! The ability [Physical Replication] has been activated!
"I... I can't hold on much longer, these guys are just getting more and more numerous!"
Zhao Xiyue said, panting.
It was indeed not easy for one person to hold them off for so long.
"The rest, leave it to me!"
Zhang Chen said with full confidence.