Chapter 382 - Fight Under Red Dragon River! (1/2)

“I guessed right! This is Gao Ye’s target!”

Time was pressing, so while heading to the working surface, Meng Chao called Ye Xiaoxing.

But the interference was very bad. Besides, he could hear deafening explosions from Ye Xiaoxing’s side. Meng Chao shouted for a long time into his wrist communicator, but he did not know whether Ye Xiaoxing heard him.

He could only send the highest alert to Ye Xiaoxing, which symbolized that he had discovered the target. Then, he jumped into the construction site by the river with Lu Siya.

Since the current was rapid, the tunnel was dug deep under the river. They needed to fall for dozens of meters before they landed on the ground.

When they looked into the tunnel, it was dark, and they could not see anything. There was only a red glimmer in the distance.

The engineers who escaped told Meng Chao that due to the rat hordes biting the cables, all of them were severed. They could only use the emergency lighting system powered by crystals.

At that moment, the workers and experts who were controlling the equipment and biochemical beasts to minimize losses noticed that more water was seeping in. They had to abandon everything and run with their hands wrapped around their heads.

Meng Chao and Lu Siya poured spirit energy into their eyes, and it looked as if they had equipped rings of shining light around their pupils. By stimulating their optical cells, they could possess hawk-like vision in the darkness.

“Run! This place might collapse at any moment, and the water will charge in!”

Meng Chao and Lu Siya grabbed the workers who ran over and tossed them to the Red Dragon Army soldiers, who followed them closely, and sent them safely to the surface.

They then asked the Red Dragon Army to set up crystal bombs at the spot where the tunnel under the river connected to the underground tunnel.

If the tunnel under the river really collapsed, they had to explode the construction area to prevent the rampaging water from flooding the fully constructed tunnels that were connected to Subway No.20, because those tunnels were also connected to subways.

But detonations like these required precise calculations and holes for detonation at precise places. They needed at least ten minutes to prepare it.

Until then, Meng Chao and Lu Siya had tol halt Gao Ye’s destruction.

The further they went into the tunnel, the stuffier and more humid the air became. They could hear dripping and cracking everywhere. Countless intersecting cracks were appearing on the walls of the tunnel.

At some unknown point in time, the water had flooded the dry surface, and it went over their ankles.

A red light swayed ahead of them. A few workers staggered over from the dark.

Meng Chao grabbed those workers and shouted, “Run!”

But as a Spirit Sensor, Lu Siya noticed that something was off. “Careful!” she shouted out.

At the same time, she activated her ability. Spirit tattoos shone around her eyes, as if she had put on dazzling eyeshadow.

A few spikes formed of rocks shot out from under Meng Chao’s feet and went toward the workers.

The workers were like puppets with ruined joints. They moved in strange ways and avoided the spikes, though barely.

At that point, they also revealed faces that were green, swollen and covered in red lines.

“Zombies?!”

Meng Chao shuddered and immediately understood what had happened. They were deep in a tunnel under a river. It was the best place for a rat horde to attack.

Even though it was winter on the surface, the underground tunnel was humid and hot. Many workers did not obey the standards of operation fully and did not wear their protective clothing properly.

As long as the rats scratched or bit their exposed skin, their tragic fates were set.

Meng Chao sighed. His legs instantly turned into whirlwinds, and he kicked the zombified workers away from him. They flew away like cannonballs.

He used a lot of strength, and all of them were reduced to a bloody mess against the walls of the tunnel. Their bones were broken.

With their spines crushed, it should have been impossible for them to get up. But strange sounds of bones protruding and flesh squirming came from where they fell. Then, as if they were controlled with a string by demons, they stood up again with crooked bodies.

There were a few workers who could not get up, so they decided to go on all fours, just like human spiders. Their heads spun 180 degrees, and they stared at Meng Chao and Lu Siya with bloodshot eyes.

Red threads gushed out of their wounds. They were like hungry tentacles that stretched out toward Meng Chao and Lu Siya.

“Blood Flower!” Meng Chao hissed.

He knew it. The abnormal beasts were indeed in control of a technology that allowed them to fuse the zombie virus, rabies virus, and pseudo fungus creature—Blood Flower—together.

They managed to turn humans into existences more terrifying than monsters.

Lu Siya sighed and snapped her fingers lightly. She turned the sturdy reinforced concrete under the zombies’ feet into loose, flowing sand, and their limbs sunk into it,

Then, she changed the electron shell and molecular structure of the flowing sand, turning it back to reinforced concrete, thus pinning the zombies firmly to the ground.

The zombies yanked at their limbs with everything they had. Rage appeared on their deformed, swollen faces. Even if they tore their joints and flesh, they insisted on yanking out their severed limbs.

Meng Chao could not watch it any longer. He pulled out his gun and fired repeatedly to end these innocent victims’ lives.