Zhang Chen glanced in the direction of the road by the lake where the enemy had appeared.
Nothing seemed out of the ordinary.
He activated Absolute Vision!
Instantly!
The entire world transformed into an energy map, interwoven with energy networks.
The lake water, the air, the buildings, the mutated creatures, the infected... all biological energy flows were laid bare before his eyes.
Whether they were in stealth or mimicry states.
As long as there was a flow of biological energy within them, escape from Zhang Chen's sight was impossible!
Suddenly, a swarm of insects crawled out from the building on the side.
The insects' energy cores were in their chests, radiating energy downwards in all directions, outlining the general form of a group of six-legged monster bugs.
"Just some low-level bugs, where's the real target?"
Zhang Chen quickly scanned his surroundings.
Suddenly, he saw a stream of pale yellow energy slowly drifting into the six-legged monster bugs. As this energy flowed within them, it soon converged into the energy core.
With the integration of the pale yellow energy, the six-legged monster bugs suddenly stopped, then ferociously opened their pincer-like mouths and bit at their companions beside them.
"Screech, screech..."
The nearby bugs let out piercing screeches as they were bitten.
Soon, the swarm descended into chaos, with hundreds of bugs tearing at each other, nauseating fluids splattering everywhere.
In a short while, quite a few severed limbs and shattered flesh were left on the ground.
After a bout of infighting, half of the swarm, composed of over two hundred bugs, instantly perished.
Many were severely wounded but still breathing, lying on the ground with their legs twitching in pain.
However, the remaining bugs had no intention of letting these dying creatures go, continuing to charge forward and tear at them with their mouths.
The surviving bugs were also constantly killing each other.
The scene was extremely bloody and chaotic.
At the same time, the previously calm lake surface suddenly churned with immense waves.
Huge splashes rose from the lake.
Several monstrously large creatures were entangled with each other, fiercely stabbing at each other with their venomous spikes.
Because their physical structures were the same, while stabbing the opponent, they were inevitably stabbed in return...
In a short period, the bug swarm was annihilated.
The one bug that ultimately survived actually walked into the lake water and drowned itself to death.
Similarly, the victor among the monsters in the lake rushed to the shore regardless, exposing itself to the air and slowly suffocating to death.
As the last monster died.
A faint wisp of smoke emerged from the distance.
Then, Zhang Chen saw the energy from these mutated creatures instantly fly towards the direction of the dense fog.
As the biological energy gradually dissipated.
The corpses on the ground also turned into wisps of ash.
A gentle breeze blew, and they instantly vanished into the night...
"This ability... feels a bit like auto-collection?"
Zhang Chen muttered to himself.
Except that the monsters he killed turned into a wisp of white mist, while the monsters that died here turned into ashes.
The most terrifying thing was the special ability of this mysterious monster.
It could manipulate mutated creatures to kill each other from a distance.
This saved it a lot of trouble, eliminating many enemies without shedding its own blood.
But... was this guy human, or a monster?!
Zhang Chen drew a large question mark in his mind.
As the dense fog in the distance grew closer, its true form was enveloped within this fog.
Zhang Chen once again activated Absolute Vision.
In the past, dense fog was the nemesis of prompts.
Now, Zhang Chen possessed the ability to see through the fog.
These petty tricks were useless!
Zhang Chen's gaze swept across the dense fog, and soon, the image of a woman appeared before him.
At first, it was a faint, light-colored figure.
The woman had a great figure, long hair, and was slowly walking forward.
Was it not a monster? But a轮回者 from a previous cycle?
To be able to eliminate all life in an entire city to this extent, even among the previous cycle's轮回者, she would have been considered an outstanding figure!
Logically, such a powerful individual should not have awakened at this stage!
Zhang Chen's doubts grew larger.
Suddenly, a beautiful figure emerged from the dense fog.
It was Zhao Xiyue!
Huh?
Zhang Chen was greatly shocked!
Logically, Zhao Xiyue and Zhao Longchuan should have been at the military base protecting the survivors, so why did she suddenly appear here?
After Zhang Chen left the military base, he dared not rest for a moment, cutting through all obstacles to reach here.
How could Zhao Xiyue have caught up so quickly?
And how could she possess such a heaven-defying ability?!
No, there must be something wrong!
Zhang Chen switched his observation mode for Absolute Vision.
He saw pale blue biological energy flowing within Zhao Xiyue, her energy core located below her heart, just like all survivors.
"A survivor... could it be a survivor who can shapeshift?"
"Can even the ring's color be shapeshifted?"
Zhang Chen had noticed before that cleaners could replicate a target's appearance, voice, and mannerisms when shapeshifting.
But the ring was an exception.
The ring on the "Zhao Xiyue" before him was indeed green, but how could a survivor from the same cycle possess such immense power?
Zhang Chen shook his head.
Something was wrong, this was likely an illusion.
He must have been poisoned unknowingly.
He continued to hide in the shadows and quickly returned to the intersection.
At this moment, Xiaobai had put on his mask and full gear, standing ready.
Zhang Chen continued to look into the distance from here.
Another wisp of fog, Zhao Xiyue was still walking slowly, her red lips slightly parted, seemingly singing a soft song...
At this moment, a prompt slowly appeared:
【A wisp of fog, hiding a powerful enemy within, please proceed with caution!】
Huh?
Zhang Chen stiffened.
He had been staring at Zhao Xiyue all along, and even if there were a prompt, it should have appeared beside Zhao Xiyue.
But the prompt appeared next to the dense fog.
This meant that the Zhao Xiyue he saw was fake, only visible to him, and even the prompt couldn't see her.
There was nothing outside the fog; the enemy was still hidden within the fog!
"Huh, Dad, why are you out? Didn't you say Xiaobai was supposed to wait here?"
Xiaobai suddenly dropped his defensive stance, pushed his mask onto his forehead, and said to the dense fog with a look of confusion.
As expected, it was an illusion; everyone saw a different person!
"Hee hee hee..."
"Wooo wooo wooo...."
At the same time, the lurkers and criers and other infected, who were standing ready in the surrounding streets, could not help but let out cries.
They were also affected.
Originally, Zhang Chen had planned to let these infected charge forward and test the opponent's strength.
Now, it seemed that Xu Ruina and the cleaner army were doing well just to ensure the infected did not kill each other.
They probably wouldn't be of much help!
"Ah! Damn it!"
Xiaobai suddenly shouted and instantly charged towards the dense fog.
At this moment, a scene that made Zhang Chen's blood surge appeared before his eyes... a familiar figure appeared behind Zhao Xiyue, looking at Zhang Chen with an evil grin: "Long time no see, your delivery has arrived!"