2026-08-23 12:28:12FWOOOSH!
The flaming torch thrown by Lieutenant Zhao landed directly on the pool of kerosene. The fire immediately surged into the night sky like a gigantic, ravenous dragon, devouring the entire area in front of the iron gate within seconds. The hysterical screams of dozens of people being burned alive shook the suffocating night air. "Shit! It's fucking hot!" Wu Chen shouted as the heat of the flames began singeing the tips of his hair. "B-Big Brother! The fire... it's getting closer!" Xiao Yu screamed in terror, trying to curl up against Wu Chen's legs. "There’s no other way! Xiao Yu, hold on tight! Jump!" Wu Chen shouted at the top of his lungs. Without thinking twice, Wu Chen swept Xiao Yu's small body into his arms and jumped into the filthy, foul-smelling sewage channel directly beneath the barrier gate. SPLASH! The two of them crashed into the thick, freezing black sewage. Fortunately, the depth of the filthy water was enough to cushion their fall while also shielding them from the massive flames raging above the ceiling of the sewer tunnel. Using the last of his strength, Wu Chen dragged himself and Xiao Yu onto a relatively dry ledge along the channel. The stench of human waste and chemical runoff from the city's factories was overwhelmingly strong here, making his chest feel painfully constricted. "Cough! Cough! Damn... this place fucking reeks," Wu Chen cursed, clutching his chest and injured left shoulder. "My body... my body..." Suddenly, Wu Chen's vision began spinning violently. A bone-chilling cold and the scorching heat of a high fever attacked his head simultaneously. The zombie slash on his left shoulder had now swollen to a bluish-purple color, releasing a powerful stench of infection. The remaining toxins and infection from the monster's claws had rapidly spread throughout his bloodstream. "B-Big Brother... you're so pale! Big Brother... wake up..." Xiao Yu's worried voice sounded increasingly distant in his ears. Wu Chen finally lost consciousness completely. He collapsed onto the cold, moss-covered stone floor of the sewer. Within the darkness of his sleep, Wu Chen's mind was suddenly pulled into a dimension of memories that did not belong to him. The deepest remnants of Li Jian Nan's memories began spinning like an old film reel. Inside a small, stifling room hidden in a corner of the Tingzhou Imperial Palace, a beautiful woman wearing a worn and dirty white silk robe was coughing up black blood. Consort Lan, Li Jian Nan's biological mother. "Jian Nan... my child... listen to Mother..." the woman sobbed as she stroked the head of the trembling young boy beside her. "Mother... don't cry... Jian Nan is scared..." the child's hoarse voice trembled through his sobs. "King Wuji... he's a demon, Jian Nan. He destroyed the meridians of all his consorts to test his own immortality pill formulas... Mother... Mother doesn't have much longer." Consort Lan coughed again, fresh black blood trickling from the corner of her lips. With her thin, trembling hands, Consort Lan hid a small silk scroll containing the formula for an antidote beneath the inner layer of the little robe Li Jian Nan was wearing. "Remember this formula, my child... this is the only way to cleanse the poison from your meridians... Don't let anyone in the palace know... Run, Jian Nan! You must survive..." Those were Consort Lan's final words before the palace guards broke down the door and dragged her body away to be discarded. "MOTHERRR! DON'T LEAVE JIAN NAN!" the young boy screamed hysterically. An overwhelming sensation of grief, the pain of loss, and burning rage suddenly fused into Jian Wu Chen's soul. As a former triad boss who had also grown up on the streets without parents, he could clearly feel the raw suffering of the body's original owner. A surge of fury suddenly exploded inside his chest. "King Wuji... you're one fucking bastard of a monster," Wu Chen hissed in his sleep, his teeth grinding as he struggled to contain his surging rage. "You killed your own mother... You destroyed the life of an innocent child... all for your fucking insane ambition?!" [SYSTEM WARNING: TOXIC INFECTION RATE: 82%.] [MERIDIAN ROOTS DECAY IN PROGRESS.] [WARNING: HOST MUST FIND PURIFICATION INGREDIENTS OR HIGH-GRADE ANTIDOTE WITHIN 3 HOURS.] [IF PROTOCOL FAILS, MERIDIAN WILL ROT PERMANENTLY, CAUSING IMMEDIATE DEATH.] "Three hours?" Wu Chen rasped within his subconscious. "Fuck! Where am I supposed to find Consort Lan's formula or an antidote in a filthy sewer like this?!" "Big Brother! Wake up! Please wake up, Big Brother... I'm scared..." A rough shake against his cheek suddenly forced Wu Chen's eyes open. He gasped for breath, cold sweat covering his mud-streaked face. "Xiao Yu... you're so damn noisy, kid," Wu Chen rasped, trying to move his body, which felt unbearably stiff and scorching from the high fever. "Big Brother! Thank goodness you're awake!" Xiao Yu burst into tears when she saw Wu Chen's eyes open. "You were unconscious for almost an hour... I was so scared..." "I'm... fine," Wu Chen lied, trying to sit up against the damp sewer wall. He glanced ahead and immediately froze. "Shit... what's that up ahead?" The sewer channel ahead of them, shrouded in pitch darkness, was completely blocked by dozens of rotting human corpses piled on top of one another. But what was even more horrifying was that the bodies had begun twitching violently. One by one, they started crawling to their feet, their eyes glowing red as they gleamed through the darkness of the sewer. "Krrgghhh... huuungry..." The growls of dozens of awakened zombies echoed off the stone walls of the sewer. "Big Brother... it's a dead end... we can't get through..." Xiao Yu whispered in terror, clutching Wu Chen's robe tightly. Woof! Woof! Woof! Suddenly, from behind them, down the sewer tunnel they had come through, the vicious barking of military tracking dogs rang out, followed by splashing water as a squad of soldiers stormed toward them. "Shit... military tracking dogs," Wu Chen muttered, his eyes narrowing as he stared into the darkness. "Zombies ahead, Lieutenant Zhao's soldiers and their dogs behind... what a perfect place to die."
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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
Ch 78. The Collapse of the Devil's Nest
“Shoot him! Blow his head off now!” Dr. Xue roared in panic, pointing straight at Wu Chen. The scientist’s arrogant composure shattered the instant he saw the flash of vertical red pupils in the young man’s eyes.A dozen elite laboratory soldiers immediately raised their straight-barreled rifles. The muzzles glowed with blinding light as they gathered scorching meridian energy, ready to unleash it.But before their fingers could even pull the triggers, Wu Chen had already vanished from sight.“Too late, bastards,” a voice as cold as ice whispered directly beside the lead soldier’s ear.The mutative effects of the Prototype Serum coursing through his veins had given him an agility beyond reason. Wu Chen shot forward like a demonic shadow unleashed from hell. The soot-covered dagger in his hand flashed through the air.SRAAAT!The throats of two elite soldiers were sliced open in a single, flawlessly curved strike. Blood sprayed across the glass archive shelves. They did not even realiz
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