2026-08-23 12:26:06Whoosh!
The rusty sword sliced through the night air at an impossible speed. Wu Chen barely managed to pull his head back a few milliseconds before the iron blade slammed into the stone pillar beside him, shattering it into pieces. "Fuck! That's fast!" Wu Chen shouted instinctively, his eyes widening as he stared at the fragments of stone flying before him. "Big brother! Watch out!" Xiao Yu screamed from behind him in terror. "Back off, Xiao Yu! Find somewhere to hide behind that pile of wood! Don't come out until I tell you!" Wu Chen ordered loudly, pushing the small girl toward a corner of the alley covered by rubble. The cultivator zombie twisted its body in jerky movements. Although the Meridian Plague had completely destroyed its sanity, the muscles in its body still remembered the fundamentals of Awakening-stage combat techniques. It raised its sword again, a thin, unstable red aura radiating from the blade. "Krrrggghhh..." The creature growled as it prepared for another rapid assault. "Shit... if I fight this thing head-on, one slash will be enough to split this useless body in half," Wu Chen muttered, his mind racing desperately for a way out. "The system completely locked my meridians. Damn it! Think, Wu Chen! Think!" Wu Chen's eyes swept across the narrow passage behind him. There, the remains of the tea shop's collapsed roof had left behind a massive wooden beam with a sharpened end, hanging at an angle and suspended by a network of rotten ropes used to secure merchant goods. "Rope... sharpened beam... okay, I can use this," Wu Chen whispered, a cunning smile slowly forming on his pale lips, the familiar expression of a mafia boss. "Come on, flat-face! Fight me if you've got the guts!" Wu Chen deliberately waved his hand provocatively before staggering into the narrow passage filled with wooden debris. "KRAAAAA!" The cultivator zombie roared furiously and immediately shot after Wu Chen with its sword swinging. The zombie's speed far exceeded the physical coordination of Li Jian Nan's body. Within seconds, the creature's massive shadow was already directly above Wu Chen's head. "Shit! I really can't match its speed!" Wu Chen screamed internally. "If I keep dodging, that sword is going to split my back open from behind!" Wu Chen made the most extreme decision of his life. Rather than allow the sword to slice through a vital organ, he chose to sacrifice a less immediately lethal part of his body to lock down his opponent's movement. He spun around to face the zombie, deliberately presenting his already wounded left shoulder as the target. SLASH! "ARRRGGGHHH! You bastard! That fucking hurts!" Wu Chen screamed hysterically, the tremendous pain tearing through his consciousness until he nearly collapsed to his knees. The rusty blade sank deep into his left shoulder, cutting through muscle before striking his shoulder blade. But the depth of the wound caused the zombie's sword to become lodged between the crushed bone and flesh of his shoulder. "Big brother! You're bleeding so much!" Xiao Yu screamed hysterically from her hiding place. "Stay there, Xiao Yu! Don't come here!" Wu Chen barked with what remained of his hoarse voice. The cultivator zombie tried to violently pull its sword free, but Wu Chen acted faster. Ignoring the pain that suddenly turned his vision white, he grabbed the zombie's wrist tightly with his right hand, locking it in place so it could not pull away. "I've got you, bastard!" Wu Chen hissed, immediately spitting fresh blood directly into the zombie's face. "You think you're the only one who can play dirty, huh?!" With his left hand, which he could still move slightly, Wu Chen reached for the end of the rotten rope holding the massive wooden beam suspended above their heads. "Have a taste of mafia tactics!" Wu Chen roared at the top of his lungs. He yanked the rope with all his strength until it snapped. KREEEKKK... BOOM! The massive wooden beam, its broken end sharpened into a deadly point, immediately came crashing down at tremendous speed. THUD! The human-sized wooden beam slammed through the cultivator zombie's chest and burst out through its back, pinning the massive creature directly to the dirt floor of the alley. The force of the impact was so great that the zombie was forced to release its grip on the sword. "Krrr... gghhh..." The zombie convulsed violently against the muddy ground, its glowing red eyes flickering erratically. Wu Chen collapsed into a sitting position beside it. With one brutal yank, he pulled the rusty sword still embedded in his left shoulder free. "Arghhh! Fuck!" he cursed, throwing the sword onto the ground. Fresh blood poured from the wound, soaking his clothes. "Hah... hah... damn... you're dead now, aren't you?" Xiao Yu ran out from behind the rubble in tears and immediately wrapped her arms around Wu Chen's waist. "Big brother! Your shoulder... your shoulder is torn wide open! There's so much blood... h-hic..." "I'm... fine, kid," Wu Chen whispered hoarsely, trying to force a faint smile despite his face having gone as white as paper. "I told you... brains can always beat brute strength." However, their victory did not last long. Just before the Awakening-level zombie completely lost the last of its life force, its glowing red eyes suddenly flashed with blinding intensity. Its shattered mouth opened as wide as it could, revealing a throat filled with black mucus. "B-big brother... what is it doing?" Xiao Yu asked fearfully. "Shit... don't tell me it's going to..." KRAAAAAAAASSHHH! The cultivator zombie unleashed an extremely high-pitched roar. The deafening scream vibrated so violently that it shattered the remaining window glass in the buildings surrounding the alley. The cry sounded like the desperate screams of thousands of tormented souls, echoing throughout the entire Common's District. Whoosh... The roar finally stopped as the zombie's head drooped limply, its life extinguished completely. But the echo did not die with it. From the distance, deep within the darkness of the silent, filthy alleys of the Common's District, came the answering growls of countless creatures. One... two... ten... Then hundreds of hungry growls began answering the death call. "Fuck... it called its friends," Wu Chen whispered, staring blankly into the darkness of the alley as glowing red silhouettes began filling the shadows, moving rapidly toward them.
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Ch 84. The Undead King
The sight was enough to freeze the blood of anyone on the battlefield who still possessed a shred of sanity.Through the billowing dust and smoke left behind by the earlier explosion, Wei Kang strode forward with absolute arrogance. The First Mutant was no ordinary oversized zombie. He was the apocalypse given breath and flesh.Standing over five meters tall, he towered above the battlefield, blocking out the light of dawn. His entire body was covered in swollen, necrotic muscles as hard as solid steel, while clusters of dark purple meridian spikes protruded from his flesh, pulsing continuously as they radiated a poisonous aura.Every time his massive feet struck the ground, the earth before the South Gate of the Core City shook violently."Dear God... What kind of monster is that?" San whispered, his knees trembling so violently that he nearly dropped his machete. "Boss, that's no ordinary mutant! It's as tall as the gate walls!""Shut up, San! Keep a firm grip on your weapon!" Wu Ch
Ch 83. The Last Shield Wall
The blood-red dawn illuminated the endless sea of death stretching across Lantern Sector. Beneath the shadow of the Inner City's colossal steel Southern Gate, thousands of regular Tingzhao soldiers stood shoulder to shoulder in a tight phalanx formation. Together, they formed a massive wall of interlocking steel shields, with thousands of long spears jutting outward like a deadly forest of thorns.Atop an emergency command tower assembled from wooden beams and stone in the center of the formation, General Han Rui stood rigidly in his black armor, already soaked with dew and blood. His sharp eyes caught sight of the ragged troops emerging from the drainage trench on the left flank.The general gave Wu Chen a stiff nod. A silent acknowledgment of their tactical alliance.“We take the left flank!” Wu Chen roared, driving his wooden cane into the mud. “That area has the thinnest defenses! If the left flank breaks, Han Rui's shield formation will be rolled up from the side!”“Understood, B
Ch 82. The War Drums of Lantern Sector
Filthy dust rained down from the stone ceiling of the water prison, settling on the shoulders of refugees huddled together in terror.Thud. Thud. Thud.The sound was no ordinary earthquake. It was the synchronized march of tens of thousands of living dead advancing across the surface of Lantern Sector, directly above their heads. The vibrations were so powerful that puddles on the stone floor rippled violently, while the walls of the water prison groaned as though they were about to collapse.“An apocalypse... This is a goddamn apocalypse!” one of the clan's young men wailed, clutching his trembling head. “There’s no end to those monsters! The ceiling could cave in at any moment!”“Doctor, what are we supposed to do?! My baby won’t stop crying because of that noise!” a woman screamed, clutching her infant with a deathly pale face.Mass panic began spreading like a deadly poison throughout the underground stronghold. A dozen clan loyalists who had been standing at attention moments ear
Ch 81. The Giant Shadow Behind the Fog
The night sky above the Lantern Sector looked as though it were bleeding. Fiery red and sickly green light from the exploding lantern oil facility billowed high into the sky, driving back the thick storm clouds and casting a flickering glow across the muddy pools below.The tremors from the explosion had not yet fully subsided. The air still vibrated with residual force. But amid the swirling dust, an incredibly deep and deafening roar tore through the silence of the night.HRAAAAAAAAARRRGGGHHHH!The sound was nothing like a human or an ordinary zombie.Its frequency was ancient, savage, and filled with such overwhelming dominance that it seemed capable of paralyzing reason itself.Wu Chen, who had only just dragged himself out of the muddy lake, froze where he stood. His dragon cane slipped from his hand. His left hand clutched his chest, which was covered by mutated leather armor. His heart pounded wildly, sending sharp waves of pain through him as the remnants of the Primordial Ser
Ch 80. The Birth of the Monster King
“Cough! Cough! Gahk!”Murky lake water mixed with thick mud surged from Wu Chen’s throat. The former mafia king crawled with great difficulty through the icy shallows toward the shore. His trembling fingers clawed into the roots of dead mangrove trees, dragging his battered body out of the filthy water.His breathing came in harsh, ragged gasps, painfully loud in the middle of the night. His left leg, still stiff from the lingering paralysis, dragged helplessly through the mud.Behind him, Jiao, San, and three other clan loyalists crawled onto dry land. They coughed violently, vomiting up lake water and the remnants of the acidic gas they had inhaled. Their clothes were torn to shreds, their bodies covered in horrific burns and bruises.But they had made it out alive.“Boss... we made it, Boss,” Jiao groaned, collapsing onto his back in the wild grass, his chest heaving. Tears of relief streamed down his soot-streaked face. “We really made it out of hell.”Wu Chen did not answer. With
Ch 79. Escaping Through the Eye of a Needle
“Everyone, run for the drainage chute!”Wu Chen’s roar thundered through the facility, tearing through the shrill decompression alarms screaming throughout the steel corridors.The floor beneath their boots shook violently, as if struck by a tectonic earthquake. The reactor engines in the chamber behind them, already beginning to overload, sounded like metal being ripped apart by invisible blades. Blood-red emergency lights flashed aggressively, illuminating the absolute panic that had seized the hellish facility.Jiao, San, and the remaining clan loyalists stationed at the intersection immediately ran after Wu Chen. Their faces were deathly pale, covered in cold sweat and soot.“Boss! Is the reactor really about to blow?!” Jiao shouted between ragged breaths as he ran alongside Wu Chen.“We’ve got less than a minute before this place turns into an ash crater! Keep running. Nobody stops to catch their breath!” Wu Chen roared.The left side of his chest, now covered in mutated black ar
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