Chenchen crushed his heart.
Zombies do not die even without limbs or a heart; only headshots can kill them.
However, the heart is also an important organ.
While not fatal, a missing heart impairs abilities.
Chenchen retracted his hand, licking the blood from it, and declared, "Brother Gou is mine, no one is taking my Brother Gou."
An Nuan was surprised by the immense charisma of a "simp."
It could actually make zombies jealous and fight over him.
Oh, simp, simp, what merit do you possess?
At this moment, Fu Yunting noticed Chenchen's body changing.
After consuming the remnants of the heart, the energy fluctuations were peculiar.
Fu Yunting had no memories before, but now he understood.
Chenchen's ability to evolve to the eighth stage earliest was due to his special physique.
Other zombies devoured humans and異種 (yi zhong - exotic species/mutants) to enhance their abilities, but Chenchen, by consuming his own kind, grew even faster.
He had to eliminate her before Chenchen realized this!
"Thunderstorm!"
Lin Shui received the signal and struck first.
True Heaven-Shaking Thunderbolts rained down from the sky, with Twelve Bridges and other lightning-element users joining in.
They coordinated with Lin Shui to summon the lightning.
A thunder dragon weaved through the zombie horde, turning two thousand zombies into dust.
As the electric dragon dissipated, the aftershocks caused the surrounding zombies to stiffen and tremble uncontrollably.
Chenchen stared at Lin Shui's face and grinned maliciously.
"You're quite good-looking, but you're too annoying!"
"Come and deal with me, I'm waiting."
Flying sand and rocks hurtled towards Lin Shui at high speed.
Ming Le opened a barrier, deflecting the stone projectiles.
The barrier vibrated with a hum.
Ming Le remarked, "Quite powerful, I almost couldn't block it."
"You wretched woman!"
Chenchen went berserk at the sight of any attractive woman.
There were many fair-skinned and beautiful individuals in this group, and the more she looked, the angrier she became.
"What are you looking at? Even if you stare until your eyes fall out, I'm still prettier than you!"
Xiu Ao flung a handful of dust.
The fine dust was nearly invisible in the air.
Humans would easily inhale it into their lungs.
But now it was a tailwind; the wind direction favored them.
As the wind blew, the dust adhered to the zombies.
Many zombies, like panting dogs, had dust clinging inside their mouths.
Boom!
Micro-explosions detonated, blasting open the heads of numerous zombies.
Skull fragments and brain matter exploded into a spray of gore.
Fei Tian burst into laughter, "Beautiful, beautiful! Such brilliant colors, and the smell is so pleasant."
"You're insane! Our people are suffering heavy casualties!"
At least several hundred zombies perished in this wave.
Chenchen didn't care about the deaths of others, but the problem was that not a single one of their opponents had fallen, while thousands of theirs were gone.
If Fei Tian hadn't appeared with tens of thousands of zombies, this battle would have been impossible.
Chenchen abandoned all pretense of strategy.
"Charge! They have less than five thousand combatants; ten of us can take down one and defeat them!"
"Trying to win with numbers, isn't that laughable?"
Fu Yunting snapped his fingers, compelling tens of thousands of zombies to obey.
All those below the fifth tier became like machines with their batteries removed, standing still and obedient.
Chenchen, seeing their lack of reaction, couldn't understand why.
"Move! Why aren't you moving?"
She blew the head off one zombie.
The others remained apathetic.
The sixth-tier zombies sensed something amiss and looked at Fu Yunting with expressions of disbelief.
It was truly possible for a human to control zombies.
And to exude such a terrifying aura!
Why was that idiotic woman clueless? What was she still doing? She should just surrender.
Chenchen was unwilling.
She had nearly emptied the base.
Having lost so many zombies, if she gained nothing from this, it would be disastrous!
Chenchen frantically clawed at the chests of the smaller zombies.
"Fight! You useless fools, why aren't you fighting?"
"Hehehe, oh my, this is so interesting! It's been so long since I've experienced something this engaging, I'm so happy!"
Fei Tian laughed until he was rolling on the ground.
"I'm laughing so hard I'm about to cry! Even though I don't have tears, hahaha."
Chenchen hurled a dozen massive stones at Fei Tian.
He was too loud!
But Fei Tian was a seventh-tier zombie. With a single gravity manipulation, the stones plunged into the zombie horde.
He laughed almost enchantingly, "Little punk, you dare attack me? You think you're worthy?"
"What exactly are you trying to do? Weren't you helping us? Attack them!"
An Nuan also wanted to know what this seventh-tier zombie was after.
The zombies who escaped during the Sky Rift must have had powerful offensive capabilities, but this one showed no intention of attacking.
Instead, he seemed to be watching a play from the sidelines.
Why was this happening?
Fei Tian grinned, "Because it's interesting!"
"Interesting?"
Fei Tian nodded.
"In my world, humans are dim-witted and only set traps to hunt zombies. Moreover, human lives are no different from ours as zombies."
"Survival of the fittest, humans eating humans, it's truly tedious."
"But the people here are different. Humans make friends with zombies, live together, and even find good food for them."
"Most interestingly, humans have joined forces with zombies!"
"Capture, espionage, friendship, betrayal, undercover operations! Don't you find these things very interesting?"
Fei Tian grew more excited as he spoke. A faint blush appeared on his pale, ashen face.
An Nuan and Fu Yunting exchanged glances.
They had known that the escaped seventh-tier zombie would be trouble.
His ability was gravity manipulation, which was already a difficult power to contend with.
What made him even more troublesome was his intelligence, and high intelligence at that!
He even knew about undercover operations.
Chenchen hadn't reacted yet, and the other fifth and sixth-tier zombies didn't understand what was happening.
The big brute giggled, sucking on his finger, "What's undercover? Is it tasty meat?"
"Who knows, but I know what a spy is."
"I know, I know! It means a nail! Hehe, we have a nail hidden among us!"
Chenchen and Da Niu looked at each other with distrust.
But they immediately confirmed that the other was not the spy.
Chenchen was certain that Da Niu was just a brute who only used his strength and wouldn't be a spy; he didn't have the brains for it.
"Who? Who is the spy? Come out!"
Fei Tian burst into laughter, swaying his slender waist seductively, pointing at his own face and chuckling.
"It's me!"
Chenchen was even more incredulous. "You? Why?"
"Didn't I just say? I just find it interesting! The humans here are so amusing; they make me so happy! Zombie lives are too long; I've lived for over a hundred years. If I don't find something stimulating, I'll go mad!"
Fei Tian stuck out his tongue and laughed maniacally.
"It's great that I could bring you here. You'll all die soon, how delightful! Didn't your Brother Gou also make a lot of preparations to pave the way for this attack? Brother Gou is truly cute."
"I rarely encounter such interesting zombies. You're clearly full of loopholes, needing someone to patch them up, yet you trust so implicitly, hahaha!"