A single infected body spitting fluid can still be avoided, but what if there are a dozen, a hundred, enough to change quantity into quality?

"The Rotting Vine infected body attacks individually, whereas the Starfish infected body's advantage lies in... group combat, so they can't be compared on the same level."

Cheng Ye mused as he opened the door, and Old Sun peeked nervously outside.

He noticed a dark shadow standing not far from his door, and his breath caught for a moment.

"Go back and hide, don't come out."

"You're that guy from the other day..." Old Sun was taken aback, recognized Cheng Ye's voice, and quickly nodded, closing the door.

That seemed normal.

The infection wave was upon them, not everyone could just rush outside.

Throughout the five floors of the building, no one dared open their doors to look outside, fearing they'd attract the infected bodies.

[This time... 0.07]

"It's already 1.15!"

Glancing at the information panel notification, Cheng Ye stopped overthinking and strode out of the apartment building into the torrential rain.

The heavy rain was the home field for water-type infected bodies.

But at the same time, it also cut off the spread of scent.

The four infected bodies gorging themselves on the ground were oblivious to someone approaching. Cheng Ye signaled, and Huang Sheng and Wu Zhihong instantly stepped forward, each handling two of them, raising their rifles for rapid fire resolution.

The muzzle flames spat.

The dozen infected bodies lingering at the doorway instantly locked onto the direction, roaring as they rushed inside.

Their speed was akin to adults jogging, which was quite frightening to observe.

"Meat, eat meat!"

"Meat... meat!"

The unconscious murmurs overlapped, like evil spirits crawling out of hell.

Zhu Xiang gripped his pistol tightly and nervously set down the containment box: "Captain..."

"Don't panic, stick to the plan!"

Before Cheng Ye finished speaking, he flipped open his raincoat abruptly, raising his arm and the Ranger rifle was already in his grasp.

Da, da da...

The sound of the rifle's burst was extraordinarily crisp and pleasing, the recoil from the shoulder reassuring.

The grizzly Starfish infected bodies convulsed and fell in the rainy night, and in Cheng Ye's eyes, each starfish seemed to have a 'Information++' prompt above their heads.

Awesome!

"No good, more infected bodies are coming."

The gunfire sounded like a beacon in the night, and in the electronics factory compound's four cylindrical buildings, the infected bodies initially wandering in the corridors seemed summoned, frantically charging down the stairs.

These monsters still retained a sliver of human instinct, at least enough not to get lost in the buildings.

"What do you mean bad, this is great!"

Cheng Ye licked the corner of his mouth, the rain and mist blurred his vision a bit, but couldn't obscure the burning excitement in his eyes.

However, at that moment, his Defense Communication suddenly buzzed urgently.

[Emergency broadcast, A-1, A-2, A-3, and A-4 have been presumed fallen, all personnel please evacuate!]

[Repeating, the above four zones have been presumed fallen, do not approach!]

[Firepower will soon cover, do not approach!]

"What?"

Cheng Ye's heart jolted, he immediately snapped the Defense Communication and clicked."

The 3D map showed the four reported zones, already turning from black to colorless and transparent.

Amid the various flickering lights on the map, it seemed a bit odd, as if the infection wave had already ended.

He instinctively clicked open the screen feed, freezing in place instantly.

In the footage transmitted back by drones, hundreds of Fusion Bodies had surged onto the Happiness High Wall, their massive tentacles extended from their bodies clinging tightly to the wall, madly climbing toward the top.

That's a 30-meter high wall, and these Fusion Bodies actually attempted to climb it?!

Moreover, the area in front of the high wall was crammed with countless infected bodies, at least thousands of them exhibiting fluid-spitting capability, the yellow liquid overshadowing the rain curtain, spraying against the high walls like water tankers, gradually corroding fist-sized holes.

As for the sentry towers in front of the high wall, they were already covered in slime, collapsing into twisted wrecks.

But none of this shocked Cheng Ye the most.

What caught his attention was a Fusion Body, about more than ten meters high, behind the infected bodies.

How to describe this thing?

It was as if dozens of ordinary infected bodies were stitched into one, its body covered in pentacle starfish-shaped growths, grotesquely twisted like a creature crawling out from a Cthulhu mythos.

"Is that the Stand-In Starfish?"

He glanced at the ordinary infected bodies stumbling out through the doorway, then back at the creatures on the screen.

Suddenly, Cheng Ye looked up sharply.

Buzz!

Rockets, sheathed in scarlet flames, soared from the Happiness Defense Line, tracing rainbow arcs through the inky rain.

They bypassed the horizon, skimmed over Zone B-7's sky, and plummeted directly toward the four zones in front of the Happiness High Wall.

Bang!

The transmitted image cut off abruptly, a fierce shockwave radiating wildly outward to the surroundings.

Even though the B-7 explosion center was several kilometers away, the sounds of glass shattering echoed sequentially.

Is that what transparent means?

"C-Captain!" Huang Sheng's voice suddenly arose, trembling as he spoke.

"What is it?"

"That, it seems like something's coming!"

Following the direction he pointed, Cheng Ye's hair stood on end.

Near the street, a shadow was swiftly skimming along the exterior of the building adjacent to the housing block.

The ominous tentacles dragging behind it, like a lion's mane exploded into tendrils, and a massive bulk far beyond the ordinary infected bodies.

It was one of those Fusion Bodies he saw clamoring over the high walls in the video!

"Quick, get inside the building!"

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