Qin Feng ran straight to the outside of the air-raid shelter.
As soon as he ran out.
Shuke rushed in front of him, crying and wailing, tears and snot running down his face, "Big Brother, save me..."
Bang!
Qin Feng kicked him away, "If you don't speak properly, I'll twist your head off!"
"Boss, as you instructed, I went to the surrounding areas to subdue..."
As Shuke spoke, his eyes clearly showed terror.
The higher the level of zombies, the higher their intelligence.
With high intelligence comes emotions.
Such as joy, anger, sorrow, and pleasure.
And also, fear!
That day.
After Qin Feng subdued him and Beta, he first ordered them to gather the zombies who had fled in panic from Tangshan and Qinhuangdao, scared by the Sea King.
Then the two of them went to subdue more in the surrounding cities.
It started smoothly.
They even subdued a few mutants.
Until yesterday.
It encountered the most terrifying thing in its life.
A terrifyingly powerful worm suddenly emerged from underground.
Right in the center of its legion.
Instantly!
Hundreds of zombies were sucked dry, becoming mummified corpses!
All their bodily fluids disappeared.
What was most terrifying was that it could even devour mutants. When Shuke led the zombies to counterattack, they found they couldn't break its defense.
Its legion suffered heavy losses, and it fled back overnight.
"What kind of worm?" Qin Feng asked urgently.
"It can be long or short, with a suction cup on its mouth, and many teeth inside. Its body is about..."
As Shuke described it, Qin Feng had a rough idea.
"Isn't it just a leech?"
Xiao Ruoruo frowned, "That shouldn't be right! Leeches are inherently weak. After mutation, they can at most reach level 2, or even just level 1."
"It can devour mutants, and its defense is impenetrable. It must be at least level 8, right?"
Leeches, as low-level creatures, should have a power ceiling.
Just like humans and zombies.
Most can only reach level 5.
Even if we backtrack a thousand steps.
Even if this leech had extraordinary talent and was one of the rare ones that could advance further...
It would have been very weak when it first mutated, right?
Level 1?
At most level 2!
How long has it been since the new storyline began?
In such a short time, it's impossible to advance from level 1 or 2 to level 8 or even 9.
It's completely illogical!
"Take me there." Qin Feng looked at Shuke.
The memories of his past life were not omnipotent.
The world of the apocalypse was vast.
His past life only covered limited areas, and there were many things he didn't know.
Crucially.
After his rebirth, his survival trajectory changed, possibly causing a butterfly effect.
Monsters that never appeared in his previous life.
Might appear in this life.
In his previous life, he had never heard of such a leech.
"Contact Zhou Haiyang and Liu Pi."
Qin Feng thought for a moment, then looked at Han Xiao, "You and your sister should go too."
...
Xishi District, Shijiazhuang.
A group of zombies was wandering, numbering as many as nearly 100,000.
As the plot and time continued to advance, the strength and intelligence of zombies constantly increased.
Especially the mutants.
They began to fight for territory, and even two legions would fight each other. When the leader mutant of one side was killed, the two legions would merge.
As a result.
The scale of zombie legions grew larger and larger.
Boom!
Suddenly, the ground shook violently.
The mutants didn't take it seriously.
Having experienced the plot of "2012" and survived volcanic eruptions and earthquakes, it thought it was just a minor tremor.
This scale.
What was it compared to the cataclysm in "2012"?
The ground cracked.
Right in the middle of the zombie legion.
The cement road buckled.
A large amount of rubble shot out in all directions.
A giant leech, over twenty meters long and entirely dark green, violently burrowed out from underground.
It opened its maw.
Its mouth was filled with tens of thousands of teeth, sharp and thin like steel cones.
With a single suck.
Space warped.
Centered on its mouth, hundreds of zombies around it stiffened.
The next moment.
All the bodily fluids within the zombies.
Including the psychic energy in their brain crystals.
All turned into a strange fluid and flew into the giant leech's mouth, swallowed in one gulp.
It felt very strange.
It seemed that with a single suction, time and space would freeze.
The zombies remained motionless.
Helpless prey!
Seeing this anomaly, other zombies fled in terror.
The giant leech did not pursue.
Its body was trembling.
Fine cracks appeared on its surface, as if its entire body was about to shatter.
At this critical moment.
A strange energy appeared.
The space around the giant leech's body distorted inexplicably.
Then, its body, which was on the verge of shattering, miraculously healed rapidly.
...
In the darkness.
A man's face was full of exhaustion.
Yet there was a smile of perverse pleasure on his face, making him seem almost maniacal.
"Die!"
The man grinned, laughing ferociously, "All of you die! Destroy yourselves, ha ha..."
His name was Zheng Rui.
Before the nuclear explosion.
He was a top-tier rich second-generation heir.
His father owned three listed companies. He grew up with a silver spoon in his mouth, living a life of pampered luxury.
Because his father was too busy and didn't have much time to spend with him, he felt guilty.
As a result, he indulged in a life of partying and debauchery, and his father chose to tolerate it.
He had inexhaustible money.
He was surrounded by countless women.
That was what he called life!
But then...
The nuclear explosion happened!
Money.
Connections.
Power.
All vanished in an instant!
With money and power rendered useless, personal strength became everything.
Hollowed out by a life of indulgence, he became the lowest rung of society in the apocalypse, enduring endless humiliation.
After the nuclear explosion, he was beaten while escaping the city.
After joining a certain base, he also became a low-level member.
Yet, his pampered upbringing persisted.
He continued to be arrogant and demanding.
He continued to be picky.
And then...
He was met with even more beatings, bullying, and ostracism.
When he obtained his first crystal and awakened a powerful special ability, his was the summoning technique.
Summoning techniques were not always powerful.
It depended on what you could summon.
He summoned...
A tiny leech!
What use was that?
He was constantly bullied. From his initial temper tantrums, he eventually learned to endure under the harsh realities.
Finally.
One day, he became a top-tier powerhouse!
This damned world had destroyed his beautiful life.
It had relegated him to the bottom.
It had made him an object of everyone's scorn.
He went from enduring to exposing himself.
He killed everyone in the base he was in.
He swore.
He would make the entire world perish, whether it were human survivors, zombies, or mutated creatures—all would be destroyed!
The giant leech couldn't devour endlessly.
The key lay with him.
After just one use of his ability, his psychic energy was greatly depleted, and he needed to rest and recover.
To prepare for the next devouring.
Suddenly!
Through the giant leech's perspective.
He saw a huge bird carrying people flying towards them.
"So big... must be quite strong?"
"Eat them!"
Zheng Rui let out a chilling smile.
On the other side.
A tiger-headed sea eagle and a dark giant bird, carrying several people, flew over.
They happened to see the worm, which had just finished devouring zombies and whose body was about to burst but was miraculously healing.
"Healing spell?" Zhou Haiyang was stunned.
"No."
Liu Pi shook his head and said solemnly, "Brother Wang's healing spell is completely different from what we just saw."
Healing spells produced white light.
But during the giant leech's healing process, there was no white light of a healing spell.
Furthermore.
The space around its body was distorting.
It seemed to be another ability.
"It's not a normal leech, and it didn't mutate naturally," Qin Feng suddenly said.