Before Qin Chuan could think carefully, those rotting faces and grey, lifeless pupils of zombies seemed to receive an order.
One by one, maggots crawling in their decaying mouths revealed yellow, green teeth.
Qin Chuan: !!!
They were actually smiling?!
These zombies were actually smiling?
What were they smiling about?!
Qin Chuan felt both angry and terrified. faced with this bizarre scene, it was clearly beyond his control.
After calming down, he looked at the dried-out marker pen used for marking the path, and was suddenly shocked!
They did it on purpose, these zombies did it on purpose!
And in the next second, the faint shouts from afar confirmed Qin Chuan's thoughts.
"Captain! Captain, where are you! We've come to find you!" Liu Dong's voice was extremely penetrating in the silent mist.
What Liu Dong didn't know was that ahead, a group of non-human creatures were opening their mouths wide, waiting for these "delicacies" to walk right into them.
The zombies, which had been aimlessly circling the factory building, as if suddenly having a target upon hearing Liu Dong's shout, ran towards Liu Dong and the others with their withered claws.
...
"Do you guys feel the ground shaking?"
"I feel it too..."
"What is this noise?"
Among Liu Dong's team, many began to question, and many regretted not leaving with Xu An.
After all, their mission was only to find rare resources, not to rescue Qin Chuan.
Liu Dong was also extremely flustered at the moment. He forced himself to scold everyone, telling them not to scare themselves, and continued to move forward, but the thick, putrid smell of rotting flesh was getting closer.
When he heard the faint shouts, Qin Chuan knew he had probably fallen into a trap, but that wasn't what scared him.
What he feared was that these zombies had evolved, and some of them might even possess intelligence.
And these intelligent zombies had learned to command other ordinary zombies.
"Ahhhhhh! Zombies! Run!"
"Help!"
"..."
When Qin Chuan arrived, it was too late. Liu Dong's team had directly encountered the zombies.
Although the number of zombies this time was not large, because someone was commanding them, these zombies had actually learned to ambush.
They hid in the mist, using the smoke filling the air to conceal their positions, but the rotten smell emanating from them could not be masked. It was this smell that saved Liu Dong's life.
He didn't even know that he had narrowly escaped death, that his neck had grazed the lips of a zombie.
After the initial screams and panic, everyone stabilized their minds.
Those who could come down to the tower for missions were all elites among elites, and they could still handle the zombies with ease.
But what troubled Liu Dong was that these zombies did not seem to stay put for you to hack at like the previous ones; instead, they dodged and even fought back.
"The zombies have evolved. There should be an intelligent zombie in the horde commanding the ordinary zombies. Kill it first!"
Hearing the voice, Liu Dong immediately turned around and saw Qin Chuan being chased by zombies.
"Captain!" Liu Dong shouted joyfully!
Zhou Zhe had instructed him before descending to the tower to protect Qin Chuan at all costs, and Liu Dong kept this in mind at all times.
Qin Chuan saw Liu Dong and several elite soldiers chosen for this competition, even soldiers who did not belong to his own team, but he did not see the person he wanted to see.
He suppressed the disappointment in his heart and asked, "How are you doing?" referring to casualties.
But the situation was chaotic, and Liu Dong himself had just escaped from the jaws of a zombie. He didn't know the current state of the team and lowered his head with a hint of guilt.
Seeing this, Qin Chuan said no more.
Suddenly, his eyes sharpened, and an intimidating aura emanated from him.
"I've found it. Cover me!"
Liu Dong knew what Qin Chuan meant by "found it" and immediately blew a whistle within the team, their unique way of relaying information.
Receiving the signal, everyone raised their guns and aimed them at the zombies around Qin Chuan.
"Bang, bang, bang..."
Around Qin Chuan, countless zombie heads exploded, brains mixed with blood splattering onto Qin Chuan, who didn't even blink.
After casually shooting a few ambushing zombies, Qin Chuan finally walked in front of a woman wearing a long dress, with disheveled hair and pale pupils.
Perhaps, it would be more accurate to call her a female zombie.
This female zombie was different from the other snarling, mindless zombies. She stood quietly, her overly long hair matted with some unknown sticky substance, clinging in strands to the pale, rotting face of the female zombie.
Qin Chuan strangely discovered that this female zombie seemed to be smiling at him!
The female zombie was wearing a white dress of an indiscernible color, with mottled red and green stains on it, making it impossible to distinguish whether the stains were human blood or zombie brain matter.
The moment Qin Chuan raised his hand and shot the female zombie, he regretted it...
Because he found that the female zombie actually spoke. Qin Chuan didn't understand lip-reading, but he was standing close, and he could swear that as the female zombie's rotting mouth moved, it was indeed human language, and she was speaking to him!
Evolved zombies not only had intelligence, but could also communicate with humans?
Qin Chuan's heart inexplicably clenched, as if he had missed some crucial information.
So, that female zombie smiling at him earlier wasn't an illusion???
"Damn it!"
Qin Chuan cursed and wanted to snatch the female zombie's corpse back, at least to take it back to the lighthouse to research what was going on!
Just as Qin Chuan was about to charge into the zombie horde, Liu Dong's side had almost dealt with the zombies. He looked back and was furious.
Had their captain gone mad? Why was he rushing into the zombie pile himself!
He quietly cursed "fuck" and turned to pull Qin Chuan. Disregarding Qin Chuan's struggle, he grabbed his shoulder and started running with all his might.
While running, he shouted, "Retreat! Retreat!"
Qin Chuan ultimately failed to reach the female zombie. What he didn't know was that after she was dragged away by him, the female zombie's corpse, which had died again, was rushed upon by countless zombies and devoured.
And those ordinary zombies that had consumed the female zombie's brain felt a sense of confusion...