Chapter 298 - Corpse City 4 (1/2)
Chapter 298 - Corpse City (4)
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The fat corpse was still changing.
The speed at which it was eating had slowed down, and was different from the speed at which it moved through the clouds like a tornado. Now, it would 'swallow' an ordinary living corpse almost every minute. It was obvious that the energy in his body had already reached its saturation point, and would naturally be excreted after he ate his fill. However, the excrement of this strange living corpse was not feces.
At the foot of the mountain, waves of flesh rolled up, followed by a strange organ. It resembled a woman's lower body, and as a gully formed, it opened up to either side, followed by a ball of flesh spraying out of the draining organ.
The ball of flesh rolled out three meters. It wasn't big, and its diameter wasn't even half a meter. But soon, something bulged out from the ball of meat. They were like sarcomas parasitized on balls, but they kept lengthening, forming limbs, bodies, and heads. A moment later, a skinny body with a big belly shook the juice off its body and slowly propped up its corpse on the track.
This kind of living corpse was very familiar to everyone on the rooftop. It was the bomb corpses that were set up to target people with abilities!
After the first bomb corpse was formed, more flesh balls were discharged from the lower organs of the fat corpse. Ten minutes later, there were more than thirty bomb corpses on the track. They quickly took shape, and regardless of appearance or weight, there was not the slightest difference. It was as if they were biological weapons created with precise equipment.
After these bomb corpses were produced, the production of the fat corpse would still end. That strange organ suddenly opened up and shot out ten odd corpse beasts. These corpse beasts were the size of a hound, and their bodies were rotten. They looked like wolves, but their heads were very big, which was about the same as their bodies. After this type of corpse beast was created, it was as if they had received an order a long time ago, and when their four limbs moved like the wind, they leapt onto the high wall at the edge of the track and crouched down like wolves.
However, they were not simply squatting down. When the monsters had fixed their bodies, apart from their heads, the rest of their bodies suddenly melted. The flesh was connected, and in the end they were all alike. The liquid even dripped onto the wall and stuck the corpse beast tightly together with the wall. The corpse beast opened its mouth wide, its eyes quickly turned into the shape of a stone statue.
However, their active biological energy inside told the few of them that these things were not dead.
More and more corpse beasts were born. They rushed to the highest point of the academy city, inside and out, and quickly solidified into a strange beast statue. But from the position they occupied, it seemed more like a predetermined cannon emplacement.
They didn't have the time to discuss the use of these things, as new corpse beasts were produced by the fat corpses. It was still the same type of crawling beast, but the new corpse beast was a bit special. It had the appearance of a corpse of a wild beast, complete with insect limbs, and a human head attached to its neck. This slippery bald head had eyes that looked down, and a chin that made people feel uncomfortable.
After this strange corpse beast was born, it didn't move at all. Instead, it directly grabbed the nearby living corpses and started to eat them. When they finished their first meal, the back of the corpse beast cracked open, and dozens of intestines floated out from its body. No one knew what kind of effect they had.
The number of these corpse beasts was very few, only around five. As soon as they grew intestines on their backs, they suddenly dispersed and hid themselves in the darkness of buildings.
At this moment, the fat corpse trembled all over, and a few pupae were discharged from its production organs. These pupa were wrapped in a thin layer of skin, and from within the skin, one could vaguely see that within the pupa was a curled up human shadow. The fact was the same. When the person in the cocoon reached out to tear apart the film of flesh, a naked human appeared on the empty track along with the green-yellow nutrition liquid.
On the surface, these people looked no different from ordinary people. However, their chests didn't move, which meant that they didn't need to breathe. In other words, no matter how human-like they were, they still couldn't escape the definition of living corpses. It was just that they were much cleaner than normal living corpses, but under Agatha's observation, the energy levels of these living corpses were extremely low, and they were no different from normal living corpses. That was to say, these living corpses didn't have much fighting power.
So, what are the reasons they were created?
Like the corpse beasts in front, these human corpses were also very rare, only around four people. After they tore apart the pupa, they arrived at the fat corpse's side. The fat corpses roared at them, and as if they had received an order, they nodded like humans. Then they turned and let out a few short howls at the bomb carcass.
The bomb corpses seemed to listen to the four human corpses, even those who could sense the danger. The bomb corpses ran like a pack of hounds towards the exit of the track. Right behind them were the four living corpses.
After the living corpses left, the fat corpses started to eat again. But this time, after it had eaten the five hundred ordinary living corpses, it did not have any production actions. It was as if it had consumed a lot of energy to produce the four types of living corpses previously, and could not concoct new ones for a short period of time.
Lingyi silently retreated from the rooftop and came to the floor below. It was a teaching building, and they were currently in a classroom. The classroom was mostly destroyed, but there was still less than half of it intact. A few blocks of boulders were stacked together to support their weight. They fixed the other half of the boulders and steel bars to make room for the rest of the group to rest.
A few fluorescent rods were folded over each other and placed quietly in the middle of the crowd. The dim yellow light illuminated the area within ten meters, but most of the area had already been blended into the darkness. Zero took another nutrient and slowly ate it, converting it into energy for combat.
The rest of them were doing similar things, and they had been active for nearly ten hours, from the time they'd left Remete until now. Even those with the ability Zero were feeling tired, let alone the servants in Agatha.
Three of the servants were assigned to be on guard, while the rest of the servants fell to the ground and slept soundly. But they didn't have much time to sleep, just ten minutes each. When the time came, they had to wake up and take turns being vigilant.
The servants could sleep, but the rest of them couldn't. After he finished the nutrients silently, he drank a drop of water coagulant. As the drop fell into his stomach, his dry lips became moist again. His gaze swept across the other people's faces. Seeing that everyone was almost done eating, he said, ”That thing must be destroyed. Now!”
By the time he left the rooftop and reached the classroom, Zero had already reported to Avenot what he had seen in the university city through his communicator. Clearly, the meat mountain-like fat corpse was a moving weapon factory, while the normal living corpses were the materials and energy source. And of the four types of living corpses, he had already seen the first bomb. The second type of carcass should be the biological cannon. The next type should not be used for human heads or beast bodies. As for the last type, Zero was sure that they were the commanders.
If the university city that was already covered by the neuromuscular membrane was a huge information terminal, then the human corpse that was finally created was the node for receiving the information. The intelligent beings were still nowhere to be seen, but it was certain that it had its own way of giving orders to the fat corpse, which could then be passed on to the commanders on the front lines, so that it could adjust the tactics of the zombie army at any time.
This was a systematic and concealed information dissemination technique. The commander's appearance was almost no different from an ordinary living corpse. At the very least, it was not an easy thing to distinguish between the mass of living corpses on the battlefield. As a result, disintegrating the living corpse's command system was extremely difficult.
What made the human side more troubled was the fat corpse on the track and field. As long as the mother beast like zombie factory was still there, the new zombies would continue to be produced. The appearance of the biological cannon showed that the zombie was planning to occupy the university city and turn it into a stronghold of a zombie, or a supply station that could attack human territory.
No matter what it was, the fat corpse had to be killed, or else the army that attacked Remus would get an endless supply!
Others, including Agatha, agreed with the zero decision.
In their previous conversation with Avenot, they had heard a barrage of gunfire from the other side of the communication device. The zombie must have launched another attack. This caused the intense energy activity in the vicinity of Remulte to abruptly stop the communication. The few of them could only make their own decisions since they could not receive any new orders.