Chapter 379 - Double Hit (1/2)

Meng Chao remembered that after he failed the national college examination in his previous life, zombie viruses also gradually came back from the ashes.

In truth, the zombie crisis had happened around fifty years ago. The survivors had long since formed an immunity to all sorts of viruses, and it had been a long time since they heard of zombies appearing at a large scale.

Sometimes, zombies would appear like Granny Wang. They were people badly injured by monsters, so their lives would come to an end. Thus, their corpses would slowly turn into another lifeform.

But Meng Chao remembered very clearly that during the middle and later stage of the Monster War, Dragon City encountered a zombie crisis once every few days.

It seemed like as the monsters became stronger, the power of the zombie viruses also increased.

The new zombie viruses would not only pass to humans through pests, it would also go through the circulatory system to reach the central nervous system and brain tissue through a few cuts. They did not even need the human to be completely dead to activate.

In just a short half a minute, a living human would turn into a super zombie of any strange shape or form and catch people off guard.

Some zombies could shoot fire or acid. Some zombies could crawl on walls and had terrifying mobility. Some zombies could self-destruct like large biochemical bombs that released poisonous liquid with a bang and sent it more than one hundred meters away.

Strictly speaking, the infected could not be known as zombies, because compared to traditional zombies turned from the dead, their mutation happened really quickly. It was clear that a lot of people were still alive too, but their bodies were invaded by the terrifying virus and controlled.

Perhaps it would be better to call them mutants.

But that was not the point.

The point was that Meng Chao remembered that whenever super zombies appeared, they were just appetizers. Usually, after the zombies wreaked havoc in the streets, ridiculously horrifying monsters would appear in the battlefield and deal a huge blow to Dragon City.

In his previous life, Meng Chao was ignorant and could not understand why the zombies and monsters would appear together each time.

In this life, he had a lot more information from the higher ups, and he instantly saw light, as if someone had lit a light bulb in his head.

‘That’s right. After more than fifty years of sifting out the weak, Dragon Citizens have natural antibodies toward zombie viruses. Even if the virus really activated, the people would just slowly turn into traditional zombies with rotten bodies, staggering steps, and not an ounce of fighting power, just terrifying howls.

Yet the ridiculously powerful super zombie virus reacted fast, was highly contagious after its mutation, and gave the infected great fighting powers. It had to be a biochemical weapon created by the abnormal beasts.

‘Based on the analysis from Dragon City’s experts, the dimensions of Dragon City and the Other World are slowly fusing together. The fog shrouding the entire city and large scale monster invasions are growing lower in number, so it’s difficult for the abnormal beasts to run into a large-scale space-time rift to toss a large amount of fighting power into Dragon City.

‘Then, the pests with the super zombie virus are the vanguards for the abnormal beasts.

‘But zombies alone can’t defeat humans.

‘Still, they can destroy the order in Dragon City and make the humans mobilize their firepower. They can also exhaust the superhumans while helping the abnormal beasts hide their real plans!’

When Meng Chao thought of this, he shuddered and quickly grabbed the communicator.

“Captain Ye, our attention should still be on the abnormal beasts. I think that the rat horde and zombies are just the prelude. They’re just the cover-up to confuse us. The enemy’s real attack should come behind them!”

It was very noisy around Ye Xiaoxing. From the other end of the communicator, Meng Chao could hear the howls of zombies, angry shouts from humans, and the rise and fall of guns.

After a long while, Ye Xiaoxing asked, “Why do you say so?”

“The abnormal beasts have not planned anything major over the past few months. If they don’t act now, are they supposed to just watch us yank them out of their nests?

“No matter how strong the new zombies are, they’re just zombies. They definitely can’t win against the iron fists from the brave Dragon Citizens. This is something we know clearly, and the abnormal beasts definitely know it even better. They won’t wait around foolishly and let the rat hordes and zombies be entertainment for us.

“Don’t forget that Gao Ye is still around. If he eats up the foundation of some skyscraper while we’re all busy suppressing the zombies, that skyscraper is going to collapse, and he will cause damage that is greater than anything a hundred zombies could do.”

Ye Xiaoxing was silent for a while before he readily agreed with Meng Chao’s judgment. “Makes sense.”

Meng Chao might be young, but he was an off-staff investigator of the abnormal beast research department.

Due to the insightful nature of the reports he had been submitting and his foresight, the abnormal beast research department had been able to come up with some plans and regulations. At the same time they managed to rack up their achievements, they also prevented a lot of deaths.

During the battle simulations of Group 9, Meng Chao would often pretend to be the enemy and launch all sorts of extreme attacks. He would resort to every conceivable means to attack Dragon City.

Even the official investigators who were several cultivation realms higher than he would usually lose miserably to his invasion tactics and crazy methods of destruction. They could only smile wanly and say, “Meng Chao, thank goodness you’re not an abnormal beast.”

Gradually, Meng Chao became quite famous in the abnormal beast research department.

The members of Group 9 also treated him as an abnormal beast in human skin instead of a normal university student. They trusted him a lot.

Ye Xiaoxing immediately summoned the Group 9 investigators who were scattered all over the southern part of the city and organized an emergency video conference.

“The Red Dragon Army is in position. Most of the communities have been completely fortified. It’s just a matter of time before we get rid of the zombies. Our problem is still the abnormal beasts,” Ye Xiaoxing said.

“Right now, there’s chaos all over the south of the city. The abnormal beasts might use the chaos to invade the vital areas. I’ve already reminded the higher-ups to send manpower to protect the important facilities in the southern part of the city, but our mission is still to catch Gao Ye.