2026-08-23 12:26:49Krrrggghhh... KRAAAAA!
The chorus of hungry growls drew closer, echoing from every corner of the narrow alleys in the Common’s District. The muddy ground of Tingzhou seemed to tremble as hundreds of black silhouettes with glowing red eyes began moving rapidly, pouring out of shabby houses and dark passageways toward them. "We don't have time to rest! Run, Xiao Yu!" Wu Chen shouted, immediately yanking the little girl's hand. "B-big brother! But your shoulder... you're bleeding even more!" Xiao Yu cried in panic, staring in horror at Wu Chen's robe, which was now soaked with fresh blood and rainwater. "Shut up! As long as my heart is still beating, I'm not dying in this dump!" Wu Chen barked, ignoring the stabbing pain that seemed to tear through his left shoulder with every step. "Run!" They shot through the maze of filthy alleys, which were rapidly filling with thick smoke. In the distance, flames began rising high into the night sky. The kerosene torches dropped by the panicked military troops had set rows of dry wooden houses ablaze, turning the Common's District into a blazing sea of red fire. "B-big brother! Something's coming!" Xiao Yu shrieked, pointing toward the bend ahead. A zombie with a torn-open jaw suddenly emerged from the smoky shadows, lunging straight toward them with its claws extended. "Get the fuck away from us!" Wu Chen shouted. Although his hands were trembling violently and his vision was narrowing further because of the system penalty, Wu Chen's combat instincts remained razor-sharp. He swung the remaining piece of sharpened metal in his right hand in a swift motion. Stab! The metal tip pierced through the zombie's throat and emerged from the back of its neck. Wu Chen kicked the creature in the chest to free his weapon, then immediately grabbed Xiao Yu and resumed running. "Hah... hah... shit! Which way now?!" Wu Chen cursed, his breaths short and scorching. His vision was completely screwed. The thick gray ring around the edges of his sight continued expanding, leaving him with an extremely narrow and blurry field of vision. The path ahead seemed to sway and multiply before his eyes. "Right, big brother! Through that collapsed roof! There's a shortcut to the gate!" Xiao Yu shouted, trying to guide Wu Chen as his steps began to stagger. "Okay! You go ahead and lead! I'll follow behind!" Wu Chen replied hoarsely. They crawled quickly beneath the burning wooden beams of the collapsed structure. The air around them was unbearably hot and suffocating from the thick black smoke. Behind them, the footsteps of hundreds of zombies running across the muddy ground drew closer, now less than thirty meters away. "KRAAAAA!" The roar of the zombie horde was so close that the hairs on Wu Chen's body stood on end. As they finally emerged from beneath the collapsed structure, Wu Chen's legs suddenly gave out. He stumbled over a pile of bricks and crashed face-first into the mud, his wounded shoulder slamming against a stone. "AAAGH! Fuck!" Wu Chen screamed, enduring an excruciating wave of pain that nearly knocked him unconscious. "Big brother!" Xiao Yu immediately turned around and tried to pull Wu Chen's right arm with what little strength her small body possessed. "Come on, get up! They're already so close!" Wu Chen stared at Xiao Yu through his blurred vision. Amid the panic and agonizing pain, a cold and ruthless thought suddenly crossed the mind of the mafia boss. Leave the kid behind, Wu Chen. Without dead weight, you'll be able to run faster. In your old world, you never hesitated to sacrifice other people for your own survival. Why should you bother saving a little girl who's completely useless to you? Wu Chen stared at Xiao Yu's tiny hand still gripping his arm tightly, trembling with fear yet refusing to let go. "Xiao Yu..." Wu Chen's voice sounded cold. The little girl looked into his eyes. As though she could see the hesitation and cruelty flickering in the young man's gaze, tears once again streamed down Xiao Yu's muddy face. "B-big brother... don't leave me... p-please... I promise I won't make any noise..." Xiao Yu sobbed, her entire body trembling as the zombies' roars grew closer at the end of the alley. Wu Chen looked toward the end of the alley behind them. The silhouettes of hundreds of red-eyed zombies had begun appearing through the curtain of black smoke. "Fuck," Wu Chen cursed at himself. "Is the most feared triad boss in Shenzing really going to kneel just because of some orphan kid's tears? Damn it! This is seriously ruining my reputation!" With a violent jerk, Wu Chen forced his battered body upright. He grabbed Xiao Yu's hand tightly. "Shut up! Stop crying! Follow me if you still want to live!" Wu Chen barked, breaking into a run again with the last of his strength. "Y-yes, big brother!" Xiao Yu replied, quickly wiping away her tears as she struggled to keep pace with her short legs. The two of them ran as fast as they could through the final alley leading directly to the district's boundary square. Ahead of them, the five-meter-tall iron gate separating the impoverished People's District from the magnificent Merchant District finally came into view through the smoke and fog. "Big brother! The gate! I can see the gate!" Xiao Yu cried, hope shining in her eyes. But that hope was shattered in an instant. From behind the iron bars of the massive gate came the sounds of whinnying horses and panicked shouts from the royal soldiers. Several fully armed soldiers on horseback were pushing back a crowd of refugees from the Common's District who were desperately trying to force their way inside. "Close the gate! Close it right now!" a mid-ranking officer shouted from horseback in a panic. "Don't let those plague-carrying rats from the Common's District cross over! Lock the gate!" "Wait! Please, help us! Open the gate!" dozens of trapped civilians from the Common's District screamed, pounding desperately on the iron bars. CLANGGG! CLANGGG! The sound of massive iron chains being pulled rang out sharply. The enormous iron gate slowly closed, sealing off the only safe route out of the Common's District. The mounted soldiers on the other side immediately secured the locking bars from within. "Hey! Open the fucking gate!" Wu Chen shouted at the top of his lungs, but his voice was swallowed by the hysterical screams of dozens of civilians. Behind them, hundreds of hungry zombies had begun flooding into the gate square, ready to slaughter anyone trapped inside the dead end. Wu Chen and Xiao Yu were now truly trapped, caught between a tightly locked iron gate and a horde of hundreds of flesh-eating monsters.
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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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